[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]Every year, millions of vehicles in Europe reach the end of their life. If end-of-life vehicles (ELV) are not managed properly, they can be a threat to the environment as well as a lost source of millions of...
[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]In March 2019, DRIVES launched an online survey to support the creation of a strategic roadmap for the sector, which will contain information necessary to all the project’s partners to analyse the current Automotive situation in terms of...
[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]This initiative provides a long-term framework for planning research and pre-deployment programmes for driverless vehicles across the EU and nationally. This is in line with the May 2018 Communication ‘On the road to automated mobility: an EU strategy for...
[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] With a first hand of cards on the EU leadership now dealt, eyes inevitably turn to the work programme of the new team as well. Where will the next College of European Commissioners and the new members of...
On 1 July 2019 the European Commission published the first outline document for Horizon Europe - Strategic Planning - Summer 2019. The document is a plan for implementing Horizon Europe, the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021 –2027, setting out the overall...
Finland’s third EU Presidency period began on 1 July 2019. The presidency of the Council rotates in an established order among the EU Member States every six months. In this capacity, Finland will chair the formal Council meetings in Brussels and Luxembourg and the informal meetings...
The event "The looming talent challenge – how can automotive regions take the lead?" was organised by the Committee of the Regions Automotive Intergroup on the 27th of June, in order to discuss the future of automotive industry. Barbara Eibinger-Miedl, Minister for Economy, Tourism, Europe, Science...
The European Commission presented its EU-wide platform at its Friends of ITS meeting on the 3rd of June. The Cooperative, Connected, Automated and Autonomous Mobility (CCAM) Single Platform consists of an informal group of both private and public stakeholders. The group includes one hundred experts in...
What do you think are the most pressing challenges that EU-funded research and innovation should tackle? What are the most important impacts – scientific, technological, economic, societal – that EU-funded research and innovation should target? Now you can share your views with the European Commission. 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]Every department and executive agency of the European Commission publishes an annual activity report. It details achievements, initiatives taken and the financial and human resources spent during the year. From CLEPA we invite you to have a look...