Through the last 30 years, vehicles have seen its safety increased massively, but consequently, they have also significantly grown in weight and size to accommodate the latest safety systems, including new crumple zones and structures to allow for more energy absorption through the vehicle. This has caused that those roads that were built more than a century ago in European cities are in some cases no longer fit for today’s vehicles, causing space problems in big and crowded areas. The SALIENT project, a co-funded project by the European Commission, aims to make our roads safer and reduce serious injuries and fatalities. To accomplish this, SALIENT presents innovative structural and vehicle concepts that are safer, lighter, circular, and smarter. This project focuses on creating new technologies and is currently developing, validating and testing a light front-end structure (FES), to enhance vehicle safety. It has adapted advanced light materials, improved manufacturing and joining