ECF’s activities include conducting cycling advocacy and research, providing tools and resources, developing the EuroVelo network and organizing the Velo-city conference series.

Apart from raising general awareness around the benefits of cycling, its advocacy involves lobbying and engaging with politicians, policymakers and other stakeholders at the EU and European level as well as international fora such as the United Nations Climate Change conference.

[2] ECF defines seven policy areas for its advocacy: EuroVelo is a network of 17 long-distance cycle routes that criss-cross Europe.

[9] The Velo-city conference series, also known as the annual world cycling summit,[10] is organised by ECF with a different host city every year.

Because of the pandemic, Velo-city 2021 Lisboa was held with special COVID-19 safety protocols and as a hybrid event with online and digital elements that included live streaming and session recordings within a dedicated mobile app.

The organization claims that it is “the world’s largest and best-known cyclists’ advocacy organization.”[16] Full membership is open to European associations of cycle users.