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New Communication Officer at FEHRL |
01.04.2011 |
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 Catherine Birkner has joined the FEHRL office as of Friday 1st April 2011 as Communication Officer to continue to develop and execute strategic communications initiatives in support of FEHRL's work.
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SKIDSAFE - Intensive course on Mechanics of Tire-Pavement Interaction |
25.03.2011 |
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 Intensive course on Mechanics of Tire-Pavement Interaction taking place from the 26-28 September 2011 in Delft at the CiTG building of Delft University of Technology. |
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DETRA Workshop documents and presentation |
23.03.2011 |
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 All the presentations and different documents are now available on the DETRA website.
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European Best Practices in Road Safety in Athens |
11.03.2011 |
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 FEHRL’s Deputy Secretary General, Dr Adewole Adesiyun, gave a presentation (Road Safety: The role of Infrastructure) at the recently held Road Safety Event in Athens.
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Transport Research Opportunities for South East Europe |
11.03.2011 |
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Transport researchers from the Western Balkans region are invited to join SEE - TRANS 2011: an event co-organised by WBC-INCO.NET in cooperation with ETNA (European Transport Network Alliance), the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Slovenia and the University of Maribor (TEC).
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EC consultation on a Roadmap for a resource-efficient Europe |
04.03.2011 |
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 The European Commission is preparing a Roadmap for a resource-efficient Europe as part of the resource-efficient Europe Flagship Initiative of the Europe 2020 Strategy. They have launched a consultation to collect the views stakeholders on policy options for the Roadmap.
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DETRA workshop to discuss future challenges |
03.03.2011 |
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The project DETRA is organising a workshop on priorities for road research. The main topic of the workshop is to discuss with the stakeholders the future challenges that need to be addressed to develop the Surface transport ERA. The afternoon sessions will focus on the needs and gaps that must be handeled within the areas of Research infrastructure and research Institutes. The event will take place on 18th March 2011 from 9.30am at the BRRC premises - 21 Fokkersdreed - 1933 Sterrebeek. (see draft agenda below)
If you are interested, please register to the FEHRL website or send an e-mail to sylvia.derveaux@fehrl.org |
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Symposium on thin asphalt layers, road surfaces of the future? |
11.02.2011 |
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 On Tuesday March 29, 2011, BRRC will host a seminar on the results of the OPTHINAL (Optimization Thin Asphalt Layers) project. This project investigated how the choice of materials and mix design can affect the performance of Thin Asphalt Layers.
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Green Paper on a Common Strategic Framework for future EU Research and Innovation Funding |
09.02.2011 |
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The European Commission has presented a Green Paper proposing major changes to the EU research and innovation funding. The purpose is to make participation easier, increase the scientific and economic impact and provide better value for money. The proposed changes, to be introduced in the next EU budget after 2013, would bring together the current Framework Programme for research, the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. |
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DRI projects on low rolling resistance road in national press |
01.02.2011 |
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 Bjarne Schmidt of the Danish Road Institute has been interviewed for Danish newspaper Politiken (http://politiken.dk/klima/klimakloden/ECE1174686/bedre-asfalt-skal-spare-benzin/) . The Danish Road Institute issued a press release on the background.
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