The Internet-of-Energy (IoE) is a revolutionary paradigm towards achieving the EU’s zero-carbon goal through enabling intelligent and automated energy management across the entire lifecycle of energy planning, storage, distribution, and maintenance. Operating in highly complex environments characterised by intermittent and volatile renewable energy generation, dynamic energy demands, large-scale distributed energy integration, and stringent resilience and security requirements, IoE faces fundamental challenges in constructing accurate and real-time digital representation, securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, optimising energy management, and diagnosing device faults and failures. To address these challenges, SAILING aims to establish a multidisciplinary network of world-leading academic and industrial partners to create a ground-breaking smart system for energy management and fault diagnosis powered by innovative digital twin and secure AI technologies. Specifically, SAILING will pioneer transformative research and innovations, including: 1) AI-driven high-fidelity digital twin for IoE digital representation, 2) Secure and reliable AI for IoE empowered by Blockchain and adversarial machine learning, 3) Intelligent and scalable predictive energy management and optimisation, and 4) Deep learning-based rapid fault detection and accurate failure prediction. SAILING will train 12 Early-Stage Researchers across sectors and disciplines in the novel concepts and methodologies of smart IoE, equip them with sought-after professional and transferable skills, foster broader perspectives, and cultivate them to become future leaders in IoE. Through cutting-edge research and multidisciplinary cross-sectoral collaborations, SAILING will drive scientific breakthroughs with innovative digital twin and secure AI technologies for realising reliable, resilient, and energy-efficient smart IoE, and revolutionising the energy sector for a more sustainable and cleaner future.

The ORION vision is to strengthen the European leadership in science and technology and accelerate the twin energy transition of the energy value chain stakeholders with a quintuple-helix model by delivering a modular toolbox of digital breakthrough components, by validating these components in the unique use cases of hydro, solar, and wave energy operations across four continents, and by integrating and presenting these novelties in a human-centric Digital Twin applications to enable a higher-degree of digitalisation of relevant operational and business processes, increase the renewables share in the electricity grid globally, and reduce fossil fuels consumption in the context of an increased demand for energy resources and uncertain geopolitical and climate conditions in the long term. The developed digital components will help the stakeholders to tackle different limitations of the energy value chain with the goal to make energy more sustainable, affordable, and safer and, thus, solve pressing prioritised political, business, and societal problems. The human-centric Digital Twin will empower better informed decision-making of the stakeholders including policy makers allowing them to share insights in a collaborative and virtual environment. The Digital Twin will help to address the energy stakeholders needs in a comprehensive manner and will include the latest knowledge and best practices from the existing EU platforms, e.g., ENERSHARE, GAIA-X, and FIWARE. Top-level research and innovation entities from 8 countries (France, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Brazil, Canada, and Cape Verde) spanned across 4 continents will jointly contribute to high impact R&I, implement testing and validation activities in five unique use cases, contribute to a better education output, and develop new multidisciplinary knowledge to be translated into solutions, services, and products to be applied across the energy value-chains globally.

RESIST will strengthen the resilience and accelerate the transformation and increase adaptive capacity of 12 climate-vulnerable EU regions, implementing 4 large-scale demonstrators of resilient innovations for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) with quintuple-helix partnerships (including 1 in a less developed region) and promote transfer of know-how and innovative solutions to 8 twin regions (of which 4 less developed regions) through both physical mutual-learning activities and innovative immersive digital twins. The consortium will engage EU associations, CCA research groups, scientific experts, social engagement and communication institutions, innovation agencies and 1 Venture Capital Fund to co-create and validate innovative solutions, raise awareness, leverage citizens participation and promote sustainable exploitation of results towards the markets. RESIST will contribute to the EU agenda on CCA, through intervention in 3 main areas: Promote and demonstrate an innovative, more participative approach to resilience and CC adaptation in 4 demonstrator and 8 twinning regions (including 5 less developed regions in total) demonstrating >12 new solution lines, accelerating regional resilience and helping reach the adaptation-mission objectives of ‘building resilience and upscaling solutions through 100 demonstrators and accelerating the transition in 200 pilot regions and communities by 2030’ reaching already 4% and 6% of these aims by 2027, with 4 demonstrators and involvement of 12 regions Co-design and contribute to the development of new regional measures, policy instruments and social and technological solutions in 12 regions involving 22m citizens, increasing awareness/resilience by 10% and levels of green investments by 20%, reducing economic losses due to natural hazards such as floods by 14% and climate protection gap by 50%; Reduce time-to-market/risk for >100 new CCA Solutions from providers across Europe, offering them scale-up for their products.