Floating wind is essential to reach climate neutrality and cement Europe’s leadership in renewables globally. While floating wind technology has been proven technically feasible through prototypes commissioned in the past few years, its industrialisation and competitiveness still need to be demonstrated. A key limitation of current floating wind projects is the lack of integrated optimisation between turbines and floats, which leads to higher CAPEX and hinders commercial viability. Additionally, the absence of a European industrialisation framework for large-scale production and deployment of floating offshore wind turbines presents a challenge. Standardising manufacturing processes and optimising logistics are critical to avoid bottlenecks by 2030. In this context, ATLANTIC aims to drive a breakthrough in the sector by providing a holistic design solution, addressing both technology and European supply chains. The project will demonstrate a disruptive 5 MW floating unit with a pyramidal design, connected to the grid at Le Croisic, France. It will create a pathway to reach a Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) of 85€/MWh by 2030 (and 57€/MWh beyond 2035) with a carbon footprint <16 gCO2eq/kWh. Over two years, extensive data monitoring from the pilot will allow for future optimisation of industry-scale commissioning, addressing performance, environmental considerations, and future harbour logistics. It will also lay the ground for establishing a European supply chain to enable the large-scale production of floating offshore wind farms and enhance EU sovereignty. To achieve this ambitious objective, the industry-driven consortium of ATLANTIC gathers 13 entities from 6 different countries, including 4 industries and SMEs, 1 public-interest foundation, 6 research centres, 1 university and 1 regional organisation.

Increasingly challenging global and environmental requirements have resulted in agricultural systems coming under increasing pressure to enhance their resilience capabilities in order to respond to the abrupt changes in resource quality, quantity and availability, especially during unexpected environmental circumstances, such as uncertain weather, pests and diseases, volatile market conditions and commodity prices. Therefore, integrated solutions are necessary to support the whole food agricultural life-cycle value chain. Solutions necessarily must consider the products’ cycle, as well as each of the value chain stages. Thus, managing risks and the uncertain availability of information will lead farmers to take advantage of these managerial, technical and social based-solutions. This implies the need for innovative technology-based knowledge management system to capture the agricultural information, at a variety of regional locations, in terms of collecting, storing, processing, and disseminating information about uncertain environmental conditions that affect agricultural decision-making production systems. Hence, from the genetic design of the seed, till their planting and harvest processes, RUCAPS provides knowledge of the full agricultural life-cycle based-decision making process to realise the key impacts of every stage of the agriculture-related processes. Therefore, RUCAPS implies the development of a high impact research project in order to integrate real-life based agriculture requirements, alternative land management scenarios, unexpected weather and environmental conditions as well as supporting innovation in the development of agriculture production systems, operations, logistics and supply chain management and the impact of these systems and processes over the end-users and customers. This is to be conceived through the integration of standard and customised solutions for facilitating the collaborative engagement within the agriculture value chain.

Topic = Establishing services “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs” in the Enterprise Europe Network : Two distinct types of activities are envisaged, which shall be provided as comprehensive seven day service packages following very specific processes. These high added value services will be delivered by suitably qualified senior innovation experts. - WP1 : « Key Account Management » for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument » = the role of the EEN Key Account Manager will be to facilitate the implementation of the SME Instrument in Bretagne and Pays de la Loire, in Phase I and II. - WP2 : « Enhancing SME Innovation management capacity” for SMEs independly from a specific project" = the aim of this WP is to improve the innovation management capacity of SMEs with high development potential.

According to the final report of the High-Level Expert Group on Key Enabling Technologies photonics has with 480 billion $ by far the biggest market of all key enabling technologies in 2015. If we take a closer look on the various markets within photonics, we see that the sensor market is with 44% by far the biggest individual market (followed by the lighting market with 19%). The ERANET Cofound action PhotonicSensing focuses therefore on the strategically most important areas within the sensing domain: Safety (incl. food safety) Civil security Manufacturing/production Environmental monitoring and Medical. In the safety area the aim is to develop new photonic based sensors which allow for an easy and fast detection of various bacteria as well as to precisely, quickly and efficiently analyze the food composition. The importance of this field is emphasized by the fact that one of the three Horizon prizes of the European Commission (worth 1 million Euro) will be awarded for the development of a food scanner. In civil security a new generation of photonic sensors will help the European law enforcement forces in their fight against crime and terrorism by allowing them to detect hazardous substances earlier and more easily. In production photonic sensors help to improve the quality management and allow for a high level of automation which is necessary to be competitive to the cheap production in Asia. Another crucial area of this call will be the environmental monitoring, which would not be possible without photonic sensing (LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging, mid-infrared sensing,…). The challenge in this area is to bring the prices of the detectors down and improve their usability. The health aspects is also be covered by the BiophotonicsPlus (ERANET Plus) and therefore the focus of the ERANET Cofund Action of PhotonicSensing project will be on the sensing part making sure that the topics will be complimentary to the topics covered by the BiophotonicsPlus.

EEN OUEST aims at providing high added value services to SMEs willing to access new markets and innovate. Part of the services foreseen in the implementation strategy (WP4) concerns the capacity of businesses to innovate and succeed in their SME Instrument projects. Two kind of actions are proposed : - Innovation Management : enhancing innovation capacity is at stake for many small companies which need to remain competitive. EEN Ouest delivers tailored made services through a diagnosis and an action plan, thanks to a methodology called "Check Innov" - Key Account Management for SME Instrument beneficiaries : SME which succeeded in the SME instrument calls can benefit from coaching services from EEN advisors. The objective is to maximise their chances to succeed in their project. The KAM has been extended to other EIC tools.