Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme

H2020-GALILEO-2014-1 Call

Projects Portfolio

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Aviation

GMCAGNSS Monitoring for Critical Applications

• Contract Number: 641613• Total Cost: 732,738 €• EU Contribution: 512,916 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/02/2015• End Date: 30/04/2016• Duration: 15 months• Coordinator: DW International Ltd

The objective of this project is to provide a basis upon whichGalileo can be relied upon to the same extent that GPS is currently,especially by the Aviation user community and then beyond. It isproposed that existing GNSS Performance Monitoring System(GPMS) is enhanced to include EGNSS and this platform can latterlyinclude other constellations and augmentations for use beyondEurope. The project shall gather EGNSS signal data for analysis andcomparison thereby providing the aviation community theconfidence they need for including EGNSS within their planning fornavigation. It will monitor new signals alongside the GPS signalsand provide operationally relevant information to existing and newusers of the GPMS. In addition, the system will be updated toinclude the capability for the monitoring of interference andspoofing.

e-AirportIncrease airport capacity, safety and security using European GNSS

• Contract Number: 641581• Total Cost: 2,586,200 €• EU Contribution: 1,907,821.12 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 30/06/2017• Duration: 30 months• Coordinator: TELESPAZIO SPA

The main goal of the e-Airport project is the development of anintegrated airport operations monitor application based onEuropean GNSS to increase the efficiency safety and security of thecargo and aircraft service processes and its demonstrations in twoEuropean airports using EGNOS and Galileo Early services.

The e-Airport solution will allow airport operators, groundhandlers and Air Traffic Control to: plan, monitor and manage the aircraft services process which

support the aircrafts in the airport during turn around plan, monitor and manage the airfreight cargo process measure and distribute airport Key Performance Indicators

UKRAINEUkraine Replication, Awareness and Innovation based on EGNSS

• Contract Number: 641517• Total Cost: 1,429,254 €• EU Contribution: 1,034,227 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 30/09/2016• Duration: 21 months• Coordinator: Valdani Vicari &

Associati Srl

The objectives of the UKRAINE project are to foster applicationdevelopment through international cooperation and to create abroad acceptance of EGNSS in Ukraine, creating at the same timeopportunities both for knowledge building and at commerciallevel.The contribution of the UKRAINE project with respect to theaforementioned objectives relates to the achievement of thefollowing impacts: preparation of the Ukrainian aviation market to the extension

of EGNOS, support to the uptake of regulated EGNSS applications through

the elaboration of a legislative roadmap, generation of innovative solutions for multimodal logistics and

dangerous goods, creation of business matchmaking opportunity for Ukrainian

and EU companies.

BEYONDBuilding EGNSS capacity on EU neighbouring multimodal domains

• Contract Number: 641607• Total Cost: 2,170,990 €• EU Contribution: 2,170,990 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/03/2015• End Date: 01/03/2017• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: ESSP SAS

The main goals of BEYOND project are:1. Promoting the use of EGNSS and growing the interest towards

EGNSS outside EU (i.e. in EU-neighbouring countries), andthus possibly stimulating investments in relation to EGNSS.

2. Preparing them towards an optimal adoption of EGNSS, andthus contributing to the growing of know-how, capacity andknowledge in relation to EGNSS outside EU.

3. Supporting networking and liaisons between EU and non-EUplayers (from different sectors industry,institutions/authorities and research/academia/university –and communities - aviation and non-aviation), thus creatingthe basis for cooperation, the establishment of relationshipspossibly evolving into business opportunities.

CaBilAviCapacity building for aviation stakeholders, inside and outside the EU

• Contract Number: 641627• Total Cost: 1,879,675 €• EU Contribution: 1,879,675 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 30/09/2017• Duration: 33 months• Coordinator: GNSS Centre of

Excellence

CABILAVI project has the following goals: support emerging EGNOS countries inside and outside the EU in a

customised strengthening of their capacity shortfalls for preparation ofEGNOS adoption,

increase the awareness of EGNSS in the aviation user community withinthe EU.

