The third edition of the MUBIL Mobility Awards seeks new innovative projects

Registration for the third edition of the MUBIL Mobility Awards has opened and new winning projects are awaiting an economic endowment of €35,000 and support to promote and seek to develop their business. These awards seek to identify and support entrepreneurial projects, from within and outside the territory, that contribute to the development of a smart and sustainable mobility system in the Basque Country.

The MUBIL Mobility Awards seek to create points of contact between innovative initiatives promoted within and outside the region in order to contribute to accelerating the process of maturity and growth of projects. Innovative projects and interests that collaborate to develop the Basque fabric of smart and sustainable mobility.

In the opinion of the Director General of MUBIL Fundazioa, Ann InsawityThese awards seek to put early-stage innovative projects on the radar to help them grow. We do this starting from the recognition and publicity that the MUBIL Mobility Awards bring to projects and, above all, from their integration into the MUBIL hub so that they can benefit from special opportunities and knowledge. With the pole that brings together leading companies and internationally recognized technology centers, among other agents. in smart and sustainable mobility. For some time we have taken steps to transform the Basque Country into a global ecosystem in this field, and attracting and promoting local and foreign talent is the key to achieving this. ” The doors of participation are open to all those projects inside and outside the region that can contribute to innovation.

Awards

The MUBIL Mobility Awards, organized in collaboration with BIC Gipuzkoa, seeks to identify high-impact technology projects that are at the prototype stage and are in line with the scope of MUBIL, focusing on the areas of connected, autonomous, shared, electric and related infrastructures.

Two initiatives that present a minimum viable product or model that solves the problem identified in the proposal will be awarded. her first prize A financial endowment of up to 25,000 euroswhile the second will receive up to 10,000 euros. Part of these amounts will be in the form of financing technical development projects that the winners will activate in cooperation with MUBIL Hub agents.

In addition to the prize money, both projects will be integrated into the MUBIL Hub and will be able to obtain space for a year at MUBIL headquarters or at the BIC Gipuzkoa Incubator to accelerate the development of their business. Similarly, in addition to the benefits of publicizing and highlighting the award, they will have a platform at MUBIL Mobility Expo next year, which is International Expo in 2024 Its fourth edition will be held.

Last date for registering applications It will end on June 30th.. The final projects will be announced in mid-September and the winning companies will be revealed at the Grand Final to be held on October 26, where the finalists will have to defend their initiatives in front of a panel of people with recognized experience in the sector.

In this edition, the jury consists of: Arturo Perez de Lucia, General Manager of AEDIVE and Vice President of AVRE; A person representing ENISA, a public capital entity of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism; Ignacio MartinDirector at Repsol, Sustainability Committee at Acerinox and Repsol Renovables; Emmanuel RegoCEO of Erizar Group. Joquin Lopetegui, Head of Corporate and New Business Development at CAF; Marisa Areola, Managing Director at Bic Gipuzkoa; And Xavier SanchezPartner at ENION Venture Partners.

2022 winners

In last year’s edition, the winning projects were Green Eel from Full & Fast and Nemi Mobility Solutions For its great potential to have a positive impact on mobility in the future. Green Eel won first prize for proposing portable energy storage systems, as an alternative to generator sets or diesel generators that use fuel to produce electricity. Nemi Mobility Solutions, for its part, specializes in software as a service (SaaS) that provides a solution for the deployment and operation of bus services. The project focuses on digitizing and improving bus and public transport services.