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Y4PT: Back to the Heart. Because what we built was never just a project. It was a family, a path, and the true destination was always each other!
Starting on Tuesday, 25th of November 2025 and extended during the next 365 day-period, join us for the Y4PT's birthday celebration worldwide, virtually and in-person.
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Youth For Public Transport (Y4PT) Foundation
2005-2025
Two Decades later: A Call from the Heart
Two Decades later: A Call from the Heart
Dear Friends:
Dear Brothers, Sisters, Relatives in spirit:
Some experiences never truly end. They stay tucked away in a quiet corner of the heart, alive, even when everything around us has changed.
Twenty years ago, together, we dreamed. We believed the world could be a better place, and we did not just believe it: we built it. With our hands, our words, our time, and our love.
We created a community out of nothing, with nothing but the pure, youthful energy of our ideals.
We met faces, gathered stories, brought hope where it seemed impossible. We learned from each other, we grew, we planted seeds. Some have already bloomed. Others are still waiting. Now is the time to look at them again.
Life, as we know, has taken us in a thousand different directions. But today, we feel it is time to reconnect.
Not out of nostalgia. Not just to remember the past. But to pick up the thread.
The world still needs our gaze, our spirit, our beautiful, brave madness. And maybe, we still need that part of ourselves that once gave freely, dreamed boldly, and refused to give up.
That is why this is being written to you now. To invite you to a new beginning. It does not matter where you are, what you do, or how much time has passed. If you were part of that story, you are still one of its guardians.
We are preparing to start again a new beginning after all these 20 years; to imagine new ways, adapt to these times, but without losing what made us special: humanity, listening, courage.
And here is what we are building now:
A first hybrid meeting on the day of our beloved Y4PT’s birth, Tuesday, the 25th of November 2025 at 09:00 p.m. (CET, GMT+1), to see each other again, share memories and dreams, and take the first step forward.
Then, during springtime next year 2026 in Europe, to global in-person reunion, all together to have the boosting moment, to celebrate, reconnect, and shape the future of what we once started.
You are only asked one thing: write to Y4PT. Even if it is just to say, “I am here. I am alive.” Even just to tell where life has taken you. The rest will come. Together.
With all the love and strength that these two decades have taught us, Y4PT will be waiting for your words.
And remember the precious meaning of the word line "I am still in".
Yours sincerely,
Youth For Public Transport (Y4PT) Foundation
Y4PT: Life is a journey. Let's move youthful!
How to celebrate Y4PT's Birthday
How to celebrate Y4PT's Birthday
You are all welcome to be part of our community of friends and members! Just follow a few VERY, VERY simple steps to reconnect with Y4PT, celebrate with us this one-off milestone together and focus your life on something meaningful:
Add "Y4PT Member" as a current title on your LinkedIn personal profile (read and see how to). In the organization text field look up Youth For Public Transport (Y4PT) and set the start date from the very first-ever moment you made contact with Y4PT (see an example). This is important to track you down as a member of our community of friends and for you to receive effective future updates on Y4PT.
7. Add Y4PT-themed colors in your profile pictures on social networks.
Generate a Y4PT-themed profile frame with a favorite picture of you (choose any shape: circle, square), and upload it on your social networks.
8. (in one-click) Create a Y4PT-related post picture on social networks.
Generate a Y4PT-themed post frame with a favorite picture of you (click here), and upload it on your social networks (main wall, news feed).
9. Find a Y4PT-connected token at your home.
At you home, dig up your treasure chest of precious objects and re-discover any Y4PT-themed item, token that was given to as a souvenir or something that has a special connection with your life journey with Y4PT. It could be physical (like a goodie) or virtual (like a photo). Take a selfie-style high resolution photo of you showing the object.
10. Create a very short selfie video for Y4PT.
Produce a really short, selfie-style video with the highest visual resolution and audio quality as possible, up to 60 seconds of duration, made with your smartphone camera, in which you share with us your life experience before and after Y4PT, mentioning the date you made contact with Y4PT for the very first-time ever, describing your positive/constructive feedback/testimonial and telling why you are still on board. You can feature your treasure chest of Y4PT-themed precious objects. All videos will be used to generate a commemorative video collage called "Y4PT: The Meaning of 20 - I am still in", to be released in the coming dates after the birthday celebration.
Use the hashtag #Y4PT20years to post your messages (along with the framed picture that you generated) on all social networks (see an example). Do not forget to mention @Y4PT. Type down your own message or you might write (copy and paste): 🥳🎂🎉 Wishing a very Happy 20th Birthday to Y4PT! Life is a journey. Let's move youthful! 🎁🎈💐 https://www.y4pt.org/20years | #Y4PT20years | @Y4PT
12. Write a message to Y4PT on Mural.
13. Attend the Y4PT Hybrid Birthday Celebration on Google Meet (Tue 25 Nov 2025, 8 p.m. Brussels time zone, 60-minute duration).
Join our hybrid celebration on Google Meet, on Tuesday, the 25th of November 2025 at 08:00 p.m., Central European Time (CET), GMT+1. Get connected during 60 minutes only from your own smartphone, it does not matter if in that very moment you are busy in a previously-scheduled meeting, just get online, wear your headphones, listen to.
14. Attend the Y4PT Global Reunion next year 2026 in Europe during springtime (TBC).
Join our global reunion next year 2026 in Europe during springtime (TBC), to inspire, create and accelerate along with other members of the community of Y4PT's friends.
15. Get the word out about Y4PT's birthday on social networks.
And please, get the word out! Invite your contacts to our birthday! Share this website: https://www.y4pt.org/20years .
NOTE: Although the exact Y4PT's birthday is set on Tuesday, the 25th of November 2025, the celebration will be extended during the next 365 day-period, so you will have plenty of time to share with the world your love and appreciation for Y4PT.
