Funding

Supporting impactful urban technology projects through strategic funding

Smart City Funding Opportunities

Explore smart city funding opportunities available through the Urban Technology Alliance and its partners. These opportunities support innovative urban projects, pilot initiatives, and scalable solutions addressing key urban challenges. Cities, innovators, and organizations can access funding to develop technologies and implement impactful projects. By leveraging smart city funding opportunities, stakeholders can accelerate innovation and contribute to sustainable urban development. Browse available calls and learn how to apply for funding to bring your projects to life.

Climate security and civil preparedness — new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate-change related scenarios for a more resilient Europe

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2026-11-05
Climate-security and civil-preparedness tools built around pre- and post-crisis climate scenarios.
Designing new ways of risk awareness and enhanced disaster preparedness

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2026-11-05
Research into new ways of building risk awareness and disaster preparedness, including international cooperation.
Targeted innovative capabilities for the resilience of critical entities to natural and human-induced disasters, including hybrid scenarios

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2026-11-05
Innovation funding to strengthen critical infrastructure against natural, human-induced and hybrid disasters.
EIT Urban Mobility — Financial Support to Startups Open Call 2026

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2026-11-16
Financial support of up to €2.5m for mobility start-ups from pre-seed to Series A with an ongoing funding round.
Driving Urban Transitions Call 2026 — 15-minute City, Circular Urban Economies and Positive Energy Districts

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2026-11-17
Transnational R&I call funding city, research and innovator consortia on 15-minute cities, circular urban economies and Positive Energy Districts.
Advancing sustainable maintenance and repair measures for existing buildings

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2026-12-01
Predictive, data-driven approaches to the sustainable maintenance and repair of existing buildings.
Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2026-12-01
Participatory, community-led approaches to the spatial design of neighbourhoods.
Innovative solutions for the sustainable and beautiful use of vertical space

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2026-12-01
New European Bauhaus funding for the sustainable and beautiful use of vertical space in dense urban settings.
Eureka Globalstars Call with Japan 2026

🔓 Open

🗓️ End: 2027-01-20
Bilateral R&D call pairing companies from Eureka countries with Japanese start-ups and SMEs.
Eurostars Call 12

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-03-04
SME-led, open-topic international R&D projects under the Eureka Eurostars programme.
Apply AI: Challenge-Driven AI Innovation Booster in Apply AI prioritised sectors

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-03-18
Research and innovation funding for AI solutions to industry-defined challenges in the Apply AI priority sectors, including in-vehicle autonomous driving.
International cooperation in AI

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-03-18
Horizon Europe innovation action supporting international cooperation on artificial intelligence.
Reducing soil sealing through sustainable urban and territorial design in the New European Bauhaus

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-09-15
New European Bauhaus innovation action on urban and territorial design solutions that reduce soil sealing.
Researching and applying the potential of AI to foster climate resilience at the regional and local levels

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-09-21
Mission Adaptation research action on using AI to strengthen climate resilience in regions and cities.
Deploying innovative wastewater management, treatment and valorisation solutions in cities and regions

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-09-22
Joint Missions innovation action deploying innovative wastewater management, treatment and valorisation in cities and regions.
Urban nature: restoration of urban ecosystems along transport networks and in the built environment

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-09-22
Joint Missions innovation action for city-led demonstrations restoring urban ecosystems along transport networks and in the built environment.
Advancing circular logistics solutions in cities

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-10-07
Cities Mission innovation action advancing circular urban logistics solutions.
Boosting climate-neutral cities, the net-zero economy and strategic autonomy through Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP)

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-10-07
Cities Mission Pre-Commercial Procurement action where groups of cities procure innovative climate-neutral solutions from suppliers.
Enhancing Mobility for All: affordable, reliable, accessible multimodal transport for inclusive rural and urban connectivity

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-10-07
Innovation action (Societal Readiness pilot) for affordable, reliable and accessible multimodal transport in rural and urban areas.
European CCAM knowledge hub and tools for safe and scalable deployment

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-10-07
CCAM Partnership support action building a European knowledge hub and tools for safe, scalable CCAM deployment.
Holistic solutions for CCAM integration in critical scenarios

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-10-07
CCAM Partnership research action on integrating connected, cooperative and automated mobility in critical scenarios.
Hydrogen cities

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-10-07
Cities Mission coordination and support action on the role of hydrogen in climate-neutral cities.
Inclusive and climate-resilient multimodal passenger hubs enhancing modal shift

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-10-07
Cities Mission innovation action on inclusive, climate-resilient multimodal passenger hubs that drive modal shift.
Innovative microgrids for improved energy system integration and efficiency in urban contexts

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-10-07
Cities Mission innovation action on urban microgrids for better energy system integration and efficiency.
Enhancing physical protection of critical infrastructures