The goals of the project are broken down in the following objectives:1. work with the authorities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bosnia-

Herzegovina to update the requirements and guidelines for IFR pilottraining to include flying RNP operations, split between the use of APVprocedures (80% of effort) and en route RNP (20% of effort) as the firstconcrete, measurable objective of the project,

2. increase the existing capacity available on the CAA and ANSP side toimplement PBN and EGNOS,

3. make a substantial awareness effort of the benefits and correct use ofEGNOS and Galileo for VFR pilots,

4. increase the awareness of EGNSS in the European aviation community atlarge.

Road

G MOTITGalileo-Enhanced MOTIT: an electric scooter sharing service for

sustainable urban mobility

• Contract Number: 641544• Total Cost: 1,288,525 €• EU Contribution: 947,718 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: Pildo Labs Wessex Ltd

MOTIT is a unique and innovative electric scooter sharing service, in whichusers may pick up and drop off vehicles wherever and whenever they want.MOTIT allows users to reserve a scooter with their smartphone, and someminutes before the start of the trip he receives a notification on hissmartphone with the position of the vehicle assigned. Vehicle positioningperformance is key for the success of the service, since the user is informedon where to pick up his vehicle based on this source. G-MOTIT project aims todevelop and integrating an EGNSS-based location technology. The locationsolution will be validated both functionally and operationally through a small-scale demonstration in Grand Paris region.The objectives of the project are: to design and develop an independent EGNSS enabled positioning on-

board unit that will be integrated into the service, to demonstrate and validate how the EGNSS-based positioning unit can

bring added value to the service, to support the commercialisation of the G-MOTIT solution.

GALENAGalileo-based solutions for urban freight transport

• Contract Number: 641515• Total Cost: 1,267,240 €• EU Contribution: 954,936 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: HELILEO SA

The GALENA project aims at developing a robust Freight Pooling application,i.e. the equipment as well as the information system and the supervisionplatform needed for the cross supply chain orchestration of a community ofshippers involved in freight pooling, particularly in urban areas where manycarriers are involved. The GALENA application will make use of the keyfeatures of EGNOS and GALILEO, coupled with security services in thehandset, to enable the different carrier operators willing to join a MutualizedTransportation Community to timestamp, geo-locate, and formalize their tripas well as any events occurring during the shipping. By doing so, the GALENAapplication will enable to remotely and automatically track and manage - in asecure and non-falsifiable way – along the supply chain the status changes andthe liability for goods shipping between the different stakeholders involved inurban freight pooling – thus solving the concerns on quality of service, liabilityfor goods, and flows traceability. GALENA will also improve the logisticalperformance and reduce the negative impacts associated with the last-milelogistics: congestion, energy consumption and pollutant emissions.

FOSTER ITSFirst Operational, Secured and Trusted galilEo Receiver for ITS

• Contract Number: 641492• Total Cost: 2,590,462 €• EU Contribution: 1,813,324 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2017• Duration: 36 months• Coordinator: FRANCE

DEVELOPPEMENT CONSEIL

The FOSTER ITS project proposes to build on the momentum of theTACOT success, maturing the proof of concept, reducing significantly itssize (scale factor of 20), implementing new functions (e.g. Galileo OSAuthentication) and considerably increasing its performance androbustness with new algorithms and new hardware to achieve anutmost level of security (e.g. a Secure Micro Controller, a MEMSresonator).The primary objective of FOSTER ITS is to design and develop the firstsecured GNSS module available on the market for ITS application. TheFOSTER ITS products will be Galileo, EGNOS, GPS and GLONASS enabledand will offer greater resilience against the increasing range of GNSSthreats by:• Detecting signal attack attempts (spoofing, meaconing and jamming)• Providing indicators to users about confidence of the positioning• Providing proof of the integrity and origin of the PVT data (digitalsignature).

JUPITERJoint European Project for International ITS/EGNSS awareness Raising

• Contract Number: 641500• Total Cost: 1,673,605 €• EU Contribution: 1,673,605 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: AEROSPACE VALLEY

JUPITER aims at EGNSS awareness raising, capacity building andpromotion activities for fostering business development of EGNSSbased applications worldwide in response to the H2020 societalchallenges at stake for mobility and transportation.In order to ensure that EGNSS comes to prominence in IntelligentTransport Systems (ITS) sector, the added value of EGNSS, compared toor in combination with GPS/Glonass/Beidou constellations will bedemonstrated and promoted within the project. In this context, thetraining of application developers will be critical for them to takeadvantage of EGNSS and to implement GALILEO positioning featureefficiently in their applications. On the other side, once ITS serviceproviders can demonstrate innovative EGNSS based ITS applications,another key challenge will be to convince public stakeholders and otheractors of the transportation industry about the competitive and costbenefit advantages they could derive from implementing suchinnovative GALILEO or EGNOS based solutions.

