Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The Connecting Europe Facility is a key EU funding instrument to promote growth, jobs and competitiveness through infrastructure investment at European level.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The general objective is to modernise transport infrastructure on the Core and Comprehensive Networks of the TEN-T.
Detailed Call Description
Actions concerning Motorways of the Sea will be supported with the objective to alleviate congestion and/or to reduce the environmental impact of transport through short sea shipping links.
The supported works, with the possibility to include studies, shall relate to:
- the upgrade of port infrastructure, hinterland connections and dedicated terminals, where required to establish or expand such short sea shipping links. Such actions shall involve at least one Core Network port in a Member State and another Core or Comprehensive Network port in another Member State with the main purpose to establish or expand cross-border links;
- actions facilitating the provision and use of short sea shipping but not linked to specific ports such as ICT platforms, facilities for ice-breaking or activities ensuring year-round navigability.
Maritime vessels will not be supported except for ice-breaking activities.
The supported Actions shall be entitled to the level of support foreseen for cross-border links under the conditions specified in Article 15(2)(e) of the CEF Regulation.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rates fixed in the Grant Agreement (maximum 50% for the costs of studies, maximum 70% for the costs of works in outermost regions (not applicable for projects related to ‘removing interoperability barriers’ and ‘RIS’) and maximum 50% for all other costs categories (‘project funding rate’).
Thematic Categories
- Fisheries/ Aquaculture and Maritime Policy
- Transport
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
- International Organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- third countries associated to the CEF (list [none])
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works
Department of Public Works
https://bit.ly/3BoYoGo
165 Strovolou Avenue, 2048 Strovolos
Telephones: +357 22806521, +357 22806550, +357 22806537
Email: info@pwd.mcw.gov.cy
Contact person:
Elpida Epameinondas
Senior Executive Engineer
Τelephone: +357 22806643
Email: eepamenonda@pwd.mcw.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 20/10/2021-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
CINEA –Transport:
https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/index_en