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Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness. Running from 2014 to 2020 with an € 80 billion budget, the EU's new programme for re ...
EuropeanWith small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as its main target, the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) supports innovation activities (including eco-innovation), provides better access to finance and delivers business support serv ...
EuropeanIn order to address the major challenges of cities, the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe was launched in 2010 with the ambition to rethink and manage the increasing urban orientation and concentration in Europe. Europe’s competitiveness depends g ...
EuropeanThe International Transport Forum evolved from the ECMT in 2006/7. At the time, ministers decided to invite new members from non-European countries in order to address transport issues on a global level and for all transport modes, and to create a public ...
EuropeanREKONZIL Transport problems in urban areas became an important policy area. Politicians start many initiatives that aim at solving the relationship between city and transport. A special challenge is to develop approaches in this field where stakeholders a ...
Germany01048 The research concept "Sustainable Spatial Development and Mobility" is one of 12 research concepts, which shall be developed under responsibility of the Steering Committee of the Association of Education-Research-Technology for the period ...
SwitzerlandTRACY Addressing the needs of older people in the development of future transportation concepts in Europe is an important issue. However, there are no systematic studies available, which provide a complete picture of what has already been done to address ...
EuropeanOPTIMISM The main scope of the project is to provide a scientifically documented insight of the transport system and people's travel choices via the study of social behaviour, mobility patterns and business models. This will also allow to define futu ...
EuropeanCOMCIS The project was about the interoperability between e-freight systems that had been developed in previous EU projects as well as in those developed in commercial undertakings. It showed how the following e-freight systems would be integrated: Logit ...
EuropeanORIGAMI Effective solutions to existing problems in long-distance door-to-door passenger transport chains, require the provision of attractive integrated networks and services. This is likely to require vision and co-operation between stakeholders in the ...
EuropeanT-TRANS A deep analysis of the current activity in Intelligent Transportation Systems shows an increasing importance of this transport research and application domain to support major EU priorities as regard of economic growth objectives by 2020 and beyon ...
EuropeanU4IA Activity-based analysis and modelling has rapidly gained momentum in transportation, urban planning, and geography. It examines which activities are conducted where, when, for how long, with whom, and the transport mode and route involved at a very f ...
EuropeanEUNOIA Urban transport is essential for citizens to perform their daily activities, but it also constitutes a major source of pollution. The goal of EUNOIA is to take advantage of smart city technologies and complex systems science to develop new models a ...
EuropeanPLUREL Urbanisation is arguably the most significant process of land use change in Europe. Over 70% of Europe's population is now living in urban areas, and these in turn have grown by almost 80% over the last fifty years (http://reports.eea.europa.e ...
EuropeanOPTICITIES OPTICITIES' vision is to help European cities tackle complex mobility challenges. OPTICITIES' strategy focuses on the optimisation of transport networks through the development of public/private partnerships and the experimentation of ...
EuropeanMETROPOLIS The aim of this project is the investigation of radically new airspace design concepts for scenarios which, when compared to today, are extreme in terms of traffic density, complexity and constraints. Extrapolating current developments in aeros ...
EuropeanSmartCEM Currently, one of the biggest challenges are people and freight mobility. Internal combustion engine vehicles have dominated road transport for over 100 years but are detrimental to people and nature. In addition to CO2 emissions which lead to cl ...
EuropeanMOLECULES MOLECULES is a demonstration project with three large scale pilots in Barcelona, Berlin and Grand Paris aiming to use ICT services to help achieve a consistent, integrated uptake of Smart Connected Electromobility SCE) in the overall framework o ...
EuropeanAENEAS Europe is facing a tremendous demographic shift, its populations are ageing while there are less children born now than 50 years ago. This ageing of the population presents several challenges, one of which is the older generations preferred use of ...
EuropeanBAMBINI The EU funded BAMBINI project (June 2009 – May 2012) focused on sustainable and energy-efficient mobility solutions for future generations through teaching children about such alternatives through games and activities. The main aim of BAMBINI was ...
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