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FP8 Priorities for Transport

April 23, 2010

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EUCAR FP8 Priorities for Transport

April 22, 2010

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EUCAR issued a position paper outlining its priority recommendations for the content and structure of the Eighth Research Framework (FP8), to run from 2014

April 22, 2010

22nd April 2010 - today EUCAR issued a position paper outlining its priority recommendations for the content and structure of the Eighth Research Framework (FP8), to run from 2014. This is the automotive industry's initial contribution to debate on FP8 and is intended to initiate further discussion amongst all EU research stakeholders, aiming at an effective programme for collaborative research and a strengthened European Research Area. In particular EUCAR recommends that Mobility and Transport be included as a coherent theme within FP8, and further that a focus is retained on Road Transport and Automotive Research. The main recommendations of the paper are as...
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The Parliament Magazine Research Review September 2009 – “On the road”

September 1, 2009

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Input to the European Green Car Initiative

May 7, 2009

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EUCAR Focus

January 1, 2009

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“Emerging technologies will help us address our present and future mobility challenges. We will fully leverage this knowledge so that the automotive manufacturers continue to provide safer, cleaner and more sustainable road transport solutions with benefits to their users and society.”

- Dr Peter Lehnert, VP Technology and Innovation Digital Car, BMW Group

“We are in the era of transformation, with new ways of working, new players entering the market, and an acceleration of innovation and novel business models to reach a truly sustainable society. In EUCAR, the European vehicle manufacturers come together in pre-competitive collaboration towards a common vision. We identify key areas and perspectives for research and innovation as well as ways to interact with the eco-system around us, facilitating successful projects with tangible results! Together we can shape the world we want to live in.”

- Ms Helene Niklasson, Vice President Innovation Ecosystems and Partnerships, Volvo Group

“As members of EUCAR, we are focussed on the results of our projects in order to develop technologies that further improve road safety, reduce the environmental footprint of mobility, and increase the cost-effectiveness of vehicles and mobility solutions.”

- Carla Gohin, CTO, Research & Innovation Senior Vice President, PSA Peugeot-Citroën

“Pre-competitive research co-operation at EUCAR is essential to drive European innovation forward. EUCAR projects provide new ideas and solutions to tackle the challenges Europe is facing in establishing safe, secure, sustainable and connected mobility. Joint co-operation within EUCAR projects helps us develop new measures to handle cross-border challenges. One prime example for such a EUCAR project is the L3Pilot where we test the viability of automated driving as a safe and efficient means of transportation on public roads with 1,000 drivers and 100 cars across ten European countries, including cross-border routes.”

- Nikolai Ardey, Executive Director, Group Innovation at Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

“EUCAR, the European Council for automotive R&D, plays an active part in finding holistic solutions for all Europeans to the mobility challenges of tomorrow. Considering that the automotive sector also generates more than 13 million direct and indirect EU jobs, we are an integral part of European society.”

- Gerd Schuster, Senior Vice President Research, New Technology and Innovation, BMW Group

“With EUCAR‘s collaborative research projects we strive to serve the citizens of Europe. We help to develop new services, new products and improved ways to support customers and the society in a way that also creates the jobs of tomorrow.”

- Urban Wass, Former Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation Policy, Volvo Group

“The European Council for Automotive R&D (EUCAR) has been the voice of automobile manufacturers in the field of R&D for 25 years. During this period, EUCAR has successfully contributed to establishing a multitude of research projects, all of them promoting clean, safe and efficient mobility.”

- Stefan Deix, Director of EUCAR

“Within EUCAR, we strive for long-term collaboration by joining forces in a targeted way and benefitting from synergies. We seek to provide a common insight into current research and innovation projects tackling challenges in the fields of safe and integrated mobility, sustainable propulsion, virtual engineering and manufacturing and commercial vehicles.”

- Axel Heinrich, Former Executive Director, Group Innovation at Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

“EUCAR projects help to develop even safer vehicles; we are securing connected vehicles against manipulations and cyber threats; and we provide a solid knowledgebase for the safe introduction of automated driving.”

- Urban Wass, Former Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation Policy, Volvo Group

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FP8 Priorities for Transport

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EUCAR issued a position paper outlining its priority recommendations for the content and structure of the Eighth Research Framework (FP8), to run from 2014

The Parliament Magazine Research Review September 2009 – “On the road”

Input to the European Green Car Initiative

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