USTIR

User Driven Stimulation of Radical New Technological Steps in Surface Transport

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'U-STIR defines the know-how and technologies addressing Europe’s surface transport problems beyond 2050. A lead user centred approach will stimulate the development and capture of radical new technological concepts. Local connecting offices will analyse deficits and establish activities reaching out for fundamentally new solutions for the mobility and transport demands, improving environmental, economical and social quality in one step. WP1 co-ordinates the work progress, supporting the partners, advising on contingency plans and also fulfilling administrative project tasks. In WP2 the working methodology will be refined. This involves Innovation Incubators, which will exploit ideas collected and employ Delphi panels, analysing the technological drivers for 2050 and beyond. WP3 is the workhorse of the project fostering the creative thinking. Creativity tools and ideas from partners will start the creative process implemented as workshops. The ‘Innovation Pump’ will do the same for the Internet, offering ideas and tools to improve creativity. Diligent research and incubation process will help defining the technological gaps. Incentives and methodological help stems from WP2. Participating universities will allow access to their research facilities for the incubation. WP4 will create an innovation friendly climate, motivating researchers, industry and users to participate in the innovation process and giving stakeholders ideas at hand to support this process of innovative excellence. A Delphi process will define the technological roadmap. WP5 Evaluation/Monitoring will be assessing the work in parallel to WP3 and WP4 intervening in case the performance or quality does not meet the defined threshold. WP6 - dissemination will be implemented as a service to the whole project, producing the dissemination products, developing on-line tools, and will reaching the target groups using a full fledged repertoire of dissemination products.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Unveiling future challenges in transportation, planning ahead and finding innovative solutions will help create a much better world to live in. An EU-funded project is exploring how this premise can be built on.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

To have an advanced, viable civilisation for us and our children, we need to look several decades into the future and plan ahead. The EU-funded project 'User driven stimulation of radical new technological steps in surface transport' (U-STIR) is examining the challenges in Europe's surface transport beyond 2050. It is outlining radical new technological concepts and proposing new mobility and transport solutions, while improving the quality of life and the environment as well.

The project is involving Innovation Incubators, which will exploit different ideas to analyse the technological drivers for 2050 and beyond. Different tools and ideas from partners are spurring the creative process through workshops. U-STIR is also fostering an innovation-friendly climate, motivating researchers, industry and users to participate in the innovation process and giving stakeholders ideas to support this process of innovative excellence.

The project began with an analysis of current and future gaps in innovation. It summarised the main issues and predicted environmental and socio-economic problems relating to transport, correlating them with the innovations in surface transport. U-STIR then gathered information on policy goals, gaps and innovation related to transport challenges in order to prepare a report on foresight activities.

Existing innovation campaigns connected to the EU Year of Innovation were analysed and new ways to trigger innovation were investigated. The project partners also organised information-gathering workshops together with local stakeholders. The main findings obtained relate to the innovation climate in each country, and their results serve as an input for future workshops. An innovation portal, called Innovation Pump, became a part of the project website and is supporting other project tasks. It features two valuable mechanisms, the first being a creativity support tool and the other being a 'tools and materials' section that can help further the project's aims.

To establish and encourage an innovation-friendly climate, the project is interacting with numerous research facilities, firms and scientific communities. Exchange of innovation practices is set to follow, and dissemination of the project results is planned. Once Europeans learn about the challenges facing surface transport over the next few decades and what can be done, a new consensus will start to take shape about a brighter, greener future.