Title: HANDSHAKE – TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CYCLING MOBILITY FROM THE CYCLING CAPITALS TO THE FUTURE CYCLING CAPITALS
Funding: 4,825,000.00 €, out of which 232,188.00 € to the City of Torino (100%)
Lead partner: ISINNOVA - Istituto di Studi per l'Integrazione dei Sistemi (IT)
Partners: City of Torino (IT), City of Copenhagen (DK), City of Amsterdam (NL), City of Munich (DE), Bordeaux Métropole (FR), City of Bruges (BE), Dublin City Council (IR), Municipality of Krakow (PL), City of Helsinki (FI), Transport for Greater Manchester (UK), Riga City Council - Traffic Department (LT), Roma Servizi per la Mobilità (IT), City of Cadiz (ES), University of Amsterdam - Urban Cycling Institute (NL), Mobiel 21 (BE), Velo Mondial (NL), Decisio (NL), ICLEI (DE)
Period: 42 months (October 2018 - February 2022)
Contact: Infrastructures and Mobility Division - European Projects; Environment, Green Areas and Civil Defence Division
Description: The project supports the transfer and take-up of successful cycling measures developed by three pioneering and world-class cycling capitals - Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Munich - to ten further EU cities. Areas of focus include cycling policy and planning, infrastructure design, modelling and assessment, and awareness and education. Many cities have partial knowledge in some of these areas, but only the cycling capitals have already developed an holistic approach. Under Handshake, cycling knowledge and expertise will be shared through transfer processes and mentoring programmes. The ten future cycling capitals that will immediately benefit from working with Handshake's cycling capitals and project experts are Bordeaux (France), Bruges (Belgium), Cadiz (Spain), Dublin (Ireland), Greater Manchester (UK),  Helsinki (Finland), Krakow (Poland), Riga (Latvia), Rome (Italy) and Torino (Italy). These cities are drawn from diverse geographical, socioeconomic and planning contexts that will help maximise learning beyond Handshake as the project matures. By helping make urban environments more suitable and enjoyable places for using bikes as an everyday mode of transport, the project will help maximise cycling’s modal share and realise the common goals of managing congestion and improving public safety and health.
Website: handshakecycling.eu