The PORTS project intends to study the impact of new routes and MoS between Apulian, Montenegrin and Albanian coasts, particularly between the ports of Taranto, Kotor and Durres, and to analyse their socioeconomic impact. It also aims to increase cross-boarder dialogue and ultimately accessibility, by:

• creating a large international network including all the relevant stakeholders in the area;

• creating an international research laboratory (PORTS LAB) to study new forms of integrated transport RO/PAX and new cruiser lines between the ports of Taranto, Kotor, Bar and Durres and to analyze data with a mathematical provisional transport model;

• organizing international round tables in order to discuss main findings of the research

• sharing good practices and training professional within the industry.

Main target of the actions are public authorities managing transport of passengers and freight, and economic operators along the spine of the eastern Balkans.

Call:
Interreg IPA-CBC Italy – Albania - Montenegro 2014 - 2020

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Michele Ruta – DEI

SSD:
ING-INF/05 “Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni"

The challenges brought about by the fourth industrial revolution are at the very heart of the project FUTURE 4.0. The further developmental stage in the organization and management of the entire value chain process involved in manufacturing industry is radically changing even the concept of enterprise. EUSAIR area societies and economies are affected as well by this paradigm shift, which has effects on production, intercompany relations, human capital development.

To face this, and having as specific focus Blue Economy, the shipyard & nautical logistic supply chain, the project intends to design a shared strategy to innovate companies’ approach to training through a Smart Learning Model enhancing shipyard competitiveness in Italy (Veneto & Apulia), Croatia, Greece and Albania.

The project structure foresees the definition of a Technological Map of the Shipyard & Nautical Logistic supply chain through inclusive road mapping and foresight activity on technology and related competences. Results will be the lay for the designing of a knowledge, competence and skills training/learning hub (FUTURE4.0 platform) involving Universities and training orgs., companies and PAs. The platform will be part of the above-mentioned Smart Learning Model and Strategy, implemented and validated through local pilot actions, encompassing effective industrial education and training for innovation, enhancing the University-Industry cooperation.

Call:
ADRION - First Call For Proposals

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof.ssa Maria Pia Fanti – DEI

SSD:
ING-INF/04 “Automatica”

Sito web:
https://future4.adrioninterreg.eu/

MEDSAL Project aims at developing innovative methods to identify various sources and processes of salinization and at providing an integrated set of modelling tools that capture the dynamics and risks of salinization MEDSAL, and thereby aims to secure availability and quality of groundwater reserves in Mediterranean coastal areas, which are amongst the most vulnerable regions in the world to water scarcity and quality degradation.

Call:
PRIMA 2018

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof.ssa Maria Dolores Fidelibus, Prof.ssa Gabriella Balacco – DICATECh

SSD:
GEO/05 “Geologia applicata” – ICAR/02 “Costruzioni idrauliche e marittime e idrologia”

Sito web:
http://medsal.eu/

To meet the goal of a carbon neutral growth of commercial aviation, the top level objective of IMOTHEP is to achieve a key step in assessing the potential offered by hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) and, ultimately, to build the corresponding aviation sector-wide roadmap for the maturation of the technology.

The core of IMOTHEP is an integrated end-to-end investigation of hybrid-electric power trains for commercial aircraft, performed in close connection with the propulsion system and aircraft architecture. Aircraft configurations will be selected based on their potential for fuel burn reduction and their representativeness of a variety of credible concepts, with a focus on regional and short-to-medium range missions. From the preliminary design of aircraft, target specifications will be defined for the architecture and components of the hybrid propulsion chain. Technological solutions and associated models will then be investigated with a twenty year timeframe perspective. In order to identify key technological enablers and technology gaps, the integrated performance of the electric components and power chain will be synthesized by assessing the fuel burn of the selected aircraft configurations, compared to conventional technologies extrapolated to 2035.

Call:
H2020-MG-2019-SingleStage-INEA

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Proff.ri Francesco Cupertino / David Naso

SSD:
ING-IND/32 – ING-INF/04

A critical mass of Knowledge Workers (KWs) is required to fill the gap between the ever-increasing deficit between demand and offer in the field of Industrial Engineering and Management (IE&M) in Europe. This project aims at providing answers to the highlighted problem by combining organizational methodologies for the production of goods and services and new digital technologies in the implementation of the so-called Industry 4.0 paradigm. The main objective is to design and test innovative courses (both classes and e-learning modules) in IE&M, creating new curricula for university students and industry workforce and eventually contributing to reduce the shortage of KWs in the manufacturing sector. By introducing cutting-edge learning techniques and tools, the project will support the future generation of KWs, as the participants will learn how to face the emerging challenges of the job market, developing hard skills along with an entrepreneurial mindset. The project foresees to foster a new mind-set within IE&M students based on intrapreneurship, meaning a new “employee culture” marked by higher degrees of autonomy and responsibility for the sake of the hiring firms and the entire sector.

