Ben@Rail video presentation

<p>The video shows the results and underlying methodologies of Ben@Rail project.</p> <p>Ben@Rail provides evidence-based research to assess the extent to which the foreseen innovations of Shift2Rail and its successor respond to clear societal cases and stakeholders&rsquo; and users&rsquo; expectations. To achieve this, Ben@Rail, in close cooperation with the European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC), developed a top-down analysis grounded on two elements. On the one side, the requirements of the rail sector stakeholders vis a vis EU-funded research are identified. On the other side, the sector&rsquo;s strategic documents are reviewed and analysed in light of the stakeholders&rsquo; expected benefits and the wider societal challenges to extract objectives, key technical concepts and development areas that will affect and shape the Railway System of the future. The resulting analysis assess the adherence of EU-funded R&amp;I activities to the stakeholders&rsquo; requirements, thus evaluating the expected outcomes of the future new Joint Undertaking Master Plan. Ben@Rail developed a scientific, innovative framework for the evaluation of EU-funded projects based on the stakeholders&rsquo; requirements. One of the strengths of this framework relies on its possible application in other sectors to comprehensively investigate future funding R&amp;I programmes.</p>