ABSTRACT

The Sustainable Pavements & Railways Initial Training Network (https://www.superitn.eu">www.superitn.eu) is a training-through-research programme that is empowering Europe by forming a new generation of multi-disciplinary professionals capable of conceiving, planning and executing sustainable road and railway infrastructures. The SUP&R ITN, started at the beginning of October 2013, it’s a 4 million € effort entirely funded by the Euroepan Commission through its Marie Curie Actions 2012 of the FP7 programme 2006–2013. The University of Nottingham is leading this effort which is the first of its kind and involves 29 partners between universities, research centres and companies/industries, from five EU countries (UK, Italy, France, Ireland and Spain) and USA. This paper aims to be a reference for those who plan to structure similar programmes and will present the overall idea, the research framework, the training platform and a summary of the main scientific results obtained so far.