Specific project objectives are:
• To identify education and training convergences and divergences between IE&M courses, along with the training needs required by companies to IE&M students and collect these results in a Body of Knowledge (BoK), conceived as both theoretical framework and technical specifications for redesigning IE&M courses in HEIs.
• To align knowledge, skills and competences with contents, learning–teaching methods and assessment of the educational activities offered by the different project partners to the BoK
• To develop and test a 4 pilot IE&M courses based on the findings of the BoK
• To develop and test 4 e-learning modules based on the revised courses
• To reshape a whole IE&M Master Program building on the experience developed in the project

Call:
EAC/A03/2018 – Knowledge Alliances Erasmus + Programme – Key Action 2 (KA2) — Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Ruolo Politecnico:
Coordinator

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Ing. Giovanni Mummolo – DMMM

SSD:
ING-IND/17 “Impianti industriali meccanici”

MgO based refractory of new generation is developed by the joint competence of steelmaker, refractory producer and university scientists. Both new carbon free binder system and modification of the current binder systems are studied. The new refractory (either bricks or castable) is characterized and tested firstly in laboratory and then in full scale ladles. The development is directly towards the need of steelmaking. The new refractory is expected to result in great improvement of steel cleanness and prolonged lifetime of ladle lining. The sustainability and recyclability of the refractory should be another important factor in the development.

Call:
Research Fund for Coal and Steel - RFSR-CT-2015-00005

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Giovanni Mummolo – DMMM

SSD:
ING-IND 17 “Impianti industriali meccanici”

The growing adoption of fully digital workflows is boosting the creation of a digital market for products, services and infrastructures. However, the composition of heterogeneous information and communications technologies (ICT) from different vendors makes digital processes and transactions at risk of cyber-attacks. The EU-funded GUARD project aims to fill the technological and procedural gap between legacy cybersecurity models and novel computing and networking paradigms, by developing an innovative platform for the protection of digital business chains that encompasses two main dimensions: service integrity and data sovereignty. The project fosters the integration of security capabilities into each digital component, and orchestrates them to improve visibility over vulnerabilities, attacks, and private data. Validation and stakeholder engagement will happen in industrial and medical use cases.

Call:
SU-ICT-01-2018

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partecipante come UdR del consorzio CNIT

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Gennaro Boggia – DEI

SSD:
ING-INF/03 “Telecomunicazioni”

Sito web:
https://guard-project.eu

Connected smart objects have invaded our everyday life across multiple domains, e.g. home with automation solutions, assisted living with sensors and wearables to monitor personal activities, smart transportation and environmental monitoring. IoT is evolving around a plethora of vertically isolated platforms, each specifically suited to given scenarios and often adopting non-standard, sometimes fully proprietary, protocols to control the variety of sensors, actuators and communication elements. symbIoTe comes to evolve this fragmented environment and provides an abstraction layer for a unified control view on various IoT platforms and sensing/actuating resources. symbIoTe designs and develops an IoT orchestration middleware capable of unified and secure access to physical and virtualized IoT resources; hierarchical and orchestrated discovery and control across multiple IoT platforms; federation of IoT controllers and resources for cooperative sensing/actuation tasks; seamless roaming of smart objects across smart spaces. symbIoTe builds its orchestration middleware on top of existing standards for protocols and interfaces, plus a number IoT platforms both proprietary (i.e. developed by its industrial partners) and from open source (e.g. OpenIoT). This unique set of backgrounds and foreground can result in a significant step forward in horizontal integration and federation of IoT domains. Five use cases with real large scale deployments have been selected to validate our vision in representative smart spaces: home/residence, educational campus, stadium, mobility and yachting. Engagement with real users is key in our validation process. With its research, symbIoTe can enable innovative business models for a large set of stakeholders of the IoT value chain, and particularly SMEs and new entrants in the IoT market. The consortium includes direct beneficiaries of these impacts, including small and large industry with IoT business and renowned research performers.

Call:
ICT-30-2015

Ruolo Politecnico:
partecipante come UdR del consorzio CNIT

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Gennaro Boggia – DEI

SSD:
ING-INF/03 “Telecomunicazioni”

