EEA4CCAM proposes in-vehicle electronic control architectures for Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) applications, ensuring safe and cyber-secure deployment across diverse operating conditions. By integrating hardware and software co-design, EEA4CCAM enables smart data flows and secure operation through a centralized, upgradable architecture. The project aims to empower the safe and cyber-secure deployment of CCAM solutions through a novel, centralized, and upgradable in-vehicle electronic control architecture. This will be achieved by performing a paradigm shift in in-vehicle electronic control architectures, developing a centralized, upgradable, and open-source design that integrates HW and SW co-design, enables smart data flows, and ensures safe and cyber-secure operation. The project will foster international cooperation, harmonization, and standardization, promoting open-source interfaces and layouts, and facilitating the development and integration of CCAM applications through exemplarily deployment and validation methods. Five key objectives will be achieved: developing a new, centralized design; exemplarily deploying level 4 automation use cases; enabling safe and cyber-secure operation through system agility and distributed intelligence; realizing a paradigm shift to integrated, resource-efficient architectures; and setting up international cooperation for harmonized electronic control architecture layouts, promoting open-source interfaces and layouts. By achieving these objectives, EEA4CCAM will lay the foundation for the software-defined-vehicle, enabling the widespread adoption of CCAM applications and paving the way for a safer, more efficient, and more connected transportation system.

MOBILITIES FOR EU aims at demonstrating that innovative passenger mobility and freight transport concepts designed and implemented following participative and user-center principles are cost-effective and feasible solutions to contribute significantly to the cities’ transformation towards climate-neutrality, allowing to speed up the process even to reach SCOPE 2 emissions reduction in 2030. Madrid (Spain) and Dresden (Germany) will implement 11 pilots comprising 27 very innovative solutions for mobility of people and freight, exploiting the combined potential of electrification, automation and connectivity, from the design to the implementation and evaluation stages acting as Lead Cities (LC). Both cities also ambition to act as pioneers of this process, taking advantage of multiple already existing initiates of social engagement and empowerment that will be integrated in the idea of Urban Transport Labs (UT-Labs), conceived as Innovation Hubs with the aim of fostering faster upscaling and replicability at EU level, making 5 Replication Cities (Ioaninna–Greece, Trencin–Slovakia, Espoo-Finland, Gdansk-Poland and Sarajevo-Bosnia&Herzegovina) through their own UT-Labs direct participants of the processes and later on main protagonists of their own designs.