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Who doesn’t know the challenge: darkness, heavy rain, dense fog, or snowfall significantly impair visibility while driving. In such situations, a…

Representatives from Government and Industry discuss the opportunities for Germany as a location for the automotive industry

 

Why We Need Coordinated Digital Test Fields at the European Level

Have your say on Generative AI for Autonomous and Connected Driving

Frankfurt am Main on March 21 and 22, at the House of Logistics and Mobility (Holm) – After two days of intensive programming, the coordinators of the…

The final KI Data Tooling event took place on 5 and 6 December 2023 at BMW Welt in Munich. The approximately 100 participants on site and many…

The pre-competitive research project Verification Validation Methods (VVM) provided insights into the findings and work results during the final…

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Projects of the VDA LI Families Pegasus and KI Nearing Completion

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The inaugural TACHELES conference, organized by the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, commenced with great success, attracting over 100…

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The funding project KI Delta Learning has provided new research results on scalable AI for automated driving.

 

In that freezing yet breathtaking extreme environment in Lapland, the ‘work package’ and ‘sub-project’ leaders met between January 30th and February…

For the second time, the partners of the KI Familie projects (KI Wissen, KI Delta Learning, KI Data Tooling) have met to exchange information on…

Berlin, July 2022 – At the first consortium meeting and project kick-off on July 5 and 6, 2022, the responsible representatives of the eight…

On June 24, the KI Data Tooling consortium presented its first research results at Volkswagen's Drive Forum in Berlin. Over 100 visitors were given an…

On June 23, 2022, the partners of the KI Absicherung consortium gathered for the official project closing event in Berlin and presented the results of…

IMAGinE-Abschlussveranstaltung auf dem TRIWO-Testcenter Pferdsfeld

On May 19th, 2022, one week after its virtual final presentation, the IMAGinE consortium presented the results of its research workin a face-to-face…

In the joint project IMAGinE (Intelligent Maneuver Automation - cooperative hazard avoidance in realtime), twelve partners from the automotive…

The ITS World Congress 2021 from 11 to 15 October 2021 marked the end of the largest automotive project ever managed by EICT: L3Pilot…

On 15 and 16 March, the VVM project partners presented their first results and methods at the virtual mid-term presentation. The two-day event offered…

Already For for a little over more than a year, the KI Wissen project has been working on how existing knowledge can be integrated into and extracted…

Several project events for which EICT is responsible in the field of project management and dissemination of results are scheduled in the first half…

More than 300 participants gathered to follow the virtual mid-term presentation of KI Delta Learning on October 7, 2021. Together with Ernst…

L3Pilot celebrated a week of Final Event (→ external link) in conjunction with ITS World Congress 2021 in Hamburg, Germany, with Level 3 Driving…

This year's ITS Congress in Hamburg from October 11 to 15 welcomed international visitors. Despite the pandemic, the congress was able to register a…

The Test Area Autonomous Driving Baden-Württemberg (TAF BW) opened its doors on two consecutive days. During a project event on November 12, 2021,…

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Vehicle safety and accident-free driving for the mobility of the future. This is a focus of the Tech Center i-protect, a project founded on 21 January…

AI applications are already used in vehicles today. But how can we ensure that AI can be used for autonomous driving - with all the different…

After more than four years the L3Pilot project concludes with a Final Event on Wednesday, October 13 and Thursday, October 14, 2021 in conjunction…

EICT GmbH is strongly represented with four projects at the ITS World Congress running from 11-15th October 2021. The ITS World Congress is the…

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How important are AI and methods of AI training to let automated vehicles drive in the "real world"?

 

On July 7, 2021 Hi-Drive, the EU funded Horizon 2020 project and follow-up project of L3Pilot kicked off to take automated driving from L3 further up…

How can we ensure that automated vehicles drive reliably even in bad weather conditions?

