With pilot actions implemented, Local walkability plans designed and activities concluded, CityWalk partners are optimistic about the future of cities in the Danube region, working towards reducing emissions, noise and becoming safer, better places to live. All of the strategic documents, pilot actions, study visits, and other project activities resulted in improved key conditions for walkability throughout the Danube region.

With the words, borrowed from the Beatles: ''You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us, and the cities will be more walkable'',17 partners from Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Austria, and Serbia finished their work on the CityWalk project. They, however, continue to individually work towards increasing the role of more sustainable forms of mobility in the urban transport mix.

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WALKING ALONG THE CITY STREETS OF KAMNIK WITH PROF. JAN GEHL

Within the framework of the CityWalk project, the Development Center of the Heart of Slovenia, in cooperation with the Municipality of Kamnik and Štajn Arhitekti, hosted prof. Jan Gehl, an internationally renowned urban mobility expert. Prof. Jan Gehl is a Danish architect and urban planning consultant based in Copenhagen, whose career focused on improving the quality of urban life by redirecting the design of the city for pedestrians and cyclists. He is one of today's most influential thinkers in modern urban design. At the time of prof. Gehl’s visit, a local strategy of walking was being prepared In Kamnik, marking it as a first document of a kind in the Municipality of Kamnik. Prof. Gehl’s visit added more value to the document.

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PROJECT CITYWALK PRESENTED THE “CONFERENCE ON WALKABILITY” IN ORADEA

On March 26, 2019, the CityWalk projects Conference on Walkability took place in the City Hall of Oradea. The Conference, hosted by the project partner Municipality of Oradea was a final thematic and publicity project event that served as a platform for higher level consultation forum for experts, EU level actors, policy-makers and to enrich project outcome. The Conference addressed the obstacles of sustainable forms of mobility in the cities. In the course of the Danube Transnational Program capitalization strategy, this event provided the opportunity to create synergies in the field of sustainable mobility.

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SUCCESSFUL ACTION "BIKE THROUGH THE CITY" IN VALJEVO

April and May are the months in which the City of Valjevo organizes public events for the promotion of urban mobility of citizens in the framework of the international project City Walk. On Saturday, April 20th 2019, a successful promotional campaign "Bike through the City" was held. Roughly a hundred participants from different age groups gathered at the event. Members of Valjevo cycling clubs and informal cycling associations were joined in the action by recreational cyclists, lovers of cycling and families with children. This is an indicator that citizens support the need for healthy lifestyles, greater opportunities for riding a bike and reducing pollution by exhaust gases of cars.

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PROJECT CITYWALK PRESENTED AT THE ASSEMBLY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF TOWNS AND MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PILSEN REGION

On March 22 2019, the national conference Assembly of the Association of Towns and Municipalities of the Pilsen Region took place. Filip Uhlík, director of Regional Development Agency of the Pilsen Region, presented the CityWalk project.

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