Study tour | Helsinki, the world’s most functional city?
Helsinki, like many European cities, is facing the interconnected challenges of offering smarter, more convenient mobility services, reducing its emissions, and catering to a growing population. To face these challenges and to meet its aspirations to become the most functional city in the world, Helsinki has developed an extensive Mobility as a Service (MaaS) package […]
Supernovas: Unleashing female’s entrepreneurship potential!
We welcome Supernovas, the new programme that thrives for an entrepreneurial ecosystem with more women! Supernovas is EIT Urban Mobility’s new programme that, along with EIT Manufacturing and EIT Food, has the ultimate goal of increasing the presence and role of women in the EU entrepreneurship ecosystem. Participants in this programme will have access to […]
Female founders, it’s your time to rocket-up!
As part of Supernovas, the Rocket-up programme has opened a call for female-led startups to support their access to new European regions. Ten startups will be selected to participate in the activities, which will promote international outreach and sales to the most innovative ventures. The deadline for the call is 19 June 2022. Gender balance […]
EIT Urban Mobility at EcoMotion 2022 in Israel
EIT Urban Mobility participated in the 2022 edition of the EcoMotion Week in Tel Aviv, Israel from 9 to 12 May – the largest mobility event in Israel that celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. EcoMotion is a growing mobility community comprised of over 650 start-ups and 13 000 members and a joint venture of the […]
EIT Urban Mobility will be at ITS 2022
The ITS Congresses represent the ultimate showcase of mobility services deployment and are the means for the ITS Community to keep pace with the incredible evolution of the industry. Over the years, the European Congresses have offered a platform for thought leaders, developers, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers from the transport, logistics, and IT industries to share […]
The Scale up programme is looking for 12 urban mobility startups
The Scale up programme, financed by EIT Urban Mobility, opened up a call to identify the 12 most promising startups with solutions for sustainable urban mobility. The programme aims to take the selected startups to the next level by helping them find funding and partnerships through attendance at major European events, giving them visibility to […]
Signing of memorandum of understanding (MoU) between EIT Urban Mobility and the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda
The MoU establishes an agreement to jointly work together in the development of standards and solutions to promote urban mobility and sustainable solutions in Spanish cities, and expresses the common intention to join forces to meet shared objectives. Madrid, Spain, 5 May 2022 – EIT Urban Mobility and the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and […]
Opportunities for Startups
EIT Urban Mobility innovation Hub South Partner, BGI, presents its two acceleration programmes dedicated to supporting tech startups in validating their business and scaling it. BGI Accelerator: Acceleration programme of 10 months, dedicated to startups from all over the world in the areas of Medical Devices and Health Care; Smart Cities and Industry 4.0; Blockchain […]
How to address the skills gaps in the Mobility Sector?
Are you an entrepreneur or a young professional with an interest in innovation and mobility? Do you want to kick-start your career in the mobility sector and would like to gain more competencies and learn from real on the ground experiences? As part of the EIT Urban Mobility project MOBINNO-Experiences, MCAST together with CARNET are organising an online webinar […]
INNOVATION CHALLENGES ELECTROMOBILITY. Apply for the Challenge
Within the framework of the InnovAcció 2030 initiative and the 2030 Agenda, Barcelona City Council wants to promote the deployment of innovative solutions for recharging electric vehicles in publicly accessible underground car parks. Barcelona de Serveis Municipals (B:SM), a company of the city of Barcelona that was born in the year 2002 with the aim […]
EIT Urban Mobility joins the Board of Directors of the Spanish Hub of Gaia-X
EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Hub South Director, Daniel Serra, will be on the board of directors of Gaia-X Spain. Initiated by the European Union, Gaia-X Association for Data and Cloud (AISBL) is an initiative that hopes to create a unified ecosystem of cloud and data services protected by European data laws and develop common requirements […]
Citython Žilina
Do you have an idea of what will change the future of our cities? Are you excited about tackling urban challenges? This event is for you! About this event This hybrid (in person and online) Citython edition will be held in the city of Žilina, Slovakia, and is focused on smart mobility, in the context […]
Rethinking our future cities at Nordic Edge Expo
Grow your start-up by joining our Accelerator programmes!
