Programme: HORIZON

Call: HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01

Role: beneficiario

Start date: 01/10/2023 - End date: 30/09/2027

Scientific contact person: Luca Pilia

Website link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101115149

Short description: The ARTEMIS project aims to develop quantum sources of single or correlated photons, based on metal-organic materials, for applications in quantum cryptography, sensing, and metrology. The contribution of UniCA focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of metal complexes capable of generating photon pairs or triplets through the SPDC mechanism.

Programme: HORIZON

Call: HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01

Role: beneficiario

Start date: 01/10/2022 - End date: 30/09/2025

Scientific contact person: Stefano Lai

Website link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101070328

Short description: The project BioMeld - A Modular Framework for Designing and Producing Biohybrid Machines aims to define development, manufacturing, and testing processes for soft robots in an industrial context through the integration of physical simulation and innovative manufacturing. UNICA is responsible for developing a flexible platform for stimulating and monitoring the movement of the soft robot.

Programme: HORIZON

Call: HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01

Role: beneficiario

Start date: 01/11/2024 - End date: 30/10/2027

Scientific contact person: Battista Biggio

Website link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101168560

Short description: CoEvolution will establish a comprehensive security and risk assessment process for AI models throughout their lifecycle, ensuring its security since the design phase.
UNICA will bring its experience on AI Security, with the goal of developing training-time defenses against evasion and poisoning attacks, to make a step towards ensuring compliance to the EU AI Act and recent related regulations.

Programme: HORIZON

Call: HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01

Role: beneficiario

Start date: 01/10/2024  - End date: 30/09/2027 

Scientific contact person: Carlo Ricci

Website link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101178897

Short description: The DEXPLORE project investigates innovative advanced technologies for sustainable exploration of critical raw materials in deep land deposits, essential for Europe's energy transition. The University of Cagliari with the Department of Physics, contributes by developing cutting-edge optical techniques, including Raman spectroscopy, LIBS, and time-resolved luminescence, for remote mineral detection.

Programme: HORIZON - Partnership KDT

Call: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-2-RIA

Roleo: beneficiario

Start date: 01/12/2022 - End date: 31/12/2025

Scientific contact person: Paolo Meloni

Website link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101097300

Short description: EdgeAI aims to implement AI applications deployed across the whole edge continuum, to improve processing performance, latency, reliability, and energy efficiency. UniCA’s team works at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica, developing novel processing cores for near-sensor ultra-low-power AI, neuromorphic computing and hardware-aware algorithm optimization.  

Programme: HORIZON

Call: HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01

Role: ente affiliato

Start date: 01/09/2022 - End date: 31/08/2025

Scientific contact person: Battista Biggio

Website link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101070617

Short description: ELSA proposes a virtual center of excellence on safe and secure AI that will address major challenges hampering the deployment of AI technology.
UNICA will contribute to the development of innovative technologies to detect vulnerabilities in AI systems, and develop effective countermeasures applicable in different industrial sectors, such as cybersecurity, autonomous vehicles and robotics.

Programme: EURATOM2027

Call: EURATOM-2021-ADHOC-IBA

Role: parte terza

Start date: 01/01/2021 - End date: 31/12/2025

Scientific contact person: Alessandra Fanni

Website link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101052200

Short description: In the context of Horizon Europe, the EUROfusion program coordinates European research for the development of fusion energy through an R&D program. UNICA applies of Artificial Intelligence techniques to diagnostic development for the machines such as RFX (IT), JET and MAST-U (UK), AUG and W7-X (DE), WEST (FR) and the test facility MITICA (IT), for applications to ITER and DEMO.