AI-Driven 6G RAN Design for Efficient, Resilient and Environmentally Responsible Networks.

The DRIVING-6G project aims to develop and validate an AI/ML-driven framework for joint dynamic optimization of real-time sensing, computation offloading, communication and frequency/resource allocation in 6G RANs, leveraging cross-layer coordination protocols and decoupling ML algorithms from underlying RAN functions. In particular, DRIVING-6G will deliver solutions for multi-objective cross-layer RAN functions optimisations in real-time by integrating AI-powered cognition and collaborative intelligence. At the PHY/MAC, joint optimisations will be driven by advanced AI/ML technologies to orchestrate signal processing across the transmitter and receiver chains, enhancing system sustainability and computational feasibility for support of high throughput and low latency. Integration of sensing techniques with PHY layer optimisations will be implemented towards a ML-driven optimisation framework in support of multi-user resource allocation and for trustworthy communication links and increased reliability. AI and sensing-driven RAN optimisations will be achieved via sharing the intelligence among sensors for enhanced sensing capability.

The project REDIRECT assists the public and private sectors in adopting regenerative tourism practices that minimize negative impacts from tourism, while enhancing the condition of nature and cultural heritage sites.

The Baltic Sea Region is a particularly sensitive environment, susceptible to the effects of increased tourism. The negative impacts and disturbances of tourism are substantial. They include the depletion of natural resources as well as pollution and external disturbances of the environment. Tourism puts pressure on resources through over-consumption, often in places where resources are already scarce. This is why sector shift is necessary. Regenerative tourism is a sustainable approach to travel that aims to restore and replenish the environment that tourists visit. This type of tourism goes beyond minimizing negative impacts and strives to create positive outcomes for the destinations and people involved. The major actors in tackling this challenge are both public sector and private sector. The cooperation of both is essential for conscious tourism sector development. However the regenerative tourism is not well known, there is still lack of awareness, capacity and tools to make this approach integrated locally to decrease tourism impact. The challenge lies in effectively promoting regenerative tourism, as well as helping slowly adopting regenerative practices into the tourism sector planning processes in which REDIRECT will build solutions on. This approach will have a positive impact on the resilience of economies and communities, higher level of self-sufficiency in the tourism sector and on the awareness of the public, ultimately strengthening BSR culture and heritage.

The entire company needs to be on board when making production more circular. Therefore, small and medium-sized manufacturing companies must have access to the right skills – at all levels of the organization – to implement a green transition to circular production.

Today, just under 10 percent of the approximately 300,000 employees in the Danish manufacturing sector are involved in the work with circularity – and only a few are working in depth with the circular transition. This is evident from the Danish Circularity Gap Report, which was published in 2023.

These numbers may be an expression of the fact that there is a large, untapped competence potential that is paving the way for the transition to circular production.
With a targeted Danish focus on education, a circular competence upgrade must therefore be implemented for all employees in and around Danish industry.

Specifically, four strong educational institutions are joining forces – AMU Nordjylland, AMU Syd, UCN and IBA Erhvervsakademi Kolding – to develop and test a holistic competence model, where all levels and types of employees in the companies are engaged and trained.

In this way, the circular mindset is high on the agenda of boards of directors, management, middle managers and operators, and they also receive the necessary tools and skills to create circular change in practice.

GREENBEAT is at the forefront of fostering research and innovation within the realm of Sustainable Future Communication Networks and Technologies. Our mission is to enlighten and engage the higher education sector on the paramount importance of integrating environmentally conscious and sustainable practices into research and innovation. With a strong emphasis on networks and technologies that bridge intelligence with trustworthiness, GREENBEAT aligns with the European Green Deal’s vision of a resource-efficient, competitive economy, aiming for zero net emissions by 2050.

Our core focus lies in advancing Sustainable Future Communication Networks, particularly through the lens of digital technologies as pivotal to achieving the European Green Deal objectives. By leveraging the scientific prowess of our consortium in wireless communication technologies, security, green business model innovation, and knowledge transfer, GREENBEAT aims to:

Innovate Communication Networks: Pioneering research that integrates disruptive digital technologies to design future communication networks which are not only technologically advanced but also sustainable.

Educate and Train: Developing a curriculum that prepares researchers to uncover and maximize the potential of these technologies for sustainability, fostering an understanding of their value through business model innovation and experimentation.

Strengthen Innovation: Enhancing innovation capacity through an effective tech and knowledge transfer process, ensuring research and expertise are utilized to create a broad impact across various sectors.

The project believes in a ‘learning by doing’ approach, sharing best practices to support research that embodies sustainable and trustworthy technology designs. Our goal is not just to promote economic prosperity and sustainable growth but to act responsibly, addressing individual and collective needs while minimizing negative impacts on power consumption, carbon footprint, and resource usage. Join us in shaping a sustainable, trustworthy future for communication networks and technologies, driving efficiency, and fostering new ways of sustainable living for the next decades.

