Launch of TIMIS, the new online analytical tool for transport innovation
In September 2017, the European Commission has launched a new platform: the Transport Research and Innovation Monitoring and Information System, or TRIMIS, which replaces the Transport Research & Innovation Portal (TRIP), and incorporates the latter’s database of over 10,000 EU and national transport research projects and programmes. These cover a number of areas, namely: cooperative, connected and automated transport;...Continue reading→
Commission invites stakeholders to a Workshop on C-ITS
On 30 November 2016, the European Commission (EC) adopted its European strategy on Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems, an important milestone towards cooperative, connected and automated mobility. The strategy foresees the need to amend and supplement the ITS Directive 2010/40/EU for aspects where legal certainty is needed, through the preparation of a delegated regulation on C-ITS. The EC...Continue reading→
Declaration in 10 points regarding Digital Transport
The Digital Transport Days Declaration is the outcome of the 3-day conference organised by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), and the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The conference was held on 8-10 November 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia, a country known as the most advanced digital society in...Continue reading→
ERAdiate and UNIZA explored cybersecurity and data protection in the IoT
While sex robots capable of engaging in loving and sexual relationships with humans are not science fiction anymore, research on potential sexual applications of artificial intelligence, as well as on their social, legal and moral implications is still very limited. Given the need for empirical research around this topic, the main goal of the international...Continue reading→
COST Action WISE-ACT launched last October
The COST Action CA16222 on “Wider Impacts and Scenario Evaluation of Autonomous and Connected Transport” (WISE-ACT) had its kick-off on 13 October 2017 in Brussels. The Action participation has grown since then, and today counts 35 COST Countries plus the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The focus of this COST Action is on observed and...Continue reading→
Update from the ECTRI Thematic Group Traffic Management
The last meeting of the ECTRI Thematic Group (TG) Traffic Management took place on 4-5 October 2017. The ERA Chair Holder, Tatiana Kováčiková, who represents UNIZA in the Group, presented the H2020 project MoTiV – “Mobility and Time Value”, its main goals, partners and methodology to be taken. Fraunhofer IVI reported on their recent activities...Continue reading→
ERAdiate is involved in STRIA, the EC Strategic Transport Research & Innovation
Based on the nomination by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, the ERA Chair Holder, Tatiana Kováčiková, participated in the first meeting of the Strategic Transport Research Innovation Agenda (STRIA) governance group, which took place on 21 November 2017 in Brussels. STRIA aims to address the Energy Union, the challenges of the...Continue reading→
MoTiV project launched
As announced in our previous Newsletter, UNIZA and the Consortium it leads, have been granted funding to implement the MoTiV (Mobility and Time Value) project for the next 30 months, until April 2020. MoTiV is currently the only H2020 Research and Innovation Action project coordinated by a Higher Education Institution in Slovakia, and acquired by an...Continue reading→
INTSYS 2017 tackled the development of ITS solutions and their use by industry
On 29-30 November 2017 was held the international conference INTSYS 2017 – “Intelligent Transport Systems – From research and development to the market uptake”, organised by ERAdiate. The event took place in Hyvinkää, Finland, as a co-located scientific event of the SmartCity 360˚ Summit and was organised in cooperation with the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI),...Continue reading→
Successful first edition of UNIZA Grants Week
On 19-21 September 2017, UNIZA welcomed 65 participants (mostly from UNIZA) to the Grants Week, organised by ERAdiate. With the motto ‘’Maximise your chances of success in research applications’’, the event aimed not only at providing comprehensive information on how to find the most relevant European and Slovak funding programmes, but also at enhancing researchers’...Continue reading→