“Sustainable and Healthy Mobility” is the theme of the workshops that take place today and tomorrow, in the auditorium of Portimão Arena, as part of the European Mobility Week. The initiative has the presence of specialists in the subject.
The holding of these workshops, which will also be broadcast on the Facebook of Portimão City Council, aims to raise the discussion of principles and ideas that encourage behaviors compatible with sustainable development, in order to make citizens aware of the effects that their choices will have on quality environment, while providing them with opportunities to move around in a sustainable and healthy way.
Since it is important to rediscover and enhance the heritage of cities and towns by their own inhabitants, preferably in a healthier and more pleasant environment, the program will start on September 21 with the workshop “Sustainable Mobility”, divided into two panels.
The first, scheduled for 15 pm, will deal with the role of children in the conception of the new city, with the speaker Pedro Ribeiro da Silva, urban planner and land planner.
Degree in Regional and Urban Planning from the University of Aveiro, postgraduate in History and Local Heritage by ISCIA and with specialization from the Faculty of Architecture of Porto and Faculty of Engineering of Porto. He was City Councilor of Aveiro, responsible for Culture, Planning and Urbanism and Tourism and President of the Tourism Region of Rota da Luz-Ria de Aveiro and Member of the Regional Tourism Entity of the Center of Portugal. He was also President of the Portuguese Association of Territory Planners, APPLA. Member of the Analysis Committee of the Polis Cidades Program, he is also the national coordinator of the Network of Cities and Villages of Excellence, of the Institute of Cities and Villages with Mobility.
This will be followed, at 17 pm, with the panel “City, outdoor gym”, with the speaker Paula Teles, director of MPT – Mobility and Territory Planning, who will focus on the return of cities to people and their daily lives, making them friendlier, more inclusive and healthier, at the service of an “Active City”.
With a degree in Civil Engineering with a specialty in Spatial Planning, Paula Teles' curriculum includes the foundation and presidency of the Institute of Cities and Villages with Mobility, having been a professor at several Portuguese and Brazilian universities. She was also coordinator of the National Network of Cities and Towns with Mobility for All, a project that involved a third of Portuguese municipalities between 2003 and 2010. Author/coordinator of the Accessibility and Mobility for All Guide of the Ministry of Solidarity and Social Security, she is president of Technical Commission for Accessibility and Universal Design of the Portuguese Institute of Quality, at the same time as coordinator and council consultant in dozens of municipalities and inter-municipal communities in the areas of sustainable urban mobility, transport, traffic, road safety, urban design and accessibility.
On September 22, and under the motto “Healthy Mobility”, the first panel will start at 15 pm and will talk about “The bicycle and coexistence in traffic – from theory to practice”, with the participation of Rui Bernardino, assistant captain the Transit Sub-Detachment of the National Republican Guard, which will raise awareness of common sense and civility in the smooth use of the bicycle as a means of transport, sport or leisure.
The theme of the 17:00 pm panel will be “Nutrition and endurance – from theory to practice: science or fashion?”, with speakers from nutritionist Joana Cruz and high competition cyclist from Portimo, Emanuel Duarte, who will discuss the importance of sports nutrition.
Registration to attend the two workshops must be made online by clicking here, finding themselves available here all information about the program of the European Mobility Week, which will take place between 17 and 22 September under the motto “Move sustainably. Be healthy".
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