PRESENTATION RESEARCH RESULTS

Since 2020, the city council has had a public-social collaboration agreement with the Public University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) in research focused on analyzing and identifying the possible benefits (various indicators of health, psychosocial and cognitive development, etc.) of Bizibideak-School Roads project of the municipality. The work has been carried out, under the direction of the Kide-On research team of the UPV-EHU, and the scientific conclusions of the study are presented to the different local agents (parents, educational centres, local technicians, etc.).

On September 16 there will be a public presentation and a collaborative work session to share the results, assess them jointly and, based on them, define new strategies and possible future actions, together.

In addition, the document will be made public in different supports and media.

HAUR IBILTARIEN TOPAKETA (HIT 2022)

The HIT intends to invite children who, during the 2022/2023 academic year, go to 4th grade of primary school to get to know these paths, their routes, their meeting points and to meet other boys and girls with whom they can share the path every day.

At the same time, it is an initiative that seeks to sensitize the fathers and mothers of the children. Allow them to experience, together with their sons and daughters, that the paths are safe and recognize the benefits they bring both for the children and for the rest of the community.

On the working days of the European Mobility Week (September 16, 19, 20, 21 and 22) all children (and their families, if they wish) are invited to test the network of school paths in Leioa during these days. At the exit points, and with different marked routes, there will be monitors who will accompany the children and their families along the way, explaining them and helping them to understand the system and the benefits of the project.

XVIII MARCH AT PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

We have been celebrating a march "at a pedestrian pace" for 18 years. It is not a race or a competition. It is an opportunity to promote the meeting of the community, its diversity and its different realities and to discover, know and diagnose Leioa from the multiple perspectives of pedestrian mobility (on foot).

On Saturday, September 17, we celebrate the March. From 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There are different routes (this year linked to the school paths of the municipality) and families and/or groups of friends and neighbors are invited to choose their own route to finish all in a common point. On the roads, they also have to find three of the eight large zebras (logo of the march) distributed throughout the city. And they can enjoy the different "urban game" spaces set up throughout Leioa. All the routes are accessible for any type of mobility (elderly people, wheelchairs, pushchairs, small children...) and all the play spaces have also been designed so that everyone can play. One of the slogans of the project: it is to never leave anyone on the sidelines.

The average participation in the march in recent years is about 600/700 people (including in times of pandemic, and always respecting health conditions and measures). People of absolutely all ages and very diverse mobilities.

In addition, some years all the councilors of the different political parties with municipal representation are usually invited to participate in the march. They are given a backpack-mailbox where citizens can introduce questions, proposals and improvements based on the direct diagnosis made during the march. These proposals are worked on, later, in the respective municipal departments during the rest of the year and a public accountability is made, in the following year's march. This, in addition to bringing political leaders and citizens closer together, opens up informal meeting spaces and dialogues between the two.

Lastly, it is worth highlighting the community work promoted by the march: fostering a meeting between neighbors who re-know each other, create new bonds of encounter and share the walk (helping each other, chatting, sharing path...) and the Merchants' Association of the municipality, in addition, collaborates with the initiative contributing fruit for all the people who participate in the March.

HAUR IBILTARIEN TOPAKETA (HIT 2022)

On the working days of the European Mobility Week (September 16, 19, 20, 21 and 22) all children (and their families, if they wish) are invited to test the network of school paths in Leioa during these days. At the exit points, and with different marked routes, there will be monitors who will accompany the children and their families along the way, explaining them and helping them to understand the system and the benefits of the project.

HAUR IBILTARIEN TOPAKETA (HIT 2022)

On the working days of the European Mobility Week (September 16, 19, 20, 21 and 22) all children (and their families, if they wish) are invited to test the network of school paths in Leioa during these days. At the exit points, and with different marked routes, there will be monitors who will accompany the children and their families along the way, explaining them and helping them to understand the system and the benefits of the project.

HAUR IBILTARIEN TOPAKETA (HIT 2022)

On the working days of the European Mobility Week (September 16, 19, 20, 21 and 22) all children (and their families, if they wish) are invited to test the network of school paths in Leioa during these days. At the exit points, and with different marked routes, there will be monitors who will accompany the children and their families along the way, explaining them and helping them to understand the system and the benefits of the project.

HAUR IBILTARIEN TOPAKETA (HIT 2022)

On September 22, (Day without my Car), all the boys and girls of 4th grade leave their centers to meet in a central place in the town -in the place where the permanent intervention is proposed- with the mayor, municipal technicians (police, urban planning, participation, education...) and those responsible for the local Health Center (paediatricians, nurses, regional health officials...). In this meeting, the different responsible adults commit themselves publicly (and in front of the children) with the mobility and autonomy of children, with the promotion of paths and with continuing to work to transform the city into a more sustainable space, healthy and kind to people.

On that day, each school -students and teachers- wears their color shirt. In the municipal signs (children's meeting points), the times it takes to walk to the 11 schools (from each sign) are marked and each center is identified with a colour.

Finally, the rest of the boys and girls are introduced to the BIDEBEHATZAILE (Road Watchers). In the local project we have a working group, made up of 5th and 6th grade children from all the centers in the municipality. The group is called MUGIKORTASUNAREN HAURREN BEHATOKIA - CHILDREN'S MOBILITY OBSERVATORY (MUHABE). The members of this group are the Bidebehatzailes (the observers) in charge of serving as a link between the children and the institution. They collaborate by proposing improvements, detecting problems on the roads and/or, above all, helping their colleagues who are not yet walking to encourage them to do so: they explain the "metrominute" (routes, signs, timetables, travel times, etc.).

Other data of interest:

o The Road Spider has been defined and adapted over the last 4 years with the active participation of the children from 11 schools in the municipality. They have defined the routes, established meeting points and created groups of friends and companions.

o This spider has been reviewed and adapted, moreover, by the BIZIBIDEAK Work Team, which is responsible for monitoring, defining objectives and establishing evaluation indicators for the entire project. It is made up of the different local agents involved in the process: AMPAs, management teams of the Schools, Health Center workers, regional health managers of the Basque Government, municipal technicians and politicians from various areas (education, participation, urban planning, neighborhoods ...) and individual citizens interested in the project.