Year 2025

Year 2025

Summer School 2025

Logo of the Summer School 2025. Depicted is a train with a university hat on.

Two weeks of networking, lectures and technical visits in late summer 2025 situated in Brussels, BE, Amersfoort, NL, Frankfurt, GER and Darmstadt, GER. Partner University: TU Darmstadt

Programme of 2025:

Visits to Infrabel Academy, European Parliament, Eisenbahnbetriebsfeld Darmstadt, DSTW Training Center Frankfurt, DB Systel Skydeck

More than 20 speakers/lecturers and topics

  • Alf Smolders – Opening
  • Joao Gaspar, Sara Biztotto – Presentation ERA 
  • Bram ‘t Mannetje/Bardo Schettini –  Presentation EIM
  • Matthias Rohrmann, president EU social dialogue railway –  Presentation AGV MOVE
  • Wawrzyniec Perschke, Sandy Zähringer – European Commission Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport MOVE.C 4: Rail Safety and Interoperability
  • Karel van Gils – EU Rail
  • Sverre Kjenne – EUG
  • Infrabel Bavo Lens – ETCS conception and the roll-out of the masterplan
  • André van ES – Introduction CCS
  • Heiko Imelman – Arriva Lessons learend from the  “The Aachen balise ghost”
  • Udo Hermann and Kevin Hardeman ProRail – Data exchange for ETCS root cause analysis
  • Bas Luttik – Process-algebra based formal methods
  • Melcher Zijlstra – Intergo Human Factors
  • Tiemo Vink, SVO-Rail – On-board test drive supervisor
  • Mariëlle Stoelinga – Risk management for digital railway systems
  • Christian Summen – Introduction to DB, System architecture DSTW incl. Cryptography
  • Anastasiia Hrytsyshyna – EULYNX
  • Eckard Voss – EU Fundings incl. Workshop
  • Fabian Müller – Project presentation “Digital Network District Rostock” and Workshop PMO
  • André van Es, Stine Dransfeldt – Rollout in the Nehterlands and Denmark
  • DB Systel – Translating Rail Language in Europe: SALT and KITT

Participating countries:

Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland

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