Promotional Meeting of 2022 European MobilityWeek(EMW) Was Held at the Headquarters of the Union of Municipalities of Türkiye (UMT)

#EMW which is the European Commission’s flagship awareness-raising campaign on sustainable urban mobility is celebrated each year during the week of 12-16 September.

UMT and Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Fatma Şahin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director for EU Affairs Ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı, Deputy Head of EU Delegation to Türkiye Ambassador Undersecretary Eleftheria Pertzinidou and Presidency of the EU Council Czech Ambassador to Türkiye Pavel Vacek  attended the meeting.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director for EU Affairs Ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı and Ambassador Vacek together pedalled to the meeting.  In the promotional meeting UMT Mayor Fatma Şahin underlined a stronger cooperation with European Union. Şahin highlighted the importance of EMW on the way to kick-off the mental transformation and to change the living habits of people for good within the framework of sustainable urban mobility plans.

In the opening speech at the meeting, Pertzinidou stated that the European Mobility Week aims to create a change of behavior to reduce dependence on personal vehicles and that low carbon targets can be achieved by cycling, walking and public transport.

Kaymakcı, who underlined that the participation of municipalities in Türkiye to the EMW has reached to a very good point with the important contributions of the Union of Municipalities of Türkiye, and mentioned in his speech the sustainable transport, the support provided to local governments and the Town Twinning Projects between Türkiye and the EU.

Upon the questions directed by Civil Society Organizations’ representatives who were present in the meeting, information has been given on the scope of activities in“Technical Assistance to UMT on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Türkiye Project” which has started in the previous month and financed under USOP.