Research Activities
            

AIToC
Artificial Intelligence-supported Tool Chain in Manufacturing Engineering

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Description
The goal is to develop an integrated toolchain for manufacturing engineering that supports decision-making in early phases. To achieve this, the toolchain will support the formalization and automated analysis of requirements and the computer aided generation of process plans and simulation models. In all these dimensions, artificial intelligence will be used for optimization and monitoring based on sensor data in the plant and synthetic data in a digital twin. The interoperability of engineering tools is also in focus and will be developed using standardized neutral data formats.

Partners

• Daimler Buses -EvoBus GmbH
• Ford Otosan
  
• German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
  
• TWT GmbH Science & Innovation GmbH
• Volvo Group
  

Duration
October 2020 to September 2023

More information
itea3.org

AUDIo
Auditing ML-based data driven services

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Description
AUDIo will digitize the re-calibration and re-configuration of machines, which currently is a pure manual service requiring expert knowledge. In the future, the machine operators shall be enabled to perform these tasks on their own. This will be achieved by an AR-based assistant that guides the machine operators through the entire re-calibration and re-configuration process, the sensor-based measurement of calibration data, and the remote computation of re-configuration parameters supported by AI and machine learning techniques. Additionally, AUDIo will make use of the Distributed Ledger Technology to log the generated data and performed (inter-)actions in a secure, immutable, and thus auditable way.

Partners

• Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU
• METROM Mechatronische Maschinen (Mechatronic Machines) GmbH
• 5-pm UG
• Technical University of Dresden• Institute of Production Engineering and Photonic Technologies of the Vienna University

Duration
September 2019 to August 2022

More information
audio-projekt.net

EuProGigant
Artificial intelligence for energy technologies and applications in production

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Description
EuProGiant implements the Gaia-X architecture through a German-Austrian consortium. As the first industrial project with practical implementation of GAIA-X principles, data-driven value creation will be rolled out in production, increasing productivity, revenue and energy efficiency while reducing CO2 equivalents and production costs. A cross-site, digitally networked production system built for EuProGigant will form the basis for a data ecosystem.

Partners

• A1 Digital International GmbH (Austria)
• Brinkhaus GmbH
• Concircle Management Consulting GmbH
• craftworks GmbH (Austria)
• EIT-Manufacturing GmbH (Germany and Austria)
• Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH (Germany)
• IGH Infotec AG (Germany)
• Institute of Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW), TU Darmstadt (Germany)
• Pilot Factory of TU Wien (Austria)
• Plasser & Theurer, Export von Bahnbaumaschinen, Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Austria)
• Stark Spannsysteme GmbH (Austria)
• WFL Millturn Technologies GmbH & Co. KG (Austria)

Duration
March 2021 to February 2025

More information
europrogiant.com
 

IML4E
Industrial Machine Learning for Enterprises

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Description
IML4E brings together companies from the main sectors of the European software industry to create a European framework for the development, operation and maintenance of AI-based software, ensuring the development of intelligent services and intelligent software at industrial scale. The project focuses on providing industry-ready techniques, methods and tools that are not currently
freely available through open source solutions.

Partners

• BasWare (Finland)
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
• CGI (Finland)
• Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)
• Granlund Oy (Finland)
• Reaktor (Finland)
• Siemens (Germany)
• Silo AI (Finland)
• Spicetech (Germany)
• University of Debrecen (Hungary)
• University of Helsinki (Finland)
• Vitarex Studio Ltd (Hungary)

Duration
May 2021 to April 2024

More information
itea3.org

KI4ETA
Artificial intelligence for energy technologies and applications in production          

Funded by

Description
The goal is to use AI to narrow the so-called energy-efficiency gap—the difference between the energy savings that are technically possible in a factory and those that have already been realized in industry. To this end, an AI-based, scalable energy management platform is being developed on which the factory's machine, building and energy data are brought together. Automated with AI, measures for optimizing energy consumption are derived. 

Partners

• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• Entega AG
  
• Robert Bosch GmbH
  
• Technical University of Darmstadt

Duration
June 2021 to May 2024

KLIPS
AI-based information platform for the localization and simulation of heat islands for innovative urban and traffic planning

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Description
The aim of KLIPS is to develop a digital information platform for the localization, prognosis and simulation of heat islands. Thanks to swarm sensor technology and AI methods, the platform not only makes it possible to detect heat islands in urban areas, but also to predict their formation.

Partners

• German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Pikobytes
• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,
• Heinrich Hertz Institute
• University of Applied Sciences Hof
• Leibniz Institute of Ecological
• Urban and Regional Development
• meggsimum
• City of Leipzig
• City of Langenfeld

Duration
October 2020 to September 2023

More information
klips-projekt.de

KompAKI
Competence center for work and AI in the Rhein-Main area 

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Description
KompAKI will open up new potentials for human-centered AI application and their business models, develop new approaches of cooperative AI with which users can use AI more transparently and easily, and develop new methods to evaluate work in AI-supported work systems. 

Partners

• Technical University of Darmstadt
• Hochschule Darmstadt – University of Applied Sciences
• Metaphacts GmbH
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
• Darmstadt GmbH
• Jakob Maul GmbH
• Serviceware SE
• Heller Machine Tools Ltd
• Simplan AG
• STAUFEN. Quality Engineers GmbH
• TRILUX GmbH & Co. KG
  
• WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
  

Duration
October 2020 to September 2025

REIF
Resource-efficient, Economic and Intelligent Foodchain

Funded by

Description
Objective is to reduce the waste of food in production and retail - for instant almost one third of all milk produced is lost in the value chain before it is bought by customers. To solve this huge economic but above all societal problem, REIF investigates the potential of Artificial Intelligence to optimize planning and controllability of the value chain. The core is the conception of an AI ecosystem that integrates stakeholders at all stages of the value chain.

