We presented the achievements of the ICARUS project, part of the Interreg Italy-Croatia cross-border cooperation program, at yesterday's conference entitled "Intermodal solutions for a more sustainable future" held in Trieste, Republic of Italy. The conference was organized by the project's Lead partner - Institute for Transport and Logistics Foundation - ITL and project partner - the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Project Manager Mr. Lari Lenhard, professional spec. oec. introduced the innovative ICARUS mobility platform public transport users and active transport users, which allows those users to easily find ideal travel solutions within the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

Advisor to the Director Ms. Martina Antunović, M.Eng. participated in a round table on the future of Mobility as a service and intermodal passenger transport in the Italian Republic and the Republic of Croatia. She presented ideas for improving intermodal passenger transport and for the introduction of Mobility as a service in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

 We are pleased to invite you to join us on the 7th of December at the final conference of the ICARUS project entitled "Intermodal solutions for a more sustainable future".

After three years of cooperation, the ICARUS project has come to an end. Over its lifetime, the project has delivered several new ICT solutions, new and improved intermodal and cross-border services, studies and analyzes in passenger transport.

The conference agenda is available here.

Attendance in person is possible, with a limited number of seats, along with online attendance. The event will be held in Italian and Croatian with simultaneous translation.

Registration is required to attend, and you can apply at the links below:

Application for personal presence

Apply for online presence

For more information about the conference click here.

The REIF Shift to Rail Regional Award has been launched!

Sharing of best practices and providing opportunities for communication and knowledge exchange among regions and local contexts all over EU regarding policies to support rail and intermodal freight transport are the main goals of this award. The focus of the award is on best practices concerning public actions, measures and policies, which have been implemented or which are under implementation by Regional government and which produced outstanding results and achievements in promoting rail freight transport.

The applications are open until the 15th of December at 23:59 CET.
To learn more about the award and how to apply, click here!

We participated in the three-day Interreg ADRION webinar entitled “Keys to Effective Communication”, where we were given the opportunity to improve our communication skills. Communication is an important element of any successful project. It serves to present project activities and results to a wider audience through a multitude of different tools.

Each of the three sessions was focused on a specific topic, so the topic of the first day was optimizing project websites, the second day focused on video editing, and the third on social media management.

An online meeting of REIF project partners was held yesterday, 9th of November 2021. The meeting was an opportunity for partners to share completed activities as well as discuss future activities, thus beginning the preparations for the final months of the project. 

We participated at the 1st PANORAMED Mainstreaming Focus Group meeting as represenatives of MED OSMoSIS and SHAREMED projects. The meeting was held online on the 4th of November 2021, and was an excellent opportunity to learn from the best practices of other projects in the Mediterranean area, as well as an opportunity to showcase our work within the projects.

We participated at the Transnational Policy conference, organised within the framework of the REIF project. The conference took place today, 19th October, and featured multiple representatives from each partner region. 

Our director, Mr. Marijan Cukrov presented the Roadmap for Croatia, drafted and completed within the framework of the REIF project. The emphasis of the Roadmap is on the planned priority actions with the goal of improving rail freight transport in the region by 2030. The roadmap itself is the culmination of the previous months' work and cooperation with the Regional Advisory Board.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us tomorrow at the Transnational Policy conference, organised as part of the REIF project.

The main topics of the conference are the challenges for rail freight transport on the regional, national and international levels, as well as the upcoming initiatives which tackle these issues.

If you are interested in participating in the event, please register here.

We participated in today's Interreg MED Permanent Contact Group meeting, the main topic of which was the discussion on planning of the future Interreg EURO-MED program for the period 2021-2027 and the announcement of future events. The kick-off meeting for the program has been announced for December 2nd in Lisbon, which will be held physically, with online streaming available for all remote participants. The first call for proposals under the new program is expected in February 2022.

KIP participates in Interreg MED PCG meetings as a representative of SHAREMED and MED OSMoSIS projects.

We are participating in the 58th Rimini Tourism Fair organized by TTG Travel Experience. We are present on behalf of our REMEMBER project, and in addition to the project itself, we are also presentinh the Adriatic Ports Cultural Network ADRIJO. The three-day event takes place at the Rimini Exhibition Center, and our stand is located in Pavilion A3.

We held two REIF capacity building workshops at yesterday's ECOWAVES conference entitled "Strengthening the capacity for proper waste management in the port area" which was held in Zadar.

