[sustran] SMART MOBILITY EnterPrize not only for young, urban transport entrepreneurs

RideYourCity barbara at rideyourcity.co.za
Thu Mar 22 18:39:15 JST 2012


Calling all New Mobility enterprises, and all transportation
entrepreneurs... Young or less young, rural or urban, we want to hear
about your new mobility project.

Does your transportation venture improve the quality of life for your
or other communities? Does it improve access to basic needs? Does it
serve the urban or rural poor? And is is replicable or scaleable? Are
you able to measure and evaluate its success?

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-manage1.com/track/click?u=ed73dea154044febd145c253d&id=966d3967f8&e=805cb36d3f and apply online. The deadline
is 1 April 2012.

Three prizes include:

o   $5000 cash

o   a trip to Rio + 20 in June to receive the prize

o   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 contact us, visit http://rideyourcity.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ed73dea154044febd145c253d&id=0a14235e2b&e=805cb36d3f or
contact Andrew Russell at andrew at switchmobility.co.za.
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