Sito web:
https://www.symbiote-h2020.eu/

BONVOYAGE designed, developed and tested a platform optimizing multimodal door-to-door transport of passengers and goods. The platform integrates travel information, planning and ticketing services, by automatically analyzing non-real-time data from heterogeneous databases (on road, railway and urban transport systems); real-time measured data (traffic, weather forecasts); user profiles; user feedback. The platform is supported by an innovative information-centric communication network that collects and distributes all the data required. The highly heterogeneous, distributed and mobile nature of data, coming from data-centers, sensors, vehicles, goods and people on the move, calls for an innovative networking paradigm. Current networks (e.g. Internet) limit themselves to “just” providing communication channels between hosts. The proposed paradigm, called Internames, allows communications among entities identified by names, without the constraint of a static binding to a particular location. The request of a “user” (be it a person or a parcel) to travel from source to destination is managed by the platform with several tools: Metadata Handler collects and elaborates data related to the request and generates a corresponding Context; User Profiler creates a personalized profile, conveying requirements including Quality of Experience parameters and special needs; Multi-Objective Optimizer develops personalized travel instructions, optimal for the Context and User Profile. The user may give feedback, before accepting the travel itinerary. If a trip is not available at request time, the user is notified if it becomes available later on. An Actuator triggers the necessary services. A Tariff Scheme Designer exploits platform data to define multi-part tariff schemes. BONVOYAGE demonstrated the platform and communication network in integrated, large-scale, real life application scenarios, incorporated into the normal business operations of our transport operator partners.

Call:
H2020-MG-2014_TwoStages

Ruolo Politecnico:
partecipante come UdR del consorzio CNIT

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Luigi Alfredo Grieco – DEI

SSD:
ING-INF/03 “Telecomunicazioni”

Sito web:
http://bonvoyage2020.eu

ADE is an H2020 project funded by the European Commission within Strategic Research Cluster on Space Robotics Technologies. ADE brings together the European industrial and research leaders in space robotics autonomy.

The overall objective of the Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) in Space Robotics Technologies is to deliver by 2023/2024 key technologies at a significant scale suitable for two major application domains: orbital and surface exploration. More specifically this 2016 SRC assumes as reference/target scenarios in-orbit servicing and planetary rover autonomous exploration.

ADE shall fulfil, as minimum, the following main objectives:

• Achieve autonomous long range navigation with high reliability: the rover system shall perform long term mapping and path planning and successive motion control over distances in the range of kilometres per sol;

• Guarantee consistent data detection while avoiding un-detection of interesting data along mission path: to maximize the scientific return along it nominal long traverse journey;

• Autonomous decision making capabilities in presence of conflicts.

• Reach a higher TRL level for its future use in space, there must be a clear path for reaching higher levels of TRL (5/6 min) at component and system level.

• Safety: The system must demonstrate that it is capable of keeping the rover in safe conditions in the presence of failures or any unexpected events.

• Achieve a flexible-purpose surface robotic system design.

• Spin-off / ground exploitation and commercialization.

• Dissemination/Communication and Exploitation

• Collaboration/harmonization with other Call 2 OGs consortiums.

Call:
H2020-SPACE-2018-2020

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Giulio Reina – DMMM

SSD:
ING-IND 13 “Meccanica applicata alle macchine”

Sito web:
https://www.h2020-ade.eu

ATLAS will build an open, distributed and extensible data platform based on a microservice architecture which will offer a high level of scalability from a single farm to a global community.

The technology developed in ATLAS will be tested and evaluated within pilot studies on a multitude of real agricultural operations across Europe along 4 relevant use cases:

• precision agriculture tasks

• sensor-driven irrigation management

• data-based soil management and

• behavioural analysis of livestock.

ATLAS will involve all actors along the food chain, simplifying and improving the processes from farm to fork.

Through the support of innovative start-ups, SMEs and farmers, ATLAS will enable new business models for and with the farmers and establish sustainable business ecosystems based on innovative data-driven services.

Call:
H2020-DT-2018-2020

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Giulio Reina – DMMM

SSD:
ING-IND 13 “Meccanica applicata alle macchine”

Sito web:
https://www.atlas-h2020.eu

Ladle preheating is a requirement for steelmaking operations. However, standard preheating technology is unfavourable regarding process efficiency, energy consumption and emissions. This project aims at testing the necessities, technical requirements and opportunities of a new ladle preheating procedure using plasma. It will investigate these by combining engineering, numerical modelling, laboratory characterization, industrial trials and pilot testing. A future implementation would lead to flexible preheating procedures (drying, first and all subsequent preheating) with increased refractory lifetime from minimized decarburization and wear, appropriate heating of the different refractory parts, minimized emissions and improved cost efficiency due to less gas consumption and higher heating rates.

