EIT Regional Innovation Scheme Urban Mobility Specialists (RISUMS) Open Call 2025
In the countries of the Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS), tailor-made activities are developed to meet the diverse innovation needs of its eligible countries and to ensure the balanced pan-European geographical coverage of the innovation community.
At EIT Urban Mobility, our mission is to accelerate change towards a sustainable mobility model for liveable urban spaces. In the current context of climate emergency, our objective is to support our community of innovators to develop mobility solutions that help people mitigate and adapt to climate change, while improving the quality of life in our cities, creating jobs and strengthening the European mobility sector.
Through our well-established portfolio of programmes designed to support agile and collaborative mobility innovation, and through our supported start-ups, we can offer an inspiring innovation ecosystem that improves and stimulates the connection with the local networks of the RIS countries.
In November 2023, a new place-based strategy was approved by the EIT and the EIT KICs, setting out the deployment of 24 EIT Community RIS Hubs in the RIS countries and outermost regions. Each country’s EIT Community RIS Hub will bring together all the KIC-related offices, RIS specialists and National Contact Points (NCP) under one single innovation community.
Within this new framework, we seek to build on the results of the former RIS Hub network of EIT Urban Mobility, making the necessary changes to thrive in a new structure full of new synergies and opportunities. We aim to find specialists for the following countries and regions: Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Türkiye, Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Main features of the call (aim and challenges)
This Call for Proposals aims to select the strongest proposals that will deliver activities to support our RIS strategy in the selected regions and countries in all fields of activity, such as enlarging the network, scouting and supporting new talents or start-ups, and deploying new mobility solutions. More particularly, the selected RIS Urban Mobility Specialists (RISUMS) proposals will foster close interactions between local innovation actors and link local innovation ecosystems to the KIC’s pan-European innovation ecosystem. They will also help integrate potential new partners and participants from the local innovation ecosystem in KIC activities.
Integrating RISUMS into the EIT Community RIS Hubs is also a top priority. The RISUMS will work in close cooperation with the EIT Community RIS Hub, which represents all the EIT KICs in the country through an EIT Community Officer (ECO). Cooperation will involve information exchange, data sharing, alignment on events, stakeholder meetings, etc.
Proposals must have a duration of 48 months and address at least two of the following areas:
- Local community building
- Impact Ventures support
- Innovation support
- Education support
Contact details
All applicants may contact the RIS Team at EIT Urban Mobility at ris@eiturbanmobility.eu to resolve any concerns or doubts about the call content and the call process.
Call info-session
EIT Urban Mobility organises an online information session on 17 July 2024 from 11.00 to 12.30 CET focused on the call content, the objectives and requirements, as well as on the general procedures, such as the submission and evaluation process and the proposal submission tool.
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