Projet UPGRADE (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2022)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Long linear infrastructure (LLIs) earthworks (e.g. road & railway slopes, pipeline bedding, flood protection structures) are more vulnerable to cascading and escalating failures, due to their topographically designed spanning length and long operational lives. With increasingly frequent severe weather conditions caused by climate change, maintaining a high level of safety performance, especially for the aged LLIs, remains a constant challenge, leading to an ever-increasing amount of investment in maintenance. Current knowledge about how these assets deteriorate over time and how deterioration affects risk and performance is patchy. The conventional engineering-oriented approach alone became insufficient to provide a solution to the complex problem like this. As we accelerate into the 21st century, the latest advances in technology, through digitalisation by integrating new revolutionary data technologies of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), offer opportunities to UPGRADE our LLIs and achieve new heights in safety and performance. Highly-skilled researchers and practitioners, capable of dealing with such problems, are scarce and in high demand by both academia and industry. Therefore, formed with 11 world-leading research organisations and 6 companies across Europe, Asia and Oceania with expertise and facilities in Earth Observation, geomaterial testing, constitutive modelling, data mining, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, data-driven design and optic communication, UPGRADE aims to ensure comprehensive, robust and implementable solutions are obtained for LLIs resilience built and sustainable development. The network is carefully designed to enable research and innovation staff exchange across all aspects. UPGRADE secondees will enjoy a highly integrated, interdisciplinary and intersectoral staff exchange, sharing know-how and skills development environment through the planned secondments, networkwide events and local trainings.

Mots clés : optic fibre communication risk assessment

Participants :
- Conseil national de la recherche (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 147200.0 €
- Servicio geologico national (Rép. Dominicaine) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Levels & measures lda (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 46000.0 €
- Université Gustave Eiffel (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 156400.0 €
- Université de Warwick (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- KTH Institut royal de technologie (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 110400.0 €
- F m ingegneria spa (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 59800.0 €
- Skein-ukraine (Ukraine) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 92000.0 €
- Université d'Alicante (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188600.0 €
- Université de Tsukuba (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université technologique de Sydney (Australie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Nankin (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Tianjin (Chine) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Community cpr trust cic (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Innovation point - investigao e desenvolvimento s.a. (Portugal) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Nhazca srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 46000.0 €
- Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Saga (Japon) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Geoapp srl (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 46000.0 €