Coordinators Silicon Eurocluster
- All sectors
Next steps for multimodal urban mobility, building on the travel experience
- All sectors
- EU Open Calls
- Coordinators: Driving Urban Transition - 15-minute City Transition Pathway (Topic #1)
- Opening of application: 6 August 2025
- Allocated budget: Most projects are expected to have a total budget request of around €1–2 million.
- End of applications: 23 April 2026
- Project duration: 36 months
- Project submitted on: Open calls
Objective
Develop integrated, user-centric urban mobility strategies enhancing intermodality, accessibility, and travel experience using existing infrastructure to support sustainable, inclusive, and climate-neutral transport systems tailored to diverse population needs.
Priorities
➡️ Enable seamless integration of public, active, and shared mobility by addressing infrastructural, legal, and digital barriers and ensuring smooth, inclusive, and efficient multimodal travel across diverse urban contexts.
➡️ Capture real-world travel behaviours and user needs through innovative data methods to inform user-centric, high-quality multimodal mobility planning and improve door-to-door travel experiences.
➡️ Co-create neighbourhood-oriented mobility solutions with communities and stakeholders, using hubs and stops as anchors for livability, climate adaptation, and enhanced public space.
Eligibility
Legal entities such as (but not limited to):
- research organisations (higher education institutions including universities, university colleges; research institutes or other entities with research undertakings),
- companies and commercial organisations,
- urban government authorities (such as local and regional government institutions, municipalities and municipal organisations, city authorities, urban public administrations, infrastructure and service providers),
- consumers and civil society representatives (e.g. local and community organisations, non-governmental organisations, not-for-profit organisations, advocacy and activist groups, citizens’ representatives, neighbourhood initiatives, social innovators, social entrepreneurs, etc.).
- From the culture and creative sectors (e.g. artists and designers).
Each proposal must be submitted by a consortium consisting of at least three eligible Applicants from at least three different participating countries (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden (funding agencies Formas and SWEA have confirmed their participation and will publish their National Annexes at a later date), Switzerland, Tunisia More confirmed countries will be added continuously up until the call opens on 1 September.)
At least two of the eligible Applicants must be from different EU Member States (MS) or Associated Country (AC)
Eligible activities
➡️ Concepts and instruments to collect data on travel experience and satisfaction facilitating multimodal mobility in urban areas.
➡️ Analysis and design frameworks to incorporate diverse user needs into multimodal mobility planning, based on door-to-door worthwhile travel experience.
➡️ Strategies, approaches and recommendations to implement integrated multimodal urban transport systems.
➡️ Transferable case studies demonstrating implementation of high-quality, door-to-door multimodal services in various contexts and city sizes.
➡️ Approaches to participatory design and co-creation of neighbourhood-oriented mobility solutions.
➡️ Place-making strategies connected to local multimodal hubs and transport stops.
