08/07/2026
🎓 What an inspiring week at the CityMinds Summer School!🚗
Over five intensive days, 46 participants from 10 countries came together to tackle real-world challenges in Smart Urban Mobility and City Logistics through this year's theme: "Boost Innovation Thinking & Entrepreneurial Skills in Smart Urban Mobility & City Logistics."
The Design Centre team was proud to design and facilitate the Design Thinking workshops, supporting participants throughout their innovation journey, from building empathy with users and defining meaningful challenges, to generating ideas, developing prototypes, and finally pitching their solutions to an expert jury.
Working in eight international teams, participants addressed challenges ranging from intelligent public transport and traffic management to sustainable last-mile delivery, urban freight, parking, and accessibility. Their creativity, collaboration, and commitment resulted in innovative concepts with the potential to contribute to more sustainable and people-centered cities.
Congratulations to all participants for their hard work and enthusiasm, and to the winning teams:
🥇 Routero
🥈 ThessBus
🥉 OPTIMAX
A sincere thank you to the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH), Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης(AUTH), and EIT Urban Mobility for another outstanding collaboration. It was a pleasure to contribute to a programme that empowers the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.
Until next time! 🚀
