The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment has today presented the awards of the IV Edition of the Spanish Sustainable Mobility Week Awards (SEMS-2014), framed in the initiatives programmed for the European Sustainable Mobility Week, organized by the European Commission.

The objective of these awards, which have the support of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, is to recognize the best initiatives that promote sustainable mobility carried out by City Councils and by Companies, Organizations and Entities.

The presentation of these awards, chaired by the Director General of Environmental Quality and Assessment and the Natural Environment, Guillermina Yanguas, was also attended by the Director General of Traffic, María Seguí, and the Director General of Land Transport, Joaquín del Moral.

2014 Winners

The winners were, in the category of City Councils with more than 50,000 inhabitants, the City Council of Salamanca, with the gold award for the “Rescue me” Project and its continuous effort in improving traffic in the city through an intense international collaboration of excellence.

La Plata has been awarded to the City Council of Cordoba for its long history and meritorious execution in the promotion of healthy transport habits, with special emphasis on young people and children. And, finally, the Bronze Award has gone to the City Council of Huesca for its intense modification of the urban area and public transport to improve the sustainability of mobility in its city. For its part, for the category of City Councils with less than 50,000 inhabitants, the Elgoibar City Council has received gold for its sustainable mobility strategy and its innovative combined system of bicycle and electric car loans.

The silver award has gone to the City Council of Miajadas (Cáceres) for its solid promotion of the use of bicycles, especially among the young population, and for its commitment to a pedestrian-friendly urban center. Exaequo Bronze Medal for the City Councils of Villamayor (Salamanca) and Peal del Becerro (Jaén).

In the category of Organizations, Institutions and Companies, the Gold Medal has been awarded to the company Corporación Alimentaria Peñasanta (CAPSA FOOD) for its firm commitment to sustainable and profitable mobility, and for the effort made to bring this strategy to all elements of its activity: suppliers, customers and workers. La Plata has gone to SEUR , given its long history and its new cost-effective sustainable mobility measures, as well as for its involvement in international projects of great impact.

While the Bronze has gone to the ‘Associació de Naturalistes de Girona’; for the Girona Cycle Sexy Campaign given the great originality of the initiative to improve the image of the bicycle, for its skill in the development of promotional tools through social networks and for the creation of a large social and citizen mobilization in pursuit of sustainable mobility in its environment.

Finally, and as a novelty, this year a new category has been awarded to media professionals, to the best work published or disseminated in the media to disseminate the values of sustainable mobility in 2012 and/or 2013, to the team of the programme ‘Hoy por hoy Zaragoza’, on Radio Zaragoza, Cadena SER; for its section ‘Bike course’ which constitutes an effective and enjoyable approach to the social function of radio, as a means of improving the information of citizens and citizen coexistence in favor of sustainable mobility favoring shared use between pedestrians, cyclists and cars. 

You can see images of the awards ceremony.