SAFERUP - Sustainable, Accessible, Safe, Resilient and Smart Urban Pavements

HORIZON 2020 - Grant agreement N.765057

About

SAFERUP! aims to provide the European community with innovative solutions that will form the urban paved environment of the future. Footpaths, bike lanes, roads, intersections, squares and all other walkable surfaces that we all use every day will be designed, constructed and managed to meet context-sensitive criteria including not only safety, mobility and costs (construction and maintenance), but also sustainability, environmental impacts, accessibility, aesthetics, circular economy and local economy preservation.

Urban areas have become a jigsaw of living spaces delineated by roads, special lanes, bike lanes, footpaths, squares and the numerous walkable surfaces that permit people’s daily mobility. Urban pavements cover about 40% of urban areas and are the largest and most expensive public property on which people travel every day and they must accommodate all users in the most efficient, safe and enjoyable possible way in modern Smart cities

In a 2020 society that will aspire to more liveable cities , a novel approach on how urban pavements are perceived, designed, built, maintained and managed is urgently needed. Safety, sustainability, resilience, accessibility, smart features and aesthetics are the key characteristics that Europe should invest in, forming the new generation of European professionals that will be able to face the issues related with the aspiration of people for a better, more liveable, urban environment.

In this context, the participants of SAFERUP! agreed to foster the creation of a cooperative academy-industry Training-through-Research programme that aims to drive the development and adoption of more Sustainable, Accessible, Safe, Resilient, and Smart Urban Pavements. 

Duration

1 Marzo 2018 - 28 Febbraio 2022

Coordinator

Cesare Sangiorgi - DICAM

Participants

  • UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BOLOGNA, Italy
  • UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA, Italy
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN, Austria
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER, United Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK, Austria
  • COVENTRY UNIVERSITY, United Kingdom
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA, Spain
  • INSTITUT FRANCAIS DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DES TRANSPORTS, DE L'AMENAGEMENT ET DES RESEAUX, France
  • CELU EKSPERTS, Latvia
  • DURTH ROOS CONSULTING GMBH, Germany
  • SOCIETA' AZIONARIA PRODOTTI ASFALTICO BITUMINOSI AFFINI - S.A.P.A.B.A. S.P.A., Italy

 

Partners

  • CLARET CONSULTING, Estonia
  • MULLER-BBM GMBH, Germany
  • Svensk Däckåtervinning AB, Sweden
  • FUNDACION ONCE PARA LA COOPERACIONE INCLUSION SOCIAL DE PERSONAS CONDISCAPACIDAD, Spain
  • CORECOM SRL, Italy
  • COMPANIA ESPANOLA DE PETROLEOS SA, Spain
  • EUROPEAN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE (ESCI) GGMBH, Germany
  • FACHHOCHSCHULE MUNSTER, Germany
  • UNIVERSITAET KASSEL, Germany
  • FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION, Spain
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, United States
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, United States
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, United States
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia
  • Wuhan University of Technology, China
  • RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE, Latvia
  • RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB, Sweden

EU contribution

Euro 3 878 868,96

Website

https://site.unibo.it/saferup/en/