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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. 

4 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 territory. You can see the winners of the 1st edition and program details here.

Challenges and prize allocation

With a global endowment of €150.000, 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 4 challenges you can apply for:

Three of the awards are for addressing operational and current challenges of Renfe / Rodalies de Catalunya and the fourth collects disruptive ideas from the market.

 

Railway Station Experience  

operational challenge

 

Prize: €40.000

 

We look for technological solutions that promote universal accessibility for all people, regardless of functional diversity, situation or condition. We want to minimize the distinction between citizens and overcoming the identification of "adapted routes".

Likewise, we seek to encourage the use of the train and public transport in general, through the combined use of different modes of transport, mainly those that pollute less. 

  • Improve universal accessibility for all people  

We look for solutions that extend the approach to accessibility from different perspectives and from the different needs of citizens. These are both solutions that improve physical accessibility to the train for all people, as well as those more focused on signalling, supports, channels and the type of information. 

  • Encourage the use of the train as a mode of intermodal transport for the Maresme 

We look for solutions that make it easier for the traveler to have a view of all the intermodal options available to them, paying specific attention to the orographic and geographical characteristics of the Maresme. 

  • Adapt intermodality to new specific needs and mobility habits 

We are looking for intermodality solutions capable of responding to the new mixed mobility habits of the population, both from a spatial and virtual point of view. 

 

Customer Happiness 

operational challenge

 

Prize: €40.000

 

We look for solutions that make possible the adequacy and adaptability of rail transport to the different uses and mobility needs of any person. Ensure continuous and real-time attention in any situation of the daily operation of the service. 

  • Improve the travel experience 

We are looking for solutions that allow us to take advantage of a strengthened travel community whose identity and route can be known. 

  • Incentivize and reward the use of rail transport 

We are looking for solutions and tools through which to reward the loyalty and commitment of Renfe users. 

  • Personalize the experience through the adaptation/diversification of the spaces 

We are looking for solutions that allow rail services to adapt to specific needs, especially in the new context of mobility and new habits of the population. 

 

Safety Rail 

operational challenge

 

Prize: €40.000

 

We look for solutions to improve security conditions, especially from a gender perspective, and promote civic attitudes of users in relation to infrastructure and people, favoring a coexistence environment based on trust. 

  •  Strengthen the "Traveller Community" 

We seek solutions that allow us to take advantage of the benefits of a strengthened travel community. We believe that the sense of community strengthens trust, especially if we talk about the community traveling together (on the same train).   

  • Identification and reporting of uncivil and aggressive attitudes, especially from the perspective of gender violence.

We are looking for solutions that increase security (violence) and reduce incivility. 

  •  Improve the security conditions of intermodal transition spaces 

We look for solutions that make the spaces where the change of modality takes place (intermodality spaces) friendlier and safer and allow the perception of "waste" of time to be minimal.

 

 

Keep it Open! 

Disruptive challenge
 
Prize: €30.000

 

We are looking for disruptive startups that develop solutions not yet widely implemented in the railway sector based on new technologies (metaverse, virtual reality, robotics etc.) or trends (quantum computing, drones, etc.) among others.

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  

Evaluation criteria for applications

In the legal bases of the awards, updated with the new date, you have all the information.

Bases of the Antena TrenLab Awards (Catalan version) 
Bases of the Antena TrenLab Awards (Spanish version) 
 

 

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.

In this case, and only if your idea is a very disruptive solution in the current market, you can opt for the "Keep it Open!" challenge. For the rest of the prizes you need a degree of maturity of the technological solution and that you have a proof of concept (TRL level 3 minimum). 

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