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The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for Energy is the EU funding programme to implement the Trans-European Networks for Energy policy. It aims at supporting investments in building new cross-border energy infrastructure in Europe or rehabilitating and upgrading the existing one.
The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for Transport is the funding instrument to realise European transport infrastructure policy. It aims at supporting investments in building new transport infrastructure in Europe or rehabilitating and upgrading the existing one.
The CEF Digital portion is managed by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA).
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CEF is a key EU funding instrument to promote growth, jobs and competitiveness through targeted infrastructure investment at European level.
Data protection rules for CEF programme
Featured Projects
The C-Roads platform is a joint initiative by EU Member States and road operators that deploy C-ITS services, particularly along highways and in urban areas.
- Programme
- Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) (2021/2027)
- Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) (2014/2020)
The ECHOES project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of space-based solutions for very high frequency communications through voice and datalink. Combined with space-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast, the project will greatly contribute to making air traffic management safer.
- Programme
- Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) (2014/2020)
- Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) (2021/2027)
The port of Huelva is undergoing a significant transformation to enhance its role in international logistic chains. With support from the EU, the Port of Huelva is being developed into an intermodal platform.
- Programme
- Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) (2021/2027)
- Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) (2014/2020)
News
95 project proposals requesting more than €1 billion in co-funding have been submitted to the CEF Transport Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility (AFIF) by the second cut-off deadline of 11 June 2025.
The ceremony took place in Copenhagen port in the presence of His Majesty The King of Denmark, the European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jorgensen, and the Danish Minister of Transport, Thomas Danielsen.
ITS are key to achieving the EU’s goals of seamless transport, safety, and sustainability. They help reduce emissions, manage traffic jams, make transport safer, more efficient, and connected. Discover what the EU is doing in this field.
Ahead of aviation events such as Aerodays, Airspace World and the Paris Airshow, CINEA is publishing a new webpage highlighting how the EU is transforming aviation through funding programmes like CEF Transport, Horizon Europe Transport, and the Innovation Fund.
Publications
This new Synergy Info Pack highlights how projects from different countries, sectors and funding programmes are all working towards the same goal: making Europe’s waterborne transport sector more sustainable, more efficient and more competitive.
Factsheet on Military Mobility
The brochure showcases the projects supported by CEF Energy that were completed between January 2022 and June 2023.
CINEA Hydrogen projects