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Save the Date
Save the Date
Birthday
Birthday
Reconnect - Celebrate - Focus
Reconnect - Celebrate - Focus
Hybrid Event
Hybrid Event
Tuesday, the 25th of November 2025
04:00 p.m., Central European Time (CET), GMT+1
Brussels (Belgium), Rome (Italy), Bogotá (Colombia), Breda (Netherlands), Cuenca (Ecuador), Kathmandu (Nepal) and other cities around the world, virtually connected.
RECONNECT: Reaching out to those who had their lives impacted by Y4PT. During the hybrid anniversary event people will try and seek togetherness (by nation, time-zone or geographical area) to digitally connect to all other groups. People in the same city could come together and celebrate locally in a café (or any other venue), during for example, a happy hour (after office hours).
CELEBRATE: Participants will be taken on a journey full of great memories, shared and personal stories and caters having sheer fun with the ones you are with in the moment or when you, either locally or spotlighted online.
FOCUS: In times where many things are uncertain we seek for togetherness to navigate the future with support of this global community, to inspire and support each other to have impact on each others lives and the place you live.
Global Reunion
Global Reunion
Inspire - Create - Accelerate
Inspire - Create - Accelerate
In-Person Meetup
In-Person Meetup
Springtime 2026
A week experience
Venue TBC
Europe
INSPIRE: Great challenges require people to connect globally, organize and accelerate themselves guided by people and organizations enabling this. That is s what Y4PT stands for: addressing the real great challenges (the small and big) that impact our daily lives and of those in the future, with strong roots in topics of mobility and sustainability. The concept of this meet-up is in line with the inspiration/momentum generated during the hybrid event and the type of activities that were common during 20 years Y4PT.
CREATE: Like you can expect from any Y4PT event knowledge and talents from youth and mentors are combined to explore and create multidisciplinary and pragmatic approaches/solutions to address challenges on topics such as (1) utilizing empathy and togetherness through global communities; (2) reconnecting people through mobility of tomorrow; (3) unlocking the potential of youth for the mobility sector; among others. Three topics that strongly relate to the essence of the 20 years of Y4PT.
ACCELERATE: Connecting youth to industry and supporting them in their journey to have a real impact through their work has led to the many success stories of Y4PT. The wrap-up of this physical meet-up will outline a possible future of Y4PT based on the energy and insights from the anniversary celebration and the three challenges.
Y4PT's Milestones
Y4PT's Milestones
Y4PT is currently the world's oldest and largest global youth network for sustainable mobility.
2005: Y4PT was created as the UITP Youth Project.
2008: Y4PT launches its first Youth Parliament, later on called Youth Lab and nowadays running under the name of Youth Hackathon.
2009: Y4PT starts using its current name: “Youth For Public Transport”.
2013: Y4PT is registered as a Belgium-based Foundation.
2016: Y4PT launches its current Global Transport Hackathon series.
2017: The Y4PT Global Transport Hackathon series was acknowledged by the European Mobility Week Secretariat (European Commission / European Union) as one of the best practices of 2017.
2025: Y4PT turns 20 years and for marking its two-decade anniversary it is now a fully-independent organization sustained by major global transport stakeholders around the world.
Since 2016 the Y4PT Transport Hackathon series has been a truly global initiative, involving an average of 11,700 hacker-participants, with more than 2,340 innovative project teams, in more than 83 cities in over 35 countries, in different continents around the world.
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About Y4PT
About Y4PT
Y4PT is an international nonprofit, non-governmental, pro-sustainable mobility, youth-led organization. Created in 2005 it is officially registered under the Law of Belgium (European Union), headquartered in Brussels and sustained by major global transport stakeholders around the world.
What Y4PT Does
What Y4PT Does
Y4PT encourages the active participation of young people in advocating sustainable mobility and finding transport-related opportunities worldwide. It does so by promoting the integrated use of public transport with other means of transport, striving for a greater well-being and increased quality of life for people around the world. Y4PT advocates and communicates on sustainable mobility from young people’s points of view.
Y4PT is THE main channel of promotion, communication, education, employment and participation of youth in transport-related mobility issues. As such it acts as the global:
Pro-sustainable-mobility youth movement and network.
Youth spokesperson on sustainable mobility.
Youth platform and forum on sustainable mobility.
Centre of youth-oriented knowledge and innovation on sustainable mobility.
Bank of opportunities for young people in the transport-related mobility sector.
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Y4PT's Projects
Y4PT's Projects
Since its inception Y4PT has engaged all its efforts to address sustainability and innovation in the whole transport sector worldwide which has led to different projects, events and campaigns such as the widely acknowledged #Y4PThackathon during which numerous different stakeholders collaborate on the development of technology-based solutions. Other Y4PT activities include participation in EU-funded large-scale projects, #Y4PTawards, #Y4PTring, #HealthyMobility, #BreathableCities (research), #NutriEnergy, #iCOmmit2, #ModalShift, #Idearium, #WasteNoTime, #Y4PTworkshops, #StartUpChallenge, #HackCOVID19, #15MinutesOfFame and many more. Y4PT collaborates with a numerous variety of partners such as transport operators, authorities, industry, academics, civil society, international organizations, multilateral banks, cooperation agencies, associations, NGOs, among others.
A wide range of current and critical challenges faced by the transport sector as a whole are addressed in projects, with public transport as the cornerstone of multimodal solutions, in line with the Y4PT’s holistic point of view on sustainable mobility.
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Join us now in your city as a volunteer by setting up a local chapter or support our actions worldwide!
Further information on Y4PT at https://www.linktr.ee/y4pt . Contact us directly on LinkedIn for a prompt response.
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