This webpage is dedicated to listing upcoming calls and funding opportunities for Smart City related projects
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OPEN Funding Opportunities
The CIVITAS Replication and Deployment Programme is now accepting applications for its second cycle (2025–2027), and is seeking 12 Champion Cities to share their experience and inspire action across Europe.
This initiative invites cities that have successfully implemented measures in Road Safety, Behavioural Change, or Mobility Hubs to guide peers—referred to as Challenge Cities—in addressing real-life mobility issues on the ground.
Shaping the Future of Mobility: Key Topics for 2025-2027
Each Champion City will support a Challenge City working on one of three core themes:
Road Safety & Security
Stuttgart (Germany) aims to make school areas safer by tackling poor visibility at crossings—particularly where parked cars obstruct views, putting children at risk.
Reġjun Tramuntana (Malta) is targeting unsafe traffic flows in residential and historic areas, caused by through-traffic from non-local drivers. Their approach involves low-traffic solutions guided by air quality data and CCTV analysis.
Behavioural Change and Mobility Management
Kifissia (Greece) is working to shift short, car-based trips towards walking and cycling through awareness campaigns, shared mobility schemes, and behavioural nudges.
Gaziantep (Türkiye) is reinforcing its Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy with tools like school travel plans and community engagement to help reduce car dependency.
Multimodal Hubs
Florence (Italy) is focusing on improving multimodal connectivity around Santa Maria Novella Station by integrating tram services and piloting Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS).
Osmangazi (Türkiye) plans to develop inclusive Mobility Hubs in its historic, sloped city centre, connected by low-emission corridors and co-designed public space solutions.
Why Become a Champion City?
Champion Cities will have the chance to:
- Share their expertise and practical experience with peers
- Express a preference on which Challenge City they would like to support and travel to
- Receive reimbursement of up to €875 to participate in a study visit to the selected Challenge City
If your city has actionable insights and proven strategies to share, this is an opportunity to shape the future of sustainable mobility across Europe.
More information and the application form are available here.
The deadline to apply is 18 September 2025.
Call Name:
OPEN CALL 2
Deadline: July 28th 2025, at 5 pm CET
Who can apply:
Applicants based in Europe or an EU associated country with innovative ideas addressing one of the challenges stated above, including:
For more information: ADT4Blue website
Detailed information about the challenges: Download challenges descriptions
Call for Startups and Scaleups (especially those in Germany and Europe)
Call name:
Smart Country Startup Award 2025
Introduction:
The Smart Country Convention (SCCON) will take place from the 30th September to the 2nd October 2025 in Berlin Germany and is a leading event for digital state and public services.
During the event the Smart Country Startup Award 2025 will be presented, Startups and Scaleups (especially those in Germany and Europe) are invited to apply.
The innovation prize of the Smart Country Convention, honors startups with outstanding solutions, technologies and products in the areas of Smart City and GovTech.
The finalists will pitch in front of a jury of experts and the Smart Country Convention audience on October 1. The winning startup will receive a stage slot in the following year worth a total of €10,000 as well as a one-year Get Started membership of Bitkom.
So if your startup brings a breath of fresh air to the public sector, if you have THE solution for digitizing administration and if your innovative idea will help cities and municipalities transform into #SmartCity.
Apply Here
Call Name:
Strategic Innovation Open Call
Details:
EIT Urban Mobility invites innovators from across Europe to submit a proposal to its Strategic Innovation Open Call, designed to accelerate the deployment of impactful solutions that address the most pressing challenges in urban mobility.
The call focuses on supporting ambitious, market-critical projects that tackle clearly defined problems faced by cities, public authorities, and mobility providers. We aim to de-risk development and enable large-scale deployment by backing solutions with a clear path to market and the potential to scale across Europe.
Through this call, EIT Urban Mobility fosters innovation and strengthens Europe’s competitiveness by encouraging collaboration across the EIT Knowledge Triangle—education, research, and business—alongside a fourth essential partner: cities.
The Call will focus on five sectors in which we believe Europe has the potential to innovate and create impact:
- Urban logistics,
- Public transport,
- Mobility data management,
- Electrification of transport and alternative fuels, and
- Health and mobility.
Deadline:
All submission windows close at 17.00 CET on the published cut-off date.
- 1st cut-off date: 23 September 2025
- 2nd cut-off date: February 2026
- 3rd cut-off date: June 2026
- 4th cut-off date: February 2027
Who can apply:
This is a multi-beneficiary call for proposals and therefore there must be a minimum of two independent legal entities, working together. These entities must be established in two different European Member States, and/or Third countries associated with Horizon Europe.
For information on special cases, including Switzerland and Hungarian universities please refer to the Call Manual
How to apply:
The assessment of the proposals involves two stage: Stage 1 is the expert evaluation of proposals submitted via the EIT Urban Mobility NetSuite platform (see section 4.2 of the Call Manual for submission steps), followed by Stage 2, which includes a panel hearing and selection by the Selection Committee.
Call Name:
36th Call for Proposals – OPEN
Deadline: 24th September 2025
The 36th IraSME call for proposals for transnational R&D projects is open from 2 June 2025 until 24th September 2025. The call is organised and funded by national and regional ministries and agencies participating in the IraSME network through their respective funding programmes.
General information:
When applying for IraSME calls for proposals, please note that applicants are strictly advised to consult with their local agencies at an early stage during the preparation of their proposals in order to secure compliance with the applicable national and regional criteria. Eligibility rules, application and funding details vary between countries/regions.
What we fund:
- Development of new products, processes or technical services which exceed the current international state of the art.
- Technical/experimental development up to a prototype level.
- R&D with significant technical risks for each funded partner.
- Minimum constellation: 2 companies from 2 participating countries/regions (pls see Austria and Switzerland for exceptions!).
Countries / Regions participating in the 36th call:
- Austria
- Brazil
- Czech Republic
- Flanders (Belgium)
- Germany
- Luxembourg
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
- Wallonia (Belgium)
More Information: