Become an Active City! Unveiling the PACTE project’s Matrix for Change

PACTE project has just launched its Matrix for Change. A transversal and user-friendly tool created specifically for local authorities, the Matrix for Change addresses real issues and bridges existing gaps. It provides holistic solutions to decrease sedentarity levels and guides municipalities to further develop, or start, their Active City Action Plans through four settings: Active City, Active School, Active Mobility, and Active Workplace. We hope you enjoyed the programme and finally discovering the Matrix for Change!

For its final event, the PACTE project shared its findings, lessons learnt, and launched the Matrix for Change.

Promoting Active Cities Throughout Europe is also coming to a close. After almost 3 years of collaboration and ambitious work, project partners prepare to offer a last memorable event to stakeholders through the ‘Become an Active City! Unveiling the PACTE project’s Matrix for Change’ event, that will be held on Thursday 26 November afternoon.

The XVIIIth edition of the European Week of Regions and Cities kicked off Monday 5 of October in an unprecedented online format. Sport and Citizenship attended the event through two workshops on October 7: “Promoting Greener Sport in our regions”, and “Innovation Hubs for Sport&Vitality”. For the first time, sport-related workshops were included in the European Week of Regions and Cities programme. We are, therefore delighted to say that it was an interesting opportunity to find out more about the future of sport towards the greener transition put forward by the European Commission, especially regarding the regional dimension.

Anna Huttunen is manager of the CitiCAP project (Citizens’ cap-and-trade co-created), a project funded by the EU Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) 2nd Call, Urban Mobility theme (2018-2020), implemented in the city of Lahti (Finland).

In the seventies, the city of Lahti and its surroundings were very polluted due to rapid growth and urbanisation. Then, the 120 000 inhabitant city started a huge conversion to become more sustainable and its efforts have recently been rewarded with the European Green Capital award.

Nantes is France’s second bike-friendly municipality. With the 4th largest demographic growth among French cities (+6.4% since 2009), Nantes metropolitan area reached 619,240 inhabitants in 2014, thus establishing itself as a dynamic area with strong growth potential.

Heart of the Italian economy, and globally recognized as fashion and design capital, the city of Milan has gone through a terrific process of transformation in the past couple of decades, making it the modern and elegant metropolis known today.

As most cities in the Europe are currently quiet due to the Covid-19 pandemic, some are already planning for the future. A future that might include more emphasis on active mobility. To discuss current and future perspectives, the PACTE project sat down with Mikael Colville-Andersen, Urban Design Expert and host of the urbanism documentary series The Life-Sized City.

Located in the South of The Netherlands, Rotterdam is mainly known for its seaport, the largest one in Europe.

Deputy Major of Ljubljana

Located in the very centre of its country, Ljubljana has been the capital of Slovenia since 1991.

Alderman in charge of Sustainable mobility in the municipality

‘s-Hertogenbosch’s efficient policies made their biking ambitions come true

Project Manager, International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA)

NowWeMOVE campaign manager at ISCA

Amsterdam continues to bike towards a more active and greener city

first alderman of Brussels and alderman dedicated to climate and sport exchanges

The PACTE workshop, organised in Brussels on 27 September was the opportunity to exchange a few words with Philippe De Witte, coordinator of the Active Local Europe project, regarding how this initiative aims at creating a network to connect European cities and municipalities and the potential links to the PACTE project.

a fruitful workshop held in Brussels

Brussels’ next challenge : Create a 10-minute city and control the transport’s demand

Project officer, Active City Unit, City of Gdansk

Poland’s cycling capital is shaping its future by promoting active mobility

PACTE’s last workshop on Active Mobility to take place October 4 in Brussels

Brussels, 21 June 2019

A successful joint-event before the summer !

On June 6, 2019, the city of Liege (Belgium) brought its civic consultation a step further down the line towards the creation of the city next multiannual strategy.

Head of Division at the Technical and Environmental Administration- City of Copenhagen

Head of Departement, Umeå's Municipality and Physical literacy coordinator at Change the game

Following the Physical Activity Serving Society (PASS) project, Promoting Active Cities Throughout Europe (PACTE) is taking a further step towards increasing active cities across Europe.

On Wednesday 6th of March, the European Parliament’s Sport Integroup has organized a conference on the future of sport in European cities. The event, called ‘Sport and regional development: the future of sport in European cities’ gathered a lot of different actors to discuss the benefits from promoting sport in cities.

Mayor of London's Walking & Cycling Commissioner

With the Olympic and Paralympic Games on the horizon in 2024, Paris is at the centre of media attention in the world. Will these Olympics be the chance to transform the city and region and to improve the quality of life for Parisians and people in the Ile de France? An interview with Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris.

Co-founder of the Observatoire du sport based in Charleroi

In December 2018, representatives of the sports world gathered in Katowice at the COP 24 . Together, they reflected on the role of sports in climate action and launched the Sports for Climate Action Framework to "raise awareness among a wide audience about the need to act for the well-being of the planet". While the conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are troubling, environmental awareness is rising, and the sports world now understand its impact on the environment.

Next stop for the PACTE project is its Active Education Workshop held in Berlin on the 21st and 22nd of February. The workshop is co-organised with the European Physical Education Association (EUPEA), the project consortium’s expert partner on the topic of physical activity and education for children.

The PACTE project held its first workshop in Liverpool on November 15-16, where project partners were able to welcome urban planners, physical activity experts and city representatives.

The PACTE project held its first workshop on November 15-16 in Liverpool, where project partners were able to welcome urban planners, physical activity experts and city representatives.

The European Commission has revealed the 4 winners following last summer’s call for proposals, focused on promoting European values through sport initiatives at municipal level.

November 15-16, Promoting Active Cities Throughout Europe held its first workshop in Liverpool- whose city council is a project partner and living example of the change that the Active City concept brings about.

Director, Global Active City Development, Active Well-being Initiative

This overview attempts to enlighten the evolution of the Healthy/ Active City concept since its conception. This timeline seeks to emphasise the relevance of the Promoting Active Cities Throughout Europe project, which surpasses a temporary 36-month project, given it actively contributes to the fight against physical inactivity and NCDs.

The first steering committee for PACTE took place May 29-30 in Paris, and witnessed discussions around the project’s current evolution and steps for the near future.

As of today, the PACTE project (Promoting Active Cities Throughout Europe) is taking its first step that, in time will enable it to achieve its goal.

Having been selected following the 2017 Erasmus + call for proposals, the PACTE project was set in motion mid-January (15-16) 2018 upon the kick-off meeting which took place at the House of Sport in Brussels (BEL)