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TRAINEE - auTonomous Real-time Acoustic ImagiNg of thE ocEan

Understanding the ocean is critical for several domains, including the sustainable management, development and promotion of the blue economy (e.g., the exploration of natural and mineral resources), maritime spatial planning, shipping, national security and predict weather and climate. The propagation of acoustic waves within the ocean to study its internal structure emerged in the late 1970s as a promising method for long-term ocean monitoring, leading to the development of a new discipline called ocean tomography.

Advancing Mineral Resource Modeling with Digital Twin Technology

Mineral resource deposit models currently rely on manual processes, from drilling and handling core samples to chemical analyses and lithological identification. These labor-intensive procedures extend to geostatistical analysis, where experts describe the spatial distribution of geo-domains and mineral properties through variogram analysis and numerous simulations to address uncertainty. In complex geological environments, numerical methods often fail to effectively characterize the spatial distribution of boundaries between geological domains.

SIMIACCI - Sustainable Intelligent Management of Indoor Air Quality for the Culture and Creative Industries

Climate transition is imposed to all sectors of the EU economy, including CCI, especially through more efficient use of resources. Amongst CCIs, Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) require large quantities of energy for controlling Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) and humidity for cultural heritage (CH) artifacts conservation due to the absence of smart and efficient Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) control technologies.

ValorWaste - Valorisation and Integration of Extractive Waste Towards the Sustainability of Raw Materials Industry

The extractive industry has been considered one of Europe’s most significant waste streams. Given the ambition to move towards a circular economy, extractive wastes have the potential to be altered from a substantial environmental burden to valuable resources via the recovery of valuable minerals and critical raw materials (CRM), reprocessing, and reusing in various applications. Motivated by this, ValorWaste project was conceptualized to provide a holistic view under the reprocessing of extractive waste by addressing the following challenges: 

TSHAPS - Towards Seismic Hazard Assessment in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries

Project TSHAPS addresses Priorities no. 1 and 2 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030): to understand disaster risk, and to strengthen disaster risk governance. The risk addressed is the occurrence of earthquakes and its impacts in the African CPLP countries, more specifically Angola and Sao Tomé e Príncipe (STP). Project TSHAPS is aligned with a key topic of the AKDN-FCT Protocol, namely sustainable energy systems (dams and power stations being sensitive infrastructures) and urban development.

INN4MIN - Development of innovative and sustainable approaches applied to the recovery of gold and critical elements from ores and spent printed circuit boards

Gold, one of the most precious metals in the world, with estimated reserves of 54,000 ton, can be extracted from primary (mineral deposits) or secondary resources (recycling of printed circuit boards (PCBs)). Ore deposits are becoming poorer and more complex. PCBs exhibit ahigh gold content, but their availability cannot be consistent to justify the investment on a processing plant. 

CCL - Clean Cement Line

The Clean Cement Line aims to develop and demonstrate a new cement production technology. This project includes four R&D sub-projects that aim to eliminate the dependence on fossil fuels, increase energy efficiency, produce electricity itself, integrate the digitalization process and reduce CO2 emissions. These innovations will promote the production of a low carbon clinker and consequently the creation of a range of cement types with a low ecological footprint.

PharmaStar- Sustainable valorization of endogenous plants from the Serra da Estrela Natural Park for applications in the pharmaceutical industry

The Serra da Estrela Natural Park (PNSE) represents one of the main national reserves of phytodiversity, with its plants presenting a high potential for recovery, with a view to developing products with added value and a natural base for the pharmaceutical industry. PharmaStar intends to enhance the plants of the PNSE, through new pharmaceutical formulations for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, using innovative drug delivery systems for the treatment and prevention of diabetes, usin

MMO- Multi-source modelling of the ocean: coupling Earth observations with acoustic waves

In the last decades submesoscale ocean currents with extensions in the order of 1000 m have been a focus of investigation in physical oceanography. While oceanographic processes happening at the mesoscale (100 km), or greater scales, are considered to be uniform and horizontally homogeneous, at submesoscale ocean processes are highly heterogeneous due to the abrupt increase in vertical velocity.

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