Autonomous Drive Ambition Cities (IA) - Apply AI
Development and demonstration of AI-enabled electric autonomous mobility services (level 4) in urban traffic, improving safety, sustainability, data sharing and commercial scalability across cities, through a large-scale demonstrator integrating 5 - 7 co-ordinated city pilots in 5 or more Member States or associated countries including at least one cross-border pilot between adjacent cities - to bring near-to-market…
Funding and competition
- 1grant expected (official)
- €15MEU contribution per project
- €8Mmedian EU grant of the most similar funded projects
Very few grants: expect strong competition. Only proposals well above threshold are funded, so a clearly differentiated idea and a complete consortium are essential.
Success rates vary widely between topics (often from below 5% to above 30%). Ask us for the success-rate history of this topic before you commit to a proposal.
Organisations with a track record in this topic
Organisations that took part in the EU-funded projects most similar to this call (Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020), ranked by how close those projects are to the call, how recent they are and whether the organisation coordinated them. Being listed does not mean an organisation is looking for partners: use the list to target your outreach.
Spanish organisations with experience in this field
The Spanish organisations that appear most often in the closest funded projects.
| Organisation | Country | Type | Similar EU projects | As coordinator | Examples (CORDIS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idiada Automotive Technology Sa Santa Oliva | Spain | Company | 10 | 1 | FAME, RemoteReadyMove, SHOW |
| Fundacion Centro De Tecnologias De Interaccion Visual Y Comunicaciones Vicomtech Donostia San Sebastian | Spain | Research organisation · SME | 9 | 1 | FAME, RemoteReadyMove, CHORUS |
| Aimsun Slu Barcelona | Spain | Company · SME | 5 | 0 | CONDUCTOR, DIT4TraM, GEMINI |
| Factual Consulting Sl Sant Cugat Del Valles | Spain | Company · SME | 4 | 2 | ARIADNA, MOLIERE, metaCCAZE |
| Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation Donostia/San Sebastian | Spain | Research organisation | 4 | 0 | SHOW, iEXODDUS, PRYSTINE |
| Fundacio Privada I2Cat, Internet I Innovacio Digital A Catalunya Barcelona | Spain | Research organisation | 3 | 1 | 5GCroCo, CARAMEL, 5GMED |
| Enide Solutions .S.L Sant Andreu De La Barca | Spain | Company · SME | 3 | 0 | AWARD, HARMO, MODI |
| Empresa Municipal De Transportes De Madrid Sa Madrid | Spain | Company | 3 | 0 | SHOW, AUGMENTED CCAM, PREVENT |
What a typical winning consortium looks like
- 23partners (median)
- 9countries (median)
- 23%of partners are SMEs
Based on the 25 funded projects closest to this call. Use it as a benchmark, not a rule: always check the call conditions for the minimum consortium.
Most similar funded projects
Read their CORDIS pages to see the full consortium, results and deliverables.
- NETZERO-MOVE – EU-sovereign procurement of next generation NET-ZERO, climate-neutral urban MObility innovatiVE solutions (HORIZON · 2026 · HORIZON-MISS-2026-04-PCP-CIT-01)
- 5GCroCo – Fifth Generation Cross-Border Control (H2020 · 2018 · ICT-18-2018)
- CARAMEL – Artificial Intelligence based cybersecurity for connected and automated vehicles (H2020 · 2019 · SU-ICT-01-2018)
- FAME – Framework for coordination of Automated Mobility in Europe (HORIZON · 2022 · HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-06)
- 5GMED – Sustainable 5G deployment model for future mobility in the Mediterranean Cross-Border Corridor (H2020 · 2020 · ICT-53-2020)
- BERTHA – BEhavioural ReplicaTion of Human drivers for CCAM (HORIZON · 2023 · HORIZON-CL5-2022-D6-01-03)
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Track-record data: CORDIS open data (European Commission), organisation level only, refreshed weekly. Rankings are calculated automatically by Ullswater Investments from text similarity between the call and funded projects; they are indicative.