Partners

• Fraunhofer Research Institution for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology IGCV
• Technical University of Munich - Chair of Brewing and Beverage
• Technology TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
• Collaborations Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Industrial Analytics IA GmbH
• Westfleisch SCE
• Kuchenmeister GmbH
• Hochland SE
• Tegut GmbH & Co. KG
  

Duration
February 2020 to January 2023 (implementation period)

More information
ki-reif.de

SAUBER
Satellite-based System to display, predict, and simulate air pollutants for a sustainable urban and regional development

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Description
The aim of is to establish an information platform for sustainable urban and regional development. The data and services of the Copernicus space program, which have so far hardly been used in practice, will be developed and transferred into digital services: SAUBER will not only offer a comprehensive and detailed overview of the current air quality, but will also allow forecasts and simulations of the expected air quality using artificial-intelligence methods.

Partners

• German Aerospace Center (DLR)
  
• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI
• geomer GmbH
• Hof University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Information Systems (iisys)
• Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
• geomatics office meggsimum

Duration
October 2018 to September 2021

More information
sauber-projekt.de

SDI-C
Smart Data Innovation Challenges

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Description
The Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) offers big data researchers’ unique access to a large variety of big data and in-memory technologies. Industry and science collaborate closely to find hidden value in big data and generate smart data. The Smart Data Innovation Challenges (SDI-C) concept adds an important component to the Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL). SDI-C aims in particular to promote and enable innovative microprojects. AI projects are to be carried out equally by industry and research.

Partners

• Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
• Forschungszentrum Jülich
• SAP SE
• IBM
  

Duration
August 2019 to July 2022

More information
sdil.de

sustAGE
Smart environments for person-centered sustainable work and well-being

Funded by:

Description

Aims to develop a person-centered smart solution, in close collaboration with occupational specialists, psychologists and end-users, aiming to support the employment and later retirement of older adults from work.

Partners

• Foundation for Research & Technology Hella
• sCentro Ricerche FIAT
• IMAGINARY Srl
• FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT FUR ARBEITSPHYSIOLOGIE UND ARBEITSSCHUTZ EV
• Hellenic Port Authority S.A.
• AEGIS IT Research UG
• University of Augsburg
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

Duration
January 2019 to December 2021

More Information
sustage.eu

ZDMP
Zero Defects Manufacturing Platform

Funded by:

Description
Development of a platform for the control and improvement of the “Zero Defects” product and process quality in the Industry 4.0 field for manufacturers. The ZDMP platform will combine state-of-the-art technology approaches based on commercial software or robust open source platforms with innovative integration concepts.

Partners
The consortium consists of 30 partners, including companies supplying ICT solutions, suppliers of solutions in the manufacturing sector, industrial partners in the automotive, industrial machinery, electronic and construction, as well as universities and research institutes and the German institute for DIN standardization.

Duration
January 2019 to December 2022

More information
zdmp.eu

ADD2Log
Platform for Decentral Production based on Additive Manufacturing and Agile Logistics

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Description
Develops a cross-company software platform for realizing an agile supply chain. With this platform new and spare parts will be produced using additive manufacturing.

Partners

• DMG MORI Spare Parts GmbH, Munich
  
• Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT
  
• Materialise GmbH, Gilching / Munich
• TOP Mehrwert-Logistik GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg
  

AMCOCS
Additive Manufactured Component Certification Services

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Description
Development of a self-learning platform to accelerate testing and certification procedures in additive manufacturing and the transfer of these findings into digital business models. The project aims to provide a platform that allows reducing time and material required to certify 3d printed parts in the stringent aerospace context, which may be transferred into different industries later on.

Partners

• Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH
• Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI
• IMA Materialforschung und Anwendungstechnik GmbH
• Technical University of Dresden
  

AUDIo
Auditing ML-based data driven services

Funded by:

Description
AUDIo will digitize the re-calibration and re-configuration of machines, which currently is a pure manual service requiring expert knowledge. In the future, the machine operators shall be enabled to perform these tasks on their own. This will be achieved by an AR-based assistant that guides the machine operators through the entire re-calibration and re-configuration process, the sensor-based measurement of calibration data, and the remote computation of re-configuration parameters supported by AI and machine learning techniques. Additionally, AUDIo will make use of the Distributed Ledger Technology to log the generated data and performed (inter-)actions in a secure, immutable, and thus auditable way.

Partners

• Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology
• METROM Mechatronische Maschinen (Mechatronic Machines) GmbH
• 5-pm UG
• Technical University of Dresden
• Institute of Production Engineering and Photonic Technologies of the Vienna University
  

DESPRIMA
Demand side and production management for beverage bottling processes

Funded by:

Description
DESPRIMA enables beverage bottling industries to adapt their energy consumption flexibly according to the varying energy availability and thus reduce energy costs. Therefore DESPRIMA will develop an intelligent energy management system by connecting sensors and actors of the bottling machinery to a digital platform.

Partners

• SWW Wunsiedel GmbH
  
• Brandenburger Urstromquelle GmbH
• Dresden Elektronik
• Fraunhofer Institute for Technical and Industrial Mathematic ITWM
• Technical University of Kaiserslautern
• University of Bremen
  

Duration
July 2019 to June 2022

More information
desprima.de

DISRUPT
Decentralized Architectures For Optimized Operations Via Virtualized Processes and Supply-Chain Collaboration

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Description
Aims to spearhead the transition to the next generation manufacturing paradigm by facilitating the vision and execution of a "Smart Factory": Isolated, optimized cells will come together as a fully integrated, automated, and optimized production flow, leading to greater efficiencies and changing traditional production relationships among suppliers, producers, and customers, as well as between human and machine

Partners

• Centro Ricerche Fiat SCPA, Italy
• Arcelik A.S., Turkey
• Athens Technology Center SA, Greece
• Boc Asset Management GmbH, Austria
• Simplan AG, Germany
• University of Manchester, UK
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
• Athens University of Economics and Business - Research Center, Greece
  

Duration
September 2016 to August 2019

More information
disrupt-project.eu

DM4AR
Datamanagement for Augmented Reality

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Description
The aim of the project is to promote the widespread use of the Augmented Reality (AR) technology in technical services. For this purpose, an AR content generator for the automated generation of AR content as well as incentive systems and reference processes for the integrated capture of implicit knowledge will be developed.

