CINEA received 258 applications requesting over EUR 9.5 billion in co-funding under the 2024 CEF Transport proposals which had 21 January 2025 as the deadline for submission.
The co-funding request is nearly four times more than the EUR 2.5 billion budget available for the calls for the 2024 CEF Transport proposals launched in September 2024.
CINEA will start checking the admissibility and eligibility of these proposals. The eligible proposals will then be evaluated by independent external experts, the European Commission, and CINEA. Applicants will be informed of the evaluation results in July 2025 and the grant agreements for the successful projects will be signed by October 2025.
The new projects will build and modernise the transport infrastructure in the European Union and even beyond and will contribute to the development of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) and the new European Transport Corridors. Overall, mobility across the network will be more sustainable, smart, interoperable and resilient to climate change.
Under the CEF programme for the period 2021 – 2027, EUR 25.8 billion were available for CEF Transport projects from the EU’s 2021-2027 budget. Over 80% of the allocated CEF Transport funding contributes to climate objectives in line with the Union’s commitments.
Since 2014, CEF has supported 1,666 projects for almost EUR 44 billion in the transport sector.
Since 2024, the TEN-T policy has been revised besides delivering an integrated and seamless infrastructure, it also aims to reduce the environmental and climate impact of transport and to increase the safety and the resilience of the network.
The requirements for the rail infrastructure include a specification to allow trains travelling at a speed of 160 km/h or faster by 2040 for passenger railway lines on the core and extended core network. It also includes the deployment of ERTMS across the entire TEN-T network, the development of sustainable urban mobility plans in all major cities along the TEN-T network as well as the expansion of the number and capacity of transshipment terminals to accommodate 740-meter long trains, to meet traffic demands, promoting the shift to sustainable transport modes, and boosting Europe’s combined transport sector.
According to the new adopted revision, the core network includes the most important connections between major cities and nodes and must be completed by 2030. The extended core network needs to be completed ten years later, in 2040. The comprehensive network connects all regions of the EU to the core network and needs to be completed by 2050.
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