ECTRI's presence in 2008 conferences

«Sustainable Transport & Mobility Research and Climate Change Challenge» Event - Lyon, France - 8-12 December 2008

This event was organised by INRETS in the frame of the French EU Presidency, on 8-12 December in Lyon, France; it was strongly supported by ECTRI. Actually, ECTRI was involved in several ways: ECTRI held its Board and Assembly Meetings, during which the new Board for 2009-2011 was elected. Seven ECTRI Thematic Working Groups also met during the week, in order to produce three contributions: a matrix of competencies, a strategic research agenda and ideas for the 7th Framework Programme update (2010- 2011). See presentation: «ECTRI Thematic Working Groups» (500,10 Ko), made by Niels Buus Kristensen, ECTRI Board member during the Plenary Session on 11 December 2008. These contributions, especially ideas for FP7 update, have been taken into account in a final deliverable issued by INRETS early 2009.

After the Opening Ceremony, where Christian Piehler from DLR, Germany presented: «ECTRI & ETRR and the EUFP Event» (696,81 Ko), ECTRI experts participated in the event’s transversal sessions: Barbara Lenz from DLR, Germany, presented: «Gender Equality in the ECTRI Framework» (107,15 Ko) during the Gender Equality Session; Cristina Pronello, from POLITO, Italy, presented: «What are we doing for the young researchers? ECTRI reply» (63,60 Ko) during the Young Researchers Session; Christian Piehler, from DLR, Germany, presented «Management & Governance: The ECTRI Approach» (522,12 Ko) during the Management & Governance Session.
The Closing Session, during which the 'Lyon Declaration' was signed, was addressed by Guy Bourgeois, ECTRI President. He made a presentation of the declaration: "Présentation de la Déclaration de Lyon" (FRENCH) (60,50 Ko).

The event also hosted the YRS 2009 Steering Committee meeting, which took place on December 10 and aimed to review and select the young researchers’ abstracts.

You can download the Summary proceedings and the contribution to the update of FP7 made by the partners of the French EU Presidency event.

More information about this conference on: http://eufp-event.inrets.fr/

ICT 2008 «I’s to the Future - Invention, innovation, impact» - Lyon, France - 25-27 November 2008

ECTRI has been invited to participate to ICT 2008 event, which took place in Lyon, France on 25-27 November. Caroline Alméras, ECTRI Project Officer, was involved in the networking Session «European and international transnational networks for boosting ITS Scientific Knowledge and Innovation», and presented how ECTRI, an institutional network made of research institutes, can boost ITS knowledge and innovation. This session, held on 26 November, gathered representatives of the LUTB cluster and SAFER projects, 2 Networks of Excellence NEARCTIS and HUMANIST and ECTRI as a major Transport Research Organisation. This session was coordinated by ECTRI member INRETS, France. Caroline Alméras, made a presentation during this session: «ECTRI, European transport research institutes working together» (611,95 Ko)

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European Transport Conference - Leeuwenhorst, The Netherlands - 6-8 October 2008

Many researchers from ECTRI members presented research papers at the ETC 2008, which took place at the Leeuwenhorst Conference Centre, in The Netherlands, on 6-8 October. Previous to the conference, ECTRI broadly disseminated ETC information and call for paper and encouraged researchers to submit papers. More information about this conference here.

Transport Research Arena 2008 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - 21-24 April 2008

The Transport Research Arena 2008 (TRA 2008) took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 21 to 24 April 2008 around the theme «Greener, safer and smarter road transport for Europe». The event was organised jointly by the Conference of European Directors of Roads, the European Commission and the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council. The objective of TRA 2008 was to forge new productive partnerships across all transport sectors. ECTRI strongly supported the TRA conference and some ECTRI members participated in the preparation of TRA during 2007: Jean-Pierre Médevielle, INRETS, acted as the Pillar leader responsible for topic VI «Integrated approaches», Josef Mikulik, CDV and ECTRI Vice-President, was Pillar leader responsible for topic III «Safety and Security», both of them were Programme Committee members of this conference as well as José Manuel Menendez from UPM. More information about the conference here.

TRB 87th Annual Meeting - Washington, DC, USA - 13-17 January 2008

During the TRB 87th Annual Meeting ECTRI participated in the frame of ECTRI-TRB Memorandum of Understanding in different events: the Global Climate Change Workshop, scheduled on Sunday 13th January (from 12.15 to 17.30) at the Hilton Hotel. Guy Bourgeois, ECTRI President, participated as a speaker in the panel 3 entitled “Research and Research Needs”. Jean-Pierre Médevielle, ECTRI former Secretary, is a member of the Workshop Organizing Committee in the dedicated panel 3 working group. ECTRI also participated in Innovative Research Partnerships: Charting New Territory session. This three-part session was organised by the TRB International Committee. Guy Bourgeois as ECTRI President was invited as a speaker in the part 2 of the session, together with Jean-François Corte from PIARC (World Road Association), and Stephen Perkins from OECD/ECMT Joint Transport Research Centre. Professor George Giannopoulos, HIT, moderated this session. Professor Cristina Pronello from POLITO was invited to speak in part 1 as Chairwoman of COST-TUD. A number of ECTRI researchers were also at TRB to present their research results and to participate in the TRB committees they are member of. At last, an ECTRI delegation attended a meeting organised by John O'Neill, Coordinator of AASHTO/FHWA International Program, on Monday 14th January in order to discuss the scanning tour from USA in April that will be hosted by ECTRI.

The following presentations were made during the conference:

TRB 2008 - Innovative research partnerships - European partnerships, Guy Bourgeois, ECTRI President (610 kB)

TRB 2008 - Global Climate Change session - Key-issues for European transport research institutes, Guy Bourgeois, ECTRI President (2.3 mB)