Innovation procurement in Latvia and Malta: A new roadmap and innovation competence centre to boost growth
Did you know that on average, innovation procurement is used well below 1% of all public buying cases in the EU? Public procurement is often seen as a technical, lengthy procedure, with formal and non-intuitive design, abstract requirements and strict eligibility evaluation criteria. As a result, many prospective companies choose not to bid and many […]
Urban logistics integrated into Riga’s future mobility plan
As e-commerce continues to reshape urban mobility, cities are under growing pressure to manage increasing numbers of delivery vehicles while reducing congestion, emissions and competition for public space. Yet urban logistics often remains overlooked in mobility planning. To help cities address this challenge, VEFRESH along Latvian Post and Malta’s DeepTech Foundry won the competitive grant […]
Fourteen European cities partner with startups to test innovative mobility solutions through RAPTOR 2026
EIT Urban Mobility is excited to announce the selected startups and SMEs for the 2026 edition of its flagship RAPTOR (Rapid Applications for Transport) programme. This year, 14 European cities have selected innovative solutions to address locally identified mobility challenges, working directly with startups and SMEs to test them in real urban environments. By opening […]
EIT Urban Mobility contributes to the launch of ADACities, advancing autonomous mobility deployment across Europe
The Autonomous Drive Ambition Cities (ADACities) initiative was officially launched during the inaugural European Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Alliance (ECAVA) Forum, marking an important milestone in Europe’s ambition to scale autonomous mobility. Announced by European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen, ADACities is a flagship initiative under the EU’s Apply AI Strategy. It will support […]
ROADSCOR+
The ROADSCOR+ project (Extending conflict-based safety insights to unsignalized intersections and safe introduction of Automated vehicles using Roadscor) aims to transform road safety evaluation by moving from reactive analysis to proactive risk prediction. Road crashes cost European society approximately €280 billion annually, and progress toward “Vision Zero”—the international ambition to eliminate all traffic fatalities—has recently stalled. This stagnation […]
E-Scooter and Bike Share Urban Usage Focus Group Webinar
Join this engaging webinar where the newly published E‑Scooter & Bike Share Urban Usage Focus Group Report will be presented, developed within the framework of the Smart Cities Marketplace. This report brings together a year of structured discussions with experts from local authorities, mobility operators, research institutions, and user organisations, offering one of the most comprehensive multi‑stakeholder […]
Telraam with the city of Mechelen
Urban delivery traffic has grown 71% over the last 20 years and now accounts for 20-30% of vehicle kilometres in cities and over 16% of urban air pollution. European cities are responding by encouraging cargo bike logistics, yet current traffic monitoring systems cannot distinguish between cargo bikes and leisure cyclists. This leaves local governments without the data needed to plan, evaluate and regulate sustainable urban logistics. Telraam is a citizen-powered […]
V-Locker with Johan Cruijff Arena
Urban mobility around large event venues across Europe presents a persistent challenge: stadiums and concert halls attract tens of thousands of visitors, yet most lack secure, high-capacity bicycle parking to meet peak demand. The result is congestion, increased car use and missed opportunities to promote healthier, greener travel. V-Locker AG, a Swiss SME specialising in smart automated bicycle parking […]
CautCurier with Dentstore
CautCurier.ro will deploy and validate a same-day urban logistics service in Sofia, together with Dentstore Bulgaria. The project aims to address a practical mobility and healthcare logistics problem: dental clinics depend on fast, reliable access to implants, materials and supplies, while current deliveries are often fragmented across clinics’ own vehicles and generic couriers. This can create unpredictable arrival times, manual coordination efforts, extra vehicle trips and higher logistics costs. The main objective is to replicate CautCurier.ro’s tried-and-tested Romanian same-day delivery […]
Replan.city with NIIMO
Many European cities and regions struggle to make evidence-based decisions about public transport, rural mobility and emissions reduction due to fragmented data and the absence of shared digital planning tools. In Saxony-Anhalt (Germany), regional authorities, municipalities and transport operators lack a common platform for modelling and evaluating mobility scenarios consistently and transparently. The project addresses this challenge by deploying Replan.city, a cloud- and agent-based […]
GARI
Tictactrip’s German-Austrian Rail Integration (GARI) is a market-expansion project designed to add Deutsche Bahn (DB) and Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) rail services to Tictactrip’s multimodal booking platform. The project responds to a concrete commercial and mobility problem: Marietton Développement, through its Héliades and Voyamar network, cannot currently offer many seamless multimodal rail journeys across Germany and Austria because key rail content is not yet fully accessible in its sales […]
Chat&Go with MARIA
Public transport passengers across Europe face recurring frustrations: fragmented service information, complex ticketing procedures, language barriers when travelling abroad and the need to download different apps for each operator. These obstacles are particularly acute for tourists, occasional riders, older passengers and digitally excluded users, who often give up on public transport altogether and rely on private cars or taxis instead. Chat&Go® […]
