BIKEAble!

BIKEable! – Building Inclusive Knowledge & Empowerment Network for Able Cycling

BIKEable! is an Erasmus+ project that is bringing cycling culture closer to young people across Austria, Italy, and Spain. Since early 2025, our consortium of NGOs has been setting up Youth Cycling Hubs - community spaces equipped with tools, bikes, and resources where disadvantaged and diverse youth can learn essential cycling skills, from road safety to bike maintenance. These hubs are already becoming socialising meeting points where young people not only repair and ride bikes, but also discover how cycling can reduce their costs, increase independence, and connect them more closely with their communities.

Over the course of this year, we are working hand in hand with local partners to collect second-hand bicycles, refurbish them, and make them available for youth who otherwise lack access to affordable transport. Through workshops, campaigns, and the creation of local “Bike Corners,” participants are gaining practical skills that help them stay safe on the road and confident in using a bike for everyday mobility. Youth workers from all three countries are currently undergoing training in Graz, Austria, to strengthen their capacity in cycling education, ensuring that these initiatives can continue well beyond the project’s lifetime.

To spread the word further, BIKEable! is producing a promotional video and podcast featuring young voices alongside decision-makers discussing the future of cycling infrastructure in Europe. In September 2025, we will gather more young people for the EU Mobility Week with “Fix-Your-Ride” events in Graz, Purchena, and Tramonti for - hands-on workshops where youth can repair their bikes and join group rides. With every activity, BIKEable! promotes inclusion, sustainability, and empowerment, proving that cycling is more than transport - it is a step forward to healthier, greener, and more connected communities.

As BIKEAble! is a follow up of the Youth and Commute project and our organization an outcome of it, we have translated and broaden the access to some of the outcomes of it. Here you can find the translations of the Curriculum for teaching marginalized youth on cycling, road safety and bike maintenance, aiming to help youth workers training youth on cycling, available in English, German, Italian and Spanish: