With the Mobility concepts for the emission-free campus competition, the Ministry of Science addressed the university and research campuses as experimental spaces and real laboratories for sustainable mobility solutions. The task was to develop new mobility concepts bring together campus growth and concurrently minimise emissions, and convince with their attractiveness, efficiency and reliability. In the future, they are to become integral parts of the universities' master plans and include systematic surveys of local mobility needs and the existing infrastructure.
Eleven universities took part in the competition and developed individual concepts for more climate-friendly mobility on their campuses during the one-year competition. In October 2019, an expert group together with stakeholders chose mobility concepts that act as catalysts in their respective environments. Among the winners, who were awarded the prizes in December 2019, were the University of Stuttgart, Biberach University of Applied Sciences, the University of Hohenheim, as well as DHBW Stuttgart and HfT Stuttgart. With this competition, the Ministry of Science pursues an approach of a user-centred mobility transformation. Universities so become the sites of live experiments and act as pacemakers for the municipalities.
