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FastTrackers Get Initiating: preview our third Capacity Building Week


13 June 2022


FastTrackers Get Initiating: preview our third Capacity Building Week

It’s hard to believe that our third Capacity Building Week is already upon us! Next week, the FastTrack Community will come together in Antwerp (Belgium) to initiate their plans, and to explore innovation funding.

For the first time since the beginning of the project, FastTrack Local Affiliates and partners will meet in-person. This will allow the community to fully embrace the potential of on-site peer learning, including through five site visits to discover the rich tapestry of mobility solutions in action in Antwerp.

By the end of FastTrack, each of the project’s local areas will have ready-to-go innovation deployment plans that map out what mobility innovations they will launch, and a plan for their implementation. After getting inspired during the first Capacity Building Week, and getting informed during the latest event, the local areas are now ready to get initiating. The Community will work together to initiate work on the deployment plans, including ironing out more details about the various mobility innovations, strategies, and technologies each local area has chosen to focus on.

FastTrack local areas have expressed a need to delve further into financing, funding opportunities and business models for mobility innovations. Identifying the most appropriate financial schemes is key to deploying innovative and implementable mobility measures. As such, this third Capacity Building Week will also explore ethical and governance considerations related to various financial schemes, and will support local areas to develop the best scheme for the innovative measures they have chosen to pursue.

Through a set of co-creation workshops, local areas will exchange in their clusters to further explore the technicalities and specificities of the measures to be deployed. Successful innovation roll-out depends on meaningful processes, timelines, and the engagement of a wide breadth of stakeholders. The FastTrackers will thus work collectively and with expert support on these components – all of which are also key components of their deployment plans.

Preview the programme in full by clicking here.

Stay tuned! We will be covering the Capacity Building Week live on our social media channels.


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