(https://www.linktr.ee/y4pt) Youth For Public Transport (Y4PT) Foundation is an international nonprofit, non-governmental, pro-sustainable mobility, youth-led organization. Created in 2005 it is officially registered under the Law of Belgium (European Union), headquartered in Brussels and sustained by major global transport stakeholders around the world.
What Y4PT Does
Y4PT encourages the active participation of young people in advocating sustainable mobility and finding transport-related opportunities worldwide. It does so by promoting the integrated use of public transport with other means of transport, striving for a greater well-being and increased quality of life for people around the world. Y4PT advocates and communicates on sustainable mobility from young people’s points of view. Y4PT is THE main channel of promotion, communication, education, employment and participation of youth in transport-related mobility issues. As such it acts as the global:
* Pro-sustainable-mobility youth movement and network.
* Youth spokesperson on sustainable mobility.
* Youth platform and forum on sustainable mobility.
* Centre of youth-oriented knowledge and innovation on sustainable mobility.
* Bank of opportunities for young people in the transport-related mobility sector. Y4PT's Projects
Since its inception Y4PT has engaged all its efforts to address sustainability and innovation in the whole transport sector worldwide which has led to different projects, events and campaigns such as the widely acknowledged during which numerous different stakeholders collaborate on the development of technology-based solutions. Other Y4PT activities include participation in EU-funded projects, , , , , , , , , , , , , and many more. Y4PT's Milestones
Y4PT is currently the world's oldest and largest global youth network for sustainable mobility.
* 2005: Y4PT was created as the UITP Youth Project.
* 2008: Y4PT launches its first Youth Parliament, later on called Youth Lab and nowadays running under the name of Youth Hackathon.
* 2009: Y4PT starts using its current name: “Youth For Public Transport”.
* 2013: Y4PT is registered as a Belgium-based Foundation.
* 2016: Y4PT launches its current Global Transport Hackathon series.
* 2017: The Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon series was acknowledged by the European Mobility Week Secretariat (European Commission / European Union) as one of the best practices of 2017.
* 2025: Y4PT turns 20 years and for marking its two-decade anniversary it is now a fully-independent organization sustained by major global transport stakeholders around the world. Further information on Y4PT at https://www.linktr.ee/y4pt . Find us on Facebook:
Y4PT on Facebook as a company page: http://www.facebook.com/250503794992509
Y4PT on Facebook as a group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/591610614250463
Y4PT on Facebook as a contact: http://www.facebook.com/y4ptransport
Y4PT on Facebook as a tag-word page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/y4pt/135508443179918
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