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          Innovation Pillar

          EU-Rail’s Innovation Pillar (IP) is tasked to deliver operational and technological solutions that contribute to a more efficient, flexible, and demand-led, yet safe and environmentally sustainable European railway system. 

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          System Pillar

          The System Pillar provides governance, resource, and outputs to support a coherent and coordinated approach to the evolution of the rail system and the development of the system view.

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          Deployment Group

          The Deployment Group advises the EU-Rail Governing Board on the market uptake of rail innovation developments and support their deployment.

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          Explore the European DAC Delivery Programme

          For a successful and effective implementation of the Digital Automatic Coupler for European rail freight (DAC), it is of crucial importance to have open, close and efficient cooperation between rail stakeholders. The European DAC Delivery Programme enabled by Europe’s Rail, offers a unique European platform for such cooperation and collaboration.

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          The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking is the predecessor programme of the Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), established by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085 of 19 November 2021.

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          Discover detailed information on Europe's rail innovation initiatives, showcasing flagship and other projects aimed at enhancing rail systems across Europe. It highlights collaborative efforts funded by the European Union to develop sustainable, efficient, and competitive rail transport solutions.

           

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          Europe’s Rail Catalogue of Solutions illustrates successful R&I results in the form of possible products and solutions, while highlighting the benefits for final users, operators, infrastructure managers and/or suppliers. This publication also outlines the advantages of integrating demonstrators into market solutions so that they can deliver the rail innovation Capabilities of the future.

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          About Europe's Rail

          Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail) is the European partnership on rail research and innovation established under the Horizon Europe programme (2020-2027) and the universal successor of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking.

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          Discover the full structure and governance of Europe's Rail, including the decisions of the Governing Board.

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          Get access to Europe's Rail main reference documents, including Annual Work Plans, Annual Activity Reports, Annual Accounts and other important information.

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Digital Automatic Coupling at Transport Logistic online

Date: 5 May

An information session involving a discussion with experts will take place on 5 May at the Transport Logistic event online, where the European DAC Delivery Programme will be presented.

Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) is considered a key technology for efficient, digital rail freight transport of the future as it aims to increase the capacity of railways. The European transport ministers put DAC at the top of their agenda in 2020 in the “Berlin Declaration”. The European DAC Delivery Programme has started its work, while the DAC4EU demonstrator train is now running on rails.

Where are we now? How far have the plans for a Europe-wide migration of the new clutch technology come? Is there an agreement on a uniform technical standard? How does the migration process need to be designed in order to take into account the interests of all actors involved, also with regard to financing wagon keepers as well as RUs or shippers?

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Ermewa SA Press Conference on the European DAC Delivery Programme: “Climate goals: action needed emergently. European rail freight is mobilised!”

Date: 20 May

On 20 May, Peter Reinshagen, Managing Director Ermewa SA, and Emmanuel Labalette, Innovation projects manager, will explain to French journalists from the specialised press how Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) will be key for this (r)evolution that will reduce carbon footprint, while increasing safety and performance.

The European DAC Delivery Programme’s ambitions and benefits will be highlighted during the event, which will address French journalists from the specialised press covering rail, transport and logistics.

Ermewa SA is a major partner at the heart of the EDDP, a unique European platform enabled by Shift2Rail aiming at an efficient, technically and economically feasible European‐wide roll‐out of DAC.

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