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Volkswagen Group strives to be a highly innovative and future oriented company, gearing towards becoming the world’s leading mobility provider, while continuing to produce some of the very best automobiles. Through our Open Innovation initiative, we are excited to strengthen our collaboration, work with our external partners and accelerate our innovation potential even more.

Matching your solutions, technologies and creative ideas with our industrial expertise, Open Innovation is the way to co-create and develop the products and services that  will revolutionize the future of the mobility sector.

Live Open Innovation Challenges

We cannot revolutionize mobility alone, which is why we want to collaborate with you, be creative together and hear your valuable input. Show us new paths and co-create with our brands and entities through our Open Innovation Challenges.

Apply now and join us to create the future of mobility:

Open Innovation at Volkswagen Group

The Volkswagen Group with its twelve brands, headquartered in Wolfsburg, is one of the leading car manufacturers worldwide and the largest car producer in Europe. With the rise of new emerging technologies and rapidly shifting customer needs, we recognize that the automotive industry is facing a major paradigm shift, as we move beyond the core business towards new business opportunities and a collaborative way of innovating.

Find out more about Open Innovation within the group and our brands:

  • Accelerators and Incubators

    APX by Axel Springer & Porsche

    The cooperation between Porsche and Axel Springer invests in early stage startups from within the field of "digital business models" to prepare them for larger investments in a 100-day program. With its sister company Axel Springer Plug and Play, Accelerator APX helps you with experience from hundreds of investments, hundreds of financing rounds, hundreds of founders, and hundreds of investors.

    Discover why we're different...

     

    Future Mobility Incubator

    The Volkswagen Future Mobility Incubator in Dresden is aimed specifically at start-ups and founders from the fields of mobility, industry & logistics 4.0 and sustainability. Part of the incubator programme is a financial support of up to 15,000 euros per start-up. The incubator has been in existence since August 2017. Within the framework of the start-up programme, the Volkswagen Saxony’s Transparent Factory offers several further perks and contacts within Volkswagen and the start-up scene.

    Check out the Future Mobility Incubator.

     

     

    MAN Impact Accelerator

    Access to transport & mobility solutions is the single most important driver to alleviate poverty. The MAN Impact Accelerator is built to scale social ventures in the fields of mobility, transport & logistics with a considerable impact on our society. It takes the startups on a journey across 4 different innovation ecosystems in Europe, South America and Africa. They get access to a pool of more than 300 mentors, become inspired by social entrepreneurs and learn from leaders of their industry!

    Find out more about the MAN Impact Accelerator.

     

    Startup Autobahn powered by PlugAndPlay

    Startup Autobahn is the ultimate innovation platform that connects startups of all development stages with industry-leading corporate partners to pilot their technology and drive the ultimate goal — a successful production-ready implementation.

    Ready to deal with the big guys?

  • Hackathons

    Hackathons at Volkswagen Group

    At Volkswagen Group, we see hackathons as an interactive way of creating a variety of innovative concepts and take them as a great opportunity for getting to know you and your ideas in person.

    Learn more about past Hackathons.

  • Supplier Innovation

    F.A.S.T. Program

    FAST - short for "Future Automotive Supply Tracks" - is the Volkswagen Group's supplier program. With the aim of shaping the mobility of the present and the future, the program includes new opportunities to optimize and intensify the interactions between supplier and Volkswagen Group. Among other things, it includes regular exchange with top decision-makers, insights into the future planning of the group and invitations to innovation events, such as the "Innovation Days".

    Find out more here.

  • Co-Creation

    Porsche Next-OI

    Porsche NEXT OI is a yearly open innovation competition to find groundbreaking ideas and integrate them with future Porsche sportscars. The Objective of last years competition was to develop an app, using the latest simulated Porsche sportscar APIs and have the chance to develop your app with Porsche. The competition has been designed to give you access to a wide range of tools, systems and platforms making it one of the most inclusive developer competitions in the world.

    #PorscheNEXTOI

    Start4Big

    Start4Big is the first cross-sector open innovation initiative in Europe driven by Aigües de Barcelona, CaixaBank, Naturgy, SEAT, and Telefónica, looking for the best start-ups to develop solutions to the most complicated business challenges. We want to be the first to adopt technologies that will have impact on our customers.

    Are you ready to take on the new business challenges?

  • Startup & Technology Scouting

    Ideation:Hub

    The Volkswagen Group Ideation:Hub promotes the digital and cultural transformation across all brands at Volkswagen Group. They act as matchmakers: On their website group wide challenges are published, for which they are looking for suitable innovations from the startup world.

    Here you can find more information about our current topics.

