The Spring 2021 trainees of the European Committee of the Regions could not conclude their Y-Factor project on the European Year of Rail without a special episode on the Connecting Europe Express in Brussels, and the European Youth Event in Str

#8 Last Stop: "Back to the Future" w/ Tatjana Söding (DE/ Erasmus by Train)

Jul 20th, 2021 25m

Nowadays, most Erasmus students take the plane to travel to and from their Erasmus locations since in most cases it is cheaper and faster than train and organizations like the Erasmus Student Network keep collaborating with airlines like Ryanai

#7 "Behaviour change - What can we do?" w/ Alberto Mazzola (IT/ Executive Director CER) & Livia Spera (IT/European Transport Workers Fed.)

Jul 7th, 2021 33m 33s

Despite train is one of the most sustainable ways of transport, in many cases it is not economically competitive compared to other more polluting means of transport. In this seventh episode of Next Stop, we discuss with Alberto Mazzola, Executi

#6 "What about accessibility?" w/ Kamil Goungor (GL/ ENIL; European Disability Forum) & Laura Alčiauskaitė (LT/ ENIL; TRIPS)

Jun 28th, 2021 29m 29s

The European railway system is still far away from being accessible to everyone: People with disabilities face different types of barriers which stop them from being able to travel by rail spontaneously and independently. Kamil Goungor, travel

#5 "Connecting Europe" w/ Herald Ruijters (NL/Director at DG MOVE; TEN-T) & Slaven Klobucar (HRV/Manager of EGTC Platform)

Jun 21st, 2021 30m 10s

Connecting Europe Express is one of the most emblematic initiatives of the European Year of the Rail. In autumn, this train will cross Europe, from Lisbon to Athens, Warsaw, Stockholm, and finally Paris, via more than 40 cities in 26 different

#4 "Rail 4 all" w/ Bartosz Jakubowski (PL/Jagiellonian Club Analysis Centre) & Iwona Budych (PL/President of the Transport Exlcusion NGO)

Jun 11th, 2021 32m 45s

In the early 80s and 90s the Polish government cancelled around 9000 km of railway routes, around a third of all routes, abandoning the infrastructures and leaving many people unconnected. In this fourth episode of Next Stop, Iwona Budych, Pres

#3 "Towards a climate-neutral EU" w/ Javi López Fernandez (ES/ Member of the European Parliament)

Jun 4th, 2021 20m 2s

Trains are among the more sustainable forms of transport. Night trains and high speed rails could replace short distance flights and they could reduce by 80% aviation transport in the same routes. In this third episode of Next Stop we discus

#2 "Discover the EU" w/ Lucy Allan (SCT/Winner of Discover EU 2019) & Vincent-Immanuel Herr (DE/ Herr & Speer; Public Speaker)

May 28th, 2021 29m 2s

How is it to travel across Europe for half a year, meeting new people, visiting new cities and discovering the diversity of Europe through the window? In the second episode of Next Stop Lucy Allan, winner of the 2019 DiscoverEU competition,

#1 "Getting back on Track after COVID" w/ Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg (DE/ Member of the European Parliament)

May 23rd, 2021 20m 40s

How can trains contribute to meet the Green Deal objectives as well as to the post-pandemic recovery? In this first episode of Next Stop the MEP and rapporteur for the European Year of Rail, Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg from the Greens talks about

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