Project activities

The essence of the DRAVIS4 project, implemented with the support of the Interreg VI-A Hungary-Croatia Program, is to better prepare for disasters caused by climate change, such as floods or forest fires, in the Hungarian-Croatian border region. In the project, authorities and municipalities from Baranya and Somogy counties, as well as Osijek-Baranja, Virovitica-Podravina, and Koprivnica-Križevci counties on the Croatian side, are working together.

Following the major floods and forest fires of recent years, it has become clear that the region needs more modern solutions and closer cooperation to increase security. For effective work, cross-border collaboration is the most important factor, as natural disasters do not respect borders. Building on the successes of previous joint projects, Hungarian and Croatian partners are now coordinating their tasks even more closely. Our goal is to modernize the technical background, test new tools, and create joint plans that will make the area safer in the long term.

During the project, we deal with the following defined tasks:

·        Development of flood protection and forest fire prevention.

·        Use of modern technologies, such as drones and artificial intelligence.

·        Post-disaster recovery and the management of environmental damage.

We will test the developed methods through joint exercises and pilot programs along the Drava and in the border forests. At the end of the project, a summary document will be prepared so that the experiences can be used elsewhere later.

As a result of the project, the region as a whole will be much better prepared and more resilient against environmental challenges. This not only assists the work of professional organizations but also serves the safety of local communities and the protection of the natural values of the Drava region, as the Drava is 'A cross-border region where rivers connect'.

During the 24-month project, we are laying down joint professional foundations that will help make our environment safer and more sustainable on both sides of the border.

Further information: dravis4.rsoe.hu http://dravis4.rsoe.hu

Name of the project:

BORDERLINK – Border Control Agencies for Interlinked and Interoperable Future

Support programme: HORIZON EUROPE

Project timeline:

2024.-2027.

Role of RSOE:

Project partner

Project description:

BORDERLINK aims to make a significant contribution to the objectives of the CCEI as well as to the planned reform of the customs union. BORDERLINK will improve the capabilities and performance of customs authorities at EU borders by promoting the detection and identification of threat materials and improving training, communication and data sharing. It contributes to the strengthening of supply chain control and the promotion of the green customs initiative.

10 countries are involved in the project, including Switzerland, Hungary, Greece, Lithuania, Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium and Norway.

The project is coordinated by the Belgian CBRA SERVICES, project partners are the Hungarian NATIONAL TAX AND CUSTOMS OFFICE, the Irish THE REVENUE COMMISSIONERS, the British HOME OFFICE, the Norwegian TOLLREGION OSLO OG AKERSHUS, the British RAPISCAN SYSTEMS LIMITED, the Greek SATWAYS-OLOKLIROMENES LYSEIS ASFALEIAS KAI AMYNAS -IDIOTIKI EPICHEIRISI PAROCHIS YPIRESION ASFALEIAS (IEPYA)-ETAIREIA PERIORISME, the Lithuanian INTA, JSC, the Irish rezero limited and ANALYZE IQ LIMITED, the Hungarian RSOE, the Austrian VICESSE RESEARCH GMBH, the Dutch TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT, the British THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM and AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES LDA UK LIMITED, the Irish NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY, and the Swiss CROSS-BORDER RESEARCH ASSOCIATION and UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE as monitoring partners.

The project starts from december of 2024 and the end date of the project is december of 2027.

The project coordinator is the Belgian CBRA SERVICES.

Project title: AVIS - Automated Vessels on European Inland Waterways

Support program: European Commission Tender

Project duration: 2024.-2026.

Role of RSOE:

Project partner

Project description:

The main goal of the AVIS project is that we will investigate solutions and carry out experiments based on the use of European Union space data for automated vessels traveling on European inland waterways.

It is a project involving four countries, and the partners are Spain, Belgium, Germany and Hungary.

It is financed by a project that won a tender from the European Commission.

