1. "Get on your bikes" TOOLKIT is a result that schools can easily adopt in order to promote cycling in their locality. The toolkit includes five instruments with practical classroom-based activities that look at different aspects of cycling and dovetail with various aspects of the European curriculum.
They are as follows:
2. "Get on the trail" WEBSITE – www.getonthetrail.de – is a multilingual and multi-regional webpage that promotes cycling. It includes information about possible cycling routes (trails that are on or near the public roads), accommodation places, as well as short promotion videos of points of interest along the trail, in eight sample communities. The website can be used by other European schools and additional locality details can be added. It was created within classroom activities (coding, editing, translating, designing, conceptual work, marketing the website), as well as within outdoor activities (research, going along the trail and visiting the different points of interest, filming), between and during different transnational learning/training activities. The result is a new high-quality interactive multilingual and multi-regional website that contains: interactive maps of the trails, GPS-data of the trails, descriptions of the trails, videos of points of interest along the trails (available in 9 languages), addresses of possible accommodation places along the trails in the partners' local regions.
3. "Back in business" METHODOLOGICAL GUIDEBOOK offers information and guidelines about how a multinational enterprise can be set up – in our case, one dealing with adventure cycling. The enterprise offers off-road cycling adventures to (initially) school groups. By working on this product, the students acquired the skill-set and knowledge etc. that are necessary in order to start up a business based around the potential that a multinational cycling holiday venture offers. The guide is available online for anyone who is interested and it contains instructions about how to set up a practice firm, steps for company registration, business documents, development of services of interest in such cycling adventures (set price, activities, equipment, involvement of local partners etc.), marketing strategies for the off-road cycling offers. There are also ready-made worksheets that can be used in the class, with students. A chapter is dedicated to the good practice example of the company Cycling Freaks created within the project. The annexes include information about the steps to be taken in organizing a cycling event – planning off-road routes, safety measures and activities, and there is also a sample of the company catalogue.
Instrument 1 is a Recommendation report which shortly presents the results of the initial survey, going through the benefits of riding the bike and pointing how impediments that inhibit the uptake of cycling can be overcome. The report is available in 9 foreign languages (English, Croatian, Czech, German, Italian, Latvia, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian).
Instrument 2 is the brochure entitled PR methods for any community. It presents methods accessible to any community to promote cycling. All the methods were tested by the partner schools, therefore they reveal the following technical details: the necessary materials, the steps and the costs for implementation and also the advantages and disadvantages of the methods presented. The brochure is available in English and it includes samples of materials, relevant photos and links to final products published on the internet.
Instrument 3 is the DVD entitled Cycling schemes, presenting 16 short videos of methods used by the partners in order to implement cycling in their schools and communities. The videos show the whole process of developing and implementing every cycling scheme, with the different stages and the costs, demonstrating how measures that stimulate cycling can be brought in any community. Among the best practice examples presented in the videos, there can be found: repairing or making bike racks, designing leaflets with maps of bike trails, implementing QR codes, painting old bikes. There are short explanations in the videos in English that are accessible to anyone.
Instrument 4 is the CD Safe but attractive with 8 Power Point presentations on easy and practical methods to personalize and transform the equipment and the bike accessories so that they become appealing. The instructions in English are accompanied by relevant photos, showing step by step how to personalize/decorate the bike helmet, the safety vest, the backpack, the bike trunks, the toolkit etc.
Instrument 5 is the Pocket handbook with instructions on how to deal with 9 most frequent technical problems (these problems were identified in a survey). The instructions are available in 9 foreign languages (English, Croatian, Czech, German, Italian, Latvia, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian) and every step of the repair is accompanied by a relevant photo.
