EU City Lab on active mobility
This EU City Lab is co-organised by URBACT and the European Urban Initiative (EUI) and will take place in Hamburg, (DE) from the morning of 28 October until the afternoon of 29 October 2025.
The event will welcome urban practitioners, policymakers, and experts from across Europe.
The EU City Lab is a knowledge-sharing event focused on Active Mobility – considered within the framework of integrated and inclusive mobility systems – by addressing the following key areas:
- Changing behaviours to encourage more active mobility choices.
- Leveraging data and technology to achieve efficient, sustainable, and integrated mobility systems (notably thinking about urban-rural linkages and Functional Urban Areas).
- Ensuring accessibility and inclusion so that active mobility benefits all users, regardless of age, gender, ability, or location, and guaranteeing that active mobility is supported within an appropriate, accessible intermodal system (including different modes of sustainable urban transport) to meet diverse needs.
- Identifying the key challenges to increasing the modal share of active mobility in cities.
Drawing on practical strategies, solutions, and lessons from EUI, UIA, and URBACT projects, the Lab aims to inspire cities across Europe to turn ambition into action and scale up sustainable urban mobility solutions.
This EU City Lab is a unique opportunity to:
- Discover how the city of Hamburg is putting active mobility into practice, including visits to local sites.
- Learn how other European cities are addressing key mobility challenges through behaviour change, data and digital tools, and inclusive planning.
- Exchange directly with city peers and experts on effective methods for scaling up integrated and inclusive active mobility.
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Bring home new ideas, tools, and inspiration to strengthen mobility planning in your city.
The event will bring together city representatives, urban planners, mobility practitioners and experts working on sustainable urban mobility across Europe.
Practical Information
Venue
Dialoghaus Hamburg gGmbH, Alter Wandrahm 4, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Immersive Erlebnisse in Hamburg | Dialog Haus
Dialoghaus Hamburg is a non-profit GmbH located in Hamburg's Speicherstadt. It promotes inclusion through interactive exhibitions such as "Dialogue in the Dark" and "Dialogue in Silence," where visitors experience everyday life mobility in the urban context from the perspective of blind and deaf individuals. Dialoghaus is a partner of the EUI Innovative Action CUSTOM led by the city of Hamburg (DE), which aims at creating a fully accessible and inclusive transport network.
Getting to the venue
From Hamburg airport
S-Bahn: From Hamburg Airport (Flughafen) take S1 (direction Wedel/Blankenese). Get off at Ohlsdorf. Walk ~15 min to Dialoghaus (~30–35 min, ~€3.70) or take a short U-Bahn 1 (direction Farmsen) and get off at Messberg and walk 3 minutes to or bus ride Dialoghaus, which is in Speicherstadt.
Bus: Take Bus 606 (night) or other airport buses into city → connect to Speicherstadt (slower, ~50–60 min, same fare).
From Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to Dialoghaus (Alter Wandrahm 4, Speicherstadt):
U-Bahn: From Hauptbahnhof, take U1 (direction Ohlsdorf) → stop Messberg → walk ~3 min to Dialoghaus. (~10–15 min total, €2.50).
Walk: ~15 min straight from Hauptbahnhof through Deichtorhallen → Speicherstadt.
Fastest is U1; simplest is just walking.
Getting to Hamburg
Hamburg Airport (HAM) is well-connected with direct flights to/from major European cities in under three hours.
More sustainable travel options are also available, such as:
By train (e.g. Paris - Hamurg)
Accomodation
Hotels within a 15-minute walk of the venue:
Pierdrei Hotel HafenCity Hamburg
Useful information
Local language: German (English is widely spoken)
Currency: Euro (€)
Time Zone: CET (UTC +01:00) / CEST (UTC +02:00 in summer)
International dialling code: +49
Emergency number: 112