Mastering mobility with women-led innovation
Cities and transport systems are not neutral. Throughout Western history they have largely been planned and built by men around male-dominated travel patterns. This legacy is visible in everything from street lighting to public transport schedules, and it has often meant that women’s needs – for safety, care-related trips and flexible mobility – have largely been under‑served. Initiatives on gender‑mainstreaming in mobility reveal structural biases and design choices that systematically […]
Predicting risk to save lives: new approaches to urban road safety
Urban streets are becoming increasingly complex and are having significant impacts on road safety. Growing population density, a rise in cycling and micromobility, and continued reliance on private vehicles are intensifying competition for limited road space. This complexity has disproportionately affected vulnerable road users (VRUs). VRUs, including pedestrians, cyclists and micromobility users, represent 70% of […]
Meet the first winners of the Strategic Innovation Open Call
The first 8 winning projects of the Strategic Innovation Open Call are officially kicking off! CARGOBIKE-SCALE, DAVER, HYBUHTRAIN, MUDAV, PantoTech, PGfor_Resilient_Cities, TRACE and TWINOPT cover five sectors being urban logistics, public transport, mobility data management, mobility and health, and electrification of transport and alternative fuels. The projects will see collaboration from 41 partners from across 16 […]
Europe debuts new fully autonomous bus line in public service
In a first-of-its-kind project led by Espaces-Mobilités and funded by EIT Urban Mobility, two self-driving shuttles from WeRide opened for public service in Leuven, Belgium. Since January 2026, Leuven residents can take the AV autonomous bus line 16 from the city’s railway station to the neighbouring municipality of Heverlee, a 4 km route that sees plenty of commuters and students. The […]
RIS Education Open Call 2026: 16 projects selected across Europe
We are proud to announce that 16 new RIS Education projects have been selected following the RIS Education call launched in June 2025. The call attracted strong interest, with 62 proposals submitted by organisations from over 20 countries. This response further strengthens the programme’s geographical and thematic reach across the RIS region. The newly supported […]
Advancing regional innovation ecosystems: Lessons from Øresund Mission Cities
How can cities better work together across borders to accelerate innovation and create better, cleaner mobility systems? In 2025, cities in the Øresund region explored this question through an Interreg Øresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak co-funded pre-study of the Øresund Mission Cities Mobility Innovation Programme (ØMMIP). The four participating cities – Copenhagen (Denmark), Malmö, Helsingborg and Lund (Sweden) – […]
Mastering mobility after dark
Across Europe, millions of people travel after dark: commuting from late shifts, cycling home, walking through neighbourhoods or using scooters to bridge their last mile. In winter, when darkness falls early but daily life continues, people still need to get to and from work, education and essential services, often in conditions that make navigating streets and public space more […]
Mastering mobility with decarbonised last-mile logistics
While the end-of-year holiday season offers a peak in global logistics, the beginning of the year sees a surge of delivery traffic with consumers returning gifts and placing new orders. Due to this increase in ecommerce returns, city streets become congested and local air quality worsens. According to a 2024 World Economic Forum report, last-mile logistics, the final leg of delivery from an urban […]
Strengthening Europe’s startup ecosystem: Mobility Startup Nexus 2025 recap
The second edition of the Mobility Startup Nexus demonstrated how collaboration and strategic support to startups are driving real progress in mobility. With over 100 registrations, the event, hosted by EIT Urban Mobility, gathered founders, investors, and corporates from across Europe to connect, share insights, and explore new opportunities. This edition highlighted how blended funding, […]
Mastering mobility with EU battery regulations
Batteries sit at the heart of Europe’s transition to decarbonised mobility. As the Clean Energy Technology Observatory notes, transport electrification prevented 658 million barrels of oil equivalent from being burned between 2010 and 2022, avoiding 280 million tonnes of CO2 globally. In the EU alone, batteries cut oil imports by 120 million barrels and prevented 51 million tonnes of emissions during […]
Mastering mobility at Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress 2025
For its fifth year, Barcelona became the meeting point for the world’s leading mobility innovators, researchers and policymakers as the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress (TMWC) returned to Fira Barcelona from 4-6 November. Co-organised by Fira Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility, the event ran alongside the Smart City Expo World Congress, welcoming over 27,000 attendees from more […]
Mastering mobility with car-free days
