KET4CleanProduction

A multi-KET (key enabling technologies) approach is most beneficiary for SME in regard to increase in productivitiy, efficiency and market shares. To enable a Pan-European Access for SME on technology services for clean production, a network of premier KET Technology Centres with facilitated one stop shop access, offering SME multi-ket infrastructures and services across borders on pan-european level is generated, involving innovation consultants from the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) being local = at the doorstep of EU`s manufacturing SMEs. Due to the disparity of KET TC in EU28, KET4CleanProduction (KET4CP) enables also a discourse with policy makers on RIS3 and the potential of cross-border collaboration to cover specific SME needs for clean production technologies. KET4CP starts with 12-premier KET TC and 7 EEN as an open innovation ecosystem, with a one stop shop access. KET facilitators support the SME in identifying their specific technology challenge for clean production, propose services and technologies based on innovation potential + need analysis. The fast, flexible services focus on the SME´s business case. After a pilot phase with 20 SME innovation projects/micro grants, the network is scaled up adding 17 KET TC and 21 EEN members, to reach a critical mass of CP technology deployment in SME. Targeted actions stimulate initial requests of >120 SME from > 10 EU MS and a total of 70 SME micro grant projects with min. 140 KET TC. 2 MEUR third party financing go to SME in total. 50 % are targeted for low to modest innovator regions. KET4CP delivers standard procedures / tools for KET TC transnational collaboration and joint service/shared infrastructure, based on business model scenarios stimulating KET TC to collaborate and share clients. KET4CP creates a sustainable platform, a win-win situation for all stakeholders with a high potential for scale up. The aim for 2022 is to have 100 KET TC and 180 EEN members with 1000 SME inquiries p.a.

ITEC Smart Automation I4.0

The ITEC Smart Automation I4.0 project aims at developing technological solutions that will translate into the creation of value in ITEC products, responding to the challenges of Industry 4.0 and the growing demand of the automotive sector, with knowledge and skills generated in Portugal.

In particular, the ITEC Smart Automation I4.0 project has the main objectives of developing R&D solutions for transverse incorporation into the ITEC products available to the market in the fields of Robotics, Industrial Automation and Quality Control Systems, namely:

• Automatic visual inspection:

New system for vision, optics and automatic inspection, equipped with computer vision algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (IA), which solves the limitations found in current systems related to human visual inspection. The system should characterize and solve several tasks, critical to ITEC, and contain features such as the traceability of the process inspected by the vision system, the collection of statistics in the inspection system, and the ability to debug the operation of the system in the line to determine which method failed to detect the defect in a product.

• Smart Machines:

Smart Machine Systems, enabling ITEC equipment to be equipped with monitoring, self-diagnosis and self-tuning mechanisms, in particular for defects related to dispensing systems and screwdrivers (wiring).

• Systematic software development processes:

New life cycle management and quality process for software products – provide the company with a systematized software development process with standardization of software development activities (system specification, implementation, testing, version control, etc.) and ensure the robustness of software developed through software quality verification and validation features.

JigSense

The JigSense project aims to reduce the high cabling volume when integrating sensors in an assembly line jig, and to contribute to its increased reliability, increased sensor lifetime, decrease maintenance requirements while adding significant added value to its product. The JigSense project also aims to reinforce and consolidate AOF’s competencies in the development of sensed devices and anticipate the market evolution in this field, through the synergies with the involved entities, namely CeNTI and INL. From the technical-scientific point of view, the JigSense project has the following specific objectives:

• Development of a sensor interface module capable of measuring the different sensor topologies and provide a low-power bus communication, reducing, thereby, the number of required cables for communicating with the PLC and their respective weight;
• Development of a low-power wireless communication module that allows the interface between the sensor bus in the movable jig structures and the control system attached to the workstation, in order to eliminate the connection cables between the movable and fixed structures;
• Development of a module for wireless charging, or pulse charging, with a temporary internal storage unit, which can eliminate the required power cables to the communication and sensor modules.

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INFANTE

NFANTE is a development and demonstration project for an in-orbit microsatellite, to be launched in 2020. This is the precursor of a constellation for Earth observation and communication with the focus on maritime applications.

INFANTE will be the first satellite developed by the Portuguese Industry, articulated in a national consortium led by TEKEVER group, that includes 9 companies with references in the space sector, as Active Space Technologies, Omnidea, Active Aerogels, GMV, HPS and Spinworks; and 10 internationally recognized R&D Centers in their areas of competence, such as CEIIA; FEUP, ISQ, FCT-UNL, INL, IPN, IPTomar, ISR Lisbon, IT Aveiro, and UBI.

Based on the opportunities created by New Space and the capacity building induced by the Portuguese participation in the space sector over the last 20 years, INFANTE Project will establish the basis for the new business line associated to the sector, based on new products, services, and processes, contributing to strengthen Portugal´s position in the International Space framework.

The INFANTE space segment includes a modular and low-cost microsatellite, equipped with a software-defined radio with air and maritime surveillance functions; propulsion system for orbit maintenance; solar panels and their mechanism; and cargo bay with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and multispectral camera, together with scientific and technological validation.

In the Soil Segment, the INFANTE Project includes the development of a new system for rapid assembly, integration and prompt testing, adapted to small satellites and frequent launches; and a data hub to aggregate, process and disseminate information.

The Consortium is joined by satellite data users to support the demonstration of the INFANTE results, such as the National Maritime Authority, IPMA and INIAV; other national companies; and International Organizations, such as the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Federal Fluminense Institute of Brazil and the French CLS.

The INFANTE Project will run from 2017 to 2020 and has an investment of 9.2M€, executed by a team of 150 researchers, engineers and technicians, of whom 40 are PhDs. This project is cofounded by Structural Funds in the framework of the Mobilization Programs – Incentive System for Research and Technological Development – of Portugal2020 Program.

INL 2020

This R&D internationalization project intends to implement an integrated a sustainable strategy to promote INL´s participation in the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation – Horizon 2020. With this project, INL will have a more active participation in this Programme, contributing to the increase of its scientific production quality, internationally recognized, as well as increasing its competitiveness. The activity plan proposed intends to, initially, stimulate the creation of an enabling and sustained environment to the generation of new ideas for European projects. At the same time it aims at establishing contacts with European Entities (companies, R&D organizations, industry) working in complementary areas, in order to submit competitive proposals and increasing, consequently, the approval rate.

INL@H2020

This project aims to implement an integrated and sustained strategy to increase INL participation in Horizon 2020, ensuring the scientific recognition of the national research organizations in the international landscape. The participation in H2020 will benefit national scientific excellence, cooperation in international networks and enhancing a technology-based economy by transferring knowledge to the national and international economic ecosystem.
This project foresees INL effort to link with scientific institutions at the European level, to form consortiums, to exchange scientific concepts and to shape competitive projects capable of increasing INL participation in H2020, aiming to support the valorization and transfer of technology to the market, ensuring access to knowledge in an accessible and globalized way at European scale.

This project aims to implement an integrated and sustained strategy to increase INL participation in Horizon 2020, ensuring the scientific recognition of the national research organizations in the international landscape. The participation in H2020 will benefit national scientific excellence, cooperation in international networks and enhancing a technology-based economy by transferring knowledge to the national and international economic ecosystem.
This project foresees INL effort to link with scientific institutions at the European level, to form consortiums, to exchange scientific concepts and to shape competitive projects capable of increasing INL participation in H2020, aiming to support the valorization and transfer of technology to the market, ensuring access to knowledge in an accessible and globalized way at European scale.