The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R JU) announced that the last grant agreement related to 2015/2016 calls has been signed. All projects are now operational and working together towards delivering innovative solutions.
The 27 S2R JU Other Members submitted project proposals to cover all 13 call topics open to them. The value of activities to be performed by the S2RJU Other Members during the next three years, amount to EUR 142 million that will be co-funded by the S2R JU up to EUR 63 million.
These projects, which started on 1 September are well on their ramp up phase.
The applicants to the Open call for proposals for non-JU Members covered 14 out of 15 topics open to them.
The value of the activities to be performed by the awarded consortia amount to EUR 25 million and will be financed by the S2R JU up to 100% of the eligible costs.
These projects have started between 1 October and 1 November 2016.
With its first calls for proposal the S2R JU launched EUR 167 million of complementary R&I activities and plan to grant EUR 88 million for their completion.
A total of 454 participants applied to the different topics available under both the open calls and the calls designated for Members, of which 25% are SMEs.
In the open calls funded projects only, more than 30% of the participants are SMEs.
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