Academic and Learning Networks
Connect research, teaching, and professional learning with real mobility challenges
ACCESS works with universities, research organisations, training providers, professional networks, public institutions, industry, and practitioners to strengthen learning and collaboration on digital, low-carbon, and inclusive urban mobility.
Academic and Learning Networks help connect regional expertise with country and city implementation. They support knowledge exchange, joint learning, applied research, curriculum development, training of trainers, and stronger links among academia, governments, civil society, industry, and development partners.
This page should present active networks and collaborations relevant to ACCESS learning and application. It should not function as an unrestricted directory of institutions or duplicate the Consortium and Partnerships pages.
Why Academic and Learning Networks Matter
- Connect academic knowledge with practical policy and implementation needs.
- Strengthen regional and national capacity through teaching, research, mentoring, and peer learning.
- Help translate ACCESS knowledge products and tools into curricula, courses, and applied assignments.
- Create opportunities for institutions and learners to compare experience across countries and disciplines.
- Support continuity by embedding knowledge and learning within institutions beyond the programme period.
- Expand participation among students, researchers, practitioners, public authorities, civil society, and industry.
How Networks Contribute to ACCESS
Research and Evidence
Collaborative research, comparative analysis, case studies, methods, publications, and evidence responding to ACCESS priorities.
Explore Research CollaborationTeaching and Curriculum
Integration of ACCESS themes, tools, cases, and learning outcomes into courses, curricula, short programmes, and teaching resources.
Explore Teaching CollaborationProfessional Learning
Courses, workshops, mentoring, peer learning, training of trainers, and continuing professional development for public and private stakeholders.
Explore Learning OpportunitiesApplied Innovation
Student projects, laboratories, challenges, demonstrations, and joint initiatives connected to real country and city needs.
Explore Applied OpportunitiesRegional Exchange
Seminars, conferences, thematic dialogues, academic mobility, and cross-country learning that connect local experience with regional discussion.
Explore Exchange ActivitiesLong-Term Capacity
Institutional ownership, faculty development, reusable learning resources, local facilitation, and sustained academic and practitioner collaboration.
Explore Capacity BuildingExplore Network Types
University and research networks
Universities and research organisations collaborating on sustainable mobility, energy, transport digitalisation, data, governance, inclusion, finance, and climate impact.
Teaching and training networks
Institutions and facilitators developing, adapting, delivering, or quality-assuring ACCESS courses, modules, workshops, and training-of-trainers resources.
Practitioner learning networks
Public authorities, transport agencies, operators, consultants, civil society, and technical practitioners sharing implementation experience and practical knowledge.
Innovation and industry networks
Academic, public, and private actors connecting research, technology, operations, market experience, and responsible innovation.
Student and early-career networks
Opportunities for applied projects, research, mentoring, internships, competitions, conferences, and participation in regional knowledge exchange.
Featured Network
RELIEVE — Latin American Network for Research in Energy and Vehicles
RELIEVE connects universities and partner organisations working at the intersection of energy, vehicles, transport, and the environment. The network promotes joint research, scientific exchange, and capacity development. Its activities include research projects, seminars, international courses, conferences, and initiatives supporting participation and visibility in science and technology.
For ACCESS, RELIEVE can provide a platform for academic collaboration and knowledge exchange on transport digitalisation, sustainable mobility, energy transition, low-carbon solutions, and the development of technical and professional capabilities.
The RELIEVE button should be clearly marked as an external link to redrelieve.com. Before publication, confirm the approved English name, the formal relationship with ACCESS, the scope of collaboration, and permission to use the network name and visual identity.
Illustrative Network Activities
Network profiles should show active and relevant opportunities rather than only institutional descriptions. Possible activities include:
- Collaborative research projects and publications
- Seminars, lectures, and thematic conference sessions
- International courses, summer schools, and specialist training
- Faculty development and training of trainers
- Student projects, applied challenges, and mentoring
- Joint development or review of courses and learning modules
- Use of ACCESS tools, cases, datasets, and methodologies in teaching
- Peer exchange among universities, governments, practitioners, civil society, and industry
- Regional events and dissemination of research findings
- Development of open educational resources where rights permit
Opportunities to Participate
Participation opportunities should be specific, current, and clearly connected to an active network or activity.
For Universities and Research Organisations
Contribute expertise, develop joint research, integrate ACCESS content into teaching, host learning activities, and support regional exchange.
Explore Institutional ParticipationFor Faculty and Trainers
Adapt learning materials, join training-of-trainers activities, contribute cases, facilitate courses, and exchange teaching practice.
Explore Faculty OpportunitiesFor Students and Early-Career Professionals
Join courses, research projects, applied assignments, events, mentoring, and approved innovation challenges.
Explore Student OpportunitiesFor Governments and Practitioners
Propose practical challenges, engage with research and learning, host applied activities, and share implementation needs and experience.
Explore Practice PartnershipsFor Industry and Development Partners
Contribute technical expertise, research questions, responsible innovation, learning support, and financing or scaling perspectives.
Explore Collaboration OpportunitiesFor Civil Society
Contribute community knowledge, inclusion perspectives, accountability, participatory approaches, and lived experience to research and learning.
Explore Civil-Society ParticipationWhat Each Network Profile Should Show
- Network name and short description
- Geographic reach
- Thematic focus
- Participating institutions or membership model
- Relevant ACCESS themes and activities
- Types of learning, research, or exchange offered
- Current opportunities to participate
- Languages
- Access conditions and any fees
- Accessibility and participation arrangements
- Contact or application route
- External website and social channels
- Relationship with ACCESS
- Last verified date
Additional Networks
Additional networks may be added as ACCESS expands its partnerships and develops new learning, research, and exchange activities. New profiles should only be published when the relationship with ACCESS, responsible contact, active opportunities, and maintenance arrangements are confirmed.
Do not publish “coming soon” network pages without an approved collaboration or useful information for visitors. Until additional profiles are ready, show only validated networks and a general invitation to collaborate.
Connect Networks with the Wider ACCESS System
- 1Knowledge
- 2Learning
- 3Application
- 4Exchange
- 5Scaling
Networks should connect academic and professional activity with ACCESS knowledge products, Learning Pathways, Courses and Trainings, implementation cases, the Community of Practice, and Regional Uptake and Scaling.