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New edition of the Antena TrenLab Awards

The first edition of the Antena TrenLab Awards was born in 2022 as part of the collaboration between Renfe, Mataró City Council and the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation to promote territorial innovation in the field of sustainable mobility, linked to the railway sector. 

Each year, 3 entrepreneurial projects will be chosen to enter the 6-month acceleration program, which includes the possibility of testing the solution in the Mataró-Maresme region. You can see the winners of the last editions and the details of the program. here.

Challenges and prize allocation

With a global endowment of €75.000, four annual awards will be offered to entrepreneurial projects that provide ideas and solutions to improve mobility, especially at the local level.  

The selected projects will be innovative, technological, and sustainable proposals of new mobility services or those which have a positive impact on existing ones, including the transportation of both passengers and goods. 

The period to submit your application for the Antena TrenLab awards is over

Pre-registrations closed

The 3 challenges you can apply for:  

All the awards are designed to address operational and current challenges of Renfe and Rodalies de Catalunya. 

 

Sustainability & Health

Operational Challenge | Prize money: €25.000

The train must be a space that ensures not only physical safety, but also the comprehensive health of people. For this reason, we are looking for innovative solutions that allow us to create a healthier, more sustainable railway environment that helps reduce the CO2 footprint. 

Goals: 

Incorporate sustainable and circular materials into the design of commuter cars, including recycled or biodegradable materials. Circular economy proposals for the reuse of garments and textiles, including sustainable coatings to improve health and reduce maintenance, can be included.

 

Smart Customer Experience

Operational Challenge | Prize money: €25.000

We are looking for innovative solutions that transform the user experience on each trip, making the journey more convenient and comfortable. We are looking for proposals that help us redesign spaces, personalizing them and adapting them to the moment of the trip. 

Goals: 

Flexible design of commuter trains. Currently, the interior design of trains is fixed, not adapting to fluctuations in demand or to different user profiles. The aim is to create spaces that can be transformed according to the time of day, influx or specific needs, with folding or modular seats, areas for working or carrying bicycles, which are activated during off-peak hours, with occupancy sensors and automatic reconfiguration, and with intelligent air conditioning and lighting systems that improve comfort.

 

Including Mobility Intelligence  

Prize: €25.000

We launch this challenge with the aim of incorporating technological solutions that improve digital accessibility in mobility services, promoting the autonomy of the elderly, including friendly technologies.


Goal: 

Promote digital accessibility and usability for all people, especially non-digital natives, through the development of applications in smart kiosks that facilitate from minute one the purchase of a ticket, moving around the city and other functionalities, through mixed, augmented, extended reality systems, and conversational assistants.
 

Available Services for the winners during the Programme

  • Tailor-made Acceleration plan for 6 months.

  • Access to a network of professional mentors composed of experts from the organising entities, who will support their project development 

  • Access to the TecnoCampus Technology Park and their own working space at the TecnoCampus Antena TrenLab centre to develop their business projects within a maximum stay of six months.

  • A chance to try out the solution in the city of Mataró.

  • Ad hoc analysis of different financing and internationalization sources for their project

  • Support for the dissemination of the project in the media, conferences and congresses

Available benefits for the winners at the end of the programme

Preferential access to the spaces and services of the TecnoCampus Technology Park 

Link to Cluster InMove by Railgurp that will allow its positioning in the mobility sector, during the year following the end of the program. 

Requirements for participation

Project

Any SME or Micro-SME with an innovative, technological, and sustainable project that has a minimum viable product and meets the challenges described 

Acceleration programme

Winners will make the commitment to attend the Acceleration Programme. It will be face-to-face at the Antena TrenLab centre in Mataró (Barcelona) 

Area of ​​influence

Winners will have the predisposition to test their solution mainly in Mataró and its area of influence  

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)

Yes, as long as the head office or subsidiary is in Spain, you can participate in the acceleration program at the Antena TrenLab headquarters and you are willing to develop your solution mainly in Mataró and its area of ​​influence.
During the 6 month programme, we will try to concentrate all face-to-face sessions within the same week each month.

For all awards you need a degree of maturity of the technological solution and have a proof of concept (TRL level 3 minimum).  

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