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IBDiM will soon start working on an infrastructure project that will be carried out under the Operational Program, Innovative Economy, Activity 2.1 "Development of centers of high research potential". The aim of the Project is to create a unique pavement testing mobile lab, at an international level. The laboratory aims for research works at the European level and as well for the growth of the Polish economy.

The President of the EC, Jose Manuel Barosso has named his proposed team for the next Commission.  Máire Geoghegan-Quinn from Ireland will take responsiblity for Research, Innovation and Science, whilst the previous Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik will move to Environment.

The annual conference of the European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP) was held this week in Brussels.  FEHRL played a substantial role with presentations of five projects and contributed to the initiative to create a specific Task Force on Infrastructures.

Agnieszka Lukasiewicz of IBDiM Poland has been awarded the Silver Badge of Honor of the Scientific Society for Organization and Management (TNOiK) Poland.

FEHRL Secretariat welcomes Imre Keseru to the team. During his 4.5 month secondment, Imre will be involved in the preparation of FP7 project proposals due in January 2010 and assist the Research Infrastructures Assessment Working Group. Imre graduated from the University of Szeged in Hungary in geography, urban planning and economics and has an MSc degree in Transport Planning from Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. He worked at the International Department of the Ministry of Transport of Hungary for six years before joining KTI Institute for Transport Sciences in 2008 where he is deputy head of the Division for Network Planning and Transport Organization.