November 26, 2024
The FOR-FREIGHT project holds General Assembly and Technical Meeting in Bucharest
On November 20-21, 2024, the FOR-FREIGHT project successfully hosted its 4th hybrid General Assembly (GA) and Technical Meeting in the vibrant city of Bucharest, Romania. Partners from across Europe gathered to discuss the project’s progress, share updates, and collaborate on the next steps toward achieving the project’s objectives.
Giota Lilli, our R&D Project Manager, represented eBOS at this important two-day meeting hosted by BEIA. Together with representatives from all project partners, including key stakeholders from academia, industry, and research institutions, we focused on technical sessions dedicated to discussing, amongst other aspects, the (i) recent advancements in the three use cases and the FOR-FREIGHT platform, (ii) detailed discussions and collaborative workshops on the project’s solvers, generalised real-world problems of intermodality associated with the solving processes, related intermodal interfaces, and legacy systems, and (iii) strategic discussions outlined the roadmap for upcoming phases, emphasising milestones and objectives.
Additionally, key highlights of the meeting included:
- Use case solution development, trial site, and operational insights;
- Commercialisation and innovation;
- Standardisation and policy recommendations;
- FOR-FREIGHT functionality and User Interface (UI);
- Dissemination, communication, and capacity building;
- Quality assurance and risk mitigation;
- Project management.
eBOS’ primary technical role in the project is to design, develop, and integrate the UI, enabling seamless user interaction with the FOR-FREIGHT platform, providing insightful dashboards for monitoring and controlling logistics processes, and supporting use case stakeholders during field trials. Additionally, eBOS leads tasks related to quality assurance, risk management, and dissemination and communication activities. Beyond designing and maintaining the project’s website and social media channels, eBOS contributes to developing FOR-FREIGHT’s business models and sustainability plans. From an exploitation perspective, eBOS aims to enhance its expertise and expand its capabilities in delivering safer and more resilient transport and smart mobility services through 5G, AI, ML, and IoT technologies, further advancing its research and development efforts.
The meeting also provided an excellent platform for networking, enabling partners to strengthen collaborations and share best practices. Participants emphasised the importance of teamwork and cross-sectoral collaboration in addressing the challenges of sustainable and efficient freight transportation. The next physical GA meeting is scheduled in Madrid, Spain, where partners will review the progress made and set the course for the upcoming project phases.
This 40-month project has received funding from Horizon Europe and officially started on September 1, 2022, under Grant Agreement No. 101069731.
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