Call:
Research Fund for Coal and Steel - RFCS-2019

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Raffaele Pio Iavagnilio – DMMM

SSD:
ING-IND 17 “Impianti industriali meccanici”

Progressus supports the European climate targets for 2030 by proposing a next generation smart grid, demonstrated by the application example “smart charging infrastructure” that integrates seamlessly into the already existing concepts of smartgrid architectures keeping additional investments minimal. The expected high-power requirements for ultra fast charging stations lead to special challenges for designing and establishing an intelligent charge-infrastructure. As emission free traffic concepts are a nascent economic topic also the efficient use of charging infrastructure is still in its infancy. Thus, novel sensor types, hardware security modules, inexpensive high bandwidth technologies and block-chain technology as part of an independent, extendable charging energy-management and customer platform are researched for a charging-station energy-microgrid. Research of new efficient high-power voltage converters, which support bidirectional power flow and provide a new type of highly economical charging stations with connected storage and metering platform to locally monitor the grid state complements the activities. The stations are intended to exploit the grid infrastructure via broadband power-line as communication medium, removing the need for costly civil engineering activities and supplying information to the energy management solutions for utilization optimization. Smart-Contracts via block-chain offer a distributed framework for the proposed energy management and services platform. Furthermore hardware security hardens the concept against direct physical attacks such as infiltration of the network by gaining access to the encryption key material even when a charging station is compromised. Progressus solutions are estimated to enable a carbon dioxide saving of 800.000 tons per year for only Germany, will secure the competitiveness of European industry and research by extending the system know how and will thus safeguard employment and production in Europe.

Call:
H2020-ECSEL-2019-2-RIA

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof.ssa Maria Dicorato – DEI

SSD:
ING-IND 33 “Sistemi elettrici per l’energia”

Collaboration is a concept that carries heavy weight when discussing multimodal trips of passengers. For Transport Service Providers (TSPs), it is a method to facilitate a door-to-door (D2D) journey, which is a basic goal set out by the EU in the 2011 Transport White Paper. However, collaboration is a very generic concept that is hard to define. For SYN+AIR, collaboration among modes relates to data sharing among TSPs in the scope of facilitating a seamless D2D journey.

The main objective of SYN+AIR is to generate common goals for TSPs that will justify data sharing, facilitating the user to execute a seamless D2D journey. SYN+AIR employs a partially participatory (in terms of validation) and partially, technology driven approach (in terms of defining data flow among TSPs) that is user-centric; customer journeys will be generated for the entire multimodal chain and SYN+AIR will analyse how those journeys can be facilitated through improved planning and operations activities (following the ATFCM phases: strategic, pre-tactical, tactical) powered by data sharing. For the analysis, air travelling is placed in the epicentre; all multimodal chains consider the usage of air travelling.

Consequently, a “Smart Contracts Framework” will be generated based on a Business Process Model. Smart Contracts are agreements among TSPs that define data sharing criteria (scope, parties’ obligations, contract’s time span and fulfilment criteria). TSPs can use the agreements for structuring a collaboration scheme with another TSP either strategically or tactically. Data generated by Travel Companion apps will also be analysed in the context of enriching the Smart Contracts Framework allowing TSPs to improve their activities and execute informed decisions. Finally, SYN+AIR will determine what additional recommendations can be provided to travellers based on the execution of a Smart Contract.

Call:
H2020-SESAR-2019-2

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Prof. Michele Ottomanelli, Prof. Mario Binetti

SSD:
ICAR/05 “Trasporti”

Air pollution in terms of toxic gas molecules and particulate matter is a major cause of morbidity and premature mortality, resulting in an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year. Real time pollution monitoring with high spatial resolution and public alerts is vital to minimise the exposure of the population, particularly the vulnerable, to air pollution. Direct access to high quality, trustworthy data will allow optimisation of daily schedules to reduce exposure. The availability of actionable data, which will, if necessary, stand up in court and with government, will drive long term changes in the behaviour of both the public and industry.

Ambient pollutant reference detectors are impractical for widespread or mobile deployment. Miniature, low cost electrochemical generally are still not stable or sensitive enough for monitoring ambient pollutants reliably. PASSEPARTOUT will advance the development and deployment of miniature, hyperspectral optical based sensors based on Quartz Enhanced Photo-acoustic Spectroscopy and Photo-Thermal Interferometry for a wide range of ambient pollutants.

The PASSEPARTOUT optical sensors operate in the mid-IR or NIR spectral range and allow calibration free methodologies as quantification is based on the well-known optical constants of the target analytes and will be compatible with the rigorous certification process. PASSEPARTOUT will realise the first 3D mobile optical gas analyser network capable of operating in an urban area. Innovative and high-performance technologies for high accuracy and flexible environmental air quality monitoring will be built into robust drone-mounted, low-cost vehicle-mounted and stationary sensors. The network will provide real-time information about the concentration of polluting gases (NOx, SO2, NH3, CH4, CO, CO2) and black carbon within urban areas, around landfills and seaports with extremely high precision and excellent spatial resolution.

Call:
H2020-ICT-2018-20 - H2020-ICT-2020-2

Ruolo Politecnico:
Partner

Responsabile scientifico del Politecnico:
Vincenzo L. Spagnolo - Gianluca Percoco, Francesco Prudenzano

SSD:
SSD: FIS/01 “Fisica sperimentale”, ING-IND/16 “Tecnologie e sistemi di lavorazione”, ING-INF/02 “Campi elettromagnetici”