Project partners: GMV, BM, WSV, RSOE, TRESCO

The coordinator of the project is GMV (Madrid, Spain).

Project website:

avisproject.gmw.com http://avisproject.gmw.com

Projekt tittle:

COMEX 2- River Information Services Corridor Management Execution²

Support program: CEF program

Project duration: 2023. 02. 01.-2028. 02. 01.

Role of RSOE:

Projektpartner

Project description:

Based on the results of the RIS COMEX project (2016-2022), during which, among other things, the common European river information service platform called EuRIS was implemented, which offers waterway, infrastructure, traffic and transport data from 13 European countries to all inland waterway transport users as a single access point for COMEX 2 will continue, expand and optimize the services and data provided in order to increase and optimize the benefits for users, society and the environment. To this end, a key focus is on functionality and geographic expansion, as well as direct integration with existing inboard and onboard systems based on the needs and requirements of stakeholders, which include ship operators, skippers, logistics users and authorities.

In addition to EuRIS, a common electronic reporting system called CEERIS has been created with the participation of 8 European countries in order to help reduce administrative barriers and reporting burdens. COMEX 2 focuses on the expansion and optimization of CEERIS, including the connection between CEERIS and other existing systems, in order to facilitate single reporting for all European inland waterway transport.

COMEX 2 will closely follow the DTLF and eFTI initiatives and take appropriate measures to promote the multimodal integration of systems, services and data exchange.

Other pillars of COMEX 2 are stakeholder management, services to increase the safety of navigation, measures to promote the digitization of inland waterway transport, resilient and stable frameworks for the sustainable operation of European RIS systems, and other national and international priorities to optimize the RIS spectrum and benefits achieved.

COMEX 2 will significantly contribute to increasing the efficiency of inland waterway transport and to the adjustment of the balance, which will bring significant environmental and economic benefits.

More information:

COMEX² – River Information Services Corridor Management Execution² - viadonau httphttps://www.viadonau.org/en/company/project-database/comex2-river-information-services-corridor-management-execution2

Latest information:

COMEX² – River Information Services Corridor Management Execution² - viadonau httphttps://www.viadonau.org/en/company/project-database/comex2-river-information-services-corridor-management-execution2

Project title: ACCESSMILE - Improving last mile accessibility from rural and peripheral regions to the main Central European TEN-T junctions using information and communication technologies

Support program: Interreg Central Europe

Project duration: 01.04.2023 – 31.03.2026

Role of RSOE:

Work package manager

Project description:

The ACCESSMILE project helps to solve the poor last-mile accessibility of rural and peripheral areas to the main TEN-T freight hubs. This challenge particularly affects shippers from Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Germany and Poland.

In fact, they are affected by multimodal transport inefficiencies, lower economic growth, and higher transport-related air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions compared to regional centers.

To change this, cooperation is central, as the questions to be answered are common and cover operational topics that cannot be addressed locally due to the global nature of traffic flows.

This is why cooperation between carriers representing key players in the logistics chain, each of which contributes to the overall efficiency of multimodal connectivity, is essential to improve the last-mile accessibility of rural and peripheral areas to the main TEN-T hubs and to strengthen territorial cohesion.

To this end, we focus on digitization, the development of medium- and long-term planning tools, and the testing of IT tools in our areas, enabling the establishment of common standards.

We begin by comparing the current state of our regions with available best practices, then create strategy and action plans for the following three IT topics:

traffic flow optimization,

gates,

cargo packaging.

We then jointly test them in result-oriented experimental activities (pilot actions) at different locations, compare our results, draw related lessons and find solutions, so that the results can be replicated in other regions.

As a result, transport stakeholders will experience a concrete improvement in the efficiency of last-mile connectivity to rural and peripheral areas already during the project's duration.

In the three years of the project, we expect to establish a joint cooperation and development path in order to improve the last-mile connections of the rural and peripheral regions of Central Europe with the TEN-T in the medium and long term and to strengthen territorial cohesion.

