# Innovative air mobility and services for sustainable and smart urban, peri-urban transport – Societal Readiness pilot
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**topic id:** HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D6-11
**call id:** HORIZON-CL5-2025-04
**title:** Innovative air mobility and services for sustainable and smart urban, peri-urban transport – Societal Readiness pilot
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** CL5
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-05-06T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D6-11
**description:** Expected Outcome:Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:
• Enabling very low-level unmanned aviation, specifically Innovative Air Mobility (IAM) and services, for sustainable and smart urban mobility in cities, by developing and refining tools for urban planning, outreach, and system forecasting in line with the Drone Strategy 2.0[1] . Climate-neutral, smart, resilient, and safe IAM, accepted by local communities;
• Institutional capacities to enable IAM are built up;
• New tools and services for optimising IAM in cities and other areas, as well as workable governance arrangements for a multimodal transport network;
• Evidence-based guidelines and recommendations, co-designed with and provided to cities, on how to develop a sustainable urban air mobility eco-system (e.g. planning and development processes for local authorities, integration of IAM in Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, etc.);
• Advanced understanding and quantification of the value of IAM, its benefits and use cases, particularly in the urban logistics sector;
• Enhanced multimodality, urban logistics planning/flow and communication between stakeholders, which can be replicated by other cities to enable IAM;
• Creation of jobs and economic growth by implementation of urban air mobility services in the long-term;
• Responsiveness to a deeper understanding of the needs and concerns of diverse social groups involved in or potentially affected by the R&I development, thereby increasing the potential for beneficial societal uptake, and building trust in results and outcomes. 
 Scope:The proposal is expected to develop the conditions and guidelines for a sustainable, smart, safe and resilient ecosystem for urban air mobility and services, focusing on the urban logistics sector, where drones could be more easily demonstrated and accepted than for passenger mobility.
Proposals will have to address at least seven the following points:
• Prepare a roadmap to define the needs for new or upgraded infrastructures and logistics, to facilitate innovation in IAM technologies and operations;
• Collaborate with city authorities to develop guidelines for integrating and co-designing drone infrastructure, such as vertiports, landing areas, and charging stations, into Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, ensuring environmental, safety, security, and privacy considerations;
• Assess the effects of IAM traffic, including electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) downwash/outwash[2] on urban microclimate, as well as the requirements for a vertiport area, to enable safe IAM operations (incl. take-off and landing), for different VTOL aircraft and rotor configurations;
• Building on EASA’s work and other studies on drone noise, assess and define the noise monitoring needs and tools that cities will have to implement, in areas where drone and IAM infrastructures and operations are planned, to ensure compliance with noise limits;
• Analyse and make a proposal on how IAM could be integrated in the existing freight transport flows in cities, to boost multimodality;
• Perform demonstration activities on IAM for cargo delivery (e.g. medical supplies), with data collection and flight monitoring between different landing/take-off areas/vertiports, while ensuring safety of operations in densely populated areas;
• Evaluate and quantify the impact and potential benefits of cargo delivery by drones and eVTOLs on city congestion, noise, pollution, as well as on current and future airspace capacity to accommodate large scale operations;
• Develop viable business models for sustainable IAM services for logistics operators, identifying key use cases where the benefits are the highest;
• Collaborate with city authorities to align IAM services with citizen needs, developing strategies to raise public awareness and secure buy-in for drone integration. Identify attractive benefits and incentives for early adopters to accelerate market uptake of IAM operations and services;
• Report on lessons learnt and recommendations to be shared with other cities for replication, and develop training / competence building packages for the relevant stakeholders (e.g., cities authorities involved in the design of a sustainable IAM ecosystem);
• Analysis of potential rebound effects and arising questions of (energy) sufficiency with regard to extensive use and large-scale operations of IAM.
 Projects must involve cities authorities (multi-level governance) and logistics operators, to ensure user needs are duly considered. Projects should build on previously funded Horizon 2020 projects such as AiRMOUR[3].
The action aims to exploit synergies with the EU Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities and with the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking, while the alignment with the activities of EASA is highly recommended.
This topic is a Societal-Readiness pilot:
• Proposals should follow the instructions applying to the Societal readiness pilot, as described in the introduction of the Horizon Europe Main Work Programme 2025 for Climate, Energy and Mobility. They entail the use of an interdisciplinary approach to deepening consideration and responsiveness of research and innovation activities to societal needs and concerns.
• This topic requires effective contribution of the relevant SSH expertise, including the involvement of SSH experts in the consortium, to meaningfully support Societal Readiness. Specifically, SSH expertise is expected to facilitate the socio-technological interface and enable the design of project objectives with Societal Readiness related activities. 
 [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52022DC0652
[2] Downwash is the downward flow of air produced by the propulsion system of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, such as the thrust from rotors. Outwash refers to the outward flow of the air that results from the downwash.
[3] https://airmour.eu/
**conditions:** 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 Eligible Conditions
The following exceptions apply: subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.

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
are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are 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
Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025). [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].

described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.

Specific conditions
 Not applicable.

Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
 Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE RIA, IA) 

Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations 
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) 

Guidance
HE Programme Guide 

Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 

Call-specific instructions 
Detailed budget table (HE LS) 
Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"

Additional documents:
 HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 14. General Annexes
HE Programme Guide
HE Framework Programme 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764 
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment 
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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