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-11-04
Civil security innovation action to enhance the physical protection of critical infrastructures.
Societal resilience, engagement of younger generations and digital innovation for disaster resilience

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-11-04
Civil security research action on societal resilience, youth engagement and digital innovation for disaster resilience.
New European Bauhaus 2027 — Innovative models for neighbourhoods

🕓 Upcoming

🗓️ End: 2027-12-01
New European Bauhaus 2027 call with several topics on innovative neighbourhood models, from co-governance to modular construction.
EIC Accelerator — Open and Challenges

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-11-04
Grant and equity support from the European Innovation Council for start-ups and SMEs scaling breakthrough innovations.
Innosuisse Flagship 2026 — Resilient and Secure Technologies for Defence and Mobility

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-27
Joint Innosuisse–armasuisse Flagship call for large-scale, transdisciplinary dual-use innovation in resilient and secure mobility and defence technologies.
Energy efficient urban and sub-urban public transport, complemented by shared mobility

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
Pilots combining energy-efficient public transport with shared mobility to cut emissions in and around cities.
Enhanced resilience in multimodal passenger transport through digital technologies and generative and discriminative AI

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
AI-driven solutions to make multimodal passenger transport more resilient and reliable when disruption hits.
Flagship-pilot: large-scale demonstrations of CCAM

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
The CCAM Partnership’s €100m flagship pilot for large-scale, real-world demonstrations of connected, cooperative and automated mobility.
Geopolitical competition and socioeconomic resilience in CCAM: an innovation and policy roadmap for EU leadership

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
Research and a policy roadmap to secure EU leadership and socioeconomic resilience in connected, cooperative and automated mobility.
Increasing competitiveness and resilience of multimodal freight transport and logistics for competitive supply chains

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
Innovation funding for more competitive and resilient multimodal freight and logistics across European supply chains.
Introducing circular economy models in the construction sector, from buildings to city scale

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
Scaling circular-economy models in construction, from individual buildings up to the city level.
Road Safety and resilience of rural areas

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
Innovation funding to improve road safety and mobility resilience in Europe’s rural and low-density areas.
Supporting sustainable and smart urban mobility in Europe

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
A CIVITAS support action helping European cities plan and deliver sustainable, smart urban mobility.
Transition to low-temperature heating solutions in multi-apartment buildings

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-10-08
Demonstrations of low-temperature heating in multi-apartment buildings to decarbonise the urban housing stock.
Demonstrating solutions to protect and preserve cultural heritage from the impacts of climate change

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-09-23
This innovation action funds large-scale demonstrations of solutions that protect cultural heritage sites and assets from climate-change impacts. It backs technologies and approaches mature enough to be piloted in real conditions at heritage locations.
Facilitating implementation of actionable solutions for climate adaptation of regions and local authorities

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-09-23
A support action helping regions and local authorities turn climate-adaptation plans into real, deployed solutions on the ground.
Innosuisse — Switzerland–South Korea Call for Projects

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-06-30
Bilateral Swiss–South Korean funding for market-oriented innovation in AI, digitalisation, smart infrastructure and urban tech.
Strategic Innovation Open Call

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-06-30
This call funds ambitious, market-ready urban mobility solutions in areas like logistics, public transport, data, and electrification. It supports collaborative projects with strong scaling potential across Europe and encourages partnerships between cities, research, and industry.
URBACT IV — Call for Action Networks

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-06-17
Transnational city networks of 6–8 partners turning existing urban strategies into concrete local action across Europe.
Digital twins and/or their major components for environment, climate and security

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-06-16
EU funding to build digital twins — and their core components — for environment, climate and security, modelling disasters, energy, migration and food and water security.
CIVITAS

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2026-03-31
This programme seeks 12 Champion Cities to share successful mobility solutions in road safety, behavioural change, and mobility hubs. Selected cities will mentor peers, contribute to real-world challenges, and help scale sustainable mobility practices across Europe.
Smart Country Startup Award 2025

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2025-10-02
This award invites European startups and scaleups to showcase innovative Smart City and GovTech solutions. Finalists pitch at the Smart Country Convention in Berlin, with winners receiving visibility, prizes, and support to scale their solutions.
36th Call for Proposals

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2025-09-24
This transnational R&D call funds SMEs developing innovative products, processes, or services. Projects must involve at least two partners from different countries and focus on high-risk technical development up to prototype stage, supported by national funding programmes.
ADT4Blue

🔒 Call ended

🗓️ End: 2025-07-28
This call supports innovators, startups, researchers, and students developing solutions for Blue Economy challenges. Open to applicants in Europe and associated countries, it aims to fund innovative ideas addressing key environmental and maritime issues.