More information:

https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/accessmile/

Latest information:

https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/accessmile/

Invitation to tender

We inform you that our Association intends to involve an external service provider for the provision of services titled “Expert tasks related to the Navigation and Port Information System within the ACCESSMILE EU project – conducting analyses, preparing studies, and fulfilling international cooperation tasks” as part of the ACCESSMILE project (ID: CE0100034). Applications are welcome by July 6, 2023 (Thursday) at 17:00, in accordance with the attached document “Call for Proposal_ACCESSMILE”.

-Call for Proposal- https://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/Ajanlatteteli_felhivas_ACCESSMILE.doc

We inform you that our Association intends to involve an external service provider for the provision of services titled “DEVELOPMENT OF ROAD MANAGEMENT MODULE OF THE KIR SYSTEM” as part of the ACCESSMILE project (ID: CE0100034). Applications are welcome by January 30, 2025, in accordance with the attached document “Call for Proposal_ACCESSMILE_Road”.

-Call for Proposal_ACCESSMILE_Road- https://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/Ajanlatteteli_felhivas_ACCESSMILE_Kozut.doc

We inform you that our Association intends to involve an external service provider for the provision of services titled “Expert services in port and logistics for the pilot testing of port road management and the production of a promotional short film” as part of the ACCESSMILE project (ID: CE0100034). Applications are welcome by February 10, 2025, in accordance with the attached document “Call for Proposal_ACCESSMILE_Pilot_Shortfilm”.

-Call for Proposal_ACCESSMILE_Pilot_Shortfilm- https://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/Ajanlatteteli_felhivas_ACCESSMILE_Pilot_Rovidfilm.doc

We inform you that our Association intends to involve an external service provider for the provision of services titled “Request for Quotation – event venue and lunch” as part of the ACCESSMILE project (ID: CE0100034). Applications are welcome by March 3, 2025, in accordance with the attached document “Request for Quotation – March 19 event”.

-Request for Quotation – March 19 event- hthttps://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/Arajanlatkeres%20%E2%80%93%20marcius%2019%20rendezveny.docx

We inform you that our Association intends to involve an external service provider for the provision of services titled “Request for Quotation – dinner for 17 people on March 19” as part of the ACCESSMILE project (ID: CE0100034). Applications are welcome by March 13, 2025, at 14:00, in accordance with the attached document “Request for Quotation – dinner for 17 people on March 19”.

-Request for Quotation – dinner for 17 people on March 19- hthttps://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/Arajanlatkeres%20%E2%80%93%2017%20fos%20vacsora%20marcius%2019-en.docx

We hereby inform you that our Association intends to involve an external service provider for the provision of services related to “Hajózási információs nap” arising within the framework of the ACCESSMILE project (ID: CE0100034). We kindly await your application by sending the attached file entitled “Árajánlat táblázat” in accordance with the document “Árajánlatkérés_március10” by 26 February 2026, 13:00.

-Árajánlat táblázat- httphttps://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/arajanlat_tablazat_ACCESSMILE.xlsx

-Árajánlatkérés_március10- httpshttps://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/arajanlatkeres_marcius_10.docx

Project title: MultiReload - Port solutions for efficient, effective and sustainable multimodality

Support program: Horizon Europe

Project duration: 01.09.2022 - 31.08.2025.

Role of RSOE:

Project partner

Project description:

MultiReload focuses on the specific role and challenges of inland ports and hubs as multimodal freight hubs that contribute to Europe's goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, thus shifting a significant 75% of domestic shipping in the European Union, from public roads to inland waterways and railways, and focuses on increasing the operational efficiency and reliability of existing infrastructures through digitalization, thereby significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

WP1: Coordination with international partners, project management, financial management.

WP2: Contribution to the development of the operation of multimodal logistics chains through the use of information systems.

WP3: We contribute to the planning, development and creation of strategies for port information systems based on Hungarian EMS experiences.

