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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.
The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking is the predecessor programme of the Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), established by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085 of 19 November 2021.
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.
Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail) is the European partnership on rail research and innovation established under the Horizon Europe programme (2020-2027) and the universal successor of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking.
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Organised every year, the UIP Keepers’ Summit aims to provide a platform to discuss and exchange topics at the heart of rail freight business. The 2025 edition took place in Valencia on 23 May in cooperation with UIP’s Spanish Member association FAPROVE.
With this year’s focus on Spanish rail freight and its better integration into domestic and international logistic chains with notably a modernization of its network, the DAC also naturally found its way into the discussion as a key element for a better performance of rail freight operations.
In fact, a real DAC Cargoflex design by VOITH was exhibited at the conference and attracted many curious eyes. Touching was explicitly allowed and questions encouraged.
Experts from VOITH also gave a presentation of the evolution of the design and its deep interlinkage with the project FP5-TRANS4M-R by Europe’s Rail.
Niklas Weidert (Voith) showing the Voith CargoFlex to participants of the UIP Keeper’s summit
Find a detailed report on the Keeper’s Summit on the UIP Homepage!
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