The city of Leipzig is one of the partner cities of the EU-Consortium Triangulum, one of the first consortia in the EU-program Horizon 2020: Smart Cities and Communities. In this context, the city selected Leipzig West, an urban district with social and economic development, as laboratory for urban smart strategies. This integrative and transdisciplinary strategy is currently developed by the city’s Office for Urban Regeneration and Residential Development (ASW) in a local consortium with the municipal subsidiaries, local enterprises and the urban society. Smart projects are focused on new trans-sectoral collaboration, economic models and civil initiatives in the area mobility e.g.  The development and identification of smart Projects in the field of action mobility takes place in course of an integrative participation process with future forums (decision making level, trans-sectoral and transdisciplinary) and future labs (working groups, trans-sectoral and transdisciplinary) involving the municipality, local economy and civil society.

To increase physical activity levels of young people, the Canadian Cancer Society relies on the promotion of walking as a means of transport. How? By developing a network of pedestrian bus throughout the region of Quebec, the Trottibus.

Active transportation has indeed become a solution advocated by governments and municipalities to improve people’s health but also their quality of life and their environment. Municipalities who have realized this, give value to active transportation in different ways, and participate in its sustainable implementation.

Sakha Consulting Wings Pvt. Ltd is an hybrid social enterprise, launched in 2009 to provide safe transport solutions for women, by women in urban India. It provides 3 kinds of services: Sakha Chauffeur Placement Services, Sakha Cabs for Women (Commercial Taxi Service) and Sakha Chauffeur on Call.

The women drivers engaged by Sakha are handpicked from the poor and marginalized section of the society and their entire training and development is undertaken by Azad Foundation, Sakha’s non-profit sister organization. The training module takes a holistic approach, incorporating not only the aspect of imparting technical skills but also personal development training and women empowerment. Azad Foundation conducts training classes in communication, grooming, legal rights of women’s, particularly in understanding and protection from violence in public and personal space.

As of March 2016, Azad Foundation has about 600 trained drivers eligible for employment and Sakha has been able to provide employment to 300 drivers through its various services. Sakha is operational in New Delhi, Kolkata, Jaipur and Indore.

CHNGR (« changer ») is a Concordia University project developed in partnership with the Chantier de l’économie sociale, District 3 Innovation Center and TIESS, and made possible thanks to funding from the J.W. McConnell Foundation.

It aims to inspire students by having them discover collective and social entrepreneurship, a model not often taught on college and university campuses, but yet which corresponds with the growing interest of students who want to have a positive impact on their communities and the world.

In addition to raising awareness among students, CHNGR collaborates with various institutions (entrepreneurship centres, career management centres) in order to ensure that collective and social entrepreneurship is properly represented.

At the heart of the project are the CHNGR ambassadors, scholarship students forming part of an inter-institutional cohort that will develop projects and initiatives to demonstrate that it is possible to effect change in a different manner.