The workshops focused on presenting current activities performed by partners within the project, among which is the cooperation between project partners and regional advisory boards on drafting the "New Rail Infrastructure/services 2030" Roadmaps for each partner region.

The Port of Zadar Authority and Intermodal Transport Cluster presented the SUSPORT project as an example of good practice at the ECOWAVES conference entitled "Strengthening the capacity for proper waste management in the port area" held on the 29th of September 2021 in Zadar. 

The pilot actions being implemented in Croatia within the SUSPORT project were presented at the event, with their positive impacts being an important focus point of the presentation.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to our online event on the 23rd of September, from 10:00 to 12:00, entitled “New Intermodal services for Sustainable Mobility between Italy and Croatia”.

The event is organised jointly by E-CHAIN, ICARUS and MIMOSA projects, funded under the Interreg Italy-Croatia Programme, dealing with innovative pilot actions and solutions to improve intermodal transport among the two countries. On this occasion each project will highlight its solutions, as well as some of its main results while sharing the pilot actions that were carried out during the projects. The focus will also be on how COVID-19 has affected the transport sector and what can be done to encourage change of behavior.

The event will be held in English, with available Italian and Croatian translations.

Participation is open to everyone with prior registration here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdOCtqzsuGtEEf44ZrGhoQ0cGFPEd8VLX

ICARUS project aims at improving passenger intermodal transport connections and easing coast-hinterland sustainable accessibility, promoting car-independent lifestyles. The project will do so by integrating intermodal transport services, establishing cooperation between transport and information providers, both locally and across the border.

All actions within the project call for behavioral changes, as well as applications of new concepts, such as "Mobility as a Service" which places the user at the very center of transport services.

ICARUS Project is funded by Interreg V-A Italy-Croatia CBC Programme. The project gathers 10 partner organisations from Italy and Croatia.

In our new video you can learn more about the project as well as our work within it. The video can be viewed at this link.

„Restarting of the touristic sector in the Adriatic area“ conference for the REMEMBER project gathered representatives of the port authorities involved in the project, the representatives from MedCruise, EUSAIR, the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities and from the city of Dubrovnik.

The event was comprised of keynote speeches by the EUSAIR PC deputy – Ms. Vlasta Klarić, and the MedCruise VP – Ms. Laura Cimaglia, as well as a roundtable on the topic of „Rebranding the future of tourism in the Adriatic area“ involving the Deputy Mayor of the city of Dubrovnik – Ms. Jelka Tepšić, the Chairman of the board of ACI Marinas, - Mr. Kristijan Pavić,  and the representatives of port authorities involved in the REMEMBER project as project partners. The conclusions and final words of the conference were given by the representative of the Forum of Adriatic and Ionian Cities – Mr. Pantelis Karapiperis. 

The event was organised by the Dubrovnik Port Authority and was held today, the 19th of July 2021.

We presented our work and content for Rijeka's virtual museum, soon to be available on the ADRIJO platform, at the REMEMBER Steering Committee meeting on the 9th of July 2021. All the project partners are working hard on their contributions to the ADRIJO platform, and the creation of the virtual museums for the eight involved port cities – Ancona, Venice, Trieste, Ravenna, Rijeka, Zadar, Split and Dubrovnik - all of which will be featured on the platform.

The SHAREMED Capitalisation Group met online today, 2nd of July 2021, to discuss two important topics for the capitalisation of our project – the Transnational On Demand Actions, and the National Capitalisation Group activities. All partners participated and gave their inputs on the matters at hand. The Work package leader presented the Guidelines for National Capitalisation Group meetings and has explained what each partner must do to ensure successful capitalisation of the project.

We are currently actively cooperating on projects financed from the Interreg program, and our projects REMEMBER and SUSPORT are also partly co-financed by the Office for Cooperation with NGO's of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.

The REMEMBER project encourages the promotion of sustainable tourism and blue growth in the program area through the valorization of maritime cultural heritage in 8 Italian and Croatian ports - Ancona, Venice, Trieste, Ravenna, Rijeka, Zadar, Dubrovnik, Split - 4 of which are under UNESCO protection.

The SUSPORT project increases the environmental sustainability and energy efficiency of Italian and Croatian ports through increased institutional cooperation to create a basis for coordinated and sustainable management in the context of port environmental sustainability and energy efficiency at the cross-border level.

We participated in yesterday’s MED Permanent Contact Group meeting. The meeting brought us news about the future Euro-MED 2021-2027 programme and its preparations, as well as an outlook on the Summer School initiative. We are very excited to see what the future Euro-MED programme brings!

