eFTI – studies, works or mixed

Call updates

28 August 2024

Information update on the 2023 CEF Transport SIMOBGEN call

Call published: 26/09/2023

Call deadline: 30/01/2024

Indicative budget: EUR 250 000 000

Total budget requested by the applicants: EUR 899 015 011.70

Number of admissible and eligible proposals: 66

Number of inadmissible proposals: 1

Number of ineligible proposals: 2

Number of successful proposals: 28

Total budget for the successful proposals: EUR 405 803 894.50*

* The budget flexibility provided in the 2021-2027 Work Programme has been applied in this call

Feb 6, 2024 3:03:05 PM

Dear Applicants,

The CEF Transport calls for proposals closed as planned on 30 January 2024 at 17:00. The SIMOBGEN call received 69 applications requesting almost EUR 900 million co-funding from the Connecting Europe Facility. Including all nine calls together, there is an oversubscription of over 3 times the total budget of EUR 7 billion available.

CINEA will check the admissibility and eligibility of the submitted proposals. The evaluation will continue based on the award criteria of the call, with the assistance of external independent experts. The results will be announced in July 2024.

Information of CEF Transport supported projects is published on CINEA public dashboard

Dec 19, 2023 10:47:03 AM

Dear Applicant,

The 9 CEF Transport calls for proposals will soon close on 30 January 2024 at 17:00. In total, 37 topics are open for submission on the Funding & Tenders portal.

We strongly advise you not to wait until the last minute to submit your application!

You may also see the Call page (https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/funding-opportunities/calls-proposals/2023-cef-transport-calls-proposals_en), and the Info Day page (https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/events/2023-cef-transport-calls-proposals-info-day-2023-10-10_en) to find the presentations and recording of the info day session. In addition, more than 400 FAQs are available on the FAQ support on the Funding & Tenders portal. An excel extract can also be downloaded from Info Day page under the Q&A session.

We wish you the best of luck in your application!

Nov 17, 2023 12:38:18 PM

Dear Applicant,

It has come to our attention that the links embedded within the CINEA Guide on economic appraisal for CEF Transport Projects as well as in section 4.2 Economic and Financial analysis to the DG REGIO CBA guidance are no longer functioning.

Please find attached the direct links to these guidance materials:

- DG REGIO Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/publications/guides/2014/guide-to-cost-benefit-analysis-of-investment-projects-for-cohesion-policy-2014-2020 )

- DG REGIO CBA Economic Appraisal Vademecum: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/publications/guides/2021/economic-appraisal-vademecum-2021-2027-general-principles-and-sector-applications)

We wish you a lot of success with the completion of your applications.

Kind regards,

CEF Transport Evaluation Team

Sep 26, 2023 12:00:13 AM

The submission session is now available for: CEF-T-2023-SIMOBGEN-eFTI-WORKS(CEF-INFRA)

eFTI – studies, works or mixed

CEF-T-2023-SIMOBGEN-eFTI-WORKS

Programme: Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
Call: CEF 2 Transport - Actions related to smart and interoperable mobility – General envelope (CEF-T-2023-SIMOBGEN)
Type of action: CEF-INFRA CEF Infrastructure Projects
Type of MGA: CEF Action Grant Budget-Based [CEF-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Opening date: 26 September 2023
Deadline date: 30 January 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time

Objective:
The general objective is to modernise transport infrastructure on the Core and Comprehensive Networks of the TEN-T.

Scope:
In accordance with the Article 9(2)(b)(ii) of the CEF Regulation, studies and / or works, related to the following projects will be supported:

Projects supporting Member States to develop and implement IT platforms and processes in accordance with the eFTI Regulation, and
Projects supporting further interoperability and interconnectivity between the eFTI environment and the different ICT systems and platforms used for recording and processing regulatory information as provided for in other Union transport legislation.
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[1].

Digital platforms supported under CEF must be accessible for use by all operators on a non-discriminatory basis.

[1]https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/DIGITAL/Digital+Homepage