The third edition of the SME Market Expansion Call for Innovation (previously known as the Small Call) is launching on 1 October 2024!
The SME Market Expansion Call for Innovation is a call for SMEs that supports the development of new – or significantly improved – solutions for expansion into a new industry sector or geographic market. It provides SMEs with an opportunity to do complete usage testing with an end client within the project timeline.
The SME Market Expansion Call contributes to the EIT Urban Mobility’s societal impact goal of job creation and strengthening the European urban mobility sector. It offers a pathway for SMEs to expand and grow, supporting them to enter business and commercial relations with businesses, transport providers, cities, and city authorities that have heavy procurement and compliance requirements. Often these complex rules base excludes SMEs, de facto, from entering the market and driving faster innovation and better solutions.
Come along to this information session to learn how you can be part of the next cohort of agile innovation pilots taking place across Europe.
WHO
SMEs that can offer solutions to key providers within the urban mobility ecosystem such as city authorities, passenger transport operators, logistics and mobility providers, energy companies, police, and security services, etc.
WHAT
It is planned to award 15 projects to be implemented by 15 different legal entities, each with a EIT funding allocation of €59,500.
TOPICS
The challenge areas cover three main topics: public transport, urban logistics, and electrification of transport and alternative fuels.
SME MARKET EXPANSION CALL PROJECTS 2024
For the second SME Market Expansion Call for Innovation (Small Call), 13 SMEs were awarded:
- Tunnll (SE) with Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (CZ)
- Parkunload (ES) with Area Metropolitana de Barcelona (ES)
- Hyggle (FR) with Auvergne-Rhones-Alpes (FR)
- Don Cicleto (ES) with OVO (CH)
- MOBY Bikes (IR) with Dublin City Council (IR)
- Inteliports (UK) with Isle of Wight CounIL (UK)
- SparkPark (NO) with PM3D (PL)
- VivaDrive (PL) with Moya (PL)
- Hopper Mobility (GE) with Onkokontor (GE)
- Reserve & Charge (UK) with Transport for West Midlands (UK)
- SurplusMap (Norway) with Energie 360 (CH)
- Coding the Curbs (NL) with Riga City Council (LV)
- DeepVolt (TN) with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (TR)
For questions or queries, please contact Taylor Sawyer at taylor.sawyer@eiturbanmobility.eu
