TWINNING II - Enhancing the cooperation between Railway Stakeholders for improving safety culture

Call: TWINNING II - Enhancing the cooperation between Railway Stakeholders for improving safety culture

Programme

Directorate General for Transport and Mobility

Acronym

DG MOVE

Type of Fund

Others

Description of programme
"Directorate General for Transport and Mobility"

DG MOVE is responsible for developing and implementing European policies in the transport field. Its mission is to ensure that transport policies are designed for the benefit of all sectors of the society. Transport modes include:

Air
Road
Rail
Maritime
Inland waterways

Link

Link to Programme

Call

TWINNING II - Enhancing the cooperation between Railway Stakeholders for improving safety culture

Description of call
"TWINNING II - Enhancing the cooperation between Railway Stakeholders for improving safety culture"

The call has the aim of supporting a twinning programme for management staff of rail stakeholders with safety responsibility in order to share knowledge and best practice across railways and in this way support new approaches to safety management. The action should result in a shared understanding of what are the possible opportunities, benefits but also blockers to a more mature and just safety culture. It shall also prepare grounds for implementation and for occurrence reporting.

Link

Link to Call

Thematic Focus

Mobility, Security, Innovation

Funding area

EU Member States

Origin of Applicant

EU Member States

Eligible applicants

Federal State / Region / City / Municipality / Local Authority, International Organization, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, SMEs (between 10 and 249 employees), Microenterprises (fewer than 10 employees), Start Up Company, National Government, Education and Training Centres, Enterprise (more than 250 employees or not defined), Public Services

Applicant details

Applications submitted by natural persons are not eligible

Project Partner

Yes

Project Partner Details

In order to be eligible, a proposal must be submitted by a consortium composed of at least 12 legal entities of the following list of stakeholder groups:

National investigation bodies (NIB)
National safety Authority (NSA)
Infrastructure manager
Rail Undertakings

The Consortium must include each of the listed stakeholder groups.

Project duration max

36 months

Further info

To be eligible for funding the twinning programme the proposals should cover the following issues, in particular:

safety management and behaviours;
development of common principles for management of railway safety;
occurrence reporting and use of information safety-related tools (E-rail, SAIT, own resources);
transition towards a more mature safety culture;
implementation of safety culture and management, both within organisations and cross-border.

Type of Funding

Grants

Financial details

Total Budget: 400 000 €
The Commission will fund one proposal from a consortium
Co-financing rate: 100%

Submission

Via post:

"Enhancing the cooperation between Railway Stakeholders for improving safety culture" – Twinning programme

European Commission

Directorate-General for Mobility and

Transport – Unit C.4

For the attention of Íñigo Cruz

DM28 0/110