Project CarCoDe received approval for funding

We are pleased to announce that the CarCoDe project has been approved by the System of Incentives for Research and Technological Development (SI I&DT) of the National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN). Negotiations with the Portuguese Funding Agency, ADI – Agência de Inovação, have now been successfully concluded, and the project is set to start on July 1st.

CarCoDe (Platform for Smart Car to Car Content Delivery) is an European R&D project, labeled within the ITEA 2 program (http://www.itea2.org/project/index/view/?project=10147), with partners such as Cassidian (FR), NXP (FR), Thales C&S (FR), University Paris-East (FR), Easy Innova (SP), Universiry of Girona (SP)and GM (SP).

As an ITEA labeled project, funding applications are done per country. After the successful funding applications in Spain and France, the European project started last December 2012, with the kickoff meeting taking place this March.

The Portuguese National application was submitted by a Consortium, led by the Mecalbi SME and made up by the partners CISTER/INESC-TEC, Instituto de Telecomunicações, PT Inovação, IPCB and Evoleo Technologies. CISTER/INESC-TEC is the national contact to the ITEA Consortium.

CarCoDe will develop a software platform for the automotive domain. The aim of this software is to generate a readable traffic service domain which displays all information related to all automotive users (car drivers, truck operators, traffic management planners, etc).

The project leader within CISTER/INESC-TEC is researcher Luis Miguel Pinho.