ALLIANCE FOR LOGISTICS INNOVATION THROUGH COLLABORATION IN EUROPE

ALICE the Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe is a non-for-profit industry led association based in Brussels with 160+ members reaching the full stakeholders’ groups within freight transport, logistics and supply chain. ALICE is the Alliance of European leading companies and experts in implementing logistics and supply chain innovation.

ALICE’s vision is to achieve an affordable transition towards zero emissions logistics contributing to climate change objectives. Assets and resources, including transportation means, need to be better utilized to make zero emissions solutions affordable.

ALICE supports, assists, and advises the European Commission in the definition and implementation of the EU Program for research: Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe in Logistics.

ZEFES project is aligned with ALICE vision and mission i.e. to achieve an affordable transition towards zero emission logistics.

Most of ALICE members including shippers, retailers, good manufacturers, logistics and transportation companies have ambitious targets in regards of transport and logistics decarbonization. Road transportation is a difficult sector to decarbonize but it is critical to ensure well-functioning of supply chains, therefore, advancing and maturing the zero emissions road transport solutions is key.

ZEFES project is a key enabler to identify and address the barriers for the adoption of zero emissions road transport technologies and to address the interdependencies across different sectors to create the appropriate conditions to speed up the transition towards zero emission logistics.

ALICE will lever its network for the benefit of ZEFES and the other way round. ALICE is deeply involved in gathering users requirements through interviews, surveys, workshops, discussion forums and activities for exchange of practices to cross-fertilize, build capability and knowledge transfer from and towards ZEFES. Consensus will be raised on the critical barriers and needs to be addressed through ZEFES demonstrations and use cases applications.

ALICE will build links and liaise with relevant EU funded projects such as H2HAUL, ESCALATE, EMPOWER, H2ACCELERATE (among others) and organizations such as 2ZERO to identify synergies, share learnings and identify remaining gaps. ALICE will support the transport and logistics companies engage with ZEFES through the Stakeholders Group.