A renowned expert and practitioner expert in public/private innovation partnerships, Henrik Morgen initiated in 2015 the consortium now known as EIT Urban Mobility. After winning the 350 MEUR EU tender in 2018 he served as its Innovation Hub Director for Northern Europe until joining BABLE Smart Cities - Europe's leading facilitator for smart city solutions and a spin-out Germany's Fraunhofer Research Society.  Since April 2022, Henrik is BABLE's country Lead for the Nordics & Baltics and a Principal Advisor for Climate, Mobility and Urban Digitization. 

Henrik is a professional in technology-based project development for more than 25 years and has worked for and across both industry, academia, government, RTOs, and as an independent consultant. His special technical expertise in the transport, ICT, energy, climate- and clean-tech sectors.

He has large-scale project management experience from multiple business and urban transition projects and has performed numerous EU consultancy assignments for a wide range of public sector authorities and institutions from across Europe.

As an EU senior official, he helped launching the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) before being appointed COO for Europe's largest climate innovation partnership. After establishing EIT-Climate-KIC's pan-Nordic climate innovation hub, he was invited to lead the international partnerships of DTU – Technical University of Denmark.

Earlier in his career Henrik worked in government administration, industry, and tech companies. He has served in multiple supervisory boards and as elected councilor for the City of Copenhagen.

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I have been a validated Lead Expert during URBACT III and I have been involved as Expert in very interesting projects all around Europe. During these years my committment as Expert in Urban Sustainable development for Municipalities has grown a lot and I have been working as project manager for the Swedish and Italian Governements and for several cities in Italy, Turin, Rome, Bologna, Forlì  and Verona in tight collaboration with Deputies and Mayors.

To became an Urbact Validated Expert for me means, influencing and inspiring the work of municipalities on issues of strong change that often need a less conservative push with a creative vision of real change and less politicisation on pressing European issues. As Urbact Expert I can bring my wide expertise in assisting Municipalities in this innovative big change. I have a double role as project manager but also as project evaluator expert because since 2021 I am and Evaluator Expert for the European Commission. Moreover my communication skills thanks to my collaborations at TV, radio and magazines and my work as adjunct professor for the University Tor Vergata In Rome in the Winter/Summer School for  Urban Sustanable Development and for Venice International University in the Master of EU Project Design & Management can be useful for an integrate work with cities.

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I am a mobility and transport expert working in the field for 20 years. My work focuses on supporting cities in their strive to turnaround today’s mostly car-oriented traffic regimes in favour of developing a sustainable urban mobility reality.

Thanks to my work in a range of international cooperation projects (FP7, H2020, Intelligent Energy Europe, Public Health Programme, Interreg, URBACT), I can provide vast experience on cities’ transport and mobility challenges and needs as well as on good solutions present in the EU and beyond. My work assignment history allowed me to build up knowledge on specific fields of urban transport and mobility ranging from classical aspects like walking, cycling, public transport and parking management to the more recent developments of sharing services, Urban Vehicles Access Regulations and micromobility. Contracts on travel choice and travel behaviour, site-based mobility management and the role of urban nodes in the frame of the TEN-T network complements my capacities to cover the “human factor” in urban mobility as well as its connection to long-distance transport.

I had the pleasure to serve two URBACT III Action Planning Networks as Lead Expert: CityMobilNet focusing on the creation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans and Space4People addressing the use of public space by transport. Thanks to these two networks, I gathered valuable experiences to support an action planning network in the design and delivery of a transnational exchange and learning story that well connects to the participation driven integrated planning processes at local level. My role as the training lead in the ELTIS contract 2017-2021 added substantial experiences on capacity building and knowledge exchange at different national backgrounds.

My ambition is to support municipalities and cities to become places of a high quality of life with public space designed for people and their wellbeing in the first place. Recently, I could contribute to create a valuable guiding document in this as the co-author of the "URBACT Walk’n’Roll Cities guidebook “Innovations in mobility and public space”.

I look forward to support municipalities and cities in their capacity building and knowledge exchange on any challenges related to urban mobility!

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I am an open-minded and curiosity-driven professional with a strong passion for sustainable development and collaboration. I believe that by working with values of empathy, mutual respect, encouragement and trust, groups or networks of people can achieve great things together. My academic background is in Land Economy (BA) and Sustainable Territorial Development (MA), and I tend to bring a socio-economic and policy perspective to the table. I have worked with organisations like the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome, UNICEF in Cambodia, OECD in Paris, and I have been managing parts of EU projects under the Horizon 2020, Erasmus+ and URBACT programmes. I have also worked with several grassroots organisations and SMEs, mainly focussing on topics of social and digital innovation, corporate social responsibility, and the sharing economy.          

In the last five years, have developed a wealth of knowledge and practical tools regarding how cities and regions can "localise" the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), hence tackling sustainable development holistically. I currently continue this perspective in a new focus area: governance for sustainability in cities. As Lead Expert for URBACT III, I worked for the largest ever URBACT network - Global Goals for Cities - where 19 EU cities were engaged in the development of integrated action plans to deliver on the SDGs, from identifying the most pressing priorities, challenges and opportunities related to sustainable urban development on local level, to co-creating actions together with stakeholders and selecting performance indicators. The results are summarised in the Global Goals for Cities Learning Kit and the URBACT Knowledge Hub on Localising the 2030 Agenda, which I supported the URBACT Secretariat creating based on many of the examples in the Learning Kit. 

If any of this sounds like it could be useful or interesting for you, please get in touch! I am always keen to explore new collaborations and exchanges.  

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PROFILE
Gustav is an urban planner, with further education in intercultural communication, creative processes, and leadership. Gustav has focused on place anchored human planning as a framework for quality of life and on architecturally manifested consensus through inclusive diversity. He has an established ability to lead international teams and complex urban structures, analyzes, feasibility studies and strategies in Sweden and Europe. He has run his own and others' activities and is driven by a non-hierarchical leadership that goes from a "we" to a greater interdisciplinary community involvement together.

PUBLIC CONTEXT
Gustav has been accustomed to public contexts and appearances in various contexts and languages since childhood. He lectures regularly, has published articles and publications, participated in debates, conducted seminars, participated in international planning conferences, regularly presents major plans to the public, participates in major public citizen dialogues, has published planning documentaries and films, is accustomed to guiding and representations and has exhibited architecture at exhibitions.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Gustav is the third generation in an acclaimed architect (3 p) and journalist (2 p) family. He has grown up with values such as the importance of non-angled comprehensible information and human architecture as a framework for life. He represents the first generation who grew up with sustainability and systems thinking as a natural part from the first day of primary school. His understanding of the city is strengthened by the fact that he has lived and worked in 12 cities in 7 countries, with experience and understanding of the importance of providing "diversity side by side" in spaces. In 2017-2018, he was therefore elected to the Swedish Architects' Committee for Equality and Diversity Issues. Gustav is defined as ENFP in Myers-Briggs test (Inspirer)