Source: Telemadrid
Madrid Futuro is a private association that emerged during the pandemic to coordinate private and public collaborative efforts to promote business projects in the city.
It currently works with more than 100 companies and collaborating entities to promote the image of Madrid as an innovative city.
From Madrid Futuro they are the ambassadors to contact other innovative companies around the world, said Alfredo Montilla, program director of Madrid Futuro.
In fact, any company and startups that want to test their pilot program will be able to do so in a real, urban and enclosed environment in the district of Villaverde. We are talking about Sandbox, a mobility test area for entrepreneurs to put Madrid on the podium when thinking about innovation.
Product testing begins during the last quarter of the year and the launch will take place in January 2022.
The idea is that from January onwards the flow of startups will increase and there will be more tests in the district, stressed Ángel Niño, Councilor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Madrid City Council.
Likewise, for its implementation, the municipal government incorporated the new Sustainable Mobility Ordinance, approved last September in which the rules were developed. It is a bureaucratic challenge to adapt the legislation so that pilot tests can be carried out. The goal is to have an area in Madrid without ordinances.
There are four projects that will start doing the first tests in Sandbox de Villaverde.
Two projects are in the logistics sector. One is for the delivery of parcels through a terrestrial robot and the other through the use of drones. In addition, an air purification project and a fourth is an autonomous car developed by students from the University of Nebrija.
A total of 5,000 jobs are expected to be generated in Madrid Futuro.