Pilot your innovative urban mobility solutions in smart European cities
Rapid Applications for Transport (RAPTOR) is a programme that swiftly creates and tests solutions to niche urban mobility challenges of cities across Europe.
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
60,000 EUR to spend on the project and pilot.
Create a compelling 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 receive the first half of the EIT funding and work closely with the respective city to develop and tailor the solution. Projects 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.‘
‘The Childfy app is highly valued as a solution to the traffic congestion experienced at school entrances and exits. The app was proposed by the Municipality of Cascais, and its implementation is expected to provide an effective solution to this long-standing problem.’
– Bernardo Correia, Pedagogical Director of the Salesianos de Manique school.
‘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!‘
‘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.‘
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