Open call for applications to support strategic urban mobility innovation projects

Open call for applications to support strategic urban mobility innovation projects is sponsored by EIT Urban Mobility. This call aims to accelerate impactful solutions for pressing urban mobility challenges by fostering collaboration across education, research, business, and cities.

Strategic Innovation Open Call - EIT Urban Mobility Strategic Innovation Open Call EIT Urban Mobility invites innovators from across Europe to submit a proposal to its Strategic Innovation Open Call, designed to accelerate the deployment of impactful solutions that address the most pressing challenges in urban mobility.

The call focuses on supporting ambitious, market-critical projects that tackle clearly defined problems faced by cities, public authorities, and mobility providers. We aim to de-risk development and enable large-scale deployment by backing solutions with a clear path to market and the potential to scale across Europe.

Through this call, EIT Urban Mobility fosters innovation and strengthens Europe’s competitiveness by encouraging collaboration across the EIT Knowledge Triangle—education, research, and business—alongside a fourth essential partner: cities.

The Call will focus on five sectors in which we believe Europe has the potential to innovate and create impact: Public and shared transport, Mobility data management, Electrification of transport and alternative fuels, and In the future, the Call may also include specific topic scopes to address key market opportunities or urgent market failures that can be addressed through our funding.

The total estimated funding allocated to this Call is 60 million EUR for the period 2026-2028 and has multiple cut-off dates. Each project may receive up to 2 million EUR of EIT funding. EIT Urban Mobility will reimburse up to 65% of the eligible project costs, while the minimum co-funding rate for all proposals is 35%.

This is a multi-beneficiary call for proposals and therefore there must be a minimum of two independent legal entities, working together. These entities must be established in two different European Member States, and/or Third countries associated with Horizon Europe .

For information on special cases, including Switzerland and Hungarian universities please refer to the Call Manual (see ‘List of documents to take into consideration’ section below) . The Strategic Innovation Open Call is open from 2026-2028 with several cut-off dates as outlined below.

Access the EIT Urban Mobility Programmes Portal and find the call for the currently open cut-off date under Grant Management –> Grant Management – -> Open Calls. Submit your application form within the given deadline. To register in the EIT Urban Mobility Programmes Portal , click “Register” if your entity is not already registered in the system.

Then select Option 1: “I am an organisation/individual” and complete the Partner Information Form with the required details. If the system denies your registration because the PIC number corresponds to an already registered entity, or because your email address is associated with an existing entity, please contact [email protected] .

The assessment of the proposals involves two stage: Stage 1 is the expert evaluation of proposals submitted via the EIT Urban Mobility Programmes Portal (see section 4. 2 of the Call Manual for submission steps), followed by Stage 2 , which includes a panel hearing and selection by the Selection Committee.

Info sessions: 1-3 July 2025 (see below section ‘Info Webinars’ for further information) Deadlines to apply: All submission windows close at 17. 00 CET on the published cut-off date.

1 st cut-off date: 23 September 2025 2nd cut-off date: 12 February 2026 3rd cut-off date: 18 June 2026 4th cut-off date: February 2027 5th cut-off date: June 2027 Eligibility and admissibility check: Up to 1 week post-submission cut-off Evaluation and invitation to panel hearings: Up to 6 weeks post-submission cut-off Panel hearings and portfolio selection: Approximately 2 weeks post invitation to Panel Hearings Communication of results: Approximately 2 weeks post-Panel Hearings Start of the projects: Approximately 4 weeks post-communication of results List of documents to take into consideration Eligibility of expenditures Financial sustainability guidelines Guidelines for applicants Letter of commitment or support template Project implementation handbook Financial Support Agreement (FSA) template Annotated Grant Agreement EIT Urban Mobility Strategic Agenda 2021-2027 A dedicated group for the Call in EIT Urban Mobility’s community platform Mobility Innovators has been created.

Join Mobility Innovators to: Receive updates on the latest information on the call Watch the webinar information session recordings Connect with fellow innovators to build strong consortia EIT Urban Mobility hosted online information sessions about the call which are available to watch via the Mobility Innovators platform or via the links below: Info webinar: Call content and Q&A Info webinar: Commercialisation and financial sustainability Info webinar: Intellectual property strategy Info webinar: Guidance to applicants All applicants may contact the Innovation Team at EIT Urban Mobility to resolve any concerns or doubts on the general/technical procedures and Call content: [email protected] Starting date for sending applications: Deadline for applications: