SMALL in the BIG picture

Esen Köse is a Project and innovation officer at Mpact vzw, a Belgian non-profit organisation working on social and resilient innovation. Mpact experiments with solutions, helps them grow into real services and fosters their long-term value, all through social innovation. Esen focuses on making shared, innovative, and sustainable mobility more accessible to people with reduced mobility. Through her work on European projects, she has built expertise in awareness-raising around automated transport, co-creation in shared mobility, and youth participation. She also played an active role in the rollout of the “30 Days Less Car” campaign in Flanders.

Sami leads the Circular Consumption team, supporting both public and private sector organisations in developing sharing economy services. His work focuses on how vehicles and everyday consumer goods can be made accessible to a wider population through access-based models. Together with Mpact, he coordinates the European project Shared Mobility for All, which brings together 11 different experiments to explore solutions that enable children and families, older adults, and people with physical impairments to move more freely through shared mobility.

Bonnie has worked in sustainable mobility at both the local and the international levels with experience in Canada, Germany and across Europe. She has a particular interest in walking and cycling, in shared mobility, and in ensuring that people (as opposed to vehicles) have access to cities. Bonnie coordinated the EU ReVeAL project which supported cities in putting in place urban vehicle access regulations to improve liveability, including measures to ensure that vulnerable groups are not left behind. In the SMALL project (Shared Mobility for All), she is leading the work around incorporating inclusive (shared) mobility into strategic mobility planning.