Interface for Cycling Expertise

Award for I-CE director by Danish Cycling Embassy, june 2010

The Danish Cycling Embassy honored the director of I-CE Roelof Wittink with the Leadership Award for Cycling Promotion 2010.
The award has been given to him at the Velo City Global conference in Copenhagen, for his dedication to international cooperation and expertise on sustainable transport and poverty alleviation.

The Potential of Cycling for Accessibility, Juli 2010 

I-CE has compiled an article on the potential of cycling for the accessibility of destinations. It outlines a people-oriented (‘arriving at your destination’) approach as opposed to the common vehicle-oriented (‘moving more is better’) approach. Accessibility is the key issue, serving the individual and the society at large.

Dutch Parliament votes for more development cooperation on cycling. July 2010

The Dutch Parliament, for the first time together after elections, has voted for a continuation and even stronger development cooperation policy on cycling. Members of the parliament were concerned about the cuts in development aid that threatens subsidy for I-CE in the coming years from the Minister for Development Cooperation.

Join the Global Cycling Coalition, juni 2010

The Global Cycling Coalition is a multi-stakeholder alliance that concentrates on the potential of cycling in making the transport sector more sustainable worldwide. Its core is made up of Southern cycling organizations that will be working with knowledge institutions and city networks. Also donor agencies, the bicycle industry, consultancy firms may make up the Coalition. 

Cycling in support of the greening of sport events, Juli 2010

A sustainable approach has arrived on top of the agenda for  sport events. An interesting illustration is the bidbook by the Dutch and Belgium soccer unions  for the World Cup Soccer in 2018 or 2022. The HollandBelgium Bid has begun to build a Green Goal Movement that brings together citizens, football fans, NGOs, business, governments and the academic world.  

BPP Annual Report 2009

I-CE delivered the annual report on the Bicycle Partnership Program 2009 to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which provides core funding for the program. In this report you will find the progress on capacities by local governments and CSO's as a result of the BPP and other outputs. Moreover, we report on the impact of the BPP support on the policy development in a number of the cities where the BPP operates.