FIRM 2025

 

Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories

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Mobility is changing, our roads too!

Hybrid Event

FEHRL Infrastructure Research Meeting (#FIRM25)

🗓️ 6 May 2025, Maison Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Rue du Trône 100 – Brussels

📢 Join us online here

PROGRAMME

🕓 8:30  

Registration  

🕓 10:00           Opening Session 1    

                                    Moderator:  Aleš Žnidarič, President, FEHRL 

Strengthening road infrastructure research and reindustrialisation in Europe 

  

Aleš Žnidarič, President, FEHRL  

Isabelle Vandoorne, Head of Unit, DG MOVE, European Commission  

Clemente FUGGINI, Member of the Mobility and Infrastructure Committee, ECTP

Malika Seddi, Secretary-General, ASECAP

Christian Merkt, Chair, CCAM Association  

Thilo Bein, Co-chair Circularity & Competitiveness WG, ERTRAC  

Karen Vancluysen, Secretary-General, POLIS     

Nicolas Hautière, Chair of the FOR Academy, University Gustave Eiffel  

Ingrid Skogsmo, President, ECTRI

Carme Rosell, IENE

  

🕓 12:15  

  

Lunch Break   

  

  

  

🕓 13:45           Session 2    

                                     Moderator: Thierry Goger, Secretary General, FEHRL 

Enhancing Infrastructure Readiness for Large-Scale Autonomous Deployment  

  

Janis Barbars, AUGMENTED CCAM Latvian Pilot Representative, LVC 

Moroine Laoufi, AUGMENTED CCAM French Pilot Representative, VINCI Autoroutes 

Tom Alkim, Strategic Advisor, MAPtm  

Martin Böhm, Technical Director, AustriaTech  

 

 

  

  

🕓 14:45           Session 3    

                                    Moderator:  Ciaran McNally, Professor, UCD  

 

Fostering circular and resilient

transport Infrastructures 

  

Anneleen Bergiers, MIRIAM Project Coordinator, BRRC  

Irina Stipanovic, CIRCUIT Technical Coordinator, INFRAPLAN  

David Garcia Sanchez, LIAISON Project Coordinator, TECNALIA  

Mario Bačić, Associate Professor, Department of Geotechnics, University of Zagreb

 

 

 

 

🕓 15:45  

Coffee Break  

 

  

  

 

🕓 16:15           Session 4    

                                     Moderator: Adewole Adesiyun,  Deputy Secretary General, FEHRL                                                                    

 

Mainstreaming Biodiversity & Infrastructure Symbiosis  

  

Sylvain Moulherat, General Manager, TerrOïko

Luis M. Fernandez, Project manager, MINUARTIA  

Ivo Dostál, Researcher, CDV  

Pinar Yilmazer, SYMBIOSIS Project Coordinator, UIC 

 

 

 🕓 17:15  

  

 

  

FIRM 25 Closing remarks  

Thierry Goger, Secretary-General, FEHRL  

  

 

🕓 17:30  

End of the Conference & FEHRL Cocktail