FutureBat
The transition to electric mobility is accelerating across Europe, especially in urban fleets and municipal services. However, current battery systems remain a major bottleneck: they are often imported, non-repairable, and both costly and difficult to recycle, thus increasing the total cost of ownership (TCO) and environmental impact. FutureBat seeks to address this challenge by introducing […]
Healthy Cities Mobility Impact Module
The Healthy Cities Mobility Impact Module (MIM) enables cities and transport authorities to evaluate the impact of mobility projects on health and quantify their economic benefits. Co-developed with Barcelona’s Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM), it expands and tailors the tried-and-tested Healthy Cities Generator tool to assess mobility-specific interventions (e.g. public transport and cycling upgrades, and low-emission zones). The evidence-based module estimates how mobility interventions affect environmental, physical and mental health, quantifies gains in […]
eTRAC
eTRAC (Enhanced Train Reporting and Analytics for Cleanliness) is a project designed to improve how rail operators monitor and manage train cleanliness and condition. It aims to replace manual, inconsistent inspection processes with a more reliable, data-driven approach. Train cleanliness checks traditionally rely on human inspection, which can be subjective, time-consuming and difficult to scale across large fleets. This often leads to missed issues, inefficient cleaning schedules and increased […]
MediKyte
MediKyte is a seven-month EIT Urban Mobility pilot led by Aviant AS to validate and scale the use of drones for last-mile pharmaceutical logistics in Norway. The project addresses a clear gap: medicines are often delivered by road on a next-day basis, even when customers require them urgently. In partnership with Farmasiet, Norway’s leading online pharmacy, Aviant is integrating drone delivery into the pharmacy checkout flow and operating from Farmasiet’s warehouse in Vestby. Eligible customers within a 20 km […]
LIS-ACCESS
LIS-ACCESS seeks to solve a simple but critical challenge in Lisbon: citizens’ inability to reliably plan accessible walking journeys due to incomplete and difficult-to-update city-wide pedestrian accessibility data that is rarely translated into usable routes. The project was inspired by Lisbon City Council’s ambition to strengthen its Pedestrian Accessibility Plan and make walking safer, more inclusive and more attractive, especially for older adults and people with reduced mobility. Today, barriers such as steps, steep slopes, […]
EIT Urban Mobility Breakfast
The EIT Urban Mobility Breakfast will take place ahead of the official EIC Summit programme, and will bring together a small, carefully curated group of EIT Urban Mobility representatives, EIC representatives, EU policy leaders, investors, corporates, innovation actors and selected startups. In an informal, closed door setting, participants will explore what startups need in order […]
Mobility Innovation Marketplace Visual Design ’26-28
By the present procurement procedure, EIT Urban Mobility (“EIT UM”) is seeking professional support for the graphic design of promotional and communication materials related to the Mobility Innovation Marketplace (“Marketplace”), by appointing a professional provider (hereinafter being referred to as “provider”). This document, along with its annexes, constitutes a Request for Proposal (RFP) issued by […]
CARGOBIKE-SCALE
Urban delivery generates 25% of transport emissions in cities, with diesel vans dominating last-mile logistics. Cargo bikes offer a cleaner, faster alternative but represent less than 1% of urban deliveries today. Three barriers prevent scaling: planning tools designed for vans not cargo bikes, small operators that do not have business intelligence to grow, and large companies that lack tools to model fleet […]
DAVER
Co-funded by EIT Urban Mobility, the DAVER project tackles a critical disparity in urban air quality: the fact that approximately 2% of vehicles are responsible for over 40% of total traffic emissions. Inspired by upcoming EU roadworthiness regulations (which mandate remote sensing for roadside inspections), DAVER aims to deploy a market-ready, automated solution to identify “high emitters” without disrupting traffic […]
HYBUHTRAIN
The Hydrogen Engine and Battery Plug-in Hybrid Train (HYBUHTRAIN) project aims to help rail operators decarbonise diesel passenger trains faster and at a lower cost than buying new rolling stock. The project responds to a major gap in Europe’s rail transition: only around 54% of the EU rail network is electrified, and more than 7,200 diesel multiple units are still in operation, many […]
MUDAV
The advantages of e-commerce – speed, availability, broad selection and ease – are especially embraced in urban areas. In Switzerland and Germany, over 70% of people live in cities. While delivery demand grows, many consumers remain unaware of the environmental and infrastructural impact of their online shopping habits, especially parcel deliveries in already congested urban environments. Between 2016 and 2023, parcel volume in […]
PGfor_Resilient_Cities
Urban construction logistics is a major source of traffic congestion, noise and CO2 emissions in cities. Fragmented delivery processes for building materials, particularly concrete, create significant negative externalities that undermine urban liveability. The PGfor_Resilient_Cities project addresses this challenge by developing an intelligent platform for the dynamic optimisation of construction material deliveries. The project builds on the existing ProperGate digital platform, previously supported by EIT Urban […]