POLICYCLOUD project

PolicyCLOUD delivers a unique integrated environment addressing the full lifecycle of policy management: modelling, monitoring, enforcing, simulation, analysis and compliance. The environment will utilize the capabilities offered by the European Cloud Initiative, with an emphasis on data analysis to facilitate evidence-based policy making. The co-creation of multi-modal policies will follow an innovative modelling process for structural representation of schema-based policies.

PolicyCLOUD environment will integrate a set of reusable models and tools, ranging from social dynamics and behaviour analysis, to situational knowledge acquisition, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, complemented with tools for data aggregation, linking and cleaning. Citizen participation will be ensured exploiting techniques for incentives management and a Living Lab approach put forward by the project. A toolkit which allows the specification of transferable and re-usable analytics tasks in a declarative way, their integration in the policies management path, as well as an adaptive visualization environment, will realize PolicyCLOUD’s vision of openness and extensibility.

Partners

• Atos SA (Spain)
• IBM Science and Technology Ltd. (Israel)
• EGI Advanced Computing Services (Netherlands)
• Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Greece)
• Maggioli S.p.A. (Italy)
• LeanXcale Sl (Spain)
• Ubitech Ltd. (Cyprus)
• Okys Ltd. (Bulgaria)
• Trust-IT Services Ltd. (United Kingdom)
• DWF Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft (Germany)
• University of Piraeus Research Centre (Greece)
• Istituto Tecnologico de Aragon (Spain)
• Sociedad Aragonesa de Gestión Agroambiental (Spain)
• London Borough of Camden (United Kingdom)
• Municipality of Sofia (Bulgaria)

INCISIVE Project

INCISIVE aims to address three major open challenges in order to explore the full potential of AI solutions in cancer imaging: (1) AI challenges unique to medical imaging, (2) Image labelling and annotation and (3) Data availability and sharing. In order to do that INCISIVE will develop and validate: (1) an AI-based toolbox that enhances the accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, interpretability and cost-effectiveness of existing cancer imaging methods, (2) an automated-ML based annotation mechanism to rapidly produce training data for machine learning research and (3) a pan-European repository federated repository of medical images, that will enable the secure donation and sharing of data in compliance with ethical, legal and privacy demands, increasing accessibility to datasets and enabling experimentation of AI-based solutions.

The INCISIVE models and analytics will utilize various cancer imaging scans, biological data and EHRs, and will be trained with 1 PB of available data provided by 8 partners within the project. INCISIVE solution will be investigated in three validation studies for Lung, Breast, Prostate and Colorectal Cancer, taking place in 8 sites, from 5 countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Serbia), with participation of at least 2,600 patients and a total duration of 1,5 year. INCISIVE moves beyond the state of the art, by improving sensitivity and specificity of lower cost scanning methods, accurately predicting the tumor spread, evolution and relapse, enhancing interpretability of results and “democratizing” imaging data.

Partners

ONCORELIEF Project

The burden of cancer is rising globally and is estimated to have reached 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018. Despite the rising cancer incidence, improvements in early detection and therapeutic treatment have improved cancer survival. As a consequence, the number of cancer survivors is increasing globally, creating the need to improve not only treatment but also wellness and follow‐up care. Cancer treatment often involves combined modalities such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. In the past decades, more effective and targeted therapeutic modalities and less destructive cancer treatments have been developed such as immunotherapy and drug‐targeted therapy. Even so, cancer and its treatment have important physical and psychosocial sequelae.

ONCORELIEF will leverage the above 6 drivers in order to skillfully and methodologically overcome technical challenges, by introducing new approaches that will allow the utilization of big datasets in order to develop a user-centered AI System to facilitate the integration of QoL assessment instruments through the use of PROMs and PREMs in order to improve post-treatment health status, increase the wellbeing, and follow‐up care of cancer patients. This will be achieved through an intuitive smart digital assistant (Guardian Angel), able to provide personalized support in post-treatment activities and tasks, suggest actions regarding the patients’ overall health-status, improved wellbeing and active health-care and ultimately maintain him/her engaged on a wellness journey that will safeguard his/her health over the foreseeable prolonged post-cancer treatment period.

