Biking to University/Work

You bike to work at least 20 days from 1 May to 31 August. The more the better! But using your bike in addition to public transport already suffices. Enter all your cycled kilometers on the campaign web pages or send us your completed biking calendar at the end of the campaign. All campaign participants are automatically included in the lottery for numerous prizes.

Before the campaign:

• form a team with a max of 4 colleagues (you can also start alone),
• pick a team name, and
• register below via “Registration information.”

During the campaign:

• keep a campaign calender to note your cycled kilometers and
• either enter the kilometers biked* in the campaign organizer’s online calculator^† or record it yourself.

* In addition to bicycle tachometers, Google Maps or various free cycling apps are also suited for calculating bicycle routes.

^† Optionally, you can use the organizers’ online calculator to track your personal calorie consumption as well as your CO2 savings by entering your biked kilometers; your data is only stored on your computer.

After the campaign:

• submit your biked kilometers to the organizer by the closing date, thus completing your campaign calendar.

We ask University staff to register online via the University of Hamburg—Biking to Work microsite. You are hence automatically registered for Universität Hamburg.

Past participants in the Biking to Work campaign who can be traced back to the University will be automatically assigned there by the organizer.

If you notice that your account has not yet migrated to the University of Hamburg—Biking to Work microsite, email(admin"AT"mit-dem-rad-zur-arbeit.de) us, and we will take care of it.

Cycling lends ecological added value and health benefits aplenty. Learn more about the benefits of cycling before the campaign starts in the article “Glück auf Zwei Rädern” (Happiness on two wheels), which provides interesting background information and approaches. The Center for a Sustainable University has also put together facts and figures about cycling at the University and sustainability. These pages are well worth a visit.

We are delighted with the positive response to the #MdRzA 2024 cycling campaign! The record-setting participation of 448 members of Universität Hamburg staff and students as individual starters shows that there is enormous interest in sustainable mobility. Altogether, the participants cycled an impressive 79,224 km and thereby saved 15,591 tonnes of CO2 – an amazing result!

We hereby thank everyone who took part and we hope for an equally successful cycling campaign next year – with even more participation and even more positive effects for people and the environment.

#MdRzA—Biking to Work 2022

About 8.15 tons less CO2 in the atmosphere, thanks to the 226 members of Universität Hamburg staff who took part in the campaign!

It was an impressive performance and everyone who took part should be very proud. We have never had so many participants in the campaign as in this year. This applies to participants from Universität Hamburg (in 2021, 179 took part) who collectively amassed 41,417 km, as well as for participation across the whole of Germany.

The over 281,000 registered participants completed a total of 45 million kilometers on their bikes, benefiting nature and the environment by preventing emissions of approximately 9,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.