Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF)
The Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) inspire, initiate and support research and educational activities for the purpose of contributing to new ideas and solutions for developing sustainable and equitable mobility and access in cities.
VREF Research Programs in Focus:
Calls & Opportunities:
Call for Expressions of Interest for establishing an International Research Program on Walking as a Mode of Transport (IRP-Walking)
Essential Skills for Research Proposals & Projects
Research Project Management
Effective skills and tools for communicating research outcomes
Grant proposal writing
Communicating Mobility and Access Research for Policy and Public Impact in Sub-Saharan Africa
News:
Upcoming Events
VREF Research Forum: Improving services and workers’ conditions in informal transport
A collaboration between VREF and The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF).
The 3rd Paratransit / Popular Transportation Day at Transforming Transportation 2025
VREF is part of organizing this day and looks forward to a mini-conference focusing on recognizing and elevating paratransit services—also known as “popular transportation, informal transportation, intermediate public transportation, or artisanal transportation”—the privately provided, publicly serving local transportation services and systems that emerge in nearly every city in the Global South.
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