Sustainable surface transport specific support actions
The European Commission has published a call for proposals for sustainable surface transport specific support actions under the Sixth Framework Programme's 'Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems' thematic priority area. This is one of the areas covered by the 'Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area' specific programme. The sustainable surface transport work programme (6.2 in the work programme) addresses the following objectives as defined in the specific programme: - New technologies and concepts for all surface transport modes (road, rail and waterborne). - Advanced design and production techniques. - Rebalancing and integrating different transport modes. - Increasing road, rail and waterborne safety and avoiding traffic congestion. The topics covered by this call are: - Promoting SME participation; - Stimulating dissemination and exploitation of results; - Realising the European Research Area; - Promoting candidate countries' participation; - Stimulating international cooperation. The total indicative budget for this call is five million euro for 2003. The indicative budgets for 2004 to 2006 will be given in periodic updates of the work programme.To see the call text, please visit: http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/call_details.cfm?CALL_ID=21(opens in new window)