EIT Urban Mobility -Business Plan 2023-2025 – Targeted Open Call 4 (2025) – Mobility for more liveable urban spaces
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Summary
The overall purpose of the Innovation Programme is to address existing or anticipated mobility challenges facing European cities. In this regard, we support projects that can develop and test new solutions in real-life demonstrations and attain commercial viability by the end of the project. The aim for this Call is to strategically select projects that complement EIT existing portfolio by addressing new sectors, business models, technological advances or market demands.
Detailed Call Description
This targeted Call of BP23-25 addresses four critical topics based on industry needs and new regulations, policies, and European objectives. Each of them will be a standalone project and as such each topic should be applied to separately.
- Topic 1:The uptake of hydrogen refuelling stations for sustainable urban transport. This topic covers easy-to-deploy and/or hydrogen refuelling solutions that comply with a majority of EU countries’ safety regulation requirements and go beyond the current status of art for such stations.
- Topic 2:Mitigating non-exhaust pollution stemming from urban transport. This topic covers solutions for the reduction of non-exhaust emissions (NEE) at source, NEE filtration near the source, NEE removal from the environment, and advanced non-exhaust particulate matter (PM) emissions monitoring.
- Topic 3:Achieving Vision Zero and safety for vulnerable urban road users. This topic covers ITS6 solutions that reduce the number of fatalities and severe injuries on urban roads by preventing collisions, with a primary focus on vulnerable road users.
- Topic 4:Promoting a competitive and sustainable European cycling industry. This topic covers solutions related to e-bike compliance with the new EU battery regulations, new business models and services for the cycling industry, and (e-)bike manufacturing innovations that promote onshoring and sustainable manufacturing.
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The total maximum EIT funding allocated to this call is €5.000.000.
The amounts are expected to be allocated according to the estimations outlined in the table below:
The uptake of hydrogen refuelling stations for sustainable urban transport – Maximum indicative EIT funding: €1.500.000
Mitigating non-exhaust pollution stemming from urban transport – Maximum indicative EIT funding: €650.000
Achieving Vision Zero and safety for vulnerable urban road users – Maximum indicative EIT funding: €2.000.000
Promoting a competitive and sustainable European cycling industry – Maximum indicative EIT funding: €850.000
The indicative EIT funding per project is from €.250.000 to € 700.000, depending on its value for money and expected impact.
All proposals must have a minimum co-funding rate of 35% across the project. Partners in a consortium may have different co-funding rates as long as the overall project co-fund meets the required 35% minimum. Any co-funding rate above 35% will be positively assessed by the Selection Committee.
This Call is open to proposals with a duration of up to 12 months. The tentative start date is January 2025. All outputs and KPIs should be achieved within the project life cycle. All projects must end by 31 December 2025.
Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Urban Development
Eligibility for Participation
- Businesses
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Other Beneficiaries
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility For Participation Notes
This Call is open to all legal entities established in European Union (EU) Member States, 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.
All proposals must be composed of at least 2 independent legal entities established in 2 EU Member States and/or third countries associated with Horizon Europe.
The consortium composition must be in line with the following requirements, which are part of the eligibility criteria.
- A commercial partner: one partner of the consortia is identified as the lead commercialisation applicant and is responsible for the financial sustainability mechanism (FSM).
- Demo host: at least 1 pilot host where the proposed solution will be demonstrated (linked to KPI: KSN02 or/and KONHE31).
Demo hosts could be: a) a city/municipal government (it can also be an entity with direct links to a city/municipal government (e.g. a public transport company, a living lab formally linked to the city or a development agency funded directly by the city) AND/OR a private company with an existing concession, contract, licence or permit to operate a mobility service in a city) or, b) a company
Importantly, one single entity cannot be both a commercial partner and a demo host in the same proposal. The commercial partner and the demo host need to be legal entities that are independent of each other. In order to be eligible, a proposal must include a minimum of one demo host who is a formal partner and has an appropriate budget allocated in Netsuite. Additional demo hosts without a budget can participate as observers.
Participating in one of EIT Urban Mobility projects means being part of the EIT Urban Mobility community. All entities of selected proposals are asked to be part of the community and to choose one of the following membership categories when initiating their projects:
- Gold members: they pay an annual fee of €30.000 and have full access to all benefit packages offered by EIT Urban Mobility.
- Silver members: they pay an annual fee of €10.000 and have limited access to all benefit packages offered by EIT Urban Mobility. In the case of Small Enterprises and NGOs, a reduced annual fee of €5.000 will be applied.
Leading cities: with an annual fee of €10.000 they have full access to the gold membership package and the additional city-pecific services.
EIT Urban Mobility will host online information sessions on 3, 4 and 10 September 2024 focused on the Call content, the topics, and requirements, as well as on the general procedures, such as the submission and evaluation process and the proposal submission tool.
- 1st Info webinar: Call launch and Q&A on 3 September 2024, 15h00-17h00 (Brussels time). Registration here.
- 2nd Info webinar: Commercialisation and financial sustainability on 4 September 2024, 11h00-12h00 (Brussels time). Registration here.
- 3rd Info webinar: Intellectual property on 10 September 2024, 09h30-11h00 (Brussels time). Registration here .
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Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
All applicants may contact the Innovation team at EIT Urban Mobility at innovationcall2025@eiturbanmobility.eu to resolve any concerns or doubts about the call content and the call process.