First International Conference on "A European research strategy for intermodal transport"
The first international conference on “A European research strategy for intermodal transport” has been successfully held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 17th and 18th April 2013. More than 150 participants from 20 different countries attended this two-days event whose objective was to contribute at the optimization of research and innovation transport policies by defining a targeted research strategy for intermodality to be implemented in the new programming period 2014-2020.
The event aimed specifically at:
- giving advice to regional authorities and further stakeholders on the coordination of RTD policy development and support the consideration and integration of transport related concerns into Smart Specialisation Strategies;
- formulating recommendations to private and public RTD actors on research strategies to be tackled in the future and spread knowledge on successfully developed technologies and procedures for improving transport modes;
- presenting and debating on successful cluster policies and strong innovation systems supporting the exploitation of research results into the market.
The conference was open to representatives from the research, industry and policy making who had the possibility to attend 5 thematic sessions on:
- Synergies between RTD and transport policies at regional, national and European level
- From research to deployment for seamless door-to-door mobility
- Round table on transport cluster experience
- Focus on urban mobility: Smart Cities and CIVITAS
- S3 thematic workshop on Transport
Key note speakers commented on the topic of each session with ample time left for panel discussion and interaction with the audience. The proceedings of the conference together with the presentations delivered, the bionotes of our speakers and the list of registered participants are available at Intraregio website under Publications/Project results.
An exhibition space with around 20 transport and logistics clusters and research and innovation projects on transport has been set up. Besides, a market place has been organized by Enterprise Europe Network Canarias/Bremen where participants had the chance to explore partnership opportunities with the exhibitors and the participants of the conference.
Here you can find the portfolio of the market place.
