European Transport in FP 7

ERA NET TRANSPORT

Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland

Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Prezentacja wygłoszona przez Panią Martę Jackowską z Politechniki Śląskiej w Katowicach na konferencji „European Transport in FP7” Warszawa,1-2 marca 2007 roku

Zbigniew Turek, KPK, zbigniew.turek@kpk.gov.pl

Warszawa 21 Maja, 2007

2004 – 2007 (Phase I) 16 partners 13 countries Covering all modes of transport

New since 2007

The role of ENT

ENT serves the managers of publicly funded transport research programmes (demand side of transport research)

Provides a framework for trans-national cooperation

ENT provides knowledge support, organisational support and financial support

ENT complements Community and national research Facilitates trans-national cooperation where national and Community research do not provide

satisfying results

Co-ordination of transport research

Community ResearchNationalResearch

Trans-nationalResearch

Programme Committee

Core Activities in phase I

Programming and co-operation procedures

Current and future research topics

New programmes

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IONTrans-national Cooperation

ACTION GROUPS

1 2 3 4 5 76 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16

Action Group Consist primarily of program managers but also of

researchers/experts Starting-point is the expression of interest for a cooperation of

three or more ENT partners (variable geometry)

One country takes the lead and starts the process by drafting a position paper (background information)

A series of meetings and workshops follows MoU (or a similar document) will be signed containing a commitment

of countries for a cooperation and financing ENT accompanies and supports

the activities permanently (organisation, moderation, background information)

Tailored procedures needed!

Benefits for the ENT partners

Contacts to the colleagues in other European countries Up to date information about R&D activities

o in other countries

o and in the EC

Exchange of best-practise information on programming and cooperation Exchange of evaluators Support for the development of national R&D strategies and programmes New opportunities for national R&D – trans-national cooperation

Effects Improved quality of R&D results Increased efficiency of public funds

Code Theme

ENT 1 E-Call "Plus" / Service Platform

ENT 2 Intelligent Logistics

ENT 3 Trans-national architecture for multimodal information

ENT 4 Business models for data collection and use (data ownership, role of public sector…): focus on real-time data + multimodal issues

ENT 5 SURSHIP - Maritime safety "Survivability of ships"

ENT 6 Alternative fuel, propulsion systems and vehicle technologies Part 1. Trans-national strategy

ENT 7 Alternative fuel, propulsion systems and vehicle technologies Part 2. Demonstration Projects

ENT 8 Improves understanding on noise effects

ENT 9 Environmental performance indicators for heavy duty vehicles

ENT 10 Policy to influence vehicle purchasing behaviour

ENT 11 Driver Support Systems "Analysis of RTD and recommendations from transport policy point of view”

ENT 12 Hazardous goods - tracking and tracing

ENT 13 Safety and Security across modes

ENT 14 KEEP MOVING Demographic changes and Transport

ENT 15 Sleepiness at the wheel

ENT 16 Intermodal Freight Transport

Current Status

Networks of relevant programmes, organisations and persons from 11 countries

Know-how on effective procedures and instruments

13 running action groups o Examin cooperation opportunities on different topicso Facilitation and implementation of concrete transport related R&D cooperation

Further action groups under preparation

SURSHIP – a maritime safety initiative“It is possible to build safer ships if a joint R&D effort is taken on the improved survivability of the entire ship, in a holistic meaning. “

8 Countries: SE, DE, UK, FI, NL, DK , FR, PL

SURSHIP program was signed on 20 June 2006 o Coordinated/Joint program 2006 – 2009

o Consists of 32 research issues -estimated public funding of 8 M€

o Combines technological development and transport-policy related issues (rule making for IMO)

Action Group started the preparation phase in June 2005 and now entered the phase of concrete R&D cooperation

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Intelligent Logistics

Trans-national call of Germany and Austria

Name of the programme“Name of the call”

Responsible programme owners and managing institutions

National budgets for national stakeholders

Mobilität und Verkehr„Intelligente Logistik im Güter- und Wirtschaftsverkehr“

German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)supported by the TÜV Rheinland Group

Up to12-15 m €

Intelligent Infrastructure (I2)“Intelligente Logistik”

Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT)supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

600.000 €

ENT2

Demography and Transport – KEEP MOVING

4 Countries: SE, DE, NL, FR Further countries expressed interest to join:

AT, UK, CH Long-term initiative A Strategic European Research Programme on Demographic Changes

and Transport (duration for 3 years) Call 1 “Improving the Mobility of the Elderly”

oComprising approximately 3 m €oLaunching date: February 2007.

Further calls envisaged in 2008 and 2009

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Derived out of the “responsive approach” (inquiry for expression of interest launched by Austria in summer 2006)

3 partner countries

o AT (BMVIT)

o SE (banverket, tfk)

o Switzerland (UEVK)

Forming details

Joint programming (Co-ordinated / joint calls)

Adressed level of co-operation and purpose

Austria: €600.00 Potential funds SE: €1Mio., Switzerland: €400.000

Earmarked funds

Action Group ENT 16Intermodal freight transport

Proposal of a new Action Group

ENT 15 - Sleepiness at the wheel and attention disorder

Action Group Leader: Pierre Philip and Laurent Ricci, FranceParticipating countries: France, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Spain

Outlook - Transversal links to TP´s Correspondence of selected ENT action groups with Technology Platforms

ENT Action groups TP

ENT 2 Intelligent Logistics ERTRACERRAC

ENT 5 SURSHIP – Maritime Safety WATERBORNEENT 6/7 Alternative Fuels and Propulsion Systems ERTRAC

HFP

ENT 9 Indicators for heavy-duty vehicles ERTRAC

ENT 11 Platform for driver support and intelligent vehicles

ERTRAC

ENT 12 Hazardous goods - tracking and tracing ERTRACERRAC

ENT 14 Demographic changes and transport ERTRACEURFORUM

ENT II

General goals and objectives

Improve the outcome of transport research programs

Building up the service platform for trans-national cooperation of publicly funded transport research programmes

Developing the formal foundations, identifying potential themes and testing in concrete cooperation

Core activities in ENT II

The framework of ENT will be updated and extended Involvement of further countries and regionsCooperation activities will be intensifiedPreparation of a large-scale cooperation (ERA-Net Plus)Overcome the fragmentation of transport research in EuropeBuild-up a database on national transport research

programmes and relevant personsDissemination of national R&D resultsStructured support for less-experienced countries/organisation

Partnership in ENT

ENT will offer the partnership to all countries that are represented in the Programme Committee of FP7.

ENT has started to contact the relevant organisations that owe, manage or plan to build up transport research programmes

Ministries of Transport, Research, Science, Economics, Technology, Infrastructure, etc.

Agencies and other programme managing organisations

Thank you for your attention!

Contact data:

Polish Coordinator

Prof. Marek Sitarz

Silesian University of Technology, Katowice

Tel. 032 603 43 64

E-mail : marek.sitarz@polsl.pl

www.transport-era.net