GREEN CITY EXPERIENCE GMBH

Their core work

GREEN CITY EXPERIENCE GmbH is a Munich-based private consultancy focused on sustainable urban mobility and community-led environmental transformation. Their work sits at the intersection of city planning practice and citizen engagement — they bring real-world urban experience into research consortia, contributing to projects on Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), Mobility as a Service, and inclusive transport for vulnerable groups. Beyond mobility, they have extended into transdisciplinary community resilience work, engaging with social-ecological systems, adaptation, and empowerment at the local level. They appear to function as a practice-oriented partner that bridges technical planning with social and community dimensions, rather than conducting fundamental research themselves.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earlier H2020 work (2016–2020), GREEN CITY EXPERIENCE focused squarely on concrete urban mobility solutions — SUMPs, defuelization, Mobility as a Service, and inclusive transport planning for suburban areas. Their later involvement (2018–2022) shifted markedly toward systemic community thinking: resilience, social-ecological place-based approaches, ecological economics, and empowerment. This trajectory suggests the organization is moving from technical urban planning toward broader frameworks of community transformation and adaptive capacity, possibly reflecting growing demand for participatory and socially grounded approaches to urban sustainability.

They are broadening from technical transport planning into transdisciplinary community resilience work, making them a potentially useful bridge partner for projects that need to connect urban infrastructure with social acceptance and local empowerment.

How they like to work

GREEN CITY EXPERIENCE has never led an H2020 project — they consistently join as participant or third-party partner, suggesting they are a specialist contributor rather than a consortium organizer. Despite only two projects, they accessed a remarkably large network of 41 partners across 11 countries, indicating they joined well-established, large-scale consortia (CIVITAS ECCENTRIC alone is a major EU mobility demonstration programme). This profile points to an organization that brings specific practical expertise to existing initiatives rather than driving its own research agenda.

Through just two projects, they have touched 41 unique consortium partners spanning 11 European countries — a wide footprint for a small SME, explained by their participation in the large CIVITAS ECCENTRIC demonstration consortium. Their network is broad but shallow, built through large multi-partner programmes rather than repeated bilateral partnerships.

What sets them apart

GREEN CITY EXPERIENCE fills a specific gap that pure research institutions rarely cover: they combine urban mobility planning practice with community engagement and social resilience thinking, grounded in a German city context (Munich). For consortium builders, they offer practitioner credibility and city-level implementation experience that academic partners often lack. Their dual footprint in both transport IA projects and Marie Curie training networks signals versatility across research and applied programme types.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CIVITAS ECCENTRIC
  Their only directly funded H2020 project (EUR 321,044), part of the major CIVITAS urban mobility demonstration programme targeting suburban districts with MaaS, defuelization, and inclusive transport — a high-visibility applied innovation action.
• RECOMS
  Their involvement as a third-party partner in a Marie Curie Innovative Training Network signals engagement with the academic research training ecosystem and a notable pivot toward social-ecological resilience beyond transport.