URBANE: EIT Urban Mobility working to decarbonise last mile deliveries in cities
EIT Urban Mobility is excited to announce that the URBANE project has officially kicked-off and EIT Urban Mobility is involved in its implementation. URBANE (Upscaling Innovative Green Urban Logistics Solutions Through Multi-Actor Collaboration and Physical Internet (PI) – Inspired Last Mile Deliveries) is a 42-month project co-funded by the Horizon Europe Programme with a budget […]
An urban mobility team wins the best EIT Community business idea award at the EIT Jumpstarter Grand Final
The Forty Kleparz Music Club in Kraków hosted the 6th edition of the EIT Jumpstarter Grand Final on the 29 of November. Located in a XIX century fort, the venue was perfectly chosen to livestream the event from three different rooms at the same time. It’s warm lighting and clubby atmosphere contributed to break the […]
Tomorrow Mobility World Congress 2022 moved 40,000 people onsite and online!
Tomorrow Mobility shines light on the new driving forces for more liveable and sustainable cities. Over 400 speakers, 20.776 attendants onsite and 21,000 online from 134 countries gathered together last week in Barcelona (and online) to discuss about the latest trends in urban mobility. Over 80 speakers such as Kelly Larson, director of the Road […]
#ChallengeMyCity launches four new pilots in Milan and Toulouse
EIT Urban Mobility’s #ChallengeMyCity programme has launched four new pilots in the cities of Milan and Toulouse. These pilots will enable the cities to test innovative mobility solutions to the challenges that they face, that can later be widely rolled out. In Toulouse, the city has collaborated with EIT Urban Mobility to deploy two innovative […]
Request for Proposals: Payroll, administration and bookkeeping services 2023
By the present procurement procedure, EIT Urban Mobility is expecting to appoint one sole provider for the realisation of the services. The contractor is expected to give a one-stop-shop service to EIT Urban Mobility for the render of services on the following topics: A more complete description of the control tasks can be found in […]
TandEM Women in Cycling programme – Applications open!
Cycling Training and Empowerment for Women by Women Learn how to start a cycling programme for women in your city through the TandEM programme! This train-the-trainer course will take place from 1 September to 15 October this year – and it’s free! Meet other like-minded women and together learn how to inspire others to take up cycling. […]
Mobility Solutions Showroom in Bucharest
Bucharest has welcomed the second Mobility Solutions Showroom by EIT Urban Mobility. Some of the most relevant innovators from the Solutions Catalogue were invited to present. They shared their experiences in piloting and implementing their products and services in European cities, and how these could generate an impact in the Romanian community. This community was […]
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 […]
Sustainable City Logistics – Workshop & networking for building winning Horizon consortia
In late May EIT Urban Mobility’s Action and Impact Group together with the Innovation Hub North organised a community building workshop on the challenge area of Sustainable City Logistics. The purpose of the workshop was to support partners and other relevant stakeholders to exchange ideas, ideate, and to start forming winning consortia for upcoming topics […]
Save the date: 19-20 September 2022 INNOVEIT BRNO: The Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility
EIT Urban Mobility is organising INNOVEIT BRNO: The Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility, part of ’INNOVEIT WEEKS’ event series – the flagship event of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). INNOVEIT BRNO will be a side event of the Urban Mobility Days, a biennial conference held on 20-22 September in Brno, jointly organised […]
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 […]
EIT Urban Mobility at EcoMotion 2022 in Israel
EIT Urban Mobility participated in the 2022 edition of the EcoMotion Week in Tel Aviv, Israel from 9 to 12 May – the largest mobility event in Israel that celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. EcoMotion is a growing mobility community comprised of over 650 start-ups and 13 000 members and a joint venture of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
Our Solutions Catalogue is live
The first issue of the Solutions Catalogue has been released, gathering over thirty innovations developed within the EIT Urban Mobility community! The featured solutions are readily available for implementation and have demonstrated a high potential for environmental, social and economic impact. To reach our collective 2030 emission reduction targets, this decade requires accelerated innovation to […]
Call for Proposals for the Business Plan 2023-2025 on Innovation just launched!
The EIT Urban Mobility is launching the Call for Proposals for the Business Plan 2023-2025 on Innovation. The total maximum EIT funding allocated to this call is up to 12.7 million EUR and 2 million EUR RIS Innovation. Active Mobility: This challenge aims at supporting proposals that boost active mobility means of transport within cities. What is […]
Delivers.AI, the first autonomous grocery delivery of the mobility Sandbox in Madrid
Have you imagined the city of the future with a robot that will deliver your groceries? Madrid Futuro with the City Council has presented the first autonomous delivery robot pilot, Delivers.AI that will be tested in the Villaverde mobility Sandbox, a unique opportunity to position Madrid in the top 10 Smart Cities in the world. […]
PRESS RELEASE: Trending topics and speakers for Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress
Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress (TMWC) is a pilot event that will take place in Barcelona from 16 to 18 November. The event is organised by Fira de Barcelona and EIT Urban Mobility, representing our flagship event 2021. Making a difference The goal of TMWC is to go beyond a yearly event, and become an international hub […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
