Promise kept for the first U!Train journey
Launched in 2020, the U!Train idea has finally become a reality! Unite! alliance brought together nearly thirty students for a rail journey connecting Barcelona to Grenoble.
On September 1, 2024, 28 students from the 9 Unite! universities met in Barcelona thanks to Interrail passes, for the first official stage of their journey aboard the U! Train. On this first day, they were welcomed by Lourdes Reig, VP International Relations and political representative of Unite! for the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Subsequently, icebreaker activities, a conference on sustainability in Europe by Prof. Gemma Cervantes, and a treasure hunt in downtown Barcelona were offered.
On September 2, participants attended a Living Lab workshop where they could share and analyze data from their journey and train experience. They completed a mapathon to make an exhaustive analysis of the current situation of the rail network. The objective was to detect those strengths and shortcomings at all levels of it.