Youth For Public Transport (Y4PT)

What we do Y4PT encourages the active participation of young people in advocating sustainable mobility and finding transport-related opportunities worldwide. 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 on sustainable mobility * bank of opportunities for young people in the transport-related mobility sector Our 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, activities and campaigns such as the widely acknowledged #Y4PThackathon during which numerous different actors collaborate on sustainable public transport projects and solutions. Other Y4PT events include participation in EU-funded projects, #Y4PTAwards, #Y4PTring, #HealthyMobility, #BreathableCities, #NutriEnergy, #iCOmmit2, #ModalShift, #Idearium, #WasteNoTime, #Y4PTworkshops, #StartupChallenge, #HackCOVID19, #15MinutesOfFame and many more. Our milestones 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 by UITP 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) as one of the best practices of 2017 2025: Y4PT turns 20 years, celebrating its two-decade anniversary.