Site visits in Bolzano Bozen
(31.03.2008) In March 2008 5 delegations coming from partner's countries visited the city of Bolzano Bozen attending a two days training on policies for reducing particulate matter and enhancing bike mobility in urban areas. A good occasion for a mutual interchange and know how transfer.
Big success for the VIA NOVA Training Session in Triesenberg, Liechtenstein
(18.12. 2007)From 11th to 14th December 2007 the VIA NOVA training session in Liechtenstein took place. The training session was a big success! Over 20 participants from Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and France got the unique opportunity to exchange experiences and know-how with politicians and experts in the field of sustainable mobility. As an introduction to the training session, Mr. Ivan Curzolo from the JTS informed about the new alpine space program. Afterward Mr. Claus Köllinger from FGM presented the VIA NOVA project and its objectives. Two other presentations followed: Mr. René Rinner from Ökoinstitut Südtirol/Alto Adige presented the experiences of the province of Bolzano regarding PM10 measures and policies; Mr. Zlatko Fras talked about the Slovenian national strategy on health enhancing physical activity and transport. The day concluded with a delicious dinner offered by ThyssenKrupp Presta AG. The second day was filled out with workshops on the topics “Walkability” and “Cycling”. The workshops on Friday morning concerned the topic “Intermodality”. The participants of the training session had the unique possibility to get in touch with politicians and decision makers in the field of public transport and intermodality and ask them all topic related questions. The lunch was offered by VCL (Verkehrsclub Liechtenstein).
7th project meeting in Triesenberg, Liechtenstein
(17.12. 2007) On Tuesday, 11th December 2007 the last VIA NOVA project meeting in Triesenberg, Liechtenstein, hosted by VCL (Verkehrsclub Liechtenstein) took place. The meeting gave a review on the whole VIA NOVA project, the realized projects within VIA NOVA as well as an overview on future tasks to be done by each project partner. In the evening, Mr. Feisst and Mr. Biedermann, respectively representatives from the Liechtenstein public transport agency and Liechtenstein Transport Ministry, informed all participants in a very interesting and detailed way about the public transport system in the princedom Liechtenstein. The highlight of the day was the preview of the VIA NOVA movie, presented by FGM AMOR. Afterwards, the Minister of Transport himself, Mr. Dr. Meyer, invited for dinner.
During the next morning the VIANOVA project partners had the opportunity to visit INFICON and learn more about the Mobility Management of this highly innovative company. Of course all participants had the opportunity to visit the beautiful snowy Liechtenstein.
Article from Länderzeitung (german, 1.4MB .pdf)"
Article from Liechtensteiner Vaterland (german, 359KB .pdf)"
VIA NOVA training session in Triesenberg, Liechtenstein
(11.09.2007) The VIA NOVA project is pleased to invite you to be part of the VIA NOVA training session taking place from 12th to 14th of December 2007 in Triesenberg, Liechtenstein. The training session is free of charge and gives you excellent opportunity to exchange experiences with the project partners, to learn about VIA NOVA projects and to discuss with professionals from the transport, health and land use world. For further informations about the training program and the online registration, please click to the "training" link.
Downloads:
How to get there (.pdf, 578kb)
Training agenda (.pdf, 478kb)
Hotel Information (.pdf, 883kb)
Bus Information (.pdf, 29kb)
Map Public Transport (.pdf, 653kb)
Map Triesenberg (.pdf, 158kb)
Map Vaduz (.pdf, 157kb)
6th project meeting in Graz and Weiz, Austria
(01.09.2007) From 3rd to 5th September take place the 6th VIANOVA project meeting in Graz and Weiz, hosted by the municipality of Weiz (Austria). The meeting will focus on the next project tasks, especially the training session which will take place in December in Liechtenstein. The participants to the meeting will also have the possibility to visit the City of Weiz as well as all the projects realized within the VIANOVA project.
read the article (Weizer zeitung, german)
Annually bike festival in Bolzano, Italy
(05.06.2007) From 2nd to 3rd June the 13th edition of the annual bike festival took place in Bolzano. This year could be established a new record: 4.400 participants! The objectives of this two-day bike event is to reach the maximum number of people with a series of different activities in the whole city. In the past years Bolzano has done a lot of marketing to promote bike mobility. The big success story of the city confirms their strategies.
Award for the 1millionst cyclist passing the bicycle barometer in Bolzano
(08.02.2007) After less than one year from the installation the city administration of Bolzano could celebrate the one millionth cyclist passing through the bicycle barometer installed within the VIANOVA project. This marketing instrument, which count every cyclist in both directions was installed on the 14th May 2006. The millionth cyclist was quite surprised when a official city committee stopped him to present the reward: a new city bike offered by the Municipality of Bolzano.
5th project meeting in Ljubljana
(09.03.2007) The fifth project meeting is going to take place in Ljubljana on 12th and 13th March. The meeting will focus on National Strategy on Health Enhancing Physical Activity. Participants will also have the possibility to visit the city and the projects implemented at local level.
Presented the bike mobility study for the Municipality of Trento
(19.12.2006) The study about bike mobility in Trento, elaborated by Ökoinstitut Südtirol/Alto Adige within the VIANOVA project, has officially been presented yesterday. The study is based on three pillars: a coherent bike mobility network, parking areas and communication strategies.
First Announcement of the VIA NOVA training in December 2007
(05.12.2006) In one year the training session of VIA NOVA will take
place in Liechtenstein, Vaduz from 12th - 14th of December. It will give decision makers and planners the opportunity to learn about the VIA NOVA projects and actions from the implementers themselves. The training units will explain to the participants how to create and implement activities of their own.
4th project meeting in Bolzano/Bozen and Trento
(10.10.2006) The meeting hold in Bolzano-Bozen and Trento in the last days was the occasion to have a complete overview of VIANOVA progress and get an insight into partners local projects. Discussions led to bright ideas for improving the collaboration among partners. Among this, participants also had the possibility to get in touch with the experiences of Bolzano-Bozen and Trento regarding bike mobility.
4th project meeting in Bolzano/Bozen and Trento coming soon
(26.09.2006) The fourth project meeting is going to take place in Bolzano/Bozen and Trento from 4th to 6th of October.
The meeting will focus on internal work offering to participants also the possibility to experience cycling in Bolzano and Trento by themselves!
First Italian fact sheets
(28.04.2006) The first Italian fact sheets are online and regard activieties that Municipality of Trento is implementing in order to promote intermodality and cycling in the city.
First French fact sheets available
(27.04.2006) The first French fact sheets are now online among the English version. They refer to the activities "Free hire of bikes, pushchairs, shopper trolleys", "Property professionals", "If we worked together at finding new energy resources?" and "Secrets of Vitality". All these fact sheets can be downloaded as .pdf (topic Intermodality)
New fact sheets added
(20.04.2006) Three new fact sheets have been added today. Reported activities are implemented by the Municipality of Thun/CH with the support of Rundum Mobil. Two fact sheets are to be found under the Intermodality topic: "Mobility set - for people on the move" and "Orienteering running with public transport". The third one reports the experience of "A theater with (the) movement" (topic Walkability)