Partners

• FIR e. V. Aachen
• YNCORIS GmbH & Co. KG
• oculavis GmbH
• Top Mehrwert Logistik GmbH & Co. KG
• thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG
  

Fühler im Netz 2.0 (Sensors in the Grid)
Use of Big Data and KI using the FiN (Fühler im Netz/Sensors in the Grid) approach for status monitoring of networks and plants in the distribution network

Funded by:

Description
To ensure the supply security and grid stability in Germany in the future, the FiN project intends to investigate new and cost-effective ways of recording the grid status and detecting faults, specifically the use of Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology. BPL is used for communicatively linking different applications in the electricity grid. Building on the Fühler im Netz (FiN) research project, FiN 2.0 is now testing large-scale solutions for monitoring the network status using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

Partners

• Power Plus Communications AG
• University of Wuppertal
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• Energieversorgung Leverkusen GmbH & Co. KG
• Mainzer Netze GmbH
  
• Netze BW GmbH
  

I-BiDaaS
Industrial-Driven Big Data as a Self-Service Solution

Funded by:

Description
I-BiDaaS aims to empower users to easily utilize and interact with big data technologies by designing, building and demonstrating a unified solution that significantly increases the speed of data analysis while coping with the rate of data asset growth as well as facilitates cross-domain data flow toward a thriving data-driven EU economy. I-BiDaaS will be validated by three real-world, industry-led experiments in the domains of banking, manufacturing and telecommunications.

Partners

• Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain 
• IBM Israel - Science and Technology Ltd, Israel 
• Centro Ricerche Fiat Scpa, Italy 
• Caixabank Sa, Spain The University of Manchester, U.K.
•  Ecole Nationale Des Ponts Et Chaussees, France
•  Atos Spain Sa, Spain 
• Aegis It Research Ltd, U.K. 
• Information Technology For Market Leadership, Greece
•  University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia 
• Telefonica Nvestigacion Y Desarrollo Sa, Spain
  

Duration
January 2018 to December 2020

More information
ibidaas.eu

RESPOND
Resilient socio-technical processes in the industrial Internet of Things

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Description
The RESPOND research project aims to create a flexible and dynamic production system in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is able to monitor itself and react on errors autonomously.

Partners

• Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Information Management and Media and Institute of Ubiquitous Mobility Systems
• SITEC Industrietechnologie GmbH
• Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU
• Karlsruhe Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization
• TTI Technologie-Transfer-Initiative GmbH
• INTEC International GmbH
  

SCIKE Project Singapore
Software-Cluster Internationalization Strategy for the Development of Core Competencies in Key Areas of Innovation of the Enterprise Software Branch

Funded by:

Description
Within the project SCIKE, the Software-Cluster will develop an internationally oriented cooperation framework in order to address the need for developing internationalization skills.
SCIKE covers planned cooperation with Singapore in the area of mobile enterprise software using augmented reality for maintenance processes.

Partners

• Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD
• Fraunhofer Singapore
  
• CAS Software AG 
• I-views Intelligent views 
• invenio GmbH 
• Vsonix GmbH 
• Additional partners in Singapore
  

sustAGE
Smart environments for person-centered sustainable work and well-being

Funded by:

Description

Aims to develop a person-centered smart solution, in close collaboration with occupational specialists, psychologists and end-users, aiming to support the employment and later retirement of older adults from work.

Partners

• Foundation for Research & Technology Hella
• sCentro Ricerche FIAT
• IMAGINARY Srl
• FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT FUR ARBEITSPHYSIOLOGIE UND ARBEITSSCHUTZ EV
• Hellenic Port Authority S.A.
• AEGIS IT Research UG
• University of Augsburg
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

Duration
January 2019 to December 2021

More Information
sustage.eu

SynErgie 2
Synchronized and energy-adaptive manufacturing engineering for flexible alignment to a fluctuating energy supply

Funded by:

Description
SynErgie will demonstrate how energy-intensive production processes can be adjusted to a volatile energy supply. The project is developing a synchronization platform that steers and monitors energy distribution within the production system and responds to flexibility requirements within the power system in a highly dynamic manner. The focus of the second funding phase, which started in November 2019, is on demonstrating the approach in industrial pilot applications and on transferring technologies and solutions.

Partners

• The consortium consists of more than 80 partners from research, industry, and civil society.
  

ZDMP
Zero Defects Manufacturing Platform

Funded by:

Description
Development of a platform for the control and improvement of the “Zero Defects” product and process quality in the Industry 4.0 field for manufacturers. The ZDMP platform will combine state-of-the-art technology approaches based on commercial software or robust open source platforms with innovative integration concepts.

Partners
The consortium consists of 30 partners, including companies supplying ICT solutions, suppliers of solutions in the manufacturing sector, industrial partners in the automotive, industrial machinery, electronic and construction, as well as universities and research institutes and the German institute for DIN standardization.

Duration
January 2019 to December 2022

More information
zdmp.eu

Cartox²
Service platform for urban coverage of C2C Communication

Funded by:

Description
Develops a platform for basic services for automated and connected driving. It also integrates the network coverage for the Car-2- infrastructure communication as well as the data routing between edge clouds and access points of the cloud environment.

Partners

• CETECOM 
• Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI
• HRD.Consulting 
• MechLab Engineering 
• Technical University of Dresden
  
• TÜV NORD
  

I-BiDaaS
Industrial-Driven Big Data as a Self-Service Solution

Funded by:

Description
I-BiDaaS aims to empower users to easily utilize and interact with big data technologies by designing, building and demonstrating a unified solution that significantly increases the speed of data analysis while coping with the rate of data asset growth as well as facilitates cross-domain data flow toward a thriving data-driven EU economy. I-BiDaaS will be validated by three real-world, industry-led experiments in the domains of banking, manufacturing and telecommunications.

