Strategic Innovation Open Call
The Challenge
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:
- Urban logistics,
- Public transport,
- Mobility data management,
- Electrification of transport and alternative fuels, and
- Health and mobility.
Who can apply?
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.
Background
The Strategic Innovation Open Call is open from 2026-2028 with several cut-off dates as outlined below. The assessment of the proposals involves two stage: Stage 1 is the expert evaluation of proposals submitted via the EIT Urban Mobility NetSuite platform (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.
Key dates are:
- Call opens: 19 June 2025
- 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.
- 1st cut-off date: 23 September 2025
- 2nd cut-off date: February 2026
- 3rd cut-off date: June 2026
- 4th cut-off date: February 2027
The total estimated funding allocated to this Call is 60 million EUR for the period 2026-2028 and has multiple cut-off dates The indicative funding for the first submission cut-off is: 9 million EUR.
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%.