We participated in the meeting as representatives of projects SHAREMED and MED OSMoSIS.

The SHAREMED Steering Committee Meeting was held on the 12th of May 2021.

During the meeting, the responsible partners all gave updates on their activities at the project study sites, updates on the reporting, as well as communication and capitalisation updates. We, as the communication manager, have an important role to play in the project's future.

The 5th and final Training webinar for ICARUS was held today, 21st of April 2021, on the topic of Demand Responsive Transportation (DRT). The main speaker was Joshua Biondi, the Business Development Manager of Shotl. The event was an opportunity for partners and interested stakeholders to learn more about DRT and its role in passenger transportation today as well as in the future.

Mr. Biondi explained the basics of DRT as a form of shared transport where vehicles alter their routes each journey based on particular transport demand without using a fixed route or timetable, using virtual stops instead. He further presented their DRT platform, including the Passenger app and the Driver app, as well as market insights.

We presented our work and all our currently active projects to students of the Faculty of Economics in Rijeka. The lecture focused on the concepts of networking and international cooperation through projects. For each project, we have explained its main goal, presented the activities that the partners within the project are implementing, as well as presented our own achievements in each project.

The presented projects include: TRANSPOGOOD, MultiAPPRO, ICARUS, SUSPORT, REMEMBER, SHAREMED, MED OSMoSIS and REIF. The presentation was held online on March 22, 2021.

A webinar for the Interreg Mediterranean P-SP-HP-JS Permanent Contact Group members on the topic of Euro-MED 2021-2027 Programme was held today. This webinar was an opportunity for the Programme to consult stakeholders which are active in the fields of innovation, climate change and environmental protection.

We participated in this event as representatives of MED OSMoSIS and SHAREMED projects

The 6th EUSAIR Forum has just been announced for the 11th and 12th of May in Izola, Slovenia under the slogan "Along the coasts of the shared sea!".

During the 5th EUSAIR Forum, the only one held online, we presented our project #transpogood at the Special session of the EUSAIR Forum: 30 Years of Interreg - Good practice cooperation projects in the EUSAIR region and beyond.

The SHAREMED partners have gathered online once again on 3rd February 2021 to give updates to the partnership consortium about the progress they have achieved in their project activities, as well as discuss issues they have run into during those activities. The meeting was fruitful as all partners are working hard towards achieving the goals of the project.

We are participating at the 5th Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) as an exhibitor presenting our project TRANSPOGOOD.

This is a two-day event, taking place online on 28th and 29th January under the slogan „Strengthening the resilience of the Adriatic and Ionian Region through cooperation“. The event is bringing together ministers in charge of foreign affairs and European funds, officials of the European Commission, relevant stakeholders and general public and features multiple speakers discussing the future of EUSAIR and its role in addressing the key issues in the Adriatic-Ionian Region. The event consists of several thematic sessions covering topics across all four EUSAIR pillars, as well as networking sessions.

The REIF project partners have met online today to discuss the establishment of a Regional Advisory Board. This networking group will be involved in rail transport issues and will co-create the REIF strategies through the integration of project finding into the involved regions. The board plans to elaborate regional plans which will shape future developments of rail infrastructures and services, including policy measures for its implementation.

We participated in Interreg MED's Permanent Contact Group meeting during which the expected 2021 project milestones were discussed, including the outlook on SHAREMED and MED OSMoSIS. Along with that, an update on planned MED calls and the update on the MED 2021-2027 programme were given. The meeting was held online on January 14th 2021.

The cooperation between HŽ Passenger Transport and Autotrolej, which enables integrated passenger transport in the urban and suburban areas of the City of Rijeka, will continue in 2021 with the signing of the contract on the continuation of business cooperation for the implementation of railway inclusion into the public urban and suburban transport system of the City of Rijeka.

This enables the option of travelling by train for users of monthly and individual KD Autotrolej tickets. The goal of continued cooperation is to increase the usage of public transport, reduce the number of personal vehicles and increase road safety, as well as contribute to the overall reduction of the carbon footprint.

Full integration of public transport is expected after the construction of the railway second track and the opening of new railway stops.

The final conference of the NEWBRAIN project was held today, December 17th 2020, during which the main results of the project were presented. The event provided insight into the priorities of EUSAIR and CEF within the Adriatic-Ionian region, hosting project partners and MOS experts as keynote speakers. The conference concluded with a discussion on the added value of stronger cooperation in cooperative issues related to innovation, alternative fuels and energy.