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HORIZONTAL/DISSEMINATION

SUP&R ITN OFFERS EARLY RESEARCHER TRAINING
IN SUSTAINABLE PAVEMENTS & RAILwAYS
The FP7-funded Sustainable Pavements & Railways Initial Training
Network (SUP&R ITN), which started at the beginning of October 2013,
aims to form a new generation of multi-disciplinary European researchers
and professionals capable of conceiving, planning and executing
sustainable road and railway infrastructures. This is through a consortium
of universities, research centres and companies/industries from five
countries (UK, Italy, France, Ireland and Spain). The Nottingham
Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC) at the University of Nottingham
is coordinating this four-year People - Marie Curie Actions project and will
lead the shaping of the training of all the recruited researchers.

SUP&R ITN offers a training-throughresearch programme to selected young
researchers across Europe. The project
includes a high-level four-year training
programme which will be international
and multi-sectoral. To achieve the overall research and training objectives, the
SUP&R ITN has implemented six Work
Packages (WPs). NTEC will lead the
shaping of the training programme
(WP4), be in charge of the management
of the SUP&R ITN (WP5) as well as the
dissemination and outreach activities
of the Consortium (WP6). Each hosting
institution will contribute to the training-through-research of the researcher
through projects that will be delivered
within three scientific research work
packages (WP1-WP3)
The training will be local and networkwide and will consist of basic and
advanced scientific courses together
with complementary skills training
courses, workshops, technical visits,
research periods abroad, summer
schools, conferences and a final symposium. Each course will be coordinated
by the Consortium and will be held at
the premises of the different partners.

SUP&R ITN will train the researchers/professionals to incorporate sustainability
concepts already at the design stage of
road and railway infrastructure technologies. SUP&R ITN will drive the researchers
on their pathway by closely investigating
promising pavements and r