IndTech Brokerage Event on April 1
Co-applying a Horizon European Research Proposal with Young Researchers
Are you a young researcher with groundbreaking ideas? Or an industry leader looking for the right partners to co-apply for European-funded projects? This is your chance to connect, collaborate, and secure funding!
IndTech Graduate School is organizing the brokerage event, co-applying a Horizon European Research Proposal with Young Researchers.
The young research from IDT and EST schools of Mälardalen University will present a well-formulated proposal and potential partners in the brokerage event, If you are struggling to apply for a European-funded project, whether it is to find partners, identifying the right call and expand your network. You have two hours to interact with them for matchmaking, networking and exchange.
You can also join the lecture from the senior research manager of RISE, Malin Rosqvist, about “The fine art of building a project consortium during a European brokerage event” before the brokerage event. (9:30-10:30) and Guester lecture from Professor Hans Hansson about the ” Get funding or die – the secrets of writing a successful funding application” (13:35-15:00) after the brokerage event.
Time: Time: April 1. 2025 10:30-13:30, Location: MDU, Hus U, Room: My (Floor 1)
Proposal I: NextGen CEA
HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-08: Exploring the potential of controlled environment agriculture (CEA)
- Comprehensive understanding of CEA: technology, trade-offs, sustainability, societal/environmental impacts, and policy.
- Advancing knowledge on CEA sustainability across economic, environmental, and social dimensions (profitability, energy efficiency, GHG emissions, circularity, etc.).
- Identifying novel crop varieties and exploring next-gen CEA systems.
- Promoting adoption, expansion, and implementation of CEA best practices.
- Optical sensing
- AI and IOT
- Nutrient recovery
- Solar energy
- Realtime analysis of nutrient solution
- Finding new fertilizers sources than synthic ones
- Recovering food waste of the farms
- Alternative sources of energy
- Automation integration in cultivating and harvesting
- MDU EST
- MDU IDT
- Wageningen
- Agtech Companies
- CEA farms
Proposal II: ReIWES (Reliability of Wind Energy Systems)
CL5-2025-05-D3-07: Improved reliability and optimised operations and maintenance for wind energy systems
- Tools for reliability prediction
- Reliability in wind energy systems and components to reduce risk and uncertainties
- Tools for condition and health monitoring, failure mode, diagnostics
- Validation of new components, sensors
- Integration of AI and ML in decision making and operation analysis
- Detailed component-level simulation
- System-level integration and simulation
- Risk prediction through condition monitoring
- Data availability, importance, and relevance
- Tool acceptability
- Real-life data and test cases
- Physics-based component modelling
- System-level modelling/integration and simulation
- Data-driven modelling
- Software development for integration
- Risk prediction and diagnostics
- Domain experience: system operation/ material-component selection
- Cyber security assessment
Proposal III: CEG-AI
HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DATA-02: Empowering AI/generative AI along the Cognitive Computing continuum (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)
Develop innovative AI-enabled Cloud and Edge solutions that ensure seamless, secure integration across Cloud, Edge, and IoT environments.
Support generative AI and large language models through distributed training and inference, while optimizing energy efficiency and resource utilization.
Foster industrial collaboration across the cloud-edge-IoT continuum to enhance strategic autonomy and ensure international interoperability.
Incorporate advanced hardware, virtualization techniques, and robust security measures to uphold privacy and trust in AI applications.
- Trustworthy GenAI could-Edge
- IoT development
- Ensuring secure, seamless integration of heterogeneous computing resources across Cloud, Edge, and IoT environments.
- Supporting distributed training and inference for generative AI and LLM while optimizing energy efficiency and resource utilization.
- Continuous monitoring of trustworthiness-related risks in GenAI Cloud Technologies
- Implementation of trust-related regulations based on GDPR and AI-ACT
RISE- (Distributed AI-Privacy and security) Sweden
MDU- (Trustworthy- LLM) Sweden
Scaleout (Distributed AI Framework)- Sweden
Universal Robats (Coboot)- Denmark and Sweden
Matricks GmbH (Safety and Security Assement) – Germany
Sensative (Leading Supplier of IoT Solutions)- Sweden
Eindhoven University (Distributed AI- Netherland)
Coventry University (Generative AI, 5&6G-UK)
NXP Hardware company (IoT-Edge device- Germany)
Proposal IV: CL4-INDUSTRY
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-02: Physical and cognitive augmentation in advanced manufacturing
- Empower Workers Through Cognitive Augmentation
- Human-Centric Industry 5.0 Approach
- Enhancing Worker Skills & Decision-Making
- Digital Twins & Simulation for Augmentation
- Business & Ethical Considerations
- Digital twins and simulation
- What roles? Multi-stakeholder ecosystem where different actors contribute to development, deployment, and usage of cognitive augmentation systems to enhance decision making.
- Relation between digital twin requirements and complexity of development
- Fulfilment or checklist of digital twin requirements
- Extension of digital twin requirements from a technical perspective to organizational requirement perspective.
- Rapid assesment of factory readiness for cognitive augmentation systems to enhance decision making?
- How to have a human-centric approach to maturity models in digital twins?
- What is the governance of cognitive augmentation systems?
Advanced Manufacturing & Cognitive Augmentation
Digital Twins & Discrete Event Simulation (DES)
Human Factors & Social Sciences
Industrial & Business Expertise
This event is affiliated with the IndTech Graduate School course: Writing a Horizon European Project Proposal
Course information
The purpose of the course is for the doctoral students to get involved and gain experience in leading research applications to Horizon Europe.
The course includes:
Lectures on Horizon Europe and methods for coordinating and writing applications for collaborative, industry-research applications. Training to acquire skills for and experience of Horizon Europe and method for coordinating and writing applications. To get the PhD students to coordinate and lead an application, involve companies and researchers. To write an application that can be submitted to the course. Create an account on the portal, how to find a topic (Topic) through the “seek funding” function, reflect on how to create a consortium, actually do this, and in writing: how to meet the Section 1 criteria and SMART objectives, How to formulate outcomes and wider impact – vs results, how to write so that the evaluator can follow the thread in each direction, how to formulate work packages, familiarizing with the WBS.
IndTech Partner Volvo sponsors this course through Volvo APP funding.
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is a world-leading manufacturer of construction machinery such as wheel loaders, articulated haulers, and excavators. Volvo CE has a long track record of collaboration with MDU.
