From a generic perspective, the project has progressed accordingly to the plan irrespective of the circumstances of the COVID pandemic, which precisely began in the project's M3, just few months after the start of the action. This situation made us adapt a number of management and working methodologies (meetings, some training events, etc.), but with no loss of any objective, milestones, training, nor research activities of the project.
As an overview, since the beginning of the project (M1) until the end, 39 out of 39 deliverables have been submitted, 12 out of 12 milestones achieved, and 11 out of 11 training weeks completed (some of them adapted via on-line or hybrid format depending on COVID restrictions).
From a technical & research perspective, the work performed from M1 to the end can be schematically described as per a number of scientific publications apart from the technical deliverables, most of them available for the public, and the conference papers. These papers, 27 as per M54, have been published in top and recognised scientific journals, being an internal quality standard established by the Supervisory Board. The research works are accessible from the project website:
https://h2020-enhanceitn.eu/publications/articles/(opens in new window)The dissemination media of these journal have been through top and well-recognised scientific journals like Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety, Automation in Construction, Mechanical Systems & Signal Processing, Journal of Composite Materials, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, etc. All the results of the project are Open Access available through Gold Open Access credits, or by repository-based open access, hence the project findings can be achievable by any interested user, scientific, practitioner, or by the society in general. Regarding exploitation of the results, the project, through its beneficiaries and partners will find the ways to move further the methods and algorithms developed towards the Digital Twin technology. Current steps have been done with the creation of new European research and innovation consortia like the BuildChain consortium (HORIZON-CL4-2022-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-09,
https://buildchain-project.eu(opens in new window)) and the recently awarded project Intelliwind (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-DN-01-01, Ref.101168725) both of them with a more applied oriented focus. Additionally, it is worth mentioning that some of the ENHAnCE ERSs have funded a Spin-Off company named QuantIA, focused on predictive maintenance of critical infrastructures (
https://quantia.me(opens in new window)). Hence, the exploitation pathways have just started towards a global objective of making impact using the results and the training obtained through the project.
