The European Railcast
The European Railcast
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A Podcast About the Future of European Mobility
From cross-border travel to cutting-edge rail innovations, The European Railcast takes you inside the transformation of Europe’s rail system.
Hosted by journalist Karen Coleman, this podcast brings together voices from across the sector—rail users, engineers, policymakers, and innovators—to explore how rail is advancing Europe’s goals on climate, connectivity, competitiveness, and resilience.
The European Railcast: A Podcast About the Future of European Mobility is produced by Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, with funding from Horizon Europe.
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The podcast focuses on the topics of cross-border travel, rail innovation, environmental sustainability, and European policies, featuring episodes like 'A Single European Railway Area: Why and How EU-Rail Contributes?' which discusses the vision of a unified rail system and its impact on climate goals and connectivity.
A Podcast About the Future of European Mobility
From cross-border travel to cutting-edge rail innovations, The European Railcast takes you inside the transformation of Europe’s rail system.
Hosted by journalist Jacki Davis, this podcast brings together voices from across the sector—rail users, engineers, policymakers, and innovators—to explore how rail is advancing Europe’s goals on climate, connectivity, competitiveness, and resilience.
The European Railcast: A Podcast About the Future of European Mobility is produced by Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, with funding from Horizon Europe.
European competitiveness and its struggle to remain a key global economic player are top of the EU’s political agenda.
In this third episode of The European Railcast, host Jacki Davis explores the key role played by the rail sector in Europe’s economy and in fostering European competitiveness; hears about the innovations that are helping to deliver the sustainability mobility so crucial for economic growth; and discusses current and future technological and policy challenges to ensure the industry can continue to play that role to the full.
She is joined by Pierre Fleury, Chief Technical Officer at Alstom, who explains why the rail sector is so important for European competitiveness and describes some of the (often “invisible”) groundbreaking solutions which are transforming the sector and helping to realise its full potential to boost Europe’s competitiveness, sustainability and resilience.
We also hear from Iosu Ibarbia, technology director at CAF, who shares his perspective on rail’s role in Europe’s economy and what is needed to maintain the sector’s industrial and technological leadership.
The European Railcast: A Podcast About the Future of European Mobility is brought to you by Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking, the European partnership for rail research and innovation under the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.
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