CARSHARE VENTURES BV

Their core work

CARSHARE VENTURES BV operates as SnappCar, a Dutch peer-to-peer car sharing platform that connects private car owners with people who need short-term vehicle access — effectively turning idle privately-owned cars into a shared urban mobility resource. Their core commercial product is a digital marketplace that reduces the need for personal car ownership in cities, contributing directly to urban congestion reduction and lower transport emissions. In EU projects, they appear as an industry implementation partner: bringing a live platform, real users, and operational experience to consortia exploring mobility-as-a-service and sustainable urban transport planning. Their SME Phase 1 project (P2PCS) indicates they also pursued EU funding to validate and scale their peer-to-peer car sharing business model.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both H2020 projects are clustered in the 2016–2017 window, making meaningful temporal evolution difficult to assess — there is no post-2018 activity in the dataset to compare against. The early-period keywords paint a picture of a company embedded in urban mobility systems thinking: sustainable mobility plans, defuelization, vulnerable groups, non-motorized transport. The absence of any recent-period keywords simply reflects that no later projects were recorded, not a loss of focus. The honest reading is a snapshot of a company in early commercial scale-up, using EU funding (SME Phase 1) to validate their business model while simultaneously lending platform credibility to a large urban mobility consortium.

With activity only in 2016–2017 and no H2020 projects recorded after that, it is not possible to identify a current direction from this dataset; any future collaboration should verify whether SnappCar remains active in EU-funded research or has shifted purely to commercial growth.

How they like to work

SnappCar takes on both roles but in very different scales: they coordinated a small SME Phase 1 feasibility study (EUR 50,000) on their own concept, and contributed as a third party to the much larger CIVITAS ECCENTRIC innovation action. The 31 unique consortium partners associated with their projects come almost entirely from the CIVITAS ECCENTRIC consortium, suggesting their network breadth is inherited from one large project rather than built through repeated bilateral partnerships. Working with them likely means engaging a commercially-oriented SME that participates as an industry pilot or deployment site, not as a research or work-package lead.

Their network of 31 partners across 7 countries is almost entirely attributable to CIVITAS ECCENTRIC, a large urban mobility innovation action involving municipalities, universities, and transport operators across Europe. Direct repeat-partner relationships cannot be inferred from just two projects.

What sets them apart

SnappCar is one of the few H2020-participating organizations that brings an operating commercial sharing-economy platform to the table — not a prototype or a research model, but a live marketplace with real transactions and users. That makes them a genuinely useful pilot deployment partner for any consortium needing to test mobility-as-a-service or car sharing integration in a real urban context. For consortium builders, the differentiating value is access to a functioning platform and its user community, not deep technical research capacity.

Highlights from their portfolio

• P2PCS
  SnappCar's only coordinator role — a direct SME Phase 1 grant to validate peer-to-peer car sharing as a scalable business, making it the clearest evidence of their core commercial proposition within EU funding.
• CIVITAS ECCENTRIC
  A large, multi-city innovation action on suburban sustainable mobility where SnappCar contributed as a third-party implementation partner, providing access to their 31-partner European network.