Indicative start and end month: M1 – M36

Lead participant name: Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

Objectives:

• Ensure effective project coordination and administration, including legal, risk, and financial management.

• Monitor project progress against established timelines, deliverables, and milestones.

• Foster seamless communication among consortium partners and with the European Commission.

• Implement a robust quality assurance and risk management framework.

Tasks:

• General administrative management

• Progress monitoring

• Quality and risk management

• Scientific-Technical management

Indicative start and end month: M1 – M36

Lead participant name: Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

Objectives:

• Ensure effective project coordination and administration, including legal, risk, and financial management.

• Monitor project progress against established timelines, deliverables, and milestones.

• Foster seamless communication among consortium partners and with the European Commission.

• Implement a robust quality assurance and risk management framework.

Tasks:

• General administrative management

• Progress monitoring

• Quality and risk management

• Scientific-Technical management

Indicative start and end month: M1 – M6

Lead participant name: Lund University

Objectives:

• Develop a strategic framework to identify focus areas and priorities for new lab infrastructure at FTTS.

• Define the purpose, scope, space, equipment, and resource needs for establishing new laboratories at FTTS.

• Conduct an analysis of competing regional institutions to determine the unique expertise FTTS can provide.

• Identify new road safety research opportunities and trends to guide investments in lab infrastructure

Tasks:

• Internal review of CERTS and development of a roadmap for improvements

• Define basic framework for new laboratories

• Develop a plan for Laboratory for Data Analysis and Modelling in Road Safety

• Review project management practices at Hasselt University and Lund University

• Development of open science collaboration framework

Indicative start and end month: M1 – M36

Lead participant name: Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

Objectives:

• Understand the influence of driver characteristics on driving patterns and behaviour on rural roads.

• Identify high-risk road sections where infrastructure and human factors interact to increase hazards.

• Evaluate promising infrastructure enhancements using driving simulator tests.

• Develop tailored infrastructure improvement proposals for high-risk rural road sections.

Tasks:

• Recruiting personal car drivers and motorcycle riders for study

• Data collection using i-DREAMS system

• Data analysis

• Collecting road infrastructure dana

• Analysis of correlations between behaviour and infrastructure

• Literature review of common infrastructure measures for eliciting desired driver behaviour

• Development of new and innovative infrastructure enhancement proposals

• Evaluation of proposals in a driving simulator

• Publish research data from Objective 1 at EOSC

Indicative start and end month: M6 – M18

Lead participant name: Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

Objectives:

• Increase researcher expertise in human factors and the Safe System Approach.

• Foster collaboration and knowledge exchange between researchers through seminars and workshops.

• Expand and enhance the Road Safety Summer School curriculum.

• Develop strategic joint PhD research topics.

Tasks:

• Training workshops on Vision Zero/Safe System Approach

• Regular online seminar series, organised by the PhD students of the 3 universities, under the mentorship of senior staff

• Define collaboration scope and jointly develop specialized modules for the Road Safety Summer School

• Define the research topics of joint interest

• Summer school on road safety assessment methodologies (“Train the Trainer”)

• Organize immersive training program with accreditation examination for safety auditors

Indicative start and end month: M12 – M36

Lead participant name: Hasselt University

Objectives:

• Define a ‘civic’ mission and KPIs to guide FTTS’s societal impact and commitment.

• Build researcher skills in grant writing, proposal preparation, and funding strategies.

• Gain hands-on experience in efficient research project administration and management.

• Establish an innovation office to translate research into economic and societal value.

Tasks:

• Transfer of knowledge on principles of the ‘civic university’ concept.

• Develop and implement a training program on grant writing and funding strategies.

• Facilitate internship opportunities for FTTS staff within the project offices

• Establishment of innovation office

• Organization of a summer school on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

• Development of English language curriculum

• Educate researchers on using EOSC

Indicative start and end month: M1 – M36

Lead participant name: Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

• Objectives:

• Promote the Road Safety Summer School program to increase participation.

• Develop a technology transfer strategy to translate research into innovation.

• Create an innovation strategy aligned with FTTS goals and strengths.

• Increase discoverability of research data through EOSC and open science principles.

• Attract international students through promotion of the English curriculum.

Tasks:

• Dissemination and Communication Activities

• Organize and market Road Safety Summer Schools

• Develop Technology transfer strategy

• Setup of knowledge centre

• Development of innovation rewarding policies

• Create an innovation strategy

• Promotion of the English curriculum on international platforms

• Initiate collaboration of parallel PhD research topics