Overview
In the process of lowering road transport emissions,vehicle electrification plays a significant role. This role will continue to grow as we shift to an electric road transport paradigm. The successful development of the infrastructure, vehicles, and research breakthroughs that will enable a competitive transition to electric vehicle transport requires adding new dimensions to the traditional skills and capabilities of road transport engineers and technicians. Therefore, the transition requires not only new approaches to vehicle manufacture and development, but also to road transport education.
To ensure that young people respond to the important and attractive opportunities arising in the transition, The E-GOMOTION project aims to raise awareness of the future jobs in vehicle electrification and the educational paths for reaching these jobs among the engineers and technicians of tomorrow.
In order to do so, JOBVEHELEC aims to bring together a consortium of five leading European universities with experience of, and commitment to, the shift to an electric road transport sector, and coordinate their efforts in joint activities designed for the purposes of:
- Evaluating and demonstrating job creation in the electrification sector;
- Encouraging young persons to seek jobs in electrification of road transport; and
- Arranging communication and stimulation campaigns targeting young persons.
The universities are supported by an Advisory Board of industry actors and by the regional networks of the universities. E-GOMOTION's work plan consists of three communication action Work Packages including: awareness stimulation events, information campaigns and a European electrification concept competition. These communication actions are based on three fundamental Work Packages for: (i) management and coordination of the project, (ii) analysis of the future job profiles and trends in the electrification industry and (iii) creation of a communication strategy for the actions.
Funding
Results
With the innovation competition E-GOMOTION Challenge, five leading European universities took secondary school students on a trip through the world of electro and sustainable mobility. Participants were asked to focus on a mobility-related problem in their home town and propose environmentally, economically and socially sustainable solutions.
In 2013, the E-GOMOTION Challenge reached over 1000 secondary school students in Italy, France and Germany and around 150 of them submitted their ideas for sustainable mobility. The projects come from Torino, Caen, Würselen (Aachen) and Neureut (Karlsruhe) and range from goods delivery on electric vehicles to apps and ideas meant to improve the quality of public transport, to programmes aimed at promoting the diffusion of e-bikes and carpooling.
Strategy targets
Innovating for the future: technology and behaviour
- Promoting more sustainable development
- Integrated urban mobility