Partners

• Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain 
• IBM Israel - Science and Technology Ltd, Israel 
• Centro Ricerche Fiat Scpa, Italy 
• Caixabank Sa, Spain 
• The University of Manchester, U.K. 
• Ecole Nationale Des Ponts Et Chaussees, France 
• Atos Spain Sa, Spain 
• Aegis It Research Ltd, U.K. 
• Information Technology For Market Leadership, Greece 
• University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia 
• Telefonica Nvestigacion Y Desarrollo Sa, Spain  

Duration
January 2018 to December 2020

More information
ibidaas.eu

PrEstoCloud
Proactive Cloud Resources Management at the Edge for Efficient Real-Time Big Data Processing

Funded by:

Description
Aims to combine real-time big data, cloud computing and fog computing research in order to provide an innovative solution for addressing the very complex requirement for cloud-based, adaptive real-time big data processing.

Partners

• Company for provision of services, research and development Nissatech innovation centre DOO, Serbia
• ActiveEon, FranceInstitute of Communication and Computer Systems (National Technical University of Athens), Greece
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
• GIOUMPITEK Meleti Schediasmos Ylopoiisi kai Ergon Pliroforikis EPE (UBITECH), Greece
• Advanced Integrated Technology Solutions and Services Ltd, Cyprus
• LiveU Ltd., IsraelN.AMRAM Technologies Ltd., Israel
• Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• CVS Mobile, IT Solutions, Inc., Slovenia

Duration
January 2017 to December 2019

More information
prestocloud-project.eu

DESPRIMA
Demand side and production management for beverage bottling processes

Funded by:

Description
DESPRIMA enables beverage bottling industries to adapt their energy consumption flexibly according to the varying energy availability and thus reduce energy costs. Therefore DESPRIMA will develop an intelligent energy management system by connecting sensors and actors of the bottling machinery to a digital platform.

Partners

• SWW Wunsiedel GmbH (public utility)
• Brandenburger Urstromquelle GmbH
• Dresden Elektronik
• Fraunhofer Institute for Technical and Industrial Mathematics
• Technical University of Kaiserslautern
• University of Bremen
  

Duration
July 2019 to June 2022

More information
desprima.de

E2COMATION
Life-cycle optimization of industrial energy efficiency by a distributed control and decision-making automation platform 

Funded by:

Description
E2COMATION aims at providing a cross-sectorial methodological framework and a technological platform to monitor, predict and evaluate energy efficiency and life-cycle impact of the behavior of a factory, to adapt and optimize dynamically not only its real-time behavior over different time-scales, but also its strategic positioning with respect to the complex supply and value chains it belongs to.

Partners

• Consiglio Nazionale delle
• Ricerche 
• nxtControl – Schneider
• Electric 
• Synesis Scarl 
• Simplan AG 
• ACT Operations Research Ltd 
• SIGMAtools GmbH 
• KU Leuven 
• ThinkingAdditive Ltd 
• Athens Technology Center SA 
• AIDIMME Instituto Tecnologico 
• Scuola Universitaria Professionale
• Svizzera Italiana 
• OCME Srl 
• Mahou-San Miguel 
• Condis 
• Kastamonu Entegre A.S. 
• Royo Group 
• SCM Group 
  

Duration
November 2020 to April 2024

enera
Smart Energy Data and Service Platform

Funded by:

Description
Aims to design an energy system that will implement smart software and storage technologies so that the pilot region in northwestern Germany will be able to run entirely on locally produced energy in the future. Innovation in the energy system infrastructure will enable the technical and digital synergy of the grid, market and data.

Partners

75 partners, among them:

• EWE AG
• BTC AG
• SAP SE
• Siemens AG
  

Duration
January 2017 to December 2020

More information
projekt-enera.de

eSafeNet
Energy-Efficient and Secure Communication Network for the Internet of Energy

Funded by:

Description
Designs and implements an innovative communication approach with information technology for the Internet of Energy. Security and reliability are the focus of the communication infrastructure, which has to be developed.

Partners

• Ericsson GmbH
• Kalinowski Consulting GmbH
• QSC AGRWTH Aachen: E.ON Energy Research Center
• Solit Systems GmbH
• Stadtwerke Mainz AG
  

Duration
May 2016 to October 2018

More information
esafe-net.de

Fühler im Netz 2.0 (Sensors in the Grid)
Use of Big Data and KI using the FiN (Fühler im Netz/Sensors in the Grid) approach for status monitoring of networks and plants in the distribution network

Funded by:

Description
To ensure the supply security and grid stability in Germany in the future, the FiN project intends to investigate new and cost-effective ways of recording the grid status and detecting faults, specifically the use of Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology. BPL is used for communicatively linking different applications in the electricity grid. Building on the Fühler im Netz (FiN) research project, FiN 2.0 is now testing large-scale solutions for monitoring the network status using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

Partners

• Power Plus Communications AG
• University of Wuppertal
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• Energieversorgung (Energy Supply) Leverkusen GmbH & Co. KG
• Mainzer Netze GmbH (Public Utility Company of the City of Mainz)
• Netze BW GmbH (Grid Company of the German State of Baden-Württemberg)
  

Duration
June 2019 to May 2022

More Information
dfki.de

KI4ETA
Artificial intelligence for energy technologies and applications in production          

Funded by

Description
The goal is to use AI to narrow the so-called energy-efficiency gap—the difference between the energy savings that are technically possible in a factory and those that have already been realized in industry. To this end, an AI-based, scalable energy management platform is being developed on which the factory's machine, building and energy data are brought together. Automated with AI, measures for optimizing energy consumption are derived. 

Partners

• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• Entega AG
  
• Robert Bosch GmbH
  
• Technical University of Darmstadt

Duration
June 2021 to May 2024

PHI-Factory
Flexible Electronic Plant Networking

Funded by:

Description
Develops solutions for a flexible energetic load management in industrial enterprises. This should enable companies to adjust their energy consumption to the volatile power markets.

