Presentation on new R&D opportunities in Urban Transports - Horizon Europe by Patrick Mercier Handisyde DG RTD - Regione Apulia Representation in Brussels @UNIMED Week in Brussels

1. UNIMED Week in Brussels - From H2020 to Horizon Europe: which opportunities for
research in the Mediterranean region
Brussels, 20th March 2019
International Cooperation
and urban mobility :
the EU perspective
Patrick Mercier-Handisyde
European Commission
DG Research & Innovation
Directorate Transport

2. Overview
❑ The Policy Context
➢ The urban transport challenges
➢ The EU transport policy
❑ EU transport research and innovation
➢ Horizon 2020
➢ R&I projects in the area of “Urban Mobility”
➢ The SOLUTIONS project & the Urban Electric Mobility
Initiative (UEMI)
➢ Future International Cooperation research activities
➢ Horizon Europe
❑ Upcoming Events of EU Transport R&I

3. The Policy Context

4. The urban transport challenges
• Reduce the negative impacts of urban transport
➢ Ever-growing congestion
➢ Energy-supply security (oil dependence)
➢ Environment (air quality, noise) and
Climate Change (1/4 GHG emissions from
urban areas)
➢ Citizens’ health and well-being
➢ Traffic safety, vulnerable road users
• Contribution to economic growth and access to
jobs (70% EU citizens living in cities and 85%
EU GDP generated in urban areas)
• Better meet the diverse urban transport and mobility needs of
citizens, businesses and industry; offer more and more attractive
choices

5. 2011 White Paper
Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area
• Oil dependency, -60% GHG emissions by
2050, Congestion, Competitiveness of the EU
economy
• Ten Goals for a competitive and resource
efficient transport, including …two specifically
urban:
➢ Halve the use of ‘conventionally-fuelled’
vehicles in urban transport by 2030, phase
them out by 2050
➢ Achieve CO2-free city logistics by 2030 –
in major urban centres
• Transition from a car based mobility to a mobility based on
walking, cycling and high quality public transport

6. EU transport policy actions
1. Action Plan on Urban Mobility (2009-2012) - implemented
2. Action Plan on ITS: Group on Urban ITS (2010-2012) and C-ITS Action
Plan: Group on C-ITS and automation (2016-2018)
3. The White Paper on Transport (2011)
4. Urban Mobility Package COM (2013) 913
➢ Develop Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP)
➢ Coordinated action in: Urban logistics, Urban access regulations, ITS
deployment in urban areas, Urban road safety
5. Vehicles and Fuels specific legislation
6. Third Mobility Package (May 2018):
➢ Communication on "automated mobility"

7. EU transport research and
innovation

8. R&I contribution
to the EU policy agenda
TRANSPORT
✓ Increase investment, growth,
jobs and market shares
✓ Enhance mobility, decarbonise
transport, boost competitiveness
✓ Improve framework conditions,
Adapt regulatory framework
✓ Promote open access, user
engagement, societal uptake
✓ Consolidate world leadership,
promote knowledge sharing

9. Horizon 2020 for Urban Mobility
Main Calls interests in the field of
urban mobility:
➢ Call Mobility for Growth (Urban
Mobility, socio economic research)
➢ Call Green Vehicles
➢ Call Automated Road Transport
➢ Smart Cities
Automation

10. PolicyResearch
and
Innovation
➢ The calls on Green Vehicles is an essential
component of road and urban transport R&I,
funding (DG RTD): GV Calls
✓ Improvement of energy efficiency of road transport
vehicles
✓ Use of new types of non-conventional energies in road
transport, such as electricity, CNG and LNG, bio-based fuels
Horizon 2020 for Urban Mobility
Research content
➢ The mode-specific Road area (DG RTD & DG MOVE):
MG and ART Calls
✓ R&I for road transport in complement to the ‘Green Vehicles’ call
✓ Internal combustion engines; support to air quality policy; safety
of road transport; production technology; new vehicle concepts
for road and urban transport ; city logistics.
➢ The Urban mobility area (DG MOVE):
✓ Innovation in resource-efficient and competitive urban mobility
and transport ('CIVITAS 2020')
✓ Transformation towards a cleaner and better urban mobility and
transport - Build on legacy (CIVITAS, STEER market take-up, …)

11. PolicyResearch
and
Innovation
Main R&I urban mobility activities
supported by the EC – From FP7 to H2020
➢ High quality Public Transport vehicles and Accessibility for All:
EBSF2 - Advanced Bus Concepts for increased efficiency
➢ Intermodal transport interchanges and stations
➢ Clean and safe vehicles for passengers and freight transport
➢ Intelligent Transport Systems and new mobility services,
Automated Road Transport Systems: AVENUE - Full-scale
demonstration of urban road transport automation
➢ Innovative, clean and efficient freight transport concepts and
Urban Distribution Centers
2 main fields of R&I:
1) Decarbonisation and clean vehicles ;
2) Digitalisation & connected and automated mobility.

