A coalition of citizen associations engaged in road safety demands a clear message on City 30 and asks to support it by additional measures: they are key to the effective improvement of the safety of all road users.
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Mobility
#CleanAirForAll: Brussels air quality network calls for better health protection for Brussels residents
7 September 2020 marks the first ever International Day for Clean Air and Blue Skies, organised by the United Nations (UN). Did you know that air pollution is one of the main avoidable causes of death and disease globally?
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Citizens’ actions
Who’s afraid of co-creation?
The Brussels’ civil servants who attended the final visit and round table of the CitizenDev project do not seem scared to co-create. We embarked on a journey to search for ways how to co-create communities, using their own assets.
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Citizens’ actions
Looper in full bloom
Last weekend, Schaerbeek residents painted this mandala to (try to) slow down cars and improve traffic safety.
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Mobility
Congrats, Clean Air BXL & Client Earth!
The European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of the citizens & Client Earth taking the Brussels region to court over air quality!
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Myst'Air à Bruxelles
The air pollution in Brussels is so omnipresent that we hardly notice it anymore. Soon, the new publication of BRAL will tell the story of those who demand clean air louder and louder.
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Mobility
Mapping air quality in Brussels while cycling to work
Commission en direct wrote an article on their colleagues at the European Commission who joined the citizen science project 'AirCasting' of BRAL and Cosmopolis. You can read the full article here.
BRAL, les Casseuses de Crise, PaletActif, Buurtpensioen 1000 Brussel, Corvia & Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles invite you to the public premiere of 4 participative short films: Selfcity, citizens' initiatives create well-being.
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Citizens’ actions
Report: the launch of LOOPER in Brussels
With the launch of the Urban Living Lab in the Helmet neighbourhood in Schaarbeek, LOOPER has officially begun! The first meeting on 8 February introduced the LOOPER project with a brainstorm about mobility problems and solutions.
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AirCasting Brussels: Citizens as researchers
AirCasting sensors allow for real-time measurement of exposure to pollutants in the air, enabling Brussels residents to become researchers in a collective learning and action project. Together we answer the question "Where are we most at risk?"
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Call for ideas 'Josaphatsite' (open until 24/7)
Imagine… What would you propose for our vibrant community at the Josaphat site (not the park)?
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Protest at EU Environment Ministers meeting to discuss airquality (+pix)
BRAL, a Belgian NGO that aims at making Brussels more sustainable, demonstrated in front of the European Council’s.