Call updates

28 August 2024

Information update on the 2023 CEF Transport COREGEN call

Call published: 26/09/2023

Call deadline: 30/01/2024

Indicative budget: EUR 2 695 000 000

Total budget requested by the applicants: EUR 11 555 642 828.98

Number of admissible and eligible proposals:134

Number of withdrawn proposals: 4

Number of inadmissible proposals: 6

Number of ineligible proposals: 5

Number of successful proposals: 28

Total budget for the successful proposals: EUR 2 740 386 696.25 *

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

Feb 6, 2024 3:06:43 PM

Dear Applicants,

The CEF Transport calls for proposals closed as planned on 30 January 2024 at 17:00. The COREGEN call received 150 applications requesting over EUR 11 billion 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 12:42:26 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 12:00:08 AM

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

Roads, rail-road terminals and multimodal logistic platforms: studies, works or mixed

CEF-T-2023-COREGEN-ROADS-WORKS

Programme: Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
Call: CEF 2 Transport - Projects on the Core Network – General envelope (CEF-T-2023-COREGEN)
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 objective is to develop transport infrastructure projects on the roads, rail-road terminals and multimodal logistics platforms of the Core Network of the TEN-T.

Scope:
Studies and / or works on roads, rail-road terminals and multimodal logistics platforms related to:

pre-identified road links as stipulated in Section 1 and 2 of Part III of the Annex to the CEF Regulation, in particular cross-border links on the Core Network;
components of the Core road Network located in Member States which do not have a land border with another Member State
improving road connections to maritime and inland ports and rail-road terminals as listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 only if rail access to/within the port does not exist, or it is not currently under construction, and as long as the project addresses a significant bottleneck;
construction or upgrade of rail-road terminals as listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013, intermodal transport transhipment points and other publicly accessible multimodal logistics platforms located on/in proximity of the TEN-T Network, including connecting or siding tracks, power connections, electrification and adaptations for reduction of power use, vehicle and container waiting areas, adaptations for handling 740 meter long trains, clean transhipment equipment for intermodal loading units based on a zero-emission fuel (e.g. electricity, hydrogen), specific equipment for rolling motorways and the transportation of semi-trailers by rail, upgrades of equipment that enable transhipment of new intermodal loading units, ICT equipment and applications improving interoperability, use of digital transport data or terminal handling such as photogates and automatic check-in and check-out equipment.
Works projects may include on-site renewable energy generation (synergetic element in accordance with Section 10.6 of the Work Programme), such as photovoltaic power plants, wind turbines etc. that is primarily used for example for activities in the terminal. Such synergetic elements must improve the socio-economic, climate or environmental benefits of the project and may not exceed 20% of the total eligible costs of the project.

Support will not be given to buildings, storage and warehouse facilities. Projects addressing roads must be compliant with Directive 2008/96/EC[1] as amended by Directive (EU) 2019/1936[2] and with Directive 2004/54/EC[3].

In accordance with Article 9(2), point (a)(i) of the CEF Regulation, projects addressing the Core Network may include related elements on the Comprehensive Network, when necessary to optimize the investment. These elements may form up to 10% of the total eligible costs of the project and should be presented as a separate work package.

Facilities and infrastructure supported under CEF must be accessible for use by all operators on a non-discriminatory basis.

[1]Directive 2008/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on road infrastructure safety management (OJ L 319, 29.11.2008, p. 59).

[2]Directive 2019/1936 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 amending Directive 2008/96/EC on road infrastructure safety management (OJ L 305, 26.11.2019, p. 1).

[3]Directive 2004/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the Trans-European Road Network (OJ L 167, 30.4.2004, p. 39).