Urban mobility Summer School with the main topic on “Resilient Cities” took place from 8th July till 19th July 2024 in two European capitals, Bratislava and Ljubljana. During those 2 weeks participants had a chance to discuss their ideas and create innovative solutions for 6 given real challenges created by companies GreenWay Infrastructure, Nomago and CORWIN. Tutors for both weeks were Balasz Horvath and Ákos Wetters from the Kimitisik who were also coaches, mentors, teachers, buddies, entertainers and main heads behind the EIT Urban Mobility Summer School. During those two weeks all participants had the chance to discover both cities, enjoy the social program as well as to visit the challenge givers.
Picture 1: Participants of the EIT Urban Mobility Summer School in Bratislava at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (author: Lucia Krupová)
Picture 2: Opening of the EIT Urban mobility Summer School by Balazs Horvath (author: Zuzana Ladzianska)
Picture 3, 4: Morning Drill and Mini Pitch led by Balazs Horvath and Ákos Wetters (authors: Lucia Krupová and Zuzana Ladzianska)
Part of the EIT Urban Mobility Summer School was covered by presentations of invited speakers. In Bratislava speakers were from the Slovak University of Technology, the host of the summer school in Bratislava, under the organisation of Lucia Krupová. Professor Tibor Schlosser (Faculty of Civil Engineering) opened the series of presentations with his topic on “Transit smart solution for Bratislava”, followed by Katarína Smatanová (Faculty of Architecture and Design) with her speech on “Urban design to promote more health” and “Transport problems and cycle” and finished by Zuzana Ladzianska (Institute of Management) with the topic “Autonomous rail transport as one of the options for the mobility solution in Bratislava region”. Serie of presentations continued in Ljubljana by speakers Vaughn Tan and Jakob Gajšek from the University of Ljubljana.
Picture 5: Presentation by Zuzana Ladzianska (author: Lucia Krupová)
Students participating at the summer school were not only from Europe (Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Macedonia, Malta, Netherland, Slovakia and Slovenia), as well as from various parts of the world (Ecuador, Mexico, Pakistan and USA). They have created international groups with interdisciplinary profiles allowing them to perform the best possible outcomes. Out of the six groups a “golden winner” was selected. Special congratulation goes to the group “Greenie” with their approach to GreenWay Infrastructure challenge on “Autonomous and portable electric vehicle charging solution”.
Picture 6: Visit at the challenge giver company CORWIN (author: Lucia Krupová)
It was an outstanding opportunity for students to gain another perspective working in international groups of students with different backgrounds and especially to have the chance to work on the real problems and challenges set by companies dealing with challenging issues on the daily basis.
Picture 7: Team works under the supervision of Ákos Wetters (author: Zuzana Ladzianska)