EIT Urban Mobility – Academy

About

InnovaCity 2022 is a 3-day Event, powered by Techstars Startup Weekend Mobility, co-located in four European cities, which creates a unique platform for attracting students, corporates, staff of municipalities, start-ups and researchers in the mobility space.

Top mobility challenges related to a current, relevant topic in each city will be presented. During this event the participants will be working in cross-sector teams to learn and apply the design thinking approach, to prototype viable solutions and finally pitch their results in front of a panel of experts from the industry and city.

• Mobility Challenges from industry partners are presented in Spring 2022 by each 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 location are provided with coaching from experts and mobility companies. Apart from the coaching, winning teams will win amazing prizes!
• During a final event at the end of the year, all winning teams will pitch their solution at an international conference.

Target Group

professionals, students and employees from cities

Date 2022 / Techstars Startup Weekend Mobility

June 30 – July 2

Location

Munich, Barcelona, Paris and Budapest 

Benefits

• Learn and apply the design thinking approach.
• Contribute to solve real-world urban mobility challenges. 
• Unique access to cities and corporates as first potential customers.

The winning team from each city will be able to:

• pitch the idea on the global stage as part of the annual EIT UM Summit (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 and corporate partners)
• participate in an online “prototyping crash course” powered by UnternehmerTUM (to be confirmed)

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

Tickets

EUR 0,00 – 15,00 (covering meals & refreshments, input sessions, mentoring, pitch coaching)

Have a look at our video on InnovaCity 2021 and listen to the final winning team from the city Debrecen (Hungary) sharing their innovative solution!

Challenge:
How might we increase the attractiveness of public transportation after Covid-19?

DEBEZ – making transportation easy: An application that provides innovative features such as the Covid-19 tracking, additional entertaining features and gamification.