The European Commission's ESCO Project invites CLEPA and its members to participate in the project and to contribute with their expertise to its development. ESCO is the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. ESCO is part of the Europe 2020 strategy. The Commission services launched the project...
CLEPA Corporate Member, Schaeffler, have published a fourth issue of their technology magazine “tomorrow”, which is entirely devoted to innovation. The magazine gives a wide-ranging insight into humanity’s most important inventions and highlights the importance of an innovative culture and innovation management for companies. In addition,...
On March 29, 2016, the European Parliament's International Trade Committee (INTA) published its draft recommendation on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of Revision 3 of the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled...
The next CLEPA Materials Regulations Event will be held in Bad Homburg (Germany) on 20th April 2016 GENERAL ISSUES The 168th session of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP29) was held in Geneva from 8 to 11 March 2016. A new UN Regulation under the...
Brussels, 18 March 2016 Last night, more than 160 guests from the European automotive industry along with EU policymakers gathered in Brussels to celebrate the CLEPA Innovation Awards 2016. Organised in cooperation with Deloitte, the Innovation Awards highlight the outstanding achievements made in the European automotive industry,...
On Friday, March 18th, CLEPA members, during their Annual General Assembly in Brussels, highlighted Sustainable Mobility as the defining challenge for the automotive industry for the year to come. To achieve this goal, CLEPA has identified the following priorities: the reduction of CO2 emissions post 2020,...
“ITS, Connected Mobility, and Data Economy” Event Report Opening by Host MEP, Adina-Ioana Vălean Mrs Vălean said that as former rapporteur for the eCall legislative dossier, she knew this topic would bring a crowd (the event was attended by about 120 delegates). The digitalisation of transport is...
In today’s meeting, the Supervisory Board of Schaeffler AG appointed Matthias Zink (46), Global Head of the business division 'Transmissions Systems', as a member of the Executive Board of Schaeffler AG as of January 1, 2017. Matthias Zink will succeed Norbert Indlekofer (58), whose contract was...
Schaeffler has been nominated as one of four finalists in the “Industrie 4.0” category for the German Business Innovation Award for its innovation project “Machine tool 4.0”. The award ceremony will take place on April 16, 2016 in Darmstadt. Schaeffler developed the “Machine tool 4.0” machine...
This week, we welcomed more than 250 representatives from the automotive industry and other relevant stakeholders to the seventh edition of the CLEPA Aftermarket Conference, in Brussels. This event is the annual gathering between the executives and policymakers in this sector. “Future” was this year’s overarching...