Through partnerships with leading automotive insurance companies, Octo Telematics is demonstrating practical ways that in-vehicle Telematics can significantly improve road safety and security. As the first company to achieve wide-spread program acceptance in Europe, Octo Telematics has become the leader in Insurance Telematics, making possible more than a million "safer road users" today, thanks to the "eCall" functionality embedded within their innovative service offerings.

Robert Bosch GmbH in the field of eSafety is not only a highly innovative automotive company, that invents and produces technologies that substantially improve the safety of vehicles, but it is also active in creating the right market conditions for these life saving technologies.

CEN TC278 WG15 has made a major contribution to the progress of the roll-out and deployment of eCall. The implementation of eCall poses particular problems in that the requirements of automotive manufacturers, PSAPs, road operators and administrations, mobile network operators and the insurance sector, and for that matter the political and strategic objectives of National Governments and the EC, are all very different.

INRIA is pursuing research on the detection and recognition of obstacles on the road, on control-command of the vehicles, the fusion of the information and its exchange between neighboring vehicles, infrastructure and the Intenet.

Silesian University of Technology is the largest public university in the Upper Silesia region. It educates students in multiple disciplines including transport at Faculty of Transport. Katowice agglomeration, with its unique structure in the country, promotes the implementation of new concepts of traffic control and safety improvements.

The FIA Foundation is nominated for its achievement in generating awareness of eSafety systems as a founding member of eSafetyAware and for the key role played in the adoption of the Decade of Action for Road Safety which includes as one of its five pillars a pledge for "safer vehicles".

For its achievement in generating awareness of eSafety systems through the campaigns "ChooseESC!", "eSafety on Board", and "eSafety Challenge" : eSafety Aware has been raising awareness of Electronic Stability Control for the past three years and more recently, technologies such as Blind Spot Monitoring, Speed Alert and Advanced Emergency Braking.

TomTom, the world's leading provider of location and navigation solutions is committed to providing a safe driving environment. Founded in 1991, more than 40 million people daily use our solutions, be it in the form of dedicated portable navigation devices (PNDs), in-dash car systems or tracking and tracing solutions for fleet management. In addition, hundreds of millions of people use TomTom's digital maps and dynamic location content on the internet or mobile phone.