Department of Chemistry and BiologyChemistry, Biology, Process Engineering, Biodiversity and Ecology

The start of the 2025 academic year provided an opportunity for UGA students and staff to take part in a series of events throughout September, encouraging them to travel differently and supporting them in the choices and actions that this entails.

How to repair your bike?
Which carpooling solutions should you use?
How to optimize your commute to university?
What can you do to ensure road users share the road safely?

These are just some of the questions addressed and, above all, answered during Mobility Month at UGA, organized for the second consecutive year.

These multiple events, which were also itinerant, offered more than twenty events, meetings, and workshops, close to the structures and people, to answer everyone's questions and support the UGA community in achieving more sustainable mobility.

Through numerous collaborations with local stakeholders, this themed month offered a rich and diverse program of events at various university sites in Grenoble and Valence.

Mobility Month figures

• 6 bicycle repair sessions at 4 locations in the Grenoble metropolitan area
• 65 bikes checked or repaired, either by the owner or by a professional
• 28 people trained in bicycle maintenance
• 420 users advised on their mobility
• 200 visitors to the mobility stands during Back-to-School Day in Grenoble
• 220 students during Mobility Week in Valencia
• 1,000 bikes rented by students in 3 days
• 8 sessions presenting the carpooling service on campus

The crossroads of opinions

Following the survey conducted during the various highlights of this month, the following emerged:

• The very high overall satisfaction rating: 9.4/10
• Appreciation of the diversity of event venues: University Campus, Health Campus, IUGA, Presqu’île, and Valence
• The relevance of the choice of locations for workshops and events
• The quality of responses to users' real needs and the personalization of the advice provided.
• The teaching methods of repair workshop instructors in particular
• Satisfactory audience turnout
• The practical aspect of the workshops, which suggest courses of action
• The beneficial investment of advisors Ecological transformation of institutions
• The high level of interest from students
• The quality of the materials provided and the discussions they sparked...

It is for all of these reasons that Mobility Month at UGA could be seen as one of the paths to UGA's ecological transformation...