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Live Information System

The LIS-platform, a BIM-based software platform, is being developed to monitor various aspects of buildings. This platform provides a comprehensive overview of structu...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Transport Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

Multiclimact Project

ConBubble – Making recycled shipping containers injected with microbubbles

We aim to revolutionize shipping containers by creating "ConBubble," a buoyant, eco-friendly alternative made from recycled plastic injected with microbubbles. These c...

Multi-hazards

Marine and fisheries Transport

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

H-aero – low altitude atmospheric sensor platform

Our innovation, the h-aero family of UAVs, represents a groundbreaking advancement in unmanned aerial vehicles, combining the characteristics of airplanes, helicopters...

Droughts River floods

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

AREAS Autonomous river environment analysis system

The autonomous river environment analysis system (AREAS) consists of a set of floating mini power plants and server stations. The power plants are located along the ri...

Droughts Multi-hazards River floods

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

EnCoFlow System

The EnCoFLow System is an innovative way to operate the biological stage of a wastewater treatment plant based on enzyme kinetic principles to reduce energy consumptio...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Nutzwasser – an alternative water resource

Aim of the „Nutzwasser“-project is to further optimize the water quality after the conventional treatment in order to generate „Nutzwasser“ as an alternative water res...

Droughts Heatwaves

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

DEVELOPMENT OF ZERO WASTE BIO-BASED SMALL-SCALE CATALYTIC GASIFICATION SYSTEM

Our innovation utilizes a unique gasification reactor design equipped with a catalytic reformer to maintain a precise and closely monitored temperature profile in the ...

Droughts Heatwaves Wildfires

Agriculture Energy Forestry

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

OptySun for Torbay: Advanced Flood Response Technology

"OptySun for Torbay" represents a shift from crisis response to global flood resilience, highlighting a commitment to sustainable, resilient, and community-centric sol...

Multi-hazards

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Aero Sentinel: Environmental Scout

Our innovation, Aero Sentinel: Environmental Scout, revolutionizes environmental monitoring by integrating advanced air quality sensing technology with drone mobility....

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Health

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Ohrid Lake Heat Pump Reservoir

A heat pump system using lake water at Ohrid will heat/cool a 200 sqm diving center. The study monitors water temperature and environmental impact, providing insights ...

Heatwaves Multi-hazards

Coastal areas Energy

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

HYPRO – Hydram Powered Reverse Osmosis

HYPRO (HYdram Powered Reverse Osmosis) is a low-cost low-carbon Reverse Osmosis (RO) unit. HYPRO supplies greywater and potable water by harvesting the energy of a flo...

Droughts Heatwaves

Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

LABs

We offer Little Alert Boxes (LABs) for 24/7 environmental monitoring, tracking air quality, temperature, and more. They transmit real-time data via Wi-Fi, GSM, or sate...

Heatwaves Multi-hazards Wildfires

Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Environmental Risk Information System (ERIS)

Hot nights due to climate change increase mortality risks. Using UrbClim data, we assess hot-night impacts in Athens to inform adaptation strategies and identify clima...

Heatwaves

Disaster risk reduction Health Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

The Technology for Waterfront Management

The vertical bioretention system uses modular concrete elements to manage rainwater and reduce floods. It supports vegetation, collects rainwater, and enhances urban s...

Droughts Heavy Precipitation River floods

Biodiversity Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Monitoring of Marine Pollution Source(s) Using Smart Remote Sensing

Xena Vision revolutionizes marine pollution monitoring with advanced remote sensing and AI, addressing oil spills, chemical discharges, and plastic waste, positioning ...

Coastal floods Multi-hazards Wildfires

Biodiversity Coastal areas Marine and fisheries

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Green House Control (GNHC)

This digital farming platform revolutionizes agriculture with smart data management, real-time visualization, and decision support. It enhances production quality, mee...

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

CliWeCaFor

Our Excel-based tool predicts climate risks by analyzing hydro-meteorological data. It provides alerts and actionable insights for managing floods, droughts, and water...

Droughts Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Living Waste

The proposed solution involves developing an integrated process to convert pomace and seeds into useful co-products, oil, grape powder, and crushed seeds. By transform...

Multi-hazards

Agriculture Ecosystem-based approaches

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

PRAM

PRAM is an affordable IoT device with a 3D mm-wave radar that monitors and maps flood waters, wave overtopping, and road damage. It offers real-time flood modeling, in...

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation River floods

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Development of Macroalgae-based remote monitoring, farming and blue-biotech systems in the Black Sea

The Black Sea suffers from eutrophication due to pollution, causing excessive algae growth that depletes oxygen and affects water quality. This project aims to use sat...

