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On the occasion of COP15 Brussels will be in the sign of the bicycle on Tuesday the 1st of December. The Danish exhibition “Dreams on Wheels” will be officially opened at the Brussels-Luxembourg station at the same time as the new bicycle point “point-vélo” where you can rent a bicycle or get you own repaired. In the afternoon a seminar on cycling policies and sustainable urban planning will take place in the Parliament of the Brussels region.
Dreams on Wheels; experiences from Denmark
With Danish bicycle culture as a starting point Dreams on Wheels is an exhibition that promotes cycling as an alternative means of transport in the cities. The exhibition shows best practises from Denmark for example in relation to innovative industrial design and sustainable city planning. Dreams on Wheels is part of the public diplomacy framework of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has become an official prelude to COP15. “We are happy to open this exhibition here in Brussels just a week before the climate conference begins”, says Jørgen Molde, the Danish Ambassador to Belgium.
Secretary General Bernhard Ensink, ECF, State Secretary of Brussels Capital region Bruno De Lille, Danish Ambassador Jørgen Molde and Urban Designer & Curator Thomas Ermacora, just before all take of to the Brussels Parliament by bike
There will be several speakers at the opening, among others Jannie Haeck, CEO from SNCB , Bruno De Lille, Secretary of State on Mobility, Thomas Ermacora, the curator of the exhibition and Jørgen Molde, the Danish Ambassador. Refreshments will be served before everybody bikes together to the Brussels regions’ parliament (for those not in possession of a bicycle JCDecaux will provide Villo! city bikes) where the Danish Embassy in cooperation with the Brussels region has organised a seminar that will examine what is being done in matters of urban sustainable city planning and how to get more people to use their bicycle. There will be speakers from the European Union, experts from Denmark and ministers from the Brussels region.
Curator Thomas Ermacora opening the exhibition
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