CETRRA - Actions to Stimulate Participation of Cooperation Partners in Surface Transport Research
Overview
Background & policy context:
The European Commission would like to see an interoperable and harmonised European rail system, contributing to co-modality and with a strong internationally competitive European railway industry. This CETRRA project supported this by integrating/coordinating research and by sharing knowledge.
Objectives:
Contributing to the European Research Area in surface transport to strengthen the competitiveness of the European surface transport sector.
Methodology:
This has been achieved by providing research capabilities from the EU and Asia to European Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME). The main benefits for integrating non EU researchers in the project are: international scientific knowledge exchange and the identification of research areas that are of mutual interest.
Research tasks were organised by the EURNEX Association, the European rail research network. In the past years, EURNEX has been successfully transformed from a FP6 project into a sustainable legal entity. Driven by operators and industries, European rail researchers have combined and integrated their expertise into multidisciplinary, customer oriented scientific research. The EURNEX Association now encompasses about 70 research institutes, with a total of 600 researchers in the EU27. Most members cover not only rail research, but also other modes of surface transport.
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