We are pleased to announce that the research project SPEAR („Smart Prognosis of energy with allocation of Resources from 2017 to 2020), in which TWT was also involved and which was funded within Germany by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, has won the Eureka Innovation Award 2022 in the category "Innovation and Sustainability".
Der Fokus von SPEAR lag auf der Entwicklung einer flexiblen Optimierungsplattform für Produktionsprozesse bzw. allgemein industrielle Gebäude und der Modellierung zugehöriger digitaler Zwillinge entsprechender Anlagen mit dem Hauptaugenmerk auf die Energieumsetzung.
Eureka is a leading organization at EU level, headquartered in Portugal, whose aim is to promote international collaborative research projects. As such, Eureka is one of the most important instruments for European research proposals. The consortia usually consist of a suitable mix of SMEs, OEMs and research institutes. Since 2014, funding totaling €1.5 billion and an average of €7.5 million per project has been invested for approximately 400 to 500 participating partners annually.
Every year, the Eureka Innovation Awards honor the best funded projects in terms of impact, far-reaching and innovative added value, in 2022 in 5 different categories. The award for "Innovation and Sustainability" is particularly attractive because sustainability is one of the most important global issues at the moment. This year's Innovation Awards were presented on June 22-23 during the Global Innovation Summit in Estoril, Portugal.
Partners in the project were (22 from 5 countries - Germany, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey):
ÅF-Industry AB, Aktas Holding, Algoryx Simulation AB, Autoproc GmbH & Co. KG, EKS InTec GmbH (Coordinator), ENTES Elektronik Cihazlar Imalat ve Ticaret A.S., Experis IT, FFT Produktionssysteme GmbH & Co. KG, GECAD/ISEP, IDEPA, KANCA FORGING, let’s dev GmbH & Co. KG, Reeb-Engineering GmbH, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sensing & Control Systems S.L., Sistrade Software Consulting S.A., Turkcell Teknoloji, TWT GmbH Science & Innovation, Technische Universität Berlin, University of Technology Chalmers, Universität Paderborn, Volvo Car Group
The TWT contributions were:
- Co-simulations for distributed hardware architectures
– Energiemodelle und digitale Zwillinge für Verbraucher und Quellen
- Optimization algorithms
- Identification of business models and use case demonstrators
More information about Spear at https://spear-project.eu/
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