WP4: We provide inputs from the Hungarian side for the impact study of the results achieved by the project.

WP5: We provide technical information systems, experiences and know-how inputs necessary for the solution of business models.

WP6: Domestic contribution to the use and dissemination of the project results, project communication

Latest news:

hhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/multireload-project/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/multireload-project/

Project title: PLOTO - Applying environmentally sustainable and emerging digital predictive modeling to improve the resilience of shipping lanes to climate change and other extremes

Support program: Horizon Europe

Project duration: 01.09.2022 – 28.02.2026

Role of RSOE:

Project partner

Project description:

The purpose of PLOTO is to create an integrated planning platform that can be applied primarily to inland waterway (IWW) transport infrastructures using existing tools and services as well as emerging ones.

The assumption is that existing solutions, as well as nature-based solutions and other tools and measures, can reduce climate change-related risks and improve inland water resilience, while protecting biodiversity and other environmental parameters.

The purpose of the PLOTO platform is to understand multi-hazard risks, intelligent prevention and preparedness, and faster, adapted and effective response. Our proposed new integrated system to support operational and strategic adaptation and mitigation measures aims to increase the resilience of inland water by better processing the effects of climate change (including extreme events) and more effective recovery from them.

The introduced technical, social and institutional measures are first simulated by our system (digital twin), then installed and demonstrated so that they can be evaluated against the economic and other indicators defined in the project.

WP1: Coordination with international partners, project management, financial management.

WP2: Participation in defining domestic requirements and analysis of existing information systems and future planning.

WP3: Planning the processing of meteorological and other data, coordination with international partners, analysis of own information system

WP4: Contribution from the Hungarian side to the examination and evaluation of the port and related railway infrastructure.

WP5: Analysis of different data sources from a domestic perspective

WP6: Participation in the implementation of a decision support system, adaptation to own domestic systems

WP7: Participation in the implementation of Budapest pilot activities from the information system side

WP8: Domestic contribution to the use and dissemination of the project's results, project communication

More information:

https://ploto-project.eu/

Latest news:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/plotoproject/

Project Title:

IWETT – Inland Waterway use of EGNOS for Tracking and Tracing – The use of EGNOS on inland waterways for vessel identification and tracking.

Support

Program: EGNOS CALL

Project Duration:

2022.10 – 2024.09

Role of RSOE:

Coordinator

Project Description:

The main objective of the IWETT project is to increase the safety and efficiency of inland waterway navigation by providing more reliable and accurate vessel position data through the use of the European EGNOS correction satellite system.

The inland waterway DGNSS system will be developed using the European EGNOS correction satellite data in three countries: Hungary (Danube), Germany (Spree-Oder), and Spain (Guadalquivir).

In addition, the concept of an onboard inland waterway navigation system will also be developed and tested to enhance transport safety.

The project is coordinated by the National Association of Radio Distress Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE), with project partners including the German Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, Alberding GmbH, and the Port Authority of Seville, Spain. Observer partners are the Spanish national port authority Puertos del Estado and the French organization CEREMA.

The project runs from October 2022 to September 2024 and is supported by the European Union’s agency EUSPA.

Project website:

www.iwett.eu http://www.iwett.eu

Project title: COMODALCE - Improving coordination of multimodal transport in Central Europe

Support program: CENTRAL EUROPE

Project duration: 04.01.2019 - 03.03.2022.

Role of RSOE:

Work package manager

Project description:

The Central European transport sector continues to be characterized by challenges that hinder its competitiveness. Fragmentation of the institutional framework between ports / intermodal logistics hubs and public institutions, insufficient coordination between freight carriers and logistics hubs all negatively affect the transport costs, time and reliability of multimodal transport. Road transport is the most commonly used mode of transport, connecting each port to land destinations, which increases greenhouse gas emissions.

The goal of the COMODALCE project is to increase cooperation and coordination between the parties involved in multimodal transport in Central Europe by using innovative information and communication systems. The project brings together the most important ports and railway terminals generating multimodal transport processes, as well as the operators.

