by Valentina Salcedo
The “European Mobility Week” will take place in Trieste, from 16 to 27 September. Having reached its 22nd edition this year, it has become a fixed and unmissable event for all administrations that want to engage in issues of sustainability and improving the quality of life in cities.
Every year thousands of cities and millions of European citizens celebrate sustainable mobility and send a message of change and renewal of our lifestyles. The theme of the 2023 edition is “Let’s Save Energy – Save Energy” to make us reflect on energy consumption and in particular, on consumption resulting from urban mobility which has increasingly greater costs for the community not only in environmental terms. The choice of sustainable mobility can in fact contribute considerably to energy saving as well as improving the livability of cities.
Like every year, the “European Mobility Week” constitutes an opportunity and a showcase for citizens and local administrations to take action in a process, necessary and indispensable and now underway, of improving urban mobility in the direction of environmental sustainability combined with growth local economy and the quality of life of cities. All scheduled events aim to encourage citizens to adopt sustainable mobility solutions, organized by the Mobility and Traffic Service of the Territory, Economy, Environment and Mobility Department of the Municipality, in collaboration with other Departments and municipal services and institutional partners (ASUGI, Trieste Transport, FVG Region, Automobile Club Trieste and others).
Saturday 16 September from 12.00 to 22.00: Piazzale Obelisco, Opicina Saturday at the Rampigada Santa Village: space dedicated to the promotion and education of mobility and sustainable lifestyles, collateral activities, conferences and evening concert. By SPIZ Social Promotion Association (www.spiz.it)
Sunday 17 September From 9.00 to 18.00: Piazzale Obelisco, Opicina Villaggio Rampigada Santa: space dedicated to the promotion and education of mobility and sustainable lifestyles and collateral activities. By SPIZ Social Promotion Association (www.spiz.it) Rampigada Santa for All Walk along Scala Santa free from traffic. By SPIZ Association of Social Promotion From 9.30am: departure from Roiano (beginning of Scala Santa) I invite citizens to colonize the street to try their own personal Rampigada Santa, without the official stopwatch, but equally capable of experiencing the emotions of the ascent on foot from the City Center to the Karst Plateau (www.spiz.it).
12th Rampigada Santa: timed climb on foot, by bicycle or in both disciplines. By SPIZ Association of Social Promotion
10.00 am: departure from Roiano, Scala Santa, arrival in Piazzale Obelisco.
Time-climb of the steep city of Scala Santa, from Roiano to Piazzale Obelisco, created to promote more sustainable urban mobility by demonstrating in an extreme way that if you can go on foot or by bicycle up Scala Santa you can go on foot or by bicycle everywhere. There is a registration fee (www.spiz.it)
Monday 18 September
A word from the Associations: together to promote a long active life.
Public meeting with associations and bodies on prevention, movement and safe well-being.
By ASUGI (Giuliano Isontina University Health Company), in collaboration with Sweet Heart Dolce Cuore, ASD Benessere, Amici del Cuore, Nuova Assodiabetici Trieste, Association for respiratory diseases – AMAR-FVG, Italian Bronchiectasis Association, UISP Trieste, LILT Trieste , ANVOLT, Azzurra Malattie Rare, Duino Aurisina S.Croce Volunteer Group, Panathlon Trieste-Muggia, University of the Third Age Trieste, Italian Red Cross Committee of Trieste, SOGIT and Municipality of Trieste (Tourist Promotion Service and Mobility and Traffic Service)
From 3.30pm to 5.30pm: Urban Center, Corso Cavour 2/2
Prevention, socialization and daily movement are fundamental in every stage of life, capable of preventing and slowing down the progression of all chronic pathologies, reducing stress, improving mood and quality of life. Teaming up to act together reinforces the message and improves the results of our intervention.
Speakers include Andrea Di Lenarda, Riccardo Candido with representatives of the Associations and Bodies, Chiara Boscarol.
Registration is not necessary. Free entry while places last.
Everyone at the cinema: Screening of the film “Downsizing – Living Large” (Alexander Payne – USA, 2017). Organized by the Municipality of Trieste and Media Library La Cappella Underground
6.00pm-8.00pm: Auditorium Museo Revoltella, via Diaz 27
In a world increasingly in economic difficulty, the life of Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) and Audrey Safranek (Kristen Wiig) looks increasingly grey, until they meet some old friends at a dinner; friends who have been shrunk to half the size they previously were. They talk about their new “mini” life, much more affluent and serene, in a tailor-made town, inhabited by all those who have decided to undergo the same operation; they do not know any crime or crisis and furthermore their impact on the ecosystem is considerably reduced, given that the waste they produce is very little compared to that of a normal-sized human.
Free admission to the public while seats last
For further information: Mobility and Traffic Service, Department of Territory, Economy, Environment and Mobility of the Municipality, sem@comune.trieste.it
