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RΕΗΕΑΤ: REcycled industrial HEAT (RHPK7)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Renewable energy sources and their whole value chain including materials development and recycling of components (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3571427.14
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Heat is responsible for 74% of energy consumption in industry. 90% of this energy comes from fossil fuels, making industry the leading contributing economic sector to global GHG emissions. With the introduction of tariffs for CO2 emissions as well as high energy prices (i.e., gas is the dominant source of heat in the industrial sector, but at the same time one of the most expensive and non-carbon neutral resources) process heat is nowadays a major cost factor for many industries. In addition, there is a legal obligation under EU rules to implement improvements in energy efficiency and decarbonize (e.g., EU Green Deal). To that direction, industrial heat recovery is a key factor in order to achieve fossil fuels’ independence to achieve the climate goals. Nevertheless, there is a gap for renewable industrial heat for low – medium temperatures (100°C - 200°C). ecop has developed the Rotation Heat Pump RHP K7 (700 kWth), the first high-efficient and environmentally friendly industrial Heat Pump (HP), providing a valid alternative to fossil fuels’ heat production. Thanks to its innovative rotation principle (counter-clockwise Joule thermodynamic process generated by means of centrifuge) our first of the kind, self-developed and internationally patented technology (68 active patents) enables the heat recovery (use of waste heat) in various energy intensive sectors as well as district heating applications, thus enabling companies to transform their operations in line with the EU Energy Directives. RHP K7 specifically closes the gap for renewable industrial heat for temperature range up to 200°C. Our unique design results in a number of benefits: • Production of CO2-free, sustainable industrial heat without dependence on fossil fuels • Efficient use of waste heat: High efficiency at every temperature level • Contribution to climate targets and decarbonization: Eco & climate friendly working gas • Savings in energy costs

Keywords: heat pump,waste energy,heat recovery,waste heat recovery,energy transition in industry,district heating,industrial heat,energy intensive industry,joule cycle
Using solar energy for cooling outdoor applications exposed to the sun (SCC- SolCold Cooling)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2300000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2300000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SolCold has developed a passive-active cooling coating that cools everything under the sun. "Passive" means that there is no need for any power input while "active" refers to the ability of the material to continuously generate 170W/m2 of cooling power using several physics technologies embedded in it. The coating uses the sunlight and the sky for cooling and is most effective when it is very hot, and the sun is strongest. SolCold cooling coating will be applied to the rooftops and external walls of commercial buildings, as well as storage tanks and silos. This will substantially reduce the temperatures reaching temperatures below the shade! In addition, it will reduce power consumption required for cooling by up to 40% and achieve substantial CO2 emissions reductions, equating to at least 12,000 tones per building. The cost of single project is estimated to be up to $50,000, including the material cost, product shipment, and implementation. SolCold cooling technology originated from research conducted at the Hebrew University and is now advancing into the scaling phase. With a dedicated team, over five years of focused R&D, patented cooling technology, and the use of eco-friendly raw materials, SolCold is well-equipped to contribute to the transition of the EU towards a low-carbon future.

Keywords: passive cooling,outdoor cooling,sustainable cooling,carbon negative,co2 reduction,energy efficiency,solar powered cooling,eco friendly technology,sub ambient temperatures
BUILDTRUST: DRIVING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WITH DIGITAL TRANSPARENCY (Buildtrust)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Other destinations
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: EIC Accelerator 2024 - Short application (HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-01, 2024)
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The construction industry faces critical challenges such as delays, cost overruns, and lack of transparency. These issues stem from outdated processes and inadequate data integration, resulting in inefficiencies and financial risks. Buildtrust (BT) addresses these challenges with an innovative platform that integrates Building Information Modeling (BIM), Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain technologies. This solution provides real-time project monitoring, automated payment processes, and enhanced transparency. By ensuring accurate tracking of project progress and secure financial transactions, BT’s platform significantly improves efficiency and compliance. The construction industry presents a vast market with significant opportunities for digital transformation: the platform targets key customer groups, offering a unique value proposition that meets EU’s demand for sustainable and efficient infrastructures. The core team combines decades of expertise in construction, software development, and project management. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the team drives innovation and growth through a broad range of perspectives and ideas. Since its inception in 2020, the company has achieved significant milestones, including the development of a Minimum Viable Product, successful beta tests, and pilot projects. BT is seeking a contribution from the European Innovation Council to accelerate the development and commercialization of its platform: EIC's support is crucial for bridging the funding gap and overcoming high-risk barriers, enabling BT to transform the construction industry. By providing real-time transparency and ensuring timely payments, BT’s platform addresses one of the industry's most pressing issues, encouraging data sharing among stakeholders. With EIC backing, BT aims to become a profitable company capable of operating worldwide, integrating up to 25 high-level employee positions in the next two years, and generating a €25 million turnover by 2028.

