Adapted on the concentrated work of the Task force with the leadership of the Netherlands a trans-national funded joint call was initiated. All National Road Administrations (NRA) could agree on the global research topic “Road owners getting to grips with climate change” what has been started with a Strategic Research Object (SRO).
Now it is again on the task force to continue its excellent work and to gain the NRAs to fund the joint research programme. But reviewing the development of the ERA-NET ROAD project so far and the first statements of the NRAs the Joint research Programme will initiated as another important step to successful collaborative trans-national research and cooperation in Europe.