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Bicycles and social entrepreneurship in Belgium
Strasbourg, 16 January 2014Jan Vanhee, director FietsenWerk
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FietsenWerk gathers, supports en energizes social bicycle entrepreneurship
anddevelops pioneering bicycle products for and together with
social entrepreneurs
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• Umbrella organisation of 17 social bicycle enterprises in Flanders and Brussels (non profit)– Management trademark ‘bicycle points’ and support– Exchange between members– New products– Contacts main stakeholders
• Activities:- 45 bicycle points at railway stations- Bike repair workplaces- Company bikes: rent, maintenance and repair- Recycling bikes- Other activities, linked at sustainable mobility
• Main target groups:- Commuters (railway stations)- Employees- Students- Tourists
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• Activities:45 bicycle points at railway stations
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Period before bicycle points With bicycle points
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• Public transport: Belgian railway company ‘NMBS’• Government• Other:
– Universities: student bicycles– Blue Mobility– Private bicycle enterprises– Public transport company ‘De Lijn’– Associations in the field of sustainable mobility or
social economy
Stakeholders
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Some results
year 2008 year 2013
Members 11 17
Bicycle points 8 45Employment (bicycle points) 30 250
• Tidiness of bicycle parkings ↑• Stations with bicycle points: modal split of 21%
cyclists (stations without bicycle points: 18%) • Survey 2013: > 80% of the commuters are very
satisfied with the presence of bicycle points
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• FietsenWerk
– Member fee– Fee trademark ‘bicycle points’– Projects
• Members – bicycle points: model of shared responsibility*
– Employment and social economy: federal and Flemish government (43%)
– Railway company: 16%– Local authority: 16% – Revenues: 13%– Other (Flemish department of mobility, tourism, innovation):
12%
*Figures: 2011
Revenues
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• Revenues• Employment• Quality – uniformisation• Private sector: collaboration? How?
Barriers
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• Expansion of the model in Wallonie (region in Belgium)• Bicycle points: grow and quality ↑• Development new ideas, for instance:
– Company bicycles– Bicycles for secundary schools (trips)– …
Near future
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– Cooperation with authorities– Broad variety of activities– Objectives of ‘sustainable mobility’ and ‘employment’– Umbrella organisation
Key factors for success in other countries