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Who would have thought six years ago, that today cities vividly discuss at conferences how to deal with e-scooters flooding city centers? In 2013 MaaS was just emerging and the (mobility) world looked differently – politically as well as in terms of technological innovations.

The HUPMOBILE project is looking for Follower Cities who will uptake the solutions and guidelines developed in the project and test them in their own context as well as give feedback to project management.

The sudden appearance of e-scooters, some cycling paths or other single mobility measures here and there will not increase the use of sustainable modes of mobility – at least not in a longer term.

The disclosure period took place from 15 April to 31 July 2019 during which UBC cities were encouraged to submit their city’s climate change-related data as well as examples of actions that are being taken for climate mitigation and adaptation. A report resulted of this disclosure activity that was presented in Kaunas, Lithuania, during the UBC General Conference.

Since the first edition of the SUMP Guidelines was published in late 2013, it was THE main European reference document for urban transport and mobility practitioners involved in the development and implementation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs). Many cities in Europe and around the world have developed SUMPs, while numerous European Union-funded projects and programmes have contributed valuable knowledge that helped cities to develop this new generatio

Biggest congratulations to Lahti on the behalf of UBC Sustainable Cities Commission and the rest of the UBC! City of Lahti was awarded the title of European Green Capital 2021 by the European Commission on 20 June 2019 in an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Lahti is the first-ever Finnish city to receive the title.

International environmental campaign "Clean Beach" – engaging cities in environmental cooperation and raising public awareness in environmental issues.

In autumn 2017 the first SUMP Learning Programme was launched within the CIVITAS SUMPs-Up programme and since then over 70 cities from all over Europe have learned, exchanged, discussed and cooperated in four learning programmes. The fifth and last SLP has started in May this year.

The cities.multimodal partner and UBC member, Karlskrona municipality, made a big step towards sustainable and renewable energy use in the mobility sector. On April 27th Karlskronas municipal commissioner for planning and environment, Magnus Larsson, revealed the name of the new charging station to the public in the opening ceremony: energiraffen.

The 10th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region was organized in the beautiful Polish Baltic Frederic Chopin Philharmonic in Gdansk, Poland, on June 12th to 13th. The theme of this year’s forum was demographic changes along with the circular and shared economy – the discussions were, in other words, timely and important for the development of the BSR!

The HUPMOBILE – Holistic Urban and Peri-Urban Mobility project was kicked off 11-12 June 2019 in Espoo during a two-day meeting in the premises of the lead partner Aalto University.

More than a thousand cities, towns and regions from all over Europe have developed and adopted Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) in the past years. SUMPs have clearly become a key tool for cities and regions to improve their mobility system.