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Workshops & tutorials

Information on past and upcoming workshops and tutorials where representatives of the transport, environment and health sectors and spatial planners can interact.

A series of workshops are held in the framework of THE PEP. These workshops bring together relevant actors at the international, national and local levels with the objective to raise awareness of the key issues at stake and to examine good practices at national, regional and local levels in the promotion of environmentally sound and healthy local transport.  These should be integrated with sustainable land-use planning. This should lead to issuing recommendations.

For related information on key messages of the meetings and presentations, please click on the workshop.
 
Brussels, Belgium 13.09.2011

This event is hosted by the Representation of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen to the EU, in parallel with the ICLEI European Convention 2011: Cities in Europe 2020 - Enhance Sustainability Now! The workshop will focus on solutions in two thematic areas, namely: collective passenger transport, and safety and security.

 
ICLEI members representatives of the business community and local government decision makers will gather to engage in high level discussion, share knowledge and gain insight views from experts and pioneer cities innovative solutions.
The three-day programme promises to feature a preliminary review of European local sustainability achievements and the key next steps needed to move Europe and its cities forward in light of the UN Rio + 20 Conference in 2012.
 
Working Together for Sustainable and Healthy Urban Transport: a capacity-building workshop under THE PEP, Kyiv (08 - 09 June 2011)
The Kyiv workshop is the next in a series of events under THE PEP relay race (staffette), launched in January 2009 in Amsterdam and followed by workshops in Pruhonice, Czech Republic (September 2009), Skopje (June 2010) and Batumi, Georgia (September 2010).

The objective of the workshop is to encourage transport, health and environment policymakers to work together in developing strategies and measures for sustainable and healthy urban transport, with a focus on Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Participants will identify needs, challenges and opportunities to promote innovative policies and mobility management programmes that support environmentally friendly and healthy transport policies and improve urban livelihoods in Kyiv and cities of the region. The overarching theme of the workshop is integrated policy approaches to sustainable urban transport. In accordance with Goal 2 of the Amsterdam Declaration, the specific focus is on mobility management, public transport and transport information technology, including technical expertise on signs and signals for pedestrians and cyclists.

 

24-25 September 2009, Pruhonice-Prague, Czech Republic

Sustainable and healthy urban transport: Focusing on eastern and south eastern Europe, Caucasus and central Asia
28-29 October 2008, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

 

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Information on upcoming events can be found on the website THE PEP