METACITIES EXCELLENCE HUB for SOUTH-EASTERN Europe.
The METACITIES Excellence Hub is a sustainable network that offers a common platform for collaboration, cross-fertilization, and best practices sharing across borders, sectors and disciplines on knowledge production, circulation and use. Founded upon a joint R&I strategy, a nexus of collaborative links across sectors, joint research, innovation and outreach activities as well as business modelling and sustainability plans, the collaboration aims to benefit citizens, stakeholders,regional ecosystems and the whole SEE region. The thematic focus on future and metaverse cities necessitates the definition of ambitious R&I agendas and the uptake of advanced digital technologies. Digital Twins (DT) of future cities/regions provide accurate and reliable reference representation seamlessly unifying the physical, digital and human worlds and enabling stakeholders to assess the effects of any changes before investments and implementations actually occur. The proposed Open Digital Twin Framework facilitates co-development of complementary future city domains along with their equivalent DTs. The applied Quadruple Helix Model forges synergies among actors and alignment of public and private sector priorities for regional development. PoC studies, small-scale pilots and feasibility assessments validate project outcomes. Green Business and Operation Models will be developed for future and metaverse cities, as well as for the METACITIES Excellence Hub. Investment and Sustainability Plans will mobilize the communities of the three innovation ecosystems to progress faster in joined efforts. Common investment plans for R&I, infrastructures and support for real-life experimentation, aim to leverage national, regional and European funds as well as crowd funds and private capital in a synergetic manner.

Research Collaboration and Mobility for Beyond 5G Future Wireless Networks (RECOMBINE)

PERFORM-AI (Enhance Business Performance with Artificial Intelligence) contributes to meeting the EU needs and priorities on AI and entrepreneurship, especially aiming to encourage entrepreneurial spirit towards the uptake of AI in businesses and conveying the right understanding on AI essentials and strategic perspectives through the achievement of new entrepreneurial skills and competences crucial to embrace AI as part of an effective transformative toolkit in the European economy. With a focus on the organizational and business process management related implications of AI usage within companies, rather than on their technical aspects, PERFORM-AI provides for the first time VET training to build the knowledge and confidence target groups need to pioneer AI’s successful integration in micro companies, SMEs.

Marie Curie – motivate and skill competitive young researchers through involvement and engagement in a variety of research activities enabling them to work on real-life technical issues, across multiple European countries and organizations, and providing a strong networking opportunity through participation in advanced research projects.

Twinning for Enhancing Capacity and Research Excellence in Holographic Telepresence Systems as a Catalyst of Digitalisation.

CO-Financied research projekt: CGC-Sotenäs

Development and digitisation of green business model concept, business model tools and Labs to develop green business models that can increase the conversion to renewable energy in companies, and thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

Scandinavian Electric Transport System II

Virtual Coaching solutions for rehabilitation and wellbeing of elderly patients. Amendment to be made in relation to the involvement of Hospitalsenheden Vest (€ 65.000 + overhead)

Drone Ecosystem of Services for Maritime (DREAM) project, co-funded by Interreg ØKS, aims to establish cross-border collaboration for innovation to develop maritime drone services ecosystem, advancing the automation of regional ports to the next level and contributing to economic growth. Drone technology has the potential to automate wide ranging functions and processes at the ports and offshore for a fraction of cost, time, and risk. The EU U-Space framework, integrating large number of drones in very low-level airspace, opens new possibilities for creating novel maritime drone solutions and innovative business models leading to drone services ecosystem. For the ecosystem to be flexible, scalable, and compliant with maritime standards, user and operational requirements, it is vital to engage with and involve relevant stakeholders in going forward.

RESONANT focus on the creation of new skills for neets and start-ups in cultural and entrepreneurial field.

Capacity building and ExchaNge towards attaining Technological Research and modernizing Academic Learning (CENTRAL)

Drone Lab project. Establishment of a Drone Lab at AU for teaching and operating Drones.

Avoid and Detect Attacks in Critical Wireless Communication.

Drones for inspecting off-shore windturbine (lead: University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Turning digital skills into start-up skills for young entrepreneurs by promoting entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among young people

EUOpstart for DELIVERY for phase 1 and phase 2

Gamification in healthcare. The project will deliver a platform to foster an ecosystem of games and applications that help people stay motivated to lead socially engaged, physically and cognitively active lifestyles

The purpose of the EGNSS high Accuracy SYstem improving PhotoVoltaic plants maintenance project is to provide a time and cost effective service as direct response to the growing need expressed by several maintainers and PV field owners to enhance the energy production of their plants. To be finished soon.

Biogas development in the area of ​​the Öresund-Kattegat-Skagarrak. To be finished soon.

Preproject: Digitalisering af forretningsmodel, forretningsmodel- innovationsproces og Business Model Innovation Cube

Subcontract from AAU

The project aims to verify the commercial and environmental viability of maximising the percentage of recyclable materials in the decommissioning of ships in Scandinavia