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Three projects with strong SAFER participation approved within Horizon Europe

Feb, 16 2022

Today we have received the good news that no less than three project proposals, whose project ideas have been discussed and developed within the SAFER platform, have been approved in the second call within Horizon Europe, which closed in October.

Magnus Granström, SAFER’s director, comments on the success:

“We are extremely happy and proud of the collaboration among our SAFER researchers and that we jointly managed to bring our ideas forward to full project proposals with such a scientific level that the proposals have now been approved by the European Commission”.

The project AfroSAFE was initiated based on the discussions among SAFER partners at the project creation workshop in January 2021. In AfroSAFE, we will continue to generate research to support road safety development in Africa. The project will further build on SAFER's previous project SaferAfrica. Lund University will lead this project and other SAFER partners in the project are VTI, TÖI, Autoliv and Volvo trucks. AfroSAFE will focus on propagating the Safe System (Vision Zero) modus operandi in the African context. The European consortium partners represent the best-performing countries with long experience of dealing with road safety through the Safe System paradigm (Sweden, Norway, Denmark & Netherlands). This project was approved in call HORIZON-CL5-2021-DEST6SMS-01-11: Radical improvement of road safety in low and medium income countries in Africa. 

FAME (Framework for coordination of Automated Mobility in Europe) is based on the outcomes from the ARCADE project and will continue to address research and knowledge building to coordinate harmonized deployment of Connected, Cooperative and Automated Driving (CAD). FAME will support the commitment of the European Commission, the European Member States and the industry to develop a common approach to development, testing, validation and deployment of CAD in Europe and beyond. SAFER is leading the work packages on data sharing, testing approvals and ethics. ERTICO is coordinating the project and Volvo Technology is the other SAFER partner contributing. The call this project was approved in was HORIZON-CL5-2021-D6-01-06: Framework for better coordination of large-scale demonstration pilots in Europe and EU-wide knowledge base. 

The third approved project proposal developed within the collaboration is Sunrise (Safety assUraNce fRamework for connected, automated mobIlity SystEms), which is a continuation of the recently concluded SAFER project Headstart. The project will define, implement and demonstrate the building blocks of this Safety Assurance Framework: harmonized and scalable safety assessment methodologies, procedures and metrics taylored for use cases, a federated European Scenario Database framework and its necessary data interfaces, a commonly agreed simulation framework including tools and interfaces. SUNRISE will work closely with CCAM stakeholders as policy makers, regulators, consumer testing, user associations and all relevant stakeholders. The project will be coordinated by IDIADA and SAFER’s partners involved in various work packages are Chalmers and RISE. This project proposal was approved within the call HORIZON-CL5-2021-DEST6SMS-01-02: Common approaches for the safety validation of CCAM systems.