Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking — programme overview

Scope

Official site of Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), the EU public-private partnership for rail research and innovation under Horizon Europe and successor to Shift2Rail. It hosts the programme's work plans, System Pillar architecture outputs and the public index of project deliverables, making it the reference entry point for EU rail R&I results used by RUs, IMs, suppliers and researchers.

Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail) is the European Union's public-private partnership for rail research and innovation established under Horizon Europe, succeeding the earlier Shift2Rail joint undertaking as the sector's main EU-funded research vehicle. Its official website hosts the programme's multi-annual work plans, the technical architecture outputs produced by its System Pillar (the industry-side technical coordination body working alongside the Joint Undertaking), and a public index of the deliverables produced by the various flagship projects and other research activities funded under the programme. As the entry point to the full body of EU rail research and innovation results, it is used by railway undertakings, infrastructure managers, suppliers and researchers seeking specifications, demonstrator results or work plan information relevant to their area of interest. The Joint Undertaking's governance brings together the European Commission, the rail sector and research organisations to jointly direct and fund research priorities for the EU rail system. Individual flagship projects such as R2DATO and IAM4RAIL, and coordination bodies such as EULYNX, publish their own detailed deliverables through pages linked from this central site.