Partners

• Exus Software Ltd. (UK)
• Maggioli S.p.A. (Italy)
• InnoSystems IKE (Greece)
• CareAcross Ltd. (UK)
• Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (Greece)
• Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions (Cyprus)
• MCS Datalabs GmbH (Germany)
• Fraunhofer ITWM (Germany)
• University Medical Center Mainz (Germany)
• Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italy)
• Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (Italy)
• Schön Klinik Bad Aibling (Portugal)
• Time.Lex (Belgium)

TeNDER Project

TeNDER will create an integrated care ecosystem for assisting people with chronic diseases of Alzheimer’s (AD), Parkinson’s (PD) and comorbidity with Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) through the use of affect based micro tools. These microservices will recognise the mood of a person and thus adapt the system’s probes to the person’s needs via a multi-sensorial system, even in the most severe cases, and match with clinical (from Electronic Health Records (EHRs)) and clerical patient information, while preserving privacy, monitoring the ethical principles, providing data protection and security, with the result of an increased Quality of Life (QoL). In addition, interactive communication and social services will strength the elderly support, extending their autonomy and care supply chain.

TeNDER will perform 5 large scale pilots, involving 5 user partners and 1500+ TeNDER final users in 4 different European regions, with at least 735 patients (+40% in the patients control group, making a total of 1030 patients), 85 health professionals (physicians mainly), 30 social workers, 570 caregivers (professional and relatives) and 60 other staff (clerks, Hospital IT support, etc.), to provide tailor suited integrated care services to promote wellbeing and health recovery.

Partners

• Universitad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)
• Maggioli S.p.A. (Italy)
• DataWizard S.r.l. (Italy)
• Ubiwhere Lda (Portugal)
• Elgoline D.o.o (Slovenia)
• Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (Greee)
• Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium)
• European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (Belgium)
• Servicio Madrileno de Salud (Spain)
• Schön Klinik Bad Aibling (Germany)
• Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
• Spomincica Alzheimer Slovenija (Slovenia)

POSITIVE project

POSITIVE aims at designing, building and commercializing a digital platform for healthy, mobile seniors to prevent future cognitive and physical decline. The platform tackles the problem of growing loneliness and apathy amongst seniors, caused not necessarily by social isolation resulting from immobility but by a lack of meaningful connections and a clear purpose in life. Seniors desire to be not only consumers but also creators. This frequently overlooked fact creates a disconnect between what seniors want and what society and companies offer them. To alleviate that, POSITIVE is designed to address self-actualization needs of seniors.

POSITIVE consists of online (a) physical events facilitation, and (b) content. Both parts are co-created and sustained by the end users – seniors. The events are led by seniors or external organizations and have a personalized broad range from educational topics, through discussion clubs to organizing startups. Content part includes possibilities to share knowledge, learn, track health and be entertained. In order to differentiate itself from other offers, POSITIVE leverages technology and close user design (e.g., psychology-based gamification) in all services.

Partners

• Reall (Poland)
• Maggioli SPA (Italy)
• Bluepoint Consulting SRL (Romania)
• Ana Aslan International Foundation (Romania)
• Eskilara S. Koop Txikia (Spain)
• Fondazione Santa Lucia (Italy)
• iHomeLab (Switzerland)

CARERSUPPORT Project

CarerSupport integrated, deployed and tested an integrated ICT platform enabling the participation and collaboration of informal carers, psychologists and health professionals towards facilitating the training, learning, orientation, and psychological support. In particular, the project deployed and offered to informal carers:

1. Training, learning and orientation programmes, including general-purpose training programmes and programmes that emphasize on the carers’ digital skills. The former includes introductory blended-learning programmes emphasizing on the needs of elderly, and on how to plan and perform the most common care-related activities. The latter enables carers to use and fully leverage ICT based solutions for active ageing and social inclusion.
2. Psychological support services, aiming at alleviating the stress of informal carers, while at the same time providing them with emotional support. It includes social support services, services facilitating carers to discharge their role, services alleviating stress and boosting mental health, as well as services that minimize or eliminate smoking and drinking. The support provided facilitates carers to deal with their own sorrow and sense of impending loss.
3. Collaboration services, which emphasize communication and experience sharing between formal and informal carers. The main goal of these services is to achieve knowledge transfer from experienced formal carers to the (usually) less experienced informal carers. As part of those services synchronous services for advice and handling/dealing with emergencies are provided.

