We sit down with Carmen Frigerio, Project Communication and Event Manager at PAVE Europe and Work Package Leader for Policy and Networking Strategies for Effective European Adoption, to talk about the project, their role in CHORUS, and the impact they hope it will have.
1. Can you introduce your organisation?
Can you tell us about your organisation, its mission, and the expertise it brings to CHORUS?
PAVE Europe is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving public understanding of automated mobility through education, stakeholder engagement and dialogue. We bring together actors from industry, public authorities, academia and civil society to support an informed and inclusive transition towards automated mobility. Our expertise lies particularly in education and training, public awareness, stakeholder engagement, policy dialogue and community building.
This makes PAVE a strong fit for CHORUS, where technological innovation needs to be connected with the people, organisations and policies that will enable its real-world adoption. Within CHORUS, PAVE leads WP5 and contributes especially to training and capacity building (T5.2), stakeholder mapping and the Community of Practice (T5.3), and policy and regulatory activities (T5.4).
2. Why did your organisation join CHORUS?
What motivated I-SENSE Group to join the consortium, and what is its role within the project?
3. Which CHORUS outcome are you most excited about?
Is there a particular tool, pilot, methodology, or result that you’re especially looking forward to, and why?
As Project Coordinator and lead of the Trikala pilot, ICCS is looking forward to deploying and coordinating a holistic urban mobility ecosystem across two key Use Cases: deploying automated logistics robots integrated with postal services for safe off-street navigation, and orchestrating heterogeneous traffic actors through a centralized Traffic Management Centre.
4. What impact do you hope CHORUS will have on citizens?
Which aspects of the project do you think will make the biggest difference in people’s everyday lives?
We hope CHORUS will contribute to making automated mobility safer, more accessible and better integrated into everyday transport. From PAVE Europe’s perspective, it is especially important that citizens are not left outside the transition towards CCAM. Through education, awareness and engagement, CHORUS can help people better understand how automated mobility works, what benefits it can bring, and how concerns around safety, trust and its use in mixed traffic are being addressed. Ultimately, we hope CHORUS will help create a future where automated mobility is developed with citizens’ needs in mind, rather than focusing on technology alone.
5. Is there anything else you’d like to share?
What should readers expect about CHORUS?
In the coming months, PAVE Europe will continue to develop training activities and the CHORUS Community of Practice, helping stakeholders learn, exchange ideas, and support the project. We believe the transition to automated mobility should be a shared effort. Follow CHORUS and join our activities to be part of the conversation.
