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A Year of Success and Innovation: SALIENT Project Highlights 2024
2024 has been another year full of successful moments and milestones for the SALIENT project, which began in September 2022 and will end in August 2025.
Throughout the year, project partners came together on two occasions: i) for the Interim Review Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, and ii) to celebrate the completion of the two-year milestone.
Several key achievements are worth highlighting, including the successful completion of six secondments. All secondments involved close collaboration with industry partners across Europe and beyond and have played a crucial role in exchanging knowledge and developing an effective exploitation strategy for the project’s Key Exploitable Results (KERs).
A major highlight was the publication of an innovative guide by CTAG, the SALIENT project coordinator. Under the title “Ecodesign Guide for the Automotive Industry”, the guide aims to revolutionise the automotive industry's approach to sustainability by offering a holistic view of ecodesign principles within the context of the circular economy. The guide presents the SALIENT project’s approach as a real-world automotive case study and is available for free download.
In 2024, two online webinars took place: i) Under the title "Open Science Workshop”, focused on the fundamentals and benefits of open data access and open research principles; ii) Titled “Introduction to ADAS and AV Applications in the Virtual World”, showcased the latest advancements in simulation technologies for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles (AV).
CTAG also hosted the first in-house webinar, and SALIENT partners showcased the project’s activities at six events, reaching a total audience of 65,872 contacts.
From a technical perspective, significant progress has been made. Project partners reported notable weight reductions in both the Bumper Crash Front-End System (BCFES) and the Advanced Crash Front-End System (ACFES). The BCFES crash boxes have been manufactured, and simulation scenarios have been finalised. Three scenarios evaluated the durability and fatigue performance of the FES, and the findings revealed that the maximum stress values identified were lower than those likely to induce fatigue, validating the system’s good performance.
Looking ahead to the final year of the project in 2025, SALIENT partners will continue to collaborate closely on the development and production of the FES and will also ensure that the project’s goal, to change the future of FES design and vehicle safety, is communicated to a broad audience.