The partners analyze the current situation, the best practices of the region and the EU. This analysis will result in strategies to facilitate coordinated multimodal transport through ICT. Strategies are tested in pilot activities that significantly improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the transnational multimodal transport sector by optimizing its transport costs, time and reliability. The strategy and pilot projects contribute to the further transition from road to rail and to the improvement of the overall logistics chain, leading to practical, tangible and end-user-oriented results.

Invitation to initiate a procurement procedure

We would like to inform you that our Association wishes to engage external service providers for the provision of services arising during the COMODALCE project (identifier: CE1455) regarding the "Development of the harmonized interface between container terminal and ship within the framework of the work package WPT2 'Implementation of Pilot Action' of the COMODALCE project". We are waiting for your application according to the attached "COMODALCE_tendering_offering_pilot activity implementation" document until September 25, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.

COMODALCE_tendering_invitation to implement a pilot activity https://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/COMODALCE_ajanlatteteli_felhivas_pilot_tevekenyseg_megvalositasara.doc

21.09.2020

Based on the attachment, we are waiting for your price offer within the framework of the COMODALCE project, no later than January 10, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.

Bidding_invitation_COMODALCE_action plan https://rsoe.hu/assets/doc/Ajanlatteteli_felhivas_COMODALCE_akcioterv.doc

06.01.2022

Invitation to tender

For our COMODALCE event planned for March 8 , we are looking for your price offers as follows:

Date: March 8, 2022

Time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Event type: conference

Room type: in a U shape or as a school table (maybe other) system

Technical requirements: projector, projection screen, pulpit, microphone

Number of participants: approx. 45 people

Catering1: water, coffee, soft drink and salty tea cake preparation on arrival

Catering2: Lunch

Please send your price offer to szidonia.kakuk@gmail.com mailto:szidonia.kakuk@gmail.com

Deadline: 02.02.2022. 10 a.m.

Thank you, Kakuk Szidónia

18.01.2022

Invitation to tender

On the occasion of our COMODALCE workshop, which will be held on March 8, we are asking you for a price offer for 70 Godello wine sets with a logo

Delivery deadline: March 7, 2022.

Delivery location: 1089-Budapest, Elnök utca 1.

Please send your price offer to szidonia.kakuk@gmail.com mailto:szidonia.kakuk@gmail.com

Deadline: 03.03.2022. 14:00

Thank you, Kakuk Szidónia

2022.03.02.

Project title: GRENDEL - Environmentally friendly and efficient Danube fleet

Support program: Danube Transnational Program

Project duration: 06.2018 – 11.2020.

Role of RSOE:

Project partner

Project description:

The aim of the project is to support the operators and partners of the Danube ships in the ecological and economic modernization of the inland shipping sector, as well as to define and further develop the necessary transitional measures. Thanks to the new regulations, targeted activities increase the awareness of Danube fleet operators and the sector. Advanced technologies reduce air pollution and energy consumption of inland vessels, and (thanks to digitalization) improve transport/transportation and logistics management processes. On the other hand, GRENDEL supports ministries and authorities in the development of state support systems, which systems are based on the investments of major Danube inland navigation operators.

The general goal of the GRENDEL project is to improve the environmental and economic performance of the Danube fleet. It also aims to increase the acceptance and use of inland waterway transport as a more environmentally friendly form of public transport among the population, thereby contributing to economic growth and the development of a more sustainable transport system in the Danube region. GRENDEL deals with various aspects of fleet modernization: use of low-carbon and alternative fuels, reduction of air pollutant emissions (CO2, NOx, PM) and total energy consumption. In addition, it directs/manages the transport/transportation and logistics management processes in such a way that the Danube IWT can be better integrated into the logistics chains with the help of new services (River Information Services) and digital data services, as well as with tools aimed at improving the efficiency of fleet operations.

