The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has designated the MOBiLus consortium as the winning Innovation Community on Urban Mobility on December 5th 2018. The consortium consists of 48 partners: 13 cities, 17 industry partners and 18 universities and research centres across Europe and beyond.<\/p>\n
EIT Innovation Communities are dynamic and creative partnerships that harness European innovation and entrepreneurship to find solutions to major societal challenges in areas with high innovation potential, in this case Urban Mobility.<\/p>\n
The aim of Mobilus is to strengthen European competitiveness, improve access to mobility and increase attractiveness of cities. The motto of the consortium \u201cMobility for Liveable Urban Spaces\u201d is about moving people, connecting communities, serving businesses and re-imaging public spaces. The Mobilus approach addresses five strategic objectives:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Being Europe\u2019s driver for knowledge and innovation in mobility
\n\u2022 Training the next generation of urban mobility practitioners
\n\u2022 Leveraging and upgrading ideas for deployment
\n\u2022 Accelerating tomorrow\u2019s mobility services and solutions to the market
\n\u2022 Replicate and scale new mobility solutions to Europe and beyond<\/p>\n
The operation will last seven years, has a financial volume of 1.6 billion Euro, with up to 25% (or up to 400 million Euro) funded by the EIT. First results can be expected in 2020.
\nThe operation will be managed by the headquarters in Barcelona (Spain) and five so-called Innovation Hubs in Copenhagen (Denmark), Prague (Czech Republic), Munich (Germany), Barcelona (Spain) and Helmond (Netherlands).<\/p>\n
The Mobilus consortium is composed of the following partners:
\nCities: City of Amsterdam, City of Barcelona, City of Copenhagen, City of Eindhoven, City of Hamburg, City of Helmond, City of Helsinki, City of Istanbul, City of Milan, City of Munich, City of Prague, City of Stockholm, City of Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n
Universities and Research Centres:
\nAalto University, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, CARNET, CTAG, Czech Technical University, ENEA, \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, Eindhoven University of Technology, Fraunhofer Society, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, NFF, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Technical University of Denmark, Technical University of Munich, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, University College London.<\/p>\n
Industry: Achmea, Altran, Amadeus, BMW, Colruyt Group, E.ON, MOL, Oracle, SEAT, Siemens, Skoda Auto, TASS International, TomTom, Tractebel, UnternehmerTUM, Volkswagen Truck & Bus, Zone Cluster.<\/p>\n
Contact person for the press and spokesperson of the consortium is our CEO, Maria Tsavachidis, maria.tsavachidis@siemens.com, +49 173 9754660.
\nAs from January 2019 the Innovation Community will be called EIT Urban Mobility.<\/p>\n