Reducing motorcycle-related accidents in the city of Barcelona. This is the first challenge of Barcelona Innova Lab, the first Living Lab in the city.
The first challenge aimed at reducing motorcycle-related accidents was presented today at an event organised at Ca L’Alier, where the DGT and Barcelona City Council signed a cooperation agreement towards this objective. Starting in January, Barcelona City Council, together with Fira de Barcelona, the DGT and EIT Urban Mobility, will launch the first challenge aimed […]
EIT Urban Mobility and Transport Malta reinforce their collaboration with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The agreement formalises the mutual interaction and strengthens the existing relationship between EIT Urban Mobility and Transport Malta at the strategic and working levels. Barcelona, December 2022 – EIT Urban Mobility and Transport Malta have announced a new cooperation accord to develop and implement long-term sustainable urban mobility solutions in the country. The agreement formalises the […]
FURNISH-KIDS: Transforming Urban Areas Into Playscapes
FURNISH-KIDS is a project co-funded by the EIT Urban Mobility project and has put together a unique consortium consisting of CARNET, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Elisava, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), the Municipality of Barcelona and the Municipality of Milan. Cities today are facing urban complexity and user interaction more than […]
Impact investment for real – how to get it right?
Saying you want to become the leading impact investor in Europe in the mobility sector is one thing, proving it another. How do you define impact, and how do you measure it? Together with the Upright Project, Katapult and geoFluxus, EIT Urban Mobility has discussed this topic during a panel session at Slush 2022. […]
The potential of Mobility Data Spaces
EIT Urban Mobility’s latest study about Mobility Data Spaces in the Spanish ecosystem was presented during the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress organised last week in Barcelona. The study has been developed by Fundació i2CAT, Factual Consulting and EIT Urban Mobility. The presentation of the study was followed by a Workshop of the Mobility Working Group of […]
Urban Radar receives the Greentech Innovation Label
The French start-up Urban Radar, specialised in urban transformation and sustainable city planning, has won the Greentech Innovation label. The label is issued by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition to start-ups and entrepreneurs for their commitment to green and sustainable innovation. Companies are selected based on their ability to demonstrate positive impact on sustainability […]
S+LOADZ: Transforming Urban Logistics in France
Developed under the umbrella of the 2021 Innovation call of EIT Urban Mobility, S+LOADZ project pretends to accelerate the shift to sustainable and smart city logistics. A new digital solution is being developed to manage loading and delivery zones. The French cities of Paris and Argenteuil are two of the four cities that test this […]
Rebel and EIT Urban Mobility start-up Vianova launch a new AI tool for CO2 emissions reduction
Paris based tech company Vianova just released an innovative tool to measure and reduce carbon emissions due to overall transportation in cities. This tool, powered with advanced AI algorithms, is designed to help cities and mobility operators efficiently curb transport CO2 emissions by identifying areas where shared mobility can be deployed to maximise chances of mode shift […]
Mobility DataSpaces: The analysis of macro data trends will be key to implementing a model of sustainable urban mobility
In order to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable and smarter mobility, it is essential to unlock the potential of mobility data. Creating a common European data space for mobility will facilitate access, pooling, and sharing of mobility and transport data. EIT Urban Mobility and Telpark recently held the Mobility DataSpaces event on data sharing […]
URBAN MOBILITY CHANGEMAKER BOOTCAMP
Urban Mobility Changemaker and the Mobilise Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is inviting you to the two-day Urban Mobility Bootcamp on November 22-23, 2022 on the VUB Campus in Brussels and online. The Bootcamp focuses on the transition towards zero emission mobility, addressing both mobility and logistics. During the two days, we […]
Gender Diversity in VC
Come and join us to talk about Gender Diversity in the world of VC! EIT Urban Mobility along with Soulmates Ventures are organising a panel discussion featuring top women investors from CZ and CEE regions as an official side event of the Prague European Summit. Venture Capital (VC) is a young community in the whole […]
Extra investment opportunities to start-ups incorporated in RIS countries
All over Europe, entrepreneurs are working on innovative solutions to cope with urban mobility challenges. However, circumstances differ across the continent resulting in unequal number and quality of funding opportunities for locally emerging businesses. Through the Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS), EIT tackles such disparities by spreading its activities more evenly. More precisely, the RIS region […]