Keywords: construction industry building information modeling bim internet of things iot blockchain real time monitoring automated payments smart contracts data integration project management
A fully autonomous solar-powered lightweight weeding robot, using AI for plant recognition, precision contact and contactless weeding methods suited for hard soils, hilly terrains and arid climates. (RoboAIweeder)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Bulgaria
Call: EIC Accelerator Open 2023 (HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3372767.0
EU funding (EUR): 2360936.9
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fighting weeds is one of the oldest problems of agriculture. The current solutions include mass use of herbicides, mechanical tilling or manual weeding. Herbicides are poisons which kill not only weeds, pollute the soil, water and bring lasting damage to all living organisms, including health and well-being of humans. Mechanical weeding with standard agri machines (ICE-based) adds to CO2 emissions, damages and compacts soils, and is very imprecise. And manual weeding is back-breaking, often dangerous, low-paid work for which there are fewer and fewer candidates. Our solution addresses all these environmental, economic and health problems together. It will also strongly support the expansion of organic agriculture in Europe, which is facing much more difficulties with weed pressure, compared to conventional farming. And our innovation is also specifically designed to target the needs of the most climate-vulnerable farmers – those from the semi-mountainous regions of Southern Europe. We offer a fully automated solution in the form of a 4-wheeled rover, with in-wheel integrated electrical engines, solid X-Y-Z wheel synchronization and front-steering mechanism. It is lightweight and solar-powered for 24-hour working cycle. The robot uses AI based on deep neural networks to spot weeds among desired plants. It can effectively destroy weeds using contact (mechanical) and non-contact (energy beam) methods, depending on both weed size and type, and soil and weather conditions, without creating any fire hazard in the process. Finally, our robot can self-navigate in and around the fields, which is achieved without costly RTK equipment, by combining multi-GNSS (including Galileo) receivers and cameras with proprietary algorithms. The robot has huge potential to expand its capabilities by adding sensors for soil, weather tracking, etc., and we can grow our offer by supplying vast plant and field data analytics and predictive analysis to farmers and other potential clients.

Keywords: ai,image recognition,robotics,avoid fire hazard,easy transportation,fully energy independent,organic farming,small and medium farmers,off the shelf components,data collection,data analytics
Autonomous medical phone consultations through safe and clinically validated empathic AI (TUCUVI - Voice AI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EU prize
Destination: EU Prize for Women Innovators
Action type: Recognition Prize
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Rising Innovators Category (HORIZON-EIC-EIT-2023-WomenInnovatorsPrize, 2023)
Total project cost (EUR): 0.0
EU funding (EUR): 0.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Tucuvi is a healthtech company on a mission to make healthcare efficient and effective. We've developed the first CE-marked AI virtual clinical assistant to automate phone consultations with empathy. We're the only European company with safe and clinically validated Conversational AI for healthcare. Tucuvi is already present in 4 EU countries, working with +25 healthcare systems and caring for more than 200.000 patients. Thanks to our solution, clinical teams can free up to 70% of their time, and the average hospital length of stay can be reduced by 26%. Through partnerships and research collaborations, Tucuvi has developed one of the world’s largest Voice Conversational AI databases in healthcare. Tucuvi has been awarded numerous distinctions for its AI technology in Europe, including the prestigious European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. Tucuvi is based in Madrid and was founded in 2019. We are redefining how healthcare is delivered so every patient has the care they need when they need it. Maria is the CEO and cofounder, she's a 27-year-old biomedical engineer leading a team of 20 people working towards a world without disease. She is a recognized leader in healthcare, with many awards from the Science perspective such as the Tech and Science National award by the Spanish Youth Institute, or business-related, such as being listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 leaders in 2023. She's also an EIT Health representative, Spanish Government Health Advisor during 2022, STEM Mentor. She is the majority shareholder owning 50% of TUCUVI and as CEO she carries out the functions of representing the company, strategic planning, organisation and management, public and private funding, recruitment of personnel, marketing and commercial relations with high-level clients.

