Projects
EARPA directly supports or initiates new networks, projects and consortia by bringing interested parties together and facilitating meetings. However, EARPA is not directly carrying out or managing projects, its members do.
This section gives an overview of some EU-funded projects in which EARPA members are involved. This list is far from being exhaustive as EARPA members are involved in a very large number of RTD projects.

5G-MOBIX
(5G for cooperative & connected automated MOBIility on X-border corridors)
5G-MOBIX develop and test automated vehicle functionalities using 5G core technological innovations along multiple cross-border corridors and urban trial sites, under conditions of vehicular traffic, network coverage, service demand, as well as considering the inherently distinct legal, business and...

ARCADE
(Aligning Research & Innovation for Connected and Automated Driving in Europe)
ARCADE is a Coordination and Support Action that coordinates consensus-building across stakeholders for sound and harmonised deployment of Connected, Cooperative and Automated Driving (CAD).ARCADE supports the commitment of the European Commission, the European Member States and the industry to deve...

CARTRE
(Coordination of Automated Road Transport Deployment for Europe)
The latter was approved by the Commission, with a score of 11.5. EARPA has a central role in the proposal, which was developed jointly with ERTRAC, EUCAR, CLEPA and some Member States. EARPA members of this project are TNO, IDADA and IKA. The project is open to new associated members. EARPA member C...

CEVOLVER
(Connected Electric Vehicle Optimized for Life, Value, Efficiency and Range)
CEVOLVER takes a user-centric approach for optimising the development and operation of electric vehicles and uses cutting edge technologies, components and systems for achieving the ambitious targets of the call topic. In both cases, the project exploits opportunities of connectivity to computationa...

CEVOLVER
(Connected Electric Vehicle Optimised for Life, Value, Efficiency and Range)
CEVOLVER takes a user-centric approach for optimising the development and operation of electric vehicles and uses cutting edge technologies, components and systems for achieving the ambitious targets of the call topic. In both cases, the project exploits opportunities of connectivity to computationa...

eCAIMAN
(Electrolyte, Cathode and Anode Improvements for Market-near Next-generation Lithium Ion Batteries)
The success of electric vehicles in the mass market depends on the development of high-energy batteries at a competitive price. The research efforts of the past decade have continuously improved the energy densities of batteries, yet electric vehicles have only gradually made their way into the mark...

ECOCHAMPS
(European COmpetitiveness in Commercial Hybrid and AutoMotive PowertrainS)
It is the vision of the ECOCHAMPS consortium to enable a viable business case for hybrid vehicles by extending both their functionality whilst minimising their cost. At the same time the ECOCHAMPS project aims to increase the competitiveness of European vehicle manufacturers and component suppliers ...

ENSEMBLE
(ENabling SafE Multi-Brand pLatooning for Europe)
Over the next 3 years, ENSEMBLE will implement and demonstrate multi-brand truck platooning on European roads. It is the explicit aim of this project to take the last steps of technological research before full deployment of multi-brand truck platooning. ENSEMBLE wants to communicate the economic, s...

EU-LIVE
(Efficient Urban Light Vehicles)
Future urban mobility calls for more space for people and less space for cars as well as for environmentally compatible vehicle concepts, saving resources and minimizing local noise and air pollutant emissions. Motor vehicles in the L-category already offer an interesting complementary solution to p...

FiveVB
(Developing the next generation of batteries)
The scientific and technical activities of FiveVB are streamlined towards an overall common objective, with each activity being a vital contribution to this goal. The size of the project suggests a rather flat organizational structure with only few layers as well as vertically and horizontally distr...

GASon
(Gas - Only Internal Combustion Engines)
In order to realize sustainable mobility in Europe, future vehicles for road transport will have to be significantly more efficient by 2020+, and a considerable contribution to this target will have to come from the energy efficiency improvement of the powertrain. On the other hand, a strong de-carb...

HEADSTART
(Harmonised European Solutions for Testing Automated Road Transport)
The HEADSTART (Harmonised European Solutions for Testing Automated Road Transport) project is an EU funded project which started on the 1st of January of 2019 and will last for 3 years. The project consisted of 17 partners, under the coordination of IDIADA and Mr. Álvaro Arrúe, aims to...

HiPerform
(High performant Wide Band Gap Power Electronics for Reliable, energy eFficient drivetrains and Optimization thRough Multi-physics simulation)
The European and global automotive industry currently faces the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions, since improving air quality and avoiding global warming is high priority on the agendas not only in Europe, but also in the rest of the world. With a share of approximately 23%, the transportation sy...

MARBEL
(MARBEL)
The MARBEL project develops an innovative and competitive lightweight battery with the objective to accelerate the mass market take-up of electric and hybrid vehicles. MARBEL, coordinated by Eurecat, will design, develop and demonstrate a new compact, modular, weight-optimise...

OSCCAR
(Future occupant safety for crashes in cars)
OSCCAR uses a comprehensive integrated approach for the development of future advanced occupant protection systems. It will provide a unique human body model (HBM)-based development and assessment framework, covering main challenges of future road safety due to the introduction of highly automated v...

PANDA
(PANDA - Powerful Advanced N-Level Digital Architecture for models of electrified vehicles and their components)
The main goal of the PANDA project is to provide unified organisations of digital models for seamless integration in virtual and real testing of all types of electrified vehicles and their components.11 Organisations from 7 different EU countries work together to reduce the development time (time-...

PROSPECT
(Proactive Safety for Pedestrian and Cyclists)
The overall PROSPECT objective is to provide a better understanding of VRU-related accidents and to develop, demonstrate and test innovative, (pro) active safety systems for protecting VRUs. The project will cover the entire spectrum of in-depth accident analysis, naturalistic observations, sensor p...

RESOLVE
(range of cost-effective, energy efficient and comfortable Electric L-category Vehicles)
RESOLVE project aims at enabling the development of a range of cost-effective, energy efficient and comfortable ELVs (Electric L-category Vehicles) that will primarily attract ICE car drivers to switch to ELVs for daily urban commutes.EU cities are increasingly congested due to the demand and usag...

REWARD
(REal World Advanced Technologies foR Diesel Engines)
The overall objective of the REWARD project is to develop the knowhow, intellectual property rights and technical capabilities to adequately and cost-effectively produce cleaner, highly efficient Diesel powertrains and aftertreatment technologies for future cleaner class A, B, C, D and E passenger c...

SAFE-UP
(Proactive safety systems and tools for constantly upgrading road environment)
SAFE-UP will focus on delivering the promised potential of new mobility to keep all road users safe - drivers, vehicle occupants, and vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists and users of two-wheelers.

SECREDAS
(Product Security for Cross Domain Reliable Dependable Automated Systems)
Fully autonomous vehicles and robotic surgery machines have enormous potential to change society. However, the combination of safety, security & privacy of connected and automated systems is still a concern in multiple application domains for many consumers in Europe. As the trust to adopt these...

TUD COST Action TU1105
(Transport and Urban Development COST Action TU1105)
NVH analysis techniques for design and optimization of hybrid and electric vehiclesThe socio-economic quest towards developing transportation with lower CO2 emission is a global goal of the EU and a crucial ingredient for the competitiveness of the whole European transportation industry. It forces a...

UPSCALE
(Upscaling Product development Simulation Capabilities exploiting Artificial inteLligence for Electrified vehicles)
UPSCALE is the first EU project with the specific goal of integrating AI (artificial intelligence) with traditional physics-based Computer Aided Engineering to reduce the development time and increase the performance of electric vehicles (EVs).Nowadays High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Computer A...