Projects

Unified Modeling and Automated Scheduling for Manufacturing as a Service (UniMaaS) project will develop a platform with a set of advanced technologies for offering flexible and decentralized manufacturing resources and supply chains as a Service to European SMEs and Industries. To realize this vision, the proposed platform will deploy 3 integrated Suites: (i) Data Modelling Suite: offering manufacturing dataspaces, cloud-based resource monitoring, trusted cross-company data exchange and digital product passport, (ii) Modelling Suite: offering modular modeling of manufacturing resources, intent-based servitization , AI-based estimations and Zero-X analysis, and (iii) Decision-Making Suite: offering scheduling and planning of manufacturing resources, circularity and sustainability optimization. The platform will adopt advanced digital technologies such as cloud computing, digital twins and trustworthy AI, as key enablers towards fulfilling its objectives. UniMaaS platform will provide easy access to customized manufacturing service chain and will support the entire life-cycle management of processes and products. The UniMaaS Suites and the Platform will be demonstrated in 4 Pilots including aircraft maintenance, automotive seating, 3D construction printing and logistics/warehouse management.

Funding Agency: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) – HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03
Duration: 01/01/2025-31/12/2027

6G-LEADER aims at evolving the PHY and RAN aspects of 6G communication networks by relying on the following pillars: 1) MLempowered PHY algorithms with predictive capabilities towards fully autonomous operation; 2) full-duplex transceivers employing novel sparse antenna arrays and advanced digital self-interference cancellation; 3) non-orthogonal and random multiple access schemes to accommodate mass connectivity demands of users and machines; 4) goal-oriented semantic communications; and 5) an open and disaggregated RAN implementation with xApps integrating the advancements, achieved during the project’s lifetime.

Funding Agency: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) – HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024
Duration: 01/01/2025-31/12/2027

FUSION aims to provide a holistic observability and analytics framework for fusing different signals (metrics, traces, logs) coming from the operation of distributed applications (deployed across the compute continuum including heterogeneous observed resources) or network functions/services when deployed and managed over virtualized 6G infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes-based), allowing efficient collection and analysis of heterogeneous data and enabling the broadcasting of the results via open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Leveraging and integrating existing telemetry mechanisms and data collection methods (e.g., OpenTelemetry support), heterogeneous observability signals from diverse resources will be embedded in a common space towards knowledge construction via data fusion. Various analytics pipelines will be applied over the fused information, including ones based on machine learning (ML) techniques, facilitating the identification of hidden patterns in the data, understanding the end-to-end flow characteristics affecting and determining application performance in the continuum, and assisting decision making in orchestration mechanisms. The devised FUSION platform extension will use the Norwegian facility of the IMAGINE-B5G project to integrate its software solution with the overall project architecture.

Funding Agency: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) – HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022
Duration: 01/10/2024-30/09/2025

Hexa-X-II is a flagship European 6G project, with the ambition of designing a holistic 6G network platform and system towards achieving sustainability, trustworthiness, green deal efficiency, and digital inclusion, while inspiring the world for digital transformation through novel 6G services. Hexa-X-II will work, beyond enabler-oriented research, to optimized systemization, early validation, and proof-of-concept; work will progress from the 6G key enablers that connect the human, physical, and digital worlds, as explored in Hexa-X, to advanced technology readiness levels, including key aspects of modules / protocols / interfaces / data. Hexa-X II includes: (a) the provision of advanced / refined use cases, services, and requirements, ensuring value for society; (b) the delivery of the 6G platform blueprint, which will encompass enhanced connectivity for 6G services, mechanisms realizing the “networks beyond communications” vision (sensing, computing, trustworthy AI), efficient network management schemes; (c) the realization of extended validation at system and component level; (d) actions for global impact, while assuring strategic autonomy in critical areas for the EU. 

Funding Agency: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) – HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022
Duration: 01/01/2023-30/06/2025

The 6Green project aims to conceive, design, and realize an innovative service-based and holistic ecosystem, able to extend “the communication infrastructure into a sustainable, interconnected, greener end-to-end intercompute system” and promote energy efficiency across the whole 5/6G value-chain. The ultimate objective is to enable and to foster 5/6G networks and vertical applications reducing their carbon footprint by a factor of 10 or more. To achieve this objective, the project will exploit and extend state-of-the-art cloud-native technologies and the B5G Service-Based Architecture with new cross-domain enablers. 6Green will provide stakeholders with flexible and green Artificial Intelligence mechanisms that will allow propagating the environment impact to any players acting on virtual domains, and triggering zero-touch operations according to customizable energy- and carbon-aware policies, allowing to optimally use renewable energy sources. The project will deliver three future-proof use-case applications that will provide a diverse awareness of the green capabilities of the 6Green platform.

