Deadline: 12-March-2026
The EIT Urban Mobility’s rapid piloting programme designed to address concrete urban mobility challenges through fast and focused collaboration between cities and innovators.
The focus areas, objectives, priorities, and themes of the programme include rapid applications for transport, fast experimentation and applied innovation, direct collaboration between cities and solution providers, and the development of solutions with clear potential for replication and scale.
RAPTOR, which stands for Rapid Applications for Transport, is an initiative by EIT Urban Mobility that enables cities to define specific challenges linked to their local urban mobility needs. These challenges form the basis for targeted collaboration with startups and small and medium-sized enterprises that can offer innovative and practical solutions.
Participating startups and SMEs are expected to propose solutions tailored to the defined city challenges and to work closely with the relevant city authorities. This collaboration focuses on adapting, testing, and validating the proposed solutions within a real urban environment, allowing for practical experimentation and applied innovation.
Through the RAPTOR Open Call 2026, EIT Urban Mobility intends to fund up to 15 projects. Each selected project will receive a fixed lump sum of €60,000, with the total estimated funding allocated to the call amounting to €900,000.
The call is open to single small and medium-sized enterprises only, and proposals must be submitted by one legal entity, as consortia are not permitted. Applicants must qualify as SMEs according to the European Commission definition, be legally established in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe associated country, and propose a solution that addresses one of the RAPTOR 2026 City Challenges.
For more information, visit EIT Urban Mobility.
