Programme

This session will demonstrate how regulatory challenges can be transformed into actionable solutions, leveraging mutual recognition frameworks to accelerate autonomous vehicle scalability across the European market. Starting from country-specific traffic scenario or traffic rule examples, the panel will discuss how mutual recognition can work in practice. Specifically, the debate will focus on how to ensure these unique national scenarios are safely covered during vehicle approval under the current L4 ADS Regulation.

As CCAM moves closer to deployment, cities and regions are increasingly expected to play a central role in shaping and enabling its implementation. This session will bring together cities, European institutions and key initiatives to discuss the conditions needed for meaningful city participation in the next phase of CCAM deployment. Drawing on experiences from ongoing initiatives, as well as emerging insights from readiness assessment and deployment roadmap activities, the discussion will explore both the support public authorities require and the contributions they can make to achieving shared European objectives.

CCAM deployment will require reliable digital information from the road environment, not only automated vehicle technology. This session will discuss how digital infrastructure, digital traffic rules and information on actual road and surface conditions can support safer and more scalable CCAM services. It will draw on the Dutch DITM programme, Sweden’s work on digital traffic rules, ongoing Horizon Europe CCAM R&I activities, and the possible European scaling of road-monitoring activities.

CCAM research & innovation and cross-border testing of CCAM technologies and services are key priorities of the EU Automotive Action Plan to strengthen European competitiveness and technological sovereignty. This session will reflect on key achievements and lessons learned from the past and ongoing activities of the CCAM Partnership which, since its launch in 2021, has aligned stakeholders across the value chain to deliver impactful R&I results, advancing validation, safety, and inclusiveness. As the Partnership enters its final phase, the focus increasingly turns to bridging innovation and large-scale deployment. The session will also explore the remaining gaps to derive the future priorities that will set the strategic direction for the research activities to be launched under the umbrella of the next Research Programme, Horizon Europe 2028-2034.

Data and AI are the twin engines driving the next leap in automated mobility, separating research-grade systems from deployment-ready ones. The rise of end-to-end AI architectures and foundation models is reshaping how automated driving systems are designed, validated, and operated. Europe faces a dual challenge: keeping pace with rapid technological developments while building frameworks ensuring trustworthiness, data sovereignty, and competitive fairness. This session addresses the concrete steps needed to turn data and AI assets into safe, scalable, and sovereign European capabilities.