Eleven new entries to EIT Urban Mobility’s equity portfolio
EIT Urban Mobility’s equity portfolio keeps growing! During the first half of 2022, EIT Urban Mobility has invested in eleven innovative start-ups. Furthermore, four follow up investments have been made in existing companies from our equity portfolio. The common factor between all these top-tier entrepreneurs is their impact on reshaping the mobility landscape. They are […]
Best of The Baltics | sTARTUp Days
EIT Urban Mobility was thrilled to be in Estonia last week mingling with the best of the Baltic’s (and beyond) start-up scene. The three-day event is the largest one in the region bring together the start-up ecosystem in the city of Tartu, Estonia. Our Partners, the University of Tartu were one of the key organisers […]
Nordic Female Founder Series | Copenhagen & Gothenburg
In June, EIT Urban Mobility hosted two events to identify female founders in the Nordics, within urban mobility. The events are part of an effort made by EIT Urban Mobility and Position99 to both identify more female founders in the region and, to help them get access to venture capital through increased visibility and match […]
Meet the 10 European start-ups selected for Rocket Up 2022
The EIT Community Supernovas welcomes its 2022 cohort for its Rocket Up programme. This first year’s selection will bring pioneering ideas and business to different markets over Europe as they expand through the continent and become the leaders and role models of the future. In the coming months, the chosen start-ups will benefit from top […]
The Scale-up programme has selected its 13 participating start-ups
Out of 100 applications, the Scale-up Programme has identified the 13 most promising start-ups with solutions for sustainable urban mobility. These companies will now take part in one of the two programme paths. Path A will focus on providing visibility. Path B is oriented towards the performance of a pilot within a European city which […]
The Urban Air Mobility Plazza Accelerator programme kicks off in Toulouse
Funded by EIT Urban Mobility, the Urban Air Mobility accelerator programme will accelerate 10 startups in Urban Air Mobility from all over Europe during the next 6 months. The selected startups will receive mentoring and coaching, expert workshops, and access to local ecosystems and markets, in addition to the possibility to test their solutions in […]
Co-creation at H22 City Expo
Creating more sustainable urban mobility is one of the keys to helping cities reduce their climate impact. However it is only one part of a system wide transformation that needs to take place. How can different sectors come together to work on changing entire systems? Bringing together different knowledge communities to shape systematic change Following […]
EIT Urban Mobility’s equity startup HOPU got acquired by Libelium
HOPU (HOP Ubiquitous), one of EIT Urban Mobility’s first equity startups, has been acquired by Libelium. With its Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for monitoring air quality, noise pollution, and meteorological parameters, HOPU makes a good match with Libelium, a leading company in the design and manufacturing of wireless sensor network devices to deliver reliable […]
EIT Urban Mobility has invested in 35 ventures since 2020 and keeps up
EIT Urban Mobility just opened an ongoing investment call for early-to-seed stage ventures. Selected scale-ups and start-ups can receive up to €500,000 capital. More importantly, the offer goes beyond funding. Ventures will benefit from fast-track introductions into the urban mobility community via the extensive regional and pan-European network, including cities, mentors, and industry leaders. This allows […]
S+LOADZ – accelerating intelligent and sustainable city logistics
S+LOADZ was tested, for the first time in a real urban environment, last month of June in the Catalan city of Vic. Other pilots will be done in Paris, France, Ankara, Istanbul, and mid-sized cities such as Argenteuil within the Greater Metropolitan Area of Paris, to test varying conditions and address different challenges specific to […]
Welcome Urban Lab Mobility Barcelona! – EIT Urban Mobility, Barcelona City Council, Fira de Barcelona, and DGT join forces to turn the city into a test bed for future mobility.
For EIT Urban Mobility, living labs are instrumental for testing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating new and innovative mobility solutions. Our Living labs knowledge base platform is a collection of both living lab learning practices and management tools. While the learning practices are initiatives that can function as an inspiration for other living labs, the management […]
Sustainable City Logistics – Workshop & networking for building winning Horizon consortia
In late May EIT Urban Mobility’s Action and Impact Group together with the Innovation Hub North organised a community building workshop on the challenge area of Sustainable City Logistics. The purpose of the workshop was to support partners and other relevant stakeholders to exchange ideas, ideate, and to start forming winning consortia for upcoming topics […]