Hub Optics & Photonics

TALOS will develop and demonstrate world-class robotics solutions for different photovoltaic (PV) energy operating scenarios – land-based, floating, and agriPV, promoting innovation in both the energy and agriculture sectors. TALOS will demonstrate the added value of robotics and their potential in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (>450ton/year), minimising wasted resources (up to 35% water saved), lowering operation and maintenance (O&M) costs (up to 5%), and optimising human-robot and robot-robot collaboration to reduce humans’ exposure to risky environments. Requirements will be co-created with relevant stakeholders and refined for the technology partners within the consortium, as well as for the 9-13 robotics start-ups that will be granted the cascade funding and demonstrated in the test bed scenarios set up by the project.

DEADLINE : 3 décembre 2024

HUB : Data Science & AI

Principal appel de l’Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR), l’Appel à projets générique 2025 (AAPG 2025) s’adresse à toutes les communautés scientifiques et à tous les acteurs publics ou privés impliqués dans la recherche française. Il doit permettre aux chercheurs et chercheuses des différents domaines scientifiques, d’accéder, en complément des financements récurrents qui leur sont alloués, à des co-financements sur un grand nombre de thématiques de recherche, finalisées ou non.

DEADLINE : 15 octobre 2024

HUB : Advanced Engineering & Computing

The last decade has seen an explosion of interest and investment in the use of Agricultural Digital Technologies (ADSs). The use of ADSs is seen by many as an opportunity to increase the economic and environmental performance of the agricultural sector. Despite great efforts and resources spent, uptake of ADSs by EU farmers has been limited for reasons like a) the frequently excessive cost of ADSs, b) the low trust that farmers have on ADSs and data sharing, for a variety reasons, and c) the weak network connectivity problems experienced by farms in remote areas, which affect the performance of the ADS.
The overall aim of the OpenAgri project is to democratise digital farming by enabling the development and deployment of innovative cost-effective energy-efficient OS software and open hardware-based ADSs that can operate at a high performance even in remote areas with weak connectivity. This will be achieved by a) ensuring the co-creation of ADSs by engaging farmers and farm advisors in participatory prototyping activities inspired by the makerspaces approach; and b) providing access to a number of reusable OS software services designed to support the edge and mixed computing mode, and a “sociotechnical infrastructure”.
Using a multi-actor approach, OpenAgri will involve farmers, ADSs providers, farm advisors and scientists in 14 Sustainable Innovation Pilots (SIPs) in ≥10 countries across Europe, and guide them in co-creating and piloting edge, cloud and mixed-model ADSs addressing important challenges of agricultural production. 5 SIPs have been pre-selected and 9 more will be awarded through an Open Call, enabling a dynamic response to a changing policy and technology landscape. Finally, building on a thorough analysis of EU agriculture and the results from the SIPs, OpenAgri will create a Decision Support Tool that will allow Policy Makers, Farmers and Farm Advisors to select the best possible cloud, edge or mixed ADSs for any given set of conditions.

DEADLINE : 2 décembre 2024

HUB : Data Science & AI