[sustran] New Award Announced for Sustainable Transportation Entrepreneurs

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REMINDER: Entry deadline 1 April 2012 - Submit your entry now!

Is your New Mobility project moving minds as well as people?
Then enter the SMART Mobility EnterPrize competition and you could find yourself
moving in new mobility circles at Rio+20, and beyond.

New Mobility – also known as ‘sustainable transportation’ – is about
moving people, moving goods, and moving less, in ways that are cleaner,
greener, safer, healthier, and more equitable (and more ‘hip’, of
course…).

The purpose of the SMART Mobility EnterPrize competition is to identify
existing and emerging New Mobility business models and innovative
transport approaches that benefit the urban poor; recognise enterprises
that demonstrate innovative and replicable solutions to local and
global transportation challenges; and explore paths for scaling up
these models. The SMART Mobility EnterPrize was conceived and developed
by the University of Michigan SMART initiative and its local and
international partners, with the generous support of the Rockefeller
Foundation. It is part of a SMART’s wider ‘Catalyzing the New Mobility
in Cities’ project.
So if you are an entrepreneur with a venture that advances New
Mobility, visit http://rideyourcity.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ed73dea154044febd145c253d&id=d67a1485a6&e=805cb36d3f and apply online. The
deadline is 1 April 2012.

Your entry will need to be able to answer the following questions, and
more:
  * Does your venture improve quality of life / sustainability for a
    community or communities?
  * Does it improve access to needs?
  * Does it serve the urban poor?
  * Is it an innovative approach to transport or access?
  * Is it replicable or scalable?
  * And how do you measure and evaluate its success?

Three prizes include:
  * $5000 cash
  * a trip to Rio + 20 in June to receive the prize
  * dedicated time with entrepreneurial mentors

But if you don’t win one of the three grand prizes, you are still a
winner because you will be listed in the SMART Mobility EnterPrize
Register of New Mobility Ventures.

Rio + 20 – officially the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development (UNCSD) –  marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de
Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on
Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.

For more information visit http://rideyourcity.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ed73dea154044febd145c253d&id=ab9c4a042a&e=805cb36d3f or contact
Andrew Russell at andrew at switchmobility.co.za.
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