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 […]
Logismile, the delivery driver of the future: the autonomous robot Ona tested in Barcelona.
Co-Funded by EIT Urban Mobility and led by CARNET, the LogiSmile project aims to respond to the major challenge of last-mile urban distribution in increasingly congested cities. The metropolitan area of Barcelona and Esplugues de Llobregat hosted a test in a real urban environment of the autonomous goods distribution robot Ona last Friday, 10 June. […]
New Podcast released: Designing safe urban mobility!
How do we design our urban spaces to be and feel safer? It’s not as simple as installing cameras everywhere to watch over everyone. In this episode, our wonderful host Brittany Atkins chats with expert guests Marianne Weinreich, Debbie Dekkers, and Dan Campsall about how the presence (or absence) of safety in mobility and urban planning […]
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 […]
Join the Citython 2022 Žilina and co-ideate the solutions for your city!
Citython 2022, a project funded by EIT UM and organised by CARNET, analyses mobility challenges faced by cities, where multi-disciplinary teams of students and professionals from different backgrounds and expertise (architecture, urban planning, data science, engineering, human science, and business creation) compete against each other to provide innovative solutions. This hybrid (in person and online) […]
More than 35 cities from 15 different countries are collaborating in innovation projects supported by the EIT Urban Mobility in 2022
Cities are our driving force and enabler of faster innovation adoption. Supported by the EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Programme, more than 35 cities from 15 different countries are currently involved in the development of groundbreaking solutions with a high Technology Readiness Level (TRL) in response to the urban mobility challenges that threaten our urban environment. Within this framework, […]
City RAPTOR Call Awardees Selected
After a rigorous two phase evaluation process, the EIT Urban Mobility is pleased to announce the three consortia selected through the City RAPTOR Call! The RAPTOR Programme will be implemented in the following three cities between 1 May 2022 and 31 December 2022: Tel Aviv, Israel RAPTOR Project Team: Cityzone and CARNET Cascais, Portugal RAPTOR […]
EIT launches new global outreach website
The EIT is proud to present a brand-new website dedicated to the EIT Global Outreach Programme – delivering the unique EIT Innovation model beyond Europe and boosting the competitiveness of European innovations. Innovation beyond Europe: EIT Global Outreach The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is Europe’s innovation engine on a mission to […]
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 […]
EIT Urban Mobility – Innovation Days 2022
In the run-up to the official launch of the first Call for Proposals for our Business Plan 2023-2025, we will hold a series on Innovation Days online, bringing urban mobility key players together to forge new collaborations. The event series takes place from 21 February to 4 March and will be hosted on the b2match […]
MaaS vouchers and discounts for public transport, some of the ideas to improve urban mobility in Slovenia
On 14 December 2021, EIT Urban Mobility RIS Hub Slovenia organised a hackathon, which focused on the development of more sustainable and innovative solutions to decarbonise Slovenian cities. Six teams of students and young researchers focused mainly on the challenges of the freight and passengers’ transport. The winning idea, that received a total award 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 […]
Congratulations to our winners of the ENTRANCE 1st Open Competition!
The EIT Urban Mobility is partner of ENTRANCE, a project under Horizon Europe which is designed to mobilise financial resources and boost sustainable innovations in the transport and mobility sectors. To do so, the partnership will create an environment for the promotion of solutions to find buyers or investors. The goal of the ENTRANCE open […]
NetZeroCities: EIT Urban Mobility working to support cities to achieve climate neutrality by 2030
NetZeroCities Overview Europe has pledged to lead on climate action and has set forth ambitious goals and directives to achieve that commitment. Horizon Europe, the European Green Deal and other European Union policies and directives propel European Member States towards a 55% cut in emissions by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050. Cities are envisioned […]
High-level City Event at Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress
During Tomorrow Mobility World Congress, EIT Urban Mobility brought together top elected officials and policy practitioners from several cities in Europe in two roundtable discussions to share their key priorities and ideas to advance sustainable urban mobility and foster the uptake of transport innovations. Adopting a leading approach appears essential to identify the most pressing […]
Just launched: the Mobility Innovation Marketplace, showcasing the mobility of tomorrow!
Are you an innovator seeking more visibility for your new product? Are you are searching for a mobility solution for your city? Then this is the marketplace for you! Join the reference platform for urban mobility and stay up to date on the latest innovation in the sector! Gain an all-round understanding of the current […]
Costs and benefits of the sustainable urban mobility transition in Europe
We are happy to release the fifth report of our Urban Mobility Next series, which explores the costs and benefits of the sustainable mobility transition in European cities. The analysis focuses on 779 EU-27 cities of more than 50,000 inhabitants based on 12 city prototypes. The model used in the report covers small, medium, and large cities […]
Our training “The Digital Revolution at the Service of Territorial Mobility” designed with Citec is open for registration!
Urban Mobility is in a constant state of evolution, forever changed by the technology of its time. Technological innovations, Big Data, MaaS or social upheavals, the future of mobility will be multi-form and very different from what we know. The challenge of our time is to understand and prepare ourselves to face these changes, integrating […]
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 […]
Integrated and safe: how innovation can increase micromobility end user adoption
This fourth report of EIT Urban Mobility’s Urban Mobility Next series explores solutions and best practices boosting the uptake of micromobility in cities. Central to this report is the question of how to increase user engagement with various forms of micromobility, focusing on multimodal integration and safety as key enablers. The report, realised with the […]
EIT Community New European Bauhaus launches Ideation Awards for Climathon and hackathon participants
EIT Climate-KIC has launched a call for ideas on sustainable, inclusive and aesthetic solutions for New European Bauhaus challenges. Open to EU teams participating in the 2021 EIT Climate-KIC Climathon and hackathons of EIT Digital, EIT Food and EIT Urban Mobility, the call will be open from 25 October to 15 November 2021 and will offer prizes of up to €10,000 in […]
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 […]
Podcast: How do startups work and how do they navigate the mobility industry?
Episode 7 of podcast ‘Conversations in the Park’ (the second one sponsored by EIT Urban Mobility) puts all the emphasis on start-ups and how they navigate the complex mobility industry. We invited two start-up leaders to tell us about their experiences and the challenges they are facing. Mari-Ly Klaats is the COO of Auve Tech, […]
Our Innovation Hub Central welcomed last week partners and stakeholders in its new premises in Munich
The Innovation Hub Central is one of five Innovation Hubs that EIT Urban Mobility has created to engage, support and to widen its partnership, to build up and share knowledge amongst the local ecosystems and to increase awareness across the whole Europe. Relaxed COVID19 regulations and the new location of Innovation Hub Central in the […]
