One eligible SME
The call is mono-beneficiary. The applicant must satisfy the current SME and legal-entity conditions and provide the required registrations and evidence.
EIT Urban Mobility · SME Market Expansion Open Call 2027
EURAN — ART MARINAS™
Call closure date · 2026-12-01
COUNTDOWN
What the call wants
A MATURE URBAN-MOBILITY SOLUTION EXPANDING INTO A NEW MARKET
Committed public or private entity
A real end client must commit to testing and demonstrating the solution. The end client is essential to deployment but is not a co-beneficiary.
Proven, scalable solution
The call is for market expansion, not early ideation. ART MARINAS™ must evidence the required maturity, customer history, deployment capability and relevant mobility KPIs.
OFFICIAL CALL FACTS · VERIFIED 11 OCTOBER 2026
SME MARKET EXPANSION OPEN CALL 2027 — CURRENT PUBLISHED CONDITIONS
€60,000 fixed lump sum
The official call allocates €600,000 in total, with around 10 projects expected and €60,000 for each selected SME.
Mono-beneficiary SME + committed end client
The applicant is one SME supported by a public or private end client committed to testing and demonstrating the solution.
1 December 2026 · 17:00 CET
The call opened on 9 October 2026 and closes on 1 December 2026 at 17:00 CET.
Published thematic scope.
Public & Shared Transport · Urban Logistics · Electrification of transport and alternative fuels · Mobility Data Management · Health & Mobility. ART MARINAS™ remains a candidate proposition and must demonstrate final thematic and end-client fit in the application.
What EURAN proposes
URBAN WATERFRONT MOBILITY — MOVEMENT, ACCESS, WAYFINDING & PLACE
ART MARINAS™ is conceived as a waterfront-mobility and user-experience system, not as an art decoration project. It addresses the movement and legibility of complex marina and waterfront environments: pedestrian arrival, multimodal transitions, accessibility, wayfinding, movement between city and marina, visitor flows, staff/service circulation and mobility information.
Art, design and place identity may strengthen the user experience, but mobility performance must remain measurable and central.
Why the marina is an urban laboratory
A WATERFRONT CONNECTS CITY, TRANSPORT, TOURISM, REAL ESTATE AND PUBLIC REALM
City ↔ marina
Visitors, residents, staff and service providers move through multiple arrival modes and thresholds.
Complex spatial legibility
Berths, terminals, retail, parking, public areas, services and adjacent neighbourhoods require clear and inclusive navigation.
Mobility for diverse users
Older users, disabled users, families, visitors and international travellers require understandable, safe and inclusive movement systems.
Measure the movement
Flows, dwell points, journey friction, wayfinding failures and user feedback can create measurable performance indicators.
Mobility creates place value
Better access and movement can improve the performance and attractiveness of mixed-use waterfront developments.
One operator → many sites
A validated system can be adapted across marinas, ports, waterfront districts and other complex visitor environments.
Current relationship field
FROM EXISTING WATERFRONT RELATIONSHIPS TO A REAL END-CLIENT PILOT
EURAN's existing marina and waterfront relationships create a practical route to end-client discovery. Potential operators, developers, associations or waterfront authorities can be approached first for the commercial relevance of the system and, where eligible and interested, for a formal EIT Urban Mobility commitment letter.
No company, marina or authority is presented as a confirmed end client until written commitment is obtained.
Commercial market-expansion logic
ONE DEPLOYMENT SHOULD CREATE THE NEXT TEN
Deploy with one end client
Define the mobility problem, baseline, intervention, user groups and measurable outcomes.
Build evidence
Document operational results, customer value, user response, deployment cost and replicability.
Expand commercially
Use the reference to approach other marina operators, ports, developers and waterfront destinations in Europe and beyond.
A MARINA IS NOT ONLY A DESTINATION. IT IS A MOVEMENT SYSTEM — AND A MARKET.
OPERATION RENAISSANCE
ART MARINAS™ — WATERFRONT MOBILITY & GLOBAL MARKET EXPANSION
ART MARINAS™ connects Alexandre Mimoglou's urbanist, designer and entrepreneurial roles to a measurable waterfront mobility business.
EU Call Universe
ART MARINAS™ is being developed as a candidate market-expansion proposition for the call, subject to final thematic, SME and end-client fit. The commercial proposition progresses independently of any funding result.
Commercial Universe
The commercial route is larger than the grant: paid marina and waterfront studies, mobility/wayfinding systems, visitor-flow optimisation, public-realm integration and replication across operator portfolios and developments.
Operation Renaissance 2026–27.
This initiative forms part of EURAN’s wider Global Growth architecture linking selected European cooperation with independent commercial development.
OPEN OPERATION RENAISSANCE →
CONNECTED EURAN INFRASTRUCTURE
THIS OPERATION DOES NOT STAND ALONE
The European proposal is one accelerator inside a wider commercial and intellectual system.
Operation Renaissance 2026–27
Master architecture: eight EU operations, eight commercial routes.
EURAN Projects
The project inventory connecting concepts, pilots, clients and European cooperation.
Constellation
EURAN's active intellectual platform from which selected concepts develop into projects and ventures.
Industries
SEA · LAND · SKY deployment environments and sector-specific commercial routes.
EURAN XPO™
Physical, hybrid and virtual cultural deployment across industry environments.
Art Production Systems™
Technical production, prototypes, manufacturing, quality control and deployment.