E+ MOBILITY – The Exclusive Accelerator Programme to Boost Urban Mobility Start-Ups Is Searching for Its 2023 Participants

After its first edition, and due to its high recognizement and positive achievements, the E+ Mobility Acceleration Programme has opened its 2023 call for applications. The participants will include urban mobility start-ups that solve challenges related to the fields of energy, micromobility, and shared mobility.

The E+ Mobility Accelerator Programme is a project financed by the EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. The programme aims to become a powerful platform for transforming innovative mobility start-ups into successful companies through the acceleration of their business models.

The consortium will support 10 start-ups that develop solutions in the mentioned fields, supporting emerging companies with business and technical mentoring, providing access to key players for market and technical validation and connecting and preparing them to build pilots with relevant stakeholders. Through this programme, the goal is to accelerate the introduction of start-up led solutions in the market while helping cities and companies solve their challenges faster and more efficiently.

The E+ Mobility Accelerator Programme will offer to 10 selected applicants:

Individualized business coaching and training, up to 30 hours
Mentoring by industry experts and experienced founders
Product and technology validation with potential access to a network of living labs
Investor pitch coaching and potential contacts with investors and VC funds
Access to EIT Urban Mobility investment initiatives and funding instruments
Tickets to Tomorrow.Mobility 2023, organised by Fira de Barcelona and co-organised by EIT Urban Mobility. One of the most influential start-up events in Europe with a specific focus on the future of mobility within cities
Promotion of your startup among the consortia network and through their communication channels.
Access to EU Corporates, living labs, cities, investors and fellow entrepreneurs
Access to a €2.500 grant

Last year the start-ups Hydrogen Alfa, developer of a hydrogen storage system, and Bavertis, an energy monitor software, were selected as the best-emerging companies from the first batch. This allowed them to be invited to enter the EIT Urban Mobility portfolio of invested companies, an opportunity with great benefits when scaling their companies.

For the 2023 call, applicants will have to comply with the following eligibility criteria:

A clear, scalable business opportunity with preferred TRL of 4 – 7
A team with at least 2 FTE. NOT a single founder. Not necessarily connected to monetary compensation
Startup must be incorporated in EU or Horizon Europe associated countries
Founders and employees (e.g. Employee Stock Ownership Plan, ESOP) should own more than 50% of shares
No more than 10% of your shares are held outside of the eligible countries
Fit with the energy, micromobility and shared mobility scope

The consortium is led by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) in collaboration with CARNET, Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Activa, CTAG - Automotive Technology Center of Galicia, UPF Ventures, Ferrovial, Connected Mobility Hub, CERTH and ENEA.

The deadline for applications is 21 April 2023.

For more information about the programme and how to participate please visit: https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/impact-ventures/accelerator/e-mobility/

For more information, please contact:

Josep Maria Salanova Grau, CERTH-HIT (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Cristina López de la Osa - CARNET (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Eden Djanashvili – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

About EIT Urban Mobility

E+Mobility Accelerator Programme is a project under the support of EIT Urban Mobility.

EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), aims to accelerate solutions and the transition towards a user-centric, integrated and truly multimodal transport system. As the leading European innovation community for urban mobility, EIT Urban Mobility works to avoid fragmentation by facilitating collaboration between cities, industry, academia, research and innovation to solve the most pressing mobility challenges of cities. Using cities as living labs, its industry, research and university partners will demonstrate how new technologies can work to solve real problems in real cities by transporting people, goods and waste in smarter ways.