Acronym: EMMERA
Duration: March 2024 – May 2026
Project Partners: Frederick University (Coordinator), University of Piraeus, University of Haifa, Cyprus Port Authority, Elefsis Port Authority
Acronym: NAVGREEN
Duration: May 2023 – December 2025
Project Partners: The NAVGREEN consortium consists of national partners from academia, research institutions, and industry, bringing together universities, national research centers…
Acronym: NISOS
Duration: May 2023 – December 2025
Project Partners: The NHSOS project (ΝΗΣΟΣ) consortium brings together national partners from research, academia, and public authorities to drive its green-island vision…
Acronym: Greening of EU Ports
Duration: September 2021 – March 2024
Project Partners: Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (European Commission), University of Piraeus research center, White Research, Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Acronym: Agrologistics in Greece
Duration: January 2020 – June 2020
Project Overview: The objective of the Sectoral Study on the potential of Agrologistics in Greece is threefold…
Acronym: BLUEAIR
Duration: January 2020 – May 2023
Project Partners: BLUEAIR project partnership covers the whole ADRION countries in order to contribute to its future inclusion in the EUSAIR area…
Acronym: PIXEL (Subcontract to provide support to the ThPA on PIXEL)
Duration: May 2018 – September 2021
Project Partners: The PIXEL project (Port IoT for Environmental Leverage) was executed by a consortium of 15 partners from 7 European countries, combining expertise from port authorities, research institutions, and technology providers.
Description: NEEDS stands for NEw sustainablE fuel Deployment Scenarios for the European waterborne community. The main objective of NEEDS is to provide a model and methodology to define and assess the most efficient strategies to be deployed for successfully reaching the European target of 90% GHG reduction for waterborne activities by 2050, for selected regions.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) or Life Cycle Performable Analysis (LCPA) is based on modern mathematical models and contributes to business decision-making. LCA is also applied to shipping by examining the three life phases of a ship: (Ι) design & construction, (ΙΙ) operation & maintenance, and (ΙΙΙ) end of life cycle.
The OptiShip project deals with the development of a web-based decision-support service (DSS), which will be provided for the 3 life phases of the ship. In addition, it will combine (1) applied operational research with (2) naval architecture, (3) marine hydrodynamics, and (4) key performance indicators (KPIs) to provide decision support in all areas of the maritime industry.
OptiShip provides an innovative combined solution to address the various challenges highlighted, through a cloud-based consulting platform that will not require additional equipment, offering:
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: The project is looking to identify and fill the current gaps in skills in Maritime Logistics Engineering and Management. The intention to develop state-of-the-art Maritime Education and Training package to include skills in strategy, management and operations.
The areas of expertise that MarLEM will address will include:
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: The SAFEMODE project has a duration of 42 months, from 1 June 2019 to 30 November 2022, and it is a Research and Innovation Action project funded under the Horizon 2020 programme (Grant Agreement No 814961). The main aim of SAFEMODE project is to develop a novel Human Risk Informed Design (HURID) framework in order to identify, collect and assess data for Human Factors. HURID will enable risk-based design of transport systems and operations, in the aviation and maritime sectors.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: Cluster ACT aims at enhancing innovation and business development in the Mediterranean region through maritime clusters’ networking and collaboration with private investors. The project’s actions focus on nautical, cruising and port activities, 3 sub-sectors strongly linked to tourism in all 5 countries represented.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: The lack of harmonised standards is holding back the development of drone-related business, both at a global level and in Europe. Several studies and surveys (as for instance the European Drones Outlook Study, issued by SESAR) identify a reliable regulatory and standardisation framework as one of the main potential boosters for the drone business. Therefore, to foster the growth of a safe drone usage, there is a need to implement coherent and interoperable global standards for drones in the EU. The European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme funded AW-Drones to tackle this issue, and provide guidance for harmonisation of standards to support future EU drone regulation.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: The Adriatic-Ionian region benefits from a strategic geographical location between East Europe, Mediterranean and Asia. The latter has laid the foundations for the development of an extensive network of ports and port-cities, witnessing the exchange of increasing flows of people and goods. Transport has actually become a key driver of economic growth in the region, bringing along however increasing levels of pollution and significant environmental externalities. There is therefore a pressing need to reduce the environmental impact of transport and significantly optimize transport chains, supporting in that way the transition towards a greener, safer and more efficient transport system.
Ports represent core nodes of the multimodal transport chain in the Adriatic-Ionian basin, and can serve as strategic key drivers for economic growth, reducing negative environmental impacts and supporting a sustainable development strategy for the area. Within the SUPAIR project, 7 key ADRION ports, supported by 3 leading technical partners, engage in the development of targeted action plans for the sustainable and low-carbon management of their operations. A wide range of interventions are to be explored including on-shore power supply, green upgrading of port machinery, emission control systems, ballast water management, ICT applications, etc. offering a comprehensive review of possible solutions that can be applied to other interested ports, beyond the project partnership, for moving towards less congested and more efficient port operations and further enhancing mobility and modal connectivity.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: Maritime activities constitute a major factor in the European economy and in recent years (after the 2008 economic crisis) they have been increasingly focused on innovation-driven processes. In addition, socio-economic and environmental drivers impose profound changes in the maritime sector on a global scale, that result on significant challenges to the labour market. The digitalization of industrial processes (automation, robotics, Internet of Things, big-data), the rising demand for more sustainable practices, a move to low-carbon energy sources, demographic and geopolitical changes, the exponential increase in accessible knowledge and data, are the most crucial factors in the present and future context of the maritime sector. MATES project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and aims to address this evolution in maritime technologies, focusing in particular on the sectors of shipbuilding and offshore renewable energy, by producing a long-term skills’ strategy and a strategic action plan to tackle skill shortages appeared due to the aforementioned reasons.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: INTEND is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded by the H2020 programme. The main aim of the project is to deliver an elaborated study of the research needs and priorities in the transport sector utilizing a systematic data collection method. Megatrends that will be affecting the future transport system will be identified using the Analytical Network Process to ensure validity of the results. INTEND will develop a transport agenda that will pave the way to an innovative and competitive European Transport sector.
