Objective
Urban pavements comprise almost 40% of European cities and are the main means by which people travel every day. Urban pavements must accommodate all users in the most efficient, safe, sustainable and smart way. A key factor to increase the liveability of tomorrow’s Smart cities will be transforming the way urban pavements are perceived, designed, built, maintained and function. SAFERUP! aims to provide cities with innovative solutions that will form the future urban paved environment, by training talented researchers in the fields of: smart, recycled and durable paving materials; provision for vulnerable users (e.g. elderly & disabled) accessibility and protection; studying user behaviour; life cycle analysis; wash-off water management and bioremediation; tempered and acoustic pavements; energy harvesting and self-sensing technologies. The SAFERUP! Consortium believes in this future and has created a unique team of world leading commercial and academic research engineers and scientists, with the diverse range of expertise needed to develop the novel solutions required to deliver this future and its anticipated benefits. Fifteen ESRs will undertake their PhDs in a research and training programme designed to optimise their multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral experience through secondments and a variety of SAFERUP!-wide fora. All ESRs’ projects are interrelated and considerable synergies, trans-project contributions and collaborations will occur. A key focus of the training will be career planning, entrepreneurship and skills development in particular communication. SAFERUP! participants with communication expertise will develop the communication and dissemination strategy to maximise the exploitation of the developed solutions. SAFERUP! will create a new generation of professionals with multidisciplinary expertise in urban pavements and allied fields appealing to employers, who will expand the social benefits of the new urban pavements well beyond the end of SAFERUP!
Fields of science
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringurban engineeringsmart cities
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediation
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management
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40126 Bologna
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1040 Wien
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06123 Perugia
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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39005 Santander
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77454 Marne-La-Vallee
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CV1 5FB Coventry
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WC1E 6BT London
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LA1 4YW Lancaster
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6020 Innsbruck
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5052 Ikskile
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64293 Darmstadt
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40037 Sasso Marconi
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10111 Tallinn
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82152 Planegg
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185 22 Vaxholm
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28012 Madrid
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05039 Stroncone (Terni)
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28046 Madrid
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26123 Oldenburg
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48149 Munster
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34125 Kassel
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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AUSTIN
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AUSTIN
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IA50011 Ames
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2052 Sydney
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430070 Wuhan
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1048 Riga
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501 15 Boras
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