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Europe’s Rail Call for Proposals 2025-1

Projects worth €3 million, are expected to be funded under the Europe’s Rail Call for Proposals 2025-1, now open for submissions until 7 May 2025 at 17:00 CET.

This call seeks potential solutions to address current transport challenges and enhance the performance of the existing rail system through the introduction of Maglev-Derived Transport Systems (MDS). The call aims to further evaluate and address the technical open points of maglev-derived technologies. Additionally, the call focuses on advancing the design concept based on the most promising use cases, resolving technical issues, analysing the system’s economic viability, and proposing a fully automated, full-scale MDS application concept.

For more information on the Call, please consult our Work Programme 2025-2026.

Questions regarding the Call for Proposals 2025-1

Please note that proposals may be edited and re-submitted multiple times until the Call deadline/cut-off date, using the same proposal number. The system will only keep the most recent version that is submitted.

After the call deadline, the proposal may normally no longer be changed nor supplemented, unless it is to correct an obvious clerical error.

Candidates therefore take full responsibility for submitting and validating their proposal before the Call deadline.

Please note that all Call related questions shall be addressed only to the Europe’s Rail Call helpdesk, writing to . Answers will be anonymised and published on a regular basis in the Funding and Tender Portal and on this Europe’s Rail webpage up to 14 days before the Call closure deadline.

In this respect, participants are encouraged to take into account, in their proposal preparation, the clarifications to Call-related issues that can be brought by the Europe’s Rail through the Q&A mechanism. The deadline for Q&A related to this Europe’s Rail Call for Proposals is 23th April 2024 at 17:00 (Brussels Local Time).

Info Day

A dedicated Information Day took place on 11 March. During the event, participants heard about the legal and financial guidelines, as well as learnt more about the Call topic itself.

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