BikeAble! LTTA in Graz

Learning Training and Teaching Activity

during our BikeAble! project

in Graz

Between 2. and 5. June 2025 we have hosted an LTTA activity in Graz as part of our BikeAble! Erasmus+ project. The project is about encouraging more (especially marginalised) young people to cycle locally, and opt for a bike for their daily commute. This project aims to establish 'BIKE corners' in the premisses of the participating organizations, and allow young people visiting them to use their bikes, tools, pumps and basic reserve parts. For that reason, each organization send 4 youth workers to experience cycling in Graz and learn the basics of traffic culture, bike maintenance and simple repairs.

BIKE - Bündnis für klimaschonende Initiativen und Kooperationen in Europa, as a host of the project provided bicycles for all the participants from Spain and Italy, and organized several short bike tours around the city by bike, to ensure first hand experience and allow them to observe good practices in a city that has invested largely in improving the cycling infrastructure and involving organizations like Rad-Lobby and Radkompetenz in the process of reforming the city.

As youth workers, the participants received a skills-wheel, where they could name a number of important skills for cycling and supporting other young people to become cyclists, as well as give themselves a grade in those particular skills. Each of them, after the bike rides in Graz reflected on the knowledge and skills they posses, and what they should improve. From an individual task, we turned this into a group task, where they could combine their wheels and teach each-other the missing points, making the final wheel round and 'smooth to ride with', as a way of visually representing the knowledge and skills of the team, for each team of all countries.

We met at the premisses of BASE Graz, where the intellectual part of the workshops took place, and we introduced the participants to the initiative of BASE, the SEDDWELL centre in Graz, by Debbie Adams, the founder and main actor behind the intercultural activities. The next day started with more cycling, and we met at the premisses of Jugend am Werk, the programme AFit, where Verein BIKE is officially establishing the BIKE corner. A(usbildungs)Fit is a programme that aims to bring school drop-outs back on track, and prepare them for an apprenticeship in some of the local companies. The young people attending the programme can benefit largely from increased mobility through cycling, and improved skills and knowledge about traffic safety and bike maintenance. BIKE has provided AFit with several bikes and tools and maintenance equipment, whereas Jugend Am Werk cooperatively provided helmets, bike stand, other tools and the space.
Similar bike corners are now being established by the attendies of the LTTA in Purchena and Tramonti, in the offices of Illipula and ACARBIO as well.

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