The annual SCEWC in Barcelona, traditionally positioned as the largest Smart City event in the world, was busy and excited as usual - this time, with Dyvolve as an exhibitor. Our team chose this event as a great opportunity to  showcase our knowledge on sustainable mobility and urban environment, as well as provide new insight into solving complex urban challenges. This time around, SCEW hosted over 24.000 visitors, 1,010 exhibitors, +700 cities, 146 countries, +400 speakers, and +90 side events. We will be back next year for sure!

Set in Stockholm, UITP Global Public Transport Summit is a bi-annual event which gathers professionals from all over the world who specialize in public transport services and technology. As a member of UITP, we chose this event as a good opportunity to connect with other members of the association, our peers and clients and explore current developments in the PT sector. Among 473 exhibitors, we are happy to have had a chance to showcase our knowledge on urban mobility and urban environment, as well as provide new insight into common problems of the sector.

Future Cities Show in Dubai gathered various Smart City technology and IT service providers and investors from all over the world. We have been a part of this unique event with 77 exhibitors and visited by over 20.000 people. The event was a good opportunity to learn about trends and challenges in sustainable urban development of the GCC region, the Middle and the Far East. The multiculturality of Dubai allowed us to connect in one place with businesses from around the World. We are happy to have had the chance to present our knowledge and European solutions to the World.

During two days (31.01.2019. -  01.02.2019.), we've been delivering workshops on emobility together with the City of Koprivnica, Croatia, as a part of EVcc project activities (Electric vehicles Competence and Experience Centre) co-funded by INTERREG cross-border cooperation Hungary – Croatia. Open discussion that integrated opinions from over a 100 attendees from public institutions, SMEs, public and private investors in charging infrastructure, EV charger manufacturers, electric vehicle distributors, and NGOs, resulted in sharing of ideas and needs of use increase, as well as risks and obstacles that curtail future increased use of electric vehicles in Croatia. We are looking forward to future events like this.

We were invited to an official delivery of electric vehicles for the purpose of the establishment of car sharing service in the City of Osijek. The City Mayor, GPP transport operator's managers, City's EU project management officers, members of the local and national media were there to kick-start our pilot activities in I-SharE LIFE project. The general goal of I-SharE LIFE is to reduce the number of conventional internal combustion vehicles circulating in the participating cities, thus reducing the atmospheric load of pollutants in urban areas, as well as to demonstrate the technological and economic feasibility of a transition to electric car sharing in small to mid-sized urban areas in Italy and Croatia.

The SHAREPLACE project is engaging the stakeholders in Osijek to actively participate in drafting innovative solutions for the enhancement of the mobility system within the urban agglomeration. Our most recent workshop was the third in a row, gathering the representatives of local and regional authorities, transport providers, the university and NGOs. We are convinced that the local community involvement has the potential to increase the quality of the expected project results! More details on SHAREPLACE here!

We are proud to announce our new project I-SharE LIFE which will focus on developing business models around full electric car sharing solutions in small and medium sized urban areas in Italy and Croatia. More info very soon - stay tuned!

Today, we took part in the conference, organised by GPP Osijek (a PT operator), with a theme "Modernisation of tram infrastructure in the City of Osijek". The goal of this event was to kick-start the big infrastructure project, co-funded by EU structural funds. As one of the project funding prerequisite, new mid-term business strategy for GPP had to be defined. Our expert Petra Grgasovic took the floor and shortly elaborated our work with City and GPP representatives during 10-month period in order to deliver sustainable business strategy for this PT operator.

In cooperation with Raiffeisen bank Austria, our experts have conducted workshop on the topic “EU grants – Construction and equipment of SMEs manufacturing capacity”. Aimed goal of this workshop was to inform entrepreneurs about possibilities for submission of project applications on Call for proposals “Construction and equipment of SMEs manufacturing capacity”. The emphasis of the workshop and networking has been placed on topics like project and applicant eligibility, eligible activities, options for closing of funding construction, preparation of necessary documentation for project application, explanation of project quality criteria, project proposal submission and grant awarding process. Workshop has been held in Osijek on April 24th 2018. in the ambience of the Museum of Taste tavern. More information here.

We're invited to lead workshop segment and discuss successful policy measures enhancing the alternative fuels market in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Northern Germany, and the rest of Europe during TEN-T Days 2018.

• Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Time: Wednesday, 25th April, at 09:00-10:45
• Session name: "Enhancing the Alternative Fuels Market through Vision, Targets, and Policy Measures".

Looking forward to interesting talks and knowledge exchange. More info here.