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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”.    

Automotive OEM (Heavy duty trucks, light/medium commertial vehicles, passenger vehicles, diesel engines for trucks and marine industry)

Ford OTOSAN is a leading automotive OEM in Turkey, designing and manufacturing vehicles (commercial, passenger) and covering a with wide service network.

Founded in 1959 as “OTOSAN A.Ş.”, Ford OTOSAN was the first automotive company in Turkey. In 1966, it manufactured the first domestic passenger car Anadol, which was designed by Turkish engineers, and in 1986 the first diesel engine. In 2009, it was the first Turkish company to export automotives to the USA and automotive export leader 5 times in Turkey.

Ford OTOSAN has the largest R&D center of the Turkish automotive industry, and the 3rd largest R&D center of Ford Motor Company, with approximately 1,300 engineers developing advanced technologies and products to dominate in global competition. It is the global design and engineering center for Ford’s heavy commercial vehicles and diesel engines. The Sancaktepe R&D Center, established in 2014, replacing the Gebze R&D Center, pioneers the engineering of Ford’s global diesel engine production as well as heavy duty trucks. Ford OTOSAN’s R&D investments continue in parallel with new vehicle and engine projects. 

Turkey’s commercial powerhouse, Ford OTOSAN accounted for 57% of Turkey’s commercial vehicle production and 61% of commercial vehicle exports in 2013. With a capacity of 330,000 commercial vehicles and 66,000 engines at Kocaeli and İnönü Plants, Ford OTOSAN reached a capacity of 415,000 units at the end of 2014.

In 2013, Ford OTOSAN started to manufacture the new Ford Cargo truck and Ford Transit Custom, which was “2013 International Van of the Year”. This year, investment towards the production of the new  9-liter and 13-liter Ecotorq engines is made, developed by Ford “EH   engineers, the intellectual property rights of which are wholly owned by Ford OTOSAN. Ford OTOSAN, continuing its R&D activities since 1961, has become an engineering center which provides employment to approximately 1300 engineers, develops and manufactures domestic engines, and provides licenses in accordance with international agreements. In 2013-14, exporting engine and heavy duty truck technology to China is achieved by means of an agreement signed with JMC, to produce under licence Ecotorq engines and Cargo heavy duty trucks in the world’s largest truck market, China.

Ford OTOSAN is experienced in complete design, validation, manufacturing and homologation phases of engine/vehicle families, as well as testing, service and after sales operations.