speaker or booth from EIT UM: Active

EIT Urban Mobility participates at the European Transport Conference (ETC) (Milan, 7-9 September 2022) which celebrates this year its special 50th edition. Organised by the Association for European Transport, over the years the conference has offered a space for transport policymakers, practitioners and researchers from all over Europe and beyond to discuss and exchange around policy issues, best practices and research findings in the broad spectrum of transport. The ETC also provides a great opportunity where delegates can enjoy networking possibilities, participate in technical visits and explore the exhibition, creating in this way new international connections and reaffirm old professional friendships.

This year’s highlights are the following:

• Behaviour Change – the impacts of the climate emergency and COVID-19 on long term travel patterns
• Covid recovery – funding and financial sustainability of public transport
• The future of cities – emerging new travel and land use patterns
• The future of aviation – compatibility of recovery and sustainability
• Travel data – When will new travel patterns be stable enough to inform modelling and forecasting?

EIT Urban Mobility is actively participating at ETC 2022, namely with three types of activities:

• A session on Thursday 8/09 at 16-18h: EIT Urban Mobility will present its mission and activities, giving the floor to some of our partners and projects with the objective of awareness increasing among the conference participants and creating new Italian partners in the future.
• Organisation of a Project Award which will be handed during the welcome reception on Wednesday 7/09
• EIT Urban Mobility booth at the exhibition area

EIT Urban Mobility is organising INNOVEIT BRNO: The Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility, part of ’INNOVEIT WEEKS’ event series – the flagship event of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The event will take place in Brno, Czech Republic on 19-20 September 2022.

INNOVEIT BRNO is a side event of the Urban Mobility Days, a biennial conference held on 20-22 September in Brno, jointly organised in 2022 by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility & Transport (DG MOVE), and the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU. This year Urban Mobility Days coincide with European Mobility Week, which takes place from 16-22 September every year in over 3000 towns and cities in 50 countries worldwide. 

What is waiting for you in Brno? 

• Meet representatives of industry, top universities, start-ups and unicorns, top researchers and scientists, investors, and EU policy makers, 
• discover how EIT activities drive innovation across Europe, 
• find out how YOU can join the EIT Community – no matter what stage of the innovation journey you’re on, from start to finish, EIT Support is there at every step of the way. 

Preliminary Agenda

19 September – Social and networking event 

Venue:​ Hotel Passage 

17:00 – 17:15 Welcome by Jan Figel (EIT Governing Board)​   

17:15 – 17:30 Keynote by Jana Kotalíková (Head of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic)​   

17:30 – 17:40 Cultural interlude​​   

17:40 – 18:30 Driving Innovation in Urban Mobility (fireside chat)​   

18:30 – 20:30 Networking dinner  

20 September – Policy Discussion​​   

Venue: BVV EXPO​  

9:30 – 9:45 Welcome by Maria Tsavachidis (CEO, EIT Urban Mobility)​   

9:45 – 10:00 Keynote by DG Move​​   

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break​   

10:30 – 12:00 European Innovation Agenda (panel discussion)  

Join us for this never like before event at EIT community!