Capacity: 20

Duration: 2,5 hours

Organised by: Mobility Department, City of Leuven

In the cycling city of Leuven, the basis for more cycle use is increasing bicycle ownership. A diverse range of high-quality bicycle parking facilities supports this goal and will be visited on this tour. Leuven also offers high-quality (e-)shared mobility services, including carsharing, cargo bike sharing and bike sharing, at more than 40 mobility hubs (Hoppin Points) all over the city.

Capacity: 40 (2 groups)

Duration: 2,5 hours

Organised by: Province of Flemish Brabant

Leuven is located in the heart of the cycle highway network in Flanders, with connections to all surrounding cities. Together with the province of Flemish Brabant, the city is developing cycle highways to form the backbone of the cycle network in and around the city. During a bike ride along the F24 cycle highway, you will experience top-quality cycling infrastructure and witness the integration of a cycle highway in an urban environment. Cycle tunnels, cycle bridges and cycle streets connect infrastructure along the railways, bringing cyclists straight to the heart of the city.

Capacity: 40 (2 groups)

Duration: 2,5 hours

Organised by: The New Drive

This technical visit will take you on a discovery tour around Leuven’s station area. Using a serious game, you will get to know MaaS and (shared) mobility in Leuven in a smooth and accessible way. The Mobility Safari gives you the chance, with a specially compiled toolbox with maps and apps, to ‘hunt’ for different types of shared mobility: spot them, use them and photograph them! There are also missions concerning other mobility solutions. How does bicycle parking work? How do you buy tickets?… The aim is to observe, feel and use the MaaS ecosystem.

Capacity: 40 (2 groups)

Duration: 2,5 hours

Organised by: Mobiel 21, Telraam.net, Transport & Mobility Leuven

During this bike tour, we’ll guide you through the neighbourhood of Kessel-Lo where you will be surrounded by experts (the locals) and discover how Leuven with the help of Transport & Mobility Leuven, Telraam and Mobiel 21 improved through technology, infrastructure and social programmes. You’ll experience your first cycling class, interact with citizen scientists who count traffic and get to know about schools that count. Moreover, we will pass by state-of-the-art infrastructure and traffic calming measures modelled with Traffic Scout, a low-treshold traffic tool. Join us to get inspired! Or simply join us to get your free drink at the end of the tour! 

Capacity: 40 (2 groups)

Duration: 2,5 hours

Organised by: Mobility Department, City of Leuven, Cargovelo, Urbike, Kort’om Leuven, VIL

During this inspiring bike tour, we will make a first stop at one of our 43 mobility hubs including public transport, shared mobility and parcel lockers. The parcel lockers are part of a dense network of 28 locations. The cycling spiral will take us to our next stop in a medieval hospital in the city centre, where Urbike will present its cargo bikes and bike trailers and tell us all about its approach as a cooperative in logistics. We will also welcome another local cooperative, Kort’om Leuven, and VIL, our Flemish knowledge centre on logistics. They will present a new project connecting sustainable logistics and short-chain food supply.

Capacity: 45 (3 groups)

Duration: 2,5 hours

Organised by: Departments of Neighbourhood Development and Public Works, City of Leuven

The city of Leuven is running a citizens engagement programme ‘Kom op voor je Wijk’, in which citizens are guided through a co-creation process. When redeveloping urban space, we also try to make room for nature-based solutions in relation to mobility interventions. In the Constantin Meunierstraat, a temporary installation is testing what implications mobility changes can have for the neighbourhood, whilst making room for green spaces. During this tour, you will explore various realised (temporary) redesigns of streets and squares as a prelude to the future.

Capacity: 45 (3 groups)

Duration: 2,5 hours

Organised by: Urban Planning and Sustainability Department, City of Leuven

Sustainable urban development in Leuven is visible throughout the city. This technical visit will take you on a walk through the lower town. The area is an old industrial site that over the last two decades has been transformed into a residential district, paying particular attention to sustainable mobility, energy, greening, biodiversity, etc.

Capacity: 100

Duration: 1,5 hours

Leuven has all the vibes of a big city diverse and creative, trendy and full of life, with a world-renowned history and university. But Leuven is also pleasantly small. This makes it really easy to explore the city on foot and experience it to the fullest. This tour will take you along the must-see highlights of the historic city centre, not only including the fairy-tale city hall, but also many other gems and hidden corners.

Capacity: 25

Duration: 2 hours

Leuven is completely intertwined with beer given its numerous pubs and cosy restaurants, as well as local breweries. Beer connoisseurs will take you on a unique beer walking tour etc., including some local beer tasting. As a beer enthusiast, you will not be left thirsty in Leuven.

Capacity: 30

Duration: 2 hours

The M Museum Leuven is hosting a major international retrospective exhibition starring Dieric Bouts. Never before have so many works by this Flemish Master been brought together in his hometown. What’s more, you get a whole new perspective on an oeuvre of over five centuries old through a radical encounter with today’s visual culture. Guided tour.

Capacity: 60

Duration: 2 hours

Stella Artois is part of the world’s largest brewery concern, AB InBev, and is still firmly rooted in its home base Leuven. Take part in the new interactive guided tour, experience the brewery in action, and enjoy a tasteful Stella Artois after your visit. In short, experience beer in its purest form!

Capacity: 20 (1 group)

Duration: 2,5 hours

Transport mode: cycling

Organised by Velo vzw, the social economy company of Leuven (Jos Vandikkelen)

In this cycle tour we will visit the ‘bicycle point’ and ‘bicycle depot’ at the railway station, the guarded centre bicycle parking ‘Rector Desomer’ and the Velo vzw atelier where more than 100 people in a social economy statut are doing bicycle maintenance, repair, assemblage.  Also, a range of bicycle services in Leuven and the region of Leuven is organised through Velo vzw like the back office activities for the bike sharing systems, the student bikes, the VeloKadee project, ect.

This site visit will emphasise the integration of different mobility services in Leuven linked to cycling and the connection to social economy as part of the Just Transition agenda of Leuven.