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🎓GEMINI Academy
Your digital learning and knowledge sharing platform for sustainable urban mobility and Mobility Living Labs
As a partner in the GEMINI project, A1 Slovenija invites you to explore the GEMINI Academy and discover practical insights, learning resources and innovative approaches to sustainable urban mobility.
About GEMINI Academy
The GEMINI Academy is a flagship knowledge-sharing and capacity-building initiative under the EU-funded GEMINI project, designed to turn cutting edge research and innovations in shared mobility into practical, accessible online learning. Serving as both a learning hub and legacy platform, the Academy empowers cities, operators, and mobility practitioners across Europe to design, implement, and scale inclusive, sustainable shared mobility solutions. Through a blend of live webinars, expert interviews, and the self-paced “Shared Mobility in Action” e-course, it transforms project outcomes into engaging, reusable content, ensuring the continuity of knowledge and collaboration beyond the life of the project.
No prerequisites required to partake in the GEMINI Academy. A basic familiarity with urban mobility planning and project management is helpful but not mandatory.
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🚀 Webinar: Discover the GEMINI Mobility Knowledge Hub!
On 21 September, from 14:00 to 15:00 CET, the GEMINI Academy will host a new webinar introducing the GEMINI Mobility Knowledge Hub, developed by ITA · Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón to support knowledge sharing across European Mobility Living Labs.
Across Europe, Living Labs are developing and testing innovative mobility solutions, generating valuable knowledge on applications, standards, integration methods and implementation challenges.
The GEMINI Mobility Knowledge Hub brings this knowledge together, making it easier for cities and mobility stakeholders to discover, learn from and replicate successful approaches.
During the webinar, Shaghayegh Rahnama and David Escuín Finol from ITA will introduce the platform and explain how information from GEMINI Mobility Living Labs is collected and transformed into structured, reusable knowledge. Participants will also see the Knowledge Hub in action through a live demonstration.
📅 21 September 2026
⏰ 14:00–15:00 CET
💻 Online webinar
Who should attend?
City and regional mobility teams, Living Lab representatives, public transport operators, mobility service providers, technology companies, research organisations and EU project partners interested in smart mobility, knowledge sharing and the replication of proven mobility solutions across Europe.
Share. Learn. Replicate. Accelerating Smart Mobility Across Europe.
🚲 Ready to get moving again? This time, let’s do it together.
From 7 to 22 September, the Polni zagona Autumn Special is taking place, a short nationwide challenge encouraging people across Slovenia to swap the car for a bike on their way to work.
Joining is easy:
🚲 sign up at polnizagona.si
🚲 join the Autumn Special challenge
🚲 cycle to work at least three times during the challenge and log your rides in your profile
You do not have to cycle the whole way. Combining cycling with public transport counts too.
Everyone who completes and logs at least three rides will be entered into a prize draw, with 10 winners selected.
Want to make the ride a little easier? A1 employees, contractors and students can use a special free annual A1 Nomago Bikes subscription provided as part of the GEMINI project. E-bikes are available too.
To claim your free subscription, simply email us at dti@a1.si.
16 days. At least three rides. One less car on the road. Are you in? 🚲💛
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Webinar: Shaping Sustainable Cities with New Mobility Services
This online Joint Projects Webinar, taking place on Thursday, 3 September 2026, at 14:00 CET, will showcase how the SPINE, GEMINI and metaCCAZE projects are testing innovative mobility solutions in Porto, Gdynia and Miskolc. Speakers Joana Silva, José Barata, Marta Fortunato, Alicja Pawłowska and Prof. Domokos Esztergár-Kiss will share practical lessons on sustainable matchday mobility, integrated public transport and shared mobility, and multimodal transport solutions.
Who should attend?
The session is particularly relevant for:
- Transport authorities
- Municipal mobility teams
- Policymakers
- Public transport operators
- Shared mobility providers
- Urban planners
- Researchers and mobility professionals
- City administrations working on sustainable and smart mobility
Ljubljana Mobility Living Lab continues to build everyday cycling habits
July 2026
As part of the GEMINI project, the shared e-bike pilot at the A1 Slovenia headquarters in Ljubljana continues to support more sustainable mobility choices in a real workplace environment.
The pilot includes a private A1 bike-sharing station and 10 A1-branded e-bikes circulating within the Ljubljana bike-sharing network. The service is designed to make shared e-bikes easier to use for short everyday trips, including meetings, errands, connections to public transport or replacing shorter car journeys in the city.