Partners

• Technical University of Dresden
• Adam Opel AG
• Bosch Rexroth AG
• Entega GmbH
• MPDV Mikrolab GmbH
• Ökotec GmbH
  

Duration
December 2016 to November 2019

SCIKE Project Brasil
Software-Cluster Internationalization Strategy for the Development of Core Competencies in Key Areas of Innovation of the Enterprise Software Branch

Funded by:

Description
Within the project SCIKE, the Software-Cluster will develop an internationally oriented cooperation framework in order to address the need for developing internationalization skills. SCIKE covers planned cooperation with Bahia (Brazil) in the area of energy management.

Partners

• CAS Software AG 
• eurosec GmbH
• Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE
• Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM
• I-views Intelligent views 
• Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT
• Additional partners in Brazil
  

Duration
April 2017 to March 2019

More Information
software-cluster.org

SynErgie 2
Synchronized and energy-adaptive manufacturing engineering for flexible alignment to a fluctuating energy supply

Funded by:

Description
SynErgie will demonstrate how energy-intensive production processes can be adjusted to a volatile energy supply. The project is developing a synchronization platform that steers and monitors energy distribution within the production system and responds to flexibility requirements within the power system in a highly dynamic manner. The focus of the second funding phase is on demonstrating the approach in industrial pilot applications and on transferring technologies and solutions.

Partners
The consortium consists of more than 80 partners from research, industry, and civil society.

Duration
September 2016 to October 2022

More Information
kopernikus-projekte.de

ADD2Log
Platform for Decentral Production based on Additive Manufacturing and Agile Logistics

Funded by:

Description
Develops a cross-company software platform for realizing an agile supply chain. With this platform new and spare parts will be produced using additive manufacturing.

Partners

• DMG MORI Spare Parts GmbH, München
• Fraunhofer-Institut für Lasertechnik (ILT), Aachen
• Materialise GmbH, Gilching / München
• Software AG, Darmstadt
• TOP Mehrwert-Logistik GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg
  

Duration
March 2017 to February 2020

E2COMATION
Life-cycle optimization of industrial energy efficiency by a distributed control and decision-making automation platform 

Funded by:

Description
E2COMATION aims at providing a cross-sectorial methodological framework and a technological platform to monitor, predict and evaluate energy efficiency and life-cycle impact of the behavior of a factory, to adapt and optimize dynamically not only its real-time behavior over different time-scales, but also its strategic positioning with respect to the complex supply and value chains it belongs to.

Partners

• Consiglio Nazionale delle
• Ricerche 
• nxtControl – Schneider
• Electric 
• Synesis Scarl 
• Simplan AG 
• ACT Operations Research Ltd 
• SIGMAtools GmbH 
• KU Leuven 
• ThinkingAdditive Ltd 
• Athens Technology Center SA 
• AIDIMME Instituto Tecnologico 
• Scuola Universitaria Professionale
• Svizzera Italiana 
• OCME Srl 
• Mahou-San Miguel 
• Condis 
• Kastamonu Entegre A.S. 
• Royo Group 
• SCM Group 
  

Duration
November 2020 to April 2024

More information
https://e2comation.eu/

LOGISTAR
Enhanced Data Management Techniques For Logistics Planning And Scheduling In Real Time

Funded by:

Description

LOGISTAR aims to allow effective planning and optimizing of transport operations in the supply chain by taking advantage of horizontal collaboration, relying on the increasingly real-time data gathered from the interconnected environment. For this, a real-time decision making tool and a real-time visualization tool of freight transport will be developed.

Partners

• DeustoTech
• University College Cork
• Semantic Web Company Gmbh
• Preston Solution
• sMDS Transmodal
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
• dbh Logistics IT AG
• Ahlers Belgium
• Consorzio Zailog (interporto of verona)
• Nestec York
  
• CHEP Pallecon Europe
  

Duration
June 2018 to September 2021

More information
logistar-project.eu

SENATOR
Smart network operator for sustainable governance decision-making based on shared-connected freight delivery towards a better urban planning

Funded by:

Description

The main objective of SENATOR project is to provide four governance schemes for urban planning policies: User demand planning, Transport planning, Freight & Logistics planning and City infrastructure focused, bringing together relevant stakeholders in urban freight logistics within one multi-collaborative framework based on a new urban logistics model to attend the requirements of the 'on demand economy'. Therefore, SENATOR develops a smart network operator supported on an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) platform for integrated logistics operation.

Partners

• Sociedad Estatal CORREOS y Telégrafos, S.A.
• Univ. de la Iglesia de DEUSTO Entidad Religiosa
• Ayuntamiento de ZARAGOZA
• Dublin City Council
• Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
• MDS Transmodal Ltd.
• RINA-C Consulting S.p.A.
• ZABALA Innovation Consulting S.A.
• DotGIS Corporation S.L.
• An Post
• University College Dublin
  

Duration
September 2020 to August 2024

More information
senatorproject.eu

TT Transforming Transport
Big Data Value in Mobility and Logistics

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Description
Demonstrates the transformations that Big Data will bring to the mobility and logistics market. Transforming Transport validates the technical and economic viability of Big Data to reshape transport processes and services to significantly increase operational efficiency, deliver improved customer experience, and foster new business models.

Partners
46 partners all over Europe among them:

• Indra Sistemas S.A., Spain
• Atos Spain S.A.
• Duisburger Hafen AG, Germany
• INTRASOFT International S.A., Luxembourg
• University of Southampton, UK
• Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  

Duration
January 2017 to June 2019

Daten Tanken
Data Recharging

Funded by:

Description
Develops and defines digital business processes concerning the economically viable operation of mobility and energy services and transfers the results to digital business models. This way, the grid-compatible construction of both the public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Dresden as well as the partly public infrastructure for logistics providers and residential building companies is promoted.

Partners

• Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Dresden City), Amt für Wirtschaftsförderung
• DREWAG NETZ GmbH
• Technical University of Dresden
  
• Mobility Center GmbH Leipzig
  
• Mobilitätswerk GmbH
• Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI
• Cleopa GmbH
  

Duration
August 2018 to September 2022

EVAREST
Generation and Utilization of Data Products in the Food Industry through Smart Services

Funded by:

Description
Development and utilization of data products in the food production ecosystem through Smart Services. On the basis of a technical data platform with open technical standards created across manufacturer boundaries, the (legally) secure utilization of data as an economic good and the provision of user-specific Smart Services for various stakeholder groups will be made possible.

