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The overarching objective of this RISE programme “ReACTIVE Too” is to form an international and inter-sectoral network of organisations working on a joint research programme in the fields of Active Safety or Smart Systems for Automated Driving1, Active/Ambient assisted Living, Active Health, and Active/Green Energy. 

The participants will exchange skills and knowledge that will allow them to progress towards key advances in Active Systems, and strengthen collaborative research between different countries and sectors. In the longer term, the combined expertise of the proposed team will contribute to a reduction in road fatalities, increased reliability and productivity for electronics-based systems, added value to the healthcare sector though improved ambient assisted living, increased energy efficiency by introducing active energy harvesting into products, and more efficient use of rare resources helping to protect the environment. 

These advances will create potential market opportunities for non-academic participants in the project and have significant benefit for European society. The staff members who participate in the project will develop new skills, be exposed to new research environments and have their career perspectives widened. 

The overall aim of this proposed exchange programme “ReACTIVE Too” is to bring together an international team of researchers and industrialists to establish a research network, with a wide variety of skills in electronics interconnections (UoW, LJMU, APTIV, TUT, SUT, SAMK), design of electronic based systems (APTIV, SUT, LJMU), smart textiles (TUT, SAMK, UBFC), energy harvesting (UBFC, CTEC, ASAS, SCLL), automotive active safety (APTIV, SUT, LJMU), IoT and sensors (TUT, SCLL, APTIV, UBFC), active and assisted living technologies (SAMK, TUT, JUNET), AI and data management (SUT, APTIV, LJMU), and reliability engineering (LJMU, UoW, APTIV, TUT, SAMK). 

The team will develop novel tools for agile design, testing, analysing and improving the reliability of new devices in various demanding applications and environments, such as in automotive user experience and active safety applications and active and assisted living, which will help manufacturers identify and mitigate failure risks during the design stage; and consequently help to optimise reliability in all applications, moreover realise substantial design time efficiencies and cost savings.