MATIS has deliberately embedded itself into the broader European ITS landscape — through formal partnerships and active participation in key cooperative mobility platforms. More than a network of contacts, this positioning reflects a structural choice: cooperative mobility challenges can only be addressed collectively.
A web of strategic partnerships
At the core of this approach lies a set of complementary relationships with peer European projects.
Among them, MATIS collaborates with MERIDIAN, which focuses on the Scandinavian–Mediterranean and North Sea–Baltic corridors – two major axes for transport and long distance mobility. These exchanges allow both projects to compare deployment contexts, share lessons learned and contribute to harmonising practices along these strategically critical routes.
MATIS also maintains active links with X4ITS, operating across central and eastern Europe, a region currently undergoing rapid ITS deployment. This cooperation promotes the exchange of technical and methodological solutions and helps avoid duplication of efforts between initiatives working in different but complementary contexts.
Anchored in Europe’s structuring frameworks
MATIS is grounded in two frameworks that define the cooperative future of ITS in Europe. Through its participation in the C-Roads Platform, MATIS contributes to the harmonised deployment of C-ITS – the backbone of communication between connected vehicles and road infrastructure at the continental scale. In parallel, NAPCORE, which coordinates National Access Points as the backbone of European mobility data exchange, provides MATIS with a broader frame of reference for reflecting on the governance and standardisation of transport data.
Governance as an integration lever
The project’s governance model itself is an asset in this integrated ecosystem. By reconciling European coordination imperatives with local operational realities, MATIS is designed to produce results that are both transferable and scalable — replicable across territories and contexts.
This approach embodies a central conviction: genuine progress in cooperative mobility requires not just technical solutions, but sustained cross-fertilisation between actors, projects and territories across Europe.
