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May 28, 2024
The Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail) is pleased to announce that the EU-Rail Governing Board has appointed Giorgio Travaini as the new EU-Rail Executive Director. With a career spanning 18 years in the transport sector, including a notable tenure as ad interim and acting Executive Director of EU-Rail, Giorgio brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his new role. Read press release
April 29, 2024
Seven new projects worth €21.2 million will be funded under the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail) 2023 Call for Proposals for rail research and innovation (R&I) activities. Europe’s Rail co-funding will amount up to €11.7 million. The new projects will support the work done in Flagship Area 1 dedicated to rail mobility management in a multimodal environment, and further strengthen exploratory research activities. Read press release
April 17, 2024
Placing people at the heart of the rail sector's evolution is key to shaping a sustainable future. Despite women comprising over 50% of rail passengers, they represent only about 20% of the rail workforce in the EU. To promote fairness, diversity, and equality, the European Commission's Women in Transport platform, Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), the European Rail Supply…
April 9, 2024
In the frame of the Connecting Europe Days and under the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the European DAC Delivery Programme, enabled by the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, organised ‘The Future of Rail Freight – see how it works in the 21st century!’ event on 2 April in Brussels, Belgium. The event demonstrated a broad support for the future of digitised and automated European rail freight through Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC).…
March 20, 2024
Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) is the driver for a digital European rail freight and the key technology to ensure Europe’s rail freight becomes more digitised, automated and efficient. DAC will foster sustainability and a more reliable supply of goods across Europe for people and businesses. Digital rail freight will improve intermodal competitiveness of rail logistics to shift more volume to the most environmentally friendly and energy-efficient transport mode. It will also play a role as…
October 4, 2023
Europe’s Rail and SESAR 3 Joint Undertakings have published a joint call for the development of an “Integrated air and rail network backbone for a sustainable and energy-efficient multimodal transport system”. The call targets solutions that will improve door‐to‐door mobility for Europe’s citizens, and is expected to generate synergies between the air and rail innovation communities. With a total investment of EUR 7 million, the call is being co-funded within the framework of the EU’s…
