Technological progress and globalisation offer tremendous opportunities for innovation, growth and jobs. These developments require skilled and adaptable people who are able to drive and support change.In order to address skills gaps that may prevent promising industries from growing, the Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills was launched as...
Three projects (5GCroco, 5G-Carmen, 5G-Mobix) that aim at setting up trial 5G networks along four cross-border corridors were presented on 5 December at the ICT 2018 in Vienna. Metz-Merzig-Luxembourg, Munich-Bologna via the Brenner Pass, and Porto-Vigo and Evora-Merida, both between Spain and Portugal were selected as...
The European Parliament and the Council yesterday reached a political agreement on strong rules to decarbonise and modernise the mobility sector. They provisionally agreed on new CO2 emission standards for cars and light vans in the EU for the period after 2020, emissions from new cars will...
The Horizon 2020 ENSEMBLE project is paving the way to enable the first generation multi-brand truck platooning with the involvement of all European truck brands by 2022. The aim of platooning is to increase road traffic safety, as well as efficiency, by introducing ad hoc...
Companies in the European Union have increased their investment in research and development (R&D) for the eighth consecutive year. In 2017, they invested 5.5% more in R&D activities than the year before. This growth is driven by the automobile, health and ICT sectors. In a telling...
CLEPA held the Counterfeit Day event on the 22nd of November 2018. Specialists from law enforcement, politics and technology providers exchanged their views on latest developments and state of the art technologies to prevent counterfeits. All presentations are now available on the website, and below. The...
The ICT4CART consortium met at the first ICT4CART plenary session, held on 28 and 29 November 2018 in Vienna, to discuss several of the challenges of automated road transport. The first day was dedicated to examining potential partnerships between the private and the public sector to...
The #2 Newsletter od DRIVES´Project has been published. MEP Carlos Zorrinho (S&D, Portugal), member of the ITRE Committee (Industry, Reasearch and Energy) is the honorable guest and shares his views on the technological and societal disruption of the automotive industry and the challenges and potential...
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has announced the winning teams that will set up Innovation Communities: EIT Manufacturing and EIT Urban Mobility. These two pan-European partnerships bring together leading organisations from business, education, research and the public sector to tackle challenges through innovation and contribute...
Steel Using Industries - Joint Statement on the EU Steel Safeguard Investigation This coalition of downstream users of steel – including the automotive, technology industries, electricity transmission and distribution equipment, construction equipment, wind energy, agriculture machinery, home appliance, and packaging sectors – express their continued concern...