Between 29 April and 27 May, the FP1 MOTIONAL project organised a series of dissemination and validation events across Europe and online, bringing together railway stakeholders, industry experts and researchers to showcase innovative digital solutions shaping the future of European rail transport. The first online event “A Journey through the Future European Railway”, focused on digital foundations for a more connected and data-driven railway system. On 7 May in Madrid and online, the Seamless & Inclusive Mobility event reinforced FP1 MOTIONAL’s contribution to interoperable and digitalised railway systems supporting seamless cross-border mobility. In Paris and online on 12 May, the Intelligent Planning Dissemination Event gathered more than 100 participants from EU-Rail community for a day of keynote presentations and showcasing 27 demonstrations. On 13 May, an event in Stockholm at Trafikverket’s premises, focused on Cross-Border Operations, with a dense programme of demonstrations and discussions where Europe’s Rail Head of Innovation Pillar Nicolas Furo stressed the importance of keeping developing integrated solutions with a continuous innovation-to-deployment cycle. On 27 May the Dissemination Events series concluded in Borlange with the event “Real-Time Intelligence: The thinking railway responds faster than problems can spread”.

On 22 April, EU-Rail FP2-Morane-2 project consortium presented the project and the progress of testing activities in front of 600 industry experts and stakeholders gathering in Valenciennes for the ERTMS 2026 Conference, organised by European Union Agency for Railways (ERA). Consortium representatives showcase successful field test for the new on-board radio equipment in band n101 and towards 5G-based FRMCS, while upcoming tests include a large-scale validation of FRMCS in real operational environments.

EU-Rail project InBridge4EU published a new scientific publication titled “Evaluation of the safety ratio in the Eurocode for deck acceleration limit on ballasted railway bridges”. The study examines how ballasted railway bridges are subject to dynamic excitation from passing trains, which can cause excessive vibrations in the ballast bed depending on the train speed, resulting in track instability.

FP3–IAM4RAIL project has published three new videos showcasing project contributions to the digital transformation of rail through intelligent asset management, worker-support technologies, and mixed reality tools for infrastructure maintenance.

Watch the videos:

• Intelligent Asset Management and Traffic Management Integration
• Exoskeleton for Railway Maintenance Workers
• Augmented Reality Maintenance Support Tool

The EU-Rail 2026 webinar series “Status of FRMCS Deployment” continues with its second appointment, taking place on 17 June 2026, 10:00 – 12:00. In this webinar, David Rothbaum, Director of Business Development, Mission Critical Networks at Ericsson, will present the status of the work on technical deployment guidelines. The webinar will be moderated by Pascal Desaunay who will introduce the FRMCS Deployment Working Group at EU-Rail.

Karel Van Gils, Senior Programme Manager/Seconded National Expert at EU-Rail, delivered a keynote speech at this year’s Nokia FRMCS Interest Group Conference, held from 18 to 20 May in Espoo, Finland. During this by-invitation-only event, he addressed the need for early European knowledge building and preparatory work for the upcoming FRMCS deployment and highlighted the work of EU-Rail’s deployment group on practical FRMCS deployment topics. Karel also joined a panel moderated by Emanuele Di Liberto (Nokia), together with Dan Mandoc (UIC) and Alexander Ende (Funkwerk), discussing challenges and readiness across the full spectrum from onboard to trackside.

EU-Rail SYMBIOSIS Project will hold its next Plenary Meeting as an open event, bringing together the European railway community to discuss recent progress and future directions. The meeting will showcase the latest technical developments across the project and will also strengthen stakeholder engagement by promoting dialogue on nature-positive transport systems.

Where: Online
When: 18 June

Our EU-Rail FP2-MORANE-2  partners invite you to the project Mid-Term Conference.

Participants will gain insights into technical developments and demonstration results, as well as the next steps for the project, with a particular focus on the verification of FRMCS specifications ahead of the upcoming update of the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI).

Where: UIC Headquarters, Paris
When: 30 June  

EU-Rail FP6-FutuRe project is launching a new series of online demonstrator workshops this summer, bringing together leading railway innovators from across Europe to showcase technologies shaping the next generation of regional rail operations. The workshops will present real demonstrators, testing activities, and validation results.

Save the dates:

• 12 June – Online “Remote Train Operation (RTO) – ATO GoA3/4 Demonstrator Workshop” by Trafikverket & Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) – Register here
• 25 June – Online “ASTP Demonstrator Workshop” by Indra Group
• 29 June – Online (Microsoft Teams) “Multi-bearer Communication Platform Demonstrator Workshop” by Hitachi Rail – Register here
• 08 July – Online “Demonstration of HTD technical enabler” by Atsa and Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A.
• …and more dates to be announced soon.