Who?

Along with a wide European client base, PNO has a relevant and extensive network that is guaranteed by several innovation and support actions that the company coordinates and executes in the framework of European Funding Programmes. In fact, PNO is involved in and coordinates numerous coordination, research and innovation projects aimed at creating new innovative solutions, awareness creation, business consultancy, and technology transfer activities.

The company (ISO-9001 certified) focuses on robust methodologies and IT solutions based on Java language and Open Source, to drive innovation through the search, manage and analyses of information that should be translated into valuable knowledge. The Innovation Engineering team couples a longstanding expertise in the development of IT solutions, with a consolidated knowledge in the innovation domain within enterprises and extended enterprises’ framework. Innovation Engineering’s clients include private companies as well as large governmental bodies where a full set of knowledge management tools needs to be developed.

In its role as neutral orchestrator, TRI-VIZOR prepares, involves and supports companies in the processes of creation (as ‘architect’) and managing (as ‘trustee’) horizontal collaboration partnerships and platforms. Throughout the last years, TRIVIZOR has acquired a unique and strong reputation in cross company horizontal collaboration and consolidation. It has grown to a leading reference for horizontal collaboration project, i.e. the World’s first cross supply chain orchestrator.

The organisation works with government authorities, research institutes and universities in order to foster and expand the knowledge-base and stimulate education and training within the ITS-sector. ITS Norway’s activities are framed by trends like Autonomous driving, Cooperative Systems, Emission-Free Vehicles and Smarter Mobility.

Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón is member of the Enterprise Europe Network since its inception in 2008. The Enterprise Europe Network is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions, funded by the European Commission. The support services are focused in helping companies innovate and grow on an international scale. The Network provides its services in more than 60 countries worldwide.

The purpose of Aerospace Valley is to leverage the competitiveness and visibility of all its members, both on the national and international scene and to foster the development of collaborative initiatives. It provides a specific support to SMEs helping them to take part in collaborative projects with industry leaders, investors, and research organisations.

Railgrup has different workgroups and currently gathers more than 105 members including public operators, engineering firms, start-ups, sensor-mobility systems, OEMs, cybersecurity and rail infrastructure suppliers. Through different workshops the aim is to spread knowledge, raise awareness, explore challenges ahead in a railway mobility context.

VIL is Flanders’ innovation spearhead cluster for logistics. It is the region’s reference when it comes to company-oriented innovation in logistics and will remain so for the coming decade, supported by a Covenant with the Flanders government. VIL is also increasing its international efforts and focuses on co-ordination and collaboration with international cluster organisations and coaching its cluster members while participating in European projects itself or support its members by directly joining various consortia.

ALICE was created in the frame of WINN project having the European Green Cars Initiative (logistics section) and EIRAC, European Intermodal Research Advisory Council, as background and supporting initiatives. ALICE was officially recognized as a European Technology Platform by the European Commission in July 2013 and is based on the recognition of the need for an overarching view on logistics and supply chain planning and control, in which shippers and logistics service providers closely collaborate to reach efficient logistics and supply chain operations.

EurA AG agitates through cooperation, investment, partnerships and is supporting top-innovators for their business acceleration. The Corporate Innovation Services of EurA AG offer a very focused and direct, and therefore very effective service to promote positive innovation and corporate culture in companies. EurA AG assists highly innovative Start-ups, research organisations, large corporates and high tech SMEs as „hidden champions“ from all over Europe.

European Shippers’ Council aims at creating a level playing field in Europe and between continents and works closely with Asian Shippers’ Association (ASA), American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI), together forming the Global Shippers Alliance (GSA). European Shippers’ Council runs expert policy ‘councils’ in which harmonisation issues are discussed ranging from measurable freight KPI’s to trade facilitation and labour laws.

CrowdfundingHub is participating in several projects funded by the European Commission, with the objective of promoting alternative finance, crowdfunding and community ownership. The company is currently involved as expert partner in projects such as Altfinator, CrowdThermal, DivAirCity and Hub-IN and is coordinator of several projects for the Dutch government, such as Stichting MKB Financiering and the European Centre of Alternative Finance at Utrecht University.

EIT Urban Mobility is a new organisation with a new way of working. It is gathering all the key players in the field of urban mobility to encourage them to work together to develop innovative solutions to the mobility challenges cities are facing. In January 2019 when EIT Urban Mobility was officially launched, the community already consisted of a total of 85 organisations, including city councils, companies, universities and research centres from 16 European countries.

The BABLE Platform provides high-quality crowd-sourced content and a unique set of features and digital tools that enable companies, public authorities, and experts to openly collaborate and exchange lessons learned. Through its unique ontology, the BABLE Platform links together innovative Products with Use Cases as reference projects as well as vendor-neutral expert-curated Solution Packages, which serve as blueprints for project replication and procurement of innovation. In this way, the platform can match demand and supply while providing greater transparency, enhancing economic potential, and opening new business opportunities.

This separate legal entity will be coordinated by the two associations and it will strengthen the industry by participating pro-actively in the decision-making processes related to the areas covered by IWT’s Committees. Committees are focusing on: human capital, greening of the fleet, nautical technical aspects, safety and security and last but not least digitalization/automation.