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What tactics have each of the seven case study cities been using to recruit participants…? And which city has recruited the most so far?
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PASTA project - City recruitment

Mar 21, 2017

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Page 1: PASTA project - City recruitment

What tactics have each of the seven case study cities been using to recruit participants…? And which city has recruited the most so far?

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Renewed partnership with the Italian Rugby Federation for

the VI Nations rugby tournament 2016. Video here.

Valerio Bernabò testimonial highlighting the WHO’s

recommended 150' of active mobility in new brochure, here.

A new map on how to reach the Olimpico Stadium by foot or bike, providing cyclists a safe parking

areas. Map here.

Visitors brochure (here) to encourage public transport used -

when in Rome go sustainable!

@PASTARoma

PASTA prize-giving day, Feb 15, where we gave out 20 folding bikes to 20

winners randomly drawn from those who successfully completed the

questionnaire.

During the PASTA day, we also took the chance to have a

small workshop with contributions from a local NGO (bike2school etc). Video here

PASTA Roma

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PASTA Vienna’s lottery takes place every 3 months, the chance of

winning increases with the number of questionnaires filled in.

PASTA Vienna @PASTAWien

PASTA had a stand at the Bike Day in Vienna.

At a Seniors Club: these seniors just completed a computer course a few

weeks ago so the PASTA online survey was a great way to develop their

computer skills (17/02/2016)

The PASTA project has appeared in several local newspapers and health

publications. All press articles here

Working closely with a number of ministries and municipal authorities.

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy shared PASTA via their website.

PASTA Vienna

At "Fem Vital" event - promote a healthy life style for women.

(13-14/11/2015; City Hall of Vienna)

@PASTAWien

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PASTA Zurich has been working closely with

institutes in the recruitment of participants e.g. this

open day at Epidemiology, Biostatistics and

Prevention Institute

Students at the university of Zürich are also a pool of

potential participants that has been tapped into and the

PASTA team have used both Twitter and Facebook to

spread the word on this study.

A short 20 second video was developed to promote the project

which was shared via digital channels.

This video can be watched here.

@PASTAZuerich

PASTA Zürich

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‘PASTA in lights!’ this was shared at a screen located

near a major transport hub in Newham - the Stratford Underground station.

Newham article on walking & cycling appeared in the Nov

2015 issue of @ThinkingCities mag. p.20-21

Cycling champions have been photographed giving their support

to the PASTA project.

PASTA London offers a cash prize for participants in the

survey.

@PASTALondon

PASTA London has over 300 followers and strategically tweets at subject-

related associations and key journalists e.g. Peter Walker @ the Guardian

PASTA London took the opportunity to hold stakeholder

meeting ensuring key practitioners stay in contact.

PASTA London

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PASTA BCN having been involved in three TV

reportages on the project on local television.

You can see them all here.

A number of newspaper articles, including one in La Vanguardia have ensured

recognition of the project at a local level.

6 recruiters were employed to distribute info on PASTA, and

recruit potential participants by collecting email addresses at

strategic points across the city.

@PASTABCN

PASTA BCN identified all the mailing lists that they had available to them

through the organisation and projects as well as sending workplace emails.

PASTA BCN has developed a social media strategy with

standardised tweets and taken a targeted approach to linking with relevant organizations to

retweet to their followers.

PASTA Barcelona

PASTA Barcelona created two tee-shirt designs and put them out to vote via

Twitter for participants and followers to choose the winning design.

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PASTA Örebro linked up with pop up bike shops,

where citizens could have their bike check-up for

free, to gather participants for the survey.

Sending out targeted mailings to citizens in Örebro and

workplaces has been a key tactic used to recruit

participants in Örebro.

Articles & advertorials have been used as a recruitment tactic,

selecting specialized and local media to get the word out..

PASTA Örebro

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PASTA Antwerp took part in a documentary to raise

awareness about the impacts of pollution on our health.

Antwerp had two participants writing about PASTA in a blog (one of them was linked to a popular scientific journal). 

PASTA Antwerp has done recruitment through workplaces

presenting the project face-to-face at Nike but also using mailings through workplaces to recruit.

@PASTA_Antwerpen

Local events have also been a way for PASTA Antwerpen to recruit

participants.

PASTA Antwerpen has a strong following on Twitter and also use

their personal accounts to retweet posts to build up awareness of the

project.

PASTA Antwerpen

In the new: PASTA Antwerpen has had articles in key

publications, including Gazet Van Antwerpen and Flanders Today.

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The current leaderboard….

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 602624-2.

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