12. SOLUTIONS - Sharing Opportunities for Low
carbon Urban transportaTIONS
✓ Coordination Action to support
international cooperation activities on
green urban transport
✓ Consortium: 27 partners from 18
countries in Europe, Asia, Latin
America and Africa
✓ Duration: May 2013 – October 2016

13. SOLUTIONS key actions
✓ Worldwide uptake of sustainable urban
mobility solutions
✓ 19 cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin
America on knowledge sharing and the
development of implementation concepts
✓ Capacity building for over 2000+ experts’
factsheets and policy papers
✓ Areas covered: SUMPs, Public Transport,
Infrastructure, City Logistics, Clean Vehicles and
Mobility Management

14. The Urban Electric Mobility Initiative (UEMI)
✓ Launched at the UN Climate Summit in New York
in September 2014
✓ Supported by the EC through the SOLUTIONS
project, the UEMI aims to:
• Increase market share of electric vehicles in
cities to least 30%
• 30% reduction of CO2 emissions in urban areas
by 2030
• Integrate electric mobility solutions into a wider
sustainable urban mobility concept

15. Contribution to Habitat III and UNFCCC processes
✓ SOLUTIONS contributed actively to the
development of the New Urban Agenda
(Habitat III) to emphasize the role of
urban mobility in sustainable development
✓ The UEMI/SOLUTIONS
• Was part of the Lima Paris Action
Agenda (COP 21)
• Contributed to COP 23 in Bonn and
COP24 in Katowice.

16. FUTURE RADAR (H2020)
✓ Take-up of sustainable urban mobility solutions through capacity building,
policy advice and pilot project development (electro mobility)
✓ Main activities:
1. Capacity building: city support, trainings, E-learning,…
2. Implementation and policy support: EV readiness assessment in 20 cities,
project concept development, policy papers,…
www.uemi.net

17. This project has received funding from the
[European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 723970
International Partnerships
▪ Decarbonising Transport (International Transport Forum)
supported by DG RTD/H
▪ MobiliseYourCity (GIZ, AFD, CEREMA, CODATU) – DG
DEVCO
▪ Development Banks (ADB, IDB, CAF, AfDB, WB, EIB)
City partnerships
▪ Memorandum of Understanding, Identification of opportunities
▪ Development of concept notes, Participation in the capacity building
▪ Global exchange with other cities
▪ Support on finance and governance
▪ Partnership with multilateral development banks and Green Climate Fund

18. 18
Reinforced International Cooperation - InCo:
➢ 5 flagship initiatives to address global challenges
calling for global solutions on –large scale &
recognised political dialogue:
• Air quality,
• on Aviation,
• on Urban Mobility,
• on Automation,
• on Freight Logistics.
➢ 10 specific topics encouraging InCo
Transport WP 2018-2020 – Overview
What's new on International Cooperation

19. ✓ General openness:
Projects can include
international partners
(participant or third party)
✓ Targeted opening: In
certain topics, inclusion of
international partners will
be encouraged
✓ InCo is encouraged: No
eligibility and admissibility
criterion
Horizon 2020: Open to the World

20. LC-GV-5-2019 'InCo Flagship on Urban mobility and
sustainable electrification in large urban areas in
developing and emerging economies'
✓ Content
➢ Develop a tool box for policy-making (e-mobility management strategies for
electric vehicles and charging infrastructure); public transport
➢ Develop comparative demonstrations activities in the field of electro mobility
in several cities in Europe, Asia, Africa and CELAC countries
➢ Implementation concepts to scale-up demonstrations in cities (planning,
financing, replication)
✓ Policy Context
➢ Climate Change, New Urban Agenda, Sustainable Development Goals
✓ International Partners
➢ CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), Asia and Africa

21. Research and
Innovation
#HorizonEU
Commission proposal for
THE NEXT EU RESEARCH & INNOVATION
PROGRAMME (2021 – 2027)
Horizon Europe

22. Horizon Europe
is the Commission proposal for a € 100 billion research and
innovation funding programme for seven years (2021-2027)
to strengthen the EU's scientific and
technological bases
to boost Europe's innovation capacity,
competitiveness and jobs
to deliver on citizens' priorities and sustain our
socio-economic model and values
€ 4.1 billion are proposed to be allocated for defence
research, in a separate proposal for a European Defence Fund

23. Horizon Europe: evolution not
revolution
Specific objectives of the Programme
Foster all forms of innovation and
strengthen market deployment
Strengthen the impact of R&I
in supporting EU policies
Support the creation and diffusion
of high-quality knowledge
Optimise the Programme’s delivery for impact in a strengthened ERA
Strengthening the European Research Area
Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I systemSharing excellence
Pillar 1
Open Science
European Research Council
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Research Infrastructures
Pillar 3
Open Innovation
European Innovation Council
European innovation ecosystems
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology
Pillar 2
Global Challenges and
Industrial Competitiveness
• Health
• Inclusive and Secure Society
• Digital and Industry
• Climate, Energy and Mobility
• Food and natural resources
Joint Research Centre
Clusters

24. Upcoming Events on
EU Transport R&I

25. PolicyResearch
and
Innovation
Upcoming EC R&I events
➢ 2nd EU Conference on Connected and Automated
Driving, in Brussels, Belgium, 2-3 April 2019
➢ SUMP Conference in Groningen, The Netherlands,
17-18 June 2019
➢ Research & Innovation Days in Brussels, 24 to 26
September 2019
➢ Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2020 Conference
in Helsinki, Finland, 26-30 April 2020
Call for Submissions is open https://traconference.eu
Submit your paper by 30.4.2019
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26. PolicyResearch
and
Innovation
Thank you for your attention
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