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 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.‘
‘A stunning experience. Especially if you are a new start-up trying to bring your idea to life. RAPTOR makes you more disciplined, focused and faster.‘
Raptor has helped bring out the best in our team on a demanding international project with multiple stakeholders.’
‘Raptor has been the best opportunity to showcase Volvero so far. The active involvement of the EIT UM and relevant institutions like Tour & Taxis made it a success and pivotal moment.‘
‘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.‘
‘RAPTOR gave us a precious opportunity to test our technology in a tier 1 city. We have a great local partner assigned to us. They helped us to understand the market, communicate with the municipality office and engage with our trial users. We cannot recommend this opportunity highly enough!‘
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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.
