Join us in Trnava, Slovak Republic at the CIVITAS Summer Course 2025! The CIVITAS Summer Course presents a unique and inspiring experience for urban mobility professionals from across Europe.
From 8-11 September 2025, participants will work on some of the mobility challenges the City of Trnava faces as well as learn and exchange about innovative insights in sustainable urban mobility planning. The objective of the event is to exchange experience, contribute to finding new solutions to local mobility challenges, enhance personal capacities and develop individual knowledge and skills.
This year, participants will also develop some new skills on scenario building.
This in-person event will span 3.5 days and be led by a team of experts and peers. On the last day, the course participants will present new solutions to existing mobility challenges the City of Trnava faces. Participants will become acquainted with “action learning”, which includes a mix of expert lectures, interactive tasks and case study group work related to the local mobility challenge. Experience has shown that participants will also learn from each other’s expertise. Practical assignments will help participants to apply the lessons learnt and meet peers from all over Europe. At the end of the CIVITAS Summer Course certificates will be awarded.
One of the main goals of this CIVITAS Summer Course is to support the Municipality of Trnava in finding solutions for some of their sustainable urban mobility challenges. The city will present a few concrete mobility challenges to the participants.
The programme includes introductions from representatives of the City of Trnava and CIVITAS, a city tour passing several parts of the mobility challenges of the city, presentations of mobility experts (including CIVINET), group work to find solutions for the mobility challenges and social programme parts. More details regarding the programme will be shared soon.
The CIVITAS Summer Course is a free event. A limited number of places are available. To help cover travel and accommodation costs, a limited number of scholarships are available.
Who is invited to join?
The CIVITAS Summer Course is aimed at urban mobility professionals and at (a limited number of) students from European universities/universities of applied sciences or similar. Some examples of types of employers include, but are not limited to:
- Public authorities (municipalities, regional or national authorities)
- Non-governmental organisations (city networks, bicycle initiatives, environmental groups, etc.)
- Public-private organisations (cycling embassies, etc.)
- Knowledge and research institutes (universities, universities of applied sciences, research centres)
- Private organisations (consultancies, engineering companies, service providers)
Particularly suitable participants include project officers and managers, policy advisers and officers, civil servants, consultants, experts, researchers, students (preferably master and PhD), designers, engineers, and mobility team leads.
Register today!
Interested in this unique exchange and learning opportunity? Register here!
There are a limited number of places available. If there are more applications, we will make a choice based on country of origin, background, type of organization and expertise. Results will be shared at the end of June 2025.
Registrations must be submitted by 8 June 2025.
Block the course dates in your calendar: Monday, 8 September 2025 (start: 8:30 CET) until Thursday, 11 September 2025 (end: 12:30/13:00 CET). We encourage applicants to reserve Sunday, 7 September 2025 as the travel day to Trnava, since the CIVITAS Summer Course starts in the early morning on 8 September.
If you have questions or remarks, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at academy [at] dtv [dot] nl .
Get inspired by previous editions: CIVITAS Winter Course in Klaipėda (Lithuania) and CIVITAS Summer Course in Rethymno on Crete (Greece)
Stay tuned for more information!
