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Physical science and engineering - PE

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

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: beneficiary

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

Scientific contact person: Stefano Lai

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

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: beneficiary

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

Scientific contact person: Battista Biggio

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

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: beneficiary

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

Scientific contact person: Carlo Ricci

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

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

Role: beneficiary

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

Scientific contact person: Paolo Meloni

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

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: associated partner

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

Scientific contact person: Battista Biggio

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

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: third party

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

Scientific contact person: Alessandra Fanni

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

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. 

Programme: HORIZON

Call: HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01

Role: beneficiary

Start date: 01/10/2024 - End date: 30/09/2028

Scientific contact person: Emilio Ghiani

Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101168796

Description: FITNESS is a Doctoral Network at the intersection of electric power distribution networks optimization, electricity markets, communications, and control systems. The project will develop methodologies for active distribution networks services and smart grids. UniCa will be responsible for Co-simulation platforms for smart grids, communication protocols, and energy communities enabled by secure digital twin and IoT technologies.

Programme: HORIZON - Partnership KDT

Call: HORIZON-KDT-JU-2023-1-IA

Role: beneficiary

Start date: 01/05/2024 - End date: 30/04/2027

Scientific contact person: Paolo Meloni

Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101140052

Description: The H2TRAIN project aims to advance digital health and lifestyle technologies by developing innovative biosensors using advanced materials which enhance sensitivity and energy efficiency. UniCa’s team at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica, works on designing System-on-Chip solutions to integrate the sensors, embedding in-place AI-based data analysis in a tiny power/energy budget.  

Programme: HORIZON

Call: HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT

Role: coordinator

Start date: 01/06/2024 - End date: 31/05/2027

Scientific contact person: Maurizio Murroni

Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135637

Description: The Net4U Lab of UniCa coordinates of the Hybrid Extended reAliTy (HEAT) project, that envisions enabling next-gen immersive multi-sensorial XR experiences for users being holo-ported into captured, omnidirectional, hyper-realistic 3D spaces. UniCa will lead the following activities: project coordination and management, data & ethics compliance under GDPR, prototyping and pilot deployment. 

Programme: HORIZON

Call: HORIZON-HLTH-2021-IND-07

Role: third party

Start date: 01/10/2022 - End date: 30/09/2026

Scientific contact person: Francesco Delogu

Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101057286

Description: IMPACTIVE aims at reducing the environmental impact and the supply chain fragility of the European pharmaceutical industry using mechanochemistry, which allows to initiate and drive chemical reactions by applying mechanical forces to solids. As a Third Party UniCa participates to the activities with 3 departments: Chemical and Geological Sciences, Physics and Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering