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12/01/2015

SWITCH Call for follower cities. 3 weeks left to apply!

As a follower city, you will receive the following training:

  • Attend and participate to two workshops with experts and pioneers cities
  • Receive online expertise
  • Participate in a placement in one of the SWITCH - Cities

Applications for follower cities are open for up to 20 interested cities.

As seats are limited, we would encourage you to fill up the Application form no later than January, 30th 2015.

Download the Call for Follower Cities here, and Application form here.

For further information on follower city application, please contact Silke Frank, via e-mail: s.frank@rupprecht-consult.eu or phone: +49 221 60 60 55 10.

Background

SWITCH is a two-year project implementing personalised travel plan in five European cities: Antwerp, Donostia/San Sebastian, Gdansk, London Borough of Hounslow, and Vienna. The project targets people in a period of a life-change and intends to shift reliance on car transport for short journey to alternative and active travel.

SWITCH's main objective is to reduce car traffic by switching short urban car journeys to walking and cycling. Breaking car based routines not only impacts mode choice for short trips but opens people's minds to other options for other journeys.

By focusing on personalised plans and identifying health and environmental benefits, project partners will use their expertise to implement behaviour change approaches in five European cities.

This will result in the elaboration a practical and transferable methodology, using insight from public health, mobility campaigning and the use of ICT solutions.

For more information, please the SWITCH website.

For any further enquiry, please contact Florinda Boschetti, via e-mail: fboschetti@polisnetwork.eu or phone: +32 2 500 56 74.