The application for The Workplace Mobility Plan Award 2010 can be submitted in one of 3 categories:

• Public Authorities - concentrates on local authorities’ efforts to facilitate the implementation of workplace mobility plans regionally and locally.

• Employers - concentrates on companies or local authority organisations which have delivered a successful workplace mobility plan for their own staff (minimum 100 employees).

• Networks - concentrates on the coordinate efforts of a set of local organisations, which are based within the same locality and which may collectively be responsible for a large percentage of traffic generation, for example business parks, shopping centres, airports and hospitals.

Applicants will get a chance to gain EU-wide recognition and to win:

• an expenses paid trip to a city to learn from a pioneer public authority, organisation or network in workplace mobility plans,

• a cash prize of €1000 to further develop mobility plan measures.

The official award ceremony will be organised alongside the European Conference on Mobility Management, ECOMM, which will take place in Graz on 5-7 May in 2010. Short-listed candidates will be invited to attend the ECOMM.

The winners 2008 and 2009 were:

• Employers - ST Microelectronics Grenoble (FR), City of Göteborg (SE)

• Public Authorities - Grenoble Alpes Metropole (FR), WESTTRANS (UK)

• Networks – Geneva International Airport (CH)

The awards have given winners the opportunity to use the cash prize for: buying a Brompton folding bike for staff within the airport (Geneva Airport), preparing a workshop to educate and introduce with the video conference facilities to reduce physical travel (City of Göteborg) or contributing to a mapping project to offer cheap production of leaflets on local public transport, walking and cycling routes to all the businesses in the area (Westrans Travel Plans)

Application forms available on the EPOMM website in the section “Awards”.

Deadline for applications: 8 February 2010