EIT Urban Mobility’s model for innovation
The EIT Urban Mobility innovation programme takes innovative ideas, improves them and puts them into practice as a way of helping resolve the challenges facing eco-efficient and safe urban transport, data exploitation and promote regulatory and behavioural change.
EIT Urban Mobility runs ideation and matchmaking workshops and promotes co-creation across the ecosystem in innovation projects, living labs, hackathons and boot camps.
Innovation projects will be:
- Challenge-driven, market-based and solution-oriented
- Collaborative activities focusing on research, technology, societal innovation and governance
- Developed by multidisciplinary, international teams involving working in specific local contexts
- Tested in real-life situations
Strategic innovation themes:
Accelerate Urban Transformation
- Liveable urban space
- Behaviour change
- Urban policy planning
- Shared mobility service
Decarbonise and Automate Mobility
- Environmental awareness
- Clean and automated mobility
- New/adapted (communication)-technologies
Forster Integrated Mobility
- Sustainable logistics
- Smart infrastructure and parking
- Cycling
- Walking and public transport
Fulfil Mobility Needs
- Data exploitation for intermodal urban mobility
- Intelligent Mobility Management
- Mobility as a Service