CarerSupport was piloted with the participation of 200 informal carers, formal carers and stakeholders in 7 different pilot sites from 4 European countries (Italy, Norway, Romania and Switzerland).

Partners

• Maggioli SPA (Italy)
• BluePoint Consulting SRL (Romania)
• Soutank AG (Svitzerland)
• iHomeLab (Svitzerland)
• Universitetet i Oslo (Norway)
• Kommunesamarbeidet i Vestfold (Norway)
• Oslo Kommune (Norway)
• Ana Aslan International Foundation (Romania)

SOCIABLE Project

SOCIABLE piloted a radically new ICT based approach for integrated support of mental activity, as well as boosting of social interaction for individuals that have been diagnosed to suffer from mild dementia. SOCIABLE integrated human support and care services offered by care centers and specialized/expert operators (e.g., geriatric internist, geriatric psychiatrist, neurologist, neuropsychologist), with state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure and independent living technologies.

This new approach was build upon three tested technological pillars, which had proven therapeutical value, namely:

• a novel perceptive mixed reality interfaces based on multi-touch surfaces
• an open platform for cognitive training games development, which allows the flexible creation and customization of cognitive training games, and “profiling” and social “matching” capabilities boosting social networking and interaction between aged individuals

SOCIABLE was piloted with the participation of 350 senior citizens in 7 different pilot sites from 4 European countries (Greece, Italy, Norway and Spain).

Overall, SOCIABLE integrated, deployed and operated an innovative ICT-enabled online service for assessing and accordingly reinforcing the mental state of the elderly through pleasant gaming activities for cognitive training, while at the same time boosting their social networking and activating their day-to-day interpersonal interactions. SOCIABLE was envisaged as a service with high potential for societal impact that could add significant value to current service offerings of care services providers. Furthermore, it was associated with a clear business potential for sustainability and wider use by care service providers within (but also outside of) the SOCIABLE consortium.

Partners

• SingularLogic SA (Greece)
• Maggioli SPA (Italy)
• PREVI SL (Spain)
• Trondheim Kommune (Norvay)
• Hygeia Hospital (Greece)
• Social Policy Centre of the Municipality of Kifissia (Greece)
• Municipality of Forlì (Italy)
• Morgagni Pierantoni Hospital (Italy)
• Fondazione Santa Lucia (Italy)
• University of Valencia (Spain)
• AIJU (Spain)

GUARD project

GUARD aims to develop an open and extensible platform for advanced assurance and protection of trustworthy and reliable business chains spanning multiple administrative domains and heterogeneous infrastructures. The purpose is manifold: i) to increase the information base for analysis and detection, while preserving privacy, ii) to improve the detection capability by data correlation between domains and sources, iii) to verify reliability and dependability by formal methods that take into account configuration and trust properties of the whole chain, and iv) to increase awareness by better propagation of knowledge to the humans in the loop.

The distinctive approach of GUARD will be the architectural separation between analysis and data sources, mediated by proper abstraction; this paradigm will result in an open, modular, pluggable, extendable, and scalable security framework. This holistic solution will blend security-by-design with enhanced inspection and detection techniques, raising situational awareness at different levels of the companies’ structure by tailored informative contents, so to enable quick and effective reaction to cyber-threats.

Partners

• Maggioli SPA (Italy)
• Italtel SPA (Italy)
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (Italy)
• Fiware Foundation eV (Germany)
• Wobcom GmbH (Germany)
• Minds & Sparks GmbH (Austria)
• Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (Austria)
• Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)
• Eight Bells Ltd. (Cyprus)
• NaRegno Unitoowa i Akademicka Siec Komputerowa (Poland)
• MC2 Innovations (Poland)
• Law and Internet Foundation (Bulgaria)
• JIG Internet Consulting (Spain)
• University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Hospital (Italy)

CIRENE project

CYRENE vision is to enhance the security, privacy, resilience, accountability and trustworthiness of Supply Chains (SCs) through the provision of a novel and dynamic Conformity Assessment Process (CAP) that evaluates the security and resilience of supply chain services, the interconnected IT infrastructures composing these services and the individual devices that support the operations of the SCs. In order to meet its objective, the proposed Conformity Assessment Process is based on a collaborative, multi-level evidence -driven, Risk and Privacy Assessment Approach that support, at different levels, the SCs security officers and operators to recognize, identify, model, and dynamically analyse advanced persistent threats and vulnerabilities as well as to handle daily cybersecurity and privacy risks and data breaches.

