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news25.05.2009CERTAIN Slovenian National Workshop: Research projects in the field of road transport in need for more financial support from the state
The topics ranged from responses of researchers to the current road infrastructure problems to the future perspectives in road transport, such as intelligent roads. Delegates from research institutes, government bodies and industry have agreed that Slovenia is one of the most successful New Member States in acquiring road-infrastructure-related projects funded from the Framework Programmes of the European Commission. Yet, the state should promote research and development also when it comes to providing financial support. Speakers during the opening session emphasised that difficulties in acquiring research funds from the EC often arise during the application stage already, as the high co-financing of work is a considerable set-back for the potential partners from the industry.continuation of Press release... The seminar mostly highlighted results obtained through two projects – SPENS and ARCHES, which, together with CERTAIN, form a cluster of projects, focused on NMS and Candidate Countries of the EU. The cluster’s total budget is almost 7 million EUR. The primary goal of CERTAIN is to promote and disseminate findings and results from these projects among end-users, emphasized Aleš Žnidarič, CERTAIN project coordinator, in his opening speech. Mr. Žnidarič also presented a web tool called Fehrlopedia which was developed to provide more efficient and targeted search for road infrastructure related knowledge on the web.
Fourteen other research projects and their findings were presented during the two-day seminar. ZAG Ljubljana and other Slovenian partners contributed to all and coordinated three of them. Twenty-three speakers from Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia presented their work during the seminar, which welcomed 92 delegates from consultancies, industry, government bodies, research institutes, and students of civil engineering. The seminar in Slovenia was the fourth in the series of similar events which have already taken place or are going to be organized in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, and Ukraine. Their primary objective is to gather the highest possible number of experts, who are able to communicate in the same language, and disseminate results of European research. They are organised as a response to the fact that unfortunately NMS and CEEC still face the problem of poor English language skills, which prevents the results from reaching their targeted audience, consisting in regulators, administrative bodies, contractors, the industry, traffic participants, and researchers. SPENS and ARCHES – a brief description
The overall goal of ARCHES is to develop more appropriate tools and procedures for the prevention of unnecessary interventions/replacements in structures, to prevent the development of corrosion, to develop new materials and techniques of a less expensive, more effective and long-lasting repair or strengthening of damaged structures. Aljoša Šajna, ARCHES work package leader (ZAG): “Events like this contribute significantly to the knowledge transfer from researchers to end-users. The knowledge, of course, has been acquired through participation in research projects.” |
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