Deadline: 21-Mar-23
Ready to resolve European cities’ urban mobility challenges with your solution? The call for proposals for the #ChallengeMyCity Braga is now open!
The #ChallengeMyCity is a programme enabling European cities to tackle their most pressing urban challenges by testing market-ready innovative mobility solutions.
#ChallengeMyCity´s objective is to test the best solutions through a six-month pilot and evaluates their social, economic, and environmental impact and estimate long-term integration into the city´s mobility strategy, to make mobility more sustainable and accessible for all.
Strategic Objectives
- Five strategic objectives (SOs), as set out in the Strategic Agenda 2021-2027, steer their activities and ambitions, and will lead us to achieve their mission:
- SO1 – Create liveable urban spaces
- SO2 – Close the knowledge gap
- SO3 – Deploy and scale green, safe, and inclusive mobility solutions for people and goods
- SO4 – Accelerate market opportunities
- SO5 – Promote effective policies and behavioural change.
Benefits for selected solutions
- Up to €60 000 in funding to implement a six-month pilot in real conditions
- Support to implementation by EIT Urban Mobility and city officers
- Networking opportunities with public administration and other innovators
- Promotion through the Mobility Innovation Marketplace by EIT Urban Mobility.
Challenges in Braga
- The Portuguese city of Braga and EIT Urban Mobility are looking for solutions to the following challenges:
- Challenge: Enhancing bike safety and monitoring cyclists´ flows
- The city is exploring ways to enhance bike safety and monitor bike flows on shared traffic lanes. By implementing additional safety measures, and better understanding cyclists’ behaviour and mobility patterns, Braga wants to create a more friendly environment for cyclists and reduce the risk of accidents.
- Challenge: Understanding and promoting active mobility in the city centre
- Braga is seeking innovative technological solutions that can help to collect information and provide data-based insights to inform urban planning, enhancing a holistic comprehension of pedestrian and cyclist flows in the city centre. Furthermore, solutions that can improve and encourage walking and promote active mobility are welcome, as well as proposals incorporating both aspects.
- Challenge: Improving monitoring and use of on-street parking spaces
- Finding a parking space in the city can often be a time-consuming and frustrating task for drivers, leading to increased congestion and pollution. To address these issues, the city of Braga aims to test solutions that can inform citizens how to find available on-street parking spaces while also helping the city to monitor, gain insights and manage limited-time paid parking zones.
- Challenge: Encouraging alternative transportation for school commuting to decrease private car usage
- The preferred mean of transport for school commuting in Braga is a private car, which results in traffic congestion during peak hours, and increased pollution in the city centre. The city is seeking solutions to improve, optimize and enhance the use of sustainable modes of transportation to go to school, reduce reliance on private cars and alleviate traffic congestion in the city centre.
- Challenge: Enhancing bike safety and monitoring cyclists´ flows
Eligibility Criteria
- This Call for Proposals is open to all types of enterprises (start-ups, SMEs2 , large companies), either EIT Urban Mobility members or not, and established in the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), and/or in Third countries associated to Horizon Europe.
- Proposals can be presented by a single entity or by consortia composed by two or more entities, all being established in EU Member States and/or Third countries associated to Horizon Europe.
- Specific cases: Entities established in the United Kingdom, and exceptionally entities established in Switzerland, are eligible to participate but at their own costs. These entities will not receive EIT funding.
Requirements
- All types of companies located in a Member State of the European Union or from Third Country associated to Horizon Europe that can present solutions to the challenges mentioned are invited to participate.
- The proposal shall be in line with the Vision and Mission of the EIT Urban Mobility Strategic Agenda.
- The solutions/product should bring novelty and being results-focused.
- The solution should propose a financial sustainability mechanism to the EIT UM.
- The solution shall be at least TRL-7 and present a letter of recommendation from a previous pilot implementation.
For more information, visit #ChallengeMyCity.