CYRENE will be validated in the scope of realistic scenarios/conditions comprising of real-life supply chain infrastructures and end-users. Furthermore, the project will ensure the active engagement of a large number of external stakeholders as a means of developing a wider ecosystem around the project’s results, which will set the basis for CYRENE’s large scale adoption and global impact.

Partners

• Maggioli S.p.A. (Italy)
• Centro Ricerche Fiat SCPA (Italy)
• Valencia Port Authority (Spain)
• Stockholms University (Sveden)
• Telecommunication Systems Institute (Greece)
• University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences (Serbia)
• Focal Point SPRL (Belgium)
• Hyperborea Srl (Italy)
• Cyberlenses BV (The Netherlands)
• Zelus IKE (Greece)
• Sphynx Technology Solutions AG (Switzerland)
• ITML Ltd (Cyprus)
• Ubitech Ltd (Cyprus)

CYBERSANE project

CyberSANE aims to enhance the security and resilience of Critical Information Infrastructures (CIIs) by providing a dynamic collaborative, warning and response system supporting and guiding security officers and operators (e.g. Incident Response professionals) to recognize, identify, dynamically analyze, forecast, treat and respond to advanced persistent threats (APTs) and handle their daily cyber incidents utilizing and combining both structured data (e.g. logs and network traffic) and unstructured data (e.g. data coming from social networks and dark web).

In achieving that aim, CyberSANE will introduce a holistic and privacy-aware approach in handling security incidents, addressing the complexity of these nets consisting of cyber assets hosted in cross-border, heterogeneous Critical Information Infrastructures (CIs). Moreover, CyberSANE is fully in-line with relevant regulations (such as the GDPR and NIS directive), which requires organizations to increase their preparedness, improve their cooperation with each other, and adopt appropriate steps to manage security risks, report and handle security incidents. 

Partners

• Projecto Desenvolvimento Manutencao Formacao e Consultadorialda (Portugal)
• Atos SA (Spain)
• S2 Group (Spain)
• Maggioli SPA (Italy)
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• Institut National de Recherche Eninformatique et Automatique (France)
• Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)
• Katholike Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
• Institut Josef Stefan (Slovenia)
• Ubitech Ltd. (Greece)
• Sidroco Holdings Ltd. (Ciprus)
• Sphynx Technology Solutions AG (Switzerland)
• Fundacion Valenciaport (Spain)
• Lightsource Labs Ltd. (Ireland)

DATAVAULTS project

DataVaults aims to deliver a framework and a platform that has personal data, coming from diverse sources in its centre and that defines secure, trusted and privacy preserving mechanisms allowing individuals to take ownership and control of their data and share them at will, through flexible data sharing and fair compensation schemes with other entities (companies or not).

The overall approach will rejuvenate the personal data value chain, which could from now on be seen as a multi-sided and multi-tier ecosystem governed and regulated by smart contracts which safeguard personal data ownership, privacy and usage and attributes value to the ones who produce it.

Partners

• Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
• Atos SA (Spain)
• Artificious (Belgium)
• Assentian Europe Ltd. (Israel)
• Infineon Technologies AG (Germany)
• Infineon Technologies AG (Austria)
• Maggioli S.p.A. (Italy)
• UBITECH Ubiquitos Solutions (Greece)
• Suite5 data Intelligence Solutions Ltd. (Cyprus)

Partners

• A7 Software (Belgium)
• ETA Consulting (Italy)
• Danish Technical University (Danmark)
• Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Spain)
• Olympiakos Stadium (Greece)
• Comune di Prato (Italy)
• MyEnergia SL (Spain)
• Piraeus Municipality (Greece)

MITIGATE project

MITIGATE will realize a radical shift in risk management methodologies for the maritime sector towards a collaborative evidence-driven Maritime Supply Chain Risk Assessment (g-MSCRA) approach that alleviates the limitations of state-of-the-art risk management frameworks. To this end, the project will integrate, validate and commercially exploit an effective, collaborative, standards-based risk management (RM) system for port’s critical information infrastructures (CIIs), which shall consider all threats arising from the global supply chain, including threats associated with portCIIs interdependencies and associated cascading effects.

