Projects resulting from two topics worth €1.6 million and €0.2 million will be funded under the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R JU) 2021 Call for Proposals, within the framework of the S2R Annual Work Plan 2021. The application period is now open, and submissions will be accepted until 18th May 2021.

The two topics of the Call are:

• Digital Automated Coupler innovation for the European Delivery Programme (S2R-IP5-01-2021) and 
• R&I impact and benefits to make rail attractive for stakeholders (S2R-CCA-01-2021).

The Call is fully open to S2R Members and non-JU Members.

The indicative H2020 co-funding made available by the S2R JU for this Call is €1.8 million.

The related document including annual work plan and budget can be found here.

The application can be made from Funding and Tenders Portal. The link is here.

 The questions and answers document is published on 23/04/2021 is here.

Any further question can be addressed to info-call@s2r.europa.eu. Answers will be anonymised and published on this website. Please note that the deadline for questions related to Shift2Rail Call for Proposals is Friday 7 May 2021 at 17:00 (Brussels Local Time).

You can contact us via ncptransport@tubitak.gov.tr for general questions.