• Four Ph.D. projects focusing on the construction of specific transnational infrastructures;
• Two senior research projects focusing on the use of infrastructures;
• A joint database project of all researchers involved focusing on mapping the development of infrastructures between 1850-2000
• A synthetic monograph.

In addition a number of other scholars working on related projects and a number of international advisors have become associated to this project. Many of them will also contribute to the mapping of infrastructues and the edited volume.
Finally the project draws on and contributes to the Tensions of Europe Network, and in particular to the activities of the Networking Europe and Mobility History theme groups.
The four Ph.D. projects will examine cases of transnational infrastructures, including railroads (Irene Anastasiadou), highways (Frank Schipper), radio (Suzanne Lommers), and electricity (Vincent Lagendijk) infrastructures. Some cases look at specific platforms where many actors met, and discuss alternatives for constructing transnational infrastructures; other cases investigate specific initiatives, institutions, and efforts.
The two senior research projects will focus on a how a range of users appropriate, mobilize and adapt the construction and use of transnational infrastructures. Erik van der Vleuten will focus on how a range of institutional users used infrastructures to built new systems, such as a European food supply system, a tourism system, a military system etc. Alec Badenoch will study the meanings of transnational infrastructures for the people who used them in his Europe's mobile memories. Both are cross-cutting projects which will profit from and contributed to the empirical material collected by the Ph.Ds, while conducting their own research. Both projects will result in a number of articles, which might also form the basis for book projects.
The projects aims not only at case-studies but also at providing an overview of all transnational infrastructures. Three databases will be built. Results will be published in an edited volume. Next to the project team contributions are made by Gijs Mom, our international advisors and other interested scholars.
The final synthetic project consists of a monograph which will put the infrastructural development in a long-term historical European history perspective.
The conceptual and synthetic work done early in the project is published in the Tensions of Europe framework, especially in an special issue prepared by Johan Schot, Tom Misa, and Ruth Oldenziel for History and Technology (see Publications), and an edited volume under preparation by Erik van der Vleuten en Arne Kaijser, Networking Europe (working title, see Publications).
Audiences
The project will seek to address scholarly as well as broader audiences, including policy-makers, companies, and NGOs dealing with transnational infrastructures in a European context and a larger public interested in the process of European integration.
The scholarly audience will be addressed through the presentation of papers and the publication (see Publications) of articles as well as a synthetic and coherent edited volume and a monograph. Articles will aim at journals in history of technology; science, technology and society; European history; international relations; political science; and cultural studies. International scholarly workshops organized during the project will help embed our work in the wider scholarly community (see Calendar).
The wider audience will be addressed through the organization of a policy workshop, the website, and other communication initiatives. The planned monograph will explicitly also focus on a wider audience.
The aim of this research program is not only to contribute to how scholars approach infrastructures and identities, but also to how policy actors and citizens think about Europe.