Funding Agency: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) – HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022
Duration: 01/01/2023-31/12/2025

DiMAT will develop Open Digital Tools with a set of advanced technologies for offering European SMEs and Mid-Caps an affordable (in terms of cost, implementation and usability) full modelling, simulation and optimisation system in each stage of the material value chain (design, processing and manufacturing) for improving quality, sustainability, effectiveness, and competitiveness of materials. DiMAT will deploy 3 integrated Suites: 1) DiMAT Data and Assessment Suite: digital technologies for storing, sharing, representing and assessing materials data; 2) DiMAT DiMAT Modelling and Design Suite: digital technologies for material design, in terms of their internal structure, properties and performance, in order to predict the material behaviour before manufacturing; 3) DiMAT Simulation and Optimisation Suite: digital technologies for creating efficient materials manufacturing simulation processes and determining the behaviour of the material mechanical characterization models to be used in the AI training and prediction. The DiMAT Suites will be demonstrated in 4 Pilots of European designers and producers of different materials: textile, composite, glass and graphite.

Funding Agency: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) – A DIGITISED, RESOURCE-EFFICIENT AND RESILIENT INDUSTRY 2022
Duration: 01/01/2023-31/12/2025

The vision of NEPHELE is to enable the efficient, reliable and secure end-to-end orchestration of hyper-distributed applications over programmable infrastructure that is spanning across the compute continuum from Cloud-to-Edge-to-IoT, removing existing openness and interoperability barriers in the convergence of IoT technologies against cloud and edge computing orchestration platforms, and introducing automation and decentralized intelligence mechanisms powered by 5G and distributed AI technologies. The NEPHELE project aims to introduce two core innovations, namely: (i) an IoT and edge computing software stack for leveraging virtualization of IoT devices at the edge part of the infrastructure and supporting openness and interoperability aspects in a device-independent way; (ii) a synergetic meta-orchestration framework for managing the coordination between cloud and edge computing orchestration platforms, through high-level scheduling supervision and definition, based on the adoption of a “system of systems” approach. The NEPHELE outcomes are going to be demonstrated, validated and evaluated in a set of use cases across various vertical industries, including areas such as disaster management, logistic operations in ports, energy management in smart buildings and remote healthcare services. 

Funding Agency: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) – WORLD LEADING DATA AND COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES 2021
Duration: 01/09/2022-31/08/2025

As one of the first in a series of projects foreseen under GN5-FPA, GN5-1 aims to provide faster, more resilient and secure connectivity infrastructure and collaboration services to enable researchers and students’ access to applications that support evidence-based and effective collaboration across virtual research teams, worldwide. GN5-1 will continue the development of state-of-the art, cost-effective, secure and resilient connectivity to provide unconstrained capacity ahead of demand in the backbone network and NREN access in multiples of 100Gbps, delivering Terabit connectivity where needed. GN5-1 will prototype, pilot and, where appropriate, procure new online above-the-net services and deliver pervasive, innovative and distributed trust and identity infrastructure and services to achieve strategic positioning of T&I services as a key enabler of research and education collaboration within Europe.

Funding Agency: HORIZON – Research infrastructures
Duration: 01/01/2023-31/12/2024

The v-PalM project aims to develop a platform for offering virtual guidance and education services at the Museum of Paleontology and Geology that is hosted at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. The development of the platform will be based on innovative information and communication technologies (ICT), including conversational agents, machine learning, personalized recommenders, development of mobile applications taking advantage of gamification techniques and content digitization using 3D scanning devices. The v-PalM solution will create a Virtual Museum offering to visitors user-friendly access to the available material, so that the interested people, depending on their interests, will be able to enjoy the virtual tour services, including educational and entertainment services for the museum, focusing on cases where physical access is not possible. The solution will be also applicable within the museum, contributing to the upgraded offering of traditional services based on a physical visit in the museum.

Funding Agency: General Secretary for Research and Innovation
Duration: 01/08/2022-31/12/2023

STREET-LINES project aims to develop a system that will collect information from open tourism-based platforms and online social networks used by the visitors, and it will generate in an automated manner recommendations for strategic planning of cultural events, designing proper support of the emerging tourist destinations, etc. Specifically, the STREET-LINES project will crawl publicly available sites containing tourism-relevant content, e.g., websites of Municipalities/Prefectures, and online social media aiming to collect as many as possible open data relevant with planned events, provided from the organizers and relevant to the interests of users that are considered potential visitors. The system will store the relevant information in an innovative way based on multi-layer complex networks, that will allow the proper scaling of the collection process of large amount of data and their analysis. Also, the system will analyze the users’ actions (sentiment analysis) in order to recognize cognitive information regarding their interests and subsequently, based on a groundbreaking network embedding technique in metric spaces, it will generate intelligent recommendations.

Funding Agency: General Secretary for Research and Innovation
Duration: 01/08/2022-31/12/2023