10th ITS European Congress app development contest

ITS Finland, host of the 10th ITS European Congress, has launched the ‘ITS in your pocket’ app development competition, providing an opportunity for companies, teams and individuals to compete for a total prize sum of €100,000 (US$136,000). Apps should provide solutions to improve transport safety, efficiency and sustainability, make transport systems more comfortable and should focus on the user needs.
January 17, 2014 Read time: 1 min
7350 ITS Finland, host of the 10th ITS European Congress, has launched the ‘ITS in your pocket’ app development competition, providing an opportunity for companies, teams and individuals to compete for a total prize sum of €100,000 (US$136,000).

Apps should provide solutions to improve transport safety, efficiency and sustainability, make transport systems more comfortable and should focus on the user needs.

The competition is divided into parts: Products and services - which will be presented at the ITS European Congress 2014 in Helsinki next June; and Ideas - which can be developed into an app with the support of Demola Network, an incubator for project development present in five countries.

Applications are open from 9 January to 9 February for the products and services section and 9 January to 7 May for the ideas section.

Developers, start-ups and students who require assistance on working on a new concept can apply until 9 February.

For more information on the competition and the rules, please visit the %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal ITS in your pocket website http://www.itsinyourpocket.com/ false http://www.itsinyourpocket.com/ false false%>, or contact %$Linker: 2 Email <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkEmail [email protected] email: [email protected] false mailto:[email protected] true false%>.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Webinar: BigDataEurope for Transport
    September 10, 2015
    The first BigDataEurope at 1000 CET on 21 September will look at the societal challenge of Smart, Green and Integrated Transport. The webinar sets out to introduce the BigDataEurope project in general as well as the various stakeholders and applications for Big Data in the Transport domain in particular, followed by a question and answer session. More information on the agenda and speakers will be available shortly. Register for the seminar here.
    Read More
  • Registration now open for ITS America 2016
    February 23, 2016
    Registration is now open for ITS America, 12-15 June 12 2016 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. It’s a new event with an exhibition, conferences, papers and demonstrations, where companies, public agencies, academics, engineers, researchers, regulators, lawmakers, app developers, infrastructure security agents, financiers and the media will meet to make new contacts, transfer knowledge and generate new ideas about what is next in a world where transportation is at the centre of the IOT. More
    Read More
  • London Science Museum hosts free driverless vehicle exhibition
    March 8, 2019
    Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are at the heart of a new exhibition at the London Science Museum. Driverless: Who is in control? opens on 12 June and looks at “how close we are to living in a world driven by thinking machines”. Continuing until October 2020, the show examines themes familiar to ITS professionals wrestling with the legal, ethical and logistical issues around the introduction of driverless cars to public roads. The museum says it will focus on “how much of this seemingly futuristic technolog
    Read More
  • ITS World Congress offers 25% discounts for registration and accommodation
    June 26, 2018
    Visitors attending ITS World Congress Copenhagen in September can receive 25% off registration and accommodation fees until 2 July. The Congress will feature technology demonstrations and showcases ITS achievements from the Danish capital and region. There is also a conference programme which includes presentations and discussions on the latest developments in ITS. More information is available on the website.
    Read More

Highlighted Content