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. 

Visit the below link to read further on this call.

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