Season’s Greetings from the IKIGAI project!
As 2025 comes to an end and we prepare for a promising year ahead, the IKIGAI consortium would like to wish our community, partners and supporters a peaceful festive season and a positive start to the New Year.
This period offers a welcome opportunity to pause and reflect on what lies ahead. From July onwards, the IKIGAI project brought together companies, cities, logistics innovators and changemakers from across Europe with the aim of advancing a more collaborative, efficient and decarbonised logistics ecosystem. Our shared ambition is clear: to accelerate progress towards zero-emission, Physical Internet-enabled freight transport through practical standards, real-world pilots and a forward-looking Twin Transition Genome.
In short, we will spend 2026 doing what many of us secretly hope for when packing away the Christmas decorations: creating harmonised systems, improving flows and reducing unnecessary load.
Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to continuing our collaboration, sharing insights, and delivering value.
Wishing you Season’s Greetings, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year filled with clarity, good connections and well-coordinated networks.
IKIGAI and partners publish white paper on book and claim
IKIGAI contributed to a Smart Freight Centre-led white paper on implementing book and claim for low-emission road freight. With input from P&G, Normec Verifavia and GRUBER Logistics, it provides a verified, standardised framework enabling credible, scalable emissions reporting.
IKIGAI at the ALICE Brokerage Event 2026
IKIGAI participated in the ALICE Brokerage Event 2026 in Brussels, strengthening collaboration across Europe’s logistics ecosystem. Recognised during the General Assembly as a strategic milestone, IKIGAI advances Physical Internet governance and supports scalable, zero-emission freight innovation aligned with Horizon Europe 2026-2027 ambitions.
IKIGAI advances business adoption of reusable SmartBoxes with LI5 kick-off in Brussels
On 13 January 2026, the IKIGAI Project held the hybrid kick-off meeting of Logistics Innovation 5 (LI5) “GS1 SMART-Box pooling governance scaling up to Belgium and France” in Brussels and online. The event was hosted by GS1 Europe. LI5 addresses the specific business challenge of deploying reusable, standardised modular boxes on a large scale through open, economically viable pooling models.
