Deadline: 10-Apr-22
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Urban Mobility is seeking applications for the Hub South Acceleration Programme that aims to help startups accelerate the introduction of their solutions to the market through:
- Training sessions and business & technical mentoring
- Access to living labs and city representatives
- Access to companies to understand their challenges and best fit their solutions to solve them
- Exposure to relevant stakeholders and visibility within the EIT Urban Mobility community
- Access to EIT Urban Mobility investment initiatives and funding instruments
What do they offer?
- EIT Urban Mobility – Business Creations E+Mobility 2022 will offer to 10 selected applicants:
- Individualized business coaching and training
- Mentoring by industry experts and experienced founders
- Product and technology validation with access to a network of living labs
- Finding your product-market fit
- Scaling your business, driving growth and internationalisation
- Investor pitch coaching and potential contacts with investors and VC funds
- Promotion of your start-up at the Business Creation portfolio webpage, and through EIT Urban Mobility communication channels
- Access to EIT Urban Mobility investment initiatives and funding instruments
Why Join?
- The E+ Mobility Accelerator proposal is a continuation of the EIT Urban Mobility Hub South Acceleration Programme, with a specific focus into the mobility & energy, micro-mobility and shared mobility thematic fields. Its main objective is to accelerate the introduction of startups-led solutions in the market while helping cities and companies solve their challenges faster and efficiently.
- Therefore, the consortium plans to become the seed generator of top European startups within these fields by attracting and selecting proposals that best fit the programme, supporting projects with business and technical orientation, providing access to key players for market and technical validation and connecting and preparing them to build pilots with relevant stakeholders.
Eligibility Criteria
- A clear, scalable business opportunity
- A team with minimum 2 members and at least 1 pursuing the startup full time
- Startup must be incorporated in EU or Horizon Europe associated countries
- Founders and employees (e.g. ESOP) should still own more than 70% of shares
- Fit with the energy, micromobility and shared mobility scope
For more information, visit https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/business-creation/accelerator/e-mobility/?utm_source=social+media