BUILD YOUR TRAINING
2027-2028
Master Class Program
Bicycle Urbanism Essentials Master Class – Paris, Sept. 2027
Build Your Master Class – Flexible dates & locations
Turn knowledge into action. Build the training your city needs.
Our Expert Program
The Copenhagenize 2025 Index continues to provide a foundation for our Master Classes, bringing the latest data, case studies, and insights from bicycle-friendly cities around the world into the classroom. Combined with more than a decade of Master Class experience and fifteen years of international project work, our master classes help participants understand why cities succeed or stagnate and how those lessons can be applied in their own context.
Open & Custom Training
Join the Bicycle Urbanism Essentials Master Class for an intensive three-day learning experience in Paris, or bring the training to your organization with Build Your Master Class. Choose from predefined half-day and full-day modules that can be combined according to your team’s needs, available time, and budget, with training available in Paris or your city depending on the module.
What’s new in 2027-2028
Build Your Master Class introduces a new modular approach designed for cities and organizations with increasingly specific and advanced needs. Choose from courses covering strategy and implementation, infrastructure and analysis, people and culture, or even topics Beyond Bicycle Urbanism. Every module includes an applied component—from workshops and assessments to field audits and bicycle tours—so participants leave with practical tools and concrete next steps.
Build your training with the most up-to-date knowledge and findings from the best cycling cities.
participant's opinion
“The master class was enriching and friendly. We were in a small group, which made it easier to talk to the other participants, and great for sharing feedback. The presentations are also relevant and unique. The format of the master class was well thought out, particularly with the bike tour and guest. Great encounters in the classroom and in the field!”
Coraline Brabander
Master Class participant 2023
Bicycle Urbanism Essentials Master Class
Paris - September 28-30, 2027
Format: 3 days (21 hrs), in person
Location: Paris – the world’s 5th most bicycle-friendly city
Price: €1,950 (standard) / €1,500 (alumni rate) w/o VAT
Language: English
Includes: Tuition, course materials, bike rental, three lunches, two dinners, and an invitation to The Master Class Community.
Registration deadline: September 8th, 2027
Our Essentials master class covers the fundamentals of bicycle urbanism—from infrastructure and design to communication and policy. Participants experience the city’s cycling network first-hand as Paris itself becomes the classroom. With immersive field visits and case studies drawn directly from the Copenhagenize Index, participants return home ready to advocate for and implement world-class cycling strategies that transform mobility and strengthen cities at their core.
Can’t participate this year, but interested in learning about future courses? Register your email and select the “interested” option.
Program
Day 1
Planning, Image & Political Will
Day 1 introduces bicycle urbanism through the logic and methodology of the Copenhagenize Index, explaining why cities are assessed and how data, perception, and lived experience shape success. Using global trends and leading cities as reference points, participants explore Paris’s cycling transformation—examining political commitment, advocacy, and governance, and how vision is translated into policy, street design, and neighbourhood-level change..
Day 2
Infrastructure, Safety & User Experience
Day 2 focuses on the physical conditions that enable everyday cycling. Participants explore how leading cities design safe, connected, and legible cycling networks, with attention to continuity, traffic calming, intersections, and perceived safety. The afternoon examines bicycle services and intermodality, highlighting best practices in parking, bike-share systems, and integration with public transport, and how these elements support usage growth and large-scale mode shift.
Day 3
Livability, Communication & Implementation
Day 3 connects cycling to broader urban outcomes, exploring its role in building healthier, more inclusive, and more sustainable cities. Participants examine social equity, economic value, public health, and environmental benefits, alongside the importance of communication and education in building support and managing change. The Master Class concludes with an Index-based workshop, enabling participants to analyse their own city and identify concrete, actionable next steps.
New! Build your Master Class
Choose one module. Combine several. Build the training your team needs.
Cities are at different stages of their bicycle urbanism journey. Build Your Master Class allows cities and organizations to select focused half-day and full-day modules and combine them into a training adapted to their priorities, teams, available time, and budget. Each module combines international best practice, insights from the Copenhagenize Index, and our project experience with an applied component—from workshops and assessments to field observation and bicycle tours.
DETAILS
Price: €7000 w/o VAT (full day- 7hours) ; €3500 w/o VAT (half-day - 3.5 hours)
Participants: 6-15
Dates: Flexible dates
Location: Paris or client city, depending on module
Language: English, but French, Spanish, and Arabic can be accommodated
HOW IT WORKS
Choose your modules: Select from predefined half-day and full-day options according to your team’s priorities.
Build your program: Book a single module or combine several into a multi-day Master Class.
Adapt it to your context : The core learning content and objectives are predefined, while workshops, case studies, field activities, and implementation exercises can be adapted to your city and challenges.
Put knowledge into practice: Every module includes an applied component, giving participants a practical output or clearly identified next steps.
Modules
Strategy & Implementation
From Ambition to Action
For cities that want to understand where they stand, strengthen their strategy and, most importantly, turn ideas into concrete plans with implementation as a focus.
Modules:
What Now? From Bicycle Plan to Implementation
Building a Cycling Strategy That Gets Implemented
Copenhagenize Index Your City
Design, Infrastructure & Analysis
Understand the streets. Design for users.
Technical and applied modules for teams responsible for planning, designing, and improving bicycle networks and public space.
Modules:
Bicycle Infrastructure Design: From Best Practice to Your Streets
Observe Before You Design: Understanding Users & Behaviour
Bicycle Parking & Intermodality: Connecting the Journey
City-as-a-Lab: Audit Your Streets, Build Your Solutions
Beyond Bicycle urbanism
Put cycling into the bigger urban picture
Cycling does not exist in isolation. These modules connect active mobility with wider urban development, public transport, climate adaptation, and resilience.
Modules:
Strategies for Resilient Urban Development
Walkability & Public Space: Designing Cities at a Human Scale
Introduction to Transit-Oriented Development
People, Culture & Change
Infrastructure enables cycling. People make it part of everyday life.
Modules focusing on the social side of bicycle urbanism: building support, communicating change, developing skills, and ensuring cycling contributes to more inclusive and livable cities.
Modules:
Paris: From Political Vision to Bicycle City
The Bicycle as a Tool for More Livable Cities
Building the Future Starts Today: Cycling Education for All Ages
Communicating Cycling: From Public Support to Wayfinding
School Streets & Tactical Urbanism: Test, Learn, Transform
Objectives
Our Master Classes are structured around the logic of the Copenhagenize Index and based on over a decade of experience enabling participants to:
Learn the essentials of bicycle urbanism using the comprehensive indicators of the Index as a guide
Understand why cities succeed or stagnate
Translate Index insights into concrete actions
Apply data-informed, user-focused bicycle urbanism in their own contexts
Master Class Community
MORE THAN A COURSE
Over the past decade, more than 500 people from around the world have participated in Copenhagenize Master Classes.
The Copenhagenize Master Class Community provides alumni with a space to stay connected with peers, continue learning, and share their work with an international network of cycling mobility professionals.
Members have access to:
The international alumni network
A library of case studies from around the world
Community-only online meet-ups
Referral discounts for future Master Classes
