Call for nomination – Håkan Frisinger Award
Invitation open untiltil 31 march
Stakeholder workshop 17 January
A stakeholder workshop will be held in Dar es Salaam and online 17 January, to disseminate project findings from The VREF funded MAC research project Mapping unequal accessibility to socioeconomic and cultural opportunities in informal urban settlements across two sub-Sahara African Cities. See full program and info on how to register by clicking the link below:
VREF and Walk21 support national walking policies
A new partnership of Walk21 and Volvo Research and Education Foundation (VREF) will support up to 56 national governments with the development of effective national walking policies that deliver improvements to health and well-being, mitigate climate change, and reduce road fatalities. The policy training was announced on 15th November 2022, during the event titled The Role of …
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2022 awardees of Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship announced
Robert Ambunda and Lucia Game have been awarded the prestigious Lee Schipper Scholarship Award for transformative research proposals to challenge conventional wisdom. Robert Ambunda, also known within VREF:s MAC network, is the lead researcher in the Mobility Lab at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Namibia. He is also one of …
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Meet the VREF SLOCAT Young Leaders!
The SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport and the VREF have now achieved their third round of the SLOCAT-VREF Young Leaders in Sustainable Transport programme. Here are the five selected Young Leaders! The SLOCAT Partnership and the VREF launched in May 2019 the Young Leaders in Sustainable Transport programme. The programme builds bridges between …
Study commissioned to the WRI-China is now available
”Status and Opportunities of Shared Mobility Systems in China” VREF commissioned a report about Informal Public transport to the Future Mobility Project teams, working for the Sustainable Cities Program at the World Resources Institute-China. In response to the challenges of both COVID-19 and climate change, the public transport needs to be redefined. Traditional “public transport” …
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Spotlight on: The importance of historically informed transport research
Interview with Njogu Morgan who leads the MAC Exploratory Project ”Towards comparative, historically informed research on contemporary African urban transport issues: A proposal for a research network”.