Partners

• Agricultural Market Information Company (AMI)
• CISPA - Helmholtz Center for It-Security
  
• FIR Aachen
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) 
• Lindt & Sprüngli GmbH
  

Duration
January 2019 to December 2021

KLIPS
AI-based information platform for the localization and simulation of heat islands for innovative urban and traffic planning 

Funded by:

Description
The aim of KLIPS is to develop a digital information platform for the localization, prognosis and simulation of heat islands. Thanks to swarm sensor technology and AI methods, the platform not only makes it possible to detect heat islands in urban areas, but also to predict their formation.

Partners

• German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Pikobytes
• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,
• Heinrich Hertz Institute
• University of Applied Sciences Hof
• Leibniz Institute of Ecological
• Urban and Regional Development
• meggsimum
• City of Leipzig
• City of Langenfeld

Duration
October 2020 to September 2023

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klips-projekt.de

SAUBER
Satellite-based System to display, predict, and simulate air pollutants for a sustainable urban and regional development

Funded by:

Description
The aim of is to establish an information platform for sustainable urban and regional development. The data and services of the Copernicus space program, which have so far hardly been used in practice, will be developed and transferred into digital services: SAUBER will not only offer a comprehensive and detailed overview of the current air quality, but will also allow forecasts and simulations of the expected air quality using artificial-intelligence methods.

Partners

• Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
• Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
• geomer GmbH
• Hochschule Hof, Institut für Informationssysteme
• Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung e.V.
  

Duration

SDI-C
Smart Data Innovation Challenges

Funded by:

Description
The Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) offers big data researchers’ unique access to a large variety of big data and in-memory technologies. Industry and science collaborate closely to find hidden value in big data and generate smart data. The Smart Data Innovation Challenges (SDI-C) concept adds an important component to the Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL). SDI-C aims in particular to promote and enable innovative microprojects. AI projects are to be carried out equally by industry and research.

Partners

• Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS
• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• Forschungszentrum Jülich
• SAP SE
• IBM
  

Duration
August 2019 to July 2022

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sdil.de

sd-kama
Smart Data Disaster Management

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Description
Aims to define a platform, that systematically collects, analyses, processes and correlates all available information for a targeted, scalable real-time disaster management.

Partners

• geomer GmbH
• German Aerospace Center (DLR)
  
• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI
• Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln, AöR
  

Duration
April 2015 to March 2018

SENATOR
Smart network operator for sustainable governance decision-making based on shared-connected freight delivery towards a better urban planning

Funded by:

Description

The main objective of SENATOR project is to provide four governance schemes for urban planning policies: User demand planning, Transport planning, Freight & Logistics planning and City infrastructure focused, bringing together relevant stakeholders in urban freight logistics within one multi-collaborative framework based on a new urban logistics model to attend the requirements of the 'on demand economy'. Therefore, SENATOR develops a smart network operator supported on an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) platform for integrated logistics operation.

Partners

• Sociedad Estatal CORREOS y Telégrafos, S.A.
• Univ. de la Iglesia de DEUSTO Entidad Religiosa
• Ayuntamiento de ZARAGOZA
• Dublin City Council
• Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
• MDS Transmodal Ltd.
• RINA-C Consulting S.p.A.
• ZABALA Innovation Consulting S.A.
• DotGIS Corporation S.L.
• An Post
• University College Dublin
  

Duration
September 2020 to August 2024

Daten Tanken
Data Recharging

Funded by:

Description
Develops and defines digital business processes concerning the economically viable operation of mobility and energy services and transfers the results to digital business models. This way, the grid-compatible construction of both the public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Dresden as well as the partly public infrastructure for logistics providers and residential building companies is promoted.

Partners

• Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Amt für Wirtschaftsförderung
• DREWAG NETZ GmbH
• Technische Universität Dresden
• Mobility Center GmbH
• Mobilitätswerk GmbH
• Fraunhofer Institut für Verkehrs- und Infrastruktursysteme
• Cleopa GmbH
  

Duration
August 2018 to September 2022

Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 7: "Affordable and Clean Energy"
• Target 7.1: "Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services"
  
  
• Goal 9: "Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure"
• Target 9.1: "Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all."
   
• Goal 11: "Sustainable Cities and Communities"
• Target 11.6: "Reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management."

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dresden.de

DESPRIMA
Demand side and production management for beverage bottling processes

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Description
DESPRIMA enables beverage bottling industries to adapt their energy consumption flexibly according to the varying energy availability and thus reduce energy costs. Therefore DESPRIMA will develop an intelligent energy management system by connecting sensors and actors of the bottling machinery to a digital platform.

Partners

• SWW Wunsiedel GmbH (public utility)
• Brandenburger Urstromquelle GmbH
• Dresden Elektronik
• Fraunhofer Institute for Technical and Industrial Mathematics
• Technical University of Kaiserslautern
• University of Bremen
  

• Goal 7:“Affordable and Clean Energy” 
• Target 7.2: “Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix” and target 7.3 “Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency”

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desprima.de

E2COMATION
Life-cycle optimization of industrial energy efficiency by a distributed control and decision-making automation platform 

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Description
E2COMATION aims at providing a cross-sectorial methodological framework and a technological platform to monitor, predict and evaluate energy efficiency and life-cycle impact of the behavior of a factory, to adapt and optimize dynamically not only its real-time behavior over different time-scales, but also its strategic positioning with respect to the complex supply and value chains it belongs to.

