Empowering children: Cycling education and active school travel campaigns
17 Jun 2026 14:30 - 15:30 Arco Lectures
Cycling for Life. Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
Encouraging children to cycle is a powerful way to support healthier lifestyles, independence, and safer communities. This session explores practical strategies and inspiring programmes that promote cycling education and active school travel. Speakers will show how cities can systematically increase the number of children cycling to school, from evidence-based education programmes demonstrating how cycling can improve physical and mental wellbeing while building lifelong skills, to creating safer, car-reduced areas around schools, to programmes teaching children to ride while fostering inclusion and environmental awareness, the session highlights scalable initiatives that empower the next generation to move confidently and sustainably.
