Proyectos e iniciativas Europeas

January 2023 – December 2025 ADItech is the coordinator of the IRIS EDIH (European Digital Innovation Hub) of the Navarre Digital Innovation Hub. It is in charge of coordinating the European project and the consortium of 23 bodies, managing communication with the European Commission, and leading 3 of the 8 work packages.  

IRIS EDIH offers specialised services in artificial intelligence, supercomputing and precision personalised medicine to companies and public entities, at regional, national and European levels. IRIS EDIH offers, on a non-profit basis, infrastructure, capabilities, advice, training, talent attraction, spaces and services, to facilitate innovation and digitalisation of SMEs, public administration and society. All with the aim of improving the competitiveness of industry, moving towards a greater degree of digitalisation of public bodies, and, ultimately, improving the well-being of society. 

2017 – 2021 The main objective of the INKREASE (INnovation and Knowledge for Regional Actions and SystEms) project is to improve innovation activation policies and programmes aimed at increasing regional competitiveness through the promotion of dialogue and collaboration between the business and research sectors. To achieve this, the partners seek to attract private investments in R&D, promote the creation of new value chains according to RIS3 strategies and establish local “communities” for the exploitation of results in the defined areas of specialisation.  

ADItech participates as a partner in this project, facilitating the participation of other SINAI stakeholders with the support of the Government of Navarre. INKREASE has a duration of 5 years that is divided into two phases, a first of 3 years of development and two subsequent years of implementation of the defined Action Plans. It has a budget of just over 2 million euros (€2,042,041), with a financing ratio that exceeds 80% by Interreg Europe. INKREASE and its objectives are framed within the 2015 Interreg Europe call, specifically within one of the 4 priority work areas into which it is divided: Research and Innovation. Interreg Europe, as an interregional collaboration programme, offers opportunities for local and regional public authorities across Europe to share ideas and experiences that translate into concrete improvements in their action policies. The Italian region of Emilia-Romana is in charge of coordinating the project through its Directorate General for Industry, Transport and Tourism, in collaboration with the ASTER Regional Innovation Agency. In addition to ADItech, other project partners include ECOPLUS, the Business Agency of the Lower Austria region, the Central Denmark region, the PANNON Business Networks Association of Hungary, MOSTA (Centre for Analysis and Monitoring of Research and Higher Education) in Lithuania and the French region of Brittany through Bretagne Development Innovation. This project will also be characterised by regional dynamisation actions and information exchange activities between partners, ensuring that the objectives are achieved in a more effective and efficient way. Project website: interregeurope.eu 

2016 – 2018 “Creating a market-oriented network to address obstacles in implementing micro and nanofluidics in the European market” was one of the winning projects in the call issued by the European Commission as part of the “Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing” Work Programme.  

This project, which was coordinated by ADItech Corporación Tecnológica, involves a consortium formed by 9 partners from different countries, covering the entire value chain working in the sector. It can be classified into two large groups, one of them formed by important research institutions and technological centres, including: CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research of France), the University of Leeds (United Kingdom), DTU (Technical University of Denmark), and CEMITEC (Multidisciplinary Centre of Technologies for Industry, which participates in the ADItech Corporation). Another group provides the project with industry perspective and access. It comprises 4 partners: NIA (European Nanotechnology Industry Association), ENNA (European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association), INL (Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory of Portugal) as a link to EUMAT (European Platform for Advanced Materials and Technologies), and CSM (Materials Research Centre in Italy) as a link to A4M (Alliance for Materials), also European in scope. The Net-Market-Fluidics project receives funding from the European Union’s H2020 Research and Innovation Programme, with collaboration agreement no. 685775.

More info on NMF: netmarketfluidics.eu 

2015 – continuing currently in 2021 as a collaborative network. I4MS is a global initiative that was launched in 2013 and is funded by the European Commission through projects participating in the 7th Framework Programme and in Horizon 2020. The general objective of this initiative is to get European SMEs to implement advanced information and communication technologies (robotics, lasers, advanced simulation, cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things) in their manufacturing processes, to improve their innovation capacity and competitiveness.  

The aim is to seek complementarities between Europe’s leading entities so that this jointly acquired high-value knowledge can subsequently be implemented in SMEs through specific and targeted actions. These actions should have a high impact on the companies where they are put into practice and demonstrate a high degree of replicability. So far, in Spain, the Basque Country, Galicia, the Community of Madrid and Aragon have participated, and this year La Rioja, Asturias, Catalonia, Valencia and the Canary Islands have joined, in addition to Navarre. More information about the initiative: https://i4ms.eu/ ADItech participated in the I4MS initiative, coordinating Navarre’s proposal in collaboration with the UPNA and AIN. In the context of the I4MS initiative, ADItech developed its activities within the BEInCCPS project (www.beincpps.eu) 2015 – currently continuing in 2021 as a collaborative network. 

