Bikes everywhere: Linköping University Valla campus

When you walk up the rise and on to Valla campus your first impression is bikes, bikes and more bikes. There must be several thousand on the campus and they congregate outside Kårallen (the student’s centre). What a difference to Rhodes University where there are maybe a hundred or so – and how this must benefit the health of the students and the environment. Making the environment a part of everyone’s education at Linköping University has been in the campus news recently. Also the University’s goals to reduce energy use, paper use, short haul flights ….