AVTO MOTO ZVEZA SLOVENIJE

Their core work

AMZS is Slovenia's national automobile and motorcycle association, representing drivers and road users across the country. In H2020 projects, they contribute real-world user perspectives on automated and connected vehicles — particularly around driver behavior, human-machine interaction, and training needs for new mobility technologies. Their role is to ensure that vehicle automation research accounts for how actual drivers perceive, trust, and interact with these systems.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

AMZS entered H2020 in 2017 through BRAVE, focused broadly on barriers to automated vehicle adoption. From 2019 onward, their involvement shifted toward more specific topics — user behavior modeling, HMI design, immersive training methods, and multimodal transport (road, rail, maritime, drones). By 2021 with Hi-Drive, they moved into large-scale cross-border piloting of higher automation, indicating a progression from studying adoption barriers to participating in real-world deployment testing.

AMZS is moving from studying whether drivers will accept automation to actively participating in cross-border deployment trials — positioning them as a practical testing and validation partner for higher-level vehicle automation.

How they like to work

AMZS never leads projects — they participate as a partner or third party, contributing end-user expertise to large consortia. With 92 unique partners across 20 countries from just 3 projects, they operate in very large European consortia (30+ partners each). This means they are experienced working within complex multi-partner structures but should not be expected to take on coordination responsibilities.

Despite only 3 projects, AMZS has worked with 92 partners across 20 countries — a consequence of joining flagship automated driving consortia with broad European participation. Their network spans most of the EU's major automotive and transport research communities.

What sets them apart

As a national automobile association, AMZS brings something most research partners cannot: direct access to millions of ordinary drivers and their real-world attitudes toward vehicle automation. They are not a research lab or a tech company — they represent the end users. For any consortium needing genuine driver feedback, training infrastructure, or user acceptance validation in Slovenia and Central Europe, AMZS fills a role that universities and companies cannot replicate.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Hi-Drive
  One of Europe's flagship connected automated driving projects with large-scale cross-border demonstrations, running through 2025.
• BRAVE
  AMZS's only project as a full participant (not third party), focused on identifying and bridging gaps in automated vehicle adoption.
• DriveToTheFuture
  Covers the broadest scope — from road to rail, maritime, and drones — with emphasis on behavioral models and immersive training methods.