The sustainability of transport and urban mobility in general is one of the main targets for achieving global sustainability objectives which pass through integrated, innovative and digital solutions which, however, must be adequately designed and structured to guarantee short, but above all, medium- and long-term benefits. Policy makers are increasingly looking for strategies to implement sustainable transportation systems while reducing congestion and pollution. The xLab will address this challenge and prototype an innovative tool to facilitate the emergence of a sustainable urban mobility model, by fostering the collaboration among the different players the different actors, not only of urban transport, but also of all the companies present in the management of the main services (for example waste collection and disposal) and in the production of green energy, through sustainable production cycles. At the end of the course, students will understand the complexity of mobility solutions and how the correlation with climate and energy impacts is essential for sustainable sustainability. The importance of an integrated vision in the identification of the weak points of the sustainability chain that leads to a necessary conscious and transversal design linked to the whole production chain and not only to the final transport system. In particular, all the issues related to the source with less effective impact on the environment, such as that of Hydrogen, will be treated. Analyzing risks and opportunities and evaluating solutions that still prevent large-scale implementation of the "Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies. We will evaluate developments of possible applications that can optimize and stabilize the price level and therefore its widespread diffusion on a large scale.

During the course, students delve deeper into the world of transport, and more in generally, of green energy community, and will learn to understand in advance how to choose the right objectives and evaluate the impacts and methods of choices. During the course, students acquire multisectoral skills that can be used for the development of projects in the workplace and in their final experimental proposal. Through the co-design process, used for training purposes, they learn to design and optimize innovative, digital and sustainable development models to face urban mobility problems in an integrated way, evaluating, in particular, the importance of preventive analysis of choices in order to guarantee fruitful investments and an effective expansion of the use of potentially zero-impact Hydrogen technologies but still difficult to implement due to a lack of integrated vision in the planning and aggregation of common interests (stop the climate change). The course teaches students how to apply the concepts learned and the tools presented in class to real and implementable projects. Therefore, participants learn to develop, write and present a project which is innovative not only in the topics covered but also in the ability to evaluate the costs-benefits before using resources. At the end of the course, students can autonomously carry out an experimental project from the definition of the problem to the presentation of the results. Autonomy of judgment: Throughout the duration of the course, students learn to interact with the professionals, evaluating the information they receive to better support the decision-making process and the ability to develop even independent projects. Communication skills: This course offers students the opportunity to acquire and understand key terms and concepts for communicating critical ideas, proposals, analysis, and reasoning in the urban mobility and Climate/Energy Community sector. In addition, the course provides students with new vocabulary and the communication skills necessary to be able to communicate with experts and professionals in the sector. Learning ability: At the end of the course, students will have had the opportunity to work closely with professionals in the sector, learning the techniques and tools required in the working world. Furthermore, students will acquire new skills and abilities, for example, practical notions relating to the most effective ways to present a project, which will contribute to their professional career.

Urban transportation is one of the pivotal areas for the implementation of an urban sustainable development model, that the EU institutions are advocating for. Especially considering the Covid-19 crisis, the reshaping of urban mobility is a necessary step to ensure the health and wellbeing of cities’ residents. Urban sustainable mobility is one of the most profitable terrains for the expected success of technological and digital developments, which makes it a formidable ground for experimentation but also for potential challenges. To overcome these challenges, “urban co-governance” is highly needed. The city should act as a facilitator of co-management structures throughout its territory and enables city inhabitants to actively take part in the regeneration of their habitat, improve their lifestyle, and develop the community they belong to. Tailored policy tools should be developed to enable all actors (i.e. social innovators, public authorities, businesses, civil society organizations, and knowledge institutions) willing to access the polycentric co-design processes to get involved in the creation of an urban mobility ecosystem. The xLab will address this challenge and elaborate a tool for solving the issue with reference to a specific energy source the urban mobility: Hydrogen like an energy carrier that can be used to store, move, and deliver energy produced from other sources. It will be analyzed the several methods to produce the Hydrogen: thermal process, electrolysis, solar-driven and biological processes. Some notion of fuel cell technology will be given The xLab will be divided in five phases. In the first phase, shared for all xLabs, the different laboratories will be presented indicating their characteristics and points in common. In the second part of the path the groups will separate to face interactive and collaborative lessons, in which they will be able to explore in detail the economic, social and technological characteristics of the reference sector and its main theoretical notions. In the third part the co-design work will begin in which the students will work in groups, together with experts from the companies. In the fourth part, students will have a moment of confrontation across all xLabs. In the fifth part, students will work on finalizing their ideas, thanks also to the feedback received in the previous session. In the last session, the final projects will be presented to a "jury" who will evaluate their feasibility and social, economic, and environmental impacts.

Few reading materials will be made available on learn.luiss before class. Students might be asked to find public info and technical studies and collect and present them in structured presentation or to elaborate on them during class discussion or student-led peer discussion.

The teaching method will foresee a mixed approach which will see guest lectures participating to the classes, the use of case studies and the development of lab sessions. The traditional presentation of the analytical problems will be concise and leave room to Q&A and discussions as well as co-working session, where students are encouraged to be proactive, apply concrete tools introduced during lectures and work collaboratively on the development of a project.

The evaluation will be based on the class participation, the contribution to the project idea/project prototype which will be evaluated thought also the development of individual exercise.

Specific interest for the discipline Active participation to the classes