Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call
EIT Urban Mobility invites organisations and experts to submit proposals to its Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call, designed to accelerate the development and delivery of high-quality, sustainable professional training and support services that close the urban mobility knowledge gap.
This Call focuses on a series of specific activity areas aimed at enhancing the skills and capabilities of mobility professionals and organisations, particularly at the local/city level, to achieve systemic transformations for more liveable cities. The Call supports proposals that offer high-quality, impact-oriented, and financially sustainable learning experiences, leveraging EIT Urban Mobility’s network and expertise in various learning formats.
We are seeking proposals that align with the strategic objectives of EIT Urban Mobility’s Academy, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship through a lifelong learning approach, and demonstrating potential for replication and scaling up. Emphasis is placed on courses that comply with EIT Label certification where applicable.
Proposals may be submitted by individual applicants or multi-participant consortia.
The following seven types of activities are eligible under this Call:
- CHA1: Face-to-face course(s) development and commercialisation
- CHA2: Face-to-face course(s) complying with the EIT Label, design and delivery
- CHA3: Face-to-Face course(s) complying with the EIT Label, development and commercialisation
- CHA4: Replicating, scaling-up, remodelling, sale of successful commercial courses and training programmes
- CHA5: Replicating, scaling-up, remodelling, delivery of successful EIT Label courses
- CHA6: Upgrading, scaling-up, remodelling of non-UMX commercial courses or repurposing non-UMX commercial courses to UMX audiences
- CHA7: Training operations support services and delivery for custom course pathways
The Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call supports activities that demonstrate clear alignment with the strategic objectives of EIT Urban Mobility’s education and training portfolio, ensure compliance with the EIT Label requirements where applicable, and show strong potential for long-term impact, scalability, and financial sustainability.
EIT funding allocation
The total indicative EIT funding allocated to this Call is between approximately € 2-4 million. The maximum EIT funding per proposal is € 700 000.
Who can apply?
This Call for Proposals is open to all legal entities established in the Member States of the European Union, and/or in Third countries associated with Horizon Europe. These legal entities may be small and medium enterprises (SMEs), universities, research and technology organisations, cities or large businesses, among others.
This Call is open to multi-participant proposals and mono-participant proposals.
In the case of mono-participant proposals or multi-participant proposals involving exclusively entities from the same country, EIT Urban Mobility considers that:
- the pan-European dimension can be achieved by bringing participants from different countries onto the courses and exposing them to educational content that includes examples and case studies from different European countries. The instructors/ teaching staff are also expected to come from different European countries. In addition, a course in a specific city/region/country is internationalised/replicated in a different city/region/country. As such, these applicants are expected to deliver the first few sessions in a given market, and once the quality of the course has been demonstrated, it should be opened up to other markets, involving other players/partners, if needed.
- the knowledge triangle is integrated by involving the cities and industry partners, not only in identifying educational needs but also in designing and developing education courses in conjunction with academia. City and industry partners may also be recipients of education programmes.
For information on special cases, including Switzerland and Hungarian universities, please refer to section 2.1 of the Call Manual.
Info Webinar
EIT Urban Mobility will host an online information session on 15 July 2025, 11.00 – 12.30 CEST. To register for the webinar, please visit this website.
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