Erasmus+ 3Cs, “Cycling, Campus & City” started in Coimbra.

The University of Coimbra received its partners from the “Cycling, Campus & City” Program for a work meeting where the planning of the different Work Packages of the initiative was carried out, which will facilitate travel between Cities and Campuses through more sustainable means of transport and promoting the health and well-being of the universities community.

The central scope of this working group under the Erasmus + programme is to promote sustainability through sport and ecological mobility and identify, promote, improve, and enhance an active and green mobility. Bicycle, whether electric or conventional, will be used as the main means of transport, and cycle paths will be identified and promoted, primarily to, from and within the university campus and the city. Other forms of healthy and active mobility will also be explored in this project such as walking. Overall, it aims to identify good practices, collect data from the pilot group of participants by using a tool produced by the project and through two studies (habits and behaviours and best routes), collect practical and educational content, promote sustainable travel habits, change behaviours for greater local and European impact and raise awareness of the importance of contributing to a greener world through sport and use of sustainable means of transport. In general the project activities will be: implement and evaluation of the studies; the creation of the 3Cs tool to support circulation; the definition of a European route for active and sustainable mobility, as a way to disseminate the project's objectives, disseminate the European potential and the project, and share educational content; and finally the creation of the 3C Handbook, which will support the 3Cs tool (with educational tips) and will be an online manual for sharing knowledge and best practices.

This project, which is now beginning and will end in 2025.