EIT Urban Mobility RAPTOR Open Call

EIT Urban Mobility RAPTOR Open Call

Funds startups and small and medium-sized companies solving city-defined urban mobility challenges.

Eligibility · EU member states

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

RAPTOR — Rapid Application Process To Overcome Real-mobility challenges — is an open call run by EIT Urban Mobility for startups and SMEs to solve specific, niche urban mobility problems defined by participating cities. EIT Urban Mobility is a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, founded in 2019 and based in Barcelona, with innovation hubs in Amsterdam, Munich, Copenhagen, and Prague in addition to Barcelona, and a network of over 1,250 partner organisations across 33 countries. RAPTOR operates on an annual cycle in which cities post discrete mobility challenges and startups apply to address them; the nature of the challenges changes each cycle based on city priorities. The 2026 cycle closed on 12 March 2026, and a 2027 cycle is expected to follow the established annual pattern.

Eligibility is restricted to startups and SMEs — universities, research organisations, and non-profits are outside scope for this call. Because challenges are city-defined each cycle, eligible sectors, required TRLs, and award amounts vary year to year; the Call Programme 2026 PDF available on the EIT Urban Mobility website contains the authoritative funding parameters for each active cycle. EIT Urban Mobility's broader Innovations to Market programme, of which RAPTOR is part, targets solutions that are close to market and ready for real-world deployment, suggesting RAPTOR winners are expected to deliver working pilots rather than early-stage research.

Organisations monitoring RAPTOR should watch EIT Urban Mobility's calls for proposals page for the 2027 opening announcement. Past calls have attracted startups from across Europe addressing transportation efficiency, last-mile logistics, and public transit integration. Winning applicants benefit not only from the grant but from direct access to city clients who co-defined the challenge — a significant commercial advantage for early market entry. EIT Urban Mobility has delivered more than 445 pilots across 200+ European cities since 2020, and RAPTOR is a primary mechanism through which city-validated pilots are generated.