Several organisations are joining forces to launch a Learning Ecosystem in Ghent, with a focus on shared use and repair: De Transformisten, Wij Delen, Mpact, Gents MilieuFront (GMF), and LABO vzw. We are receiving support from Europa WSE.
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Mpact is thrilled to announce that the Interreg North Sea, Shared Mobility for All project, has made it to the finals of the prestigious Interreg Slam competition! This annual communication contest celebrates the best stories from Interreg projects and programs, showcasing how cooperation and solidarity among regions can lead to remarkable achievements.
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What if we told you that in Belgium, men are on average 3 times more likely than women to use shared electric scooters, 2.2 times more likely to use shared electric bikes, and 1.5 times more likely to use non-electric bikes.
In May 2021, Mpact and universities from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Italy launched the SmartHubs project. We aimed to study how mobility hubs could become game changers in urban transit. Now, three years later, we have reached the end of the project. Time for a wrap-up!
Have you ever heard someone reflect on a new, separate bike route, freshly painted pink but no one is using it yet? Or have you had someone see an empty bus pass by and complain to you “it’s not worth driving that bus around, there’s no one on it”? We have. And in this blog we would like to point out...
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Between October 2022 and February 2023, Mpact, Mobilise (VUB) and the municipality of Anderlecht descended on the Place du Conseil in Cureghem, a very diverse and multicultural neighbourhood just a stone's throw from Brussels Midi Station, Belgium's largest railway hub. Their goal? To develop,...
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Mpact calls for a similar carpooling plan for Belgium. Needless to say that Mpact - offering a carpool platform in Belgium - is enthusiastic about the 150 million euro France is investing in ridesharing."Carpooling has the potential to significantly reduce the resource consumption of our transport...
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For many years now, we here at Mpact have of course been following the revelations about Uber, topped off this year by the "Uber files". While most articles about the Uber files focused on the business model, the lobbying practices, or the legal aspects, relatively few talked about the implications ...
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From October to December 2021, ATCT challenged students from Belgium and abroad to reconsider their travel experiences on and to their campus and make them futureproof. Very necessary, according to our own research. More than 100 students worked on this challenge with FACES (For everyone, Autonomous, Connected, Electric, Shared) as a thread through their ideas. 20 teams submitted an idea. From a shortlist of 10 teams, 4 teams were chosen by our team and 1 team by a public vote who could join us for the final event.
In September 2021 Autodelen.net, the City of Mechelen, and Mpact launched a discussion paper on how we can potentially roll out autonomous transport in sustainable ways in Flanders.