Pilot your innovative urban mobility ideas in smart European cities
City Rapid Applications for Transport (RAPTOR) is a programme that swiftly creates and tests solutions to niche urban mobility challenges of cities across Europe.
City RAPTOR is a city-driven, challenge-based, and agile innovation programme of EIT Urban Mobility.
The programme matches niche city urban mobility challenges to solutions from startups and SMEs.
Startups and SMEs can either:
Awarded startups and SMEs get 6 months to develop a product/service/solution to solve the city challenge.
CONNECT WITH INNOVATIVE STARTUPS
Access disruptive solutions from our network and bring the newest technologies into your city.
TEST THE BEST SOLUTIONS BEFORE INVESTING
De-risk the innovation process through agile pilot testing and validate ideas before scaling up.
BECOME AN INNOVATION LEADER
Create a business reference case.
Real life testing of your solution in corresponding city.
Potential invitation to other programmes with EIT Urban Mobility.
We launch an open call to scout for innovative solutions. Startups/SMEs compete to provide the most innovative, feasible, and impactful solutions to these city mobility challenges.
Winning startups and SMEs work closely with the respective city to develop and tailor the solution. Projects receive the first half of the EIT funding and have regular check-ins with the EIT Urban Mobility RAPTOR team.
Two week minimum in-situ testing of the solution and final completion of solution within the project timeframe. Projects receive the second half of the EIT funding.
innovation approach
‘The pilot was designed to demonstrate that the technology actually works in real conditions. The municipality was pleasantly surprised with the results. As a consequence of the RAPTOR prograprogram, additional tests and stakeholders within the municipality will be added to thoroughly examine the different use cases and benefits for the city.‘
‘RAPTOR was an opportunity to experiment the solution and precise the business model and logistics processes’
‘RAPTOR could help us find the best teams and solutions across Europe to find solutions to our Resilient and Sustainable Urban Plan challenge’.
-Petra Dzurovčinová, Chief Innovation Officer at the City of Bratislava
The program was a very positive experience for our company. To be honest we were not expecting such effort from both EIT Urban Mobility as well as municipality representatives. We have managed to develop useful features for our products and are continuing communication and tests with the municipality.‘
‘Thanks to RAPTOR we have been able to perform the data collection for the whole municipality and we are now able to scale our solution to bigger cities in Europe.‘
‘The Raptor competition helps implement innovative, feasible, and impactful pilots. The goal is both to build a better city, as well as to encourage the expansion and consolidation of new and disruptive solutions.‘
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This project is funded by EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. EIT Urban Mobility acts to accelerate positive change on mobility to make urban spaces more liveable. Learn more: eiturbanmobility.eu.