Are you and your start-up solving some of our mobility-related challenges? And can you use support from a European network with cities, industries and experts? Then check out our five Accelerator programmes related to sustainable city logistics, urban air mobility, e+ mobility, energy and public realm and 5G technologies for urban mobility. Via the Accelerator […]
The Innovation Hub South: co-leaders of the Spanish Working Group of the GAIA-X project
Last June 2021, EIT Urban Mobility Hub South was selected by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation as one of the co-leading entities of the mobility group in Spain of the Gaia X project. More than 300 companies and public entities have submitted their manifestation of interest. Being selected as co-leaders members […]
Nine EIT Urban Mobility startups in Europe’s top fifty Clean Mobility startups!
EIT Urban Mobility is proud to announce that among the 50 most promising European startups in clean mobility, nine are from our startup portfolio. The European Startup Prize for mobility (EUSP) is a Prize that reveals every year Europe’s best sustainable mobility startups. For this year´s edition, they have received 563 applications from startups of […]
Fluctuo, a company from our portfolio received a further €1.6 million investment!
Fluctuo, founded in 2019, is an independent third-party data aggregator with a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to collect, process, analyse and visualise the data of shared mobility services (bikes, scooters, mopeds and cars), helping public stakeholders and private companies to make data-driven decisions on mobility services & infrastructures. EIT Urban Mobility portfolio company Fluctuo received […]
EIT Urban Mobility Podcasts by Innovation Hub East
EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Hub East, together with some of its partners, has prepared a series of podcasts to talk about different urban mobility challenges of this age and how the innovation projects led by Innovation Hub East’s partners contribute to a more sustainable model of urban mobility, and more liveable urban spaces. Forbes BrandVoice […]
Delivers.AI, the first autonomous grocery delivery of the mobility Sandbox in Madrid
Have you imagined the city of the future with a robot that will deliver your groceries? Madrid Futuro with the City Council has presented the first autonomous delivery robot pilot, Delivers.AI that will be tested in the Villaverde mobility Sandbox, a unique opportunity to position Madrid in the top 10 Smart Cities in the world. […]
Empowering citizens: the Innovation Hub South co-organises two citizen engagement events in collaboration with our community ecosystem
In recent years, civic engagement aimed at community involvement and collective learning has become a centerpiece of environmental management. People are expected to be interested, inquire, express opinions, make suggestions, and even take responsibility. And EIT Urban Mobility is, among other actors, responsible for motivating them with attractive and meaningful initiatives. Also, understanding that citizens […]
Partners focus on mobility solutions in Gothenburg
EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Hub North partners discussed mobility solutions at Lindholmen Science Park AB in Gothenburg during POLIS Network conference. Latest DevelopmentsWe shared updates and plans for EIT Urban Mobility’s Business Creation and Academy programmes and learned about MobilityXlab, CLOSER, Drive Sweden. We concluded with a river-side infrastructure visit of Göteborgs Stad and networking dinner.
EIT HEI Initiative Call 2 webinar
Join us for a webinar about the EIT HEI Initiative Call 2 that will award €48m to higher education institutions to improve their entrepreneurial and innovation capacity. The EIT HEI initiative Call 2 was launched on November 18, 2021. It will be open until February 28 and will fund up to 40 projects over two […]
Auve Tech wins the award for best pitch at the Ready2Scale II event during ITS World Congress 2021
As part of the ScaleTHENGlobal programme, a programme financed by the EIT Urban Mobility and led by CARNET, the 15 participating startups from this edition were invited to participate in the Ready2Scale II event, which was part of the ITS World Congress, taking place in Hamburg from 11 to 15 October. During this activity, organised […]
EIT URBAN MOBLITY | Startup Investments 2021 (Q3)
Urban mobility is undergoing one of the most transformational shifts of a generation. A successful strategy in the industry requires the adoption of a comprehensive and coherent approach, centered on innovative ventures that are disrupting this landscape. While the pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the economy, the crisis has also encountered major opportunities for innovation. Examples of drivers […]
