CCAM General Assembly elects new leadership and sets course for future projects

The General Assembly of the R&I Partnership on Connected Cooperative Automated Mobility (CCAM) was held in Brussels on 22 May. This event marked a key moment to reflect on the past three years since the partnership’s launch, while looking ahead, until the conclusion of the current Horizon-Europe EU R&I funding programme in 2027, and beyond.

During the meeting, key elections were held for vacant positions, while the re-election by the General Assembly for a second three-year term of the Executive Group, comprising the seven cluster leaders and co-leaders, was requested. As a result, key roles of CLEPA-endorsed representatives were confirmed including: Christoph Weigand (Continental) who will take over from Christian Scharnhorst (Bosch) as CCAM Association Vice-Chair in 2025; Dr David Storer (CLEPA) and Gereon Meyer (VDI-VDE/IT and CCAM R&I SAC EG co-leader) as the leader and co-leader of CCAM Cluster 2 “Vehicle Technologies”; Peter Urban (ika and CCAM R&I SAC EG co-leader) as leader of Cluster 3 “Validation”; Thorsten Burger (Continental) as Automotive Suppliers representative in the CCAM Partnership Board.

About the CCAM partnership

The CCAM (Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility) partnership encompasses more than 150 members across different industry sectors, research institutes and universities, associations and clusters, service providers, and national and local authorities, who work to help removing barriers and contribute to the acceptance and efficient roll- out of automation technologies and services. The CCAM partnership was founded in a joint effort between the CCAM Association and the EU Commission to align efforts between public and private entities to gather all types of stakeholders willing to collaborate at the European level to advance it’s goals utilising industry, universities and research institutes, services providers, associations and clusters, and public authorities from national and local levels.