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Posted on January 27, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the REEFLEX Innovation Action on demand side flexibility energy markets

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by CIRCE in Zaragoza, Spain (January 26-27, 2023) of the REEFLEX Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101096192) and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2026. REEFLEX aims to generate niches of opportunities for new cross-sector energy services provided by SMEs and start-ups in demand side flexibility markets and to increase participation of energy consumers in demand side flexibility markets.

Posted on January 26, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH ENERGY undertakes the technical coordination of the SINNOGENES Innovation Action on Green Energy Systems Storage

UBITECH ENERGY co-hosts, with UniSystems, the kick-off meeting, in Brussels, Belgium, (January 26-27, 2023) of the SINNOGENES Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101096992), and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2026. SINNOGENES aims to develop the Storage INNOvations (SINNO) energy toolkit, a complete framework of methodologies, tools and technologies that will enable the grid integration of innovative storage solutions beyond the state-of-the art, while demonstrating sustainability, technical performance, lifetime, non-dependency on location geographical particularities and cost. It will develop successful energy storage business cases and systems and deploy them in innovative and ‘green’ energy systems at different scales and timeframes.

Posted on January 25, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the PISTIS Innovation Action on federated, trusted and fair sharing and trading of interoperable data assets

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, Germany (January 24-25, 2023) of the PISTIS Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101093016) and spans on the period January 2023 – June 2026. PISTIS brings forward a reference federated data sharing/trading and monetisation platform for secure, trusted and controlled exchange and usage of proprietary data assets and data-driven intelligence. PISTIS will advance the available techniques and technologies, such as federated data discovery and sharing, DLTs, data non-fungible tokens (NFTs), AI-driven data quality assessment and monetisation, to build trust among stakeholders and assuage their concerns. Such stakeholders will formulate a distributed network of existing and new data spaces with built-in governance brought by PISTIS to eliminate silos while accruing the actual data value and multiplying it through derivative assets in a fair and transparent manner.

Posted on January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the LivAI Action on making Adult Education lively through Artificial Intelligence

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Universitat Jaume I de Castellón (UJI) in Castellon de la Plana, Spain (January 16-17, 2023) of the LivAI “Cooperation Partnerships in Adult Education” Action (KA220-ADU), officially started on November 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Erasmus+ programme (Grant Agreement No. KA220-ADU-D54476C0) and spans on the period November 2022 – October 2024. LivAI provides knowledge and skills as well as a certification framework that will standardise those obtained competences and reaching a small but meaningful progress towards enhancing the quality assurance in adult education, constructing a digital platform that allows the monitoring and evaluation (award certification scheme) of the three main target groups: adult educators, adult education institutions and adult learners. The complete framework provides practical guidance for digital transformation of the adult learning centres, training framework for high quality digital learning pathways and a certification mechanism that will ensure high quality standards in a digital era, incorporating the notion of ethical AI and Big Data into the level of adult education.

Posted on January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the AERO Research and Innovation Action on Accelerated European Cloud

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by ICCS in Athens, Greece (January 23-24, 2023) of the AERO Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101092850) and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2025. AERO aims to upbring and optimize an open-source software ecosystem that encompasses a wide range of software components ranging from operating systems to compilers, runtimes, system software and auxiliary software deployment services for cloud computing.

Posted on January 20, 2023February 22, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the MARS Research and Innovation Action on resilient and sustainable manufacturing

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Ecole Nationale Superieure D’arts Et Metiers in Arts et Métiers in Aix-en-Provence (Paris, France), on January 19-20, 2023, of the MARS Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101091783) and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2026. MARS aims to enable SMEs to access advanced European breakthrough innovations in the field of AI-driven digital manufacturing processes and enter into process chains that are geographically distributed.

Posted on January 20, 2023January 26, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH ENERGY participates at the kick-off meeting of the THUMBS UP Innovation Action on thermal energy storage solutions unlocking grid balancing and flexibility for optimal buildings management

UBITECH ENERGY participated in the kick-off meeting of the THUMBS UP project, which was hosted by VEOLIA in Volladolid, Spain (January 19-20, 2023) and officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101096921) and the project duration is 48 months. THUMBS UP aims to develop and demonstrate thermal energy storage (TES) at daily (based on environmental friendly PCM) and weekly level (based on TCM sorption technology) solutions to be easily integrated in EU buildings (both connected and not-connected to DHN) to increase their energy efficiency as well as to exploit Power-to-Heat (PtH) approaches also to make EU Buildings as grid flexibility actors.

Posted on January 20, 2023January 26, 2023 by ubitech

QUBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting of the Hellas QCI initiative realizing the Quantum Communication Infrastructure for Greece

QUBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by GRNET – The National Infrastructures for Research and Technology, in Athens, Greece (January 19-20, 2023) of the Hellas QCI action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is partially funded by European Commission under Digital Europe Work Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101091504) and spans on the period January 2023 – June 2025. The HellasQCI project, in conjunction with the EuroQCI initiative, aims to develop the National Network of Quantum Communication Infrastructure to enhance the resilience of critical infrastructures in Greece against cyber threats,with the development and deployment of quantum communication networks and technologies. Three (3) metropolitan communication networks with Quantum Communication Devices (QKD), terrestrial optical fibre and satellite technologies will be implemented together with pilot use cases and training activities for all users. HellasQCI will deploy the first operational quantum communication network in Greece that will also serve as a testbed for the development and validation of novel quantum communication protocols and devices by research institutes, academia, and industry.

Posted on January 19, 2023February 1, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH undertakes the technical coordination of the ENTRUST Research and Innovation Action on zero-trust secure connected medical devices

UBITECH co-hosts, with UniSystems, the kick-off meeting, in Athens, Greece, (January 18-19, 2023) of the ENTRUST Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101095634), and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2025. ENTRUST envisions a Trust Management Architecture intended to dynamically and holistically manage the lifecycle of connected medical devices, strengthening trust and privacy in the entire medical ecosystem.

Posted on January 19, 2023January 20, 2023 by ubitech

UBITECH undertakes the technical coordination of the FIDAL SNS JU Innovation Action on field trials beyond 5G

UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by NOVA in Athens, Greece (January 17-19, 2023) of the FIDAL SNS JU Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101096146), in the frame of the Smart Networks and Services (SNS) Joint Undertaking, and spans on the period January 2023 – December 2025. FIDAL targets the augmentation of human capabilities, allowing Media & PPDR vertical industry players to perform advanced technological and business validation in large-scale field trials of highly innovative and advanced applications, that exploit Evolved 5G technologies.