ROSEWOOD4.0 builds on the well-established ROSEWOOD network of Regional Hubs connecting multiple actors along the forest value chain to reinforce the sustainability of wood mobilisation in Europe. The new action will especially reinforce and enlarge the links with Eastern Europe by creating a new Eastern Hub including new countries (Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine). Secondly, the action puts special emphasis on digitalisation (forestry industry 4.0) and digital tools (social media, platforms, e-learning) for training and coaching, enabling practitioners to share know-how with much wider impact. The focus on ICT addresses the two main challenges in wood mobilisation: 1) better access to resources through defragmentation of forest owners and 2) increased volume to the market and higher transparency. The project’s extensive dissemination of best practices, technological and non-technological innovations and research results feeds directly into national and regional Agriculture Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) in forestry and builds an efficient interface with the EIP-AGRI and the EIP Raw Materials, supported by the European networks EFI and InnovaWood. The multi-actor action closes knowledge gaps, connects and transfers tangible knowledge and best practice between forestry practitioners across the whole Europe. In an open innovation environment, the coordination of Regional Hubs facilitates also new opportunities for exploitation of near to market innovations and fosters business partnerships between stakeholders, aligned with local and regional development plans, to complement existing or initiate new Operational Groups within the EIP-AGRI. ROSEWOOD4.0 will contribute to enhanced competitiveness of the forest industry and to vital development in rural areas within the European Bioeconomy by responding to the imminent need for broader sharing of ICT-driven solutions in forestry.

1. Idean uutuusarvo ja liiketoimintapotentiaali Aivan uusi arktisen alueen rakentamisen konsepti, joka perustuu uusien kosteutta keräävien MOF-materiaalien ja muiden vastaavien kankaiden käyttöön väliaikaisessa arktisessa kylmärakentamisessa. Materiaalit imevät itseensä kosteutta hyvinkin kuivasta ilmasta ja muodostavat itsestään jäätyessään kovan, jää-tyyppisen peitteen. Tämä mahdollistaa erilaisten tuoteperheiden kehittämiseen idean ympärille. 2. Problem-solution –fit Perinteisen Lumi- ja jäärakentamisen laajenemisen rajoitteena on ollut se, että rakentaminen on perustunut yksittäisten rakentajien perinteisiin käden taitoihin ja perinteisiin materiaaleihin (lumi, jää, sohjo). Uusi idea mahdollistaa rakentamisen normittamisen ja konseptoinnin, jolloin voidaan hyödyntää skaalattavuutta, modulaarisuutta ja massakustomointia. 3. Yhteistyön ja konsortion luominen Co-creation –vaiheessa 2/18 – 6/18 Kylmärakentamisen konsortio koostuu tutkimusryhmästä sekä käytännön kehittämisryhmästä. Tutkimusryhmässä kylmärakentamisen konseptia kehittävät seuraavat tahot: Lapin yliopisto (design ja materiaalit), Lapin AMK (testaus ja rakentaminen), Haaga-Helia (liiketoimintakonseptien kehittäminen). Co-creation -kehittämisprojektin aikana ryhmään valikoituu 2-3 käytännön toimijaa, jotka valitaan sen mukaan miten heillä on resursseja ja strategista intentiota kasvaa merkittäviksi globaaleiksi toimijoiksi arktisella alueella. Varsinainen Co-innovation -kehittämishanke suunnitellaan yhdessä valittujen yritysten kanssa. 4 Kilpailu Arktisen alueen liiketoimintapotentiaalin on arvioitu muodostuvan lähitulevaisuudessa merkittäväksi. Arktisen alueen investointiennusteisiin perustuen (Guggenheim Inc 2017, Maailman talousfoorumi 2015) uskomme nykyisen kylmärakentamisen volyymin kymmenkertaistuvan muutaman vuoden sisällä aloituksesta. Liiketoimintapotentiaalin ja asiakasarvon kehittymisen tarkempi kuvaus tehdään yhdessä valittujen yritysten kanssa.

Digitalization has been identified as one of the key enablers for renewal and competitiveness of European manufacturing industries. However, grasping the digitalization and IoT-related opportunities can be limited by the harsh environmental conditions of the manufacturing processes and end use environments. The ECSEL-IA 2019 project initiative CHARM aims to contribute to solving this problem by developing ECS technologies that tolerate harsh industrial environments. The project concept centres around real industrial challenges from different types of end use industries. The synergies and impacts arise from similarities in technology solutions serving different applications and industry sectors. The CHARM Use Cases include six different industry sectors, majority of them presented by innovative cutting-edge large enterprises that belong to the world-wide market leaders of their own sectors – while most of them being new to the ECSEL ecosystem: mining (Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy, FI), paper mills (Valmet Technologies Oy, FI), machining (Tornos SA, CH), solar panel manufacturing lines (Applied Materials Italia SRL, IT), nuclear power plants maintenance and decommissioning (ÚJV Řež a.s., CZ), and professional digital printing (Océ-Technologies B.V, NL). The planned demonstrators engage these big players with European ECS value chains and showcase capabilities that serve manufacturing industries’ needs at large. The new technologies to be developed include novel multi-gas sensors, robust high temperature and pressure sensors, flexible sensors for paper machine rolls, wireless power transfer systems, connectivity solutions for rotating parts, advanced vision systems, and enablers for autonomous driving. The project consortium includes 12 SMEs, 14 LEs and 12 RTOs, and covers the industrial value chains from simulations, sensors and components to packaging, integration and reliability as well as connectivity, cloud and cyber security solutions.

Food security is a global challenge and is impacted by, rapidly compounding effects including climate change, supply chains, human labour shortages, driving the need for traceability, and technological innovation and automation to name a few. The latest important price increases of agricultural row products show the limitations of the available resources. Through this Joint Undertaking, the AGRARSENSE consortium of 57 partners (including 4 affiliates) plan to take agricultural technology and productivity to the next level, beyond the State-of-the-Art, by combining some of the most advanced organisational capabilities from across European industrial 16 Large Enterprises, 25 SMEs and 16 Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs), from 15 countries. The development of the most advanced sensory and autonomous agricultural capabilities requires a sophisticated governance structure, ensuring that all partners are aligned across Use Cases and Work Package deliveries. The AGRARSENSE consortium has one of the world’s leaders in Forestry automation, Komatsu, as Project Coordinator. The AGRARSENSE project goal of creating a holistic ecosystem of sensory and automated capabilities will further extend Europe’s lead in optimizing and securing agricultural value chains. To drive such an ambitious impact agenda, we have selected seven Use Cases which will, collectively, contribute to solving the challenges outlined. These Use Cases are Greenhouses (UC1), Vertical Farming (UC2), Precision Viticulture (UC3), Agri robotics (UC4), Autoforest (UC5), Organic Soils & Fertilizers (UC6) and Water (UC7). These Use Cases are fused together by the most advanced hardware, software and system integration technologies, which will drive new solutions for partners and the collective AGRARSENSE impacts at scale.