The #BIKEYGEES e.V. offers cycling lessons for women and girls (from 16 years). This includes not only practical cycling training, but also multilingual traffic lessons and bike repair basics.
We started in September 2015 as a small empowerment project, and in the meantime we have grown into a non-profit association for educational and integration work.
We help to break down borders: origin, religion, status are unimportant. Every woman in the world should be able to cycle. And may.
We finance ourselves as much as possible through donations and can only do our work together with our many volunteers, whom we thank with all our hearts.
#cyclingisfreedom
Winner of the
German Bicycle Award 2018
On 22. February 2018, our work with the 1st place of the German Bicycle Prize.
Training dates
The open cycling trainig will be in KREUZBERG (free of charge, from the age of 16, please leave children at home):
Jugendverkehrsschule Wassertorplatz 1, Kreuzberg, 10999 Berlin
There are currently no other dates.
Stay visible, healthy and active: Never again is now!
The next dates for the open training in Kreuzberg:
Sunday, 20.04.2025, 2-4 pm
Sunday, 18.05.2025, 2-4 pm
Sunday, 15.06.2025, 2-4 pm
Before winter break.
Stay updated!
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#BIKEYGEES e.V.
We believe that cycling is a fundamental building block of the (back) acquisition of individual mobility of refugees / newcomers who have come to Berlin. Women in particular need support in this regard. Many paths are made on foot. They feel isolated in their accommodations. Cycling offers an obvious solution to explore the new living environment.
Therefore, beyond the intercultural aspect, it is important for us to see the possibility of cycling as a sustainable approach to ensuring mobility and independence. The initiative is intended to strengthen the perspectives and hopes of those who have lost their own space of action as a result of the loss of their homeland.
The association #BIKEYGEES e.V. with its holistic approach, he tries to combine a wide variety of aspects such as empowerment, independence, CO2-neutral mobility, outdoor movement, joie de vivre and shared experiences of success. In addition, he bridges the gap between physical exercise, exuberance and joy to the active use of the newly acquired vocabulary. The common goal leads to the reduction of fears of contact on all sides. It’s just damn fun. For all involved.
Foto: © Tanja Schnitzler
Quickly visible successes
women & girls on a bike
donated bike-sets
realised bike lessons
Every woman in the world should be able to ride a bike. And be allowed to!
Because cycling is a human right.
Blog
🚴♀️ Our record year 2023 – thank you 💜
Dear supporters, First of all, we want to say THANK YOU to you all. We beat our own record in 2023: 💜 Never before have we got so many women on bikes in one year! 🤩🚴♀️ In exact figures: 10 training sessions a week - EVERY week, in the core period from May to...
💜 8 years #BIKEYGEES and Royal compliments😉🚴♀️
Dear supporters, Summer is approaching and we are cycling quickly towards it.We are proud to announce that we are currently running 10 #cycling training sessions per week. Every week!From beginners to advanced application tours. With traffic lessons, basic bike...
We have new trainings locations! 🤩🚴♀️
Dear supporters, Summer is in full swing and so are we. Therefore we can proudly announce our new pins on the Brandenburg map: Cottbus and Fürstenberg an der Havel! 💜 In many places there are accommodations that are more in the forest than in the village. Long...
Awards
German Bicycle Award 2018
On 22. February 2018, our work with the 1st place of the German Bicycle Prize.
Active for Democracy and Tolerance 2017
The Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance against Extremism and Violence pays tribute to exemplary and worthy of civil society projects.
RESPECT wins! 2018
The Berlin Council for Democracy honours projects and people who are committed to a democratic and peaceful coexistence in Berlin.
Hatun-Sürücü-Price 2017
The Green Group in Berlin awards the Hatun-Sürücü Prize to initiatives that promote the self-determined lives of girls and women.
Team
A complete team #BIKEYGEES photo probably never works, therefore simply partial gro up photos. Some are founding women, others have learned cycling with us and are now working as multipliers for us. Some have been there as fee-paying staff for a while. Some have an escape background, others don’t. But: we all like to ride bicycles!
Thank you for your support!
Credits
The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs • B.U.N.D. • Butterfield & Robinson • LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin • MOVACT • Orbit360 • Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, Landesverband Berlin e.V. • Philipp Döring • Regenbogenfonds e.V. • SOLIDRINKS • Stiftung Berliner Sparkasse • vostel.de •
Donations
We finance ourselves as much as possible through donations and can only do our work together with our many volunteers, whom we thank with all our hearts. Please support our work. Every donation helps to create visible change.
Account details: IBAN DE58 1005 0000 0190 6274 84 ◇ BIC BELADEBEXXX ◇ Berliner Sparkasse.
We can give you also a tax refundable bill.
Donations via PayPal
#BIKEYGEES in den news
- NPR, ,,The Joy of Riding”
- The Guardian– „The feeling of freedom“
- Upworthy ,,Refugee women who flew war experience the joy of riding bikes for the first time”
- culture trip – „Helping Refugees Ride a Bike“
- Fair Planet – „Cycling against isolation“
- VCD Verkehrsclub Deutschland e.V. – ,,Erobere dir die Straße zurück”
- Morgenpost – Video-Dokumentation
- Greenpeace Magazin ,,Wegweiser – Menschen, die uns voran bringen”
- What Wikipedia Says
- Meeting the Queen Consort Camilla & Elke Büdenbender
- Solutions Journalism ,,The Power of Bike Education”
- eunews – „A Berlino l’emancipazione delle rifugiate fa pedalate da gigante“
- Umweltzone Berlin – BUND beglückwünscht zum Deutschen Fahrradpreis
- Mobile Inclusion – „Wenn das Fahrrad Möglichkeitsräume eröffnet“
- Berliner Woche – „#Bikeygees bietet kostenloses Training an“
- taz –„Es gibt mir Freiheit“
- Berliner Abendblatt ,,Selbstbestimmt auf zwei Rädern”