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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 ...
EuropeanThe Foresight method has been successfully applied by the majority of European Union countries. A key element of this method is to predict the possible directions of scientific development by creating a platform of discussion and cooperation between scien ...
PolandBONUS' vision is an economically and ecologically prosperous Baltic Sea region where resources and goods are used sustainably and where the long-term management of the region is based on sound knowledge derived from multi-disciplinary research. BONUS ...
InternationalMARTEC II helps to strengthen the European Research Area in waterborne research by coordinating and developing synergies between national and regional maritime research programmes and policies. The activities include the exchange of information and knowle ...
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 ...
EuropeanThe Operational Programme on Transport 2014-2020 (OPT) is one of six operational programmes of the Republic of Bulgaria, which are financed by the Structural and the Cohesion Funds of the EU. The OPT programme is the operational programme with one of the ...
BulgariaRAILENERGY Railway operators agree that energy consumption is one of the key environmental factors, together with the related emissions/air quality and noise. There are strong incentives on the part of the sector to reduce energy consumption so as to redu ...
EuropeanFLACON While the common understanding of the European community is that sub-orbital high-altitude flight is technically feasible within a few years, building on the available knowledge in aviation, it has never been proven experimentally. The USA have ach ...
EuropeanFREIGHTVISION In the coming years and decades the European Union faces the following challenges in the freight sector: the need to ensure and increase economic growth; and the need to deal with an increase of freight transport demand; while at the same ti ...
EuropeanRESTARTS Currently, a downward trend in interest in aeronautics can be observed. This trend needs to be reversed. Raising European Students Awareness in Aeronautical Research Through School-Labs is the main objective of the RESTARTS project. The project a ...
EuropeanTOSCA The EU has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% based on the 1990 level by 2020 and further reductions are expected beyond that timeframe. However, realising this and subsequent targets may become increasingly challenging, ...
EuropeanEMAR2RES Nearly all significant developments in the marine/maritime area originate from Europe, a true maritime continent. Consequently, the Marine/Maritime Science and Research Communities are among the world leaders in their respective fields, disciplin ...
EuropeanTransSLO PLUS The project TransSLO-PLUS is a follow-up of the TransSLO project, which has set up the foundations for the identification of all research institutions active in the field of transport in Slovenia. Additionally, TransSLO defined the fundament ...
Slovenia02012 The present study analyses the spatial consequences of the bi-lateral agreement CH- EU about land transports in the most important border areas viewed from the point of goods transport. The most important new conditions include a gradual increase of ...
SwitzerlandCOOPERATEUS COOPERATEUS is a European Project within the Framework Programme 7 (Research / Aeronautics and Air Transport) aiming at establishing an initial framework, data base and network, in order to facilitate and enhance the cooperation in R&T act ...
EuropeanHERMES Globalisation is accelerating, and this has an impact on the way we produce, share and use knowledge. Major global challenges such as climate change, energy supply, security of the citizen, etc., highlight the need for effective global S&T coop ...
EuropeanCANNAPE CANNAPE created a platform for enhancing aeronautics and air transport research and development cooperation between the EU and Canada, and explored the potential for promoting the participation of Canadian stakeholders with their European counterp ...
EuropeanEXCROSS A large number of research actions and significant investments have been dedicated to the investigation of safety aspects in transportation in recent years. The Transport Research Knowledge Centre lists in its database several hundreds of internat ...
EuropeanAERA- PRO Two important milestones of special relevance to aeronautics and air transport research were planned: the release in Spring 2011 by a High Level Research Vision Group of a Vision for Aeronautics and Air Transport beyond 2020 and towards 2050; th ...
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