Join us shaping the 2022 EIT Urban Mobility Academy Call!
At the EIT Urban Mobility Academy, we are working hard to understand the main education and training needs within urban mobility, whether these are related to course curriculum, mobility of students, online learning, reskilling towards urban mobility jobs or many other challenges on which we can work together to find the best answers to these […]
The application phase for the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator programme batch #2 is open now!
Batch #1 Batch #1 of the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator programme started in July 2020 in three Innovation Hubs (East, South, and Central) with 15 startups in a mostly virtual programme: In various workshops, the teams worked on their sales strategies, optimised financial plans or fine-tuned their business models. In “founders insights” successful entrepreneurs talked about their experiences in founding and scaling a company and in “CityDatings” they got established valuable connections to contact persons from our city partners. Two new hubs with 10 new partners In the second batch, Innovation Hub North and West will join the programme. This increases the possibility to get local exposure and to get access to essential stakeholders in the region’s ecosystems like city decision-makers, mobility corporates and investors interested in the topic of urban mobility. Hub North is led by Aalto Startup Center and involves Aalto University, Helsinki City, KTH Innovation, and Stockholm City as partners. Hub West is led by TU/e, and AMS, Brainport and the City of Amsterdam contribute as partners (see all Hubs and partners below). Application open for batch #2! For batch #2 we are now looking for early-stage startups from EU Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries with at least 2 FTE, a properly validated, clear, scalable and innovative business idea that solves a mobility-related customer problem. Find out more about the eligibility_criteria and the participating countries here. [URL on “here”: […]
Interview of the month: Robert Braun – Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria
Who is Robert Braun? Robert is an academic doing research, writing on involving and engaging stakeholders in creating more democratic research and innovation processes. His primary area of research is Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), an inclusive and participatory mode of producing and disseminating new knowledge. He focuses on participatory practices on mobility, especially automobility […]
EIT Urban Mobility nominees for the EIT Awards
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is celebrating 28 entrepreneurs, innovators and graduates from across Europe nominated for the EIT Awards 2020. This year’s EIT Awards ceremony will be held virtually on 8 and 9 December, showcasing the achievements of successful graduates, entrepreneurs and innovators supported by the EIT Community. These outstanding innovators have […]
ECF, a new network partner for the Hub West
ECF stands for European Cyclists Federation and they are based in Brussels, Belgium. Their mission is to promote cycling as a sustainable and healthy means of transportation, as they stringly believed that bicycles are a solution to many of the worlds’ pollution problems. On Friday 30 October ECF organises a very interesting roundtable about Frans […]
New Regional RIS hubs coming!
EIT Urban Mobility RIS is happy to announce that our co-operation started with 7 new RIS Hubs this year. EIT Urban Mobility RIS Hub in Malta was launched officially on 22 September 2020. The Maltese Hub is comprised of Project Aegle Foundation, MCAST and Valletta Design Cluster. EIT Urban Mobility Portugal RIS Hub was launched on […]
Mobility living labs survey open!
The EIT Urban Mobility is conducting an inventory of mobility living labs in the Pan-European region. Living labs are special settings aimed at testing and demonstrating the viability and scalability of new solutions in real-life conditions by engaging stakeholders, citizens and the local community. The online survey only takes 10 minutes to complete. Help us […]
What is new at the EIT Urban Mobility Academy?
October was an exciting launching time for the Academy! Chris Pringle, Executive Publisher at Elsevier, Prof. Dr. Frank Witlox from the University of Ghent, and Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Büttner from the Technical University of Munich announced the launch of The Journal of Urban Mobility, as well as the publication of a first issue early 2021. This new open-access journal will publish peer-reviewed contributions […]
Report on “A European Approach to Articifial Intelligence” available now
As part of the European Research and Innovation Days, which brings stakeholders together to shape future research and innovation policy, EIT Urban Mobility, together with EIT Digital, EIT Health and EIT Manufacturing presented their work on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This session on 23 September (Hub 9) raised awareness on and disseminate the cross KIC policy report on […]
Let’s reshape our cities together again!
Have you ever wondered what your city should look like if someone had asked you to become involved in its mobility planning? Maybe the city would be full of bike lanes, and without cars? Or, would you prefer cars and trains flying over the city, freeing up urban spaces to enjoy a walk, a picnic […]
The Journal of Urban Mobility is now a reality!
Prof. Dr. Frank Witlox informed us about the opportunity to publish in a new journal, which is linked to EIT Urban Mobility. The Journal of Urban Mobility is a fully Open Access journal, initiated and supported by the EIT Urban Mobility, offering prompt publication and wide dissemination of new urban mobility research to a global audience. The […]
Have your say on sustainable mobility transition in COVID19 times!
