Transport Research Knowledge Centre

www.transport-research.info

Connecting Transport Research with EU Policy

Join the TRKC Support Community

Apply to join the Transport Research Knowledge Centre Support Network

The TRKC Support Network is a platform for exchanging information and providing strategic advice, experiences and new ideas - across national borders - to improve the dissemination of transport research results via the TRKC website. By joining the Support Network, you show your commitment to enhancing awareness of successful transport research, shaping European transport policy and developing innovative tools to support sustainable mobility.

Give and take
As a Support Network member you may be asked - always in accordance with your particular background, knowledge, expertise and provenance - to:

  • Give advice on TRKC's strategic and awareness-raising activities;
  • Facilitate access to transport research information (at European, international, member state and institutional levels);
  • Support, wherever possible, the TRKC consortium in the collection of data, for instance by providing access to your own transport research activity databases;
  • Where desired, advise the TRKC consortium on prioritising and selecting projects for analysis;
  • Advise on particular user needs and provide feedback;
  • Facilitate and multiply the TRKC's dissemination and awareness-raising activities, for instance by promoting the TRKC through newsletters, national events, etc.;
  • Peer-review thematic publications.

In this way, you will be able to actively influence TRKC activities, enjoy early access to data and information, link with your own information bases for the mutual benefit, promote your own research results and best practice projects through the TRKC, and establish a link to your own website from the TRKC site. A list of TRKC Support Network members will be highlighted on the TRKC website.

Who should join the Support Network?
Membership is open to individuals, institutions or organisations that are committed to provide a tangible contribution the Transport Research Knowledge Centre and its goals. The TRKC particularly encourages representatives from the various transport stakeholder communities to join the Support Network:

  • European Commission
  • Member states' ministries and programme management bodies
  • Industry and professional associations
  • Research institutes and Universities
  • Networks of Excellence and Thematic Platforms
  • Transport research initiatives or projects
  • Transport research organisations
  • International organisations
  • Media

How the Support Network operates
The Support Network will operate as a virtual assembly, mainly through email. An internet-based discussion forum might be installed at a later stage. In addition, the TRKC might invite individuals to specific workshop-type Focus Group meetings for clearly defined subjects.

Please fill out and send the application form with as many details as possible so that others can gain inspiration.

 
 
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