The MED region includes more than 25 million hectares of forests and about 50 million hectares of other wooded lands. Climatic and socio-economic changes in this region could have serious consequences for forests, potentially resulting in the loss of ecosystem services and causing a wide range of economic, social, and environmental issues. The low competitiveness of the forest-wood supply chain in European Mediterranean (EUMED) countries is currently amplified by the missing or limited access of forest managers and companies to current and new digital technologies which appear to be out of date in certain key areas or fail to address some of the most pressing difficulties that the industry is expected to be confronting in the next decades. This rationale calls for the urgent implementation of a multi-actor approach to digitalization, starting from recognizing stakeholders’ needs and subsequently defining joint actions. To this end DigiMedFor's overall goal is to transform the technological landscape of the Mediterranean forest-wood supply chain by increasing its competitiveness, thus allowing the different stakeholders to better manage and supply multiple forest ecosystem services, including the traceability of wood origin from forests to end-users. In line with the EU forest strategy and the EU digital strategy, DigiMedFor will employ advanced and innovative digital solutions to improve the monitoring and management of forest resources along the supply chain from their origin up to the wood industry, optimising both the sustainability of wood production and traceability and delivery of ecosystem services. DigiMedFor will address the synergetic use of geo-spatial, AI, and modelling technologies, combining them with ICT.

The aim of HERFUSE proposal is to design innovative fuselage and empennages suitable for the future Hybrid-Electric Regional aircraft (HER) that will contribute to the overall target to reduce Green House Gases (GHG) emissions. HERFUSE will study the challenges on fuselage and empennages layout, material, components, manufacturing and assembly derived by integration of the relevant fuselage systems for HER as defined in the SRIA for a Hybrid-Electric Regional Aircraft and in HER-01 topic. HERFUSE integrates features and components necessary to regional hybrid-electric propulsion and complementary systems as well as improves weight, durability, aerodynamic efficiency and operational issues. The technologies and solutions matured in this project shall be aligned and feed with models, analyses and actual test data HERA project on regional aircraft (HORIZON-JU-CLEAN-AVIATION-2022-01-TRA-01). HERFUSE technologies, manufacturing and assembly of critical components will make feasible achieving the targeted performance gains of HER enablers such as low GHG energy sources (batteries and fuel cells), their storage (probable liquid in hydrogen case), their distribution and management, operational and safety features, thermal management provisions, electrical and thermal insulation. Technical solutions set by the HERFUSE will contribute then to the overall target and studies performed at aircraft level in HERA to reduce emissions. Namely, HERFUSE integration requirements will be concurrent and complementary to the aircraft-level ones set into HERA.

The E-BRAKE project is aimed at developing, manufacturing, testing, and qualifying an Innovative Electro-Mechanical Braking actuation System for SAT Application, performing at the same time studies on electromechanical actuator, command logic including diagnostic and prognostic capabilities and system integration and validation of novel electro-mechanical brake actuation system into a relevant landing gear system. The first step will consist in a specification review, a preliminary system design activity and a technological innovation assessment, with the final aim to integrate and harmonize the concept to be developed and the effective proposed innovations. Health monitoring and prognostic algorithm as well as innovative antiskid algorithms modelling, simulation and performance analysis will be carried out in order to develop a new worldwide state of art electro-mechanical brake actuation system for small aircraft application. The electro actuated brake system (ebrake) will be a further development of already flying solutions, designed, produced, certified by an E-BRAKE partner according to Airworthiness Requirements. System design outcomes will be used to drive the following detail design phase. The E-BRAKE consortium will proceed with all the design and analysis activities, minimizing all the system weight, improving safety, power consumption, affordability and using technological and manufacturing efficiency criteria to fully compliant with the approval plan. An effective configuration & weight management will assure the fulfilment of all functional and mass budget requirements. Software validation, production, assembly and integration drawings, as well as bills of materials and suitable interface control documents will be integral part of the output provided by the design work package. The E-BRAKE project will deliver the prototype(s) fully compliant with the topic requirements.The novel equipment (ebrake) will also be integrated in a reference SAT L/G.