Ride and Smile

With this project, the SMILE partners are aiming to promote the use of the bicycle in urban environments as a responsible choice and an effective option for daily displacements such as home-school and home-office.

The project idea is based on the experience of the European Cycling Challenge – ECC, an urban cyclists' team competition taking place every year in May. The gamification approach turns trips into fun activities, encouraging people to use bicycle as much as possible: participants tracks their bike-trips with a free tracking App contributing to their Team mileage, and through online leaderboards they can check their City Team position in real-time.

With the project RIDE AND SMILE, we aim to develop an app which is specifically targeted to primary school pupils. By using the app, the European schools involved in the SMILE network will start a competition involving teachers, pupils and families. By this way, the whole school community will contribute to add kilometers to the school team, while learning the benefits of riding a bike. In addition, by using the app the pupils will improve their digital skills and English language level, since the app will be developed in English.