Picture credit score: European Startup Prize for Mobility
Paris-based European Startup Prize for Mobility (EUSP), an EU-founded Acceleration and Funding Programme for sustainable mobility startups, has introduced the launch of the fifth version of the programme. This version may also be joined by EIT City Mobility.
The EUSP was created in 2017 by Karima Delli, Chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism, Boston Consulting Group and By way of ID. It goals to help and develop sensible and sustainable mobility startups in Europe.
The fifth version of the programme was launched within the presence of Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate in Cost of Transport; Karima Delli; EIT City Mobility Impression Enterprise Director Fredrik Hanell; and EIB VP Lilyana Pavolva, amongst others, on the Ministry in Cost of Transport.
EIT City Mobility, as an initiative by the European Institute of Innovation and Know-how (EIT) – a physique of the European Union, says it’s proud to hitch this 12 months’s version as a full main accomplice within the prize class “city mobility”.
Yearly, over 500 startups from throughout Europe apply for the EUSP. This 12 months’s purposes will shut on June 20. Apply right here.
Karima Delli says, “At a time of local weather emergency that has simply been confirmed by the newest IPCC report, innovation should greater than ever be a virtuous catalyst for extra sustainable mobility.”
“The problem for Europe is to protect its management in innovation by supporting its material of startups. That is the entire function of the EUSP, based 5 years in the past, and which has established itself as an unmissable occasion within the information of the sustainable mobility ecosystem and which brings collectively a group yearly, more and more necessary and ever extra dedicated establishments.”
Companions supporting the initiative
This fifth version brings collectively 16 ‘distinctive’ companions. These embrace EIT City Mobility, RATP Group, Crédit Agricole Auto Financial institution, European Local weather Basis, Mobilians, Groupe ADP, Europcar, Volta Vehicles, GRDF, European Clear Trucking Alliance, Voies Navigables de France, Europe’s rail, Die Autobahn, Roland Berger, and Shift4Good.
All members may also apply for one of many 13 Particular Prizes, together with an City Mobility class sponsored by the companions with a view to be recognised as one of the best of their area and profit from the benefits offered by the companions.
Fredrik Hanell, Impression Ventures Director for EIT City Mobility, says, “EIT City Mobility has because it started operations in 2020 invested in 80 startups and supported greater than 250 startups. Other than influence, we emphasise on gender-balanced groups, and final 12 months half of our invested startups had a lady chief.”
“With this prize, we anticipate to spice up our publicity to new modern startups within the wealthy European transport ecosystem leveraging next-generation city mobility buildings. The City Mobility Prize class might be given to one of the best startup that demonstrates constructive social and environmental influence and important potential to make our cities extra habitable,” provides Hanell.
Prizes provided by EIT City Mobility
Monetary help of as much as €500KInvestment and Portfolio Managers will present personalised post-investment help in partnership with top-tier ecosystem brokers from the important thing European startup centresJoin the European mobility group by offering distinctive improvement prospects to mobility startups by way of EIT City Mobility’s GrowthLab digital platformGet assist in your early development and ship your concepts to the market with mobility-focused acceleration initiativesOpportunities for pilot tasks with high European cities, in addition to entry to the biggest community of 300+ city mobility stakeholders.
Every finalist will obtain the above-mentioned prizes in addition to a free ticket to EIT City Mobility’s annual flagship occasion Tomorrow.Mobility in Barcelona, together with the next:
City Mobility finalist will get Free Congress Cross (final 12 months was €1000+ price)10 finalists will get Expo PassBoth UM finalists and 10 finalists might be personally invited to EITUM’s TM networking and drinks occasion which might be held throughout the exhibition.
Tomorrow.Mobility is Europe’s main mobility occasion that draws hundreds of private and non-private sector members in addition to a big and diversified offline and on-line viewers.
Candidates should submit their software on the applying platform earlier than June twentieth.
The award ceremony will happen on the European Parliament in Brussels on October 25, 2024.
About EIT City Mobility
EIT City Mobility is a European Institute of Innovation and Know-how (EIT) initiative and a physique of the European Union. It goals to expedite options and the transition to a user-centric, built-in, and actually multimodal transportation system.
It really works to minimise fragmentation by selling collaboration amongst cities, companies, academia, analysis, and innovation to deal with probably the most urgent mobility considerations of cities.
Utilizing cities as residing laboratories, its trade, analysis, and college companions present how new applied sciences can be utilized to sort out real-world challenges in actual cities by transporting folks, items and waste in smarter methods.
