The partners of the project CityWalk (Towards energy responsible places: establishing walkable cities in the Danube Region - co-founded by EU funds) are delighted to invite you to the final event of the project hosted by project partner the City Oradea.

The conference will be held on Tuesday, March 26th 2019 at the City Hall of Oradea (Primaria Oradea). Please register using the registration form: http://bit.ly/walkabilityconference by the 22nd of March, 2019. The Conference on Walkability will be held in English and Romanian.

At the final event, we will address the obstacles of sustainable forms of mobility in the cities. At two different dialogue panels with the thematic experts from the field of urban planning, we will be looking for answers and proposals linked to the issues of the sustainable urban planning and design of the cities, the environmental impact of traffic, pedestrian infrastructure, awareness raising and policies/regulations. We will also present all project results, which can be used in many cities.

At the first panel, titled Cities made for walking, Mr Kézy Béla, MEGAKOM Development Consultants will be joined by Mr Mihai Pașcalău Arch, Expert of Urban Mobility Support Department - Regional Development Agency from the North-West Region, Romania; Mr Dacian Palladi - Oradea City Manager and Mr Antal Gertheis - Mobilissimus Kft., Hungary. They will address topics such as street design and pedestrian infrastructure; awareness raising and education and policies and regulations. Their discussion will be followed by a second panel titled Sustainable mobility. The panellists of the second panel Mr Danilo Čeh - Scientific Research Centre Bistra Ptuj; Prof. Aleksandar Slaev - University of Varna; Mr Ciprian Barna – mobility expert, Oradea Metropolitan Area and Mr Phd. Matej Ogrin - Cipra Slovenia will share their views on what makes a city sustainable and climate-friendly; spatial planning for sustainability and architecture and urban design in sustainable mobility.

CityWalk project – Towards energy responsible places: establishing walkable cities in the Danube Region – helps cities in the Danube Region to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, noise and to become safer, better places to live, by increasing the role of more sustainable forms of mobility in the urban transport mix, especially active transport forms (like walking and biking). The project addresses the challenge with a holistic approach: improving urban mobility through efficiently combining various means of transport by identifying the obstacles, developing and implementing a plan to address those obstacles.

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