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In collaboration with FKG, BIL Sweden and Drive Sweden, Business Sweden's webinar Shifting gears in the European automotive industry will provide the motivation and insights to help your business shape the future of the OEM and automotive markets.

Opportunities for funding French-Swedish innovation projects on mobility are available through for example EUREKA. This can add additional capacity to the collaboration on smart mobility between the countries that, among others, Drive Sweden is active within.

One of Drive Sweden´s thematic areas – Policy Development – focuses on a recurring problem for innovation, namely that of regulations and policies that haven’t kept up with the fast-paced technological development. This creates a risk that new, groundbreaking, products and services might get delayed or never even reach the market. One of Drive Sweden’s strategic projects, Drive Sweden Policy Lab, is working to prevent this from happening. Within the lab, a wide range of stakeholders gather to solve the bottlenecks for projects and innovations that are at the forefront.

Drive Sweden has investigated how AI could support the vision to help Sweden taking a leading role in creating future mobility systems for people and goods that are sustainable, safe and accessible for all. This report highlights challenges, possibilities and what is needed for AI to work as an enabler for safe and sustainable mobility.

The documentary Life on Wheels, sponsored by Drive Sweden in cooperation with Viable Cities, gives the viewers an in-depth look at the mobility of today and the future. It tells the story of the car-based culture, on the verge of a revolution that will transform the way we move and how we plan our cities.

Ongoing development in Silicon Valley in the field of transportation and mobility is in many ways affecting the Nordic societies. An essential factor in this change is the strong position of global platforms and the high and global ambitions of actors from Silicon Valley in the field of mobility. Between 13-17 January, the Nordic Future Mobility Summit was organized by Nordic Innovation House, Stanford University and Vinnova and Drive Sweden was one of the co-organizers.

Drive Sweden gathered more than 270 people from 8 countries in Gothenburg and presented news, results and insights as the Drive Sweden Forum was held at Chalmers on February 6. State Secretary Mattias Landgren gave some encouraging words for the future, countless meetings took place and strengthened by the day we feel that we are on the right track. Here are a few highlights from this year’s forum.