Marco Polo program
The Marco Polo program of the European Union is intended to promote the shift of traffic for freight from road to rail and ship, thus relieving, among other things, the European roads. The program co-finances concrete shifts in traffic (e.g. from road to rail) but also measures to avoid traffic (e.g. through efficiency improvements) . Pure research projects are not supported.
The first program was launched in 2003 and ran until 2006, the second from 2007 to 2013 under the leadership of the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI; now the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises , EASME). In 2014, the program was transferred to the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA). The budget for Marco Polo II is 450 million euros.
The program is named after Marco Polo, a medieval trader known for his reports on his trip to China .
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- ↑ Marco Polo II Program - Frequently Asked Questions. In: ec.europa.eu. EACI, June 2013, p. 7 , accessed on June 5, 2014 (English).