Final Report Summary - TRANSSLOVRTD (Support for sustainable transport research in Slovenia) The TRANSSLO project was a Target Specific Support Action (SSA) in Slovenia in the thematic area of sustainable development, global change and ecosystems - sustainable transport. The specific goals were:- to support knowledge transfer and experience exchanges within the EU and specifically target Slovenia and nearby countries in order to promote transport research and encourage postgraduate research at universitie; - to generate information for decision makers and politicians on Slovenian and EU transport research priorities; - to ensure dissemination of Slovenia transport research capability; - to ensure dissemination of the results of the project.The project focused on four main actions.- Organising a contest of the best PhD studies in the field of transport, the best of which were presented during the Slovenian ISEP 2007 Conference in May 2007.- Setting up a database of companies, research institutes, organisations and universities involved in transport research. The continued increase in members of this database was facilitated through the Slovenian Transport Research workshop 2007, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The project assessed the transport research capability in Slovenia and facilitated the involvement of Slovenian organisations in European projects by identifying key representative individuals and organisations and promoted collaboration in the 25 EU Member States and associated countries. - Mapping areas of strengths (weaknesses and needs) of Slovenian transport research. The mapping results of this were presented at the TRA 2008 event and were also presented to Mr Peter Verlic, State Minister for Transport, who agreed that this mapping would be used as part of the national transport agenda. - Presenting of the final results of the TRANSSLO project to the EU - Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference in Ljubljana in April 2008.The project succeeded its goals, by achieving the following:- TRANSSLO website;- PhD day and ISEP conference;- database ;- TRANSSLO workshop;- TRANSSLO workshop book (was not planned at the beginning);- contribution to the Slovenian National Transport Agenda through the mapping results achieved through the TRANSSLO workshop;- capability report;- TRA presentation;- the way forward for Slovenia in European transport research - road map.Information about the project is also available on the website, http://www.ezs-zveza.si/TRANSSLO and http://ec.europa.eu/research/transport/news/article_5190_en.html online.The TRANSSLO project exceeded the expectations of the original goals of the project, was largely due to the willingness of the consortium to take up any opportunities to expand the project and move it forward in a positive and proactive direction. Related documents Final Report - TRANSSLOVRTD (Support for sustainable transport research in Slovenia)
