RAPTOR city mobility pilots
€60,000 grants for single SMEs to develop and demonstrate a solution to a participating city’s mobility challenge. A mandatory commercial agreement applies; the 2026 round is closed.
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RAPTOR pairs a startup or SME with a city that has defined a specific urban-mobility problem. EIT Urban Mobility supports the selected company to develop or adapt its solution, test it locally and establish a reference for further sales. The documented 2026 round runs for six months, July–December, and requires at least two weeks of demonstration in the relevant city.
Climate-relevant challenges include electric-fleet charging planning, more attractive public transport, electric delivery coordination and greater use of walking, cycling and shared bikes. The call also covers road safety, accessibility and municipal data: the climate case depends on what the proposed solution changes, not merely its use of transport technology.
Each selected project receives a fixed €60,000 lump-sum allocation, subject to approved delivery. The applicant guidance enters €60,000 and 100% EIT funding in one work package. A detailed, reasonable estimate of eligible tasks and costs is still required. The call expressly exempts this lump-sum route from cost reporting, but it requires evidence of completed outputs and commercial results.
All winners must sign a separate commercial agreement and pay a mandatory €5,000 fee during implementation for a 12-month entry sales-support package. A further 5% fee applies only to qualified leads provided by EIT Urban Mobility’s sales team, and only when the SME signs an agreement with the new paying client. It is not a fee on all the SME’s sales. Optional service upgrades have additional prices. These are obligations attached to the grant, not an equity investment offered by this call.
Budget eligible personnel, travel, services, limited subcontracting and equipment depreciation attributable to the project. Overheads use a 25% flat rate with subcontracting, onward financial support and internally invoiced goods/services excluded from its base. Subcontracting should normally be no more than approximately 15% of the total budget unless a higher amount is necessary and duly justified. Free in-kind contributions, recoverable VAT, debt charges and duplicate EU-funded costs are ineligible. Declare other funding and project income; onward grants need express call authorisation, which this manual does not provide.
Eligibility
Apply as one legally registered SME, not a consortium. Registration must precede the deadline and be in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe associated country eligible for EIT support, including the United Kingdom and Switzerland. EIT falls under Horizon Europe Pillar III; association limited to Pillar II does not establish eligibility for this support. The EU SME definition generally requires fewer than 250 staff and turnover no more than €50 million or a balance sheet total no more than €43 million, taking relevant partner and linked-company data into account.
Companies selected as beneficiaries of RAPTOR 2025 or SME Market Expansion 2025 cannot apply to RAPTOR 2026. A previously EIT-funded product needs substantial new innovation or added value; repeat funding for the same development is out of scope. You can submit to several challenges, but only one proposal per applicant can reach the hearing and only one project can receive an award.
Choose one challenge and work with its corresponding city. The 2026 locations and themes are:
- Arteixo: data and analysis to prioritise charging locations for public and municipal fleets, not installation or physical testing of chargers; Bălți: bus information and service planning.
- Berlin: safer school-route analysis; Bilbao: access and parking near Osakidetza health centres; Brussels-Capital Region: accessible EV-charging data; Edinburgh: vehicle-data-based parking charges in controlled areas.
- Guimarães: coordinated deliveries using the municipal market’s existing electric vehicle; Helsinki city centre: data collection using existing professional fleets; Lambeth, London: kerbside management on Abbeville Road in Clapham; Luleå: winter route-condition information for walking and cycling.
- Lviv: digital traffic-sign and road-marking inventory; Nitra: passenger-flow data on selected bus routes; Salzburg: improvements to the existing municipal shared-bike system; Trento: integrated cycling navigation; Wiesbaden: monitoring existing city-centre loading zones.
Respect the more detailed pilot areas, requirements and success measures in the call’s city annex. Trento expects at least a one-month pilot, beyond the general two-week minimum. Salzburg seeks improvements to the existing system without new hardware installations. Wiesbaden prioritises existing loading-zone monitoring; recommendations for new locations are optional added value. Development can be remote with check-ins, but the company must be present for the city demonstration.
Propose achievable development, demonstration and measurable impacts within six months. Explain the city resources you need, such as data, permissions or infrastructure access. Have a plan for intellectual property—the rights protecting inventions, designs, software and other creative work—that explains ownership, protection and how those rights support commercial use of the solution. Show that making or selling it will not infringe other parties’ rights. If selected, complete and sign the declaration identifying rights brought into the project (background) and rights arising from the project’s work (foreground). Consider gender and diversity in the team and solution. Winners must follow branding rules, coordinate external communications with EIT Urban Mobility and the city, and list the solution in the Innovation Marketplace.
By project end, deliver at least one marketed innovation with documented customer purchases of €10,000 or more. A demonstration alone does not satisfy this sales requirement: provide the product-owner declaration and purchase/invoice evidence specified in the KPI annex.
Insolvency, final tax/social-security breaches, serious misconduct, fraud, EU exclusion, earlier grant failures, misrepresentation or interference with the competition can prevent participation. EU sanctions apply. Hungarian public-interest trusts under Act IX of 2021 and their maintained entities cannot receive the covered funding or subcontracts.
Israeli companies must have a registered physical address within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. Their grant-funded activity must not take place, even partly, in the Golan Heights, Gaza Strip or West Bank, including East Jerusalem, except work benefiting protected persons under international humanitarian law and/or promoting the Middle East peace process in line with EU policy. Unrelated activity there does not itself exclude a company. These territorial rules do not replace RAPTOR’s requirement to demonstrate in the selected city.
How to apply
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- Closed2026 city-challenge round, with July–December pilots.
The 2026 round opened on 16 January and closed on 12 March 2026 at 17:00 CET. Check the official programme and call pages for subsequent opportunities; the documented city round is closed.
For that round, obtain an EU Participant Identification Code (PIC), complete the Partner Information Form and submit the English application through NetSuite. Allow up to two working days for registration. Select the city challenge and describe the workplan, resources, pilot, commercial potential and measurable results.
Eligibility checks lead to independent quality evaluation and a city panel hearing. Normally the top five proposals per challenge scoring at least 40/70, while meeting the criterion thresholds, reach the hearing. A tie can allow a sixth proposal. Only the applicant’s best-ranked proposal is invited if several qualify. Preselection can carry conditions with a strict response deadline; legal validation and a possible financial-capacity check precede the funding agreement.
Payments require the funding agreement and submission of the commercial agreement. The balance depends on approved results. Submit the commercial agreement, branding evidence, the city’s signed acceptance letter and a project report covering implementation, quantitative impacts, IP and demonstration evidence. The call links possible grant reductions to the commercial agreement (up to 30%), branding (5%), city acceptance (15%), project report (15%) and commercial KPI results (35%). Incomplete delivery can delay or reduce payment, and funding already received may have to be returned. Request approval for justified changes before submitting the final report.
Successful completion may open a separate fast-track scaling opportunity, subject to its own rules; it does not guarantee further funding.