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Funded by the EU the cost action P3T3 comprises 60 experts from 18 countries wordlwide to conduct research in the field of Public Private Partnership in the transport sector. The project runs from 2010 - 2013. The KC@W will send two representatives to be members in the Management Committee, which is the steering unit of the action.

The main objective of P3T3 is to develop a theoretical basis for PPPs in the transport sector grounded on the multidisciplinary analysis of an extensive cross-sectoral and transnational empirical data-set. This constitutes a shift from a descriptive to a normative approach allowing for the prediction and forecasting of variations, impacts and outcomes. The ultimate goal of P3T3 is to bring together and consolidate knowledge dispersed in different disciplines and countries and to use this knowledge in the development of innovative and sustainable procurement and public service delivery strategies, disseminate knowledge thereof and facilitate the advancement of education and training on PPPs.

While Public Private Partnerships (PPP) are now used in many countries for Transport capital projects, research has been, in principal, descriptive. PPPs are complex contractual arrangements extending into an unpredictable future and the economic crisis has highlighted many shortcomings. The scope of this proposal is to develop the theoretical basis for PPPs in the transport sector. Key objectives to be addressed on a national and modal perspective by the three  working groups are: (i) A decision making process for selection, implementation and operation of PPP transport projects considering ‘sustainable procurement’ and ‘value propositions’ (ii) Identification of critical success factors, test criteria and knowledge-bases for improved PPP performance (iii) Implications of the financial arrange-ment. Findings are cross-studied by auxiliary working groups focusing on the national context and the modal (urban, surface and port) context, respectively.

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CIB is the acronym of the abbreviated French (former) name: "Conseil International du Bâtiment" (in English this is: International Council for Building). In the course of 1998, the abbreviation has been kept but the full name changed into:

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN
BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION

CIB was established in 1953 as an Association whose objectives were to stimulate and facilitate international cooperation and information exchange between governmental research institutes in the building and construction sector, with an emphasis on those institutes engaged in technical fields of research.

CIB has since developed into a world wide network of over 5000 experts from about 500 member organisations active in the research community, in industry or in education, who cooperate and exchange information in over 50 CIB Commissions covering all fields in building and construction related research and innovation.

CIB Members are institutes, companies and other types of organisations involved in research or in the transfer or application of research results. Member organisations appoint experts to participate in CIB Commissions. An individual also can be a member and participate in a Commission.
CIB Commissions initiate projects for R&D and information exchange, organise meetings and produce publications. These meetings can be Commission meetings for members only or international symposia and congresses open to all. Publications can be proceedings, scientific or technical analyses and international state of the art reports.

The KC@W team joint Task Group TG72 - Public Private Partnership and Working Commission W092 - Procurement Systems. Both groups will have meetings in the course of the GICC - Global Innovation on Constrution Conference 2009 in Loughborough, Notthingham, 13th-16th Sept. 2009.

Based on the successful collaboration within the EU-Asia PPP Network (EAP³N) and due to the mutual interest in enlarging and broadening the established cooperation on academic and research related activities, an agreement was signed between the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (BUW) and the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM).

With this agreement, the administrative foundations for collaboration were laid. The cooperation will foster the exchange of students/scholars by charging no tuition fees at the universities, providing support to identify financial resources to fund the travel and living expenses as well as arranging subsidised accommodations. Jointly implemented research projects and the exchange of scientific material are further objectives.