Aug 1st Deadline to receive the Dubai Challenge for auto-mobility

The Authority for Roads and Transportation (RTA) has set a deadline for receiving applications from local and international companies, institutions, universities and colleges to the Dubai International Challenge for Autonomous Leadership, launched in cooperation with 39, Khalifa University and New City. Dollars

Awards

Adel Shakeri, director of transport systems at the Public Transport Agency and chairman of the Dubai International Steering Committee for Auto-Mobility, said: "The total amount of prize exceeds $ 5 million and will be announced Among the finalists in October, the winners will be announced in October 2019. "

He explains that the organizing committee has organized several workshops and meetings in the country with university students , firms and institutions that submitted their applications in addition to the contract Electronic workshops with distant agencies

The themes of these workshops varied between the definition of the price and its importance for the solutions brought to the transport and communications sector, and the valuable prizes to be awarded to prize-winners.

Objectives

The Dubai International Leadership Challe nge targets large companies and emerging and local universities, with $ 3 million allocated to large companies and $ 1.5 million to young people.

$ 600,000 was allocated to universities and academic institutions, including $ 300,000 dollars for local universities from other international universities, explaining that mobility of self-driving has become a key pillar of the Commission's strategy, and that for that we are working on launching many innovative initiatives to be a self-driving movement and the concrete reality and reality on the ground in Dubai.