International Projects Archives

DIGIMPACT

DIGIMPACT.EU is a strategic initiative that empowers higher education institutions (HEIs) to drive digital transformation and foster innovation and entrepreneurship with high societal impact. The project focuses on enabling HEIs to become regional innovation leaders by integrating digital capabilities into education, research, and business acceleration activities.

Led by a consortium of four European universities and one SME, DIGIMPACT.EU targets areas such as sustainable agriculture, urban mobility, emergency response, and digital migration. It will:

Establish digital platforms and services that support innovation development and entrepreneurial journeys;
Co-create and implement interdisciplinary curricula and training programmes;
Support students, researchers, and staff in developing, prototyping, and scaling market-ready solutions;
Build regional and international partnerships to strengthen innovation ecosystems;
Launch tools such as AI-based mentors, sector-specific strategy guides, and start-up acceleration platforms.

Through a structured methodology covering social, technical, and socio-technical system development, the project ensures sustainable, scalable outcomes. By embedding digital innovation into institutional strategies and aligning with regional Smart Specialisation priorities, DIGIMPACT.EU will foster inclusive, resilient ecosystems that extend well beyond the project’s duration.

Website: https://eit-hei.eu/projects/digimpact-eu/

PROMETHEUS

PROMETHEUS project is an initiative of Universities, Research Centres and Enterprises from Greece, the Netherlands, Italy, Romania and North Macedonia, with a vision to develop and share their innovation and entrepreneurship support capabilities in the area of digital transformation related to circular economy, climate change and sustainable development.
The main scope of PROMETHEUS project relates to fostering institutional engagement and change to develop innovative and sustainable services and programs to impact ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Circular Economy’, along the following axes and objectives:

AXIS 1 – Impact-driven partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs), research organizations, business, NGOs and government institutions
AXIS 2 – High-quality education programs in the field of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Circular Economy
AXIS 3 – Innovation and business support services in the field of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Circular Economy

Project website: https://hei-prometheus.eu/

ODECO

ODECO is a 4-year Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network initiative (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, grant agreement 955569). The central aim of the ODECO consortium network is to train the next generation of creative and innovative early stage open data researchers, to unlock their creative and innovative potential to address current and future challenges in the creation of user driven, circular and inclusive open data ecosystem.

The programme runs between October 2021 and September 2025 and will deliver 15 PhD degrees, in joint supervision and training between the public and private sectors.

Project website: https://odeco-research.eu/

COMPAIR

The COMPAIR innovation project is designed to bolster citizens’ capacity to monitor, understand, and change their environmental impact, both at a behavioural and policy level. It unlocks the power of the wider public, including people from lower-socio economic groups, to provide broad granular data around a central theme of air quality, complementing and improving the quality of official datasets and making new information useful for helping to meet environmental aims.

The project will achieve its aim by empowering people using a Citizen Science Lab – with a special focus on women, young people, and hard-to-reach groups ? to provide the skills to co-design and undertake environmental scientific experiments around needs and challenges in their locality. By providing innovative, self-assembly, low-cost sensors, dynamic dashboards, and augmented reality tools for collecting, visualising and extracting actionable intelligence from data, anyone regardless of their background, can understand their impact on the environment and explore immediate actions to improve it. Beyond helping to mitigate bad environmental habits at an individual and community level, CS (Citizen Science) data will also be used to mutually enrich other
public and private data sources in official city decision making platforms. Thereby helping to increase civic engagement and influence more effective long-term environmental policy.

Piloted in the Region of Flanders and the major cities of Athens, Berlin and Sofia, communities, businesses, researchers and public administrations will, for the first time, adopt and benefit from a technology-enabled, collective approach to evidence gathering that fills gaps in existing data sources, and provides new routes to innovation. COMPAIR will raise awareness of, and provide a CS Lab Toolkit, to ensure CS is a trusted approach to tackling complex, systemic and environmental problems that require different perspectives.

Project website: https://www.wecompair.eu/

TODO

Project “TODO – Twinning Open Data Operational”, approved by Horizon2020 programme – Twinning, started with its activities in October 2019.

This project aims to leverage the interdisciplinary scientific excellence and innovation capacity of the University of Zagreb (UNIZG) in the field of open data to boost the supply and use of open government data in Croatia and beyond. Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb is coordinating this EU project, led by assoc. prof. Dražen Tutić, PhD. Project partners are also F Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Delft University of Technology, and the University of the Aegean.

The project will be completed by October 2022.

Project website: https://todo-project.eu/

ManyLaws

The ManyLaws Project (EU-wide Legal Text Mining using Big Data Processing Infrastructures) is a platform set up to deliver a set of services for citizens, businesses and administrations in the European Union, Austria and Greece.

The Action’s overall objective is to enable access to legal information across the European Union and improve the efficacy of decision making in legislative procedures operated by public bodies. Specifically, the Action will set-up a platform (ManyLaws) which will deliver a set of services for citizens, businesses and administrations built upon text mining, advanced processing and semantic analysis of laws of the European Union, Austria, and Greece. The addition of laws from other Member States will be explored and, if possible, implemented. Moreover, these services will be tested within at least two law making procedures of the Greek and Austrian Parliament.

The services that will go-live by the end of the Action are:

Exploring national legal corpora in English, Greek, and German
Exploring the alignment of the Austrian and Greek legislation with the EU legislation e.g. assessment of the degree of transposition of EU Directives into national law
Comparing national Austrian and Greek laws which target the same life events
Parallel search in the Austrian and Greek legal frameworks through parallel translation of search terms, and using simple keywords
Analysis of references to the European legislation by national laws and within the same Member State
Comparative analysis of related laws within the same Member State
Timeline analysis for all legal acts, visualising the progress and current status of a specific national or European piece of legislation over time starting from preparatory acts until its adoption and including amendments and extensions. This service will help users to follow the procedures that have led to the existing legal act
Visualizations of correlations, dependencies and conflicts between different laws, including geo-related visualisations, text-related visualisations
Decision support service for legal procedures. The service will help public stakeholders to identify laws that are affected or contradicted by a prospective policy
Interrelation of laws and news or social media posts, including sentiment analysis

Project website: https://www.manylaws.eu/

GOV 3.0

Government 3.0 is a new paradigm for government operation to deliver customized public services and generate new jobs in a creative manner by opening and sharing government-owned data to the public and encouraging communication and collaboration between government departments. In this respect Government 3.0 is characterized by the use of Web 3.0 technologies, which main features are semantic Web (enabling users to create data stores on the Web, build vocabularies, and write rules for handling data) and personalisation. The main objective of the proposed project is to go beyond the existing state-of-the-art in analysing developments from the public and private sector towards establishing the new, important scientific domain of Government 3.0. Gov 3.0 research will be materialised in a research roadmap, MOOC modules, new training curricula and entrepreneurship support establishing Government 3.0 as a vivid research domain.

Geo-Ergon-Paideia

Currently, 2.5 billion people financially depend on agriculture worldwide, while the average age of farmers is 55 years. In Europe, 1/3 of farmers is under 35 years old while the population involved in the agriculture sector is decreasing. The agricultural sector needs to attract new members, support young people to become farmers. Τhe «Geo-ergon Paideia» project purpose is to implement a sustainable strategic partnership between European universities –research centres, municipalities, schools in order to reinforce the concept of agricultural education & sustainable development in rural areas through an integrated interdisciplinary approach. The focus is to attract school students before reaching the level of selecting a particular curriculum/course direction during high school.

Website: http://www.geo-ergon-paideia.eu/