Driving equity: The latest on women in innovation
Core to our mission is empowering women in STEM and business, both sectors with intense barriers to their participation. That’s why we support the theme of equity. We put that idea to action through programmes specially designed to uplift women forging innovation. This 8 March, we’re using the opportunity presented to us by International Women’s […]
Bicification: How the city of Braga has increased bicycle use in urban traffic
Portugal is becoming a leader in the field of urban mobility, and thanks to their collaboration with EIT Urban Mobility is leading the way. Together, the city and the entity have launched several projects in the country aimed at improving the quality of life for citizens and reducing environmental impact. And if we think about […]
EIT Urban Mobility Signs NDA with Agence de l’Innovation pour les Transports in France to work towards sustainable urban mobility
Paris, France – EIT Urban Mobility and Agence de l’Innovation pour les Transports (AIT) in France have signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to establish a collaboration between both entities and achieve that France will become a sustainable country in terms of urban Mobility. The agreement was signed by María-Paula Caycedo, EIT Urban Mobility Innovation Hub […]
The city of Madrid implements five urban mobility solutions thanks to the #ChallengeMyCity programme.
Designed by EIT Urban Mobility, #ChallengeMyCity is an innovative programme implemented in Madrid, after successful pilots in Toulouse (France) and Milano (Italy). The programme is designed to promote sustainable mobility and encourage citizens to use alternative transportation methods. It enables European cities to test innovative mobility solutions that target their needs and can be integrated […]
Call for submissions: Catalogue of best practices from Nordic cities
With climate change accelerating, climate adaptation is becoming an increasingly important topic for the world’s cities, which continue to grow and contribute immensely to global emissions. While transport-related public space in cities is too often neither sustainable nor effective, Nordic cities have pioneered world-leading solutions for transforming public space which, apart from helping reduce transport emissions, improve […]
Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility: Get your mobility solution funded and implemented in Barcelona.
Funded by EIT Urban Mobility, the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat, DGT, and Fira de Barcelona, the Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility was created to boost the implementation of innovative urban mobility projects. The first challenge offers an allocation of 200,000€ in prizes plus the chance to implement the solution […]
CHILDFY: Improving mobility in the city of Cascais.
The city of Cascais, Portugal, has recently implemented the innovative CHILDFY project, funded by EIT Urban Mobility. The project focuses on providing new mobility solutions to students and young children, with the aim of creating a more sustainable urban mobility system in the city. The CHILDFY project has been designed to specifically address the needs […]
The art of acceleration – why is it needed?
On 20 February, EIT Urban Mobility will launch the call for applications for its thematic accelerator programmes. This year, EIT Urban Mobility expanded its portfolio of programmes with three new themes: Future Mobility, Inclusive Mobility and Smart Mobility. They complement the four continuing programmes: E+ Mobility, Energy & Public Ream, Sustainable City Logistics and Urban […]
UPPER: EIT Urban Mobility working to unleash the potential of public transport in ten European cities
EIT Urban Mobility is proud to contribute to the implementation of UPPER, a new EU- funded project working to strengthen the role of public transport as the backbone of mobility in cities. UPPER (Unleashing the Potential of Public transport in EuRope) is a 48-month project funded under the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Commission. […]
The Finnish start-up Bout uses the Seine to sail away in France
Thanks to the collaboration between EIT Urban Mobility and the Moove Lab, Bout, a Finnish start-up specialising in nautical mobility, settles in Paris to tackle the French market. Founded in 2018, Bout is a platform that connects people looking for boat trips and those who offer them through an app (Mobility-as-a-Service). The platform makes it […]
Supporting socially conscious innovators: introducing the new European Bauhaus Booster 2.0
Five Knowledge & Innovation Communities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) are launching today the New European Bauhaus Booster 2.0. On a mission to foster the New European Bauhaus transformation, EIT Digital, EIT Climate-KIC, EIT Food, EIT Manufacturing and EIT Urban Mobility are looking for the most innovative ventures developing solutions that […]
MITMA-Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda of Spain and EIT Urban Mobility agree on moving forward their collaboration agreement in 2023
EIT Urban Mobility (represented by Innovation Hub South) and the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA, Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) back in May 2022. The MoU provides the framework for the work towards collaborative initiatives to tackle the current (and future) urban mobility […]
Reducing motorcycle-related accidents in the city of Barcelona. This is the first challenge of Barcelona Innova Lab, the first Living Lab in the city.
The first challenge aimed at reducing motorcycle-related accidents was presented today at an event organised at Ca L’Alier, where the DGT and Barcelona City Council signed a cooperation agreement towards this objective. Starting in January, Barcelona City Council, together with Fira de Barcelona, the DGT and EIT Urban Mobility, will launch the first challenge aimed […]
EIT Urban Mobility and Transport Malta reinforce their collaboration with the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The agreement formalises the mutual interaction and strengthens the existing relationship between EIT Urban Mobility and Transport Malta at the strategic and working levels. Barcelona, December 2022 – EIT Urban Mobility and Transport Malta have announced a new cooperation accord to develop and implement long-term sustainable urban mobility solutions in the country. The agreement formalises the […]
FURNISH-KIDS: Transforming Urban Areas Into Playscapes
FURNISH-KIDS is a project co-funded by the EIT Urban Mobility project and has put together a unique consortium consisting of CARNET, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Elisava, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), the Municipality of Barcelona and the Municipality of Milan. Cities today are facing urban complexity and user interaction more than […]
City Leaders Event on “Towards a Net-Zero EU by 2050” at Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress 2022
During Tomorrow Mobility World Congress in Barcelona, EIT Urban Mobility’s City Club held during the second edition of the City Event Leading Innovation for Impact. This event brought together a group of policy practitioners from across Europe in a panel discussion to discuss how to go from vision to action and set out the common […]
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 […]
EIT Urban Mobility courses win at 2022 LearnX Awards
Two online courses developed by EIT Urban Mobility and RMIT Europe won Best eLearning Project and Best eLearning Design at the 2022 LearnX Awards. The global annual awards are given to course designers and educators that demonstrate innovation, and new practices and technologies that support talent development. Urban Mobility for Liveability – a five-week online […]
Highlights Report 2022 out now
The second edition of the Highlights Report is now available online. Learn how EIT Urban Mobility works with the European Union to reach its ambitious carbon emission reduction goals by accelerating change towards a sustainable model of urban mobility and liveable urban spaces. The growing network of 300-plus organisations brings together relevant actors from industry, […]
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 […]
Impact investment for real – how to get it right?
Saying you want to become the leading impact investor in Europe in the mobility sector is one thing, proving it another. How do you define impact, and how do you measure it? Together with the Upright Project, Katapult and geoFluxus, EIT Urban Mobility has discussed this topic during a panel session at Slush 2022. […]
The potential of Mobility Data Spaces
EIT Urban Mobility’s latest study about Mobility Data Spaces in the Spanish ecosystem was presented during the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress organised last week in Barcelona. The study has been developed by Fundació i2CAT, Factual Consulting and EIT Urban Mobility. The presentation of the study was followed by a Workshop of the Mobility Working Group of […]
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 […]
