Deadline: 30-Sep-24
The Toyota Mobility Foundation is seeking applications for the Sustainable Cities Challenge for innovators to create solutions that increase the use of existing low and zero-carbon transport modes in the city of Venice.
Priorities
- Solutions must address at least one of the following:
- Increasing active mobility
- Increasing public transport use
- Increasing usage of shared mobility
- Any proposed solution must take into account the motivational aspect of behaviour change.
Funding Information
- They are supporting innovators to develop solutions by providing:
- Up to ten $50,000 implementation grants in the semi-finalist stage
- Up to five $130,000 implementation grants in the finalist stage
- $1.5 million final implementation funding, to be shared among up to 3 winners
- The opportunity to engage directly with city officers
- Access to various stakeholders such as local mobility providers
- Access to a network of like-minded innovators
- Access to capacity building support in behaviour change, mobility and related topics
- All funding must be used to tailor, test and demonstrate solutions in the City of Venice, with final funding used for the implementation of solutions in the city.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entries that do not meet the following criteria are not eligible for the Challenge.
- The solution must be tailored specifically for and implemented within the City of Venice
- Entrants can be single organizations or consortia.
- Teams that enter as a consortium must nominate one organization as the lead entrant. The lead entrant will enter into contracts and receive funding from the Toyota Mobility Foundation.
- Entrants must be established as a legally incorporated organization to enter.
- The challenge is open to innovators worldwide but entries must be in English.
- Successful entrants must be willing and able to travel to Venice as there will be expectations for on-the-ground presence during the next stage of the Challenge.
Judging Criteria
- The following judging criteria will be used to evaluate the suitability of an entry for the Challenge and its potential for impact.
- Innovation
- The solution offers an innovative approach to improving Venice residents’ motivation to choose and adopt low to zero-carbon modes of transportation for part or all of their everyday travel within the city. The solution can be brand-new or adapted from other contexts to suit the local context.
- Impact
- The solution significantly and tangibly increases the adoption and use of low to zero carbon transportation modes by Venice residents in their everyday journeys around the city.
- Usability
- The solution continuously engages with its target users. Based on the insights and understanding gained, the solution addresses the needs, preferences, and behaviors of its target user groups.
- Viability
- The solution is viable and sustainable beyond the lifespan of the Challenge. The solution has the potential to scale or to be replicated in other contexts.
- Team Capacity
- The innovator team has the capacity and wider resources to develop and demonstrate their solution within the Challenge timeframe.
- Innovation
For more information, visit Toyota Mobility Foundation.