The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R JU) has expressed broad satisfaction with the response to its first calls for proposals. The S2R JU has received 43 proposals with a total funding request of close to EUR 80 million for its 15 open call topics and total available budget of EUR 26.1 million. The 27 S2R JU members have presented project proposals for the 13 call topics reserved to them. In addition to the EUR 63 million they are requesting for these projects, the S2R JU members are planning to contribute EUR 80 million themselves to the implementation of these projects.
A total of 454 participants have applied to the open calls and the calls for members, of which 25% are SMEs.
„The application rate to the open calls should ensure that we have healthy competition in most of the topics. We are confident that this will result in the S2R JU funding excellent projects in all its Innovation Programmes”, Keir Fitch, Interim Executive Director of the S2R JU said.
The evaluation of the proposals starts in April 2016 and will be completed by June 2016. Applicants should be informed on the outcome of the evaluations by mid July 2016.
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