Innovative/breakthrough mobility concepts (with rail as backbone)

Call: Innovative/breakthrough mobility concepts (with rail as backbone)

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Programme

Horizon 2020

Acronym

H2020

Type of Fund

Action programme

Description of programme
"Horizon 2020"

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme with nearly 80 billion € of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). Apart from classic research projects, Horizon 2020 also funds innovation projects and pilot-projects in different fields.

The programme is divided into three different sections:

Excellent Science
Industrial Leadership
Societal Challenges

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Description of programme
"Shift2Rail "

Shift2Rail fosters the introduction of better trains to the market, which operate on an innovative rail network infrastructure at a lower life-cycle cost, with more capacity to cope with growing passenger and freight mobility demand. All this are developed by European companies, thereby increasing their competitiveness in the global marketplace. Shift2Rail also contributes to the paradigm for the modal shift to attract users to rail. For EU passengers, this represents more travel options, more comfort and improved punctuality. For freight forwarder/shippers, rail freight offers a more cost-effective, punctual and traceable shipment option.
Shift2Rail contributes to:

Cutting the life-cycle cost of railway transports by as much as 50%
Doubling railway capacity
Increasing reliability and punctuality by as much as 50%

Call

Innovative/breakthrough mobility concepts (with rail as backbone)

Description of call
"Innovative/breakthrough mobility concepts (with rail as backbone)"

Current activities in S2R are developing the fundamental building blocks that will allow the creation of the future railway interoperable system, but new disruptive concepts can accelerate the pace or deviate the path. This topic aims to challenge the traditional rail approach with innovative and breakthrough concepts from a non-linear approach to existing technological evolution. In order to address the broad challenges described above, the proposals should foresee PhD research for indicatively a period between 12 to 36 months on the following thematic: Innovative/breakthrough mobility concepts that keep rail as backbone of a sustainable European Transport system.

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Link to Call

Thematic Focus

Research, Innovation, Technologies, Transport, Mobility

Funding area

EU Member States
Albania / Shqipëria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iceland / Ísland
Moldova
Montenegro / Crna Gora/Црна Гора
North Macedonia / Северна Македонија
Norway / Norge
Serbia / Сpбија
Switzerland / Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera
Turkey / Türkiye
Ukraine / Україна Oukraïna
Others

Origin of Applicant

Eligible applicants

Research Institution, International Organization, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, SMEs (between 10 and 249 employees), Microenterprises (fewer than 10 employees), NGO / NPO, Start Up Company, University, Enterprise (more than 250 employees or not defined)

Applicant details

This call is addressed only to entities that are not Members of the S2R Joint Undertaking (JU) (founding or associated), nor constituent entities of Members in the form of consortia or groupings, nor affiliated entities either to the S2R JU Members or to the constituent entities of Members in the form of consortia or groupings.

Project Partner Details

Project duration min

12 months

Project duration max

36 months

Type of Funding

Grants

Financial details

Budget: 500 000 €
Co-funding: max. 100%

Submission

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