From technical milestones to partnership highlights, the Flagship and Exploratory Projects continue to drive forward...

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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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.
Jul 30, 2025
This deliverable will contain the results of the system definition, requirements allocation and safety analysis tasks.Jul 10, 2025
The WP24 allowed a state of the art of the technological status but also about the ambitions of the partners to develop sustainable interiors. The previous deliverables have defined the targets and the first technical ways. The current deliverable D24.2 is not the...Jul 4, 2025
The aim of this report is to give insight into the topics and tasks of work package 20. The content and time schedule of the two tasks is defined and information about the distribution of work between the partners as well as the methods which will be used are given....Jun 11, 2025
The purpose of Deliverable 2.4 “Demonstration Strategy” is to present a strategy, the guidelines and templates for the preparation and delivery of demonstrations planned in the second half of the FP1-MOTIONAL project ( Month 25 – Month 43). The document explains...Jun 3, 2025
This document outlines the functional and where needed the mechanical requirements needed for an interoperable design of the Digital Automatic Coupler for freight. The document covers both DAC and Hybrid DAC/Hook couplers to be used in the rail freight segment. The...