Partners

• Consiglio Nazionale delle
• Ricerche 
• nxtControl – Schneider
• Electric 
• Synesis Scarl 
• Simplan AG 
• ACT Operations Research Ltd 
• SIGMAtools GmbH 
• KU Leuven 
• ThinkingAdditive Ltd 
• Athens Technology Center SA 
• AIDIMME Instituto Tecnologico 
• Scuola Universitaria Professionale
• Svizzera Italiana 
• OCME Srl 
• Mahou-San Miguel 
• Condis 
• Kastamonu Entegre A.S. 
• Royo Group 
• SCM Group 
  

Duration
November 2020 to April 2024 

Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 7: “Affordable and Clean Energy”
• Target 7.2: “Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix”
• Target 7.3: “Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency” 

• Goal 9: “Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure” 
• Target 9.4: “Upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities”

ELISE
Development of an Interactive and Emotion-Sensitive Learning System for the Development of Competencies in the Area of Business Process Management

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Description
Development of an Interactive and Emotion-Sensitive Learning System for the Development of Competencies in the Area of Business Process Management. The combination of 3-dimensional and multimedia visualized business process elements in a virtual reality (VR) scenario forms the core.

Partners

• LIMBIC Entertainment GmbH 
• University of Siegen
  

Duration
March 2016 to February 2019

• Goal 4: "Quality Education"
• Target 4.4: "Substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship"
  

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elise-lernen.de

enera
Smart Energy Data and Service Platform

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Description
Aims to design an energy system that will implement smart software and storage technologies so that the pilot region in northwestern Germany will be able to run entirely on locally produced energy in the future. Innovation in the energy system infrastructure will enable the technical and digital synergy of the grid, market and data.

Partners

75 partners, among them:

• EWE AG
• BTC AG
• SAP SE
• Siemens AG
  

• Goal 7: “Affordable and Clean Energy” 
• Target 7.2 “Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix”

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projekt-enera.de

EuProGigant
Artificial intelligence for energy technologies and applications in production

Funded by

Description
EuProGiant implements the Gaia-X architecture through a German-Austrian consortium. As the first industrial project with practical implementation of GAIA-X principles, data-driven value creation will be rolled out in production, increasing productivity, revenue and energy efficiency while reducing CO2 equivalents and production costs. A cross-site, digitally networked production system built for EuProGigant will form the basis for a data ecosystem.

Partners

• A1 Digital International GmbH (Austria)
• Brinkhaus GmbH
• Concircle Management Consulting GmbH
• craftworks GmbH (Austria)
• EIT-Manufacturing GmbH (Germany and Austria)
• Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH (Germany)
• IGH Infotec AG (Germany)
• Institute of Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW), TU Darmstadt (Germany)
• Pilot Factory of TU Wien (Austria)
• Plasser & Theurer, Export von Bahnbaumaschinen, Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Austria)
• Stark Spannsysteme GmbH (Austria)
• WFL Millturn Technologies GmbH & Co. KG (Austria)

Duration
March 2021 to February 2025

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europrogiant.com

• Goal 4: Quality Education
• Target 4.4: By 2030, this project aims to substantially build the skills of youth and adults so they can pursue new opportunities for
  employment and entrepreneurship
   
• Goal 5: Gender Equality
• Target 5.5: The goal is to ensure women can participate fully and equally in leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.
   
• Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
• Target 8.2: This project aims to increase economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrades and innovation with a focus on high value-added and labor-intensive sectors.
   
• Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• Target 9.1: The goal of this project is to develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, regionally and across borders, that will support economic development and improve quality of life with a focus on affordable and equitable access.
   
• Goal 12: The goal is to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
• Target 12.1: A 10-year framework of programs will be implemented for sustainable consumption and production. Developed countries will take the lead, considering the development and capabilities of developing countries.

Inverse Transparenz
Participation-Oriented approaches for Data Sovereignty in the Digital Working World

Funded by:

Description
The project investigates participatory approaches that empowers employees to use personal data to make work processes more efficient and at the same time ensures a modern way of data protection.

Partners

• ISF Munich—Institute for Social Science Research
• Technical University of Munich
  
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)
  

Duration
November 2018 to October 2021

• Goal 8: “Decent Work and Economic Growth”
• Target 8.8: “Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment”
  

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inversetransparenz.de

KI4ETA
Artificial intelligence for energy technologies and applications in production          

Funded by

Description
The goal is to use AI to narrow the so-called energy-efficiency gap—the difference between the energy savings that are technically possible in a factory and those that have already been realized in industry. To this end, an AI-based, scalable energy management platform is being developed on which the factory's machine, building and energy data are brought together. Automated with AI, measures for optimizing energy consumption are derived. 

Partners

• German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
• Entega AG
  
• Robert Bosch GmbH
  
• Technical University of Darmstadt

Duration
June 2021 to May 2024

• Goal 7: Create affordable and clean energy
• Target 7.2: Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
• Target 7.3: Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
  

KLIPS
AI-based information platform for the localization and simulation of heat islands for innovative urban and traffic planning 

Funded by:

Description
The aim of KLIPS is to develop a
digital information platform for the localization, prognosis and simulation of heat islands. Thanks to swarm sensor technology and AI methods, the platform not only makes it possible to detect heat islands in urban areas, but also to predict their formation.

Partners

• German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• Pikobytes
• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,
• Heinrich Hertz Institute
• University of Applied Sciences Hof
• Leibniz Institute of Ecological
• Urban and Regional Development
• meggsimum
• City of Leipzig
• City of Langenfeld

• Goal 3: “Good Health and Well-being”
• Target 3.9: “By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination."
   
• Goal 13: “Climate Action”
• Target 13.3: “Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning” 

More information
klips-projekt.de

PHI-Factory
Flexible Electronic Plant Networking

Funded by:

Description
Develops solutions for a flexible energetic load management in industrial enterprises. This should enable companies to adjust their energy consumption to the volatile power markets.

Partners

• Technische Universität Dresden
• Adam Opel AG
• Bosch Rexroth AG
• Entega GmbH
• MPDV Mikrolab GmbH
• Ökotec GmbH
  

Duration
December 2016 to November 2019

• Goal 7: “Affordable and Clean Energy” 
• Target 7.2 “Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix”
• Target 7.3 “Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency”
  

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phi-factory.de

REIF
Resource-efficient, Economic and Intelligent Foodchain

Funded by

Description
Objective is to reduce the waste of food in production and retail - for instant almost one third of all milk produced is lost in the value chain before it is bought by customers. To solve this huge economic but above all societal problem, REIF investigates the potential of Artificial Intelligence to optimize planning and controllability of the value chain. The core is the conception of an AI ecosystem that integrates stakeholders at all stages of the value chain.

