Twinning II: "Enhancing the cooperation between railway stakeholders for better safety management"

Call: Twinning II: "Enhancing the cooperation between railway stakeholders for better safety management"

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 better safety management"

Description of call
"Twinning II: "Enhancing the cooperation between railway stakeholders for better safety management""

The objective of this Programme Support Action is the sharing of knowledge and best practice across railways to support new approaches to safety management. The twinning programme should result in a structured approach and a shared understanding of both the opportunities and benefits, and of the barriers to a more mature and fair safety culture, and reinforcing the practices for occurrence reporting in railways.

Link

Link to Call

Thematic Focus

Justice, Safety & Security, Capacity Building, Cooperation Networks, Institutional Cooperation, Children & Youth, Education & Training

Funding area

EU Member States
United Kingdom

Origin of Applicant

EU Member States
United Kingdom

Eligible applicants

Education and Training Centres, 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), Public Services, National Government, Start Up Company, Enterprise (more than 250 employees or not defined)

Applicant details

Applications submitted by natural persons are not eligible

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.
A project shall have a geographical coverage of at least two member states.

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: 250 000 €
The Commission expects to fund 1-2 proposals
Co-financing rate: max. 100%

Submission

Via post to:
"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

B-1049 Brussels

Belgium