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AMBER – Active mobility for maintained benefits of health and environment
Active mobility means combining everyday journeys with exercise: for example, when you go shopping by bike or walk a longer distance to the bus stop. But people who use a hand wheelchair are also actively on the move. The AMBER research project is using Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) as examples to investigate how cities can make active mobility easier for more people. The project also aims to gain a better understanding of the opportunities of active mobility for health and climate protection.
Project leaders
Dr. Jan Keller
Jan conducts research in the field of health psychology at the Free University of Berlin. In the AMBER project, he is particularly interested in mobility behavior. How stable are routines? What helps us to try out new ways of active mobility?
Dr. Vivian Frick
Vivian is an environmental and social psychologist. She researches topics such as mobility, energy, digitalization and consumption at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW). In this project, she asks: What motivates people to get involved in the mobility transition? How can such participation be encouraged?
Your contact person
Lucienne will be happy to answer any questions you may have about participation. For example, if there are barriers to participation in our events, she will be keen to find a solution together with you.
Lucienne Pitschel
Community manager for the study
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +49 (0)160 982 673 96
(available Tuesday to Thursday from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM)
Researchers
Siiri Tunn
Siiri is a climate scientist at the Institute of Meteorology at Freie Universität Berlin. She is also interested in the urban climate at AMBER: What influence does the weather have on the choice of transportation? How could cities adapt mobility to increasing weather extremes?
Karsten Valerius
Karsten is a health psychologist at Freie Universität Berlin. Within AMBER, he is primarily concerned with equitable access to healthy mobility: what individual and infrastructural barriers exist and what can cities do about them?
Christina Klusch
Christina is a sustainability scientist at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW). For AMBER, she takes a look at companies: How can employers facilitate active mobility for employees?
Christina is currently on parental leave. She is being replaced by Carlotta Harms.
More about the project
The project runs from 2023 to 2028 and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is part of the funding measure “Junior Research Groups Global Change: Climate, Environment and Health”.
