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RIS – studies, works or mixed
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Location:EU 27
Funding agency:
Grantmaking entity: CINEA (former INEA) - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Grantmaking entity type:Development Institution
Description
Topic updates
15 July 2025
Information update on the 2024 CEF Transport SIMOBGEN call
Call published: 24/09/2024
Call deadline: 21/01/2025
Indicative budget: EUR 640 000 000
Total budget requested by the applicants: EUR 1 046 693 215.70
Number of admissible and eligible proposals: 70
Number of inadmissible proposals: 1
Number of ineligible proposals: 0
Number of successful proposals: 39
Total budget for the successful proposals: EUR 616 848 437.00
12 February 2025
The nine CEF Transport calls for proposals closed on 21 January 2025. In total, 258 proposals were submitted requesting over €9.5 billion co-funding from the CEF Transport budget. It is nearly 4 times more than the €2.5 billion available for these calls
The SIMOBGEN call received 71 applications for a requested funding of over EUR 1 billion from the CEF Transport budget.
CINEA will first check the admissibility and eligibility of the proposals. The evaluation will continue with the support of independent external experts. The results will be made available to applicants in July 2025
RIS – studies, works or mixed
TOPIC ID: CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-RIS-WORKS
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme:
Call: CEF 2 Transport - Actions related to smart and interoperable mobility – General envelope (CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN)
Type of action: CEF-INFRA CEF Infrastructure Projects
Type of MGA: CEF Action Grant Budget-Based [CEF-AG]
Status: Open for submission
Deadline model: single-stage
Opening Date: 24 September 2024
Deadline dates: 21 January 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
Objective:
The objective is to modernise inland waterway transport infrastructure and facilitate the traffic, safety and transport management in the inland waterways of the TEN-T network.
Scope:
Studies and / or works related to:
- Projects supporting the implementation of River Information Services (RIS)[1], inland single window, inland port community systems, and other relevant vessel traffic management systems, including automation and smart shipping.
The projects should primarily address inland waterway transport and/or port services targeted at inland waterway vessels.
Where relevant, the projects should take into account the innovative new technologies and solutions in the fields of smart applications for transport resulting from Horizon Europe activities as well as the re-use of the European Digital Building Blocks[2].
Digital platforms supported under CEF must be accessible for use by all operators on a non-discriminatory basis.
[1] Directive 2005/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on harmonised river information services (RIS) on inland waterways in the Community (OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 152).
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/DIGITAL/Digital+Homepage
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in section 5 of the call document.
2. Eligible Countries
described in section 6 of the call document.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in section 6 of the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in section 7 of the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in section 9 of the call document.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in section 4 of the call document.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in section 10 of the call document.
Call document and annexes:
CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN
Application form and annexes:
Proposals (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System (NOT the documents available on the Topic page - these are only for information).
Application form (Part A and B)
Detailed budget table per WP
Timetable (Gantt Chart)
Letter of support (MS agreement)
Environmental compliance file
Full CBA cash flow template
Simplified CBA calculator
Additional documents:
CEF Regulation 2021/1153
TEN-T Regulation 1679/2024
EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
Amended CEF-Transport Multi-Annual Work Programme 2021-2027 - 25 July 2023
DG REGIO Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects
CINEA Guide for Economic Appraisal for CEF Projects
DG REGIO CBA Economic Appraisal Vademecum
CEF Model Grant Agreement MGA
Decision on unit costs for SME owners
Decision on unit costs for personnel (usual cost accounting practices)
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