403-B: The European Experience: A Structured Approach to Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)

Date and Time: Thursday, July 21: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom

Andrea De Candido

Brussels Metropolitan Area · Policy Officer - Future Urban and Mobility Systems at DG RTD · , European Commission

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

Europe is strongly committed towards the shift to Automated Road Transport. This is part of the overall European Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy that foresees for automated mobility to be deployed at large scale by 2030.
To support the development and market uptake of connected and automated mobility and logistics services and systems, the European Commission has launched a dedicated partnership (the Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility - CCAM - partnership) that comprises nearly 200 relevant stakeholders belonging to research, industry, regulatory bodies, mobility service providers and national and public authorities. Purpose of the partnership is to better align and structure in an overall research agenda the EU R&I efforts in the field of automated mobility.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Mr Andrea DE CANDIDO works for the Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission where he is the Acting Head of the "Innovation and Security Research" Unit that is responsible for ensuring full exploitation of the possibilities offered by research in the internal security domain.

Among the tasks of the Unit is the drafting of the security research part of the overall EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme (as of this year named Horizon Europe) that enables cross border funding of research projects in different security related dimensions such as Fighting Crime and Terrorism, Border Security, Infrastructure Protection and Disaster Resilient Societies.

Before joining DG HOME Mr De Candido had been briefly working for the Research & Innovation Directorate General of the European Commission and, before that, had spent 25 years in the Italian Army from which he retired in 2013 with the rank of Lt. Colonel.

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