Under the 2019 Call, Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking received 50 proposals for a total value of EUR 193.9 million and a funding request of EUR 117.9 million, representing 50% more compared to the available funding.
The 2019 Call for Proposals represents a 28% increase in number of applications, compared to the previous call.
“The submission of a significant number of proposals in answer to the Call 2019 confirms that the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking is federating the sector around a concrete delivery-oriented Programme. We finally can move from discussing about a system of systems approach towards delivering the railway sector’s functional system architecture, under the Commission’s steering and together with the European Union Agency for Railways,” Carlo Borghini, Executive Director of the Shift2Rail JU said.
42 proposals were submitted as Open Calls, with a request for funding nearly three times the available budget. After this Call for Proposals, Shift2Rail will have invested in R&I activities EUR 637.2 million cumulatively, more than half of its 2014-2020 budget, which combined with in-kind additional activities delivered till now, reaches almost EUR 800 million of railway R&I activated in three years.
The results will be announced in September, and it is expected that the end of the year the new R&I actions related to this Call will start.
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