EIT Urban Mobility Changemaker
Facilitating Change for Future Urban Mobility
EIT Urban Mobility, Aalto University Professional Development, KTH Stockholm, TU Eindhoven, and Digital hub Mobility/UnternehmerTUM are calling for urban mobility, transport, and urban planning professionals looking to make a change in future sustainable mobility planning.
The EIT Urban Mobility Changemaker is a workshop series consisting of four online co-creation workshops designed for urban mobility and transport planning professionals. The workshops are organized by Aalto University Professional Development, KTH Stockholm, TU Eindhoven, and Digital hub Mobility/UnternehmerTUM in cooperation with EIT Urban Mobility City Club. The core contents of these professional development workshops lie in understanding and facilitating organizational change and developing a collective understanding for (retro-)fitting public authorities and private actors to facilitate sustainable future mobility in different societal and geographic contexts.
The series offers theory and hands-on content for urban mobility executives and professionals, and specialists, researchers, decision-makers, planning officials, and representatives from NGOs, local authorities, and policy groups.
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The podcast series is part of The Urban Mobility Change Maker Program, organized 2021 and realized with support of EIT Mobility, co-funded by the European Union. It is produced in cooperation between Aalto University Executive Education (Helsinki), KTH Stockholm, Eindhoven University of Technology and The Digital Mobility Hub at UnternehmerTUM (Munich).
In the podcast we seek to empower urban mobility professionals for a transition towards sustainable urban mobility!
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Contents and Schedule
Learning to lead change and drive innovation to pave the way for sustainable urban mobility innovations that impact future urban mobility is at the core of the workshops. But driving change and innovation in the field of urban mobility takes time. The stakeholder ecosystem is complex, and decision-making in the public realm is often slow. Many innovative solutions, technologies, and tools to work towards sustainable urban mobility already exist, but implementation is taking place at a slow pace.
The EIT Urban Mobility Changemaker Workshops offer valuable insights into best practices from the European cities, academia, and practitioners. The workshop series combines lectures and co-creation sessions focusing on urban mobility solutions and best practices and sessions that focus on tools and methods that help to understand, manage, and ideate in the complex stakeholder ecosystem in urban mobility. Further, the workshops take a deep dive into participatory planning processes, design thinking, change management, and innovation leadership.
The workshop series covers contents that provide an institutional frame for change in urban mobility, transport, and urban planning. Change management, innovation leadership, participatory planning practices, and organizational change provide the theoretical base for establishing a frame fruitful for urban mobility innovation. The workshops will facilitate creating knowledge, building networks, gaining new insights from international industry cases and academia, and gaining access to topical research and experts.
Schedule
EIT Urban Mobility Changemaker Stockholm
October 6-8, 2021
The first workshop starts with investigating the preconditions for change: how do institutional capacity building and collaboration play a role in facilitating change? Another core topic is public transportation: we will take a look into strategies for public transport, safety in public transportation, and changes in travel behavior. Further, we dive into the functionality and design of public spaces from a collaborative design point of view.
Host: KTH Stockholm
Contents
- Preconditions for change – institutional capacity building and collaboration
- Strategies for public transport
- Walkability and biking
- Designing public space in collaboration – use, functions and methods
- Safety in public space and public transportation
- Parking strategies for improved urban mobility
- Travel behavior – knowledge creation and modelling
- Planning for sustainable transport systems
- Digital study visits
- Several co-creation workshops
EIT Urban Mobility Changemaker Helsinki
October 25–27, 2021
The workshop focuses on participatory and collaborative mobility and transport planning as well as socially sustainable transportation. Further participants will learn about innovation leadership from an urban mobility point of view and explore institutional barriers in transport planning. The workshop will feature hands-on assignments to give the theoretical content a practical context and applications.
Host: Aalto University Professional Development
Contents
- New ways in participatory and collaborative urban and urban mobility planning
- Towards socially sustainable transportation
- Overcoming institutional barriers in transport planning
- Fundamentals of change management
- Innovation leadership
- Virtual study visits and case speakers
- Co-creation workshops
Faculty
Senni Kirjavainen, Researcher, MA Industrial and Strategic Design IDBM, Aalto Design Factory, Aalto University
Miloš Mladenović, Assistant Professor, Transportation engineering, Department of Built Environment, Aalto University
Aija Staffans, Platform Manager Living+, Department of Architecture, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Built Environment, Aalto University
Dominic Stead, Professor of land use and transport planning, Department of Built Environment, Aalto University
Timo Vuori, Associate Professor Strategic Management, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University
Program
TBD
October 25, 2021
9.15-16.30 (EEST)
October 26, 2021
9.15-16.30 (EEST)
October 27, 2021
9.15-12.30 (EEST)
EIT Urban Mobility Changemaker Eindhoven
November 8-10, 2021
The workshop brings together stakeholders involved in the best practices of MaaS (Mobility as a Service) pilot in the Netherlands and France and academic works on the subject. That provides a set up which science and practice can discuss challenges and lessons learned in a direct conversation. The last day of the workshop is dedicated to the COVID and its impact on travel habits in Netherlands, France, Italy, and Spain.
