CINEA received 408 applications requesting over 22 billion euros of co-financing from the Connecting Europe Facility before the deadline of 30 January 2024. This represents an oversubscription of over 3 times the total budget of 7 billion euros available for this call for proposals.

The Connecting Europe Facility for Transport is the EU’s key funding instrument for building and improving sustainable transport infrastructure in Europe. Its objective is to complete and modernize the trans-European transport network, focusing on the development of cross-border connections. CEF Transport directly contributes to the goals of the European Green Deal and the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy. CEF Transport also addresses the changing geopolitical landscape in Europe created by the Russian aggression against Ukraine and contributes to the development of Solidarity Lanes.

Overall, the new projects will contribute to transport policy objectives, such as improving interoperable transport axes along the main corridors of the core network, enhancing the safety and resilience of the network, and increasing the capacity and performance of railway, inland waterway, and short sea shipping within an integrated multimodal transport system.

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

To date, approximately half of the CEF Transport budget for the 2021-2027 period, amounting to 25.6 billion euros, has been allocated to projects. This new selection will result in a total allocation of approximately 80% of the CEF Transport budget.

Information on the supported projects is published on the DINEA Public Dashboard.

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