CIVITAS Handshake Dublin Symposium
Dublin City's Cycling Symposium to support the city's transition in becoming a cycling city took place from 22nd – 25th March 2022.
Dublin hosted this symposium as part of the CIVITAS Handshake project, which brings together 13 cities across Europe to learn from each other by sharing experience, expertise and best practice on all things cycling. For more information on the CIVITAS Handshake project, please see https://handshakecycling.eu/
As Dublin’s mentor in the project, Amsterdam brought a contingent of experts to the symposium to support Dublin on areas including infrastructure design, as well as working with the media, businesses and politicians on how we engage our communities in co-creating a cycling city. The symposium gave us an opportunity to learn from one of the world leaders about their transition to become a cycling city, and how they overcame many of the challenges and obstacles that we face in Dublin today.
The symposium included open public sessions, as well as sessions specifically for City Councillors and internal DCC staff.
A full playlist of videos from the symposium can be found on youtube
Presentations from the symposium are available below.
Effective Messaging to Frame the Transition (Chris Bruntlett)
- Presentation by Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycling Embassy
Engaging the city in Amsterdam (Ria Hilhorst)
- Presentation by Ria Hillhorst, City of Amsterdam
How to Bring Entrepreneurs Along (Pauline Buurma)
- Presentation by Pauline Buurma, Street Manager, City of Amsterdam
The Business of Cycling (Chris Bruntlett)
- Presentation by Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycling Embassy
The Language of Road Danger Reporting (Thalia Verkade)
- Presentation by Dutch journalist, Thalia Verkade
Where is cycling now in Dublin (Brendan O'Brien)
- Presentation by Brendan O’Brien, Head of Technical Services, Dublin City Council
How Amsterdam became Bike City (Raoul Teekamp)
- Presentation by Raoul Teekamp, City of Amsterdam
