Ortelio (www.ortelio.co.uk) is a specialised international research and innovation management consultancy. We support our clients to develop and commercialise new products and services, and leverage their research results through international research branding.
Ortelio’s scientific and technical competence lies in Information and Communication Technologies, having strong focus in three key domains: Intelligent Transport Systems; Cloud Robotics and Artificial Intelligence; and Open data and open collaborative online environments.
Ortelio works along the whole chain of research activities from needs assessment, scientific discovery, technology development, application development, demonstration and validation as well as innovative business model development, project financing and the creation of appropriate framework conditions for adoption. Our company has solid experience in assessing user acceptance factors for new innovations and designing dynamic roadmaps.
Contact person: Xavier Leal
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (http://www.uab.es) is a public university located in Bellaterra, Spain. 77 Undergraduate courses are available at the UAB, covering a wide range of fields. Furthermore, UAB offers a total of 87 doctoral programmes and other postgraduate programmes such as 4 Erasmus Mundus master’s degrees.
UAB brings together in its Campus more than 40.000 students and almost 3.000 researchers. Its main areas of research include Environmental Sciences, Nanotechnology, Microelectronics, Engineering, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Social Sciences, Logistics and Intelligent Transport Systems.
UAB Department of Telecommunication is a pioneer as regards to Modelling and Simulation of complex systems in the Transport sector, providing since 2009 the first official European degree (240 Cr.) and MSc (60 Cr.) in Aeronautical Management.
The Unit of Logistics and Aeronautics involved in this application involves 20 professors and researchers and has strong links with relevant industry actors on the logistic, ITS and aeronautical sector at national and EU level. It aims to be a research and technological knowledge co-creation centre of reference for the development of transport performance-oriented simulation models.
Contact person: Miquel Angel
CE Delft (http://www.cedelft.eu) is an independent Dutch research and consultancy organization that specializes in policy analysis in the field of environment and economy. CE Delft operates as a not-for-profit organization on a commercial basis, employing a staff of around 40 engineers, economists and social scientists. CE Delft’s projects all aim to deliver practical but scientifically sound results, often bridging the gap between more theoretical academic research and more pragmatic, practical policy work. Based on solid technical and economic expertise, CE Delft develops feasible policy concepts and tools for a wide range of clients such as the European Commission (DG CLIMA, DG ENV, DG MOVE), EEA, UN/FCCC, ICAO, IMO, IEA, national ministries in various countries, companies (e.g. Shell, Coca Cola, DHL, Corus, Airbus Industries), sector organizations (e.g. UIC, CER, IRU) and NGOs (e.g. FoE, T&E).
CE Delft is a leading consultancy organisation in transport and environment policies with a strong track record in the field of ITS. In the FP7 project OPTIMISM, CE Delft was responsible for the assessment of the mobility and environmental impacts of the appliance of several ITS solutions (e.g. multimodal smart cards, personalized travel information, car sharing, etc.). Furthermore, in this project we carried out the impact analysis of the implementation of strategies for integrated transport (mainly focused on ITS solutions). In a recent project for the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, we have studied implementation aspects and impacts of several ITS options, including eco-routing and dynamic traffic light regulation. Currently, CE Delft is involved in a study on innovative concepts for urban logistics, in which the feasibility and impacts of all kind of (ICT related) logistic concepts are assessed.
Contact person: Arno Schroten
TTS Italia (http://www.ttsitalia.it) is the Italian ITS Association founded in March 1999 by a group of both public and private organisations active in the sector of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
At the moment in TTS Italia there are more than 80 members encompassing public institutions, local authorities, mobility agencies, public transport companies, motorway operators, private companies, and universities.
TTS Italia is member of the ITS National Associations Network promoted by ERTICO and has relationships with similar ITS Associations all over the world to evaluate and develop common strategies and actions.
TTS Italia mission is to foster the deployment and diffusion of ITS in Italy in the most effective manner for users, as we believe that ITS Systems represent an essential tools for improving the efficiency and safety of Italian transport systems, and for protecting the environment.
