Starting 1 January 2018, the project “Development and Research on Innovative Vocational Education Skills” (DRIVES) – a Sector Skills Alliance within the Erasmus+ programme – brings together the European automotive industry, training centers, local public authorities and other relevant stakeholders for the development of automotive skills, with a view to adress the challenge of the skills shortage.
The aim of the project is to enable the realization of the aims of the Blueprint, namely the delivery of human capital solutions to supply chain SMEs through the establishment of an Automotive Sector Skills Alliance covering all levels of the value chain (vehicle production, automotive suppliers and automotive sales and aftermarket services).
Contact person: Pilar Pérez (p.perez@clepa.be)
Project’s website: www.project-drives.eu
Starting 1 July 2016, the project “Safe and COnnected aUtomation in road Transport” (SCOUT) – a Coordination and Support Action within the Horizon 2020 programme – will develop viable pathways for the large-scale rollout of high-degree automated driving in Europe.
The project will bring together the automotive, telecom and ICT industries in order to conceive use cases and business models that will best leverage the investments into technology development and infrastructure deployment. User needs and expectations as well as technical and non-technical gaps will be analyzed and the results will be condensed into a cross-sectorial roadmap.
SCOUT will have its public kick-off event at this year’s AMAA conference. The first conference day will host a round-table discussion with members of the SCOUT consortium, discussing “Cross-sectorial innovation for high-level automation“.
Contact person: Alessandro Coda (a.coda@clepa.be)
Project’s website: click here
CARTRE is a Support Action to accelerate development and deployment of automated road transport by increasing market and policy certainties. To achieve this, CARTRE will support the development of clearer and more consistent policies for EU Member States in collaboration with industry players, ensuring that automated road transport systems and services are compatible at EU level and are deployed in a coherent way.
Other objectives include: the creation of a solid knowledgebase of all European activities, to support current activities and structure research outcomes by enablers and thematic areas; to setup a platform for sharing and re-using data and experiences from different automated road transport systems; to actively support Field Operational Tests (FOTs) and pilots carried out at National and European levels; and to work on future visions, potential impacts and research gaps in the deployment of automated road transport.
Contact person: Alessandro Coda (a.coda@clepa.be)
Project’s website: click here