News from the SAFIR Network

Since March 2022, the research partnership SAFIR and CARISSMA (Research and Test Centre for Vehicle Safety) is member of the Automotive Cluster of Bayern Innovativ. The last cluster meeting took place at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI).

Picture of a notebook with the SAFIR Flyer on the keyboard
Picture of the participants of the cluster meeting in front of the CARISSMA building

The participants of the cluster meeting in front of the CARISSMA building

Together with the colleagues of the Cluster Automotive, SAFIR programme coordinator Camila Heller and CARISSMA speaker Prof. Lothar Wech organised an interesting programme on the topic of "Road safety of autonomous vehicles".

In addition to presentations by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Birkner (VorSAFe - Plus project), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Hof  (head of the SAFIR exploratory project HATS3) and the research assistant from the SAFIR exploratory project ANTON, Ömer Dönmez, presentations were also given by companies such as LiangDao GmbH and e:fs TechHub GmbH. Another highlight was the presentation by representatives of Istanbul Okan University with the OPINA Project (Open Innovation Autonomous Vehicle Development and Testing Platform), which provided for international exchange among the guests. The OPINA Project is a project funded by Turkey and the EU to support the development, integration, prototyping and testing of software for connected and autonomous vehicles.

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