The project’s methodology is covered in three stages:
1) Analysis of the transport research landscape: An identification of the future transport research technologies across the four modes, including infrastructure and transport systems, with an outlook of 2020-2035, by reviewing EU and international research projects, transport technology roadmaps and foresights. Review of mobility concepts through past forward looking research projects and reports and identification of political imperatives that will enable the identified future technologies that will be required by the sector.
2) Definition of megatrends and their impact on research needs: Review of socioeconomic megatrends that will affect the transport sector and impact assessment on transport research needs.
3) Identification of the main transport research needs and priorities: A sketch of the future transport system by combining results from the previous stages and a gap analysis of the current EU transport sector. The end result is the development of a transport research agenda in the form of a blueprint on transport research needs, priorities and opportunities.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: The DRIVE-IT project aims to create a technologically advanced system that will guide vehicles to their destination using dynamic routing in a distributed way. The proposed research project deals with the development of a modern vehicle routing system that is evolved dynamically by integrating in real-time new or updated information from sensors on the road network. The main goal of the proposed system is to effectively guide vehicles using real-time information and to ensure various operational constraints. The Project is taking advantage of the emerging technologies of car-to-car mobile communication networks (VANETS: Vehicle Ad hoc Networks) as well as Internet of Things (IoT) in order to create a high performance routing system. In particular, intelligent system installations will be developed and installed at traffic lights in order to indicate the next route (road selection) for each vehicle based on the queues of vehicles appearing on the road network and on the time of accessibility to each road. Hence, vehicles will communicate through the extensive use of wireless communication devices to be informed of the next “best” road selection in order to reach their destination. The proposed system is expected to achieve reductions in travel time and in the emissions generated from vehicles.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: AM4INFRA project is a coordination and support action (CSA) funded by the H2020 programme with the aim to enable transparent, risk-based optimization of investments within and across the modes. The overall objective of this CSA is to launch a life cycle and risk based Asset Management (AM) framework approach enabling effective governance of transport infrastructure networks across Europe. The framework approach is supported by data management tools that ensure transparency and compatibility of optimization and collaboration actions of the infrastructure authorities within the modes, across the modes and across Europe.
This common framework paves the way towards an integrated agenda such that it allows smooth functioning of the European transport networks, providing outstanding value for stakeholders and customers. The project’s scope is to support the infrastructure authorities in their decision making and planning as identifying the priorities on basis of (remaining) cost-performance and service levels. AM4INFRA aims to innovate the decision making by the authorities to the extent that the hinder on traffic is optimized on the basis of transparent, coherent and consistent considerations that can be better communicated to society. In addition, the innovations provided by AM4INFRA can offer new knowledge and represent the ‘seed corn’ for an implementation agenda through which the effectiveness of the sector can be further enhanced.
Building on ongoing bottom-up actions, best practices and contemporary experiences of four National Infrastructure Agencies (NIAs) that are considered frontrunners in the development and application of asset management in their networks governance, it will deliver the first ever common European AM framework approach that enables consistent and coherent cross-asset, cross-modal and cross-border decision making. The overall Concept, its major conceptual elements and the targeted results are depicted in the preceding figure.
Participating Institution: CERTH
Description: OptiTruck is an innovation action (IA) project funded through the H2020 programme with the aim to further improve energy efficiency by at least 20% on Euro VI HDVs (40t). The overall objective of this project is to develop a global optimiser which brings together the most advanced technologies from powertrain control and intelligent transport systems, with a number of innovative and complementary elements to maximise the potential utilisation of individual innovations.
The proposed system utilizes the information provided by new generation navigation systems and big data analytics such as predictive traffic and weather conditions, road topography and road network and information about transport routes to develop a strategy for the best route and the best velocity profile for fuel consumption optimisation. The developed strategy will be optimised dynamically in real road conditions in real time using the dynamic traffic and weather information and surrounding vehicle information. The global optimiser, using a predictive model based control system will realise a minimum of 20% fuel consumption reduction while optimising also the consumption of other consumables related to emission control on a typical transport mission without exceeding EURO VI emission level.
Through real driving trials, optiTruck aims to demonstrate the global optimiser, taking into account road topography, traffic and weather condition, vehicle configuration and transport mission. An impact assessment methodology will be also developed to extend the local and small-scale demonstrations to a wider evaluation to explore potential benefits of using the rich cloud data sources and powerful computing facilities for faster-than-real-time modelling and simulation. Social equity, economic, and environmental factors will be considered in the assessment to address the main societal challenges for the transport sector.
To this end, the optiTruck project envisions the creation of a global platform not only for exchanging existing knowledge between automotive industries, but also for promoting horizontal collaboration in new ways, essential for wider uptake of energy saving solutions across the sector, in Europe and the world, within and beyond this project.
Participating Institution: CERTH