Background of the project:

The GRENDEL project is co-financed by the European Union Funds (ERDF, IPA) within the framework of the Danube Transnational Program for 30 months (June 2018-November 2018). The project is implemented by a transnational consortium consisting of 13 co-financed organizations and 11 associated strategic partners (transport ministries, ship operators and their associations, authorities), from 7 Danube countries. The total budget of the project: EUR 1,824,999.20, of which the ERDF contribution is EUR 1,481,137.5 and the IPA contribution is EUR 70,112.25.

More information:

www.interreg-danube.eu/grendel http://www.interreg-danube.eu/grendel

Project title: KIR - Integrated Port Information System in Hungary

Support program: CEF Program

Project duration: 01.09.2017 – 31.12.2020.

Role of RSOE:

Coordinator, implementing organization

Project purpose:

Increasing the efficiency and modernization of port management processes.

The central information system records all automatic and manual data entry, such as the planned and current entry of various water and land transport vehicles (ships, trucks and railways) into the port, as well as the goods traffic data (unloading and loading). The central system aggregates and processes the data and serves users in the form of appropriate notifications and requests based on authorization levels. While it informs freight vehicles of their exact loading location within the port, the freight forwarder helps the freight forwarder track the goods and provides the ministry with general port statistics.

Planned functions of the system:

Recording goods traffic, loadings, transshipments,

Monitoring the entry and exit of water and land freight vehicles (using RIS-AIS and order recognition automatic technologies)

Information and management of freight vehicles within the port, port management,

Modernization of the registry of port terminals (berths),

Modernization of port operator supervision, automation of port fees,

Electronic invoicing,

Traceability of goods, modernization of freight organization management,

Automation of electronic goods and traffic statistics, ministerial, statistical office and European Union data services,

Security system development,

Modern IT-based work organization,

Electronic port log of incoming and waiting ships,

Port order, license tracking, automatic warning before expiration.

More information:

Gergely Mező, gergely.mezo@rsoe.hu mailto:gergely.mezo@rsoe.hu

Danube Stream – Harmonized, integrated and smart waterway management

Danube Skills – Institutional capacity building through the development of common transnational maritime education competences and skills and public services

Green Danube – Integrated transnational regulation and practical solutions for an environmentally friendly inland waterway transport system in the Danube region

HIR - Redesign of the NKH Shipping Information System for Connection to RIS

RIS COMEX – River Information Services Corridor Management Implementation

HERO – Increasing the efficiency of Hungarian River Information Services

Further development and geographical expansion of cross-border joint planning in the field of Croatian-Hungarian disaster management cooperation

Harmonized inland navigation through education and information technology

Network of waterway operators – data and user-oriented

Waste Management Convention in the Area of ​​Danube Inland Navigation

Feasibility study for the development of a waterway information system

Adriatic-Danube-Black Sea Multimodal Platform

Joint disaster risk assessment and preparedness in the Danube region

Implementation of River Information Services in Europe 3

ProDuna – Creation of a center promoting Hungarian navigation

Danube border police cooperation on the Croatian-Hungarian border section

Implementation of River Information Services in Europe 2

Harmonized Danube Navigation Education Cooperation

Waste management in Danube navigation

Regional joint risk prevention and disaster protection cooperation in the Győr-Moson-Sopron – Burgenland region

Modernization and expansion of the Lake Fertő Storm Warning System

RIS services for the development of the integration of inland waterway transport into intermodal chains

Platform for the implementation of the NAIADES program

Further development of the complex disaster protection system along the Drava River

Cross-border port and information services

Implementation of River Information Services in Europe

Complex disaster protection information system along the Drava River

Cross-border port and information services

Digital cross-border water data exchange

Cross-border development of water transport information infrastructure

Monitoring of the transport of dangerous goods by river

Demonstration of Galileo applications for inland waterways and ports using the EGNOS system

Consortium Operational Management Platform River Information Services