Results from July 2026 show continued and active use of the A1-branded bikes:
✅ 634 rentals with A1-branded bikes
✅ 2,536 km travelled
✅ 22% more kilometres travelled than in June
✅ 62 rentals and 44 returns at the private A1 station
✅ an estimated 171.8 kg of CO₂ saved compared with travelling the same distance by car
Compared with the previous month, the number of rentals remained almost stable, while the total distance travelled increased significantly. This indicates that users are not only continuing to use the bikes, but are also taking them on slightly longer or more purposeful trips across the city.
The use of the private A1 station also increased strongly in July, with 62 rentals and 44 returns recorded at the station located at A1 Slovenia’s headquarters. This shows that the workplace-based station is becoming a more visible and practical part of the pilot.
These results confirm that shared e-bikes can become a useful mobility option in a workplace context, especially for short urban trips where cycling can be faster, simpler and less stressful than using a car.
The Ljubljana Mobility Living Lab continues to help GEMINI better understand how shared e-bike systems can support more sustainable mobility habits in everyday working life. Aggregated usage data from the pilot will contribute to the Ljubljana Living Lab reporting and the wider GEMINI evaluation.
Small trips can add up to meaningful change. 🚲
#GEMINIProject #LivingLab #SustainableMobility #SharedMobility #EBikes #Ljubljana #A1Slovenia
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The Ljubljana Mobility Living Lab continues to gain momentum!
June 2026
As part of the GEMINI project, the shared e-bike pilot at the A1 Slovenia headquarters in Ljubljana is showing growing use and increasing interest.
The pilot includes a private A1 station and 10 A1-branded e-bikes circulating within the Ljubljana bike-sharing network.
Results from June 2026 show further growth:
✅ 638 rentals with A1-branded bikes
✅ 12% more rentals than in May
✅ 2,074 km travelled
✅ 10% more kilometres travelled than in May
✅ 18 rentals and 14 returns at the A1 private station
✅ an estimated 562 kg of CO₂ saved compared with travelling the same distance by car
These figures show that shared e-bikes are becoming a practical option for short everyday trips, whether for meetings, errands, connections to public transport or simply avoiding traffic and the search for parking.
The Ljubljana Living Lab continues to help GEMINI better understand how shared e-bike systems can support more sustainable mobility habits in a real workplace environment.
Small trips can add up to meaningful change. 🚲
#GEMINIProject #LivingLab #SustainableMobility #SharedMobility #EBikes #Ljubljana #A1Slovenia
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Kick-off Meeting Success | CoRe 5G – Centres of Vocational Excellence for Resilient 5G Networks
- Presented the overall vision and objectives of the project
- Reviewed all Work Packages and defined key roles
- Aligned on timelines and upcoming activities
- Initiated collaboration across seven regional Centres of Vocational Excellence
The Ljubljana Mobility Living Lab is now in operation!
May 2026
As part of the GEMINI project, a A1 Bikes station has been launched at the A1 Slovenia headquarters in Ljubljana, supporting the use of shared e-bikes for short everyday trips in a real workplace environment.
The pilot includes a private A1 station and 10 A1-branded e-bikes.
First results from May 2026 already show promising uptake:
✅ 568 rentals with A1-branded bikes
✅ 1,891 km travelled
✅ 23 rentals and 20 returns at the A1 private station
✅ 512,5 kg estimated CO₂ savings compared with car use
The Ljubljana Living Lab will help GEMINI better understand how shared e-bike systems can support more sustainable mobility habits, especially for short urban trips connected to work, meetings, public transport and everyday errands.
Small changes in daily mobility can make sustainable choices easier.
#GEMINIProject #LivingLab #SustainableMobility #SharedMobility #EBikes #Ljubljana #A1Slovenia
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Ljubljana Mobility Living Lab has entered its operational phase!
April 2026
Within the GEMINI project, A1 Slovenia has launched a shared e-bike pilot at A1 Slovenia’s headquarters in Ljubljana. The pilot brings sustainable mobility directly into the workplace, making it easier for employees, students and contractual collaborators to choose shared e-bikes for short everyday trips.
The pilot will provide practical insights into how shared e-bike systems can support more sustainable mobility habits in real working environments, while aggregated usage data will contribute to the Ljubljana Living Lab Report and the wider GEMINI evaluation.
#GEMINIProject #LivingLab #SustainableMobility #SharedMobility #UrbanMobility #Ljubljana #A1Slovenia
A1 Slovenia upgrades Narrowband IoT technology with LTE-M
A1 Slovenija is the first operator in Slovenia and among the first in Europe to provide commercial access to LTE-M technology that supplements NB-IoT technology for mass machine type communication, and expands the options for its use.
