Deadline: 14-Feb-22
The EIT Urban Mobility has launched the proposals for the RAPTOR Call.
Within EIT Urban Mobility, cities are their driving force and enabler of faster innovation adoption. To harness the wider city innovation capacity and ensure innovation closer to citizens, they developed a Rapid Application for Transport (RAPTOR) Pilot in 2021.
Rapid Agile Support for Cities: Rapid Applications for Transport (RAPTOR) aims to address niche city mobility challenges for cities/towns/neighbourhoods and promote local solutions by funding individuals, teams, startups or SMEs with support from the respective city/town/neighbourhood.
Each city, supported by technical and business advisors, selected the most promising solution to receive a prize, in-kind and cash, to advance the proposal to a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to be tested in the city within four months of award. For the Innovation programme of EIT Urban Mobility, agile, entrepreneurial innovation based on problem/challenges with rapid development timelines closer to citizens and in a named location has the potential to become a powerful tool in their innovation agenda.
EIT Urban Mobility Core Partner or an Affiliated Entity of a Core Partner are eligible to apply along with 1 to 2 consortia partner(s) with experience leading or past involvement in managing accelerator programmes and/or venture builders.
Funding Information
- Budget Allocation: Up to 630.000 EUR for up to three projects
- The RAPTOR projects have a maximum duration of 8 months.
Expected Outcomes
- Animate the local start-up community to focus on mobility needs
- Promote the mobility issues of the city/cities to wider public
- Mentor and support the awardees in the development of their MVP
- Provide leads and links for the most promising start-ups/SMEs to EIT Urban Mobility Business Creation
- Develop a strong relationship with local accelerator/ venture builders
- Create a minimum of 3 Marketed Innovations in each RAPTOR project.
- NB: The Marketed Innovations may be existing solutions/products so long as they are adapted and updated to be specific for the niche city mobility challenge
- Provide technical support via a local enterprise
Eligibility Criteria
This Call is open to partners from Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), and Horizon Europe Associate Countries. This legal agreement is the fundamental basis for participation.
For more information, visit https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/launch-of-raptor-call-for-proposals/