EU-U.S. trade talks: European Commission publishes progress report
The European Commission has today published a report on the implementation of the 25 July 2018 Joint Statement agreed by Presidents Juncker and Trump.
In line with the Commission's commit...
30 January 2019 - Read more
CLEPA Innovation Awards 2019: Call for applications now open
CLEPA Innovation Awards recognises the excellence of the automotive supplier’s industry in the fields of Environment, Safety, Cooperation and Connectivity & Automation.
Innovative a...
30 January 2019 - Read more
CAD Report: Europe should be the leading actor
During an event organised at the University Foundation Club on 28th January MEP, Wim van de Camp, who is the EPP Group’s Spokesman for Transport, presented his opinion as a Rapporteur to the Report...
29 January 2019 - Read more
Anticipating autonomous: The UK’s driverless future
The project Smart Mobility Living Lab: London (SMLL), funded by Innovate UK has recently published a new report on connected and automated vehicles in the United Kingdom.
The publication gather...
28 January 2019 - Read more
High-level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence’s Ethics Guidelines available
Appointed by the European Commission in June 2018 as part of the European approach on artificial intelligence, the High-level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence’s (AI HLEG) general objective is...
25 January 2019 - Read more
DRIVES Project: One year anniversary
The DRIVES project, an ERASMUS+ Blueprint Sector Skills Alliance for the automotive sector, is celebrating its one-year anniversary. The 24 consortium members of the project DRIVES had a two-day work...
25 January 2019 - Read more
€114 million available under Horizon 2020 for next-generation batteries projects
The Building a Low-Carbon, Climate Resilient Future: Next-Generation Batteries call for proposals is open for applications as of today and until 25 April 2019.
It makes available €114 million in...
24 January 2019 - Read more
World Economic Forum recognises European Commission as champion in the circular economy
Yesterday evening in Davos, the European Commission was awarded the 2019 Circular Economy prize by the World Economic Forum and the Forum of Young Global Leaders as recogni...
22 January 2019 - Read more
European steel users protest the need for EU safeguards
A coalition of downstream steel users has called into question the rationale for the European Commission’s imposition of definitive steel safeguard measures. The European Commission initiated the sa...
18 January 2019 - Read more
Over €1.2 billion requested in Horizon 2020 transport funding
INEA has received 238 project proposals by the deadline of 16 January for eight topics in the areas of waterborne transport, logistics, aviation, transport infrastructure and safety under the Mobility...
17 January 2019 - Read more
MEPs call for safety and liability rules for driveless cars
MEPs call for safety and liability rules for driverless cars
EU needs to act faster to the developments in the sector
More funding for research, safety and liability rules needed
Focus also...
16 January 2019 - Read more
EU Commission is collecting feedback on C-ITS
To achieve the goal of safer, cleaner and more efficient transport, the European Commission is collecting feedback on C-ITS (cooperative intelligent transport systems) provisions until February 8....
11 January 2019 - Read more
ICCT – From laboratory to road: A 2018 update
The International Council on Clean Transportation has published a 2018 update of the From Laboratory to Road series. This report covers approximately 1.3 million passenger cars from 15 data sources an...
10 January 2019 - Read more
2019 CEF Transport call now open for applications
The 2019 CEF Transport call, which makes €100 million available to support new and ongoing transport projects and was launched on 5 December 2018, is now officially open for applications.
I...
08 January 2019 - Read more
CO2 emission standards for trucks: Council agrees its position
The EU is setting CO2 emission reduction targets for heavy-duty vehicles for the first time. The Council agreed its position (general approach) on a proposal to reduce CO2 emissions of new heavy-duty...
20 December 2018 - Read more
Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills In a Nutshell
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 ch...
20 December 2018 - Read more
Launch of three 5G Corridor trial projects
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...
19 December 2018 - Read more
Europe accelerates the transition to clean mobility: Co-legislators agree on strong rules for the modernisation of the mobility sector
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 emiss...
18 December 2018 - Read more
Using ITS-G5 for efficient truck platooning
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 i...
18 December 2018 - Read more
2018 Industrial R&D Scoreboard: EU companies increase research investment amidst a global technological race
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...
17 December 2018 - Read more
CLEPA Counterfeit Day – Presentations now available
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 st...
17 December 2018 - Read more
ICT4CART: Future of Automated Driving
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 ded...
17 December 2018 - Read more
DRIVES Project: #2 Newsletter released
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 vi...
17 December 2018 - Read more
EIT announces two winning innovation communities in manufacturing and urban mobility
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 p...
17 December 2018 - Read more
CLEPA signs a Joint Statement on the EU Steel Safeguard Investigation
Steel Using Industries - Joint Statement on the EU Steel Safeguard Investigation
This coalition of downstream users of steel – including the automotive, technology industries, electrici...
07 December 2018 - Read more