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 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)