TTS Italia main priorities are to provide our Associates with adequate instruments and information to develop ITS applications as “user-oriented” as possible, and to support institutional bodies in the actions of implementation, promotion and diffusion of Intelligent Systems and Services for Transport and Safety.
Contact person: Maurizio Tomassini
Atos SE (Societas Europaea) is a leader in digital services with 2013 pro forma annual revenue of €10 billion and 86,000 employees in 66 countries. Serving a global client base, the Group provides Consulting & Systems Integration services, Managed Services & BPO, Cloud operations, Big Data & Security solutions, as well as transactional services through Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry. With its deep technology expertise and industry knowledge, the Group works with clients across different business sectors: Defence, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, Media & Utilities, Public Sector, Retail, Telecommunications and Transportation.
Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future. The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and is listed on the Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy, and Worldline. For more information, visit: atos.net.
Contact person: Ivan Zaldivar
Coventry University Enterprises Ltd (CUE) was established in 1989 as Coventry University’s (COVUNI) trading arm. Since then has generated a significant portfolio of business support / outreach activity at national, regional and sub-regional level and across national borders. CUE staff is focused on strengthening industrial academic relations and business development activities. Innovation support is one of CUE’s core activities along with Technology Transfer that is mainly run through the Enterprise Europe Network. CUE is part of the network since its establishment. These activities support COVUNI’s eight multidisciplinary Applied Research Centres and 5 sectors focused Applied Research Institutes. The Applied Research activities of the University provide academic underpinning to CUE’s outreach support. CUE Ltd has delivered programmes aimed directly at SMEs at regional and sub-regional level in the East Midlands, West Midlands, South East and South West of England under contract to Regional Development Agencies, Local Authorities, National Government Departments / Ministries and the European Commission. At any one time CUE is delivering sixty plus public and private funded programmes. Transport is one of the key research topics for both COVUNI and CUE as a number of initiatives are currently running in the area of Integrated Transport and Logistics as well as Electric Vehicles.
Contact person: Eleni Anoyrkati
The Steinbeis group (https://www.steinbeis-europa.de/en/) was founded in 1971 and has since grown into a worldwide acting network of research and innovation management. Today, more than 1000 Steinbeis Enterprises make up Steinbeis and work in legally dependent Steinbeis companies. Within Steinbeis, the Steinbeis 2i GmbH belongs to the Steinbeis-Innovation gGmbH.
Founded in 1990 as the operational unit of the Commissioner for Europe of Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing, Steinbeis 2i has been a competent partner and advisor for European innovation topics at regional and European level for more than 25 years.
Innovate and internationalise – two areas which form the focus of our activities. We aim to complement the work of the Commissioner for Europe in collaboration with our regions’ companies and research organisations. Steinbeis 2i offers individual and tailored advisory services and implements largescale European innovation projects.
Contact person: Dr. Kristin Dallinger
IntelSpace SA is a research-driven SME (http://www.intelspace.eu/) specialising in the development and management of innovation ecosystems and intelligent cities. INTELSPACE offers engineering, IT, and consulting services in the field of intelligent / smart cities. The company specializes in the design and development of physical spaces and virtual environments sustaining key processes of intelligent cities, such as strategic intelligence, technology transfer, collaborative innovation, and online marketing and product promotion.
The expertise of the company is on (1) planning and governance of intelligent cities, districts, and clusters 2) design and development of web-based solutions for collaborative innovation, collective intelligence, technology transfer, product marketing and promotion, and (3) innovation management, innovation clusters and systems analysis and governance.
Contact person: Isidoros Passas
ISIS – the Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems (www.isis-it.com) – is an Italian private research and consulting firm supporting international, national and local public bodies for the analysis, the design, the implementation and the evaluation of sustainable policies in the fields of transport and mobility, urban planning, energy, environment, and knowledge society.
ISIS has played an important role in the conception and implementation of some of the most significant projects carried out in Europe, participating, both as leader and as partner, in over 80 EU funded projects from FP4 to FP7, as well as other EU programmes such as IEE and Interreg. The FP7 Monitoring report 2012, ranks ISIS in the 13°position in Europe and 2° in Italy as SME with the highest numbers of participations in FP7 signed grant agreements during the period 2007-2012.
Contact person: Riccardo Enei