The MITIGATE system will enable port and other maritime supply chain participants’ operators to manage their security in a holistic, integrated and cost-effective manner, while at the same time producing and sharing knowledge associated with the identification, assessment and quantification of cascading effects from the global ports’ supply chain. In this way, they will be able to predict potential security incidents, but also to mitigate and minimize the consequences of divergent security threats and their cascading effects in the most cost-effective way, i.e. based on evidence associated with simulation scenarios and security assurance models.

Partners

• Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany)
• AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria)
• University of Piraeus Research Centre (Greece)
• University of Brighton (united Kingdom)
• Maggioli SPA (Italy)
• SingularLogic Computer Applications SRL (Romania)
• Piraeus Port Authority (Greece)
• Port of Ravenna Authority (Italy)
• Fondazione Accademia Italiana della Marina Mercantile (Italy)
• Fundación Valenciaport (Spain)
• Dbh Logistics IT AG (Germany)

SEARCH & RESCUE project

The Search and Rescue project will design, implement and test through a series of large scale pilot scenarios a highly interoperable, modular open architecture platform for first responders capitalising on expertise and technological infrastructure from both COncORDE and IMPRESS FP7 projects. The governance model of Search and Rescue will be designed to operate more effectively and its architectural structure will allow to easily incorporate next generation R&D and COTS solutions which will be possibly adopted in the future disaster management systems. The Model will also support a unified vision of the EU role and will provide a common framework to assess needs and integrate responses. The framework will enable supportive approach using a wider range of decisional support features and monitoring systems and will also give to first responders an effective and unified vision of (a) the dynamic changes going on during event’s lifetime and (b) the capabilities and resources currently deployed in the field.

Partners

• National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
• Konnektable Solutions Ltd. (Ireland)
• Aideas Ou (Estonia)
• Siveco Romania (Romania)
• Maggioli S.p.A. (Italy)
• Thales Italia S.p.A. (Italy)
• Atos IT Solutions and Services Iberia S.A. (Spain)
• Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (Greece)
• German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Germany)
• Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy)
• Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)
• University of Hasselt (Belgium)

Partners

• Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium)
• University of Social Sciences (Poland)
• Synyo GmbH (Austria)
• Ubitech Limited (Greece)
• REGNO UNITOeMED Global Ltd. (Cyprus)
• Public Safety Communication Europe Forum (Belgium)
• Hellenic Rescue Team (Greece)
• Hellenic Fire Corps (Greece)
• Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. (Germany)
• Johanniter Österreich Ausbildung und Forschung GmbH (Austria)
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• Pompiers de l’Urgence Internationale (France)
• Servicio Madrileno de Salud (Spain)
• Search and Rescue Dogs School (Spain)
• Romanian Cluster PROECO-CBRNE (Romania)

METICOS project

METICOS aims to introduce Big Data Analysis of border control information systems, in order to provide a step-change towards more modern and efficient Smart Border management and towards gaining societal and political acceptance of modern control technologies of EU borders such as “no gate solutions”. It is therefore positioned as an initiative to create a real-time decision-support system with regard to different Smart Border control technologies that empowers two major stakeholder groups within the European border control sector (i.e., travellers and border control authorities & service providers) to ensure user acceptance, secure positive societal impact and maximize border control process efficiency.

To this end, the METICOS project will develop a platform that integrates information systems and networks of data sources in order to validate the efficiency and users acceptance of border control technologies like fingerprint and iris scanners. The proposed platform will provide metrics and KPIs to authorities and decision makers, based on a number of independent variables: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, physical privacy, accuracy, information privacy, ethical and societal perceptions. METICOS will be demonstrated and validated under real operating conditions. This will involve two pilot implementations executed at five different countries involving real travellers and staff.

