Adapting the transport infrastructure for Union external border checks purposes – studies, works or mixed

Topic updates

15 July 2025
Information update on the 2024 CEF Transport SAFEMOBGEN call

Call published: 24/09/2024

Call deadline: 21/01/2025

Indicative budget: EUR 160 000 000

Total budget requested by the applicants: EUR 504 466 558.51

Number of admissible and eligible proposals: 48

Number of inadmissible proposals: 5

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of successful proposals: 20

Total budget for the successful proposals: EUR 192 956 080.21*

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 SAFEMOBGEN call received 53 applications for a requested funding of over EUR 504 million 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.

Adapting the transport infrastructure for Union external border checks purposes – studies, works or mixed

TOPIC ID: CEF-T-2024-SAFEMOBGEN-EXTBORDER-WORKS

Type of grant: Call for proposals

General information

Programme:

Call: CEF 2 Transport - Actions related to safe and secure mobility - General envelope (CEF-T-2024-SAFEMOBGEN)

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 transport infrastructure on the TEN-T network with the purpose of accelerating external border checks.

Scope:

Studies and / or works related to:

• projects aiming to facilitate traffic flows for land and waterborne transport modes at border control areas at the Union external border of the TEN-T network. The projects, targeting only the transport infrastructure, will inter alia improve the connections to the border crossing points, and parking lines and spaces related to the border controls.

The upgrade of parking spaces for trucks, of safe and secure waiting areas, of road lane capacity from the parking spaces to the border control points and between them can be supported. Projects may also concern the enhancement of an existing terminal if the applicants demonstrate that the project would facilitate traffic flows at the EU external border control area.

Border check equipment and facilities cannot be supported, in principle, as a stand-alone project. However, certain border check equipment, such as smart IT solutions which facilitate and/or accelerate border checks and alleviate congestion at border crossing points, or fixed devices integrated into the transport infrastructure, may be supported in case it forms part of a wider project concerning the adaptation of transport infrastructure.

Buildings, storage and warehouse facilities, phytosanitary stations and parking facilities for border officers cannot be supported.

Where relevant, coordination with relevant Interreg IPA-CBC (Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance - Cross Border Cooperation) programmes should be ensured by the applicants.

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