Mat4Rail on Tour
Project partners contribute to relevant meetings and events
Project partners contribute to relevant meetings and events
The Mat4Rail consortium consists of 16 partners bringing together extensive expertise in engineering and materials research, testing and characterisation of materials and mechanical properties as well as experts in industrial and product design and EU funded projects. Our consortium contributes to a number of events and meetings relevant to the railway industry in order to present and promote the key findings from the Mat4Rail project. An overview of the events at which Mat4Rail has been presented can be found below.
InnoTrans 2018 – The Future of Mobility
From 18th – 21st September 2018 Innotrans, one of the largest and most influential exhibitions within the rail industry and transport technology, opened its doors in Berlin. The exhibition was sub-divided into the five trade fair segments Railway Technology, Railway Infrastructure, Public Transport, Interiors and Tunnel Construction, InnoTrans occupied all 41 halls available at Berlin Exhibition Grounds. Within these halls, Shift2Rail together with its members showcased more than 20 cutting-edge solutions for a ground-breaking transformation of railway systems. Mat4Rail is happy to have been able to contribute to Shift2Rail’s quick-wins in form of a short video and overall to new innovations and concepts in the rail way sector thanks to the support and funding received from Shift2Rail. Mat4Rail partners also took part at InnoTrans 2018. The Mat4Rail design partners SPIRIT and NVGTR held a designer’s meeting together with the complementary Shift2Rail project, PIVOT. Further, the two Mat4Rail partners, IMA Dresden and GRAMMER were on site as exhibitors. |
Mat4Rail's Quick-Win presented by Shift2Rail during the InnoTrans 2018
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Mat4Rail 3rd General Assembly
From the 26th -27th September 2018, the Mat4Rail consortium travelled to Borås, in Sweden, where our partner RISE is situated, to hold the 3rd General Assembly meeting of the Mat4Rail project.
Over the course of the two day meeting the WP leaders presented their results to date and their plans for the upcoming year. The work streams for materials and for interior design also held smaller meeting to discus their advancements in their fields which supports the outcomes and effectiveness of the project as a whole. The consortium also had the opportunity to have a guided tour through RISE to receive an understanding of their work and activities outside of the Mat4Rail project. The Mat4Rail Executive Board also held a face-to-face meeting to discuss overall project progress and potential risks of this ambitious research and innovation action.
From the 26th -27th September 2018, the Mat4Rail consortium travelled to Borås, in Sweden, where our partner RISE is situated, to hold the 3rd General Assembly meeting of the Mat4Rail project.
Over the course of the two day meeting the WP leaders presented their results to date and their plans for the upcoming year. The work streams for materials and for interior design also held smaller meeting to discus their advancements in their fields which supports the outcomes and effectiveness of the project as a whole. The consortium also had the opportunity to have a guided tour through RISE to receive an understanding of their work and activities outside of the Mat4Rail project. The Mat4Rail Executive Board also held a face-to-face meeting to discuss overall project progress and potential risks of this ambitious research and innovation action.
Shift2Rail IP1 Steering Committee meetings
The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R JU) supports multiple projects structured into five asset-specific Innovation Programmes (IPs) to cover all the different structural (technical) and functional (process) subsystems of the rail system. Mat4Rail is funded under IP1 Cost-efficient and reliable trains, including high-capacity trains and high-speed trains together with eight ongoing projects. To assess the progress of these projects each IP organises online meetings between the project Coordinators and the IP’s Steering Committee. Each Coordinator presents their project’s technical achievements and any main deviations from the Description of Action (DoA) as well as dissemination measures. Our Coordinator, Elena Jubete from CIDETEC, has been representing Mat4Rail in the three IP1 Steering Committee meetings since the start of the project on 16th January, 27th June and 9th October 2018.
SusChem 2018
Mat4Rail was also present at the SusChem brokerage event held in Brussels on the 23rd of October 2018, where Mat4Rail Coordinator, Dr. Elena Jubete, from CIDETEC Surface Engineering, participated along with 180 attendees, and delivered the fact sheet and shared the main challenges of the project during the networking sessions. SusChem is the European Technology Platform for sustainable chemistry. It is a forum that brings together industry, academia, governmental policy groups and the wider society. It addresses challenges that are specific to Research and Innovation in the European chemical industry in connection with the societal challenges of Horizon 2020.
Mat4Rail-PIVOT Plug and Play Meeting
On the 27th of November Mat4Rail coordinator Elena Jubete from CIDETEC and WP6 leader Christian Jurke from NVGTR met PIVOT WP7 leader Robert Dumortier from SNCF and core partners from Aaernnova (Xabier Valor, Javier Arrabal and Sergio Maximiano) in a joint workshop in order to work further on Plug and Play strategic requirement planning and on the various design solutions. As a result, general settings have been elaborated and design refinements concluded. Also, a more jointly work relation has been decided and a plan for action has been decided on the collaboration between the partners in these two projects. Next steps and further results will be available in the first quarter of 2019. |
PIVOT Midterm event
On October 18, the Midterm event of the PIVOT project, Performance Improvement for Vehicles On Track, was held at the Maison des Associations Internationales in Brussels. This event was organised by PIVOT in intense collaboration with the complementary projects (open calls) Mat4Rail, Run2Rail and Fair stations, to disseminate their results to date. All these projects are funded by the European platform Shift2Rail, within Horizon 2020 . About 50 attendees from the rail sector participated in this event, including representatives from train manufacturers, service providers, railway platforms and technological developers. The event was structured in five main presentations, one per technological demonstrator (TD) of Shift2Rail, where joint presentations were made between PIVOT and each of the corresponding open calls, as well as five explanatory posters of each technological demonstrator. In particular, the Mat4Rail project coordinated by CIDETEC, collaborated in the presentation of the results in three talks and three posters, for the three technological demonstrators TD 1.3 - The new generation of car body shells, TD 1.6 - Innovative doors (WP6) and TD 1.7 -Train modularity in use. |
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