Juicy Summer with Urban Cycling Institute 🍉
Newsletter | In-person & Online Urban-cycling Events
Summer is here, and we’ve got some exciting news for you! Read to the end so you don’t miss a thing. Here’s what you’ll find in this newsletter:
The preliminary schedule for CRBAM’25 is out ✏️
Register for a special edition of our Webinar in July 📆
Last call for our study programs in Italian and Spanish 🚨
Book your warm summer ride in Amsterdam with us 🚲
Souvenirs from Gdańsk: Our time at Velo-City 2025 🤝
Evaluation report of school-based cycling programmes in Bonaire 🚸
Listen to Challenger Cities’ podcast with Michela Grasso on Manifesto 🎧
The preliminary schedule for CRBAM’25 is out!
We’ve packed it with 54 talks across 17 sessions, 15 workshops, and some very special moments: a Hot Take, a Skills Development slot, Panel Discussions, a Fishbowl (a CRBAM tradition), and an outdoor activity to get you moving! More details will be announced soon, but we’re keeping a few surprises under wraps.
Check out the schedule below (still subject to change): 🟢 green is Workshops, 🟡 yellow is food breaks, 🟠 orange is coffee breaks, 🟣 purple is all-together sessions, 🔵 blue is water… but really: blue is 54 talks full of fresh ideas, and a few you didn’t expect to find! Register before the early birds fly away!
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You’re invited! Register for the Final Event of PCC’25
We are excited for our summer school Planning the Cycling City at the University of Amsterdam to start soon. During this three week program we will use Amsterdam as our living lab to examine the impacts of history, policy, infrastructure, planning, and culture within the context of urban cycling in the Netherlands. You are invited to the final event, which will also be our July webinar!
On Wednesday, July 16th, from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST, we are hosting the final event during which our summer school students will showcase the insights they've gained by exploring Amsterdam, tackling real-world challenges in cycling policy, planning, and culture. Afterwards, they will receive feedback and reflections from our guest jury.
The event will conclude with the screening of Invisible Commutes, a documentary based on the research of Valentina Montoya Robledo, created in collaboration with Andrés González Robledo and Daniel Gómez Restrepo. The documentary shares the often-overlooked experiences of public transport commuters in Bogotá and Medellín, particularly domestic workers, through two compelling personal testimonials. The screening will be introduced by Valentina Montoya Robledo and followed by a Q&A session.
❗️Register now:
👋 If you are in Amsterdam and want to join in person, please use this link to RSVP. We will email you before the event.
💻 If you want to join online, please sign up to our Zoom webinar using this link.
❗️This is an exclusive screening of the Invisible Commutes documentary - it won’t be included in the webinar recording, just like the Q&A. Reserve your spot so you don’t miss it❗️
🚨Last call for our study programs in Italian & Spanish!🇮🇹 🇪🇸
Progettare la città ciclabile 2025
Ultimi giorni per registrarsi alla Masterclass italiana Progettare la città ciclabile!
Dal 6 al 10 ottobre 2025, Urban Cycling Institute accoglierà un gruppo eterogeneo di ricercatori, architetti e funzionari per la prima edizione italiana della celebre masterclass Planning the Cycling City. Organizzato da Decisio e Urban Cycling Institute, il programma combina lezioni da parte di esperti, escursioni e attività pratiche, affrontando una vasta gamma di temi: da approfondimenti concreti sulla realizzazione di piste ciclabili a riflessioni sul ciclismo urbano come atto sociale e umano. I partecipanti trascorreranno un’intensa settimana ad Amsterdam, immersi nella capitale mondiale della ciclabilità.
📍 Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
🌍 In Italiano
📆 6-10 Ottobre
👉 Clicca qui per maggiori informazioni.
Planeando la Ciudad Segura y Saludable 2025 - Programa de Liderazgo
¿Quieres impulsar el cambio hacia ciudades más humanas, activas y sostenibles?
En el Urban Cycling Institute, te invitamos a ser parte de nuestro programa insignia en español: “Planeando la Ciudad Segura y Saludable: Programa de Liderazgo”. Este curso en línea está diseñado para formar a la próxima generación de líderes urbanos comprometidos con la movilidad activa, el urbanismo centrado en las personas y la equidad en el espacio público. Aprende de expertos internacionales, conecta con una comunidad apasionada por transformar ciudades, desarrolla habilidades prácticas de planificación, comunicación y liderazgo.
📍 Amsterdam, Países Bajos
🌎 En español
📆 15 -19 de Septiembre
👉 Conoce más y regístrate aquí
🚲 Book your warm summer ride in Amsterdam with us 🌞
Will you be in Amsterdam this summer? Join one of our bike tours! You will learn about the history of cycling in the city, the innovations that are being implemented, and the processes through which these are tested. And on top of that, you get to see the city’s landmarks from a different perspective! Dates have been added through late August. Book a ride now to learn directly from the Urban Cycling Institute’s team!
Souvenirs from Gdańsk: Our time at Velo-City 2025
Earlier this month, parts of the Urban Cycling Institute team made their way to Gdansk for this year’s Velo-city conference. (CEO) joined a panel discussion about bike complexity, where she presented findings highlighting the importance of including the often-overlooked perspectives of fatbike riders in the media discourse. She also moderated a session on citizen involvement.
(Research Fellow) presented findings from the research with City Thread in Bentonville, Arkansas, which showed the effectiveness of leveraging existing municipal resources in cycling planning as well as the role of civic engagement in building social capacity for cycling.
On the second day of the conference, Meredith Glaser - together with Ruth Lamas Borraz - took part in the first edition of ZICLA’s “Sobremesa Talk”, a refreshing and thoughtful space for open conversation about gender and cycling. It was a unique experience to have an exchange with everyone who joined and contributed their perspectives in such a relaxed and meaningful way. It was great to attend the many inspiring sessions, join the energizing outdoor activities, and connect with our friends from the cycling world - both old and new.
Scholarship Recipient in Spotlight: Meet Anastasiia Zhokhova, Urban Cycling Institute's scholarship recipient for the Velo-city conference 2025. Anastasia is a Doctoral Student at Wrocław University of Science and Technology and presented her research for the session, 'Social Power of Cycling' on the topic ‘From Protest to Policy: Can Ukraine’s Cycling Movement Overcome Barriers in Urban Transformation’.
Learn more about our Scholarship Program and contribute to the fund here.
Evaluation report of school-based cycling programmes in Bonaire
As part of our active mobility and health equity project on Bonaire, our colleagues at Baislife Bonaire delivered a 5-week traffic education and cycling lessons programme in one school on the island. The Urban Cycling Institute research team conducted an opportunistic evaluation of this programme earlier in the year, which will inform the scale up of the programme to other schools in 2026! Read the report here.
Riding Through Stories, Not Just Spaces
Listen to the podcast with
from with our very own discussing all things cycling, of course, but more importantly our recently published Manifesto for Cycling Futures (get the e-book here).Want to share your story? Fill out this form and get it published in our next newsletter!
Fill out a Survey (in German) for University of Wuppertal
A team at University of Wuppertal is running an online survey to better understand what factors contribute to falls and collisions when cycling on hills versus flat sections. Here’s the link to the survey and you can find more information here.
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