Co-creating sustainable community mobility.

Community Voices: Shaping Europe’s Sustainable Future

How do we move from consulting communities to genuinely involving them in decisions about how their towns and cities move?

Join us at Trinity College Dublin on 28 October at 2pm for an interactive Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026 associated event on community-led sustainable mobility, with CONUNDRUM team members Brian Caulfield, Niamh Moore-Cherry, Conor Dowling and Rudi O’Reilly Meehan.

Drawing on CONUNDRUM’s work with communities across Ireland, we’ll showcase TownsMatter.eu, which combines digital engagement, local knowledge and face-to-face deliberation to identify mobility challenges and turn them into practical solutions. This won’t simply be a discussion - instead, you’ll put the approach into action, using Trinity’s campus as a live micro-challenge to identify problems, propose solutions and see results emerge in real time.

With policymakers, communities, local authorities and researchers in the room, we’ll ask a bigger question: can better participation deliver better mobility and better places across Ireland and Europe?

GAA joins CONUNDRUM as Societal Impact Partner

The CONUNDRUM team is delighted to announce the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) as our Societal Impact Partner for the Prize phase of our Research Ireland National Challenge Fund Sustainable Communities project. We thank TASC (Think-tank for Action on Social Change), our Societal Impact Partner in earlier phases, who will now continue as a research partner as we scale nationally and into different sectors.

The GAA’s national reach into every community underpins this partnership. Its recent National Demographics Committee report highlighted how changing population patterns affect access to sport, volunteering and community life, with limited transport often restricting the association’s 760,000+ members and local residents from fully taking part.

Working with the GAA’s network of 2,300+ clubs and local clubhouses as trusted community spaces, we will use the TownsMatter platform alongside in-person events so citizens can map local transport challenges and opportunities, and authorities can target resources where they matter most.

CONUNDRUM approach cited in Just Transition Commission transport report

Our transport planning approach is highlighted in the Just Transition Commission’s new transport report as a model other communities could follow.

The report recommends strengthening social dialogue and participation through ongoing, structured engagement.

On Enniscorthy, the report states:

“projects such as the CONUNDRUM project in Enniscorthy provide a structured process for developing co-created community mobility strategies, which could be replicated across communities in Ireland and should be actively pursued by the Department of Transport.”