Start Date : 1 Sept 13   End Date : 30 Sept 13 Location: Suwon

Organized though collaboration between the city of Suwon, ICLEI and UN-Habitat, the EcoMobility World Festival is taking place from 1 to 30 September 2013.

This “Festival” is in reality a bold experiment involving real inhabitants in a real city. The residents of Haenggungdong neighborhood in Suwon, South Korea will temporarily adopt an ecomobile lifestyle to experience how Eco-Mobility can influence their lives positively.

The Festival will show how Eco-Mobility can provide innovative, environmentally friendly transport options to all of a neighbourhood’s residents irrespective of age, gender or physical capability.

The Festival will showcase the latest eco-mobile technologies, applying them to a real city environment. It is expected to bring together, policy makers,city-planners and experts across the world, gathered to see how one neighborhood can make the change from using private cars to eco-mobile modes of transport.

At a press conference held during the 24th UN-Habitat Governing Council in April 2013, Dr. Joan Clos the UN-Habitat Executive Director said of the Festival: “This is a natural experiment where people can see one of the possible alternatives to urban life in the future”.

CCCI is inviting active young bloggers from CCCI cities to enter a Blogging Competition on the concept of EcoMobility. Possible topics could include:

• Solving traffic nightmares
• EcoMobile living reduces health risks
• Transport in an urbanizing world
• Is your city investing enough in sustainable urban infrastructure?

The three top bloggers, as judged by a panel from UN-Habitat, will win a fully-sponsored one week trip to the Festival!

To find out the rules, eligibility requirements, and to register for the Blogging Competition, please send an email to ccci@unhabitat.org.

To find out more about the Festival, please visit http://www.ecomobilityfestival.org