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European Partnership for transforming Europe’s rail system

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The Partnership will support the transformation of the European rail system, leveraging automation and digitalisation to improve flexibility and reliability while reducing costs, ensuring the attractiveness of rail as a low carbon transport mode, with a strong focus on freight. It also aims at accelerating the deployment of technological innovations on the rail network, increasing rail competitiveness, quality and attractiveness of rail services, supporting the Single European Railway Area.

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14 responses

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industriAll European Trade Union, 13 Aug 2019

For industriAll European Trade Union maintaining a diversified industry sector and keeping industrial value chains inside the EU is at the core of our priorities. In the past we very much welcomed the initiative to set up the Shift2Rail JU and building on its positive results we fully support its…

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UNIFE, 26 Aug 2019

UNIFE – the association representing the European rail supply industry – strongly supports the proposal of the European Commission to include rail as one of the sectors being fit for the establishment of a European partnership within Horizon Europe Framework Programme. Following the achievements of…

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Alstom, 27 Aug 2019

As a provider of sustainable mobility solutions and a founding member of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking, Alstom strongly supports the continuation of this partnership under Horizon Europe. While rail plays a strategic role when it comes to addressing current and future mobility challenges…

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Société nationale SNCF, 27 Aug 2019

As a member of ERRAC and Shift2Rail, SNCF welcomes that rail was included in the list of potential institutionalised European Partnerships as it is a crucial R&I area for the successful delivery on Union priorities jobs and growth, the Digital Single Market, the Energy Union and climate action.…

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UITP - International Association of Public Transport, 26 Aug 2019

UITP recognises the importance of the Shift2Rail initiative to strengthen European rail research and innovation as well as the desirability to pursue the efforts beyond 2021 in order to achieve critical results and added-value to boost sustainable urban mobility in Europe. However, UITP strongly…

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EUROPEAN RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGERS, 26 Aug 2019

EIM, the association representing the European Rail Infrastructure Managers, and its Members welcome the plans of the European Commission for a European Partnership for rail. EIM strongly supports the establishment of a successor of the current Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R). EIM Members…

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Hitachi Rail STS, 27 Aug 2019

Hitach Rail STS, as funding member of Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking, fully supports the continuation of this partnership under Horizon Europe. We are conviced that Rail must have the strategic role in the future of Transportation and needs to face the increase of freight mobility demand as…

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Autonome Lokomotivführer Gewerkschaften in Europa, 27 Aug 2019

The ALE, which represents Train Driver´s in Europe, is absolutely committed to the idea of ​​a more efficient, greener but also safer and more committed transport with society. We reach out to the European institutions so that they unanimously work towards a sustainable future. The data make it…

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Strukton Rail, 26 Aug 2019

Strukton Rail – with a focus on maintenance, renewal and construction of rail infrastructure and as a technology supplier for measuring, monitoring and maintenance execution – is in favour of the proposal of the European Commission to include rail as one of the sectors being fit for the…

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Hardt, 27 Aug 2019

The purpose of this European Partnership is to address the competitiveness and attractiveness of rail, as it is an important modality for combating climate change. Rail has clear benefits in comparison to cars and planes in certain niches, but there are also niches where conventional rail is…

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Fédération des Industries Ferroviaires, 27 Aug 2019

The French FIF (association representing the french Railway Supply Industry) fully endorse the feedback paper of the UNIFE to the EC's inception impact assesment. The work done within Shift2Rail has shown that the PPP formula is much more efficient and productive than the previous frame proposed…

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DITECFER Distretto per le Tecnologie Ferroviarie, l'Alta Velocità e la Sicurezza delle Reti S.c.ar.l., 27 Aug 2019

DITECFER fully supports the creation of a JU to manage in a coordinated way R&D&I in the European Rail sector in the period 2021-2027. At the same time, while recognising the absolute usefulness of a top-down/coordinated approach through the adoption of a detailed Master Plan drafted in…

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Large Infrastructure Projects, 20 Aug 2019

We would like to present our project and collect support for it as it can become an example for Innovations, Sustainability, Decarbonisation and Economic Viability in the European Union. Here are two general presentations on the project: The first one has been presented to the EBRD in…

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Ing. Miroslav Haltuf, 6 Aug 2019

Since 2013, I have been involved in processes related to Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking under Horizon 2020. The current Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (JU) is satisfying in its working, but since the beginning of its operation, I have identified many negative aspects, which cause difficulties in…