    Innovation & Engineering Center California

    The IECC has made it their mission to drive change, which means that they are not only impacting one of the world’s largest car makers, but also the lives of millions of people. Located in the Silicon Valley, they are part of the Volkswagen Group of America and create bold new ideas for the Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Porsche brands.

    Let's create ideas that move the world.

    Konnect

    Konnect is an Open Innovation Hub of the Volkswagen Group, founded in 2018 and based in Tel Aviv. We scout for deep tech Israeli Startups and match them to our 12 Volkswagen Group Brands, based on technological needs and use cases. Using our local tech expertise, we scale projects and collaboration’s in the fields of Smart mobility and Industry 4.0. With a lean team and a startup mindset, we drive innovation and culture change into the Volkswagen Group and its Brands.

    Find out more...

    ŠKODA AUTO DigiLab

    With four locations around the world, the ŠKODA AUTO DigiLab develops technologies and solutions for mobility of the future. The vision is to make the life of our customers better by creating new products and mobility services. Currently, over 40 innovative projects related to mobility, e-mobility, AI and Smart cities are part of the ŠKODA AUTO DigiLab portfolio.

    Check out what's new.

    SEAT CODE

    Based in Barcelona, SEAT CODE develops in-house products and develops ideas that require coding, across multiple fields. Its target is to create innovative, scalable solutions both inside and outside the field of mobility and to stablish partnerships to make this future vision happen. Currently, SEAT CODE is in its growth phase and is looking for viable ideas to sponsor and develop.

    Check out what's new.

  • Academic Collaboration

    Open Hybrid LabFactory

    In the Open Hybrid LabFactory (OHLF) research campus, which is organised by an association as a public-private partnership, around 200 experts from universities, research institutions and industry are researching and developing innovative manufacturing and materials technology with focus on lightweight and circular economy for the mobility sector together as equals. The OHLF is located in Wolfsburg in the vicinity of the MobileLifeCampus and the AutoUni.

    Find out more...

    MIT APT Network

    Recognizing the growing importance of additive manufacturing (AM) across all industries, the MIT Center for Additive and Digital Advanced Production Technologies (APT) aims to accelerate the implementation of AM and to invest in its future. With MIT top talent and leading industry experts, APT has built a multidisciplinary network to enable AM in digital manufacturing. Together with other companies, Volkswagen AG is one of the founding members of the APT.

    Find out more...

Innovation fields at Volkswagen Group

The forces of the future within digital technology, sustainability and mobility are disrupting the whole value chain of every industry and economic sector. That's why, at the Volkswagen Group, we constantly strive to be at the forefront of these developments.

Learn more about some of the challenges and developments we at Volkswagen are currently working on:

Volkswagen Industrial Cloud: Revolutionizing Production

Together with Amazon Web Services, the Volkswagen Group is developing the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud – thus launching a new era for digitally networked production worldwide. The Volkswagen Industrial Cloud brings together data from all machines, plants and systems in all factories. This enables us to analyze our processes even better - and thus become more productive. Our long-term goal is to integrate the global supply chain for more than 30,000 locations and 1,500 partner companies into the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud.

Read more...

Software and Digitalization

The automotive industry is facing unprecedented changes, undergoing a radical phase of transformation. The digitalization of all industries is the driver of this change, in which Volkswagen is playing a key role. Therefore, the Volkswagen Group is bracing for the future by transforming itself into a tech group with a large focus on software and digitalization.

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Urban Mobility

As part of its commitment to micromobility, SEAT MÓ  was founded in 2020 to design the most sustainable cities of the future. With this new business unit, the brand aims to respond to the new mobility needs of cities with 100% electric, noise-free, accessible and affordable products and services. SEAT MÓ  recently launced a flexible subscription model for the new electric motorbike, the SEAT MÓ eScooter 125.

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Electrification

Volkswagen is working to protect the climate in multiple areas: in its products, in production and along the value chain. While the grand aim is to become the global market leader in e-mobility, the electric-offensive does not only include cars. The Volkswagen Group assumes responsibility across its value chain, including climate friendly solutions in logistics, an increased energy efficiency and reduced emissions in factories, and expanding the public rapid-charging network.

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Autonomous Ridepooling

Cities all over the world are seeking to make their transport systems more efficient and environmentally friendly. With MOIA as an on-demand ride-sharing service we have already established a new form of mobility. MOIA is additionally working with various partners towards developing an autonomous ridepooling system which is integrated into Hamburg’s transport infrastructure by 2025.

Read more...

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You feel inspired and think your idea has the potential to impact the future of mobility? Let us know about it!

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