From September 16th to 22nd, 2021, citizens of the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries will have the opportunity to participate in the world’s most popular urban mobility event called “European Mobility Week” (EMW).
The Center for Environment from Banja Luka is the national coordinator of this campaign, and on that occasion, together with the Giro di Sarajevo, invites all municipalities and cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the celebration of “European Mobility Week” and “World car-free day”.
Five cities/municipalities have registered for this year’s European Mobility Week: Bijeljina, Zvornik, Vlasenica, Han Pijesak and Banja Luka.
The Center for Environment, as before, will carry out several activities in the area of Banja Luka in the coming days:
– starting at 19:00 – film evening of the Banja Luka Critical Mass
– setting up a bicycle parking lot in front of the Public Civil Engineering High School
– starting at 13:00 – together with the City of Banja Luka, a press conference at which statements will be given by the President of the Center for Environment, Tihomir Dakić, and the Mayor of Banja Luka, Draško Stanivuković (confirmation of this information is still pending)
– starting at 18:00 – 20th Banja Luka bicycle ride “Two wheels are enough”
– starting at 20:00 – podcast “Wednesday to the Center”, theme: urban mobility, guests: Damir Margeta (Advisor for Infrastructure, Giro di Sarajevo) and Dragan Kabic (Transport Program Coordinator, Center for Environment)
In addition, the City of Banja Luka, the OSCE and the EU Info Center also participate in and/or organize a number of other activities.
This year’s EUROPEAN WEEKLY MOBILITY theme, due to the necessary recovery from the pandemic and the growing need to move more sustainable in urban areas, is ” Safe and Healthy with Sustainable Mobility”, while the calls for action motto is “Move sustainably! Stay healthy! ”
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment launched in 2002 the “European Mobility Week” campaign, which is organized every year in more than 2,500 cities around the world. The EMW ends on September 22nd with “World car-free day”.