Our Activities
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.
Read more10 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.
Read more14 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.
Read more06 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.
Read more02 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.
Read more08 November 2011 Skanderborg launches new ATN-project
The town council of Skanderborg, Denmark has allocated 90.000 euros for safe ways to schools.
Read more04 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.
Read more20 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.
Read more05 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.
Read more04 October 2011 'Walking Bus' in Norderstedt
During the European Mobility Week in Norderstedt two primary schools successfully launched a so called "walking bus".
Read more28 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.
Read more19 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.
Read more16 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.
Read more14 September 2011 Carfree day in Norderstedt
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.
Read more01 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.
Read more30 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.
Read more27 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.
Read more25 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”.
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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.
Read more15 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.
Read more15 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.
Read more01 March 2011 Shining Example
The Mayor of the Italian City of Riccione is supporting Active Travel Modes. He wants to be a shining example for residents and tourists and therefore uses the bike regularely for daily trips.
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.
Read more01 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.
Read more15 November 2010 Active Travel Audit in Weiz
15 September 2010 First meeting of all partners
01 May 2010 "Anradln"
“E- Mobility meets pleasure !”
New PEDELEC rental system and "Anradln” (start of the bicycle season) on the 1th of May 2010
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.
Read more12 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.
Read more25 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.
Read more05 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.
Read more20 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.
Read more15 April 2010 Events
15 April 2010 Presentations
