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On 13 February 2020, the ARCADE Joint Connected and Automated Driving (CAD) Network and the ERTRAC Working Group on “Connectivity and Automated Driving” organised the 3rd stakeholder workshop in Brussels.   The workshop aimed to further explore key priorities for the different thematic areas (together with application...

Hosted by the Swedish government from 19-20 February and co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation, the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety analysed the results and lessons from the Decade of Action, a global pledge for the years between 2011 to 2020 targeted at reducing the number of road traffic fatalities by half. Participants also mapped the future directions to...

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented today three publications setting out the Commission’s priorities on digital issues: “Europe for the digital age,” “A European Strategy for data,” and a White Paper on Artificial Intelligence. The Commission also sets out to adopt in 2020-2021 a number of...

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The European Commission is launching the 2020 edition of Horizon Impact Award – a prize dedicated to EU-funded projects whose results have created societal impact across Europe and beyond. The prize acknowledges and rewards the most influential and impactful project results under Horizon 2020, the...

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