Autonomous Drive Ambition Cities (IA) - Apply AI
Bridging actions 2027 · HORIZON-IA · Up to TRL 8 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds one large scale demonstrator project that deploys AI enabled, electric, level 4 autonomous vehicles in real urban traffic across 5 to 7 city pilots in at least 5 EU or associated countries, including one cross border pilot. It aims to move autonomous driving technology from high technical maturity to real, commercially scalable operations, while also tackling data sharing, cybersecurity, regulatory and business model barriers to deployment.
mobility transport · electric vehicles · artificial intelligence · smart cities · robotics automation · cybersecurity
Who wins this
A large consortium of cities, mobility operators, vehicle manufacturers, technology providers and research organisations across at least five Member States or associated countries, ready to run coordinated, near to market autonomous vehicle pilots.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €15M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: at least 5 partners, from 5 countries.
- Eligible applicants
- cities or urban agglomerations, mobility service providers and operators, vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, technology providers, research and innovation entities, public transport operators
- Also required
- Participation is limited to legal entities established in Member States, Iceland, Norway and associated countries, and entities controlled by non-eligible countries are excluded; the project must include 5 to 7 city pilots in 5 or more countries with at least one cross-border pilot.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligibility Conditions In order to achieve the expected outcomes, and safeguard the Union’s strategic assets, interests, autonomy, or security, it is important to avoid a situation of technological dependency on a non-EU source, in a global context that requires the EU to take action to build on its strengths, and to carefully assess and address any strategic weaknesses, vulnerabilities and high-risk dependencies which put at risk the attainment of its ambitions. For this reason, participation is limited to legal entities established in Member States, Iceland and Norway and associated countries. For the duly justified and exceptional reasons listed in the paragraph above, in order to guarantee the protection of the strategic interests of the Union and its Member States, entities established in an eligible country listed above, but which are directly or indirectly controlled by a non-eligible country or a non-eligible country entity, shall not participate in the action. described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the specific topic of the Work Programme.