Keywords: virtual clinical assistant,patient focused healthcare,evidence based care pathways,highest patient engagement scores,automated medical phone conversations,smart alerts,intelligent escalation
Hydrogen under pressure (HYROPE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Synergy grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Switzerland,France
Call: ERC Synergy Grants (ERC-2023-SyG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2030-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12744754.0
EU funding (EUR): 12744754.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

HYROPE proposes to combine unique, fundamental skills of four European laboratories to perform atmospheric and high-pressure experiments coupled to high-performance simulations of an innovative concept for gas turbines to burn zero-carbon, hydrogen-based fuels. Due to their high-power density, it would be a potential game-changing technology that can deliver energy on demand for both power and aviation. Gas turbine technology has evolved from an abundance of hydrocarbon fossil fuels but has the unique potential to be fuel flexible and burn renewable, zero-carbon hydrogen-based fuels such as hydrogen or ammonia. However, these fuels raise several fundamental issues as they have very different combustion properties and emission properties when compared to hydrocarbon fuels. Hydrogen is highly diffusive, extremely reactive, and its turbulent burning rate exhibits an unexplained strong pressure dependence. Predicting whether hydrogen flames that are stable at atmospheric pressure will be stable at higher pressures, as needed in gas turbines, remains an unsolved fundamental problem. Ammonia is a convenient hydrogen carrier that can be partially decomposed to hydrogen but requires careful control of NOx emissions. How to handle the effects of pressure on these fuels is a major gap in our scientific knowledge. HYROPE will study the effects of pressure on the combustion of hydrogen-based fuels in a fuel flexible, staged combustion approach where the first stage is controlled by flame propagation and the second one by autoignition. This configuration offers enormous potential that has not yet been exploited for such fuels. This can only be achieved through a joint work combining state-of-the-art tools, from novel experimental facilities at high pressures, advanced optical diagnostics to high-performance computing. The project will accelerate the development of new, high-power density, fuel-flexible combustion systems and unleash the potential of zero-carbon gas turbines.

Keywords: hydrogen,thermal power,zero carbon fuels,power generation,gas turbine
Competition and regulation in the digital economy (DIGECON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance , management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANTS (ERC-2021-ADG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2027-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1943750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1943750.0
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The digital economy is of growing importance for society, but its development challenges the traditional approaches to competition policy and regulation, based on a benchmark of perfect competition that regulatory authorities aim at approaching in the various relevant markets. Economies of scale and scope are more the rule than the exception, network effects and multi-sidedness are pervasive, information and data are shaping industries, the boundaries of the markets are becoming blurred, and industry dynamics are on a new scale. These features make the perfect competition benchmark and the focus on individual markets less relevant, calling for a new conceptual framework for the analysis of competition in the digital economy. The proposed research aims at breaking new ground on four related fronts. First, competition in the digital economy is increasingly between ecosystems involving multiple products and, often, multiple actors. Second, platforms compete for consumer attention, raising questions about consumer behaviour and platforms’ ability to influence it. Third, the digital revolution has drastically affected the way firms compete and cooperate along the vertical chains of production and distribution. Finally, the role of data raises questions not only about the interplay between business strategy and consumer privacy, but also about how the quest for data can shape entry and competition in product markets. On each theme, several avenues are proposed to enhance our understanding of how competition works in the digital era; the insights will shed light on desirable changes for competition policy and regulation – interpreted in a broad sense, including policies that affect the functioning of digital markets such as consumer or privacy protection policies.

