RIS Education Open Call 2026

This call aims at funding projects that can support the overall RIS strategy and aims, offer high-quality education, reach a large audience and market, and gain recognition efficiently with a lasting effect. 

The EIT Urban Mobility RIS Education objectives are focused on capacity building in innovation and entrepreneurship and urban mobility. These objectives are reflected in the activity types proposed in this call. The activities responding to these objectives should aim to improve transferrable skills that will lead to further innovation and entrepreneurship in urban mobility in RIS countries. 

There are five general topics (RISE 1-5) that can be addressed by the proposals:

• RISE 1: Capacity-building (e.g. train the trainer, trainings aimed at improving innovation and entrepreneurial skills with a focus on urban mobility, programmes aimed at defining challenges, facilitating mutual learning, co-creating solutions)
• RISE 2: Education and training activities with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship as well as urban mobility with a potential to reach a large audience and market, and gain recognition efficiently with a lasting impact
• RISE 3: Organisation of summer and winter schools for bachelor students in domain of area of innovation and entrepreneurship.
• RISE4: Scaling-up of local existing activities to reach wider audience and wider impact.
• RISE5: Network building with educational players

EIT funding allocation

The total indicative EIT funding allocated to this call for 2026 is approximately up to €1 250 000.

Projects under RISE1, RISE2 and RISE4 categories will be awarded a maximum of €150 000 EIT funding per project per year, whilst the maximum EIT funding under RISE3 will be €85,000 per project per year. For RISE5, the budget will be €20 000 – 50 000.

Who can apply?

EIT Urban Mobility creates ecosystems. KICs are anchored in regional and local communities via their co-location centres (known as Innovation Hubs within EIT Urban Mobility). EIT Urban Mobility constitutes the mechanism to link the knowledge triangle components of education, research and businesses across Europe and into the wider world.

At EIT Urban Mobility, we integrate these knowledge triangle components and have expanded them by adding another group: cities. Accordingly, EIT Urban Mobility currently brings together around 450 partners from 42 countries and four sectors: academia, research, industry and cities.

This Call for proposals is open to all types of legal entities established in European Union (EU) member states and/or in third countries associated with Horizon Europe. These legal entities may be universities, research organisations, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), start-ups or cities, among others, and may or may not be EIT Urban Mobility partners at the time of the proposal submission. Former EIT Urban Mobility RIS Hubs and entities from Outermost Regions are encouraged to apply to this Call by submitting proposals aligned with their preferred activity types. The applicants should have the expertise and previous experience in developing and implementing capacity building projects in urban mobility and/or innovation and entrepreneurship. 

This Call is open to both multi-participant and mono-participant proposals from one or more RIS countries. In the case of multi-participant proposals, proposals must, as a minimum requirement, be composed of at least two independent legal entities[2] from at least one RIS country. In case of mono-beneficiary proposals, the applicant must be from a RIS country.

In the case of multi-participant proposals that involve entities from one country only and mono-participant proposals, the consortia shall explain how they are going to achieve the pan-European dimension in their projects. At the same time, the applying consortia are invited to integrate the knowledge triangle in their activities and should explain how cities, academia and industry partners are involved in the project design, development and implementation.

Info Webinar

EIT Urban Mobility will host an online information session on 9 July 2025 12.00 – 13.30 CEST. To register for the webinar, please visit this website.

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