The fifth version of the programme was launched within the presence of Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate in Cost of Transport; Karima Delli; EIT City Mobility Influence Enterprise Director Fredrik Hanell; and EIB VP Lilyana Pavolva, amongst others, on the Ministry in Cost of Transport. 

EIT City Mobility, as an initiative by the European Institute of Innovation and Expertise (EIT) – a physique of the European Union, says it’s proud to affix this 12 months’s version as a full main accomplice within the prize class “city mobility”.

Yearly, over 500 startups from throughout Europe apply for the EUSP. This 12 months’s purposes will shut on June 20. Apply right here.

Karima Delli says, “At a time of local weather emergency that has simply been confirmed by the newest IPCC report, innovation should greater than ever be a virtuous catalyst for extra sustainable mobility.”

“The problem for Europe is to protect its management in innovation by supporting its cloth of startups. That is the entire position of the EUSP, based 5 years in the past, and which has established itself as an unmissable occasion within the information of the sustainable mobility ecosystem and which brings collectively a neighborhood yearly, more and more essential and ever extra dedicated establishments.”

Companions supporting the initiative

This fifth version brings collectively 16 ‘distinctive’ companions. These embody EIT City Mobility, RATP Group, Crédit Agricole Auto Financial institution, European Local weather Basis, Mobilians, Groupe ADP, Europcar, Volta Vans, GRDF, European Clear Trucking Alliance, Voies Navigables de France, Europe’s rail, Die Autobahn, Roland Berger, and Shift4Good. 

All individuals also can apply for one of many 13 Particular Prizes, together with an City Mobility class sponsored by the companions in an effort to be recognised as the perfect of their area and profit from the benefits offered by the companions.

Fredrik Hanell, Influence Ventures Director for EIT City Mobility, says, “EIT City Mobility has because it started operations in 2020 invested in 80 startups and supported greater than 250 startups. Other than influence, we emphasise on gender-balanced groups, and final 12 months half of our invested startups had a lady chief.”

“With this prize, we count on to spice up our publicity to new revolutionary startups within the wealthy European transport ecosystem leveraging next-generation city mobility buildings. The City Mobility Prize class will likely be given to the perfect startup that demonstrates optimistic social and environmental influence and important potential to make our cities extra habitable,” provides Hanell.

Prizes supplied by EIT City Mobility

• Monetary help of as much as €500K
• Funding and Portfolio Managers will present personalised post-investment help in partnership with top-tier ecosystem brokers from the important thing European startup centres
• Be part of the European mobility neighborhood by offering distinctive growth prospects to mobility startups by way of EIT City Mobility’s GrowthLab digital platform
• Get assist to your early development and ship your concepts to the market with mobility-focused acceleration initiatives
• Alternatives for pilot tasks with high European cities, in addition to entry to the most important community of 300+ city mobility stakeholders.

Every finalist will obtain the above-mentioned prizes in addition to a free ticket to EIT City Mobility’s annual flagship occasion Tomorrow.Mobility in Barcelona, together with the next: 

• City Mobility finalist will get Free Congress Cross (final 12 months was €1000+ price)
• 10 finalists will get Expo Cross
• Each UM finalists and 10 finalists will likely be personally invited to EITUM’s TM networking and drinks occasion which will likely be held throughout the exhibition.

Tomorrow.Mobility is Europe’s main mobility occasion that draws 1000’s of private and non-private sector individuals in addition to a big and diversified offline and on-line viewers.

Candidates should submit their software on the software platform earlier than June twentieth.

The award ceremony will happen on the European Parliament in Brussels on October 25, 2024.

About EIT City Mobility

EIT City Mobility is a European Institute of Innovation and Expertise (EIT) initiative and a physique of the European Union. It goals to expedite options and the transition to a user-centric, built-in, and really multimodal transportation system.

It really works to minimise fragmentation by selling collaboration amongst cities, companies, academia, analysis, and innovation to deal with probably the most urgent mobility considerations of cities.

Utilizing cities as dwelling laboratories, its trade, analysis, and college companions present how new applied sciences can be utilized to deal with real-world challenges in actual cities by transporting individuals, items and waste in smarter methods.