Category
Service
CO-DESIGN
Development of an active mobility program in co-creation with children, parents and schools including several pilots around Europe.
Concept
Date
JAN 2023
- NOW
Client
Active mobility / UX design / Business development
*Now operating as an independent company: sCOOL2walk B.V.
The sCOOL2walk & sCOOL2bike programs promote active mobility among children, boosting their health & creating awareness of traffic situations while creating safer school zones!
It's developed in co-creation with children, parents & schools in multiple European cities.
Summary
Process
The development of Scool2Walk began as an European project in 2023, whereas sCOOL2bike followed in 2025. Both centre on their primary stakeholders: the children.
Through interactive sessions using custom toolkits designed for primary school students, their specific needs, boundaries, and motivations were thoroughly identified and clarified.
Sessions with parents, schools, and community police provided valuable insights into their preferences and current behavioural patterns. After a long analysis process of all outcomes; the needs were translated into design requirements: the foundation for the first design cycle of mock-ups.​ ​With the caregivers of the pilot schools, wireframe testing and test walks led to the creation of the first version of the web app. This initial version was piloted in 3 European cities and continuously refined through iterative redesigns based on all user's feedback.
Result
The Iterative design cycles resulted into two programs that facilitate children’s walking- or cycling groups in a structured, community-led way, supported by a web-app. The programs:
- Strengthen social cohesion,
- Enhance safer school zones,
- Promote physical activity for proper motor skills in early childhood!
> Discovering routes & meeting points
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> Scheduling walking/cycling days
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> Joining as a walking/cycling buddy
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> Marking dangerous/attention zones
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> Chatting with the community
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> Notified of the child's arrival
Initially developed as part of the EIT Mobility project, Scool2Walk has grown through the Sports Innovation Incubator Program (UtrechtInc) in partnership with Multi-Sportcampus Traiectum.
As of August 2024, it has become its own entity, sCOOL2walk B.V. The focus is now on further professionalizing the app and expanding piloting areas across Europe.
Keep track: www.scool2walk.com