EIT Urban Mobility launched 9 Calls for Proposals between the end of 2024 and throughout 2025 across various thematic areas, including Innovation, Academy, Impact Ventures, Ecosystem, RIS, and EIT Community New European Bauhaus, and covering different types of calls (4 Open Calls, 1 Partner Call, 3 Long-term Open Calls).
The overall purpose of these calls was to resolve societal, technical, educational and operational challenges facing European cities by foresting knowledge, collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship activities as well as to create new business opportunities able to accelerate the urban mobility sustainable transition and transform public spaces to create sustainable mobility for liveable urban spaces for all citizens.
SMEs and start-ups, industry, cities and regions, higher education and research organisations, NGOs as well as students from European Member States and Horizon Europe Associated countries were invited to submit their proposals to support the development of innovative solutions and activities in the areas of education and training, capacity building, agile innovation, etc.
The number of proposals received varied across the different calls. Overall, 662 proposals were submitted, and 56 projects were selected, involving more than 70 organisations from EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries, requesting a total of 8,453,007 EUR of EIT UM funding and representing an overall average success rate of 8,46% across the different thematic areas.
