Proyectos e iniciativas Europeas

IRIS EDIH provides specialised services in artificial intelligence, supercomputing and personalised precision medicine to businesses and public entities at regional, national, and European levels.

As a non-profit initiative, IRIS EDIH offers infrastructures, capabilities, advisory services, training, talent attraction, spaces, and other services to support the innovation and digitalisation of SMEs, public administrations, and society as a whole.

All of this is aimed at improving industrial competitiveness, advancing the digital transformation of public entities, and ultimately enhancing societal well-being.

ADItech participates in this project as a partner, facilitating the involvement of other SINAI agents with the support of the Government of Navarra.

INKREASE is scheduled to run for five years, divided into two phases: a first three-year development phase, followed by a two-year implementation phase of the defined Action Plans. The project has a budget of just over 2 million euros (€2,042,041), with more than 80% co-financing provided by Interreg Europe.

INKREASE and its objectives fall under the 2015 Interreg Europe call, specifically within one of its four priority areas: Research and Innovation. Interreg Europe, as an interregional cooperation programme, offers opportunities for local and regional public authorities across Europe to share ideas and experiences that lead to concrete improvements in their policy approaches.

The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna coordinates the project through its Directorate General for Industry, Transport and Tourism, in collaboration with the regional innovation agency ASTER.

In addition to ADItech, project partners include: ECOPLUS, the business agency of Lower Austria; the Central Denmark Region; the PANNON Business Network Association in Hungary; MOSTA (Centre for Research and Higher Education Monitoring and Analysis) in Lithuania; and the French region of Brittany, represented by Bretagne Développement Innovation.

The project is also characterised by regional engagement activities and knowledge-sharing between partners, which will ensure that the objectives are met in a more efficient and effective manner.

Project website: interregeurope.eu

This project, coordinated by ADItech Technological Corporation, involves a consortium made up of 9 partners from different countries, covering the entire value chain within the sector. These partners can be divided into two main groups.

One group consists of leading research institutions and technology centres, including:
CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), DTU (Technical University of Denmark), and CEMITEC (Multidisciplinary Centre for Technologies for Industry), which is part of the ADItech Corporation.

The second group contributes the industrial perspective and access to the market. It includes four partners:
NIA (Nanotechnology Industries Association), ENNA (European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association), INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal), which acts as a link to EUMAT (European Technology Platform for Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies), and CSM (Centre for Materials Research, Italy), which serves as a link to A4M (Alliance for Materials), also with a European scope.

The Net-Market-Fluidics project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 685775.

More info on NMF: netmarketfluidics.eu

The aim is to identify complementarities between leading entities across Europe and to ensure that the high-value knowledge jointly acquired is later implemented in SMEs through concrete, targeted actions. These actions should have a strong standalone impact on the companies where they are applied and a high level of replicability.

Until recently, the regions participating from Spain were the Basque Country, Galicia, the Community of Madrid, and Aragon. This year, new regions have joined the initiative: La Rioja, Asturias, Catalonia, Valencia, and the Canary Islands, as well as Navarra.
More information about the initiative: https://i4ms.eu/

ADItech took part in the I4MS initiative by coordinating Navarra’s proposal in collaboration with UPNA and AIN. Within the context of I4MS, ADItech carried out its activities under the BEInCPPS project (www.beincpps.eu).

Years active: 2015 – ongoing in 2021 as a collaborative network

ADItech is the entity responsible for promoting the participation of Navarra’s research and technology centres in this type of European networks, actively seeking new opportunities.

Specifically, the PortASAP Project (European Network for the Promotion of Portable, Affordable and Simple Analytical Platforms) aims to establish a European platform for the promotion of low-cost analytical devices. The goal is to achieve true portability, enabling these devices to be used directly in the workplace or in the field, and to be easily transported — all without compromising ease of use, so they can be operated by non-expert personnel.

Participants will work until the project’s completion, scheduled for mid-2021, to develop a European roadmap that provides detailed information on the design, manufacturing, and distribution phases of such devices.

Professionals from various disciplines — both in research and industry (including separation sciences, engineering, chemistry, and other scientific fields, as well as end-users with no background in analytical chemistry, and instrument manufacturers) — will form this network, which currently includes over 27 entities from 16 different European countries.

The specific objectives of PortASAP are:

• To create a transnational network enabling multidisciplinary scientists to work alongside end-users in the search for analytical solutions that are innovative, selective, sensitive, affordable, and portable

• To adapt analytical techniques and paradigms to current needs and limitations

• To promote the design and use of modern analytical tools across Europe, particularly among SMEs

The Action will not only foster networking in the field, but also ensure scientific and technological development within the working group, while promoting the visibility and impact of the Action itself.

This project has received funding from the European Union programme: COST Action – Grant Agreement CA16215.

Years active: 2017 – 2019

Through the development of nanofluids, the advancement of Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), and the removal of barriers hindering their market uptake, Nanouptake aims to contribute to achieving the European targets set under the Horizon 2020 Energy and Climate programme (Societal Challenges 3: secure, clean and efficient energy; and 6: climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials).

Formed by more than 37 institutions from 21 different countries, the Nanouptake project began in October 2016. To reach its main goal, a set of specific objectives was established, with a completion deadline set for the end of 2020:

• To reach a consensus on the preparation and characterisation of nanofluids, including the entire supply chain

• To accelerate the transfer of knowledge from fundamental research to industry by identifying and addressing barriers to the use of nanofluids in industrial applications

• To create an open space where new research in the field can be integrated into the Nanouptake COST Action

Years active: 2018 – 2019
ADItech participated as a guest in the working groups, promoting the involvement of SINAI agents in the development of proposals and projects.

What sets this type of network apart from traditional central heating systems in buildings is that it serves more than one building — potentially covering an entire town — and its pipelines run beneath streets or shared spaces in neighbourhoods.
This heating system offers several advantages over others: it delivers much higher efficiency than individual boilers, making better use of fuel and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also enables lower energy prices from suppliers, since the central heating plant, as a high-consumption customer, has greater negotiating power. Furthermore, it allows for the integration of other energy sources such as renewables (biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, etc.) and waste heat from industrial processes (natural cooling, excess industrial heat or cold, combined heat and cooling generation, etc.) or electricity generation (cogeneration).

The inDeal project aims to improve the efficiency of these urban networks through system automation. This will be achieved by incorporating network monitoring technologies, demand and weather forecasting algorithms, and decision-making and control algorithms.
In addition, the project is also working on an innovative pipe design and the development of a sustainable insulating material. Together, these advances aim to increase the overall energy efficiency of the system, while ensuring a fair distribution of heating and cooling demand.
inDeal will represent a significant step forward in the wider adoption of smart district heating and cooling networks, and the integration of renewable energy sources, energy recovery, and storage systems.

CEMITEC is the participating project partner, while ADItech supports its work as an associated third party, taking charge of the project’s Technology Transfer Plan as part of the result exploitation and return-seeking activities.

Years active: 2015 – 2018

More information about the inDeal project: www.indeal-project.eu