What it is
Urban Mobility Days is the European Commission’s principal conference on urban mobility policy, run by the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) together with a host city and, in some years, the country holding the Council presidency. It brings together EU policymakers, local authorities, NGOs, researchers, transport practitioners and industry.
The Commission lists the European Conferences on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), held every year from 2014 to 2019, as its earlier conferences; the second took place in Bucharest in 2015. Urban Mobility Days itself started online in 2020, then went to Brno (2022), Seville (2023) and Vilnius (2025). There is no fixed rhythm.
How the programme works
Each edition gives one day to one theme. In Vilnius, from 30 September to 2 October 2025, the days were dedicated to urban nodes as part of the European transport network, to cycling and to public transport, with tourism, competitiveness and innovation running across all three. The 2025 edition was organised by DG MOVE with Vilnius City Municipality, the city’s mobility agency JUDU and Lithuania’s Ministry of Transport and Communications. Sessions mixed EU, national and city speakers; one on public transport, land use and housing paired Malmö’s deputy mayor with officials from Slovenia and the European Economic and Social Committee.
Who goes and how to take part
The audience is mostly professional: city transport departments, mobility agencies, national ministries, EU officials, researchers and companies. In 2025 the Commission said there was no entrance fee; registration opened in late May on the event webpage. Around 800 people took part, on site and online.
What came out of past editions
The conference is a place for discussion, not for adopting texts, so its output is mainly the published record. The Observatory’s 2025 page has recordings and slides for each session. Seville in 2023 drew over 800 participants and had a specific focus on transport skills, as 2023 was the European Year of Skills. Brno in 2022 counted over 600 delegates on site and another 600 online. Urban Mobility Days 2025 was also where the CIVITAS Initiative announced Thessaloniki as host of its 2026 Forum.
Why it matters for cities
It is where DG MOVE sets out how EU transport policy, such as the role of urban nodes in the European transport network, applies to cities, with Commission officials and city representatives on the same panels. For mobility teams preparing or revising a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, the session recordings are a free resource.
Going, or following from home
We could not find a next edition announced on the Observatory’s Urban Mobility Days page. Until one is, the recordings of 2023 and 2025 are the way to follow the conference.