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American Bryant Walker Smith was recently in Oslo to give a lecture at ITS Norway‘s ITS Day 2025. He also guested on Teknisk Ukeblad‘s podcast “Teknisk sett”, where he talks about both the technology and regulation surrounding self-driving cars. Bryant is an engineer by training, but later studied law and became a lawyer to influence […]

Nordic Innovation‘s three new programs for the period 2025-2027 have recently been published – in addition to new funding opportunities! These are the three new programs Innovative Solutions for 2030 The aim of this program is to accelerate the introduction of solutions for the green transition towards 2030 and contribute to systemic change towards more […]

Nordic+ Pavilion Showcases Cutting-Edge Transport Innovation at the ITS World Congress Dubai 2024

DYNAPORT has completed its first of three project years with important milestones achieved! The project is working on solutions that facilitate better planning and coordination between ports and ships using common standards for information sharing. ITS Norway is proud of the progress they have made together with their partners, both internally in the project and […]

Nordic+ was gathered in Helsinki, Finland, at the end of November for its annual strategy meeting. During two days in Helsinki, Nordic+ took a look back at the past year and pointed its nose forward to a new and exciting year 2025 – and plans the strategy for the years ahead! It has been an […]

The DYNAPORT project recently had an exciting and productive week in Trondheim, where the consortium participated in the MTEC and ICMASS 2024 conference followed by a very educational workshop with the sister project MISSION. The conference, which took place on 29th–30th of October, brought together a global audience of maritime industry leaders, researchers and industry […]

EIT Urban Mobility is launching the third edition of the SME Market Expansion Call with an expected budget of 892,500 euros. This call is a call for proposals addressed to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), where each beneficiary will receive EUR 59,500 per project, to address the pressing urban mobility challenges through innovative solutions. The […]

ITS Nationals hosted its first annual award ceremony in the Swiss capital Bern this week and ITS Norway‘s CEO and ITS veteran Trond Hovland won the prize “Network Person of the Year”! The ITS National Awards lifts and celebrates the best within the network, with the intention to get the national ITS organisations to think […]

Together with Nordic+, our members have participated in world and European congresses in recent years—and with great success! The Nordic+ pavilion has been one of the most popular at the congresses. Still, perhaps even more exciting, our members have made themselves visible on the international market and gained great opportunities! Edeva is among those who […]

Nordic+ will of course be in place on the European Congress 2025 in Seville. The ITS Europe Congress 2025 takes place on the 19th–21th of May 2025 in Seville, Spain (FIBES Convention centre). This year’s World Congress will focus on “Clean, resilient and connected mobility” and will unite experts from mobility, technology and politics to […]

Together with Nordic+ our members have participated in both world congresses and European congresses in recent years – and with great success! The Nordic+ pavilion has been one of the most popular at the congresses, but perhaps even more exciting – our members have made themselves visible on the international market and gained great opportunities! […]

Managing traffic flows is complex. Any number of unforeseen events can impact the entire mobility ecosystem. EU-funded ORCHESTRA defined a new system to better synchronise flows across different modes of transport and respond to unexpected scenarios. This article is originally written and publish by Nicola Johnston and the European Commission – you can see the original article here. […]

Nordic+ has attended the ITS World Congress 2024 in Dubai together with 36 businesses – it couldn’t be anything other than a very inspiring week! It is fantastic to travel together with as many as 36 companies and see that new contacts, collaborations and friendships are created – across national borders! The week started with […]

An insight into drivers, challenges and opportunities. During May-June 2024, the Nordic Battery Collaboration, consisting of Business Finland, Business Sweden and Innovation Norway, together with Nordic+, has conducted interviews with private and public actors in the value chain for heavy duty transport, with the aim of establishing a common view of the drivers, the challenges […]

The EU project DYNAPORT will, over a 3-year period, develop internationally standardized tools for digital planning, interaction and automated reporting to make sea transport and port logistics more efficient, resource-saving and sustainable. ITS Norway participates in the EU project DYNAPORT with responsibility for international standardization of digital communication between ship and port. This takes place […]

From a pool of 82 applicants, the jury has selected six outstanding finalists. The winner will be announced in Stockholm on May 29 Nordic Innovation’s scale up definition are an annual revenue at minimum of EURO 2 million, personnel of at least 10 people and an annual growth figure of at least 20 % in […]

ITS Nationals is now looking for a new Chairman and Vice-Chairman, as the two-year term of the current Chairman, Günther Weber (who has completed four years as Chairman and therefore cannot be re-elected to the position), and the Vice-Chairman, Dónal Hodgins, are coming to an end in June. You will find all the information about […]

Then this year’s Intertraffic Amsterdam 2024 was over for this time! We would like to thank all participants who helped make this a real success – ITS Nationals for a good exhibition stand, the Nordic+ ecosystem, and especially our members who were with us on the trip. It was a trip filled with lots of […]

The seminar was an opportunity to understand the future impact of MASS on ports and can help ports to prepare their plans and preparations before MASS operates in ports in the coming years. The event took place on Thursday 11th of April 2024 at IMO headquarters in London. ITS Norway‘s director of maritime ITS, Ørnulf […]

There is no international standard for the construction of a Road Data Model that unites users and systems in all aspects of the road sector (maintenance, operations, ITS, designing, and construction). Since 2018, ITS Norway has led the Joint Working Group 11 (JWG11) under ISO to re-develop one of the existing standards, Geographic Data Format (GDF), into a Basic Road Data Model base ISO TC211 GIS family of […]