Intelligent data acquisition and analysis of materials and products in existing built works (RIA)

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11

Call

Intelligent data acquisition and analysis of materials and products in existing built works (RIA)

Summary

There is a need to research new digitally powered techniques and technologies that would rapidly and accurately identify, analyse and record existing construction materials, products and components, facilitating their use in a circular economy and reducing life cycle impacts including embodied carbon.

Detailed Call Description

Proposals should, inter alia:

  • Develop new techniques and technologies to rapidly identify materials, construction products and components of existing built works, or works that have undergone demolition.
  • Develop solutions that would rapidly analyse the properties and characteristics of materials, construction products and components, which may include material composition, dimensions, mass, technical/mechanical properties and performance, health and safety aspects such as performance in case of fire and the presence of hazardous substances such as asbestos, fixing methods, repair needs, or other aspects.
  • Develop solutions to digitally record, categorise and tag existing materials, construction products and elements for their eventual use on the market and inclusion in relevant software tools and databases.
  • Develop solutions that would analyse the suitability of identified elements for use in a circular economy.
  • Research ways in which complex or concealed elements can be identified and analysed, for example materials within the make-up of walls and floors, hidden structures, or composite products.
  • Address ways to make circular use of the identified elements as secondary materials or reused products on the market in construction projects, and to track them and their characteristics over asset life cycles.
  • Present a strategy for skills development, associating social partners where relevant, integrating SSH aspects and including relevant tools such as MOOCs (massive open online courses).
  • Build on or seek collaboration with existing projects and develop synergies with other relevant European, national or regional initiatives, funding programmes and platforms.
  • Seek to integrate insights from social sciences and humanities to maximise economic and social impact.

Call Total Budget

€12,00 million

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

100%

EU Contribution: between €5,00 and €6,00 million

Thematic Categories

  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Eligibility For Participation Notes

If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).

For additional information about the eligibility conditions for the topic HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11, please visit the description of the topic in the 2023-2024 Work Programme (the link can be found under the “More information” section of this email).

Call Opening Date

08/12/2022

Call Closing Date

07/03/2023

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation

29a Andrea Michalakopoulou Street, 1075 Nicosia
T.Th. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
+357 22205000
Email: support@research.org.cy

Dr Angelos Ntantos
Scientific Officer
Telephone: 35722205033
Email: antantos@research.org.cy

Dr Ioannis Theodorou

Scientific Officer
Telephone: 35722205038
Email: itheodorou@research.org.cy

(Publish Date: 03/01/2023-for internal use only)

EU Contact Point

Εuropean Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation_en#contact