Depending on the preparation of the workshops for the Strategic Research Objects (SRO) and the excellent work of the task forces a Joint Research Programme with the research topic “Road owners getting to grips with climate change” was initiated.
All in all 10 research partners of the different National Research Administrations participate in this first joint funded trans-national Programme to do research in this global field. Sweden takes the lead for organization and administration, Mr Christian Pecharda (AUS) was appointed to PEB chairman and Mr Christopher Patten (SWE) as Programme Leader.
Participating countries are UK, FIN, NL, SWE, GER, NOR, AUS, PL, DK and IE and each of them spend an amount of 150.00 Euro for three years what offers a complete amount of 1,5 Million Euro.