EIT Urban Mobility offers two open calls with regular deadlines throughout the year: Financial Support to Startups (up to €2.5m investment for companies already engaged in an ongoing funding round) and a Strategic Innovation Open Call (up to €2m per project, covering up to 65% of costs, for consortia from at least 2 countries).
Financial Support To Startups Open Call
Designed to strengthen Europe’s capacity to innovate and tackle pressing urban mobility challenges. By funding early-stage ventures, EIT Urban Mobility aim to stimulate the growth of pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies, amplify the impact of EIT funded research and innovation activities, and foster collaboration across industry, academia, cities, and startups. The initiative supports the development of high-impact solutions that reduce congestion, lower carbon emissions, improve safety and security, and enhance accessibility, while ensuring de-risked, high-quality investment opportunities aligned with the EIT Urban Mobility Financial Support thesis.
This Call for Applications is open to startups that are already engaged in an ongoing funding round. EIT Urban Mobility will provide financial support of up to €2.5 million per company, for startups developing breakthrough mobility solutions.
Funding is provided through an open application process with multiple cut offs throughout 2026 (see call manual for the cut-off dates in 2027 and 2028, which run until 31 March 2028):
- Cut off 1 – 23 February 2026
- Cut off 2 – 18 May 2026
- Cut off 3 – 31 August 2026
- Cut off 4 – 16 November 2026
Strategic Innovation Open Call
Apply to the Strategic Innovation Open Call to develop 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. 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:
- Urban logistics
- Public transport
- Mobility data management
- Electrification of transport and alternative fuels
- Health and mobility
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 (this includes the UK). See the call manual for details of recommended consortium composition.
Each project may receive up to € 2 million 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%.
EIT Urban Mobility hosted online information sessions about the call which are available to watch via the Mobility Innovators platform or via the links below:
- Info webinar: Call content and Q&A
- Info webinar: Commercialisation and financial sustainability
- Info webinar: Intellectual property strategy
- Info webinar: Guidance to applicants
The assessment of the proposals involves two stage: Stage 1 is the expert evaluation of proposals submitted via the EIT Urban Mobility NetSuite platform, followed by Stage 2, which includes a panel hearing and selection by the Selection Committee. Stage 1 cut-off dates:
- 23 September 2025
- 12 February 2026
- 18 June 2026
- February 2027 (tbc)
- June 2027 (tbc)
Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call
The UMX Open Call aims to accelerate the development and delivery of high-quality, sustainable professional training and support services to close the urban mobility knowledge gap.
This Call focuses on a series of specific activity areas aimed at enhancing the skills and capabilities of mobility professionals and organisations, particularly at the local/city level, to achieve systemic transformations for more liveable cities. The Call supports proposals that offer high-quality, impact-oriented, and financially sustainable learning experiences, leveraging EIT Urban Mobility’s network and expertise in various learning formats.
EIT Urban Mobility is seeking proposals that align with the strategic objectives of EIT Urban Mobility’s Academy, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship through a lifelong learning approach, and demonstrating potential for replication and scaling up. Emphasis is placed on courses that comply with EIT Label certification where applicable.
The Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call supports activities that demonstrate clear alignment with the strategic objectives of EIT Urban Mobility’s education and training portfolio, ensure compliance with the EIT Label requirements where applicable, and show strong potential for long-term impact, scalability, and financial sustainability.
The total indicative EIT funding allocated to this Call is between approximately €2-4 million. The maximum EIT funding per proposal is €700 000.
This Call for Proposals is open to all legal entities established in the Member States of the European Union, and/or in Third countries associated with Horizon Europe. These legal entities may be small and medium enterprises (SMEs), universities, research and technology organisations, cities or large businesses, among others.
This Call is open to multi-participant proposals and mono-participant proposals.
EIT Urban Mobility hosted an online information session on 15 July 2025, 11.00 – 12.30 CEST:
2nd cut-off date: 29 September 2026 (17.00 CEST)