Host: Eindhoven University of Technology
Contents
- MaaS best practices and current research
- Covid19 pandemic´s impact on travel habits in the Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain
- Smart parking
- Electric car sharing
Faculty
Anne van der Veen, Adviser Data & Mobility , Over Morgen
Guillaume Roux, Head of Partnerships, INSTANT System France
Valeria Caiti, Eindhoven University of Technology
Oktay Turekten, Eindhoven University of Technology
Peter van de Waerden, University Lecturer, Built Environment, Urban Planning and Transpor-tation Eindhoven University of Technology
Feixiong Liao, Assistant professor, Urban Planning and Transportation Group, Eindhoven Uni-versity of Technology
Mathijs de Haas, Researcher, KiM Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis
Soora Rasouli, Professor, Chair of Urban Planning and Transportation Group
Anna-Maria Feneri, Doctoral Candidate, Built Environment, Urban Planning and Transportation, Eindhoven University of Technology
Pim Labee, Doctoral Candidate, Built Environment, Urban Planning and Transportation, Eindhoven University of Technology
Seohon Kim, Postdoctoral Researcher, Built Environment, Urban Planning and Transportation, Eindhoven University of Technology
Program
November 8, 2021
13.00 – 17.00 CET
Challenges, prospects: MaaS service in the Netherlands
Anne van der Veen
Challenges, prospects and lessons learned from a comprehensive MaaS in France
Guillaume Roux
November 9, 2021
9.30 – 12.30 CET
Can we maximize the MaaS subscription?
Valeria Caiti
Does the type of MaaS bundle impact the behavioral change?
Soora Rasouli
To what extent MaaS contributes to sustainable mobility behavior?
Anna-Maria Feneri
13.30 – 17.30 CET
What MaaS means for the emission in Amsterdam?
Pim Labee
MaaS governance and business models
Oktay Turekten
Discussion
November 10, 2021
9.30 – 12.30 CET
Smart parking policies/ evidences from Netherlands
Peter van de Waerden
User acceptance and preference of electric car-sharing services; evidences from the Netherlands
Feixiong Liao
13.30 – 17.30 CET
Mobility and Corona Crisis; Insights from the Dutch population.
Mathijs de Haas
Comokit- Albatross: An agent based activity based model on COVID simulation
Seohon Kim
Closing discussion
EIT Urban Mobility Changemaker Munich
November 24-26, 2021
The workshop provides a deep dive into different perspectives of transformation and co-innovation in urban mobility. How can cities and other stakeholders collaborate on solving problems and implement solutions that are citizen-centered? This workshop will elaborate on the chances and challenges of collaborative mobility innovations and provide hands-on exercises from professionals in the field of mobility and innovation.
Host: UnternehmerTUM
Contents
- Deep dive into different perspectives of transformation and co-innovation in urban mobility
- How can cities and other stakeholders collaborate on solving problems and implement solutions that are citizen-centered?
- Chances and challenges of collaborative mobility innovations
- Hands on exercises from professionals in the field of mobility and innovation
Faculty
Attila Lüttmerding, Department of Labor and Economic Development, City of Munich
Sophia Knopf, Doctoral Candidate, Coordinator, M Cube Mobility Cluster, TU Munich
Daniel Schröder, Strategy Team Member, M Cube Mobility Cluster, TU Munich
Program
November 24
14:00-17:00 CET
Understanding the mobility challenges of the city (Munich)
Welcome, Intro and Check-in
Talk: Mobility Strategy of the City of Munich 2035, Attila Lüttmerding
Talk: The M Cube Cluster, Sophia Knopf & Daniel Schröder
Interactive Workshop (1/3)
November 25
10:00-17:00 CET
Creating ideas for new mobility solutions
Impulse: Design Thinking for urban mobility challenges, TDB
Talk: citizen mobility – Collaborative innovation with corporates, cities and start-ups,
Best practices: Start-ups & Cities / Municipalities
Interactive Workshop (2/3)
November 26
10:00-16:00 CET
Implementing innovations in the city
Impulse: Prototyping for urban mobility challenges
Interactive Workshop (3/3)
Expert Panel – Changemaker highlights (from Stockholm to Munich)
For
The workshop series is designed for urban mobility professionals from the public and private sectors.
It is for transport professionals, policy and decision-makers, urban and mobility planners, researchers, entrepreneurs from public transport authorities, transportation providers, NGOs, startups, transport professionals, and representatives from cities and regions.
Benefits
The workshop series closes the knowledge gap between decision-making, planning, solution providers, and ultimately citizens and urban mobility users. The contents help participants understand the behavioral and organizational structures that form the base for decision-making in mobility planning and hence create an understanding of context and the operational environment of urban mobility.