At EIT Urban Mobility, we are working hard to understand the main challenges and strategies as well as the external factors (threats) influencing the design of urban mobility projects before the crisis. But we cannot do this alone. This is why we have designed a survey to gather insights on the effects the crisis had […]
The GoGlobal calls for start-ups are opening now!
The GoGlobal programme, developed by the EIT Urban Mobility and coordinated by PowerHUB and CARNET (an initiative by CIT UPC), contributes to enabling a growth environment for mature start-ups with a thematic focus on urban mobility. Within this programme, two different calls are opening for participants: Welcome2Europe and Matchmaking Tour. Welcome2Europe will host online international […]
EIT Urban Mobility at LYT20 – Logistics and Technology Event 2020
LYT20 (Logistics and Technology Event 2020) is the meeting point between the leading logistics companies and the new technologies already transforming this sector. In this year´s edition, the event intends to accelerate the transformation process of the logistics industry in times of crisis, where the adoption of the most disruptive technologies to achieve more efficient […]
FURNISH is calling for digitally fabricated urban elements adapting public spaces to COVID-19!
FURNISH is organising an open call to select 4 teams throughout Europe which will digitally fabricate and deploy urban elements for the purpose of adapting temporary public spaces to meet the new challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 crisis. FURNISH aims to merge the challenge of gaining more public space through ‘tactical urbanism’, which […]
Three startups are ready to test their pilots across European cities!
Urban Radar, Nüwiel, and eParkomat have been selected as the winning participants from the Scale-up Hub programme that will receive up to 50.000€ in equity funding for implementing their pilot’s proposal to the City Club Challenges in the European cities of Barcelona, Hamburg, and Ostrava, respectively. Urban Radar, founded in France in 2018, is a […]
EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator programme SPECIAL: COVID-19 kicks off with 23 high-calibre European startups
To address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic EIT Urban Mobility has launched the “EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator programme SPECIAL: COVID-19” to support startups developing mobility solutions for COVID-19 related problems. From a pool of over 100 applicants, 23 startups have been selected for the programme, which hail from Spain to Sweden and all the way from Ireland to Israel. For the next three months they will receive a tailored programme including one-on-one coaching, mentoring, peer-to-peer learning, training, workshops, access to international startup and mobility events, and […]
EIT Urban Mobility supports Uber’s ambition to become a zero emission mobility platform
Uber to become a zero emissions mobility platform by 2040, with 100% of journeys taking place in zero exhaust emission vehicles, public transit and micro-mobility. By 2025, 50% of kilometers driven in aggregate across seven European capitals (Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Madrid and Paris) will be in zero emission vehicles. Uber announces new industry-first […]
How is Mobility as a Service disrupting urban mobility in the cities?
Blog post by Daniel Serra, Director of Innovation Hub South for EIT Urban Mobility MaaS is a drastic paradigm shift in the urban mobility space. Citizens won’t have to worry about topping up cards, buying tickets, paying for individual fares anymore. Suddenly, getting from A to B becomes a more fluid, integrated experience. It will […]
How will digital education be during the COVID-19 recovery period and beyond?
The European Commission launched an EU-wide public consultation to gather citizens’ views on the future of digital education during the COVID-19 recovery period and beyond. The consultation aims to gather the experiences and perspectives of a diverse group of stakeholders including researchers, higher education institutions, and the private sector on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 […]
Power4Global call selects five startups for presentations at Reuters Mobility Summit
Twenty three startups submitted their information to be evaluated. All participating startups had to submit a pitch deck and answer a set of questions focused on the viability of their business model, scalability and other important factors. All of these attributes were then examined individually by the evaluators who gave the startups a total score. […]
Calling Europe’s innovation leaders to join the EIT Governing Board
Are you a leading academic, innovator, entrepreneur or researcher looking for an opportunity to help Europe recover from the crisis through innovation? Do you want to help Europe transition to a greener, healthier and more sustainable future? Then the EIT has an opportunity for you. The EIT is selecting up to four new members for […]
EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator programme SPECIAL: COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic caused completely new and unforeseen challenges for urban mobility: from health-security issues in urban environments over increasing work from home to changing commuting and travel patterns. Are you and your startup developing products, services or solutions that handle these challenges? Then apply now for the EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator programme SPECIAL: COVID-19! […]
Rob van Gijzel appointed as Chairman of EIT Urban Mobility’s Supervisory Board
EIT Urban Mobility has achieved a substantial milestone: The General Assembly appointed Rob van Gijzel as the first independent Chairman of the Supervisory Board. We are therefore pleased to welcome and introduce our new Chair. Mr. van Gijzel has extensive experience in the management of public institutions, public administration, the intersection of society and politics […]