Fourth AENEAS Training Workshop: Cycling and Health in an Ageing Society

Odense, Denmark, 9 - 10 June 2010

The indoor training was followed by an outdoor study visit

Active travel, and particularly cycling, can contribute to better health and increase of life expectancy. These facts are well known and have been promoted by different scientific studies and European funded mobility projects, such as Lifecycle, Active Access or Vianova. But what about older people? Is it not too dangerous for them to cycle, and do the positive impacts of cycling apply also at this stage of life?

These questions were investigated in detail by leading international experts at the 2-day AENEAS training workshop. The first day included presentations and small group discussions. The second day was concluded by a study visit in Odense - one of Europe's leading cities to promote cycling.

All the training materials from the Odense workshop are now available for you to download:

• Training programme (311-Kbyte PDF)
• Training report (10-Mbyte PDF)
• Workshop presentations
  • Mathias Fiedler, The AENEAS Project (1.2-Mbyte PDF)
  • Lars Østergaard, The interplay between cycling and health, the case of older people (1.9 Mbyte PDF)
  • Pernille Ehlers, Needs and attitudes of older people regarding cycling (2.9 Mbyte PDF)
  • Chris Peck, Activating older people to cycle in the UK (600 Kbyte PFF)
  • Dorthe Råby, Andreas Schuster,  Motivate & keep senior citizens cycling: Approaches from Odense (1.6 Mbyte PDF) and Munich (0.9 Mbyte PDF)
  • Connie Juel Clausen, Traffic planning in Odense (4.7 Mbyte PDF)
  • Mario Kramer, Training for safe cycling in the Netherlands (1.3 Mbyte PDF)
  • Maarten van Bemmelen, Closing session (3.2 Mbyte PPT)
  • Workshop evaluation (73-Kbyte MS Word)

Photos

There was an audince of 35 people, seated to encourage interactive discussions
Presentations covered a range of social, economic and institutional issues, presented in a scientific, but easy-to-understand manner
Small group discussions
Small group excercise
The event was moderated by local and international experts
Study visit to a rehabilitation centre
Study tour in a beautiful environment and with very friendly and informative guidance