Why we exist
How people move shapes how cities grow, how diseases spread, how economies connect and how fairly opportunity is shared. Understanding mobility needs many disciplines at once: physics and computer science, geography and economics, public health and policy.
The society brings together researchers across Europe who study these questions with data, models and fieldwork. We believe the best answers come from people who usually sit in different departments, in different countries, talking to each other regularly.
How we work
We are a network, not a hierarchy. Initiated in 2024 in Pisa by Riccardo Di Clemente and Luca Pappalardo, the society grew out of the annual European Mobility Symposium into an open collaborative network across Europe. Members meet each year, share data and methods between institutions, and start joint projects that no single group could carry alone. The map on our home page shows these collaborations as they grow.
We give particular attention to early-career researchers: shared supervision, visiting periods between member institutions, and space to present work in progress in a friendly setting.
Manifesto & White Paper
European Mobility Science Manifesto
The shared manifesto and white paper outlining the society’s research agenda on human mobility, urban resilience, and open quantitative science will be published here soon.