Scientific Campus becomes bike-friendly with a new bike sharing station

The Scientific Campus of Ca’ Foscari is becoming more sustainable and bike-friendly: on Thursday, September 22, at the main entrance of the campus in via Torino, Mestre, a new bike sharing station was opened, an urban mobility service offered by the Municipality of Venice.

The station is available for a total of sixteen bikes and for the first 50 students of Ca' Foscari, the service will be free.

The service is available to everyone: students, teachers and citizens.

Fabio Pranovi,  Rector's Delegate for sustainability: "This initiative represents a further step for Ca’ Foscari in the path to becoming an ‘urban university' which is sustainable and fully integrated into the urban fabric. Our university aims towards an integrated sustainability, focusing internally on choices that are positive for the area that surrounds us.”

The bike station is a further opportunity for students and teachers of the Scientific Campus of Ca’ Foscari to move from place to place more easily. Students and employees of the University can also lean to the service provided by the Bike Park of Via Trento in Mestre next to the railway station. Inside the campus, there are also 100 spaces available for bike storage.

The inauguration of the bike station will not be the only intervention in the field of mobility, as Pranovi explains: "In collaboration with the Municipality, we are planning a pedestrian walkway from Via Torino up to Forte Marghera. We want to communicate effectively with the area, making our contribution in terms of innovation and research, because it is one we believe can grow, and grow in a sustainable way.”

The Scientific Campus of Ca’ Foscari is home to about two thousand people, including students, faculty and administrative staff. The area will soon be completed with the construction of a student residence for which Ca’ Foscari is the assignee of MIUR funding of about 4 million Euros. The announcement to search for the final design was published at the beginning of August and there are now ongoing procedures taking place for the technical evaluation of the five accepted proposals and subsequently, the award of the contract. The call for executive planning of the Epsilon building is also currently being processed, and the go-ahead for this project is expected to be granted by January 2017.