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Roads and multimodal freight terminals – studies, works or mixed
Funding Program
Connecting Europe Facility for Transport
Call number
CEF-T-2024-CORECOEN-ROADS-WORKS
deadlines
Opening
24.09.2024
Deadline
21.01.2025 17:00
Funding rate
85%
Call budget
€ 1,080,000,000.00
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short description
The objective is to develop transport infrastructure projects on roads and multimodal freight terminals of the TEN-T core and extended core networks.
The multimodal freight terminals must be located in or adjacent to maritime ports, inland ports, airports of the core and extended core network or classified as rail-road terminal or terminal along the inland waterways of the trans-European transport network, as listed in Annex II of the revised TEN-T Regulation.
Call objectives
Studies and / or works on roads and multimodal freight terminals related to:
- pre-identified road links as stipulated in Sections 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;
- construction or upgrade of multi-modal freight terminals, including rail-road terminals and terminals along inland waterways as listed in Annex II to the revised TEN-T Regulation. This may include 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 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.
Road access and connections to the terminals will not be supported, except for projects located in Member States with no land border with another Member State.
Works projects may include on-site renewable energy generation, as a synergetic element in accordance with Section 10.6, 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 as amended by Directive (EU) 2019/1936 and with Directive 2004/54/EC.
In accordance with Article 9(2), point (a)(i) of the CEF Regulation, projects addressing the core a network, including the extended 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.
Infrastructure and equipment for bulk cargo terminals can be supported only in the context of the Solidarity Lanes.
Facilities and infrastructure supported under multimodal freight terminals works projects should allow transhipment operations between transport modes or between two different rail systems. Projects addressing only rail investments in a green field rail-road terminal must be submitted under the relevant rail topics of the CORECOEN or COMPCOEN calls.
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Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
eligible entities
Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Mandatory partnership
No
Project Partnership
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.
- be established in one of the Member States eligible for funding from the Cohesion Fund
Specific cases:
- Project applications located in associated third countries are eligible for funding in the present calls under the conditions set out in Article 8(1) of the TEN-T Regulation (EU) N° 1315/2013 and Articles 5(2) and 9(2) of the CEF Regulation (EU) 2021/1153.
- Exceptional funding — Entities from other countries (not listed above) are exceptionally eligible for projects of common interest in the field of transport if the granting authority considers their participation essential for the implementation of the project.
- Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legalpersonality separate from that of the natural person).
- International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
- Entities without legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guaranteesfor the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
- EU bodies can NOT be part of the consortium.
other eligibility criteria
Financial support to third parties is not allowed.
The available call budget is split between 4 calls for proposals:
- CEF-T-2024-CORECOEN-IWWP-WORKS: Inland waterways and ports – studies, works or mixed
- CEF-T-2024-CORECOEN-MARP-WORKS: Maritime ports – studies, works or mixed
- CEF-T-2024-CORECOEN-RAIL-WORKS: Rail – studies, works or mixed
- CEF-T-2024-CORECOEN-ROADS-WORKS: Roads and multimodal freight terminals – studies, works or mixed
The foreseen duration of the works and mixed projects should be 4-5 years maximum. For studies projects it should be 2-3 years maximum. In both cases, the end date set in the Grant Agreement will not be later than 31.12.2029.
Additional information
Topics
Relevance for EU Macro-Region
EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
project duration
between 24 and 60 months
Additional Information
All proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funders & Tenders Portal electronic submission system (accessible via the topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Proposals must be complete and contain all parts and mandatory annexes and supporting documents, e.g. plan for the exploitation and dissemination of the results including communication activities, etc.
The application form will have two parts:
- Part A (to be filled in directly online) contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator and beneficiaries and affiliated entities), and the summarised budget for the project
- Part B (to be downloaded from the Portal submission system, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded as a PDF in the system) contains the technical description of the project.
Mandatory annexes and supporting documents (templates available to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded):
- detailed budget table per WP/calculator
- activity reports of last year (unless exempted from operational capacity check; see section 7 of call document)
- list of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B)
- timetable/Gantt chart
- agreement of the concerned Member State (letter of support)
- cost benefit analysis:
- for works and mixed projects with budget (total eligible costs) above EUR 10 000 000: full cost-benefit analysis (CBA) (report and cash flow template)
- for works and mixed projects with budget (total eligible costs) below EUR 10 000 000: simplified CBA calculator
- environmental compliance file (for works, for studies with physical interventions and for studies without physical interventions.
For applications concerning projects subject to an EIA, you may include a summary of the climate proofing process in the Portal Submission System under “Other Annexes".
The limit for a full application (Part B) is 120 pages.
Call documents
CEF 2 Transport – Projects on the Core Network – Cohesion envelope (CEF-T-2024-CORECOEN)CEF 2 Transport – Projects on the Core Network – Cohesion envelope (CEF-T-2024-CORECOEN)(360kB)
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