2013 route page

Below are some ideas of this year's route. Add places, projects, action camps, ecovillages, contacts, events which we could visit along the way below or send your suggestions and proposals to info@ecotopiabiketour.net

MAPS Here's a map with the "rough route" (as decided on the winter meeting) sketched. It basically display start and end region - the route in between is still quite undefined.

[[1]] an experimental map with

• some of the points mentioned below (geografic position not exact!)
• former borders and border zones
• relatively new borders and still (on the international legal level) contested borders
• historical "multi-ethnical" areas
• the old iron curtain
• the former berlin wall (=border) line, which is a historical cicle/hiking path now
• schengen zone borders ("fortress EU")
• other tours taking place in spring/summer 2013

DE

• Berlin: No Border Camp, Date unknown
• Berlin: (bike) path along the former berlin wall: totally combines the border topic with biking!
• Berlin: regenbogenwerkstatt, kreuzberg (bike repair workshop)
• Berlin: friedel / f54: small social centre with communal kitchen, space for meetings and silk screen printing facility / equipment
• Brandenburg (close to Berlin): Tagungshaus Wernsdorf [www.tagungshaus-wernsdorf.de]
• Brandenburg (close to Berlin): Kesselberg http://www.kesselberg.info/
• Münsterland: July 19 - 27, Anti-nuclear camp http://antiatomcamp.nirgendwo.info/

PL

• Łódź: bike riksha manufacture http://www.riksza.com
• Gorki Wielkie: village near Bielsko-Biala: Art, Nature and Exchange. Projects surrounding the museum devoted to a local writer, Zofia Kossak.
  • Summer festival with actors, musicians, painters and sculptors from across Europe.
  • Eco Art Scupture Workshops for local young people (19-28th July 2013)
• anti fracking activists / areas
• ...

CZ

• iron curtain trail (eurovelo 13) along the czech/austrian border
• Landesausstellung in the south (vissy brod, cesky krumlov) together with the region of upper austria about the common and separated history of the area
• ...

SK

• Bratislava: http://www.bmeres.com/ Bike Engeneer
• Bratislava: critical mass group (CM organised last friday of the month) http://www.criticalmass.sk/english/
• Bratislava: cycle kitchen http://cyklokuchyna.criticalmass.sk/
• Bratislava: Cycling coalition: very active org., which aims to improve bicycle infrastructure in Bratislava http://www.cyklokoalicia.sk/en/
• Zajezova (close to Zvolen, central slovakia, especially one part which is called SEKIER): village/community, working with permaculture, try to live self sustainable, environmental courses, eco festival http://www.zajezka.sk/ENozajezke.htm
  • summer festival (should be 5th-7th july 2013)
• Brdarka (close to Roznava, south-east): village/community, working with permaculture, try to live self sustainable, environmental courses http://www.alter-nativa.sk/eng/index.php?akcia=zobraz&id=126&subm=11
• Zilina: Stanica: alternative cultural centre http://www.stanica.sk/?lang=en (projects; built two theatre halls of beer crates, straw etc. http://www.stanica.sk/s2/?lang=en)
• along the danube from Wien to Beograd: very good bike road http://en.eurovelo6.org/rubriques/gauche/the-stages/budapest-belgrade/budapest-belgrade-1/?set_language=en
• ...

AT

• Oberösterreich (Gmunden): O.tel.o (open technology space) http://www.otelo.or.at/
• Oberösterreich (Freistadt) http://www.landesausstellung.com/ (see CZ above)
• Niederösterreich (close to Wien): CSA Ochsenherz
• Burgenland central: Nikitsch collective farm
• Burgenland south: http://experimentselbstversorgung.net/
• Steiermark: Wieserhoisl
• Kärnten/Koroška: Peršmanhof
• Wien: Bikekitchen
• Wien: TÜWI, Gagarin
• Wien: Critial Mass (3rd Friday of month)
• Wien: Gaswerk Leopoldau
• Wien: Guerilla Garden
• Wien: FoodCoops

HU

• ...

SI

• Prekmurje: Art Center http://www.artcenter-slovenia.org/
• Prekmurje: (projected?) hydro power plants in Mura river
• Maribor: Pekarna Social Centre
• Maribor: Urban Farrows
• Ljubljana: ROG (Squat and former bike factory)
• Ljubljana: Metelkova (squatted complex in the city including art, music, party, social and political groups, libraries, galleries, DIY workshops, infoshop, etc.)
• Koper: MKC social youth centre

HR

• Zagreb: Reciklaonica http://reciklaonica.blogspot.com (preferably after August)
• Zagreb: bikekitchen
• Varazdin: community gardens http://gredica.wordpress.com/
• ...

SRB

• Border with HU: Refugee Camps
  • No Border Network (local activists): noborderserbia.wordpress.com
• Novi Sad: Bikekitchen http://cultureexchangeserbia.org/
• Novi Sad: http://ck13.org/ Youth Centre
  • Peoples' Kitchen http://ck13.org/otvorena-kuhinja
• Novi Sad: drustvenicentar.org Squat
• Beograd: 'ulice za bicikliste'
• unknown location Ecofest by Green Youth http://www.zelenaomladina.org/

RO

• Rosia Montana: struggle against gold mine (former reclaim the fields meeting point)
• ...

BG

• ...

UA

• Lviv: http://wiz-art.com.ua/en

XYZ

• ...

Events without confirmed places / Other people on the road to cross with

• noborder camp(s)
• cyclocamp (roma, italia)
• climate camp(s)
• energy / land struggle
• http://www.reclaimpowertour.org Cottbus (Mid July) via Berlin to western DE
  • possible crossing: between Berlin and Cottbus
• http://www.dunavision.eu Sustainable Tour along the complete Danube River (MAR - SEP)
  • possible crossing: (probably too far ahead; in HR on JUL 1st already...)