Partners

• Europea University Cipro (Cyprus)
• Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Greece)
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
• Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria)
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
• Net-U Consultants Ltd. (Cyprus)
• Siveco Romania (Romania)
• Maggioli S.p.A. (Italy)
• ViLabs Ltd (Greece)
• Johanniter Österreich Ausbildung und Forschung (Austria)
• Ministry of Interior (Greece)
• Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (Estonia)
• Inspectoratul Teritorial al Politiei de Frontiera (Romania)
• State Border Guard Service (United Kingdom)
• Cipro Police (Cyprus)

NESTOR project

NESTOR aims to demonstrate a fully functional next generation holistic border surveillance system providing pre-frontier situational awareness beyond maritime and land border areas following the concept of the European Integrated Border Management. NESTOR long-range and wide area surveillance capabilities for detection, recognition classification and tracking of moving targets (e.g. persons, vessels, vehicles, drones etc.) is based on optical, thermal imaging and Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum analysis technologies fed by an interoperable sensors network including stationary installations and mobile manned or unmanned vehicles (aerial, ground, water, underwater) capable of functioning both as standalone, tethered and in swarms. NESTOR BC3i system will fuse in real-time border surveillance data combined with web and social media information, creating and sharing a prefrontier intelligent picture to local, regional and national command centers in AR environment being interoperable with CISE and EUROSUR.

Partners

• Hellenic Police (Greece)
• Administration of the State border Guard Service of Ukraine (Ucraine)
• State border Committee of the Republic of Belarus (Belarus)
• Glavna Direktsia Granichna Politsia (Bulgaria)
• Ministry of Interior (Macedonia)
• Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works (Cyprus)
• Valstybes Sienos Apsaugos Tarnyba Prie Vidalus Reikalu Ministerios (Lithuania)
• Miniterio del Interior (Spain)
• Woitsch Consulting OY (Finland)
• Kentro Meleton Aspaleias (Greece)
• Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (Greece)
• Satways – Projonta kai Ypiresies Tilematikis Diktyaron kai Tilepikinoniakon Efarimogon Etaria Periorismenis Efthinis EPE (Greece)

Partners

• Miltech Hellas Biomichania Emporioantiprosopeies Ilektronikon Optikon kai Michanologikon Eidon AE (Greece)
• Maggioli spa (Italy)
• Elistair (France)
• Oceanscan – Marine systems & Technology LDA (Portugal)
• Robotnik Automation SLL (Spain)
• Oulun Yliopisto (Finland)
• Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom)
• Hensoldt sensors GMBH (Germany)
• Ingenieria de sistemas para la defensa de Espana SA-SME MP (Spain)
• Decodio AG (Switzerland)
• Narda Safety Test Solutions GmbH (Germany)

SINERGY project

SYNERGY introduces a novel reference big data architecture and platform that leverages data, primary or secondarily related to the electricity domain, coming from diverse sources (APIs, historical data, statistics, sensors/ IoT, weather, energy markets and various other open data sources) to help electricity stakeholders to simultaneously enhance their data reach, improve their internal intelligence on electricity-related optimization functions, while getting involved in novel data (intelligence) sharing/trading models, in order to shift individual decision-making at a collective intelligence level.

To this end SYNERGY will develop a highly effective a Big Data Platform and AI Analytics Marketplace, accompanied by big data-enabled applications for the totality of electricity value chain stakeholders (altogether integrated in the SYNERGY Big Data-driven EaaS Framework). SYNERGY will be validated in 5 large-scale demonstrators, in Spain, Greece, Finland, Austria, and Croatia, involving diverse actors and data sources, heterogeneous energy assets, varied voltage levels and network conditions and spanning different climatic, demographic and cultural characteristics.

Partners

• ETRA SA (Spain)
• ​Grupo Cuerva SL (Spain)
• Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios SA (Spain)
• Sistemas Urbanos de Energias Renovables SL (Spain)
• CIRCE Foundation (Spain)
• Aegean Energy Agency (Greece)
• Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Greece)
• Independent Power Trasmission Operator SA (Greece)
• Attiki Gas Supply Company (Greece)
• Forum Virium Helsinki (Finland)
• VTT Technical Research Centre (Finland)
• Caverion Suomi Oy (Finland)
• Energie Gussing GmbH (Austria)

Partners

• European Centre for Renewable Energy (Austria)
• Energy Services Handels (Austria)
• Energie Gussing GmbH (Austria)
• European Centre for Renewable Energy (Austria)
• Energy Services Handels (Austria)
• Ponikve D.o.o (Croatia)
• Koncar d.d. (Croatia)
• Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions Ltd. (Cyprus)
• UBITECH Ubiquitos Solutions (Greece)
• Maggioli S.p.A. (Italy)
• Geco Global Ivs (Denmark)
• University of Cipro (Cyprus)
• Elin Verd SA (Greece)
• Knowledgebiz Consulting (Portugal)

