Report and Webinar on Informal and Shared Mobility in Southeast Europe and Central Asia.
Our colleagues Wladimir Sgibnev and Egor Muleev are pleased to share the results of the study on Informal and Shared Mobility in Southeast Europe and Central Asia, conducted as part of the VREF Volvo Research and Educational Foundations research programme.
The report will be presented online on 16.09.2026 at 11:00 AM (GMT) register here
The open-access report covers minibus systems as well as shared scooters and bike schemes across the region, and features reviews of academic and grey literature on the topic and expert interviews alongside practice recommendations for academia and policymakers. An overview chapter deals with the key concept of “informality” for mobilities research.
You can find the report in full length here.
Looking back on Brussels
On June 30th the CoMoDe team at Leibniz-IfL organized a policy event in Brussels with the main topic “Sustainable mobility transitions: Learning from the East”. The inspiration for the event came from two research projects ongoing at the IfL: CoMoDe and MOBI-DIG and the need to build connections between the academia and policymakers.
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06/29/2026 – 06/30/2026, Brussels
Registration for the Policy Event on 30 June is now open.
The Leibniz-IfL event stems from two major projects in the area of mobilities research (Leibniz competition-funded CoMoDe and MSCA-funded MOBI-DIG). It aims to bring together a range of critical knowledge and expertise on mobility transformations in studies of policies in the EU, and formerly socialist countries beyond its borders. The projects highlight the need to rethink sustainability in new terms that prioritise social responsibility of projects implemented by the EU and break with the superficial “sustainability fix”. The prevailing faith in solely technical innovation too often leads to unequal spread of funds and neglect of existing infrastructures. Responding to these tendencies it is particularly important to bring the sustainable mobility transitions closer to policy making in European countries and on the EU level.
During the two-day event we want to present and discuss the learnings from outside of the core EU regions, and pay special attention to existing solutions and strategies that can be adapted in the EU to make institutional, political and financial mechanisms truly working towards socially and environmentally just transformations of cities and regions.
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