Portrait
Profile
Pro Velo Switzerland is the advocacy association and lobby group which represents the interests of cyclists in Switzerland.
Organization
Pro Velo Switzerland is an association according to the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB). It has 40 regional cycling organizations as members in both German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland as well as in Ticino. The supreme body of the association is the Assembly of Delegates which elects the board of directors.
Main objectives
Pro Velo is committed to
1. Improving the framework conditions for cycling in everyday life and during leisure time. Riding a bike should be a safe, attractive option, and a quick and direct means of transportation.
2. Increasing the total number of people who ride bikes, the number of trips taken by bike, and the number of kilometers cycled (bicycle promotion).
Activities
• Pro Velo is committed to improving the legal and technical framework conditions for bicycle traffic.
• In its courses and throughout its campaigns, Pro Velo instructs people on how to conduct themselves properly and safely in traffic.
Through various campaigns such as biketowork.ch, defivelo.ch, bike2school.ch, and cyclomania.ch, Pro Velo gives people the opportunity to experience the bicycle both as a daily means of transport as well as a form of recreation in their leisure time, and to win prizes along the way.
Pro Velo, in conjunction with its partner organization, the Schule+Velo Alliance (schule-velo.ch), wants to increase the amount of cycling that goes on in schools.
Pro Velo Switzerland is member of the European Cyclists' Federation ECF.