Car-free days are deliberately scheduled interruptions of private motor traffic, typically lasting for a full day. During these events, streets or entire districts are cleared of cars and reclaimed for walking, cycling, public transport and community life. The result is an immediate transformation: quieter streets, cleaner air and space for people to enjoy, rather than […]
Integrated, shared and autonomous: The future of public transport and shared mobility in cities
The EIT Urban Mobility North Summit 2025 took place in Stockholm on 16-17 September with over 110 representatives from the public transport and mobility sector in Northern Europe. Taking the stage to welcome everyone, EIT Urban Mobility CEO Marc Rozendal set the tone for the following two days: “Shifting to public transport delivers high impact […]
More than 250 students attend the EIT Urban Mobility Summer Schools across Europe
This summer, EIT Urban Mobility Summer Schools reached a new milestone: eight programmes delivered across Europe. They brought together bachelor’s and master’s students, as well as young professionals, to address some of today’s most pressing urban mobility challenges. Covering car dependency, smart cities, resilience, e-mobility, healthy ageing, and street redesign, the programmes combined challenge-based learning […]
Mastering mobility with urban greening
Around the world, cities have become hotspots for heat, with the urban heat island effect making urban temperatures 10-15°C higher than nearby rural areas during peak summer periods. In the summer of 2025, heatwaves impacted large parts of Europe as early as June, pushing cities beyond their abilities for mitigation. As an estimated 75% of […]
Startups boosting EV charging infrastructure network in Europe
The race to transition to more sustainable mobility is underway across Europe. The EU under the European Green Deal is targeting a 55% reduction in emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050 [1]. A large part of this transition is the push to increase electric mobility. Yet the road to a well-balanced ecosystem of […]
From words to action: Implementing diversity in mobility and transport
The Women in Nordic Intelligent Transport Systems project (WIN-ITS 2) has been successfully closed, following a final workshop on 7 April and a closing webinar on 22 May. Throughout the project, participating ITS organisations from Norway, Iceland, Estonia and Finland organised events to promote women and diversity in their organisations. Additionally, EIT Urban Mobility and […]
Mastering mobility with mobility justice
How people move through their cities, or are prevented from freely moving, may seem like a commonplace infrastructural issue but at the core of the issue lies fairness, power and opportunity. Transportation systems reflect decades of decisions informed by political parties and movements, patterns of exclusion and reinforcement of power structures. Mobility justice asserts that […]
34 startups selected for EIT Urban Mobility’s 2025 Market Readiness Accelerator programmes
The startups for the 2025 Market Readiness Accelerators have been chosen. The objective of these programmes is to equip early-stage mobility startups with the expertise to validate their business models, achieve product-market fit and build a solid foundation for fundraising and scalable growth. EIT Urban Mobility’s accelerators are designed with a variety of startups’ […]
Mastering mobility with non-exhaust emissions
As cities work to achieve their emissions reductions goals and implement changes for more sustainable transport systems, the focus has long been on reducing vehicles’ exhaust emissions. However, a less visible but increasingly significant source of pollution has persisted: non-exhaust emissions (NEE). Non-exhaust emissions are particles that get released into the air from parts of […]
Small engines, big impact: Light electric vehicles powering green mobility
Have you ever considered how light electric vehicles (LEVs) – like e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-cargo bikes – could help power active mobility, healthy cities and local businesses? This question was at the heart of the Nordic conference on light electric vehicles, held on 8 May 2025 in Copenhagen by EIT Urban Mobility and Dansk Erhverv […]
Mastering mobility with child-friendly mobility planning
As cities across Europe grow and populations flock to urban areas, inclusive urban planning becomes a requirement. Public spaces, transport systems, streets and sidewalks must be accessible not just to the able-bodied adult majority, but to the entire community, including our youngest residents. Children, often overlooked in planning decisions, experience cities in unique ways, but […]
Mastering mobility: the untapped potential of urban waterways
Throughout history, cities have been established along rivers, canals and coastlines. Vital to survival, these waterways enabled the movement of people and goods for the ever-growing populations that settled there. From the island of Manhattan to the canals of Venice, and further still, to the port of Shanghai, water-based mobility has played an essential role […]
Closing the leaky pipeline: Supporting women’s careers in the mobility sector
On 26 March 2025, experts gathered to discuss strategies for closing the “leaky pipeline” and enhancing support for women’s careers in the mobility and transport sector. The webinar was part of the second Women in Nordic Intelligent Transport Systems (WIN-ITS 2) project. Why do women drop out of the mobility and transport sector? The “leaky […]