What is happening in the project
Short updates from the project, with links to the full story where there is one, and the events where partners and the wider community meet.
Latest news
Invitation: workshop on the transformative role of AI in engineering design
Chalmers and DRIVE PR, together with the Special Interest Groups of the international Design Society, invite researchers and industry to an interactive two-day workshop in Gothenburg on 2 and 3 December 2026. Registration is open until 23 November 2026.
DRIVE PR on stage at Mötesplats Avancerad Digitalisering
Kristina Wärmefjord, who leads the work package on methods and tools, presented DRIVE PR at the programme's national meeting place at The Loop, Science Village Hall in Lund. The day gathered the projects funded by Advanced Digitalisation, decision-makers and industry.
Volvo's driverless future in Ny Teknik
Two days after Volvo presented its autonomous truck testing programme to the DRIVE PR consortium at AstaZero, Ny Teknik featured the same programme: driverless trucks now being built in a bus factory that is more than a hundred years old.
DRIVE PR kicked off at Chalmers and AstaZero
Close to 60 people from the partner organisations spent two days aligning on expectations and industrial cases, and saw Volvo's autonomous truck testing programme at AstaZero.
Virtual kick-off
Ten days into the project, the partners met online for the first joint meeting, ahead of the physical kick-off in August.
Chalmers receives SEK 100 million for research in advanced digitalisation
Vinnova's grants in the Advanced Digitalisation call include SEK 53 million for DRIVE PR, led from Chalmers' Department of Mechanical Engineering with Ola Isaksson as project leader.
Upcoming events
- 2–3 December 2026
The Transformative Role of AI on Engineering Design Processes and Practice. International research workshop at Chalmers, Gothenburg, open to researchers and industry. Read more
- Summer 2027
First-year conference. Demonstrations of first capabilities, project review and learning event.
- Summer 2028
Second-year conference. Demonstrations from the industrial case tests, review and learning event.
- Spring 2029
Final Phase 1 conference. Evidence, impact assessment and recommendations for Phase 2.
The project runs on a half-year pulse. Dates are confirmed here and through the partners' channels.