European Railway Clusters Initiative (ERCI)

Rail Forum is delighted to join the European Railway Clusters Initiative (ERCI). ERCI is the leading meta-cluster of the railway industry in Europe uniting 18 innovation clusters from 17 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, United Kingdom).

The ERCI focuses on bringing customers, suppliers and supply chain together across 17 European countries. With an emphasis on innovation and collaboration, we are confident that our membership offers a breadth and depth of capability that will add value to clusters within the ERCI, as well as providing European opportunities to our members.

The ERCI has a range of different taskforces that sit well with the UK’s innovation aspirations and all have relevance to Rail Forum members. Current taskforces include cyber security, multi modal, green and sustainable mobility, and human factors.  As a member of the ERCI, Rail Forum looks forward to supporting visits, trade missions, projects and encouraging collaboration for the benefit of members.

To see the full press announcement about our membership click here.


The ERCI mission

We connect the ideas and interests of over 2.000 small and medium-sized businesses in the Railway industry as well as of large companies and research organisations based in our territorial ecosystems in Europe.. ERCI is their voice and lobby at European level. We help our member companies to grow – through improved access to European partners and customers, accelerated technology transfer and joint marketing in- and outside of the EU.

Find out more about the Taskforces https://www.eurailclusters.com/task-forces/


ERCI Innovation Awards 2025

This year, the ERCI – European Railway Clusters Initiative is once again presenting the ERCI Innovation Awards for innovations in rail systems technology. The contest is open to SMEs and Large Enterprises.

  • Are you a company from one of the ERCI member clusters regions?
  • Have you recently developed an innovative product/project or an innovative service for use in the rail transport sector?
  • Are you on the verge of launching this innovation on the market or already beyond (TRL=7 or higher)?

Then apply for the regional/national contests for this year’s ERCI Innovation Awards. You might also apply as a consortium of business and science - check out last year's winners.

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