EIT Urban Mobility – Academy

About

InnovaCity is a 2-day Design-Thinking Workshops, where participants will be working in cross-sector teams to tackle prevailing challenges, prototyping viable solutions and finally pitching their results in front of a panel of experts. The winning teams will receive coaching sessions and a pitch-training to be able to participate in a final event, where they pitch their developed ideas once more.

• Mobility Challenges are presented during each design-thinking workshop by the host city.
• Interdisciplinary teams will develop actionable solutions to these challenges that can be followed-up as start-up’s or public project.
• Winning teams from each workshop are provided with coaching from experts, municipalities and mobility companies. Apart from the coaching, winning teams will win amazing prizes!
• During a final event, these winning teams will pitch their solution at an international conference,

  During the EIT Urban Mobility InnovaCity employees from Municipalities, Start-ups and Corporates will come together in six local hubs to learn how to solve urban mobility challenges in a user-centered way while getting to know the main stakeholders in this area.

  Have a look at the winning team from InnovaCity 2020 (participants from InnovaCity Helsinki) and their final pitch with their idea “HelsinKEY”: 

  Challenge:
  How can Helsinki normalize the use of public transportation during Covid-19?

  HelsinKEY: A user engagement platform that MaaS companies can add-on to their App to customer engagement & retainment. 

Target Group

Professionals, Students and employees from cities

Dates 2021

All workshops will take place between April and September 2021.

• Munich: April 15-16, 2021
• Barcelona + Helsinki: May 20-21, 2021
• Debrecen: June 23-24, 2021
• Paris: September 7-8, 2021

Location

Munich, Barcelona, Helsinki, Debrecen and Paris.  

Prizes

The winning team from each workshop will win amazing prizes:

• Pitch your winning idea on the global stage as part of our Global Week (event to be confirmed) in front of international experts from the EIT Urban Mobility Network
• Receive individual mentorship & coaching from our team of experts (coaches, sponsors and/or municipalities)
• Participate in the “Prototyping Crashcourse” powered by UnternehmerTUM

There will also be individual prizes for the 2nd place.  

Tickets

Tickets will cost between €20 and €59. Waiver tickets will also be available.