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EU-founded Acceleration and Investment Programme
The European Startup Prize for Mobility (EUSP), the EU-founded acceleration and investment Programme for sustainable mobility startups, is back for its 4th edition!
This year, EUSP provides a one-stop-shop to all major EU institutions (European Parliament, European Commission, European Investment Bank, EIT InnoEnergy, SESAR, Shift2Rail) and with major mobility corporations and tech giants.
EUSP is looking for mobility startups based in the European Union and countries participating in the Horizon Europe Programme.
This year, 20 startups will be rewarded. Additionally to the 10 best-ranked startups , another 10 startups will be chosen by our EU partners and given “Special Prizes” in each of the following categories:
It’s a unique opportunity to win access to an investment and acceleration programme and gain free access to:
Investment: Multiple financing opportunities with European investors and EU financial instruments dedicated pitch days.
Visibility: +300 000 viewers and representatives from all our EU institutions partner organisations watch the 2020 edition.
Mentoring: Benefit from a tailor-made programme by Boston Consulting Group to build an international strategy to scale up across Europe.
Advocacy: Co-create a green manifesto to boost smart and sustainable solutions and present it to the European Union’s decision-makers in a live event.
CATEGORY During the selection process, applicants will be asked to tick one or several of the categories below (one main and a few secondaries), depending on where they fit the best:
– Accessibility and inclusive mobility – Electro-mobility – Logistic and freight – Smart City – Urban experience and services – Scales-ups – Blue mobility – Future Skies – Rail mobility – Space tech Those categories will help the Jury to match the right experts with the startups to be evaluated.
SELECTION PROCESS The selection process is organized in three levels of selection:
– On-line (in order to determine a top 50) – Visio (in order to determine the top 10) – Ceremony (awarding the top 10 and 10 Special Prizes)
EVALUATION MEMBERS 50 independent experts, covering every sector of smart and sustainable mobility, recruited by EUSP and its co-founders will review all applications.
All members of the evaluation team are subject to the full confidentiality of all information communicated during the EU Prize selection process.If any member has a direct or indirect link with an applicant, that could potentially influence the scoring process, he/she will not be invited to evaluate this particular startup. This rule applies for individual investors, corporate investors, board members, family, advisor, customer or supplier relationship, inter alia.
Notable dates to save 9 December 2021: innovation map to be released February 2022: announcement of the top 50 March 2022: announcement of the top 10 28 March 2022: Award Ceremony
Eligible countries for startups to apply from:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine
United Kingdom