Officials from DLR, Germany's national aeronautics and space research center, have agreed with Tecnun and Ceit-IK4 to strengthen the collaboration channels on which they have been working since 2011.

For this reason, they have signed a collaboration agreement agreement that will enable them to set up joint work teams, advance international research projects in the field of mobility and transportation, including rail, automotive and maritime, and exchange doctoral students and researchers.

The goal of agreement is to find solutions to current traffic problems, while developing innovative projects to address the future of mobility and transport in Europe. DLR, Tecnun and Ceit-IK4 will research, among others, in the following areas: signaling, navigation systems, vehicle location and control; monitoring systems, new generation of wireless communications; predictive maintenance, assisted driving and energy optimization.

In addition to joint research, agreement will enable researchers and engineering students to complement their training at DLR while staff from the German center will be integrated into the teams at Tecnun and Ceit-IK4.

About DLR

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is the national center for aeronautics and space research of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its extensive research work and development in aeronautics, space, energy, transportation, digitalization and security is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. In addition to its own research, as Germany's space agency, DLR has been assigned responsibility by the federal government for the planning and execution of the German space program. DLR is also the umbrella organization of one of Germany's largest agencies project management . It has approximately 8,000 employees at 20 locations in Germany, as well as in Brussels, Paris, Tokyo and Washington D.C.