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The Valenciaport Foundation for Research, Promotion and Commercial Studies of the Valencian region (Valenciaport Foundation) is a non-profit private entity. It has been conceived to further expand the reach of the logistics-ports community by serving as a research, training and cooperation centre of excellence.

Since its establishment in 2008, VNL Schweiz has been actively promoting continuous advancement in the field of logistics. The network connects business and research in a collaborative effort to change the traditional, functional view of logistics and adopt new approaches to increase capability, productivity and performance through logistics innovation.

Logistics plays a vital role in determining success. Your competitiveness depends on the perfect coordination of processes between production, trading and logistics service companies. It also requires an infrastructure which is both optimally equipped and used.

VNL addresses logistics problems and drives innovation by drawing on research findings and technological expertise. When you want to optimize your company's logistics in the shortest possible time, VNL is there for you.

The specific ways in which you can benefit from VNL resources, the particular advantages you can gain from VNL membership - this you decide: through your active participation and engagement within VNL in intensive exchanges of knowledge and experience.

VNL is one of eight recognised National Thematic Networks (NTN). The NTN represent topics which are of relevance to the Swiss national economy and show high potential for innovation.

As a National Thematic Network VNL offers support where private sector initiatives can be boosted by public support measures: in your innovation activities.

Asistant Proffesor at Warsaw University of Technology.

Research area:

- Printed electronics paints and applications

Oru results are mostly on TRL6. We need commercial feedback to go further.

We ellaborate printing materials and proceses that allows manufactoring of electronic components via printing methods. We can print those elements on various sbstrates also flexible and non-flat.

We print for example light-sources, sensors and flexible conductive paths.

We are looking for industrial partners to collaborate in R&D projects.

CEF project

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.