The European Commission published this February a working document which aims at laying out the next steps for road safety, Next steps towards ‘Vision Zero’: EU road safety policy framework 2021-2030. In the ‘Europe on the move’ package in May 2018, the European Commission put forward...
The present study EU road vehicle energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 2050 – Expert-based scenarios casts light on the technical feasibility of energy consumption and CO2 emission reductions from EU road transport by 2050 from a tank to wheels perspective. To this aim, a group of experts from...
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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Brussels, 14 February 2020 – The European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR), representing the major European automobile manufacturers in their common research activities, welcomes the progress made towards an agreement on the next EU framework programme for research called Horizon Europe. To address the key...
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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...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Following on from the strong support of the International Trade committee on 21st January 2020, the undersigned business associations respectfully request that Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) consider the benefits for both sides and approve the EU-Vietnam...