By Jane Hackett The #andshecycle Ambassador Programme was developed by Green-Schools with the purpose of addressing the teenage cycling gender gap. The justification behind it came from different research and surveys which revealed a very low engagement in cycling by young girls- only one in every 250 teenage girls cycle to school every day- and […]
Cyclist.ie welcomes Active Travel Jobs Announcement
By Damien O’Tuama Cyclist.ie warmly welcomes the announcement today from the Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan T.D. and Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton T.D. that up to 248 new jobs in local authorities will be created to expand walking and cycling facilities all over the country. Speaking about the plan to employ up to 218 […]
A vision for Cycling in Rural Ireland
By Damien O’Tuama The Rural Cycling Collective is an expanding array of small groups and individuals within the wider Cyclist.ie Advocacy Network with a focus on making rural communities (towns, villages and rural roads) cycle friendly for all ages and abilities. We have made a video to explain our vision: https://vimeo.com/458684072 Read our Vision for Cycling in […]
Visiting a workshop for second-hand bikes
By Layla Samhi Yesterday, February 2nd, we went to our high school to carry loads of second-hand bikes in Biciclistas’ van. The bike room was a complete mess with bikes all around, used and punctured tires, pedals… Besides, there were in-line skates and big rolls of colourful paper. We took all the bikes out, tidied […]
Restarting CWA after the pandemic
We had an online conference on Saturday, January 30th, to discuss and debate about how to restart CWA after, or even during, the pandemic. The psychologist Vibeke Koushede gave us a lot of tips and information about our elders in pandemic times, how they are coping with lockdowns, social distance, and lack of hugs and […]
Kahoot contest
By Doa Elliasmine and Alejandra Gutiérrez My partner Mariale (it’s what we call Alejandra affectionately) and I, Doa, presented a kahoot about Ole Kassow’s TED talk on Cycling Without Age. We squeezed it in the 15-minute weekly meeting we have to stay updated about Erasmus activities and achievements. Before Christmas Toño asked us what we […]
No goodbyes, just see you soon, Belahrizi sisters!
On the last day before Christmas, December 22, Inés and Manel Belahrizi confirmed that their family moved to Tudela shortly and that they wouldn’t study in our school from January 2021 on. These were very bad news because these two sisters have played a key role in our Erasmus: Inés was extraordinarily commited since the […]
Christmas activities
Erasmus volunteers in urban planning commission
By Layla Samhi I, Layla Samhi, and two friends, Michelle Guevara and Manel Belahrizi, have been working on this tree inventory for a couple of weeks. The mayor, Gorka García, and the town councilors wanted to know first-hand our tree inventory and they asked us to present it again in the plenary hall on Monday, […]
Presenting our tree inventory
We’ve presented today our tree inventory in the plenary hall of our town council. Our mayor, Gorka García, and the environment town councillor, Félix Bienzobas, have listened respectfully and appreciated enormously our volunteers’ effort and the tree inventory we’ve handed in today. Layla, Michelle, and Manel have worked very hard with trees, numbers, to make […]