July 2021; A1 implemented NB-IoT technology across Slovenia already in 2019, and it has also been testing the applications of this technology on the “Smart devices, models and platforms in an active network” (PAKT) demonstration project, which is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Together with its partners it is using this project to support real-environment research, development and innovation in smart cities and communities with a focus on energy transformation, distribution and management.
LTE-M technology is based on LTE and represents a step forward in the development of the internet of things (IoT). Among other features it brings added value in monitoring location and vital signs of individuals by utilizing wearable devices, keeping track of stock on the shelves, asset management, logistics, vehicle fleet management and other usage cases that require high bidirectional data bandwidth, while keeping battery use low. The option of transferring massive amounts of data allows a large number of IoT devices to be upgraded over the radio network, which is essential for patching any software bugs and introducing new features during a device’s lifespan.
The mechanic simplicity of LTE-M modules makes them more affordable, which leads to an expected significant increase of these devices on the network, and with them an acceleration in the development of the internet of things. With higher bandwidth and faster data rates more complex applications will come into use, and unlike NB-IoT, LTE-M does support mobility, as session handover between base stations is supported from the onset. The full duplex mode of operations that makes it possible for a device to transmit and receive at the same time and low latency of LTE-M technology make it possible for developers to use standard TCP protocols, which should speed-up development. LTE-M also supports voice calls through the VoLTE protocol.
LTE-M and NB-IoT are complementary technologies that provide excellent opportunities for all industries requiring coverage of a broad area and low power use. The 5G network supports both technologies, and establishing LTE-M is a major step towards 5G for massive machine type communication (mMTC) and massive internet of things (MIoT).
About A1 Slovenija
A1 Slovenija is the leading privately-owned provider of comprehensive communication services in Slovenia. It has more than 500 employees, who are committed to creating solutions and enriching the lives in the digital age for over 700,000 users. A1 Slovenija develops sensible communication solutions that fit the current and emerging users’ needs, so that they can experience work, entertainment, creation and sharing in a more connected way.
A1 Slovenija is a part of the A1 Telekom Austria Group (ATX: TKA), the leading provider of digital services and communications in Central and Eastern European countries, with more than 25 million customers in 7 countries, more than €4.55 billion in revenue, and more than 18,000 employees. The Group is the European branch of América Móvil, one of the largest providers of wireless services in the world.
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E-mail: PR@A1.si.
V A1 Slovenija so nadgradili tehnologijo Narrowband IoT z LTE-M
A1 Slovenija je kot prvi v Sloveniji in med prvimi v Evropi omogočil komercialni dostop do LTE-M tehnologije, s katero dopolnjuje tehnologijo NB-IoT za množično komunikacijo naprav ter razširja možnosti in načine njene uporabe.
A1 Slovenija je tehnologijo NB-IoT na področju celotne Slovenije vzpostavil leta 2019, v praksi pa možnosti uporabe med drugim testira na demonstracijskem projektu »Pametne naprave, modeli ter platforme v aktivnem omrežju« (PAKT), ki ga iz Evropskega sklada za regionalni razvoj sofinancirata tudi Republika Slovenija in Evropska unija. Skupaj s partnerji s projektom podpira raziskovalno-razvojne in inovacijske dejavnosti v realnem okolju na področju pametnih mest in skupnosti s fokusom na pretvorbi, distribuciji in upravljanju energije.
Tehnologija LTE-M deluje na temeljih LTE in predstavlja korak naprej pri razvoju interneta stvari. Med drugim prinaša dodano vrednost na področjih spremljanja lokacije in vitalnih znakov posameznikov z uporabo nosljivih naprav, sledenje zalogam na policah, upravljanja premoženja, logistike, upravljanja voznega parka in drugih, ki zahtevajo večjo količino prenosa podatkov v obe smeri ob kar največjem varčevanju baterijskega napajanja. Prav možnost prenosa večjih količin podatkov omogoča nadgrajevanje programske opreme večjega števila IoT naprav preko radijskega omrežja, kar je ključno za odpravo programskih napak in vpeljavo novih funkcionalnosti v celotni življenjski dobi naprave.
