2025 saw Europe’s Rail (EU-Rail) make significant progress across multiple initiatives, fostering partnerships and...

On 21 June 2024, the Governing Board of Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail) adopted a Call for Expression of Interest (CEI) with a view to selecting associated members with the potential to contribute to the achievement of its objectives. The Governing Board decision can be accessed here.
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Europe's Rail regularly published Calls for Tenders. To find out about open Calls, follow link below.

Article 15 (Principle of transparency) of the EU-Rail financial rules states that the JU shall make available on its internet site no later than 30 June of the following financial year information on the recipients of funds deriving from its budget.
EU-Rail’s Innovation Pillar (IP) is tasked to deliver operational and technological solutions that contribute to a more efficient, flexible, and demand-led, yet safe and environmentally sustainable European railway system.
The System Pillar provides governance, resource, and outputs to support a coherent and coordinated approach to the evolution of the rail system and the development of the system view.
The Deployment Group advises the EU-Rail Governing Board on the market uptake of rail innovation developments and support their deployment.
For a successful and effective implementation of the Digital Automatic Coupler for European rail freight (DAC), it is of crucial importance to have open, close and efficient cooperation between rail stakeholders. The European DAC Delivery Programme enabled by Europe’s Rail, offers a unique European platform for such cooperation and collaboration.
Discover how Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking is calling for a bold, coordinated investment strategy to simplify and modernise rail systems across the EU. This public-private partnership model – outlined in our High-Level Paper – proposes an €18 billion investment from 2028 to 2034 to strengthen European competitiveness, deliver greener transport, and drive technological sovereignty.

Discover detailed information on Europe's rail innovation initiatives, showcasing flagship and other projects aimed at enhancing rail systems across Europe. It highlights collaborative efforts funded by the European Union to develop sustainable, efficient, and competitive rail transport solutions.

Europe’s Rail Catalogue of Solutions illustrates successful R&I results in the form of possible products and solutions, while highlighting the benefits for final users, operators, infrastructure managers and/or suppliers. This publication also outlines the advantages of integrating demonstrators into market solutions so that they can deliver the rail innovation Capabilities of the future.
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Rail infrastructure and rolling stock requires a complex electrical network – one that can transform energy from public power supply networks and then distribute this energy along the track to the rail vehicles. Within today’s railway infrastructure, system energy...Apr 28, 2024 | Latest News
Report on the Optimisation Tool for Multi-functional Design Solutions DOWNLOAD HERE Description: Multifunctional designs can optimise the overall vehicle system, including its subsystems, by incorporating all functional requirements from the outset. However,...
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To benefit the rail sector and its final users, our new Pods4Rail project, worth EUR 2.9 million with 15 partners, is ready to substantiate the concept for a digitalised, decentralised mobility service with multimodal interfaces to different transport modes in order...Mar 22, 2024 | Latest News
Data model and format for a harmonised EU planning of railway assets DOWNLOAD HERE Description: Workstream 2 (WS2) within Flagship Project 1 – MOTIONAL, aims at delivering digital enablers to support the digitalisation across Railway Undertakings (RUs), Infrastructure...Mar 22, 2024 | Latest News
Moving Block Enhancement Proposals DOWNLOAD HERE Description: This deliverable aims to finalise the exploration and integration of key technologies, including Moving Block signaling systems. The deliverable extends the Moving Block specifications of the project by...
