The EIT Urban Mobility is thrilled to launch the new edition of the SME Market Expansion Open Call. The Call is designed to promote business growth and market expansion, encouraging the replication and scaling of successful solutions in new regions or sectors. It offers a strategic platform for SMEs with ambitions to scale by expanding into new markets.
The Call focus is on accelerating the market uptake of impactful innovations by reducing the risk of development and deployment. EIT Urban Mobility aims to support solutions with a clear path to market, helping cities and businesses confidently procure and scale proven innovations. Through collaboration with an end-client, SMEs can validate their offering in a real-world setting, while gaining visibility and credibility in the European market.
The Call will focus on five topics:
- Public and Shared Transport
- Urban Logistics
- Electrification of transport and alternative fuels
- Mobility data management
- Health and mobility
EIT funding allocation
The total estimated funding allocated to this Call is €600,000.
Around 10 projects are to be implemented by 10 different SMEs. Each awarded entity will receive a fixed lump sum grant of EUR 60,000
Who can apply?
This Call is a mono-beneficiary call addressed to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are supported by an end client, a public or private entity, committed to testing and demonstrating the solution.
To ensure a balanced portfolio of projects, SMEs selected for the previous SME Market Expansion Open Call 2026 are not eligible to apply for this Call.
How can you apply?
STEP 1: Register your organisation in the EU Funding & Tender Opportunities portal to obtain the nine-digit Participant Identification Code (PIC number). If you don’t know if your organisation has already a PIC number, you can verify directly on the EU Portal (click here) whether your organisation is already registered.
STEP 2:
- If you are already registered in the EIT UM Programmes Portal (NetSuite) please log in by going to step 3.
- If you have never registered in NetSuite, please complete the Partner Information Form (PIF)[1]. 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]
STEP 3: Access the EIT UM Programmes Portal (NetSuite) and find open calls at Menu –> Call for Proposals –> Open Callsand submit your application form within the given deadline.
[1] If in a few hours, after submitting the PIF form, you don’t receive an automatic e-mail with the log-in credentials, please contact the EIT Urban Mobility Service Desk [email protected].
Key dates are:
- Call opening: 9 October 2026
- Call closing (submission of completed application): 1 December 2026 at 17.00 CET
- Eligibility and admissibility check: December 2026
- Evaluation of proposals: January – February 2027
- Remote Panel Hearing: February 2027
- Communication of results: March 2027
- Conditions clearance and signature of subgrant agreement: March – April 2027
- Tentative start of the projects: 1 April 2027
- Tentative end of the projects: 31 October 2027
Documents to be submitted
- Application form (available on EIT UM Programmes Portal (NetSuite))
- End client Commitment Letter (templates available, provided below)
- Pitch deck (template available, provided below)
List of documents to take into consideration
- Call Manual
- Guidelines for Applicants
- Template of the End client (public entity) Commitment Letter
- Template of the End client (private entity) Commitment Letter
- Template of the pitch deck
- EIT Urban Mobility Strategic Agenda 2021-2027
- Eligibility of expenditures
- Appeal procedure
- Project implementation handbook
- Financial Support Agreement (FSA) template
- Declaration of Honour template
- Annotated Grant Agreement
- EIT Impact Framework (2022-2027)
- Application form sample
Info session and contact details
Info webinar and contact details are available to guarantee the maximum support to the applicants during the proposal’s preparation process.
To help applicants with the preparation and submission of their proposals, EIT Urban Mobility will host one live Call info webinar focused on the Call content, calendar, scope, topics, KPIs, the submission and evaluation tools and procedures, end-client role, and the financial aspects including contribution to EIT Urban Mobility financial sustainability.
Info webinar: 15 October 2026 10.00 – 11.00 CET. Register and watch on Zoom.
All applicants may contact the EIT Urban Mobility Agile Innovation team to resolve any concerns or doubts on the general/technical procedures and call content: [email protected]
Applicants are free to discuss any proposal idea with our local innovation team located in our five Innovation Hubs:
- Innovation Hub Central
- Innovation Hub North
- Innovation Hub South
- Innovation Hub East
- Innovation Hub West