Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS)
The EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS) is the EIT Community’s outreach scheme, introduced in 2014 to make information and expertise from our unique approach available to others. It allows EIT Urban Mobility to share good practice and experiences and to widen participation across Europe.
EIT RIS vision & mission
The RIS program has been designed to help boost the innovation in urban mobility within those countries and regions classified as emerging or moderate innovators according to the European Innovation Scoreboard.

*EIT Urban Mobility has an Innovation Hub in Spain and in Czech Republic. Therefore, no EIT Urban Mobility RIS Hubs will be established in these countries.
EIT Urban Mobility established in 2020 7 RIS Hubs in the countries of Greece, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Slovenia. One year later, in 2021, we successfully expanded the RIS coverage with 5 new hubs located in Croatia, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Turkiye. The above RIS Hub consortiums provide good scope of the knowledge triangle and excellent networking to the innovation ecosystem and to the local cities in all the countries.
The EIT Urban Mobility RIS program is addressing countries with more than 300 million inhabitants.
Goals
In its mission to eliminate the major barriers preventing emerging or moderate innovators from improving their innovation performance, EIT's RIS program pursues a two-fold assignment:
- Too share good practices and experience emerging from the EIT Community's activities, as well as to expand participation in KIC activities;
- To help disseminate the knowledge and know-how of the EIT Community and widen participation in the KIC's across Europe.
Actions
For achieving its goals, EIT UM RIS activities focus on:
Awareness-raising
Increase of the visibility of EIT Urban Mobility activities and introduction of innovative solutions in the RIS countries
Capacity building
Education of professionals and entrepreneurs, use of cooperation opportunities in education, also as a tool to remove barriers of European network building
Changing the mindset increasing citizen engagement
Strengthening local knowledge triangle integration, encouragement of the experiment with new tools and technologies
Know-how
Ensuring know-how and technology transfer as two-way interaction to share the good practice of the experienced members of the Innovation Community and young start-ups and innovators regardless of regions
Opportunities
Providing an opportunity for
local initiatives, start-ups, talents,
pilots, adaptations, and products
from the RIS to appear at European
level
New solutions
Introducing the special needs of the RIS regions to the innovation community, to jointly find new solutions
Contact
RIS Hub
Greece
RIS Hub
Hungary
RIS Hub
Malta
RIS Hub
Poland
RIS Hub
Portugal
RIS Hub Portugal
RIS Hub
Serbia
RIS Hub Serbia
RIS Hub
Slovenia
RIS Hub Slovenia
RIS Hub
Croatia
RIS Hub Croatia
https://regea.org/en/eit-urban-mobility/
pgrgasovic@regea.org
RIS Hub
Latvia
RIS Hub
Romania
RIS Hub
Slovakia
RIS Hub Slovakia
RIS Hub
Türkiye
RIS Hub Türkiye
For those countries not yet represented by any RIS hub, you can contact us in ris@eiturbanmobility.eu