CINEA received 258 applications requesting over €9.5 billion in co-funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Transport by the call deadline of 21 January 2025. It is nearly four times more than the €2.5 billion budget available for the 2024 CEF Transport calls for proposals. CINEA will now check the admissibility and eligibility of these proposals. The eligible proposals will then be evaluated by independent external experts, the European Commission, and CINEA. Applicants will be informed of the evaluation results in July 2025. The grant agreements for the successful projects will be signed by October 2025. (....)