Rail

ERSAT EAVERTMS on SATELLITE – Enabling Application Validation

• Contract Number: 640747• Total Cost: 5,536,255 €• EU Contribution: 4,252,450 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/02/2015• End Date: 31/01/2017• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: ANSALDO STS S.p.A.

The main ERSAT EAV objective is to verify the suitability of EGNSS as theenabler of cost-efficient and economically sustainable ERTMS signallingsolutions for safety railway applications.The outcome of ERSAT-EAV is a priority for reusing the ERTMS standardarchitecture to satisfy the needs of the regional and local lines and forsupporting the UNISIG Satellite Positioning Working Group that has beencreated (June 2012) to specify and standardize the application of the satellitepositioning for the harmonization with the European ERTMS standard, byimplementing and testing the solution on a pilot line as reference.The objectives will be achieved, in a first phase by measuring and evaluatingthe gaps to be filled, in terms of technological criticalities and in relation torailway requirements. In particular, at first, by performing measurementsunder real operating conditions with the support of simulation tools andmodels. Then, by defining and developing a system solution, able to addressand solve the critical issues, by implementing, testing and validating it on apilot line, as reference for the future standardisation and certificationprocesses. The solution will fully exploit all the advantages of the multi-constellation approach and of EGNOS and Galileo services, providing anoptimized augmentation service to the trains, in order to meet the railwayrequirements.

Maritime

spyGLASSGalileo-based passive radar system for maritime surveillance

• Contract Number: 641486• Total Cost: 1,313,310 €• EU Contribution: 1,069,317 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 30/06/2017• Duration: 30 months• Coordinator: ASTER SPA

This project brings forward a Passive Bistatic Radar (PBR) based on Galileotransmissions for maritime surveillance. The exploitation of existingtransmissions for PBR applications is becoming increasingly attractive due totheir low costs, covert operation, and reduced environmental pollution.The main objectives of the project will be:A preliminary operational validation of a Prototype. Initial tests will be carriedout on this prototype to extract a complete set of validated, laboratory-provensystem requirements for the innovative Passive Coherent Location (PCL)system, and gather preliminary experimental data made available to project totest the developed processing techniques;The industrial design of a final Product, made up of a ground based receiverfor coastal monitoring, while a different receiver can be placed on astratospheric balloon (or on other kind of aerial mobile platform, such as UAV)to assure open sea surveillance. The primary task of this system is to detectand localize ships.The development of a Demonstrator, i.e. a more advanced prototype fulfillinga subset of the Product requirements, in order to validate the innovative PBRtechniques developed in this project.

SAT406MAn EGNSS application providing an end-to-end solution based on the

SAR/Galileo service and particularly using the Return-Link-Message (RLM), to improve the mobility and safety of citizens

• Contract Number: 640387• Total Cost: 1,426,250 €• EU Contribution: 998,375 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/02/2015• End Date: 31/01/2018• Duration: 36 months• Coordinator: Mobit Telecom ltd.

The project aims to develop and promote an EGNSS applicationproviding an end-to-end solution based on the SAR/Galileo service,particularly using the unique Return-Link-Message (RLM), to improvethe Search and Rescue of people in distress, comprising:An improved Personal Locator Beacon (PLB): wrist-worn, integrating a406MHz Cospas-Sarsat compatible beacon and a Digital Selective Calling(DSC) transceiver compatible with marine VHF radios.A new communication method enhancing the standard communicationbetween the PLB and the SAR/Galileo system, using an innovativeuplink solution compatible with Cospas-Sarsat standards, and GalileoReturn Link downlink.A specific application of the new communication method: monitoringthe physiological status of the PLB user and communicating it to theSAR system on the uplink, then upon RLM receive on downlink, furtheruse that method to assist the rescue operation.

