Our Outputs

17 January 2012

Governement money supports URBACT project in Skanderborg

Municipality of Skanderborg has made an agreement with Danish Cyclists’ Federation (DCF) to get support for the development of ideas and implementation of parts of the Local Action Plan which is an outcome of the Active Travel Network Project.

10 January 2012

Sebeş’s Network of Walking and Cycling Friendly Shops

In autumn 2011 the increasing support of the local stakeholders for the sustainable mobility in Sebeş materialized through the creation of a Network of Walking and Cycling Friendly Shops.

14 December 2011

Weiz Local Action Plan is taking shape

The core group of the Local Support Group for the Local Action Plan met in Weiz on the 12th of December to work out the basics for the LAP.

06 December 2011

Christmas time in Weiz

Being a very small town with a very dense municipal area Weiz is ideal for walking and cycling - especially at Christmas time.

02 December 2011

Environmental friendly Christmas tree in Skanderborg

The old tradition with lot of lights on the Christmas tree on the town square has become friendlier to environment.

08 November 2011

Skanderborg launches new ATN-project

The town council of Skanderborg, Denmark has allocated 90.000 euros for safe ways to schools.

04 November 2011

Call and Cycle in Norderstedt

Since April 2011 the city of Norderstedt has been offering a new public service vehicle to stimulate ‘Active Travel’: the nextbike bicycle rental system.

20 October 2011

Weiz Local Support Group Meeting

The creation of a traffic concept for the whole Weiz region with special consideration of bicycle tracks is the main goal of the “Local Action Plan”, which should be developed in the course of the “Active Travel Network”-project.

05 October 2011

Trip to ATN-meeting in Denmark presented in Weiz city council

In the latest session of the Weiz City Council on October 3rd members of the Weiz delegation to the Skanderborg ATN partners meeting presented their impressions of the Danish bicycle habits.

04 October 2011

'Walking Bus' in Norderstedt

During the European Mobility Week in Norderstedt two primary schools successfully launched a so called "walking bus".

28 September 2011

New bicycle signs in Norderstedt

The city of Norderstedt signposted 800 new plates for the main and secondary lines of the 800 km long cycling net within the city.

19 September 2011

Austrian minister of environment interested in ATN

As part of the so called “klima:aktiv”-conference for the regions of Styria and Carinthia the Austrian minister for environment Nikolaus Berlakovich was the guest of honor in Weiz on September 19th 2011.

16 September 2011

Danish press shows interest in ATN

See the latest article about the Active Travel Network partners meeting in Skanderborg in the largest newspaper of the region: Aarhus Stiftstidende.

14 September 2011

Carfree day in Norderstedt

For the 12th time there will be a carfree day in Norderstedt on September 18th.

13 September 2011

Active Travel Network meets Danish Minister of Climate and Energy

During the partners meeting and the site visit in Danish Cities Skanderborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen and Odense the partners from the Active Travel Network project met Lykke Friis, the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy and Minister for Gender Equality.

30 July 2011

Next partner meeting Skanderborg

Denmark is the perfect country for cycling. The idea is to combine the partner meeting with city visits and get informed about good practises and learning from these good examples.

01 September 2011

Local Action Plan of Norderstedt

The draft of the local action plan for Norderstedt was discussed in a working group on 31st of August.

27 July 2011

Sebeş' Social Walking Bus

A simple Walking Bus exercise very intensively promoted in Sebeş has transformed in a social event producing a real change of mentality at a much broader lever than expected.

Initially planned for primary school pupils, the event gained the appreciation of the teenagers, thus ascending from an isolated initiative to a broader public and from a school to the city.

25 July 2011

Austrian Bike Meeting Salzburg 2011

This year Austrian bike-meeting on May 5th and 6th in Salzburg was themed “Going to work by bike”.

01 July 2011

Presentation of the 1st draft for the Local Action Plan for the Weiz region

The presentation of a traffic concept for the whole Weiz region was the main issue of the latest meeting of the “URBACT-Local Support Group” in the Weiz city hall.

15 June 2011

European Conference on Mobility Management 2011

A joint training session of the two EU-funded projects LIFECYCLE (funded by DG SANCO) and ACTIVE TRAVEL NETWORK (funded within the URBACT program) has been carried out within the annual European Conference on Mobility Management in Toulouse in May 2011.

15 May 2011

EU-project is to make more people hit the pedals in Skanderborg

Leaving the car behind and jumping onto the bike not only benefits the environment – it is healthy too! And, if it were up to a local project group in Skanderborg to decide, then more people should be pedaling when going to work, dropping of children in school or daycare or heading to the shops or leisure activities.

01 March 2011

Shining Example

07 February 2011

Next Partner Meeting

The next meeting of all partners of the project "Active Travel Network" will take place on the 21 to the 22 of March in Seville. We have chosen Seville because from 23 to 26 March there will be a big conference called the "Velo-City" in Seville. 

01 December 2010

Active Travel Network Postcard

The Active Travel Postcard describes the main topics the project will focus on, our partners and the hompage-address where you can find more detailed infromation.

15 November 2010

Active Travel Audit in Weiz

The active travel audit scheme was carried out in Weiz on November 11th 2010.

15 September 2010

First meeting of all partners

First meeting of all partners in Novara, Italy on the 3th and the 4th of November.

01 February 2012

Bilateral meeting

Due to the short distance between the lead partner and its nearest partner in northern Slovenia representatives of Weiz were invited to Ljutomer on January 30th 2012 to discuss the intermediate results of either Local Action Plans. The talks made it clear that both cities share similar traffic problems.

12 September 2011

ActiveTravel Network partners meeting in Denmark

September 7th and 8th was the date for the next meeting of partners engaged in “Active Travel Network”, this time in the Danish city of Skanderborg.

25 March 2011

'Active Travel' partners meeting in Seville

From march 21st to 23rd 2011 Seville was the site of this years first meeting of all „Actice Travel Network“ partners.

05 December 2010

Annual Conference 2010

The URBACT Annual Conference 2010 has taken place in Liege in Belgium from Tuesday the 30th November to Wednesday the 1st of December.

20 April 2010

Meeting in Radzionków, Poland

In April 2010 delegations of the Active Travel Network from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Romania and Italy met to discuss traffic problems of small cities, to exchange experiences and talk about common aims and the implementation of measures.

15 April 2010

Presentations

• Kick of Meeting in Weiz

Our kick off meeting took place at the lead partners home town the city of Weiz. By this occasion each partner presented it's city, the problem which they would like to serve, what has been successful, the activities already carried out, what have been barriers to be successful, planned activities for the Active Travel Network project Besides the old partners Weiz, Novara, Radzionków and Sebes potential new partners presented their towns and their contribution to the project.