Horizon 2020-BONA

With the generalization of Internet’s usage, thousands of data are created daily. The European project DECODE is a response to people’s concerns about a loss of control over their personal information on the internet and has the objective to develop a new model for the treatment of online data in which individuals are in control of what happens to their personal information and with who they share it. DECODE’s tools allow the user to recover sovereignty on their data. These tools combine the blockchain technology with cryptography in order to help building a trusted digital society [...]

Sensors and digital tools to improve the management of waste water, storm water and flood events. SCOREwater project aims at enhancing the resilience of cities against climate change and urbanisation by enabling a water smart society. SCOREwater develops and uses digital services for cities, such as the FIWARE platform, methods, games, immersive experiences and other digital tools that increase public and civil society’s commitment to water management. Tools and digital services are developed and tested by relevant stakeholders, including communities, companies and civil society in cooperation with developers and adapting to stakeholders’ needs. The innovation of [...]

Digital Social Platform (DSP) with the best practices and experiences in water management in the industrial, social and political fields, to share them with experts from the sector and citizens. The European project POWER develops a new free digital platform that allows consulting water management initiatives that are being promoted in different cities around the world and raising debates between experts and citizens, with the aim of raising awareness about the problem of water scarcity. The POWER platform app, which is also available in a web version, is structured in four main aspects that deal with [...]

CERORSOM develops an innovative degassing technology based on the ultrasonic treatment of light metals to demonstrate, for the first time on an industrial scale, that ultrasonic degassing technology can be an efficient resource and environmentally friendly method to be used effectively in industrial conditions. CERORSOM means a significant improvement for the foundry sector of non-ferrous alloys, delivering a solution that improves melt quality by reducing the gas content and oxide formation between 80-90%, and with a reduction of the gas emissions to the environment by 80-100%, allowing the production of high added value casting parts. The [...]

New deep energy renovation processes and methodologies to improve the energy performance and renovation of buildings. StepUP project aims to develop cost-effective solutions and technologies to transform the deep renovation market and make buildings decarbonisation a reliable, attractive and sustainable investment. To achieve this, StepUP uses continuous feedback loops and promotes an iterative deep energy renovation approach, based on Big Data, which minimises performance problems, reduce financial barriers and optimises investments. The solution developed by StepUP will target three different types of structures: multi-family residential dwellings, public non-residential buildings and rental private office buildings. Besides, the [...]

Automation of the manufacturing process and operations of aerospace launchers to increase the number of units produced and reduce production time and cost. Currently, the production of aerospace launchers implies a complex process and multiple manual validation processes in order to guarantee the integrity and proper functioning of the launcher which causes a low volume of units manufactured per year. SESAME project develops Industry 4.0 solutions to digitalise the manufacturing of the new European launcher Ariane 6, with the aim to exploit the data of the process to ensure and guarantee the traceability and quality of [...]

Spins for efficient photovoltaic devices based on organic molecules. The organic solar cells (OSCs) have the potential to become an environmental friendly and economically profitable photovoltaic technology. For this reason, it is necessary to improve their commercialisation capacity to compete with established power generation and to complement other renewable energy technologies. SEPOMO project aims to improve the performance and efficiency of OSCs by taking advantage of the so far unexplored degree of freedom of photogenerated species in organic materials and by understanding and exploiting the electronic spins interactions. The innovation proposed by SEPOMO offers a unified [...]

The European Union is facing a rapid increase in the elderly population, which together with the lack of effective caring solutions provokes having elders with physical and cognitive problems to be moved to nursery homes early. MoveCare project aims to develop and test an innovative multi-actor platform that supports the independent living of the elder at home by monitoring, assisting and promoting activities to counteract decline and social exclusion. The MoveCare platform will comprised of several services: an activity centre and virtual caregiver, evaluating the elder status and guiding him through a personalized mix of physical, [...]

eSCALED project is expected to generate breakthroughs in the development of artificial photosynthetic leaves as photoelectrochemical devices and educate highly trained researchers. eSCALED offers 14 Early Stage Researcher positions for ground-breaking research on artificial photosynthesis and photoelectrochemical devices. Each PhD student works under the supervision of an international and interdisciplinary team of supervisors towards solving a specific challenge related to the project. In parallel, eSCALED will offer the young researchers an enhanced and comprehensive training, tailored workshops, a summer school, and lectures to facilitate sharing of knowledge, acquisition of new skills and career development. Eurecat participates [...]

Innovative technologies for reducing industrial saline wastewater streams and derived environmental impacts by recovering and reutilizing minerals and water from the brine. Zero Brine project proves that minerals, such as magnesium, and clean water can be recovered from industrial processes for their reuse in other industries, facilitating the implementation of the European Circular Economy Package and the SPIRE Roadmap by developing the technological solutions and business models for wastewater/brine resource recovery. To achieve this, technologies such as nanofiltration using regenerated membranes, eutectic freeze crystallization, forward feed evaporation and electrodialysis with bipolar membranes are being evaluated. Eurecat [...]

Innovative technologies in the field of optical sensors and short, medium and long-range 3D devices to demonstrate their value in several key applications in the automotive, security, smart buildings, mobile robotics for smart cities and Industry 4.0 sectors. VIZTA project also focuses on multimodal 2D/3D imaging, proposing a monolithic integration that enables smaller, cheaper and more efficient systems. The innovation of VIZTA significantly improves the multimodal 2D/3D imaging current systems which use two separate sensors to capture the depth and the colour image. Aerial vehicles are becoming a relevant tool for the inspection of many infrastructures due [...]

Automated and smart water resource management and environmetal monitoring tools with the aim of transforming and digitalising the urban water sector. NAIADES project aims to provide multidimensional intelligence on the water ecosystem through the introduction of Artificial Intelligence technologies, achieving a high-level of water management services exploiting the efficient use of physical and digital components of the water ecosystem. NAIADES will promote digital services based on various types of big data collected from different water monitoring and control systems in Europe to establish more efficient water consumption in both retail and commercial environments; generate increased confidence [...]

Technological and digital innovative solutions for a better management of water resources based in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things technologies over the FIWARE platform. In the water sector, the IT development of applications and management tools using Big Data has come late due to the highly-fragmentation and persisting problems regarding systems interoperability, data standardization, semantics and format exchanges that the sector faces. Fiware4Water project’s main objective is to promote innovative solutions and linking the water sector to the smart solution platform FIWARE, whose goal is to support SMEs and developers in creating the next generation [...]

Modern Spent Nuclear Fuel Dissolution and Chemistry in Failed Container Conditions. DisCo project aims at enhancing our understanding of spent fuel matrix dissolution derived of the development and use of novel types of fuel, such as doped and Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX). To achieve this, DisCo improves the comprehension of the spent fuel matrix dissolution in reducing repository environments, as well as evaluates if the new types of fuel behave like the conventional ones. The effects and results of these new fuels will be investigated through experiments with spent nuclear fuel and synthetic materials, designed especially [...]

Automated processes for aircraft quality validation through the use of robotics and artificial vision. The solution being developed by MAF explores new possibilities to realize the validation tests in a more quickly and efficiently way. With this, the use of robotics and computer vision is maximized in order to minimize human interaction and automate the validation processes practically to the totality. Currently, the aircrafts validation tests imply a long and exhaustive process which consumes a huge quantity of time to verify all security and quality regulations. The human-work limits the efficiency of this process, increase the [...]