Inuits joins HERFRIED, a Horizon Europe project

HERFRIED is a new research and innovation project funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe, and Inuits Sp. z o.o. is one of the partners. The consortium has 17 organisations from seven countries. Work starts on 1 October 2026 and runs until 30 September 2029.

The acronym carries a lot. In full: Highly Efficient, eco-friendly, Resilient, & Fully integrated, Real-time Innovative inland waterway transport, Enhancing multimodal competitiveness via Digitalisation. Shorter: the project looks at how inland waterway transport fits into digital, multimodal logistics chains, and tests that in seven industry-led pilots along European corridors.

The University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH) coordinates the consortium. According to the university's announcement, the proposal scored 15 out of 15 in the Horizon Europe evaluation. That's the maximum.

Where to read more

The official project record, with the full partner list, is on CORDIS under grant agreement No 101318845. We'll post updates here once the project is under way.

EU funding

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Grant agreement No 101318845.