ARCADE involves ~85 consortium and associated partners, and ~350 other stakeholder networks and organisations across the public, industry and research sectors, from 35 countries within and outside EU. ARCADE organised a series of public events gathering these stakeholders to cooperate on common challenges related to CAD deployment, exchange knowledge, create synergies and reduce overlaps when setting R&I priorities: 7 Stakeholder workshops (two with ERTRAC), one R&I projects concertation workshop, two European Conferences on Connected and Automated Driving, three webinars of the Interactive Symposium on Research & Innovation for Connected and Automated Driving in Europe.
ARCADE facilitated cooperation with other world regions to exchange knowledge, expertise and best practice through participation in the Trilateral ART WG, and analysed the possible extension of cooperation on specific CAD topics with Singapore, Canada, Israël, Australia, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, India, Russia to provide recommendations for international cooperation in CCAM Partnership Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA).
ARCADE coordinated WG on Coordination & Cooperation of R&I and testing activities of the Single Platform for Open Road Testing and Pre-deployment of Cooperative, Connected, Automated & Autonomous Mobility.
ARCADE identified and stakeholder validated research priorities to contribute to the CCAM Partnership SRIA roadmap and ERTRAC roadmap for CCAM (version 10, completed in 2022).
ARCADE analysed 62 (ongoing and finished) EU projects in CCAM to describe overall findings, identify specific synergies and gaps, and derive recommendations for future R&I topics in the 24 areas defined within the CCAM SRIA.
ARCADE has delivered a comprehensive and searchable repository for knowledge and data related to CAD research and innovation in Europe. The CAD Knowledge Base includes information on R&I projects and testing activities, thematic areas, regulations and policies, roadmaps and action plans, standards, guidelines and evaluation methodologies, and data sharing practices. It also features a glossary, frequently asked questions, archives of previous EUCAD events, and news updates.
Communication and dissemination activities played a crucial role in the project's success, with the project/Knowledge Base website, social media channels, and presentations at CAD-related conferences and events involving large stakeholder communities, in different regions, being key elements of these efforts. The Knowledge Base and social media are exploitation tools themselves, which together with the stakeholder Network events are moreover continued in the follow-up project FAME.
