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In the San Vigilio neighbourhood in Merano (South Tyrol, Italy) there is a lot of space in the open air, but kids don’t occupy it. That’s why Metamorphosis joined in and suggested activities like an outdoors rap workshop, a second-hand toys market and a knödel party in fresh air.
Thanks to Metamorphosis, the municipality's walking bus for school kids set a new trend in Merano. The initially three bus lines became five and the number of participating pupils shot up from 3 to 40. Next schoolyear additional lines will be established.
The 2018 developed “neighbourhood treasure game” in the two pilot neighbourhoods in Zurich is a success! synergo was asked by the housing cooperative “Familienheim-Genossenschaft Zürich (FGZ)” located in the Friesenberg district, to develop a similar game. A workshop with children to identify their favourite places in the neighbourhood was held at the end of February 2020.
Children from 6 primary schools in Tilburg have explored their school environment for dangerous situations. During the Schoolscan they gave tips, worked them out and presented them to the class and to employees of the municipality.
In Vienna, Transport City Councillor Birgit Hebein has announced imminent road openings for walking and cycling.
This is intended on the one hand to ensure the required physical (not social!) distance for necessary walking and cycling (which is not possible with many of the current sidewalk and cycle path widths), and on the other hand to create recreational areas in the immediate residential environment away from (partially still closed) parks.
Dal place-making - ovvero dalla progettazione condivisa dello spazio pubblico - nascono luoghi realmente vissuti. Metamorphosis Meran/o presenta alcuni esempi di interventi nello spazio pubblico in diversi quartieri della città ispirati alle idee dei giovani residenti e con loro realizzati.
Experiences of the City of Bolzano regarding the initiatives that have been introduced to make the way to school safer for primary school children will be presented in the webinar:
the Crossing guards who help children at pedestrian crossings to cross safely, the Pedibus initiative and the temporary closure of some streets near schools, the so-called "school streets".
Im Webinar werden die Erfahrungen der Stadt Bozen hinsichtlich der Initiativen vorgestellt, die eingeführt wurden, um den Schulweg der GrundschülerInnen sicherer zu machen:
die Schülerlotsen, die den Kindern an Fußgängerübergängen beim sicheren Überqueren helfen, die Pedibus-Initiative und die vorübergehende Schließung einiger Straßen in der Nähe von Schulen, die sogenannten "Schulstraßen".
With the help of real accident statistics from the school environment, students analyse accidents which happened on their daily route to school. The workshop aims to raise awareness to the fact that many car drivers or lorry drivers are not very much aware of cyclists or pedestrians. A special focus was on the danger to other road users when a truck is turning off at an intersection. After a practical element, when the students observed an intersection for about 15 minutes and listed the observed misbehaviour, they talked about what they saw in calss and put in perspective.
To support third-graders passing their bicycle safety test in the 4th grade, they can improve their cycling skills with the help of workshops. The workshops are designed to address difficulties and deficits timely so that children still have plenty of time to practice their skills before the bicycle safety test. The workshops cover the following topics:
Safety:
Traffic Rules
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 723375
