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Warsaw Institute for Economic Studies foundation (WiseEuropa), independent Warsaw-based think-tank focusing on economic and institutional analysis, as well as economic impact assessment of public policies. Key areas of WISE expertise are: macroeconomic modelling, institutional studies, climate & energy policies, low emission policies, innovation.

WiseEuropa works with international organizations, public administration and local authorities as well as with industrial, financial and scientific partners. It cooperates with major Polish and international NGOs. The institute has had a major international outreach, with the European Commission and the World Bank putting their trust in the knowledge and expertise of its team.

PROMATECH, founded in 2010, is a leading R&D and innovation focused SME developing disruptive software and engineering solutions for the Maritime & Shipbuilding Industry. PROMATECH has an active role in the Turkish market and acts as the global solution partner of international companies.

PROMATECH meets the industry needs with the use of emerging and environment friendly technologies, IT and Engineering solutions. We are specialized in Autonomous Surface Vehicles, Decision Support Systems, Energy Efficiency, Naval Architectural Engineering Services, Telemetry, GIS Applications, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Mobile & Web-based applications. This powerful combination of expert knowledge reflects itself in the quality and reliability of the by PROMATECH developed software and provided integration services.

Watertruck (www.watertruck.eu) is an innovative concept for the transport of goods on small waterways (CEMT I-IV) which can unlock the economic potential of a region by using small, self-propelled or unpropelled barges.

The concept, combined with small or large, environmentally friendly pushers, allows for a maximal flexibility of operations whilst maintaining a maximal regional scope, linking the small inland waterways to the TEN-T core network and vice versa, according to the TEN-T corridor principle of the European Commission.

The Watertruck+ project, a TEN-T/CEF project, aims to do just that. The goal is to provide the market with the tools for the construction of a fleet of 500 vessels, rolling out the Watertruck concept across the various European regions.

As a first step, certain standards will be established in order to reduce production costs and improve the interoperability of the vessels, both in terms of sailing areas and in terms of cargo type. As a proof of concept, a small fleet of 28 barges and 3 pushers will be constructed and deployed in a large-scale trial phase, shipping some 1,6 million tonnes of cargo per year.

The results of the trial phase will be combined with a financial toolbox, to create a Master Plan which will contain business cases for theconstruction and financing of a large European fleet of Watertruck+ vessels.

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Infrastructure monitoring at the network and project level can take strong advantage thanks to the support of the State of the Art in high-efficiency equipment available at the Laboratory of Transport Infrastructure of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (University of Catania) that is one of the most advanced University laboratory in Europe in the field of Road Asset Management. The lab has recently acquired Automatic Road Analyzer (ARAN) for total road monitoring and Falling Weight Deflectometer  (FWD) and LWD to test the road pavement bearing capacity and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). 

In this framework, the main application fields will be referred to: asset inventory, Network Safety Management, Pavement management System and Quality Assurance/Control, all of them under the light of sustainability. 

The research group headed by prof. Cafiso has also international reputation and expertise in the field of road safety and statistical analysis of crashes and road features for safety improvements.  

The maritime, technology and environment research responds to Solent’s strengths in acoustics, maritime, built environment and computing research - conducting studies that can make a real impact of industry thought leadership.

A unifying theme across all these areas has been sustainability, leading to productive cross-discipline dialogue and collaborative working.