The Impact Project is the result of a partnership among UNICAMP (State University of Campinas), General Motors do Brazil and Mercedes-Benz do Brazil:

	The State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), through the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, is responsible for the coordination of the activities, being engaged in designing the underride guards, awakening government, judicial system, media and society, and maintaining this web site.
	The crash tests were carried out at the experimental facilities of General Motors do Brazil in Indaiatuba-Brazil. GMB furnished also the cars used in the tests and the time and skills of its engineers.
	Mercedes-Benz do Brazil furnished the truck used in the crash tests and constructed the guards tested.
	Ouro Fino Auto Parts constructed one of the guards tested.

Eng. Paulo Sérgio Pereira dos Santos (Mercedes-Benz do Brazil) and Eng. Luis Otto Faber Schmutzler (Unicamp) presenting the first underride guard designed by the Impact Project Team (the articulated guard).