Projet UPGRADE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2023)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

UPGRADE seeks to broaden the research scope of the involved teams, focusing on tackling key challenges in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. Specifically, it aims to pioneer innovative solutions for repurposing waste geomaterials generated by construction and mining industries worldwide. Waste geomaterials represents half of the waste volume generated in EU. These waste geomaterials generally exhibit poor engineering characteristics that prevent their direct use at construction/mining sites. However, if adequately treated, they could represent an excellent resource for construction purposes with significant money saving and reduction in the environmental footprint, thus contributing to the establishment of a circular handling/management of geomaterials. To achieve this, UPGRADE will develop protocols, software and tools to improve the engineering characteristics of waste geomaterials, and to guarantee the performance level over the service life of geostructures built from waste geomaterials considering site-specific conditions. The fundamental concern of UPGRADE is to promote strategies for sustainable use of waste geomaterials generated by geoengineering activities, and to determine how to turn a waste geomaterial into a durable material, with a positive revenue stream. The originality of UPGRADE's approach is that not only it draws expertise on the environment and geotechnics, but also in computer sciences, geochemistry, analytical chemistry, natural resources exploitation, and in the circulatory economy. We intend to form a multidisciplinary consortium composed of 10 academic and 5 industrial beneficiaries and 6 Third Country partners which aim to address this problem. UPGRADE will create an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral network of creative and innovative researchers and practising engineers ready to face geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering challenges which arise in the vanguard of technological innovation.

Mots clés : sustainable developpement and nature protection, natural resources and exploitation, environement, analytical chemistry, waste, soil, stabilisation, durability, infrastructure, circular economy

Participants :
- Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (Slovénie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 87400.0 €
- Gedik tek insaat lab hizmetleri ltd sti (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 36800.0 €
- Tyrens sverige ab (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 41400.0 €
- Université de technologie de Luleå (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 78200.0 €
- Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 4600.0 €
- Adama Science and Technology University (Éthiopie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Naples - Frédéric-II (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 211600.0 €
- Terre leggere srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 18400.0 €
- Ginger cebtp (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 50600.0 €
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 381800.0 €
- Fundación Universitaria del Espinal (Colombie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Lorraine (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Deneshgah e elm sanaat e iran (Iran) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ege University (Turquie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 174800.0 €
- Arup international projects limited (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut de Technologie du Cambodge (Cambodge) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Norges geotekniske institutt as (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 32200.0 €
- Université de Hokkaidō (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- École nationale de l'industrie minérale (Maroc) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Ain Shams (Égypte) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Exeter (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €