The Dublin Cycling Campaign is an independent, voluntary lobby group that has been working to improve the city for all cyclists for over a decade and a half.
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Volunteers of Cycling Academy project
The Dublin Cycling Campaign is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant for a Grundtvig Learning Partnership under the EU Lifelong Learning Programme. We will take part in a two year Volunteers of Cycling Academy (VOCA) project with cycling advocacy groups from 10 other European cities. The aims of the project are to improve our knowledge and competences about high quality, bike-friendly infrastructure by studying real examples in various EU cities as well as theoretical engineering and policy principles. The project participants will visit cities with high or growing bicycle modal share like Copenhagen or Vienna and look for what are the success factors in shifting people from cars to bicycles. Not so advanced cities will be visited as well, to look for what needs to be improved and to gain insights on how to do it.
The VOCA project ranked 11th out of 811 applications for Grundtvig Learning Partnerships. This shows that cycling is high on the European agenda.
In Dublin we plan to focus on cycle training for adults, to evaluate how this is delivered in other cities and how it can best be approached in Ireland. At the end of the project the group will publish a catalogue of problems and best practices based on the research in the various cities.
We look forward to working with our European colleagues, to share with them the progress that has been made in cycling in Dublin in recent years, and to learn from them how we can improve the infrastructure and environment for cyclists even further.