Coastal floods Multi-hazards

Coastal areas Ecosystem-based approaches

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

AQUASmartTech

With the proposed AQUASmartTech project, we aim to design, and implement an IoT platform through which end-users can have real-time insight into water quality paramete...

Droughts Multi-hazards Pluvial floods

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Agro-In

Our university proposes a spin-off from our accredited laboratory for surface water measurements, aiming to serve Korca and Pogradec municipalities. The project will d...

Droughts River floods

Disaster risk reduction

Education

ARSINOE Network

AirNode and Libelium

Aim 1 To determine air pollution source from either vessels, port operation or external source outside boundary of port authority. Aim 2 To identify more specifically ...

Multi-hazards

Health Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Integrating Rain harvesting and sdar pumping

The proposed innovation is an integrated system which combines already well known and commercialized products such as rain-water-harvesting and solar pumps. Rainwater ...

Droughts

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

vertECO® – the multifunctional green wall

vertECO® is a green wall that treats wastewater with plants and microbes. It purifies water for reuse, cutting tap water use by 50%. The system is eco-friendly, easy t...

Droughts Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation

Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Athens Cooling Station 2.0

The Athens Cooling Station 2.0 is an off-grid installation using solar power and rainwater for misting and cooling. It covers 50 square meters with shading, misting, a...

Heatwaves

Energy Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

RESpring EDUPark

The innovation adds a protective shell to sewer mining infrastructure, shielding components, educating the community, reducing carbon footprint, and mitigating urban h...

Droughts Heatwaves

Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Solumar

Solumar cuts 92-99% of emissions (VOCs, CO2, SOx, NOx) for industry and maritime sectors. Our cost-saving tech reuses pollutants, uses seawater efficiently and include...

Coastal floods Heatwaves Sea level rise

Energy

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

IoT CO2 cities Monitoring

This technology combines satellite images, IoT sensors, and AI to measure GHG emissions from cities, transportation, and nature, helping businesses understand their en...

Heatwaves Wildfires

Buildings Energy Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

ENOVA BioSense

Water pollution affects life and ecosystems. BOD takes 5 days and needs labs. Our bio-electrochemical sensors detect pollution up to 5000 times faster (1 sec to 1 min)...

Multi-hazards

Ecosystem-based approaches Health Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Marina-Breath™

EMBIO's Marina-Breath™ monitors air quality for the Port of Limassol using IoT "airbeldTM." In real-time, it tracks temperature, humidity, CO2, NOx, particulates, wind...

Heatwaves Multi-hazards

Health Marine and fisheries Transport

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

SingularRibbon

SingularRibbon adds nature to cities with a lightweight, hydroponic structure that is easy to install on facades or pillars. It supports remote plant growth control an...

Droughts Heatwaves

Ecosystem-based approaches Health Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Tap Water Friendly Main Cycle Route (Leitungswasserfreundlicher Main-Radweg)

It provides cyclists (and other passersby) with fresh drinking water, to raise awareness on its environmental benefits and quality. This will lead to more appreciation...

Droughts Heatwaves

Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

3D Printing of coastal protection Reefs

The Albanian coastline has been declining in recent years due to coastal erosion and uncontrolled pier built in order to protect one area over another. Coastal erosion...

Coastal floods

Biodiversity Coastal areas

Engineering and built environment

OBREC

To overcome the high costs of installations of Wave Energy Devices and of the energy transfer to the shore, an innovative solution has been developed. This Overtopping...

Coastal floods

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Energy

Engineering and built environment

Really cooling water bodies in cities

Heat waves, increased precipitation and river flooding occur through climate change. These problems may cause substantial costs. In The Netherlands, for instance, with...

Heatwaves

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Engineering and built environment

Flip-Flap cofferdam

The Flip-Flap dam is designed for urban areas prone to river flooding. In case of a flood threat the height of the levee can be increased up to the safety standard. Th...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

FLUTSCHUTZ Alignment Protection

For construction of a conventional sandbag alignment to protect of low-lying areas in case of flooding huge amounts of sandbags are needed. Approximately 7,000 sandbag...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

FLUTSCHUTZ DeichKADE

For construction of a conventional sandbag alignment to protect low-lying areas in case of flooding huge amounts of sandbags are needed. Approximately 7,000 sandbags a...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

FLUTSCHUTZ Impoundment

To secure dike sections that are at risk of breakage, structures made entirely of sandbags or sandbags in combination with fascines (cylindrical bundle of brushwood or...

River floods

Water management

Engineering and built environment

NOAQ Boxwall

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

NOAQ Tubewall

River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tubebarrier

In case of a flood threat due to extreme precipitation and/or high river discharges, rising water levels may exceed to capacity of flood prevention systems such as dik...

