ECF has identified an interesting open call for its members working on innovative urban mobility projects within the Climate KIC Programme 2018. Their third call for proposals has opened on 28 March 2018. This particular call has identified the acceleration of Clean Urban Mobility as one of its main goals. They are looking for projects that will trigger the switch to clean urban mobility to achieve considerable cuts in urban transport emissions. The deadline for submitting applications is 28 May 2018 18:00 GMT. 

The EIT Climate-KIC is a European knowledge and innovation community that is working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy. The Climate-KIC Programme is looking to support ambitious initiatives with a clear pathway to positive climate impact, consistent with the Paris Agreement targets and our Climate Innovation Impact Goals. Their ambition is to create a prosperous, inclusive, climate-resilient society with a circular, zero-carbon economy, where our long-term impact is to achieve deep decarbonisation and strengthen climate resilience through innovation. The EIT Climate-KIC community is a pioneer in testing and delivering such innovative solutions and a movement for rapid change.

Priorities of the Call for the acceleration of Clean Urban Mobility: 

The Climate-KIC Programme is looking to support ambitious proposals that:

• Forge policy innovation, where the result is that EU legislation and regulations are in place that support the urban mobility transition to MaaS and modal shift. Similarly, define local planning regulations that support the creation of liveable neigbourhoods to promote cycling and walking.

• Develop robust business cases for MaaS and modal shift programmes that attract investment.

• Experiment with digital technologies that help to demonstrate that MaaS is the best value proposition for users, helping them meet their mobility needs and solve the inconvenient parts of individual journeys as well as the entire system of mobility services. Such digital technology supports accurate travel data collection across different modes to take informed decisions and support cities to create open-source sharing and payment platforms.

• Trigger behaviour shifts through social innovation, resulting in privately owned cars being taken off the streets and cities taking a proactive stance in last mile freight delivery by creating consolidation centres for commercial and private deliveries. Such social innovation will mean citizens change their mobility patterns and accept responsibility for tackling air pollution, emissions and congestions. Similarly, cities will feel empowered to take a pro-active stance in last mile delivery.

• Help bring together stakeholders in ambitious, innovative cities and districts to foster local mobility innovation ecosystems, and connect these places and groups together across Europe to accelerate learning. Creating rapid change will require customers to be aware of the innovations that can meet their needs, be able to secure investment buy-in towards those innovations and translate that into action (e.g. tenders, investment and implementation.

Where appropriate, we encourage applicants to leverage the Smart Sustainable Districts network or other EIT. Climate-KIC living lab sites as innovation ecosystems in which to trial and test mobility innovations (see Box 1). We will only support single-point technology NBS innovation projects that demonstrate a strong route to scaling adoption.

More information can be found on http://www.climate-kic.org/get-involved/research-innovation-opportunities/

The call text can be found here. 

Let us know if you are developing a project for this Call for Proposals!