Horizon Lab
About Horizon Lab
Horizon Lab is specifically involved in calls under Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, and Connecting Europe that address EIT Urban Mobility’s mission. Operating under the EIT Urban Mobility Foundation, the non-profit arm of EIT Urban Mobility, Horizon Lab’s activities include proposal development, consortium building, and project implementation.
Since its founding in 2021, Horizon Lab has used EIT Urban Mobility’s extensive network of cities, industry, and research institutions to maximise the reach and impact of its project participations. The range of activities offered by Horizon Lab include
- Communication and dissemination,
- Stakeholder engagement and co-creation processes,
- Exploitation of results, including commercial exploitation and policy recommendations, and
- Replication and upscaling of results, including capacity building, knowledge transfer, and peer-to-peer learning.
All of Horizon Lab’s activities complement the organisation’s mission to create more liveable places, tackle urban challenges and accelerate change.
Discover Horizon Lab projects
Horizon Lab contributes to European projects that are aligned with EIT Urban Mobility’s objectives of improving people’s quality of life, decarbonising mobility and making Europe’s economy more competitive. Discover the projects below:
Supporting EU’s Mission of 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030.
Duration: 10/21 – 9/25
Laying the foundation for the common European mobility data space.
Duration: 9/22 – 9/23
Boosting the impact of CIVITAS Community activities on sustainable urban mobility policy.
Duration: 5/23 – 4/27
Enabling the next generation of battery reverse logistics.
Duration: 5/23 – 10/26
Anticipating urban freight generation and demand through digitalisation.
Duration: 9/23 – 2/27
Upscaling green urban last-mile delivery solutions and city learning.
Duration: 9/23 – 2/26
Co-creating people-centric sustainable neighbourhoods through urban regeneration.
Duration: 11/23 – 10/27
Ongoing activities
As of now, Horizon Lab has:
- Engaged more than 300 people to enable closer cooperation;
- Supported more than 20 partnerships encouraging innovative research and mid-technology readiness level solutions before commercialisation;
- Contributed to 11 ongoing European strategic innovation projects.
How Horizon Lab operates
Horizon Lab scans and pre-identifies calls in European funding programmes like Horizon Europe (HE), Digital Europe (DE) and Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) that are aligned with EIT Urban Mobility’s strategic objectives. Relevant calls are shared with EIT Urban Mobility’s ecosystem. The scope of Horizon Lab’s engagement is based on the category of the pre-identified call. Have a look at the role of Horizon Lab for each of the categories below.
Categories of Horizon Lab engagements
- CATEGORY A: EIT Urban Mobility and partners will submit jointly, in an arrangement in which EIT Urban Mobility is an active partner;
- CATEGORY B: EIT Urban Mobility supports the creation of new consortia and developing concepts for proposals, but has no direct involvement;
- CATEGORY C: EIT Urban Mobility provides a letter of support, but is not involved in the project or proposal development.
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