River floods

Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

Water+ Furrow Diker

Increase soil water conservation in drought-prone agroecosystems

Droughts

Agriculture Water management

Engineering and built environment

ThirdEye: Flying Sensors to support farmers’ decision making

Farmers are confronted more and more with the consequences of climate change. Water shortages, higher temperatures, shifting seasons, more extreme events, amongst othe...

Droughts

Agriculture

Engineering and built environment

Bathymetry measurements with Fishfinders

Use of low-cost devices (fishfinders) to measure bed levels, process the data into bathymetric maps and make the data easily available for the user. This creates a low...

Droughts

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

The Portable Natural Biological System

Small waste streams such as roadside/rail toilets, guard posts, house or small neighborhood sewage; contaminated wells and boreholes for drinking water

Droughts

Health Water management

Engineering and built environment

New growing system for food vertical farming

The main specific objective of this innovation lies in recreating, indoor, environmental conditions suitable for the growth of various types of vegetal organisms

Droughts

Agriculture

Engineering and built environment

EVAPO-CONTROL

Reduction of water losses in drought-prone regions

Droughts

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Bufferblock

Due to climate change, more and more heavy rainfalls will occur and many cities are now facing the problems of streets being flooded because of the stormwater. Our inn...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Helsinki’s stormwater filtration unit

Urban floods are identified as one of Helsinki’s most important climate hazards. Coupled with population growth and densifying urban structure, flood risk is likely to...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Engineering and built environment

Permeable Polymer Concrete

Floods have always been a serious problem for Albania, but with the uncontrolled demographical changes during the post-communism period the cost and amount of damage h...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Engineering and built environment

Polder Roof (Polderdak)

The Polder Roof stores heavy rainfall on flat roofs to prevent urban flooding, to reduce heat stress, and to use rainfall during droughts.

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Engineering and built environment

Rainwater in kindergarten

Water management is an important issue in urban design due to the growing concern of water scarcity. Rainfall patterns are likely to change in the future as a conseque...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Engineering and built environment

Roads for Water

The impact of roads on landscapes and surface hydrology is now often negative. Roads cause erosion. They trigger sedimentation and cause local flooding. Road bodies ar...

Heavy Precipitation

Water management

Engineering and built environment

Seed blanket for Extensive Green Roofs

Green roofs provide many benefits, e.g. storm water runoff reduction; increase insulation properties; reduce heat island effect through evapotranspiration. Although mo...

Heavy Precipitation

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Engineering and built environment

Self-erecting flood protection system

In case of sudden floods litlle time may be available to prevent damage. The presented flood protection system is self-erecting and does not depend on electricity or m...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Smart blue-green roof system

Heavy precipitation / pluvial floods: rainfall events that result in 1) (urban) floods due to exceedance of: drainage capacity, and 2) flash floods, defined as rapid f...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Bluebloqs

Urban areas are increasingly facing urban flooding due to larger peaks of rainfall, and water shortage due to longer periods of drought. Replacing and upgrading the cu...

Multi-hazards

Transport Water management

Engineering and built environment

EWB Fire Water

Climate change leads to more extreme weather. Urban areas experience more floods due to heavy rainfalls and a decreased buffer capacity (due to an increase of hardened...

Multi-hazards

Transport Water management

Engineering and built environment

Recycle – Porous and Permeable Pavement Block

Recycle solves the problems connected to soil sealing, allowing the exchange of water and heat through its surface. Its permeability enhances water infiltration in the...

Multi-hazards

Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tiny House B.E.S.D.®

Tiny House B.E.S.D.® is a versatile building organism which can be used in extreme conditions, thanks to its features and the technologies applied, both in prevention ...

Multi-hazards

Buildings Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

Floating cities with positive impact

Multi-hazards

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Engineering and built environment

Polderroof

Heavy rainfall events are occurring more frequent and are becoming more intense due to climate change. In dense city areas with a large share of hard surfaces (roads, ...

Multi-hazards

Buildings Water management

Engineering and built environment

Green-skin permeable system for urban rainwater management

The increase of the human population, its concentration in the cities and the urban expansion is promoting the waterproofing of large areas of soil which generate impo...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Draining pavement to support transit traffic and displace storm peak

The new BREINCO's draining pavement, which is able to support transit traffic by regular cars, allows to retain over 10 cm of water per square meter promoting runoff p...

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

Engineering and built environment

NoFloods mobile barrier

Quick and reliable solution for protection of people, critical infrastructure and the environment during flooding and natural disasters.

Multi-hazards

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Engineering and built environment

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