Gearing Up For 2025 🚲🔧✨
Newsletter | 2025 Program
Time flies when you're having fun! 🚲✨ It’s already 2025, and we can’t believe all the milestones we’ve hit at the Urban Cycling Institute. This year marks 10 years since our founding, plus 2 years since becoming a Dutch not-for-profit (stichting). And just like that, it’s been 1 whole year since our very first newsletter! What better way to celebrate than by announcing the winners of the Best Testimonies from our newsletter survey (launched in November 2024)! 🎉
Join us in congratulating Julio Sa, Leen Baetens, and Joram Kisach! 🥳 The lucky winners will receive some Urban Cycling Institute-branded goodies, and their testimony will be featured in our Annual Impact Report!
Speaking of exciting updates, let’s dive into what’s awaiting us in 2025. Today’s program is packed with announcements, exciting events, and save-the-dates. There’s plenty to look forward to:
CRBAM 2025 🔬
PCC Summer School(s) 🎓
Study Excursions 🚲
Webinar Series 🆕 🎉
Impact Report sneak peek 👀
Welcoming new interns 🤝
Let’s hit the road! 🚲 💨
🔬 CRBAM 2025
Let's start with our biggest event of 2025: The Cycling Research Board Annual Meeting in Amsterdam this September! Think campfire vibes, biking in the sun, climbing on desks, and playing with stickers—yes, we do all that and still manage to stay academic and create real-world impact!
📆 10-12 September 2025
📍The Brug, University of Amsterdam, Roeterseiland Campus
This year is the 9th edition of CRBAM 2025, hosted by the Urban Cycling Institute and the University of Amsterdam! This isn’t your typical conference—it’s a gathering of interdisciplinary minds using cycling to crack open the bigger questions of mobility, inclusion, and social change. Whether you're an early-stage researcher or just an open, curious thinker, CRBAM is your space to share research, co-create, and collaborate in a constructive and creative environment.
There are a few key dates you won’t want to miss—just import My Cycling Calendar to your Google Calendar so you stay on top of all the deadlines. Here’s what’s coming up:
📣 Call for abstracts opens: 20 January
✏️ Abstract submission closes: 24 March
✅ Selection of abstracts finalised: 24 April
🐤 Early bird registration opens: 24 April
🚀 Early bird registration closes: 15 August
CRBAM Scholarship Opportunity! 🎓
Our scholarship program aims to elevate the voices and knowledge from underrepresented communities and backgrounds, including the Global South, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, LGBTQ+, women, persons with disabilities, and others who have been historically marginalized. Once your abstract is accepted, please apply!
💰Application opens: 24 April
📋 Application closes: 2 May
✅ Acceptance announced: 16 May
ℹ️ More information at urbancyclinginstitute.org/scholarship-program
Sponsor CRBAM 2025 – Be Part of the Movement! 👏
We are inviting businesses and organizations to sponsor CRBAM 2025 and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of urban mobility. Your sponsorship isn’t just support—it’s a statement. It aligns your brand with a mission to create a space for bold ideas and actionable change toward safe, inclusive, and active mobility. As a headlining sponsor, you can pose a question to CRBAM participants and gain insider access to cutting-edge research, insights from top experts, and experiential knowledge.
📩 Request our sponsorship prospectus today at partnerships@urbancyclinginstitute.org
🎓 Planning the Cycling City Summer School(s) 🇪🇸🌍🇮🇹
The PCC Summer School is back, and we can’t wait to welcome new cohorts of participants! 🌍✨ The regular admission deadline for the English speaking program is Saturday, 15 March 2025, so make sure to apply in time.
Pre-inscription for the Spanish speaking program is available through this form. Registrations are open until 30 August, but we only have space for 25 participants, so don’t wait up! If you need a personalised letter, please fill out this form. 📢 Read newly published testimonies here 🎓💭
📆 Mark those dates:
🌎 Planning the Cycling City Summer School (English): 26 June – 16 July 2025
🇪🇸 Planeando la Ciudad Segura y Saludable - Programa de Liderazgo (Spanish): 15 – 19 September 2025
🇮🇹 Creare la Città Ciclabile (in Italiano): 6 – 10 October 2025
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this transformative experience and join a global network of like-minded urban cycling enthusiasts! 🚲✨
My experience at PCC 2024 was enriching and unforgettable. Despite the short duration, as it was a summer program, all the topics were explored with great intensity and depth, where we were always encouraged to explore and question more about the environment we were in.
Within this, I believe one of the lessons that impacted me the most was one of the first ones, where we learned to question the narratives that have always been told to us about the formation of cities, especially how we have accepted the simplification and rationalization of street use to be more productive and centralized for cars.
- Milena Kammer, PCC Class of 2024
🚲 Study Excursions - New dates available!
Planning a trip to Amsterdam soon? We’ve got new guides, fresh dates, and flexible times, available through the end of April 2025!
We're excited to introduce our new team member Asaf Oz who will be leading study excursions through Amsterdam’s most innovative cycling infrastructure - an immersive learning experience and a unique chance to connect with local experts - all from the saddle. Here’s what past participants loved the most:
“My appreciation for the importance of pre and post research that explores the experience of the many users of urban transportation infrastructure was greatly expanded. As well the tour deepened my appreciation for how planners need to develop a fulsome contextual understanding for the implementation of infrastructure initiatives. We will encourage our transportation planners to get out and cycle, walk and drive our city routes.”
Introducing Webinar Series 🆕 🎉
We're kicking off a brand-new Webinar Series! Some sessions will be open to the public, while others will be exclusively for our Members. Registration for the first webinar in March will open soon - stay tuned!
Impact Report Sneak Peek 👀
We’re excited to shortly share our first-ever Annual Impact Report for 2024! Through our key research projects, we've impacted 330,438 individuals. Our online community has grown to over 558,591 people, and we've disseminated knowledge to 29,445 students world-wide! Even more impressive results are coming, phew 😮💨
Our Impact Report will be available for download very soon. For now, we invite you to revisit and enjoy some of the highlights from our 103 press publications in 2024:
#1 Blog post | #1 MOOC Essay | #1 Book Review | #1 Cycling Roundup | #1 Youtube
Welcoming new team members 🙌
We’re excited to welcome a new cohort of 5 interns in the Urban Cycling Institute team! Learn more about their projects in our next Linkedin post 🔜
