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CREAFUTUR is a private foundation promoted by the Government of Catalonia and ESADE Business School. Its mission is to promote and foster innovation in businesses and institutions, understanding people’s future needs and the trends shaping the market, to help detect and disseminate new areas of opportunity through new products, new services, new business models and new communication strategies. All Creafutur projects aim a putting the customer, the user and/or the citizen at the heart of the innovation process.

Creafutur accumulates a wide experience in mobility sector, with special focus on user needs characterization, new mobility concepts evaluation and identification of future business opportunities in urban mobility services.

PROJECTS:

• smartCEM project (CIP ICT-PSP 2012): Four European cities/regions (Barcelona, Gipuzkoa-San Sebastian, Newcastle and Reggio Emilia) come together under the project smartCEM (Smart Connected ElectroMobility) to demonstrate the role of ICT solutions to overcome the limitations of electromobility for cities and citizens. Barcelona pilot consisted on an electric scooter sharing service (MOTIT). More info: www.smartcem-project.eu
• Smart Mobility project (2011-2012): Creafutur and the Barcelona City Council performed an in-depth study to evaluate the citizens’ needs in terms of mobility and assess the feasibility of deploying an electric vehicle shared service in Barcelona.
• The user of future's train: Smart Mobility (2014-2015): Creafutur carried out a project for the Catalan railway cluster (Railgrup) that aimed to find innovative solutions for rail transport from user needs and main industry trends.
• Urban Mobility project in Barcelona (2013-2016): Creafutur is coordinating periodic workshops between a European automotive OEM and regional authorities in order to identify and conceptualise future mobility services in the city.
• G-MOTIT (2015-2016): a H2020 project that aims to enhance an innovative electric scooter sharing system for urban mobility with EGNSS-based location technology. MOTIT is an innovative service that has been developed in order to solve mobility problems in the city of Barcelona and potentially major metropolitan areas in Europe. Creafutur is leading the business related activities. More info:  http://gmotit.pildo.com 

Senior manager at Department of Partnership Development

ETRA is a large business group that offers technologically advanced solutions for an efficient management for people mobility. It has a wide range of solutions in traffic, transport, parking, access, lighting, energy and telecommunications areas.

This is a partnership of five major European Transport Research Associations: ECTRI, EURNEX, FEHRL, FERSI, HUMANIST. It operates as a non-legal entity in the form of partnership and is supported by its partners both financially and in-kind. It organises events, and takes initiatives, related mainly to horizontal strategic issues of Transport Research in Europe and promoting the European Research Area in the field of Transport. 

The European Transport Research Alliance – ETRA is a partnership Organisation created, on September 20th 2012, by five Transport Research Associations: ECTRI (European Conference of Transport Research Institutes), EURNEX (the European rail Research Network of Excellence), FEHRL (Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories), FERSI (Forum of European Road Safety Institutes), and HUMANIST (the Human centered design Network for Information Society Technologies).

Its strategic objective is, to: “work towards promoting further cooperation, coordination of activities, and common focus in European transport research provision, as part of the process and in full alignment with the objectives of creating the European Research Area  in the field of Transport”.    

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