HORIZON EUROPE

Advancing urban water quality through digital monitoring and management. QleanUp aims to develop an advanced water quality platform to improve resilience, robustness, and adaptability of urban water systems. The project’s ambition is to deliver an integrated, risk-based decision support platform for authorities and utilities to improve water quality.This platform seeks to provide decision-makers with real-time sensor data, digital tools, and water monitoring and management strategies to effectively plan, implement, and manage protection measures. By developing integrated monitoring and decision-support solutions, QleanUp addresses key barriers in urban water management. This approach improves the detection, understanding, and management [...]

Transforming European Industrial Ecosystems through eXtended Reality. INDUX-R develops a human-centric XR ecosystem to transform European industrial sectors by empowering humans and creating innovate XR products and services of significant added value. The project targets for concrete scientific breakthroughs integrated in technological enablers to be applied in use cases driven from real-life needs while having the potential to be replicated in several other applications. These devepelopments are focused on core XR technologies, namely, digitisation and creation of XR assets, realistic animation, light-field HMDs, XR media streaming and egocentric perception. To address the challenges that multi-user XR [...]

Coordinated Action for Responsive Mixed Orchestration and Network Yield. CARMONY introduces an interlinked orchestration framework for traffic management that integrates governance and business models, continuously refined using innovative simulation technologies with real-world traffic data. This approach aims to generate credible response plans, guidelines, and decision logics, fostering societal trust. Key stakeholders, including road operators, governments, and traffic managers, are involved from the project's inception, providing ongoing support. The framework is accessible via smartphone apps and online dashboards, aiding comprehensive traffic management decisions. CARMONY will be piloted in urban and highway areas in Spain and Luxembourg, focusing [...]

Revolutionising data management across industries with advanced AI. PLIADES advances the state of the art in data space reference architectures, driving a significant shift in the use of data as a key enabler of technological progress in artificial intelligence and robotics. The project explores innovative AI-enabled tools to support full lifecycle integration of data, both within and across data spaces. PLIADES incorporates sustainable data creation methods—compression, filtering, and normalisation—enabling efficient and greener data storage. It reinforces data privacy and sovereignty using standards and decentralised protocols. Data sharing is revolutionised through AI-based brokers and connectors using extended [...]

Transforming stroke care through artificial intelligence and advanced digital technologies. UMBRELLA delivers faster, more accurate, and personalized stroke care, improving outcomes for over a million new patients annually in the EU and nearly 10 million survivors. To achieve this, the project collects real-world stroke patient data from various European hospitals and develops AI-driven predictive models to tailor diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation to each individual’s needs. Using a federated platform, hospitals can train and validate algorithms while preserving data privacy. The project tackles key challenges in stroke care: treatment delays, lack of personalisation, unequal access to care [...]

Smart solutions for relief from Musculoskeletal Non-Communicable Diseases (MSK-NCDs). SmILE develops smart solutions to reduce the impact of Musculoskeletal Non-Communicable Diseases (MSK-NCDs) in older people through prevention and early intervention, empowering patients to take charge of their health while alleviating the burden on healthcare systems. The project creates a universal chip platform that can be integrated into a wide range of medical devices, turning them into active data generators and enabling faster and more accurate diagnoses while supporting the rollout of innovative treatments. The collected data will be processed through an integrated patient-centred health platform, designed [...]

Revolutionising the manufacturing sector through sustainable practices and advanced technologies. GEAR-UP develops digital tools and methodologies that address recycled materials variability, covering stainless steel, aluminum alloys, and fiber-reinforced plastics for additive manufacturing (AM). The project employs simulation-driven approaches for optimising various AM processes, including laser beam-directed energy deposition, metal laser beam powder bed fusion, and fiber-reinforced polymer material extrusion. GEAR-UP emphasises environmental conservation by using recycled materials in engineering design, significantly reducing virgin resources, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. The project overcomes challenges associated with secondary materials, such as performance variability, through resilient design and [...]

Transforming the evaluation of high-risk medical devices and diagnostics in Europe. EU4MEDTECH revolutionises the generation and evaluation of clinical and performance evidence for high-risk, innovative medical devices (MDs) and in vitro diagnostic devices (IVDs) by co-creating and validating the versatile and lifecycle-oriented EU4MEDTECH framework. This framework addresses the challenges posed by the new EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR), which, while ensuring higher patient safety, have increased regulatory burdens for stakeholders across the HealthTech value chain. The EU4MEDTECH framework will be operationalised through an interactive, cloud-based digital platform and [...]