Partners

• Fraunhofer Research Institution for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology IGCV
• Technical University of Munich - Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
• Collaborations Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Industrial Analytics IA GmbH
• Westfleisch SCE (Meat Marketer)
• Kuchenmeister GmbH (Bakery)
• Hochland SE (Dairy)
• Tegut GmbH & Co. KG (Retail)
  

Duration
April 2019 to September 2019 (design period)
February 2020 to January 2023 (implementation period)

Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 12: “Responsible Consumption and Production” 
• Target 12.3: “By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses”

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ki-reif.de

SAUBER
Satellite-based System to display, predict, and simulate air pollutants for a sustainable urban and regional development

Funded by:

Description
The aim of is to establish an information platform for sustainable urban and regional development. The data and services of the Copernicus space program, which have so far hardly been used in practice, will be developed and transferred into digital services: SAUBER will not only offer a comprehensive and detailed overview of the current air quality, but will also allow forecasts and simulations of the expected air quality using artificial-intelligence methods.

Partners

• Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
• Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
• geomer GmbH
• Hochschule Hof, Institut für Informationssysteme
• Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung e.V.
  

Duration
October 2018 to September 2021

Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 3: “Good Health and Well-being”
• Target 3.9: "By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination."
   
• Goal 13: “Climate Action”
• Target 13.3: “Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.”

More Information
sauber-projekt.de

SENATOR
Smart network operator for sustainable governance decision-making based on shared-connected freight delivery towards a better urban planning

Funded by:

Description

The main objective of SENATOR project is to provide four governance schemes for urban planning policies: User demand planning, Transport planning, Freight & Logistics planning and City infrastructure focused, bringing together relevant stakeholders in urban freight logistics within one multi-collaborative framework based on a new urban logistics model to attend the requirements of the 'on demand economy'. Therefore, SENATOR develops a smart network operator supported on an ICT (Information and Communications Technology) platform for integrated logistics operation.

Partners

• Sociedad Estatal CORREOS y Telégrafos, S.A.
• Univ. de la Iglesia de DEUSTO Entidad Religiosa
• Ayuntamiento de ZARAGOZA
• Dublin City Council
• Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
• MDS Transmodal Ltd.
• RINA-C Consulting S.p.A.
• ZABALA Innovation Consulting S.A.
• DotGIS Corporation S.L.
• An Post
• University College Dublin
  

Duration
September 2020 to August 2024

Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 8: “Decent Work and Economic Growth”
• Target 8.3: “Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services”
• Target 8.8: “Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment”
   
• Goal 9: “Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure”
• Target 9.1: “Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all”
• Target 9.4: “Upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities”
   
• Goal 11: “Sustainable Cities and Communitities”
• Target 11.3: “Enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries”
• Target 11.6: “Reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management”
   
• Goal 13: “Climate Action”
• Target 13.2: “Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning”

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senatorproject.eu

sustAGE
Smart environments for person-centered sustainable work and well-being

Funded by:

Description

Aims to develop a person-centered smart solution, in close collaboration with occupational specialists, psychologists and end-users, aiming to support the employment and later retirement of older adults from work.

Partners

• Foundation for Research & Technology Hella
• sCentro Ricerche FIAT
• IMAGINARY Srl
• FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT FUR ARBEITSPHYSIOLOGIE UND ARBEITSSCHUTZ EV
• Hellenic Port Authority S.A.
• AEGIS IT Research UG
• University of Augsburg
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

Duration
January 2019 to December 2021

Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 8: “Decent Work and Economic Growth”
• Target 8.2: “Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors”
• Target 8.5: “Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal."

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sustage.eu

s:ne
System Innovation for Sustainable Development – Knowledge Transfer as a Regional Learning Process. Information and Communication Technologies to Manage Leather Product Supply Chains

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Description
S:NE will transform the fragmented transfer activities of the University of Applied Science Darmstadt into an integrated “learning system.” Implemented in the use case called leather chemicals, the aim of the project is to explore and evaluate the potential of using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for sustainable consumption and production methods on a conceptual level.

The most important outcome is complete transparency across the entire supply chain in order to detect or prevent prohibited impurities or undesirable contaminations by using ICT (such as the Internet of Things).

S:NE is part of the funding program of “Innovative Hochschule” (“Innovative University”) – a cooperation between the German federal government and the federal states.

Partners

• Hochschule Darmstadt – University of Applied Sciences 
• Öko-Institut e.V., Institute of Applied Ecology
• Institut Wohnen und Umwelt GmbH (IWU) - Institute for Housing and Environment
• Institute for Social Ecological Öko Institut Wohnen und Umwelt GmbH (IWU) - Institute for Housing and Environment -Institut e.V., Institute of Applied Ecology Research (ISOE)
• e-hoch-3 GbR, Darmstadt
  

Duration
January 2018 to December 2022

• Goal 12: “Responsible Consumption and Production”
  Target 12.6: “Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle”

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sne.h-da.de

SynErgie 2
Synchronized and energy-adaptive manufacturing engineering for flexible alignment to a fluctuating energy supply

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Description
SynErgie will demonstrate how energy-intensive production processes can be adjusted to a volatile energy supply. The project is developing a synchronization platform that steers and monitors energy distribution within the production system and responds to flexibility requirements within the power system in a highly dynamic manner. The focus of the second funding phase, which started in November 2019, is on demonstrating the approach in industrial pilot applications and on transferring technologies and solutions.

Partners
The consortium consists of more than 80 partners from research, industry, and civil society.

• Goal 7: “Affordable and Clean Energy”
• Target 7.2: “Increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix”
• Target 7.3: “Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency” 
• Target 7. A: “Enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology” 
   
• Goal 8: “Decent Work and Economic Growth”
•  Target 8.5: “Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value” 
   
• Goal 9: “Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure” 
• Target 9.4: “Upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities”
  

More Information
kopernikus-projekte.de