GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The Connecting Europe Facility is a key EU funding instrument to promote growth, jobs and competitiveness through infrastructure investment at European level.

Projects of any budget are admitted. In order to ensure efficiency in EU funding interventions, applicants are strongly encouraged to submit applications for projects with a total requested EU contribution to the eligible costs of no less than €1.000.000. Where possible, related projects should be grouped and submitted as one proposal.

The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rates fixed in the Grant Agreement:

• maximum 50% for the costs of studies,
• maximum 30% for the costs of works for proposals related to the topic of ‘improving transport infrastructure resilience’,
• maximum 50% for the costs of works for proposals related to the topics ‘safe and secure parking infrastructure’ and ‘adapting the transport infrastructure for Union external border checks purposes’, and
• maximum 70% for the costs of works in outermost regions.

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 Programme (list of participating countries)