Description du projet
Un regard scientifique sur les infrastructures critiques
L’eau, l’énergie et les transports (urbains) sont des services d’infrastructures critiques (IC) en Europe. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, le paysage européen de la recherche manquait d’une infrastructure de recherche intégrée et avancée dans ce domaine. Le projet GEOLAB, financé par l’UE, se compose de 11 installations en Europe qui visent à étudier le comportement du sous-sol et l’interaction avec les éléments structurels des IC et l’environnement. Le projet visera à intégrer et à faire progresser ces infrastructures de recherche nationales clés vers un guichet unique d’excellentes infrastructures de recherche physique pour effectuer des recherches et des innovations révolutionnaires afin de comprendre et de relever les défis auxquels font face les IC. Les résultats seront utiles aux parties prenantes issues du monde universitaire et de l’industrie ainsi qu’aux gestionnaires d’actifs d’IC.
Objectif
The existing Critical Infrastructure (CI) of Europe in the water, energy, urban and transport sector is facing major challenges because of pressures such as climate change, extreme weather, geo-hazards, aging and increased usage in combination with pivotal changes in the CI to meet long-term societal goals (e.g. energy transition).
The GEOLAB research infrastructure consists of 11 unique installations in Europe aimed to study subsurface behavior and the interaction with structural CI elements (e.g. a bridge) and the environment. The installations already represent the best of the state-of-the-art available today. However, up to now, work in these installations has been independent and uncoordinated, significantly limiting the outcome for users among academia, industry and CI network managers. There is a gap in the European research landscape for an integrated, advanced research infrastructure in this field. This GEOLAB initiative will fill that gap.
The scientific research community will use the innovative capabilities of GEOLAB from the JRAs to perform ground-breaking research, to be published in international peer reviewed, high impact journals. For CI managers and policy makers, the activities will result in a more comprehensive understanding of the challenges facing CI and evidence to base decision making upon. The construction industry will use GEOLAB to proof innovative solutions for the CI and so gain more leadership in the industrial and enabling technologies. The GEOLAB consortium will engage in different types of innovations processes with Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). There will be close interaction with those SMEs that develop user-friendly engineering software from numerical modelling advances which are validated in the TA projects. We will explicitly challenge SMEs on sensing, new materials and other niches for innovative solutions, which will have spinoff in other fields of application, contributing to the competitiveness of Europe.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
2629 HV Delft
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