EASYCONNECTING

Michele Acciaro

The Project aims at fulfilling and implementing on the ground the new European transport policies and recommendations (TEN-T Guidelines, 2011 White Paper on Transport) the main freight transport corridors and their effective management including all the key stakeholders, by incentivizing the role of ports and logistic platforms towards the deployment of more efficient, safety and environmental friendly solutions.

Furthermore EASYCONNECTING could be an experimental tool to support the new Adriatic and Ionian Macroregion by stimulating the discussion and provide recommendations on the key transport and logistic priorities to be pursued in the next programming period.

The Project has tried to involve in the partnership all the countries of the IPA Adriatic Cross-border Cooperation Programme in order to ensure the wider spread of project’s results.

The Partners, led by the Veneto Region, have very different nature and roles and they represent the academic world, the public and private sectors bringing very specific competencies and know-how within the consortium which is formed by 17 partners belonging to 7 different countries (Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Greece). Moreover, the Project involved as associates 9 partners from 3 countries.

In terms of activities the project has been divided in 7 work packages (WP) that are instrumental to find new and innovative solutions for addressing the key challenges of better environmental performance, more efficient and fast transport services, more qualified and skillful operators and a more interconnected and functional transport network.

The project activity of the KLU is to analyze the transport and logistics corridors amoung the German southern and Western Austria regions and Northern Adriatic ports as supporting activity of the WP 3 Europe Adriatic seaway freight.