EIT Community Booster: Scaling high-impact New European Bauhaus ventures
EIT Community Booster is looking for European startups and scaleups developing high-impact solutions fostering the New European Bauhaus transformation to accelerate their growth. The 20 best companies will receive business growth support worth a total of EUR 1 million. Brussels, October 18, 2021 – Entrepreneurs are the drivers of change. On a mission to create […]
We are growing! Five new Regional Innovation Scheme Hubs launched!
EIT Urban Mobility is happy to announce the launch of 5 new RIS Hubs in Croatia, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey. The call deadline was beginning of August and 19 applications were submitted with 43 entities involved. The main goal of the RIS Hubs is raising awareness, supporting the local stakeholders and managing the local […]
ENTRANCE Open Competition Now Launched!
The EIT Urban Mobility is project 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 promoting solutions to find buyers or investors. Do you believe your “first-of-a-kind” solution has the potential […]
Welcome2Europe has selected its new batch of participating startups
The ScaleTHENGlobal programme, developed by the EIT Urban Mobility and funded by the European Union, recently opened a new call for participants to take part in the Welcome2Europe activity. This programme is looking to expand the capabilities of the selected urban mobility start-ups and help them boost their business ideas into new territories. Welcome2Europe will […]
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, […]
Together at sTARTUp Day
The Innovation Hub North team of EIT Urban Mobility joined the sTARTUp Day 2021 edition in Tartu, Estonia, where they met with urban mobility startups from across the Baltics. The sTARTUp Day is one of the most important events in Estonia and the north region, and it assembles around 350 startups, 150 speakers, 180 investors […]
Episode 7 of the podcast Conversations in the Park is now released!
To celebrate #InternationalPodcastDay, we present to you Episode 7 of #ConversationsInTheParkPodcast: The StartUp journey in Mobility, sponsored by EIT Urban Mobility. We had two startup leaders, Mari-Ly Klaats COO of Auve Tech , Thibault Castagne co-founder and CEO of Vianova I/O share their experiences of beginning and existing in the mobility industry, as well as EIT Urban Mobility’s own Business Creation Director Fredrik Hånell who talked of his work with startups. […]
Our training “Mobility Digitalisation” in Barcelona designed by Factual is open for registration!
The public transportation ecosystem of each European city is a highly complex environment in which end-user’s travelling needs are put in its core. This ecosystem is exceedingly depended on the development of new technologies that constantly transform and shape user’s needs, infrastructure as well as public transport itself. To understand the digitalisation dynamic and speed […]
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 […]
Three levers to unlock artificial intelligence benefits in urban mobility
With its ability to interpret data, assist judgments, and generate insights that are beyond human manual processing capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI) is profoundly changing urban mobility systems. Promising AI applications focusing on end users’ journeys are at the centre of the recent EIT Urban Mobility report on AI[1], which explores the use of AI in […]
New EIT Community Hub in Budapest to support more innovators in Central and Eastern Europe
The EIT Community Hub in Hungary officially opened its doors today in Budapest, bringing together four Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) under one roof. The EIT Community Hub will intensify knowledge sharing, business creation and acceleration and innovation partnerships in healthcare, climate, urban mobility and raw […]
The Urban Mobility Innovation Framework 1.0 released!
Cities and startups are natural partners for driving the next wave of innovation that has the potential to improve the lives of billions of people Are you a startup, aspiring founder or organisation working in the Urban Mobility/Govtech/B2G space? Or just generally interested in driving innovation in cities and municipalities? An interdisciplinary team at UnternehmerTUM […]
City Club Webinar Series
The City Club has organised their first Webinar Series to share city experience within the community and present the early outcomes of the ongoing EIT Urban Mobility’s innovation projects. This activity aimed to foster city-to-city learning and collaboration on common objectives and areas of interest on disruptive innovations in urban mobility. It provided City Club […]
SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OPENING & KICK OFF EVENT
On 30 July 2021 at 10:00 CEST the RAPTOR team opened the application and kicked off the RAPTOR competition with an online event! The event began with an overview of EIT Urban Mobility and RAPTOR by the project lead Martí Massot. He described the competition benefits, timeline, and rules. Next, the niche urban mobility challenges were […]
The ideal city of the future
Episode 6 of Conversations in the Park, sparked an insightful discussion about the ideal city of the future. Our guests offered their hopes and vision on what the ideal city can look like. Anna Clark, President of Women EIT, describes it as somewhere greener, cleaner, quieter. Augustin Friedel, Corporate & Sustainability Strategy VW Brand at Volkswagen […]
The EIT Urban Mobility is taking the MUV challenge!
Science proves that endorphins have always been the best remedy for body fatigue and stress, and we do also believe in their magic power! That’s why we decided to take this challenge ourselves at the beginning of July. Several teams from our staff were competing in the MUV challenge, and we were reporting how we […]
Welcome to the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator programme, Batch #3 start-ups!
From more than 110 applications from all over Europe and associated countries, EIT Urban Mobility has selected 25 promising start-ups to be part of the third cohort of the 6-month Accelerator Programme. Starting this month, the teams will benefit from financial support, mentoring, coaching, expert workshops, free office space, access to local ecosystems and infrastructure, and […]
23 pilot projects selected by EIT to unlock higher education’s innovation potential in Europe
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is pleased to announce 23 winning consortia for the EIT’s HEI Initiative: Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education Pilot Call for Proposals. 135 Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and 140 non-academic organisations from 32 countries will benefit from the EIT’s HEI Initiative and will see up to EUR […]
The EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator South Programme welcomes its Batch #3 participants
From over 100 applications from all over Europe and associated countries, EIT Urban Mobility selected the 25 most-promising startups to be part of the third cohort of this 6-month Accelerator Programme. Out of these, five will be participating in the South Programme, kicking-off officially on 12 July. The selected companies will benefit from financial support, mentoring, […]
EIT Urban Mobility starts sponsorship of podcasts powered by Y-Mobility
We are very excited to announce our collaboration with Y-Mobility on ‘Conversations in the Park’. ‘Conversations in the Park’ is a podcast platform that provides insightful and meaningful conversations in a relaxing environment relating to the mobility space. Our first sponsored podcast episode powered by Y-Mobility is on “The impact of mobility on our cities”. In […]
Innovation and urban mobility: a European perspective
An article by Dr. Maria Tsavachidis, CEO of EIT Urban Mobility (This is the courtesy translation of an editorial originally published in the French review “Mobily-Cités”, on 21 June 2021. The review is in open access (editorial on pages 6 and 7). While the overall European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 22% between 1990 […]
ASIMOB wins the first edition of the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator Pitch Awards 2021! Second and third prizes for OTIV and BIA POWER
ASIMOB is the winner of the first edition of the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator Pitch Awards 2021! This means the direct nomination of ASIMOB to the regional final of Startup World Cup & Summit, provision of office space in Prague during that event, and technical and media support. Second and third places go to OTIV […]
Meet the 10 finalists to the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator Pitch Awards
Next 22 June, we will hold the first EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator Pitch Awards! Join us online and enjoy the glamorous evening full of bright ideas and innovative projects that shapes the future of mobility that we are preparing. Over the last weeks, you had the opportunity to vote for your favourite startups out of […]
Nearly 750 partners apply for the EIT’s HEI Initiative’s Pilot Call for Proposals
We are pleased to announce that the EIT’s HEI Initiative’s Pilot Call for Proposals has received a total of 64 applications from across Europe. Here are some additional figures about the participating partners: a total of 319 higher education institutions (291 full partners and 28 associated partners); a total of 429 non-academic organisations (103 full partners and 326 associated partners), including companies, research institutes, HEI associations, […]