The emergence of a smart and clean vehicle is a strategic issue at a global and European level against the backdrop of rising fuel prices and tougher regulations on CO2 emissions. As the future of the automotive industry depends on the ability to tackle the challenges of tomorrow’s mobility, environmental issues and new mobility behaviour also require that plenty of public and private stakeholders with diverse business interests work together in a collaborative and interdisciplinary way. Thus, mobility and logistic clusters also play a central role in contributing to the competitiveness of the EU transport industry, sharing skills within a joint ecosystem. The Safe and Sustainable partnership was created to work closely with different actors within this context.
Year established: 2019
The mission of the proposed thematic area is to gather the industrial challenges involved in the transition towards decarbonisation and digitalisation of the road transport system. This transition is expected to have a disruptive impact in the SME competitiveness and thus in the socio-economic regional environment. Although 75% of motor vehicles is manufactured by car suppliers, the transformation of the road transport system is far to be only an issue related to the motor vehicle manufacturing groups. Fourteen million jobs in Europe depend on the automotive industry and the sector is the first in terms of R&D investments in the EU. In a fast-changing environment, this industry faces many scientific, technological and economic challenges.
The main goal of this thematic area is to strengthen the innovation regional capacity beyond automotive industry to facilitate investments based on open innovation infrastructure and new technologies provided by clusters in regional ecosystems. Through a closer collaboration, the partner regions and cluster organizations complete the interdisciplinary competences needed and will be able to respond to industrial challenges of implementing a ‘Safe and Sustainable Mobility’ (hereinafter SSM). Among other key initiatives, this proposal gives special attention to highlight the most promising innovations for regional development, to identify replicability/scalability investment priorities and to allocate funding resources more effectively. More specifically, this proposal aims to further support the deployment of advanced research and technologies along the value chain by connecting innovative SMEs and value chain segments from traditional value chains.
Sustainable mobility, safe mobility, automotive industry, logistics, decarbonisation, autonomous driving, electromobility, urban mobility
RECIPROCITY Project: The RECIPROCITY project aims at responding to this reality by equipping at least 20 cities across Europe, of varying size and mobility demand, with the necessary tools, knowledge, contacts, and methods to accelerate the replication of existing innovative mobility solutions. (https://reciprocity-project.eu/about/).
HYdrogen TO enter MARKets reducing carbon Emissions footprinT in Europe. The main objective of Hy2Market is to realize a more mature hydrogen value chain across Europe. With an interregional approach, knowledge about building a robust and innovative Hydrogen value chain is realized through targeted investments on green hydrogen production -with special focus on management systems-, the transport of hydrogen in existing and new infrastructure and the offtake of green hydrogen by industrial partners and in mobility. https://hy2market.eu/
JOIN THE ARRIVAL PLATFORM: https://www.arrival-platform.eu/portal/sign-up.html ARRIVAL offers a common and legitimate European Matchmaking Platform and complementary off-line services designed to equip mobility stakeholders with the necessary tools, knowledge, contacts and methods to accelerate the replication of existing innovative mobility solutions, to mobilise financial resources to accelerate the market access and scale up of “first of a kind” sustainable transport solutions.
ENTRANCE and RECIPROCITY have received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreements N°101006681 and N°101006576, respectively.