A mission-driven system to create zero-emission electric vehicles optimised for urban logistics. Shift2Zero, coordinated by Eurecat, is developing innovative designs and functionalities for mission-specific, zero-emission N1 electric light commercial vehicles (e-LCVs) to address the evolving demands of urban logistics while reducing emissions and improving operational efficiency. Shift2Zero shapes zero-emission right-sized N1 concepts with enhanced and safe functionalities, including dual transport (people and freight), assessing the combined potential of novel design variants and logistics innovations to materialise user requirements in current and future missions. To further optimise logistics operations, Shift2Zero is integrating advanced cargo management solutions. These [...]

Nutrient management strategies for regional ecosystems across Europe. GREENHOOD pioneers a comprehensive approach to address the global challenge of unbalanced nutrient flows in regional ecosystems, tackling climate change and biodiversity loss. Specifically, GREENHOOD reduces nutrient losses in soil, air and water; develops scalable solutions for nutrient management, and enables cross-sector collaboration across all stakeholders. The rebalancing actions are being tested in four different demonstrators, representing different cases of unbalanced regions and focusing on diverse emitting hotspots, including diffuse and point-based emitting sectors. As outcomes of the project, GREENHOOD will implement nutrient flow mapping by analysing and [...]

Revolutionising sustainability in additive manufacturing processes. REPAM addresses inefficiencies in additive manufacturing, focusing on enhancing material recycling and optimising processes for greater sustainability. Current production methods, such as metal powder production, suffer from low yields (30-50%), with significant energy losses due to remelting and limited recycling options for advanced alloys. REPAM transforms the entire process chain through innovation, from material production to recycling and reuse. The project develops advanced sensors and artificial intelligence models to monitor and optimise powder production processes, enabling real-time process control and the use of a broader range of recycled materials. Scrap [...]

TwinOps and vehicle-specific Digital Twin for Software Defined Electric Vehicles (EVs). TWIN-LOOP advances in computational capacity from High-Performance Computing (HPC) and the digitalisation of Electric Vehicles (EVs) under the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) architecture. Current Digital Twin technologies do not fully capture the complexity of EV core performance and often overlook the unique characteristics of individual vehicles, which depend on the specific hardware, software versions, operational conditions, and usage patterns. The project develops an Open Framework for TwinOps tailored for EVs and a suite of digital tools designed to continuously optimise energy consumption, hardware costs, driver experience, [...]

Fair transition for the fashion sector. Just Fashion drives the climate transition in the fashion industry, promoting circular, sustainable, inclusive and resilient business models. With the collaboration of several European regions and actors, the project prepares companies in the sector for the demands of the Green Deal, transforming their production methods, internal processes and end products towards more sustainable practices. The main objectives of the project are: Research and innovation: Generate practical and transferable knowledge through six pilots to accelerate the transformation of the fashion sector. Sustainability and circular economy: Promote sustainable and circular practices to [...]

Circular steel for mass market applications. CiSMA introduces scrap-based Electric Arc Furnace steel products into mass-market sheet metal consumer goods with high-quality requirements. Scrap-based steel production using Electric Arc Furnace leads to drastic reduction of CO2 emissions. It also favours a Circular Economy production model with reduced foreign dependency. However, this is currently not possible for high-performance applications, where the less flexible and more contaminant Blast Furnace- Basic Oxygen Furnace route is used. Moreover, low-quality scrap also affects the final performance of the steel. In that sense, CiSMA works to generate fundamental knowledge on how residual [...]

Transformative shift towards a fair, safer, and resilient agriculture sector. The AgRibot project advances robotics and augmented and extended reality (AR/XR) technologies within the agricultural sector. The project provides a skill transfer to experienced farmers, who may not be experts in robotics, to easily use fleets of mobile manipulators, specifically to automate pruning tasks on organically grown fruit trees, such as apple trees. In short, AgRibot improves working conditions, reduces the environmental footprint, addresses workforce shortages, and enhances overall sustainability and competitiveness. Particularly, its focus is on developing technologies that enhance human potential, such that robots [...]