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What are you looking for?
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.
3 entrepreneurial projects will be chosen annually to enter the 6-month acceleration program, which includes the possibility of testing the solution in the Mataró-Maresme area. You can see the winners of the 1st and 2nd editions and program details 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 3 challenges you can apply for:
All the awards are designed to address operational and current challenges of Renfe and Rodalies de Catalunya.
Inclusive & Accessible Mobility
operational challenge
Prize: €25.000
Innovative technological solutions are sought that promote universal accessibility and the inclusion of all people, regardless of their functional diversity, situation or condition. To eliminate distinctions between citizens and make the Maresme a more accessible and inclusive region for all its inhabitants and visitors.
The objectives are:
-A Maresme without barriers: Improve universal accessibility and the inclusion of people.
-Intermodal mobility without limits: Encourage the use of the train as a mode of intermodal transport in the Maresme.
-A train at the forefront: Adapt the train to the new needs and habits of mobility.
Customer Experience
operational challenge
Prize: €25.000
We look for innovative solutions to improve and adapt rail transport to the different mobility needs of any person. We are interested in practical and creative proposals that can transform the rail service and turn each journey into a unique and personalized experience, meeting the individual needs of each passenger in real time.
The objectives are:
-Transformation: The innovative and disruptive character of the proposal is highlighted, seeking to go beyond incremental improvements.
-Centrality in the user: It puts the passenger at the center of the experience, designing solutions that meet your needs and expectations.
-Holistic approach: Various aspects are addressed to improve the rail experience as a whole, from the journey itself to customer loyalty.
Safety Rail
operational challenge
Prize: €25.000
Rail transport must be a safe and reliable space for all passengers. For this reason, we embark on the search for innovative solutions that transform the railway service, making it safer, more inclusive and fostering a more supportive and respectful community of users.
The objectives are:
-More security: Improve safety conditions in general.
-More civility: Promote civic attitudes between trips, denouncing uncivil ones
- Safe and accessible intermodality: adapt intermodality to new specific needs and mobility habits.
Available Services for the winners during the Programme
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Tailor-made Acceleration plan for 6 months.
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Access to a network of professional mentors composed of experts from the organising entities, who will support their project development
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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.
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A chance to try out the solution in the city of Mataró.
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Ad hoc analysis of different financing and internationalization sources for their project
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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.
Informative virtual sessions
We organize a series of information days to resolve possible queries about the call and the associated acceleration 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
Evaluation criteria for applications
PROVISIONAL LIST OF ADMISSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS TO ANTENA TRENLAB AWARDS 2024
On October 7, 2024, after the submission deadline, the submitted documentation was reviewed.
On 8/10, the list of candidates admitted and excluded from participation by category was published, as well as the need for amendments or clarifications to the information provided.
The people or companies included in this list had 3 working days to correct the defect and/or attach the mandatory documents.
After the three working days, the following definitive list of those admitted and excluded from the Premia Antena TrenLab 2024 is published:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS)
Can we apply if we are not based in Catalonia?
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.
Can we apply if we have just a business idea?
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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