The second issue of our Solutions Catalogue has been released
The second issue of our Solutions Catalogue has been released, with over 10 new innovations added from the previous issue that are now part of our EIT Urban Mobility community! In this latest edition of the catalogue, we can find new solutions tackling various areas, from urban design solutions for bike safety to traffic management […]
Raptor pilot 2 programme – now open for applications
Cities from Regional Innovation Scheme countries are searching for startups and SMEs to help them solve critical urban mobility issues over a six-month period in the second half of this year. Through the Raptor Pilot 2 programme , Riga, Tallinn, Bratislava, Cluj-Napoca, Prague City District 6 and City District 7 will work with the winners to […]
Paving the way to liveable urban spaces in Europe
What are the key elements enabling EIT Urban Mobility’s vision of creating more liveable urban spaces in cities? Did you know that: they range from improving cooperation between private and public entities, to supporting targeted investments aligned with cities’ goals, to exploring emerging technologies that offer solutions to urban mobility challenges, to assessing the impact […]
The EIT COMMUNITY BOOSTER Announces 20 SELECTED New European Bauhaus Ventures
From a large pool of 1029 applications, twenty highly innovative European start-ups and scale-ups have been selected for the EIT Community Booster receiving business growth and support services worth EUR 50 000 each. The EIT Community Booster was launched by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and five of its Knowledge & Innovation […]
Get in the ring and win a chance to prove your solution and solve 21st century challenges
Applications are now open for the Portuguese edition of Get in the Ring, promoted by Vodafone Power Lab, and organised by BGI – Building Global Innovators, in partnership with EIT Urban Mobility, as our EIT Urban Mobility RIS Hub Portugal and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, trough Made of Lisboa. Do you have a smart idea for some […]
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 […]
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 […]
Now released! Conversations in the Park podcast sponsored by EIT Urban Mobility on: Women in Urban Mobility
Episode 10 of Conversations in the Park podcast featuring the new host, Brittany Atkins, having an invigorating and inspiring conversation with our esteemed guests – Elisa Sayrol, Orlie Gruper, and Danielle Walsh. They spent the time talking about how mobility spaces can support women, how they can exclude women, and how the gender imbalance in […]
EIT Urban Mobility held its first RIS Hub Summit in Budapest
The beautiful city of Budapest was the chosen location to gather for the first time our 12 EIT Urban Mobility RIS Hubs. During a two day face-to-face and semi-online event taking place between 8-9 March 2022 in the EIT Community Hub office, representatives from Croatia, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia […]
Women in Urban Mobility – Promoting gender equality and female empowerment
Women in Urban Mobility is a joint project of UnternehmerTUM, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Carnet Barcelona, and Junior Achievement Bulgaria, supported by EIT Urban Mobility. Aiming to empower women to become active shapers of future urban mobility, the project was awarded as best practice example in the category “Networks” at the “gerecht mobil” competition. The […]
Rethinking our future cities at Nordic Edge Expo
EIT Urban Mobility launches a new Partnership Model
EIT Urban Mobility is above all a network and our excellence comes from our partners. Our +250 partners are Europe’s leading companies, research and education institutions and cities. To meet the different interests and needs of our partners, EIT Urban Mobility launched a new partnership model, applicable from 1 January 2022, offering a wide range […]
EIT Urban Mobility community is growing!
EIT Urban Mobility is pleased to welcome 74 partners to our community, currently comprising more than 250 partners, covering 27 countries, across our 5 Innovation Hubs. Our new partners are key players covering the whole value chain of mobility, including industry, research centres, universities, NGOs, cities and regions. The new entities reinforce the strength of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]