Within EIT Urban Mobility, cities are the driving force that enables innovation to be applied more rapidly. To harness the city’s wider capacity for innovation and bring innovation closer to citizens, we developed the Rapid Application for Transport (RAPTOR) programme.
RAPTOR is transformative in connecting cities, innovators and SMEs around urban mobility challenges. Once the challenges of cities are defined, a competition is launched for SMEs to propose solutions that tackle the original issue.
Each city selects, with the support of technical and business advisers, the most promising solution to receive a financial award. The proposal is put forward to be tested in the city within six months. In 2025, 14 cities/municipalities from across Europe participate in RAPTOR programme and 14 projects from across Europe will be selected to develop and test their solutions to cities´ mobility challenges.
We look forward to seeing what our cities, partners, start-ups & SMEs can achieve under this successful agile innovation set-up. With this Call for Proposals, we are paving the way for the development and scale-up of innovative solutions together across Europe.
Call Main Features
| Call for proposals: Main features | |
| Key dates of the Call calendar | – Call opening: 12 December 2024 – Call closing (submission of completed application): 12 February 2025 at 17.00 CET – Eligibility and admissibility check: February 2025 – Evaluation of proposals: End-February to March 2025 – Panel hearing: April 2025 – Communication of results: May 2025 – Tentative start of the projects: June 2025 |
| Total estimated EIT Funding allocated to this Call | Total: up to €600,000 (up to 15 projects) Per project: the EIT funding is €40,000 (67.5% of the project budget) per selected project. Each proposal must have a co-funding of €19,500 (32.5% of the project budget), resulting in the fixed lump sum of €59,500 per selected project. |
| Project duration | RAPTOR projects will last from 01 June to 31 November 2025. |
| Submission portal | In order to apply please follow these steps: 1. Register on the EU Funding & Tender Portal to obtain a Participant Identification Code (PIC) number. 2. Get login credentials for the NetSuite platform: – Organisation not registered: Submit the Partner Information Form (PIF) in order to get credentials. – Organisation previously registered in PLAZA: Please contact servicedesk@eiturbanmobility.eu. 3. Access the new EIT UM NetSuite Platform after setting a new password. – Find open calls at Menu –> Call for Proposals –> Open Calls –> RAPTOR 2025 Open Call –> Apply |
| List of documents to be submitted | Application on-line form (available on NetSuite) |
| List of documents to take into consideration | – Call Manual – Guidelines for Applicants – EIT Urban Mobility Strategic Agenda 2021-2027 – Eligibility of expenditure – Appeal procedure – Template of the Financial Support Agreement (FSA) – Project Implementation Handbook – Horizon Europe Model Grant Agreement – Financial Sustainability Guidelines – Application form example |
| Short summary of the topics to be addressed | Each city has issued a City Challenge, found at www.raptorproject.eu and in Annex II, highlighting their city mobility challenges and information necessary to assess their issue and location. |
| Evaluation criteria | Phase 1: Quality evaluation – Strategic fit – Excellence – Impact – Implementation Phase 2: Panel hearings – Results of the hearing – Portfolio fit – City Challenge – Fit and replicability potential |
Info sessions
To help applicants with the preparation and submission of their proposals, EIT Urban Mobility will host one call launch information session as well as two live Q&A online. These online information events will focus on the call content, the challenges, the submission and evaluation procedures, and the financial aspects. These three events will be recorded and made available on the EIT UM YouTube and the RAPTOR Project website in the news section.
Please find the calendar of events and the link to register in the table below:
| Type of event | Topic covered | Date and time (CET) | Access to platform |
| Webinar | Call info session | 16 December 2024 10.00 to 11.30 CET | Watch the recording Slides of the session |
| Webinar | Live Q&A – City Challenges presentation (first half) | 17 December 2024 10.00 to 11.30 CET | Watch the recording |
| Webinar | Live Q&A – City Challenges presentation (second half) | 18 December 2024 10.00 to 11.30 CET | Watch the recording |
Contact details
In parallel to the call information sessions, all applicants may contact EIT Urban Mobility to resolve any concerns or doubts on the general/technical procedures and call content. These are the key contact details of the EIT Urban Mobility team for questions related to this call:
| Type of contact | |
| EIT Urban Mobility Agile Innovation Team | agileinnovationteam@eiturbanmobility.eu |
More information here