The European Commission has launched three new 2010 TEN-T Calls for Proposals, making an additional EUR 172 million of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) budget available to finance European transport infrastructure projects. Funding opportunities are to be found under the TEN-T Annual Programme and Multi-Annual Programme.
The Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA), which manages the technical and financial implementation of the TEN-T programme, is responsible on behalf of its "parent" Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, for the management of the calls for proposals and for the external evaluation of project proposals submitted.
Commission Vice President Siim Kallas, responsible for transport, said: "The TEN-T is making available an additional EUR 172 million of the TEN-T budget to fund key projects of European added value. These include projects in the fields of Motorways of the Sea and River Information Services under the Multi-Annual Programme. In addition, the Annual Programme has been fine-tuned in 2010 to allow us to prepare for future transport priorities, notably making transport greener, and to increase the participation of private partners in transport infrastructure projects."
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 31 August 2010. Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to TEN-T priorities and policy objectives, their maturity, their impact – particularly socio-economic and environmental – and their quality in terms of completeness, clarity, soundness and coherence.

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