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The Mobility Factory is a Spanish-Belgian cooperative that provides online booking software for Europe's electric car-sharing communities.

The Mobility Factory

The IT crowd: Experts build mobile app for European sustainable transport

The Mobility Factory, originally a Spanish-Belgian cooperative, provides online booking software for Europe's electric car-sharing communities.

Barcelona, Spain Sustainable Mobility
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Som Mobilitat is a Spanish sustainable mobility cooperative that facilitates electric car-sharing for its members, and promotes non-motorised forms of transport.

Som Mobilitat

Community drive: Spanish cooperative builds electric carsharing service

Som Mobilitat is a Spanish sustainable mobility cooperative that facilitates electric car-sharing and promotes non-motorised forms of transport.

Barcelona, Spain Sustainable Mobility
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Wave is a Beirut-based enterprise that wants more people to make electric bikes part of their daily routines, in Lebanon and beyond.

Wave

“De-taxi-fication” — Lebanese enterprise promotes e-bikes over cabs to avoid traffic

Wave is a Beirut-based enterprise that wants more people to make electric bikes part of their daily routine, in Lebanon and beyond.

Beirut, Lebanon Sustainable Mobility
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Vélorution Tunisie, a non-profit organisation for cycling enthusiasts from Tunis, is driving various projects aimed at getting Tunisians to cut down pollution by traveling on two wheels.

Vélorution Tunisie

Pedal power — Tunisian volunteers use bicycles to tackle air pollution and traffic congestion

Vélorution Tunisie, a non-profit organisation for bike enthusiasts, is driving various projects to get Tunisians to reduce pollution through cycling.

Tunis, Tunisia Sustainable Mobility
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Cycling Jordan is encouraging Jordanians to ride bicycles, a sustainable form of transport.

Cycling Jordan

Air pollution meets its match: the cycling enthusiasts of Jordan

Cycling Jordan, a bicycle store and sustainable tour operator, has ambitious plans to get more Jordanians travelling on two wheels rather than four.

Amman, Jordan Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Tourism
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Pikala

Tour the length of Marrakech with this sustainable cycling initiative

Cantal Bakker was visiting Marrakech for the first time when she realized that its beautiful, small streets are part of a labyrinth.

Marrakech, Morocco Sustainable Mobility
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The urban cycling tour of Beirut was one of the activities The Chain Effect coordinated with a local school

The Chain Effect

Cycling advocacy and street art go hand in hand in encouraging Beirut’s residents to cycle their city

Beirut-based cycling NGO, The Chain Effect, use street art as a way to spread their message of cycling mobility in Lebanon.

Beirut, Lebanon Sustainable Mobility
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Two Prototype 8 cardboard bikes

Cardboard Technologies

Remember the entrepreneurs who made a cardboard bike? Here’s where they are now

The disruptive cardboard bicycle was covered by media outlets worldwide, pitched at the UN’s Social Innovation Summit, and caught the eye of Coca-Cola, who wanted 300,000 branded bikes.

Caesarea, Israel Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Waste Management, Sustainable Mobility
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Ould Amer giving a talk on her initiative

OptimaDecision

The road not taken: Psychology meets transport planning

OptimaDecision is a planning and consulting firm specialized in transport planning, employing behavioral psychology in part.

Alger, Algeria Sustainable Mobility
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Innovative Hybrid Bike

The air-assisted bicycle: a cheap solution to ecological transport

Ecological and sturdy, the Innovative Hybrid Bike is an air-powered bicycle which can be pedalled without difficulty, even in areas where the terrain is hilly. More economical than the electric bike, it is a sustainable means of transport accessible...

Beirut, Lebanon Sustainable Mobility
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A promotional event for the Karhbetna platform

Karhbetna

Tunisia’s first carpooling platform introduces passengers to their environmental footprint

Karhbetna is the first carpooling web platform in Tunisia where drivers and passengers can connect to optimize their travel.

Ben Arous, Tunisia Sustainable Mobility
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Social Car

Spain-based platform makes it easy for people to car-share

Social Car allows Spaniards to easily rent their vehicle online. The goal is to build community and reduce the number of cars on the road.

Barcelona, Spain Sustainable Mobility
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