Strojna enostavnost LTE-M modulov vpliva na njihovo cenovno dostopnost, zaradi česar je pričakovati povečan porast naprav v omrežju in pospešen razvoj interneta stvari. Z večjo pasovno širino in višjimi hitrostmi prenosa podatkov bo omogočena uporaba kompleksnejših aplikacij, LTE-M pa za razliko od NB-IoT podpira mobilnost in že v osnovi vsebuje podporo za predajo seje med baznimi postajami. Full Duplex način dela, ki dovoljuje napravi hkratno oddajanje in sprejemanje, in nizka latenca LTE-M tehnologije omogoča razvijalcem uporabo standardnih TCP protokolov in s tem hiter razvoj. LTE-M omogoča tudi govorni prenos oziroma VoLTE funkcionalnost.
Tehnologiji LTE-M in NB-IoT se med sabo dopolnjujeta in nudita odlične možnosti vsem panogam, ki potrebujejo pokrivanje širokega območja in hkrati zelo nizko porabo energije. Omrežje 5G podpira obe tehnologiji, predvsem vzpostavitev LTE-M pa je pomemben korak proti 5G na delu masivne strojne komunikacije (mMTC) oziroma masivnega interneta stvari (MIoT).
July 29th, 2022; For the OpenWebSearch.EU project, A1 Slovenia d. d. has joined forces with 13 other renowned European research centers to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The project will be contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market. The European Commission has now approved the project’s Horizon Europe funding of 8,5 million euros.
„Free, open and unbiased access to information – we have lost these core principles in web search and urgently need to restore them. This is why we will create an open European infrastructure for internet search, based on European values and jurisdiction.” says Michael Granitzer of University Passau and Open Search Foundation, project coordinator of OpenWebSearch.EU.
Over the next three years, the researchers will develop the core of a European Open Web Index (OWI) as a basis for a new Internet Search in Europe. In addition, the project will set the foundation for an open and extensible European open Web Search and Analysis Infrastructure (OWSAI), based on Europe’s values, principles, legislation and standards.
»We are glad to take part in OpenWebSearch.EU project. Open Web Index pilot builds a foundation for innovative demonstrators in the search space. This will be particularly crucial for future Al innovations and relevant for other European infrastructure like e.g. GAIA-X, where A1 Telekom Austria Group, with its subsidiary A1 Digital is a Day 1 Member. We are supporting European Cloud Infrastructure, with Exoscale, GDPR-compliant, secure and high-performance cloud solutions from Europe: Data sovereignty is thus in the hands of the entrepreneurs. “says Marjana Sencar Srdic of A1 Slovenia.
The project has its origins in concerns over the imbalance of the search engine market. Despite being a backbone of our digital economy, web search is dominated and limited by a few gatekeepers like Google, Microsoft, Baidu or Yandex. Thus, information as public good, with free, unbiased and transparent access is not under public control anymore. This imbalance endangers democracy and limits the innovative potential of Europe’s research landscape and economy.
“The Open Web Search infrastructure will be another step to bringing competition and fairness back to online platform markets. This will be especially important for breaking down the barriers small Web contributors and businesses face in competing with the tech giants “says Marjana Sencar Srdic of A1 Slovenia.
OpenWebSearch.EU’s strong multi-disciplinary consortium of 14 European partners is convinced that “the open web search infrastructure will not only contribute to Europe’s sovereignty for navigating and searching the web. It will benefit us all as citizens. Based on our own preferences, we will finally have a real choice again when choosing search engines.”
OpenWebSearch.EU is the first project the EU has funded to get tomorrow’s web search up and running. It will kick-off in September 2022. The 14 partner institutions will initially cooperate over a time-frame of three years. The project has received funding of 8,5 million euros from the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101070014.
Contact:
Media Relations:
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List of project partners
- University of Passau, Germany (uni-passau.de)
- Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany (lrz.de)
- Stichting Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands (ru.nl)
- Leipzig University, Germany (uni-leipzig.de)
- Graz University of Technology, Austria (tugraz.at)
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany (dlr.de)
- VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, IT4Innovations, Czech Republic (www.vsb.cz)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN, Switzerland (home.cern)
- Open Search Foundation, Germany (opensearchfoundation.org)
- A1 Slovenija, telekomunikacijske storitve, d. d., Slovenia (a1.si)
- CSC-Tieteen Tietotekniikan Keskus Oy, Finland (csc.fi)
- Stichting Nlnet, Netherlands (nlnetlabs.nl)
- Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany (uni-weimar.de)
- SuMa e.V. – Verein für freien Wissenszugang, Germany (suma-ev.de)
About Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation. It aims to build a knowledge- and innovation-based society and a competitive economy while contributing to sustainable development. The programme contributes to the implementation of the European Commission’s guidelines.