This is the central question the AI-SEE research project,…

Autonomous driving (AD) technology is one of the most promising technologies with great potential - for society, for road safety and for Europe as a…

How can highly automated driving be made safer? This was the central question of the interim presentation of KI Absicherung, the largest project of…

The digital transformation is fundamentally changing the automotive industry. In the global race for the lead in the mobility of tomorrow, competition…

The four research projects of the KI Familie are closely interlinked in terms of content and are in intensive exchange with each other. To take this…

The KI Wissen research project was launched on January 1, 2021. Under the leadership of Continental Automotive GmbH, the 16 project partners will…

On January 22, the Münchner Kreis’ "Diversity Applied" working group held a virtual workshop on "Corona and Careers - Push or Pullback for Women."…

Highly automated and autonomous vehicles are supposed to become an integral part of everyday traffic. However, constantly changing traffic situations…

Based on business scenarios for AD in 2030 developed by L3Pilot partners, the following business models were considered as promising and viable…

On 1 April 2020 KI Data Tooling, the third project in the AI project family of the VDA Leitinitiative autonomous and connected driving officially…

At the premises of project partner Cerema the DENSE project held its Final Event on February 26 2020.

The L3Pilot project invites to the Summer School, which will take place in Athens, Greece from 13-14 May 2020.

L3Pilot partners held their second Showcase in conjunction with the 2019 Annual EUCAR Reception and Conference in Brussels, Belgium, on 6-7 November…

How could the deployment of Automated Driving possibly look like in the year 2030?

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The European research project L3Pilot was presented at the ITS World Congress in Singapore during the whole week from 21-25 October 2019.

After the AI2Ynet conception phase with 10 workshops and nearly 120 participating companies, associations and institutions, the network will meet on…

The first project phase of AI2Ynet was carried out as part of the AI Innovation Competition organized by the BMWi.

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A kickoff meeting on July 11 and 12, 2019 marked the start of the new VVM project.

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A workshop on 4 July 2019 officially launched the project “KI Absicherung” (Dependable AI).

Are you thinking about using AI technology in your business or offer it to others? With AI2Ynet we want to support you in the future. To learn more…

In early March 2019, major European automotive manufacturers started testing automated in-vehicle functions on public roads across ten countries in…

On April 2nd EICT welcomed seven executives from marketing and sales of the Volkswagen AG during the 2019 VW Learning Journey Berlin on “Future…

L3Pilot is currently the largest research project in Europe on automated driving. In the coming decades, mobility will fundamentally change and thus…

The L3Pilot consortium has published their second newsletter. Here the project informs regularly about the latest news about the first pan-European…

On 6-7 November, 2018, the first L3Pilot showcase was successfully performed in conjunction with the EUCAR Reception & Conference in Brussels, Belgium…

About 110 participants from the industry, the scientific community and public institutions followed the invitation on 14 November 2018 to the annual…

The Tech Center a-drive research project is technically coordinated by the EICT and, as part of their ongoing activities holds regular workshops…

As part of the Connected Automated Driving (CAD) webinar series the L3Pilot project was featured in the eleventh part of the series on a methodology…

EICT held a one-day workshop with scientists of the Charité Berlin, the Technical University and the Free University Berlin on “The impact chapter in…

The RobustSENSE project successfully came to an end in Ulm, Germany. At the final event of RobustSENSE, held on 16th of May, project results were…

The test field "Autonomous Driving Baden-Württemberg" officially opened with a festive event in Karlsruhe in the presence of Winfried Hermann,…

Finally: Welcome to our new EICT website. We hope you enjoy this improved version of our digital presentation.

During the panel discussion in the Smart Mobility im DRIVE Volkswagen Group Forum Berlin EICT CEO Tanja Kessel discussed the leadership of Germany in…

Starting in July 2017, the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, is a new shareholder of the EICT. With this, EICT further…

120 experts for automated driving from all over Europe met in Wolfsburg on 13 and 14 September 2017 to bring automated driving functions to European…

Die größten Anforderungen an die Mobilität der Zukunft sind die Kundenzentrierung sowie die Notwendigkeit, in einem vernetzten, zusammenhängenden…

DENSE und RobustSENSE sind beim ersten Digital Innovation Forum (DIF) in Amsterdam am 10. und 11. Mai 2017 vertreten. Im Rahmen einer Forschungs- und…

Watch the AdaptIVe project video and learn more about automated driving functions.