ENT18: Climate-friendly freight network

Status and results

Four partner countries have launched a trans-national research initiative to support transport research in the topic of Climate Friendly Freight Network.

Facts

  • Funding countries: Austria, France, Sweden and Germany 
  • Timeline: Proposals can be handed in at any time
  • Funding budget: Check with your national contact point
  • Type: Joint call/national calls (virtual common pot)
  • Research focus: RTD projects, but also demonstration and pilot components are appreciated
  • Consortia: A minimum of partners from two funding countries. A higher number of represented countries is appreciated
  • True cooperation: Work plan of projects must highlight real cooperation of partners. No clustering of national sub-projects
  • Duration of projects (recommended): Between 18 and 36 months

For further information refer to the Initiates file downloadguide for applicants.

 

Background

Freight transport is essential for economic development and efficient transport and distribution of freight is at the top of the wish list for many countries. A lot of research has already gone into making freight transport systems efficient, cost effective and reliable at the lowest possible cost for the environment. A new emerging trans-national funding initiative under ERA-NET TRANSPORT wants to push European knowledge even further.

 

The trans-national funding initiative is build on the basic assumptions that

  • International logistic cannot be built in stand alone systems
  • Improvements of vehicle technology for freight transport can be achieved in cross-border approaches.

An only trans-national R&D cooperation can accelerate the implementation of new technologies and improve public awareness of new technology

 

Research themes

The basic consideration is to set only a wide thematic framework and to provide room for researchers to develop high quality project ideas. The following main topics will be of interest

i.       Urban freight distribution

ii.       Long-distance transport and the freight transport corridors

iii.      Intermodality on freight transport

iv.      Intelligent logistics

 

Due to national research priorities and provisions in national calls, not all themes can be funded by all national programmes. More detailed information is included in the guide for applicants.


Information on procedures

Due to the open nature of the cut-off dates for this transnational research initiative it is highly recommended to contact the national contact point for your programme/country, before starting a proposal process. The national contact point can advise on frame conditions, cut-off dates and can give a first validation of the research idea. Further it is recommended to draft a pre-proposal of max 10 pages outlining the research idea and potential partners in the consortia.

 

For further information on the formal requirements see the Initiates file downloadguide for applicants.

 

Participants

Germany

Sweden

Austria

France

 

Contact information

Support Team

Oliver Althoff, TÜV Rheinland Consulting GmbH

Oliver.Althoff@de.tuv.com