Horizon Europe

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Research

UCD College of Engineering & Architecture has an excellent track record of participating in European and international research and innovation collaborations. Current Horizon Europe collaborative projects funded by the European Commission that the College is involved in – either as co-ordinator or a partner – are listed below.

The College is open to exploring new / potential collaboration opportunities in relation to future Horizon Europe calls. Anyone wishing to explore opportunities for potential new collaborations with UCD College of Engineering & Architecture is invited to peruse this list of current projects to help identify potential areas of shared interest, and to then contact the respective UCD School.

Horizon Europe is the EU Research & Innovation Programme 2021 – 27 which aims to:

Tackle climate change
Help to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Boost the EU’s competitiveness and growth
Facilitate collaboration and strengthen the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges
Support the creation and better diffusion of excellent knowledge and technologies
Create jobs, fully engage the EU’s talent pool, boost economic growth, promote industrial competitiveness and optimise investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area.

With a total budget of €95.5 billion (2021-2027), the Horizon Europe programme structure includes:

Pillar I - Excellent Science: reinforcing and extending the excellence of the Union's science base.
Pillar II - Clusters Global Challenges & European Industrial Competitiveness: boosting key technologies and solutions underpinning EU policies & Sustainable Development Goals. Includes 6 Clusters: Health; Culture Creativity Inclusive Society; Civil Security for Society; Digital Industry Space; Climate Energy Mobility; Food Bioeconomy Natural Resources Agriculture and Environment.
Pillar III - Innovative Europe: stimulating market-creating breakthroughs and ecosystems conducive to innovation.
EU Missions: Pillar II of Horizon Europe also provides budget funding to support EU Missions in Horizon Europe in five areas that are also connected to and supported by EU policies and programmes with local action and citizen engagement. Missions include Adaptation to Climate Change; Cancer; Climate Neutral and Smart Cities; Restore our Oceans and Waters; and the Soil mission.

Current Horizon Europe (HE) Projects (Pillar 2)

Members of the UCD College of Engineering & Architecture particate on the following collaborative projects that were awarded under Horizon Europe Pillar 2 during 2022-24. Each project title links to the European Commission’s CORDIS website which gives a project description and further details.

Projects with an asterisk * are co-ordinated by University College Dublin (UCD).

HE - Cluster 1: Health

School	Project
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy	Digital Twins Enabled Indoor Air Quality Management for Healthy Living (TwinAIR)
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy	SoluTions foR mItiGatinG climate-induced hEalth tReaths (TRIGGER)

HE - Cluster 2: Culture Creativity Inclusive Society

School	Project
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy & UCD School of Civil Engineering	HERITAGE ACTIVATION THROUGH ENGAGING EXPERIENCES TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (HERITACT)

HE - Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society

School	Project
UCD School of Civil Engineering & UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy	CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES PROTECTION THROUGH NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION FOR A CLIMATE RESILIENT SOCIETY (NBSINFRA)

HE - Cluster 4: Digital Industry Space

School	Project
UCD School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Sustainable Transition to the Agile and Green Enterprise (STAGE)
UCD School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering	VOICE: Valorisation of Artist Led Innovation through Citizen Engagement

HE - Cluster 5: Climate Energy Mobility

School	Project
UCD School of Civil Engineering	Augmenting and Evaluating the Physical and Digital Infrastructure for CCAM deployment (AUGMENTED CCAM)
UCD School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Comprehensive fast user-friendly and thoroughly validated open-source energy system planning framework (Mopo)
UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering	Exploring the synergies between carbon capture nutrient recovery and next-generation microalgae biotechnology for the production of cost-competitive and sustainable aviation fuel in the EU (SusAlgaeFuel)*
UCD School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Flexible energy systems Leveraging the Optimal integration of EVs deployment Wave (FLOW)
UCD School of Civil Engineering	Smart Enforcement of Transport Operations (SETO)*
UCD School of Civil Engineering	TRA2026 (Transport Research Arena 2026: Budapest)
UCD School of Civil Engineering	Transport Research Arena 2024: Dublin (TRA2024)*

HE - Cluster 6: Food Bioeconomy Natural Resources Agriculture and Environment

School	Project
UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering	A holistic frameWork with Anticounterfeit and inTelligence-based technologieS that will assist food chain stakehOlders in rapidly identifying and preveNting the spread of fraudulent practices (WATSON)*
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy	Activating rural communities to act for change (RURACTIVE)
UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering	AGrOecOlogy for weeDs (GOOD)
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy	CitiObs - Enhancing Citizen Observatories for healthy sustainable resilient and inclusive cities (CitiObs)
UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering	Democratizing digital farming through smart solutions for small farms (Farmtopia)
UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering and UCD School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering	Education for the BioEconomy (BioBeo)*
UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering	Multi-actor collaboration dynamics and capacity building network inside and between AKIS to foster the upscaling of SFSCs across Europe (EU4Advice)
UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering and UCD School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering	Prospecting natural lignin biodiversity towards unlocking value-added bioactive motives and molecules (PROSPLIGN)

HE Mission-Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities

School	Project
UCD School of Architecture Planning and Environmental Policy	Rethinking the dEsign of streets And pubLic spaces to Leverage the mOdal shift to Climate-friendly Active Transport Everywhere (REALLOCATE)*

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