Collective projects

Ongoing research efforts show that the translation of the working principles of the Digital Internet to the routing of freight, thus creating the Physical Internet (PI), has the potential to be a real game-changer. In the PI world freight travels from hub to hub in an open network rather than from origin to destination directly. Each parcel is routed automatically and at each section it is bundled for efficiency. In the PI network of networks many (if not all) transport and logistics services would be accessible on demand to all users.

There are indications that transport may be entering a period of paradigm shifts due to the introduction of disruptive technologies but also due to changes in individual preferences, behaviours, lifestyles and the emergence of social innovation and new concepts which are likely to impact on the future transport models and management. Some of these changes are already present, as for example, the growing trend towards vehicle sharing practices in many European cities, while others may still be at their very early stages, as for example, changing values of travel time.

Accessibility is a concept used in order to address both travel patterns, attitudes and needs of particular social groups – e.g. gender specific needs, unemployed persons, vulnerable to exclusion citizens such as elderly, children, disabled, etc., as well as the mobility needs and transport use characteristics of people living in different types of areas such as rural, remote or deprived urban areas.

Technological developments, particularly related to the extended and expanding use of ICT in the transport sector, allow the collection of unprecedented volumes of data across all modes and transport systems. These volumes of data, known also as "big data", have generated a strong interest in the transport research community as well as in the relevant industries and among policy makers.

The activity aims at developing and validating radically new ICT based concepts and approaches for empowering and motivating people in need of guidance and care due to age related conditions, in cooperation with their carers where relevant, and to help them improve and maintain their independence, functional capacity, health status as well as preserving their physical, cognitive, mental and social well-being.

The purpose of Research Networks | Humanities is to help strengthening research areas which are geographically and institutionally scattered, and which would benefit highly from the development of international relations.

The Collaborative Fellowships offered in prior competitions are no longer available in the same form. The new competition, Grants for Critical Editions and Translations, supports collaboration focused on the preparation of texts.

La Région cherche à travers cet appel à projets à identifier les sujets en émergence et susceptibles de générer des innovations. Elle vise à accroître le rayonnement scientifique des laboratoires franciliens et leur attractivité pour les chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs étrangers, ainsi que, plus globalement, l’attractivité du territoire francilien aux fins de développement économique.

Cet appel à projets vise à  identifier des équipes ou des réseaux de recherche, publics ou privés à but non lucratif, issus de plusieurs ComUEs :