Co-designing inclusive and sustainable urban mobility through collaboration and innovation

This special session showcases how collaborative innovation and inclusive design can accelerate the transition toward sustainable and equitable urban mobility in Europe. Drawing on insights and tools from the Horizon Europe project ELABORATOR, the session highlights how digital technologies, participatory planning, and evidence-based experimentation foster real change in cities.

Contributions will explore how gender-sensitive mobility planning in Trikala addresses inequities and safety concerns among vulnerable groups; how the Superbarrio gamification tool enables citizens to co-design accessible public spaces; and how the Zaragoza Living Lab applies participatory toolkits and data analytics to guide tactical urbanism. The session will further emphasize the role of stakeholder collaboration in implementing sustainable mobility interventions and present lessons from the Trikala pilot and the simulation of mobility measures across six European cities.

Together, these examples demonstrate how digital co-creation, intersectional inclusion, and policy experimentation can generate scalable solutions for resilient, data-driven, and climate-neutral transport systems — aligning with CSUM tracks on Active, Shared and Inclusive Mobility, Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Mobility, and Policy Innovation and Collective Governance.

Session Moderator:

• Jason Sioutis, project manager, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS)

Topics and Presenters:

Gender-Inclusive Urban Mobility: Insights from Trikala

• Eva Grigoriadou, Executive Director & Research Lead, URBANA
• Evelina Faliagka, Urban Planner – Project Manager, URBANA

Co-design public space through digital gamified tool to achieve safe, sustainable and accessible mobility: Superbarrio case study

• Andrea Conserva, European projects Senior Expert & Researcher, IAAC

Toolkits to Boost Street Experiments: insights from Zaragoza

• Felipe Del Busto, PhD student, Project Manager, CIRCE technology center

Collaboration as a key to successful improvement of sustainable urban transport

• Merja Penttinen, Principal Scientist, Technical Research Centre of Finland

Safe and Inclusive Streets in Trikala: ELABORATOR’s Smart Solutions

• George Gorgogetas, ICT Electrical Engineer, e-Trikala

Simulating and upscaling the interventions in 6 different European cities

• Alexandros Liazos, Project manager – PhD candidate, ICCS