Deadline: 14-Sep-22
Are you ready to enter URBAN TECH Programme? Propose your solution to URBAN TECH Challenges! Their Consortium collected 310 Challenges from organisations all over Europe. If you think you can solve at least one of them with a product, a service or even a concept for solution, don’t miss your opportunity to apply and enter into URBAN TECH Programme.
URBAN TECH supports the acceleration of competitive success of European SMEs through market launch of new or significantly improved products and services with higher value (with higher quality, increased access, eco-innovative, resource efficient and internationally scalable). In long term perspective, the project aims to innovate and increase the competitiveness of European Health Tech, Smart City and Greentech industries globally.
URBAN TECH seeks innovative solutions to cross-sectoral and cross-border challenges, either public or private and brings together different stakeholders of the industry value-chain to cooperate and innovate together, as well as providing support to SMEs and start-ups in scaling their solutions and products globally.
Focus Areas
URBAN TECH focuses on industries, which are the ones who contribute to the emergence of healthy, smart and green urban environment of the future: more sustainable, healthy, energysaving, that creates new business opportunities, is resource efficient and eco-innovative. Health Tech, Smart City and Greentech are three emerging industries who seek to create a better, safer and more sustainable life for any citizens in the world.
Challenge Areas
- administrative solutions,
- AI & IoT,
- automation & robotics & sensors,
- awareness & training tools,
- cargo handling,
- citizens participation,
- database solutions,
- digital marketplaces,
- eHealth & telemedicine,
- energy management,
- energy sharing,
- EV charging,
- eVTOLs & drones,
- forecasting softwares,
- health care management,
- last mile solutions,
- mobility as a service (MAAS),
- mobility strategies,
- monitoring solutions,
- new hardware products,
- other environmental solutions,
- predictive maintenance,
- real-time & big-data,
- recycling & upcycling,
- smart & sustainable buildings,
- social inclusion solutions,
- solar energy & batteries,
- sustainability strategies,
- sustainable food & farming,
- tracing & tracking solutions,
- urban landscaping,
- urban mobility solutions,
- urban planning,
- virtual & augmented reality,
- water solutions.
Funding Information
- The URBAN TECH Programme will provide up to 54.350 EUR per SME in different funding stages to develop a new or significantly improved service or product that addresses one of the URBAN TECH Challenges. During a competitive process, 4 evaluation and selection phases will be executed, in which 320 SMEs will start the programme and only 20 will finish.
- In the 2nd stage 30 SMEs out of the 80 beneficiaries of the MVP Voucher will be selected to receive the Piloting Voucher (PV) of 20.000-30.000 EUR funding. In the last phase 20 out of the 30 beneficiaries of the Piloting Voucher can benefit from a Market Discovery Voucher (MDV) up to 14.000 EUR. SMEs and start-ups that do not qualify to the next phase will finish their participation in the programme.
- In the overall programme, 2 million EUR grant will be awarded to SMEs in a competitive process in which altogether 160 SMEs/start-ups will receive support and 20 SMEs/start-up will receive the maximum amount of grant. An SME/start-ups cannot receive more than 60.000 EUR financial support within the URBAN TECH Programme.
Eligibility Criteria
- SMEs and start-ups with legal entity based in European Union countries or H2020 associated countries or the UK.
- SMEs based in or having an affiliation in Russia or Belarus are NOT eligible to apply.
- Start-up and scale-up SME companies should meet the following criteria:
- 1-250 employees (minimum requirement is to have at least one full-time employee)
- <50M EUR turnover annually
- Independent commercial company, which is developing or commercializing an innovative product, service or business model with high market potential The company is not in a liquidation or bankruptcy process
- An SME, start-up can submit more than one short proposal to the Open Call and can participate at several Hackathons, but an SME, start-up is only eligible to one MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT VOUCHER.
For more information, visit https://www.urbantech-project.eu/virtual-library/