The European Commission published the official draft text of the Horizon 2020 Work programme. The Work Programme can be found under:
 
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020-documents
 
The “Smart, green and integrated transport” section (pdf document to download), especially relevant for road safety research, can be found in the domain “Societal challenges".
 
It is expected that the Council of the European Union will adopt the Horizon 2020 legislation package in December 2013 thus making the Horizon 2020 effective.

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The HUMANIST Virtual Centre of Excellence, in the frame of the DECOMOBIL project is organising a conference on Human Centred Design approach.

The Conference will be held in Vienna on 6th and 7th of June 2014.

During the conference, the following scientific topics related to Human Centred Design for ITS will be addressed:

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The Forum of the European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI)
The European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI)
The European Transport Research Alliance (ETRA)
The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP)
The Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL)
The Human Centred Design for Information Society Technologies Network (HUMANIST)

invite to the European Interdisciplinary Conference "Ageing and Safe Mobility".

The Conference will focus on the road safety problems of elderly road users. The convention will aim at elaborating policy recommendations concerning implementation of available road safety evidence based research results.

Participants are invited to take part in four sections:
- Human Factors
- Infrastructure
- Vehicles engineering
- Traffic Management Systems

Preliminary Schedule

Conference Date and Location

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