Startting from April 2022, the MultiAPPRO PLUS Project Partners will deepen the topics related to the project through article publishing.

Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more on our project, the MultiAPPRO PLUS first article written by Codognotto is now available here.

KIP participated at the Place2GO International Tourism Fair at Arena Zagreb from 8th to 10th of April 2022. The REMEMBER project and the ADRIJO platform were presented to all interested attendees of the fair. Representatives from the National Museum Zadar, Dubrovnik Port Authority, Port of Zadar Authority and RERA S.D. joined us at the event to help promote the project.

Intermodal Transport Cluster participated at the 8. International Professional conference Hydrogen H2 e-Mobility "From production, storage, distribution, H2 filling to driving".

Advisor to the Director Ms. Martina Antunović mag.eng.logist. presented the improvements in intermodal transport achieved through EU projects in which the Cluster participates as a project partner. The presentation was held as part of the second panel "H2 / Maritime, Coastal Shipping and Intermodal Transport".

Intermodal Transport Cluster held a National Stakeholder workshop as part of the REIF project. This event was an opportunity to present the project and all project activities realized in the Republic of Croatia.

Project Manager Mr. Lari Lenhard professional spec. oec. presented KIP's work on the three-year project, giving participants an insight into the results achieved, as well as the next steps for the REIF project and for the Intermodal Transport Cluster. The event was held online on the 24th of March 2022.

Learn more on the project website and by watching our video.

Intermodal Transport Cluster participated in the final conference of the GUTTA project held on March 9, 2022 at the Bristol Hotel in Opatija.

GUTTA project seeks to contribute to greener ferry routes between Italy and Croatia. On the Croatian side, the Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, the Croatian Shipowners' Association Mare Nostrum and the University of Zadar are participating as project partners in the project.

Adviser to the Director of Intermodal Transport Cluster, Ms. Martina Antunović, M.eng. logist presented KIP's work on eight projects in the current implementation, and presented the ways in which these projects have an impact on environmental protection and on increasing energy eficiency.

The REIF Transfer Conference was held today as the final event of this three-year project. As part of the event, the Lead Partner - Thuringian Ministry for Infrastructure and Agriculture, with the help of project partners, presented to the public the achievements in the field of rail freight transport in six partner countries - Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Slovenia and Croatia.

During the event, presentations on freight transport, logistics, modal shift and intermodal transport were given by numerous guest speakers.

As part of the event, the award ceremony for best practices and interregional exchange of knowledge in the field of rail and intermodal freight transport - REIF Shift to Regional Rail was held.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us at the REIF Transfer Conference and the REIF Shift to Regional Rail Award.

Modal shift to rail is one of the main challenges to reach the Green Deal objectives in transport and one of the key issues in the European Year of Rail.

At this conference we will present the existing and future international policies and measures to accelerate the modal shift, as well as present the cooperation between project partners from 6 Central European countries and the results in the field of rail freight transport which we have achieved in the past three years of cooperation.

The REIF Shift to Regional Rail award ceremony will take place at this event. 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 conference will be held online on the 9th of March 2022 at 9:00 CET. Registration is required for participation, and you can register here.

Discover the agenda of the conference here. 

The Steering Committee meeting for the REMEMBER project, part of the Interreg Italy-Croatia cross-border cooperation program was held on the 9th of February 2022. The meeting was a great opportunity for all project partners to present their work in the project up to this point as well as present their planned activities for the current project period. The meeting was held in Split, on the premises of the Hotel Cornaro.

Project manager Mr. Lari Lenhard, professional spec. oec. presented the completed contents for the virtual museum on the cultural heritage of the city of Rijeka which will soon be published on the ADRIJO platform together with the virtual museums of all involved port cities, which include Zadar, Split, Dubrovnik, Trieste, Venice, Ravenna and Ancona.

Advisor to the Director Ms. Martina Antunović, M. eng. logist. presented the work of all project partners in Work package #5 - Adriatic ports cultural network, which is being implemented under the leadership of Intermodal Transport Cluster. During the presentation, a discussion among partners was started on the topic of active participation of the REMEMBER project to cultural and touristic fairs in Italy, Croatia and across Europe.

We participated in the series of Interreg MED Permanent contact group seminars dedicated to current programme experiences, with the anticipation to the scheduled 1st call of the EuroMED 2021-27 programme. The seminars took place over the previous two weeks and have covered the topics of community building, thematic analysis, and transferring, liaising and mainstreaming activities. The workshops gathered over 100 representatives from different projects across the entire Mediterranean area.

We participated as a representative of SHAREMED and MED OSMoSIS projects. You can learn more about the projects by following on social media or visiting the project websites:

SHAREMED Twitter

MED OSMoSIS Twitter

SHAREMED website

MED OSMoSIS website

An online Steering group meeting for the REIF project was held today, 1st of February 2022. Partners gathered to share their work in recent months and to plan together the activities for the final months of the project.

Stay up to date on REIF by following us on social media and visiting our project website:
Facebook page 
Twitter profile 
LinkedIn profile 
Project website 

In the scope of our project SHAREMED, a two day General Assembly was held on the 18th and 19th of January. The first day consisted of three sessions – the Work package session, which included updates on project activities; Open Science session, which included talks on multiple scientific topics related to the implementation of the project; and Working Group session, which included reports on monitoring capabilities, relocatable systems and Atlas development. The second day consisted of two sessions - the Study Site session, including reports from the North-West Med, Northern Adriatic and Sicily Channel study sites; and the Steering Committee session, including talks on various project topics and next steps to be taken to ensure successful implementation of future activities in the project.

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.