Project description
Support for the organisation of the TRA2022 conference
Transport and mobility represent key issues in today's economic development, involve a wide range of actors and face new challenges. The transport sector is seeking technological innovations to address new challenges at European and national levels. The EU-funded MOVING TOGETHER project proposes to support the organisation of the Transport Research Arena 2022 (TRA 2022) Conference that will take place in Lisbon. TRA 2022 is the foremost and leading European Research and Technology Conference on transport and mobility. It brings together people from all over Europe and beyond to discuss the newest innovations and the future of mobility and transport, providing a wide forum for academia, industry, public administration, authorities and transport operators.
Objective
The Transport Research Arena (TRA) Conference is the foremost and leading European Research and Technology Conference on transport and mobility. It brings together people from all over Europe and beyond, to discuss the newest innovations and the future of mobility and transport providing a wide forum for academia, industry, public administration, authorities and transport operators. TRA leverages dialogue and networking between researchers, policy makers, and industry representatives, through the presentation of transport research, innovations and deployment achievements, fostering alignment and cooperation between initiatives funded at regional, national and European level in order to build up policy trends and plans for a common strategical research and innovation agendas.
TRA 2022 will be a unique opportunity for the transport sector to face these new challenges and to boost its research and innovation capacity throughout the full innovation cycle, from idea to market, including fundamental research, prototyping, demonstration, pilot activities and business-driven Research & Development, with an overall strategy based on the motto of Moving together – reimagining mobility worldwide. TRA 2022 will take place in Lisbon, a city which has made a name for itself as the venue of world-renowned events in a variety of sectors (including transport, research and innovation) such as the Web Summit, World Conference on Transport Research Society 2010 (WCTR), the International Road Federation 2010 (IRF), opening its doors to visitors from the four corners of the world, vouching for its innate capacity to host high level international events with the uppermost standards of quality and hospitality.
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
4150 649 Porto
Portugal