08/07/2026
Radiolabs at the mid-term review and workshop of the VICE4Rail project
Rome, June 11, 2026 – At the Harry’s Bar Trevi Hotel in the center of Rome, the first workshop of the European VICE4RAIL project took place, alongside the Mid-Term Review, which approved the progress of the project – the first in Europe dedicated to the validation and certification of GNSS technologies for the new train positioning system to be integrated into the ERTMS system.
This event brought together all members of the consortium, along with representatives of the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), confirming the strong relevance of the project at European level. Funded under the Horizon Europe programme, the project is coordinated by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), which leads the activities of a consortium composed of nine European partners: RFI, Radiolabs, Italcertifer, Bureau Veritas Italia, CEDEX, University of Pardubice, Université Gustave Eiffel, Sogei and SNCF.
Radiolabs is contributing to the development of the validation environment with the new HyVICE platform designed to process both real data recorded on the Bologna San Donato railway line by RFI, and high-fidelity simulations produced in the lab. HyVICE addresses the railway sector's priority of reducing field tests, which would otherwise be very costly, in order to assess the performance of the real system in the multiple scenarios it has to operate in. The data produced by HyVICE is then processed by the CEDEX laboratory in Madrid to evaluate the performance of the ERTMS system.
During the event, Francesco Rispoli Director General of Radiolabs has moderated a public Round Table aiming to encourage discussion with stakeholders and players in the railway and space sectors. The debate focused on the need to create a European-level Operations Center and on maximizing the synergies between VICE4RAIL and the R2DATO project of the Europe’s Rail program.
see here
https://www.radiolabs.it/vice4rail-comunicato-stampa-workshop-e-mid-term-review/
