EIT Urban Mobility's approach

Urban mobility is always under pressure. Future challenges ahead include growing urban populations, how to build and maintain infrastructure, the economic and environmental costs of congestion, demands for greater accessibility and safety, and the question of how to improve air quality. Based on a thorough analysis, EIT Urban Mobility will address eight societal and urban mobility challenges.

We will meet these challenges through the activities of the City Club, Academy, Innovation, Business Creation and Factory.

This will be achieved by:

1. Enabling change: address the challenges of urban sustainable growth as well as transportation network decongestion, for more liveable urban spaces by creating a platform and network of high-ranking European and global cities for collaboration, best practice sharing as well as up-scaling and deployment of solutions.
2. Building capacities: train the next generation of urban mobility practitioners. Through various formats, all target groups are addressed, enabling a holistic understanding of urban mobility and aiming to overcome fragmentation in the education system.
3. Creating options: leveraging and upgrading ideas for deployment through innovation projects. EIT Urban Mobility’s innovation projects will be challenge-driven, market-based and solution oriented. They will contribute to overcoming the challenges of eco-efficient and safe urban transport, data exploitation and regulatory and behavioural change.
4. Delivering solutions: enable and activate the brightest European start-up teams considering new applications, business model systems, and data for the advancement of the urban mobility world. EIT Urban Mobility will develop a start-up friendly environment, which gives access to customers, partners and infrastructure.

Challenge 1 (C1)
Achieving sustainable urban growth

Challenge 2 (C2)
Decongesting our transport networks

Challenge 3 (C3)
Growing interdisciplinary talent

Challenge 4 (C4) 
Eco-efficient and safe transport for people
and goods, including waste

Challenge 5 (C5) 
Data exploitation

Challenge 6 (C6)
Boosting the competitiveness of the mobility industry

Challenge 7 (C7)
Shaping the framework for regulatory and behavioural change

Challenge 8 (C8)
Urban governance

EIT Urban Mobility across Europe

EIT Urban Mobility has formed five Innovation Hubs (Co-location Centres) across Europe:

• Copenhagen – CLC North (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands)
• Munich – CLC Central (Germany, Italy, Turkey)
• Helmond – CLC West (Belgium, France, The Netherlands, United Kingdom)
• Prague – CLC East (Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Israel)
• Barcelona – CLC South (Spain, Switzerland)

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