Removing interoperability barriers- studies, works or mixed

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

Removing interoperability barriers- studies, works or mixed

TOPIC ID: CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-REMIB-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 increase the interoperability of the rail system in EU.

Scope:

Studies and / or works related to:

• Projects removing interoperability barriers in compliance with the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) adopted by Directive (EU) 2016/797^[1] except for TSI control-command signalling, which is covered under the ERTMS topics.
• Deployment of telematics applications or upgrade/renewal of existing ones to seek compliance with Technical Specifications for Interoperability relating to Telematics Applications for Freight/Passenger Services in the railway sector. Project applicants must be prepared to collaborate with the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), for compliance assessment and with a view to implement rail ontology for telematics applications. Priority will be given to support the Telematics applications relating to the following processes:
• Capacity management and traffic management of rail infrastructure (TAP/TAF TSIs),
• Train preparation (TAP/TAF TSIs),
• Management of freight wagons and their shipments (TAP/TAF TSI),
• Rail ticketing services (TAP TSI).
• Automatic gauge change facilities in rail freight traffic in accordance with Article 9(2), point (b)(v) of the CEF Regulation.
• Studies concerning Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) for rail freight operations (including validating the system in commercial operations). Projects must involve relevant stakeholder groups from at least 4 Member States and include testing in cross border and shunting yards operations. The studies can cover all phases/tasks necessary for collecting data on the system reliability and availability in commercial operations (technical, administrative, legal, certification/authorisation, procedures, etc.). The studies/technical reports shall contribute to a wider deployment of DAC in the EU and therefore be publicly available.

Investments concerning rolling stock, notably the installation of sensors or other devices on wagons, are not supported, except as regards DAC studies.

[1] Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union (recast) (OJ L 138, 26.5.2016, p. 44).

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