Carolina Ciprés

Projects

Skills Alliance for the Green, Digital and Social Transformation of the Energy Intensive Industries

Skills4EII project will uptake the results of the European Steel Skills Alliance (ESSA) and the Skills Alliance for Industrial Symbiosis (SPIRE-SAIS) and further develop them within the project aligned with the Large-Scale Partnership Energy Intensive Industries (LSP EII) under the Pact for Skills. Essential part is to identify and adjust additional cross-sectoral and sector specific […]

Resilient Industry Supply Chain Enhancement for SMEs

RISE-SME aims at developing a model that can assist companies in detecting and anticipating disruptions in their supply chains. The main outcome of RISE-SME is to build a methodology for different industrial ecosystems, that can identify disruptions and technological opportunities for the uptake of advanced technologies in SMEs, so as to enable flexible, agile and […]

REshaping Supply CHAins for Positive social impact

The main objectives of ReSChape project are: To analyse social, economic and environmental changes and disruptions (including Covid) and evaluate their impact on SCs, identifying related challenges in terms of relationship between countries, configuration of the network, impact on employment. To study and propose a set of SC models for the evolution of global SC […]

Boosting impact generation from research and innovation on integrated freight transport and Logistics system

Project description BOOSTLOG Vision is transforming European freight transport and logistics R&I ecosystem to perform optimally boosting impact generation out of R&I investment contributing to i) EU policy objectives towards climate neutrality, pollution, congestion and noise reduction, free movement of goods, internal security, digital transformation of logistics chains and data sharing logistics ecosystems and ii) […]

Accelerating the Path Towards Physical Internet

Results from a simulation experiment with top retailers Carrefour and Casino in France and their 100 top suppliers moving from actual practice to a “Physical Internet Model” showed a potential economic benefit of 32%, a 60% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and a potential of 50% of volume shifted from road to rail. Accelerating the […]

Action Plan for the Future of Mobility in Europe

Global socio-economic and environmental megatrends are urging for a paradigm shift in mobility and transport that involves disruptive technologies and multimodal solutions. The individual transport sectors face diverse technical and non-technical requirements and rather individual, sometimes contradicting challenges. An action plan for the coherent implementation of innovative transport and mobility solutions in Europe is thus […]

Strengthening European Transport Research and Innovation Strategies

Project description This project specifically addresses the topic of strengthening the research and innovation strategies of the transport industries in Europe. The aim of is to deliver a cohesive and coordinated approach to research and innovation strategies for all transport modes in Europe. To fulfil the aim of , the following objectives are envisaged: 1. […]

European Platform Driving KnoWledge to INNovations in Freight Logistics

Project description Addressing emissions from transport is becoming increasingly important due to its increasing contribution to total greenhouse gas emissions and the link to high levels of toxic pollutants in places with a high concentration of transport activity. The contribution of freight transport to these issues is already significant, and will become more so due […]

Papers

Carbon Footprint Accounting in Freight Transport: Training Needs

Val, S., Royo, B., Ciprés, C. Carbon Footprint Accounting in Freight Transport: Training Needs.Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe, Challenges, Solutions and Collaborations, January 2019. Part III, pp. 223-238

The Physical Internet from Shippers Perspective

Ciprés, C., de la Cruz, M. The Physical Internet from Shippers Perspective.Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe, Challenges, Solutions and Collaborations, January 2019. Part III, pp. 203-222

Supply Chain Network Design. Time and Cost Efficiency

Val, S. Kehinde, A, Machado A., Ciprés C. Supply Chain Network Design. Tackling Regulations, Lead Time and Cost Efficiency. Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains: Innovations and Integral Approaches (Contributions to Management Science). Springer, Book chapter, October 2015 (Editors: Joost de Bock & Meng Lu)