TREEADS project

TREEADS aims to build upon state-of-the-art high TRL products and unite them in a holistic Fire Management platform that optimize and reuse per phase the available Socio-technological Resources in all three main phases of Wildfires. For the prevention and preparedness TREEADS propose the use of a real-time risk evaluation tool that can receive multiple classification inputs and work with a new proposed neural network-powered Risk factor indicator. To create a model of Fire adapted communities (FAC) in parallel to insurance incentives, TREEADS will use alkali activated construction materials (AAM) integrating post-wildfires wood ashes (PWA) for fire-resilient buildings and infrastructure. TREEADS also uses a variety of technological solutions such as the Copernicus infrastructure, and a swarm of small drones customized for accurate forest supervision. In the area of Detection TREEADS propose a variety of toolsets that will accommodate most needs.

Stemming from Virtual reality for the training, wearables for the protective equipment of the emergency responders. to UAV (drones), UAG and airships for improving capacity in temporal and spatial analysis as well as to increase the inspected area coverage.. Last, TREEADS will build a new land and field-based restoration initiative that will use all modern techniques such as agroforestry, drones for seed spread, Internet of things sensors that will be able to adapt the seeding process based on the ground needs and on the same time with the help of AI to determine post-fire risks factors. TREEADS solution will be demonstrated and validated under real operating conditions. Demonstration will involve Eight complex pilot implementations executed in seven EU countries and in Taiwan.

Partners

• Rise Fire Research AS (Norway)
• Jotne EPM Technology AS (Norway)
• Bundesanstalt fuer materialforschung und -pruefung (Germany)
• Altran Innovacion SL (Spain)
• Drone Hopper SL (Spain)
• Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
• Squaredev (Belgium)
• Fundacion Cartif (Spain)
• Universitat de Girona (Spain)
• National center for scientific research "DEMOKRITOS" (Greece)
• Software Imagination & Vision SRL (Romania)
• Otto-von-Guerike-Universitaet Magdeburg (Germany)
• Adrestia erevnitiki idiotiki kefalaiouxiki etaireia (Greece)
• Ethniko kentro erevnas kai technologikis anaptyxis (Greece)
• Eight Bells LTD (Cyprus)
• Acceligence LTD (Cyprus)
• Innov-acts LTD (Cyprus)
• Frontier Innovations OE (Greece)
• Air Worldwide LIMITED (United Kingdom)
• Global Biodesign Scomm (Belgium)
• Engineers for business ipiresies technologias kai michanikis anonimi etairia (Greece)
• Lietuvos agrariniu ir misku mokslu centras (Lituania)
• Schmitz One Seven GmbH (Germany)
• Trelleborg Offshore Norway AS (Norway)
• Woodify AS (Norway)
• Copenhagen business school (Denmark)
• K3Y (Bulgaria)

Partners

• Maggioli spa (Italy)
• Ethiko asteroskopeio Athinon (Greece)
• Ministerul Mediului, Apelor si Padurilor (Romania)
• Romanian Forestry Association - ASFOR (Romania)
• Fundatia pentru SMURD (Romania)
• Johanniter osterreich ausbildung und forschung gemeinnutzige (Austria)
• Disaster competence network Austria (Austria)
• Feischl Richard (Austria)
• Freiwillige feuerwehr gumpoldskirchen (Austria)
• Disputacion de Avila (Spain)
• Sviluppo tecnologie e ricerca per l’edilizia sismicamente sicura ed ecosostenibile Scarl (Italy)
• ACaMIR - Agenzia Campana Mobilità Infrastrutture e Reti (Italy)
• Comune di Sorrento (Italy)
• Pompiers de l’urgence internationale (France)
• Federacion de asociaciones forestales de Castilla y Leon (Spain)
• Stadt Graz (Austria)
• Polytechneio Kritis (Greece)
• Mediterranean agronomic institute of Chania (Greece)
• Decentralized Administration of Crete (Greece)
• National Taiwan university of science and technology (Taiwan)