It is our great pleasure to announce the selected projects of the EIG CONCERT-Japan 10th call for proposals Solutions for Carbon-Neutral Cities.
After careful consideration by a scientific committee meeting in Warsaw, Poland held on 16 October 2023, six projects were selected for funding. The six research projects involving Japanese and European researchers are to commence in the first half of 2024 and be funded for a period of three years.
On behalf of the EIG CONCERT-Japan members, we would like to offer our sincerest congratulations to the selected project teams, and look forward to the significant contribution their research will bring to the field of urban sustainability, including sustainable smart urban mobility, water, soil and air quality, and efficient waste management.
A kick-off workshop for the six projects is expected to be held sometime in 2024.
> Read more about the Solutions for Carbon-Neutral Cities call for proposals
1) Conversion of atmospheric CO2 into energy storage in Na-CO2 battery (CO2capture)
- Dr. Damian Kowalski, University of Warsaw (Poland) (Project Lead)
- Dr. Yoshitaka Aoki, Hokkaido University (Japan)
- Dr. Fabienne Dumoulin, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University (Türkiye)
2) Investigating the Role of GREENery to Improve Climate Resilience, Water, Soil and Air QUALity in Dense Urban Fabric (GREENQUAL)
- Dr. Viktória Sugár, Óbuda University (Hungary) (Project Lead)
- Dr. Bálint Hartmann, F4STER – Future 4 Sustainable Transport and Energy Research Institute Co. (Hungary)
- Dr. Kita Michihiro, Osaka University (Japan)
- Dr. Barbara Czesak, University of Agriculture of Krakow (Poland)
3) Hollow Fiber Heat Exchangers with Reduced Permeability for Smart Cities (HFHX)
- Dr. Frantisek Miksik, Nagoya University (Japan) (Project Lead)
- Dr. Erik Bartuli, Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic)
- Dr. Jaroslav Longauer, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)
- Dr. Kyaw Thu, Kyushu University (Japan)
4) Photoactive Mo6 Clusters/Semiconductors Nanocomposites for Sustainable Water Remediation (PHOTOMOS-H2O)
- Dr. Kaplan Kirakci, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) (Project Lead)
- Dr. Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Waseda University (Japan)
- Dr. Régis Guégan, University of Orléans (France)
- Dr. Fabien Grasset, NIMS Laboratory (France)
- Dr. Feliz Marta, Universitat Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
5) A proactive Social-based framework for SMART transportation (SO-SMART)
- Dr. Shoko Wakamiya, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) (Project Lead)
- Dr. Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged (Hungary)
- Dr. Ismail Karas, Karabuk University (Türkiye)
- Dr. Teriitutea Quesnot, University of Western Brittany (France)
- Dr. Christophe Claramunt, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
- Dr. Shivani Sathish, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
6) Multi-Input Deep Learning for Congestion Prediction and Traffic Light Control (TRALICO)
- Dr. Vilmos Simon, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary) (Project Lead)
- Dr. Ismail Arai, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan),
- Dr. Ayca Merve Yildiz, Istanbul IT and Smart City Technologies Inc. (Türkiye)
