Support for the organisation of EU-US symposia in the field of Transport Research The main objective of the SYMPEUS CSA is to strengthen collaboration in transport research between the EU and the US. The project is closely working with the EC in organising four EU-US Transport Research Symposia: in Washington DC (2024, 2026), in Brussels (2025, 2027). The project will support the symposia participation of the European transport community and will work together with DG RTD and DG MOVE for managing these 3-day events in terms of organisation, content development, reporting. At each event, 25 experts from EU and US, respectively, will discuss and elaborate R&I recommendations on a theme agreed between the EC and US DoT. SYMPEUS will involve and collaborate with all relevant European actors – researchers, industry, users, innovation leaders, etc., and consult key transport players including European Technology Platforms in transport and relevant Horizon Europe partnerships. For each symposium SYMPEUS’s will: • Define overall planning on the EU side (preparation, execution, dissemination of the symposia) • Consult with stakeholders to identify EU expert candidates, to be proposed to the EC, • Manage expert invitations, registrations, travel costs reimbursements, • Prepare communication material, • Provide support in drafting of preparatory documents, design of symposia, programme, • Offer facilitation for the symposium and its break-out sessions. • Provide support in editing, quality management, dissemination of the conference proceedings reports. Additionally, for the two symposia to be held in Brussels, SYMPEUS will manage the overall local organisation including selecting and covering costs for venue, catering and logistics. The lump sum project is managed by a consortium of 3 organisations with complementary competences, experiences and structures: VTI (Swedish public institute), ECTRI (European association) and VDI/VDE-IT (German private research agency).

The Transport Research Arena (TRA) Conference is the foremost and leading European Research and Technology Conference on transport and mobility. It brings together people from all over Europe and beyond, to discuss the newest innovations and the future of mobility and transport providing a wide forum for academia, industry, public administration, authorities and transport operators. TRA leverages dialogue and networking between researchers, policy makers, and industry representatives, through the presentation of transport research, innovations and deployment achievements, fostering alignment and cooperation between initiatives funded at regional, national and European level in order to build up policy trends and plans for a common strategical research and innovation agendas. TRA 2022 will be a unique opportunity for the transport sector to face these new challenges and to boost its research and innovation capacity throughout the full innovation cycle, from idea to market, including fundamental research, prototyping, demonstration, pilot activities and business-driven Research & Development, with an overall strategy based on the motto of Moving together – reimagining mobility worldwide. TRA 2022 will take place in Lisbon, a city which has made a name for itself as the venue of world-renowned events in a variety of sectors (including transport, research and innovation) such as the Web Summit, World Conference on Transport Research Society 2010 (WCTR), the International Road Federation 2010 (IRF), opening its doors to visitors from the four corners of the world, vouching for its innate capacity to host high level international events with the uppermost standards of quality and hospitality.