Multi-Pro deals with the development of high thrust multi-functional propulsion systems for air vehicles addressing logistics, surveillance, agriculture, and the transport of people. Specifically, the developed modules can be used in all types of UAVs, drones, light and ultralight, Light Sport and experimental air vehicles including conventional take-off and landing (cTOL), vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) with their electrical, hybrid, or conventional propulsion. Using high-pressure air storage in ultra-light composite tanks the system offers a high thrust capacity, quickly releasing the accumulated energy through nozzles, making it extremely efficient for take-off, landing, and emergency scenarios. It is for many aspects a breakthrough that can heavily impact the operational ability of Drones, VTOLs and lightweight air vehicles of all kinds. It solves the limitation on safety of traditional ballistic parachutes while offering additional thrust during critical phases like take-off and landing. This is particularly advantageous for battery-powered aircraft, which often have power issues during these phases. Multi-Pro leads to: - Greater Safety: Unlike traditional parachutes that require a certain altitude to function effectively, the system can operate at low altitudes, making it suitable for urban air mobility and other low-altitude applications. - Energy Efficiency: The system achieves up to 80% thrust efficiency, providing lift and thrust with minimal energy waste. - Scalability: Applicable in delivery drones and all types of ultralights. - Low Altitude Operation: The system can be effectively used at low altitudes, where traditional parachutes are not functional - Multi-Functionality: enhancing aircraft performance during take-off and landing, reducing energy consumption, and increasing range. - Lower Environmental Impact: the system uses only air, recharging can be done very quickly with a low-cost compressor powered by photovoltaic cells.

The PIEDMONS project addresses breakthrough innovations for the design and manufacturing of affordable new generation quantum devices: • The development and the testing of a portable ion-trap reproducible in large scale, and based on low-cost semiconductor MEMS technologies. • The development and testing of a novel quantum secured partioned Electric Electronic architecture exploitatable in a multitude of sectors With INFINEON Technologies, world leader in MEMS semiconductors, and two leading edge University in the field of Quantum computing (University of Innsbruck and ETH Zurich) the PIEDMONS project aims to the ambitious and long-term, but at the same way concrete and plausible goal of designing, implementing, experimenting and finding first applications for the basic building blocks of future quantum computers. Thanks to the experience of a high-tech SME (IFEVS) well known in the European Research Arena, it aims to the challenging objective of implementing first applications of these technologies in the huge market of consumer nomadic devices safe and secure, firstly in the mobility sector. The expected results of the project will establish the baseline of new scientific and technological research and future uses, which cannot yet be anticipated, but for sure will strengthen the European leadership in a sector that is expected to be strategical over the forthcoming decades. Demonstration of the feasibility of GPS-free positioning, portable atomic clocks, quantum cryptography and security in the short distance are the very challenging objectives in which the PIEDMONS project will measure and validate its performances. The project will involve a large audience and diverse actors in the scientific community and in the stakeholders through ad-hoc dissemination actions, while at the same time generating and preserving strategic Intellectual Property.

The TELL project addresses the large-scale manufacturing of Low and Mid voltage power converters and more in general Low and Mid voltage powertrain solutions targeting: • The electrification of the small and lower-medium segments accounting for about 70% (8 millions/year) of the current total passenger cars sold in Europe, • Hybrid vehicles adopting a low voltage add-on electric propulsion, • The light weight urban mobility sector which on a global scale is exponentially growing. For the purpose TELL brings together an integrated supply chain including a world leader in Power Semiconductors, 2 leading Tier1s in Automotive and Industrial powertrains, a high-tech Small-Medium enterprise in e-mobility applications and a leading-edge RTO. Specific objectives are: • Develop technologies, know-how and best practices for handling thinner wafers throughout the entire supply chain aiming at increasing the global efficiency in urban mobility and those driving cycles having a high number of stops and starts, • Increase the yield both in the production of chips and at the inverter-level integration, • Explore the potentiality of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors at low voltage using a novel GaN inverter and a novel synchro motor with integrated GaN switches; • Develop two types of advanced super-compact powertrains based on Si-Mosfets and GaN FETS on thin chips with embedded state of-the-art control algorithms enabled by electrical powertrains, • Introduce a higher degree of smartness at a system level in both powertrains. The achievements will be demonstrated in two EV platforms: 4WD operated at a nominal voltage of 100V and 2WD operated at a nominal voltage of 48V. The proposed solutions will be 100% made in Europe, robust, efficient, low-cost: • 25% of cost reduction in mass production with increased user-friendliness and experience, • highest quality devices and two powertrains solutions meeting and overcoming the current automotive standards.

The rise of technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, smart cameras, etc. is generating lots of big data. The volume of data in 2022 was 97ZB and is doubling every 2-3 years. This is leading to unprecedented growth in energy consumption and costs needed for data processing. Sending raw data for remote processing on centralized nodes is limited in terms of speed and bandwidth, and even next-gen tech like 5G or 6G will be insufficient to cope with this growth. Processing data at the Edge, where it's generated, requires increasing power efficiency by several orders of magnitude. However, the use of general-purpose digital processors based on von Neumann architecture is limited, with optimization possibilities nearing natural limits. A new class of chips, neuromorphic hardware, is needed to execute AI algorithms like Deep Learning at high speed, low energy consumption, endurance, and scalability. MultiSpin.AI’s vision is to improve neuromorphic computing by increasing the energy efficiency and processing speed by at least three orders of magnitude over digital computing and >10x compared to the most advanced neuromorphic devices to reach an unparalleled 2,000 Tera operations per second per watt (TOPS/W). To achieve this, MultiSpin.AI will develop an AI co-processor based on a crossbar of multi-level magnetic tunnel junctions (M2TJ) cells/ n-ary state cells. The use of multi-level M2TJs reduces the number of cells, simplifies circuity, and reduces the number of digital-to-analog conversions (DAC) at the input of the crossbar, and analog-to-digital conversions at the crossbar output. The combined effect is realising much higher energy efficiency and faster AI inference at the Edge. This breakthrough will help provide a significant impact by enabling transformative applications like autonomous vehicles, robots, and medical devices and help strengthen strategic autonomy for the EU chips industry and reduce CO2 emissions from AI inference.