Connected!

Priority 1: A well connected region

Total budget, including the technical assistance funds: 27.15 mil euro (21.40 mil euro ERDF)

The allocation available for projects: 25 mil euro (20 mil euro ERDF)

Specific objective 3.2:

Developing and enhancing sustainable, climate resilient, intelligent and intermodal national, regional and local mobility, including improved access to ten-t and cross-border mobility.

The Programme has a strategic approach to addressing cross-border mobility and connectivity in the area.

Two operations of strategic importance could be financed under the Priority 1, SO 3.2:

DISMAR – Danube Integrated System for MARking

• Lead Partner: River Administration of the Lower Danube Galati – AFDJ Galati Partners: Executive Agency for exploration and maintenance of the Danube River – EAEMDR Ruse
• Indicative budget: 8,000,000 euro (ERDF)

Enhancing rail connectivity and mobility across the Danube Potential

• Lead Partner/Partners: Romanian and Bulgarian ministries; Romanian and Bulgarian Railway National Companies, other actors relevant for this field
• Indicative budget: 12,000,000 euro (ERDF)

Please find some examples of supported actions enhancing rail connectivity and mobility across the Danube (non-exhaustive list):

 Elaboration of feasibility studies for the electrification and digitalization of the railway infrastructure;

 Designing and implementing sustainable transport tools and solutions for better connectivity and mobility in the CBC area, for the railway transport, including, but not limited to: safety, territorial deployment, reliability, efficiency, real-time knowledge of schedules, traffic and ticketing etc.;

 Identifying and addressing the missing links and bottlenecks in rail and river crossing infrastructure: studies, strategies, joint solutions, joint tools etc.;

 Improving and expanding rail transport: studies regarding traffic safety, awareness campaigns, connectivity/mobility studies for understanding freight and passenger flows, commuting etc.;

 Designing and implementing integrated solutions for supporting mobility and connectivity in time of crisis;

 Designing and implementing sustainable transport solutions for better connectivity and mobility in the area;

 Modernization, upgrading and expanding the rail infrastructure Works for railway modernization (including electrification of the railway lines and introduction of the ERTMS / ETCS railway signalling system);

 Works for modernization, reconstruction and construction of railway stops and stations.

Also, examples of actions improving the navigation conditions and safety on the Danube and Black Sea in order to enhance the mobility and connectivity in the cross-border area (non-exhaustive list):

 Reducing administrative burden and other types of bottlenecks: studies, analyses, solutions, tools;

 Developing and implementing joint co-ordinated strategies, tools and pilot applications to improve the navigation conditions on Danube and Black Sea (e.g, joint feasibility studies, engineering planning documents, morphological and hydrodynamic studies in establishing the sediment accumulation conditions etc.);

 Developing and implementing integrated measures to improve the navigation conditions for the common sector of the Danube and the Black Sea in the CBC area (e.g. integrating the marking systems on Danube, equipment, signaling etc.).