Keywords: digital economy,competition,competition policy,regulation,data markets,privacy,ecosystems,complements and substitutes,consumer attention,consumer behaviour,business strategy,transaction costs,search costs
Upscaling the natural sponge functions of freshwater ecosystems to deliver multi-benefit green deal solutions (SpongeBoost)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Adaptation to climate change
Destination: Adaptation to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Bulgaria,Netherlands,Estonia,Czechia,Spain,Portugal
Call: Boost the sponge function of landscape as a way to improve climate-resilience to water management challenges (HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999918.75
EU funding (EUR): 2999918.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The project “SpongeBoost - upscaling the natural sponge functions of freshwater ecosystems to deliver multi-benefit Green Deal solutions” gathered a consortium of 10 partners from 7 European countries with interdisciplinary backgrounds in research, policy and management, to collect and recommend the best solutions for effectively increasing or restoring the natural water retention function of the landscape. By compiling available knowledge and best practice tools, combined with adapting and testing new innovative approaches, a roadmap will be developed to engage regions and communities in active implementing of transformative measures to improve resilience to extreme events. By synthesising knowledge for policy-making, hands-on restoration, and adaptive land-use planning, as well as showcasing successful examples of sponge restoration and the multifunctional benefits, stakeholders from the local to the European scale will be engaged and supported in implementing cost-effective and innovative solutions for restoring the sponge function of soils in wetlands and groundwater surface water systems. The active participation in development and testing ensures that innovative solutions are moved closer to the market. Thus, SpongeBoost will contribute to achieving the ambitious targets of the EU Climate Change Adaptation Mission and its Implementation Plan to maximize climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity and other societal benefits from nature-based solution. SpongeBoost consortium members are involved in various restoration projects and work closely with relevant actors promoting networking and knowledge exchange and creating synergies at regional level and across all regions of Europe. They contribute to SpongeBoost's overarching goal of making a lasting positive impact on sponge restoration for climate change adaptation.

Keywords: sponge,water retention measures,peatland,floodplain,surface water,restoration,land use change,ecosystem services,nature based solutions,water management,networking,climate resilience
Asset Level Modelling of RISKs In the Face of Climate Induced Extreme Events and ADAPTtation (RISKADAPT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Mission
Theme: Adaptation to climate change
Destination: Adaptation to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,Netherlands,Belgium,Italy,Slovenia,Greece,Hong Kong,United Kingdom
Call: Towards asset level modelling of climate risks and adaptation (HORIZON-MISS-2021-CLIMA-02, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2534786.25
EU funding (EUR): 2533536.0
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

RISKADAPT will provide, in close cooperation with the end-users/other stakeholders, a novel, integrated, modular, interoperable, public and free, customizable user-friendly platform (PRISKADAPT), to support systemic, risk-informed decisions regarding adaptation to CC induced compound events at the asset level, focusing on the structural system. PRISKADAPT will explicitly model dependencies between infrastructures, which, inter alia, will provide a better understanding of the nexus between climate hazards and social vulnerabilities and resilience. Moreover, this project will identify gaps in data and propose ways to overcome them and advance the state of the art of asset level modelling through advanced climate science to predict CC forcing on the structure of interest, structural analyses, customized to the specific structure of interest, that consider all major CC induced load effects in tandem with material deterioration, novel probabilistic environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost (LCC) of structural adaptation measures and a new model to assess climate risk that will combine technical risk assessment with assessment of social risks. PRISKADAPT will provide values to a set of indicators for each asset of interest, quantifying primary parameters and impacts, in the form of a Model Information System (MIS) that will provide all required information for adaptation decisions. PRISKADAPT will be implemented in the case studies in the pilots that involve specific assets, however, it will permit customization with local values of parameters and data, so it can be applicable throughout Europe for CC adaptation decisions involving assets of similar function, exposed to multiple climate hazards.

Keywords: eo services for climate change forcing in extreme events integrated engineering and social risk construction related multi hazard risk assessment probabilistic lca lcc integrated safety lca lcc