EU Framework Programme

“Bound to accelerate the roll-out and expansion of Energy Communities and empower consumers as fully-fledged energy market players.”

Programme: Horizon Europe

Duration: 1.01.2023 – 30.06.2026

COMMUNITAS will promote energy citizenship, enabling citizens to take control of their own path towards sustainability by becoming an active element of the energy markets. The project will deliver a Knowledge Base that will provide users with technical, administrative, and legal information on ECs, streamlining the creation and expansion of this concept. COMMUNITAS will also deliver an innovative set of tools - capitalizing on technologies such as IoT, Blockchain and Cloud Computing - to unlock citizens’ active participation in energy markets and communities (all integrated into an open, digital “one-stop-shop” COMMUNITAS Core Platform (CCP)), allowing EC members to have an aggregated position in the energy markets or explore ancillary services using different energy assets or load profiles of the community.

“Multi-hazard low-carbon resilient technologies and multi-scale digital services for a future-proof, sustainable & user-centred built environment.”

Programme: Horizon Europe

Duration: 1.10.2023 – 30.09.2027

MULTICARE will develop innovative multi-criteria decision-support frameworks and provide plug & play low-carbon resilient technologies for improving the multi-hazard resilience of our built environment in a cost-effective, reliable and sustainable manner. A suite of multi-disciplinary digital services and tools will be developed for multi-hazard resilience assessment, design, operation and management across multiple scales (material, component, building, neighbourhood/district). This will enable stakeholders to make more informed decisions to select materials/solutions and build resilient supply chains, even in case of cultural heritage buildings.

Evidence-based market and policy instruments implementation across the EU to increase the demand for energy skills across construction sector value chain

Programme: Horizon 2020

Duration: 1.06.2020 – 30.11.2022

http://instructproject.eu/

INSTRUCT intends to create a complete operational framework to increase the number of skilled building professionals and blue collar workers over the whole value chain (both for renovations and new constructions), and offer a set of service to support raising awareness of home and building owners and tenants about the benefits of sustainable energy skills, and the public authorities for the development of new legislative frameworks, e.g. requirements for skilled workers in public procurement

Construction phase digital twin model

Programme: Horizon 2020

htpps://cogito-project.eu

COGITO project introduces a real-time digital representation (twin) of a construction project, using methods to ensure interoperability among the different components and technologies constituting the digital twin ecosystem, following the lean construction principles. COGITO aims to materialise the digitalisation benefits for the construction industry by harmonising Digital Twins with the Building Information Model concept and to establish a digital Construction 4.0 tool-box.

Methodology for efficient segmenting innovating SMEs based on lifecycles, represented sectors and regional characteristics

Programme: Horizon 2020

Duration: 16.12.2017 – 30.06.2020

https://www.smethod.org/

SMEthod aims to develop an improved methodology for segmenting innovative small and medium-sized enterprises for the purpose of optimizing the support provided to such companies by relevant institutions. Four case studies are being analyzed in detail: Finland, Spain, Poland and the United Kingdom; nevertheless, the results of the project will have pan-European application.

The methodology to be developed at SMEthod will take into account a number of relevant factors, such as the life cycle of the company, the sector and region of operations, and the innovation cycle, among others. The project will also develop criteria to more effectively match given types of innovation support to particular segments of companies. In addition, based on the results of the research work, an IT tool will be created to support decision-making in institutions providing support to innovative companies.

Integrating Real-Intelligence in Energy Management Systems enabling Holistic Demand Response Optimization in Buildings and Districts

Programme: Horizon 2020

Duration: 01.10.2017 – 31.03.2021

http://holisder.eu

HOLISDER brings together a wide range of mature technologies and integrates them in an open and interoperable framework, comprising in a fully-fledged suite of tools addressing the needs of the whole demand response value chain. In this way it will ensure consumer empowerment and transformation into active market players, through the deployment of a variety of implicit and hybrid demand response schemes, supported by a variety of end-user applications for Personalized Informative Billing, Human-Centric Energy Management, Load Scheduling and Intelligent Controls, Self-consumption promotion and cost-effective storage, Predictive Maintenance, along with Context-Aware Automation.

Modelling Optimization of Energy Efficiency in Buildings for Urban Sustainability

Programme: Horizon 2020

Duration: 01.11.2015 – 01.05.2019

www.moeebius.eu

MOEEBIUS introduces a Holistic Energy Performance Optimization Framework that enhances current modelling approaches and delivers innovative simulation tools which deeply grasp and describe real-life building operation complexities in accurate simulation predictions that significantly reduce the “performance gap” and enhance multi-fold, continuous optimization of building energy performance as a means to further mitigate and reduce the identified “performance gap” in real-time or through retrofitting.

Building energy renovation through timber prefabricated modules

Programme: Horizon 2020

Duration: 01.06.2015 – 31.05.2019

www.bertim.eu

Project Objectives:

1. Technical:

(a) Development of a new methodology for holistic and energy-efficient building renovation.

b) Evaluation and validation of prototyping and manufacturing processes for prefabricated system modules for deep building retrofits.

c) Development of a software platform (BIM tool) to support the methodology of the energy-efficient renovation process.

2. Environmental:

(a) Reduction of primary energy consumption of buildings.

(b) Promoting the use of environmentally friendly materials.

3. Socio-economic:

(a) Integrating the business model into the concept of renovation projects.

(b) Paving the way for the use of project results.