2017 – 2019 The PortASAP European Project is part of the COST Action Programme. The ADItech Technological Corporation, together with CEMITEC (Multidisciplinary Centre of Technologies for Industry) and CNTA (National Centre of Technology and Food Safety), both stakeholders in the Consortium, are active members of the working groups created in the PortASAP Project of the COST Action at the beginning of June 2017.  

ADItech is the entity responsible for boosting the participation of Navarrese technology and research centres in this type of European network by promoting the search for opportunities. Specifically, the main objective of the PortASAP Project (European Network for the Promotion of Portable, Affordable and Simple Analytical Platforms) is to create a European platform for the promotion of low-cost analytical devices. Portability will enable its use in the workplace or in the field while being easily transportable. All this without compromising ease of use, allowing inexperienced personnel to use it. The participants will work until the end of the Project, scheduled for mid-2021, to establish a European roadmap that collects accurate information on the design, manufacture and distribution phases of these devices. Professionals from the various areas involved, both in research and industry (separation sciences, engineers, chemists and other scientific fields, with end users without experience in analytical chemistry and instrument manufacturers, among others) will make up this network, which currently has more than 27 entities from 16 European countries. The specific objectives of PortASAP are:

• The creation of a transnational network that allows multidisciplinary scientists to work together with end users in the search for novel, selective, sensitive, affordable and portable analytical solutions
• Adapt analytical techniques and paradigms to current needs and limitations
• Promote the design and use of modern analytical tools in Europe by SMEs. The Action will not only facilitate networking in the sector but also ensure the scientific-technological development of the working group and promote the role of the Action. 

This project has received funding from the European Union programme: COST Action – collaboration agreement CA16215. 2017-2019 

2018 – 2019 The main objective of the Nanouptake project – Overcoming barriers to the arrival of nanofluids on the market (COST Action CA15119) – is the creation of a European network made up of R&D institutions and relevant industries in this field, in order to join forces to develop and promote nanofluids as advanced materials for use as heat transmitters/thermal stores that considerably increase the efficiency of the different systems where they could be applied.  

Through the development of nanofluids, the increase in levels of technological preparation (known as TRLs) and the overcoming of the barriers that make it difficult to reach the market, Nanouptake aims to contribute to achieving the European objectives associated with the Horizon 2020 Energy and Climate programme (Social Challenges 3: safe, efficient and clean energy and 6: climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials). Made up of more than 37 institutions from 21 countries, the Nanouptake project began its journey in October 2016. To achieve the main objective, the specific objectives mentioned below were put in place, setting their deadline for achievement at the end of 2020: 

• Reaching a consensus on the preparation and characterisation of nanofluids, including the entire supply chain.
• Accelerating the transfer of knowledge from fundamental research to industry by identifying and addressing barriers hindering the use of nanofluids in industrial applications.
• Creating an open space so that new research in the field can be incorporated into Nanouptake’s COST Action. 

2018 – 2019 – ADItech participated as a guest in the working groups, encouraging the participation of SINAI agents in the achievement of proposals and projects. 

2017 – 2019 The main objective of the project is to improve the overall efficiency of this type of network. It is a heating and cooling system internationally known as “District Heating & Cooling System” (DHCs) and consists of the centralised production of heat and cold, and its distribution through an underground piping system, as is the case with gas, water, electricity and telecommunications.  

What distinguishes this type of network from central heating of buildings is that it serves more than one building, covering an entire population, with pipes that run under the streets or the common areas of the neighbourhood. This heating system offers several advantages over others, as it achieves much higher efficiencies than individual boilers. This means better fuel utilization and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. It allows for lower prices from energy suppliers, since a high-consumption thermal plant has greater negotiating power. Additionally, it enables the integration of other energy sources into the system, such as renewables (biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, etc.) and residual energy from industrial thermal processes—such as natural cooling, surplus heat or cooling from nearby industries, and combined heat and cooling production—as well as from electricity generation (cogeneration). The inDeal project aims to improve the efficiency of these urban networks by automating the system. This is intended to be achieved through the incorporation of network monitoring technologies, demand and weather prediction algorithms, and decision and system control algorithms. In addition, the project is also working on an innovative pipe design and the development of a sustainable insulating material. All this is intended to increase the overall energy efficiency of the system, accompanied by an equitable distribution of heat and cold demand. INDEAL will be a significant step that contributes to a greater use of intelligent heating and cooling network systems and the integration of renewable energies, waste and energy storage. CEMITEC is the entity participating as a partner in the project, and ADItech complements its activity by acting as an associated third party. ADItech is responsible for the Technology Transfer Plan of the project within the activities of results exploitation and return on investment. 2015 – 2018

For more information on the INDEAL project: www.indeal-project.eu