Location Based Services

LARALBS Augmented Reality Assistive System for Utilities

Infrastructure Management through Galileo and EGNOS

• Contract Number: 641460• Total Cost: 1,282,398 €• EU Contribution: 998,195 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/02/2015• End Date: 31/01/2017• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: GEOIMAGING LIMITED

The LARA project sets four objectives in developing a mobile solutionfor underground utility management that takes advantage of the Galileoand EGNOS:1. Design, develop and exploit an entirely practical mobile device forutility field workers.2. Make use and integrate mobile Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces.Registered visualisation requires the rendering of complex 3D models ofthe underground utilities infrastructure (water, gas, electricity, etc.) inan approach that is easily understandable and useful during field work.3. Improve on site interaction and navigation application: Interactionwith mobile AR devices in outdoor environments is a special mode of3D interaction, which works differently from Virtual Reality (VR)systems, since it incorporates real-world objects and unavoidablyincomplete (spatial) information.4. Commercialize the final product and related services and addressrelevant markets.

ELAASTICEuropean Location As A Service Targeting International Commerce

• Contract Number: 641526• Total Cost: 2,501,150 €• EU Contribution: 1,750,805 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 30/06/2016• Duration: 18 months• Coordinator: TELESPAZIO FRANCE

SAS

ELAASTIC’s objectives are to develop an EU-based, worldwide service toprovide and/or enable location for LBS and M2M applications, combiningmature Assisted-GNSS and WiFi based location techniques together with newfeatures providing enhanced performance based on the use of E-GNSS signalspecific features. The detailed objectives of the projects are: To create a European based worldwide LaaS (Location as a Service)

business competitor, involving major European companies and worldwideactors in the LBS field.

To operate this service from a European base. To develop the service based on Galileo signal distinguishing features and

usable already with Galileo Early Services, to promote E-GNSS. To provide the community of the GNSS chipsets providers, with a set of

APIs allowing them to take advantage of Galileo signal distinguishingfeatures.

To provide the community of the E-GNSS applications developers withfree access to ELAASTIC services for the timeframe of this Horizon 2020Galileo 2014 call, therefore amplifying the use of Galileo Early Services.

To promote the results of the ELAASTIC at standardization bodies, toensure that the norms and standards support the use of Galileo signaldistinguishing feature.

GHOSTGalileo Enhancement as Booster of the Smart Cities

• Contract Number: 641495• Total Cost: 1,191,000 €• EU Contribution: 875,063 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: TELETEL S.A.

The main objective of the GHOST project is to design, develop andvalidate at an operational environment a GALILEO-based intelligentsystem for vehicles in order to take advantage of the publictransportation fleet routes, towards enabling development of newcross-functional applications for infrastructures maintenance,street parking and garbage management in smarter citiesenvironment.The GHOST intelligent system will be designed and developedbased on a camera and a GALILEO receiver, integrated in mobilevehicles used for public transport. Such a system will enable toautomatically take pictures of predefined Points Of Interest (POI)along the public transport networks, based on the accurateposition of the mobile vehicle. Such GALILEO geo-tagged pictureswill be a key enabler for the creation of several new services, suchas detection of infrastructure failures.

GEO VISIONGNSS driven EO and Verifiable Image and Sensor Integration for

mission-critical Operational Networks

• Contract Number: 641451• Total Cost: 1,323,316 €• EU Contribution: 999,654 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: ANSUR TECHNOLOGIES

AS

The main objective of the GEO VISION project is to provide users with requiredsituational awareness through the development of the interactive mission-critical visual communications software solution. This will be realized byseamlessly and reliably integrating geo-referenced visual and related sensorin-situ data with maps and geo-spatial space information in a timely,seamlessly integrated, secure and user-friendly way. This approach will beused for managing operational phases of situations like disasters andemergencies, as well as rapid damage assessments and a basis for insuranceand cost estimate, while building on current initiatives, proven concepts andrealistic user requirements from experienced field assessment officials.Two markets are considered in the project:Humanitarian: Disaster response (United Nations) and emergencymanagement (civil protection).Financial: Damage documentation for cost claims in smaller (Insurance) andlarger (World Bank) Scale.A novel business element is the connection of the two, as if private financialusers (insurance) get access to relevant crisis data early, they are able toconsider if a rapid reaction from their side might fund a response that bothsaves lives and values.

Surveying/Mapping

mapKITEEGNOS-GPS/GALILEO-based high-resolution terrestrial-aerial

sensing system

• Contract Number: 641518• Total Cost: 1,530,269 €• EU Contribution: 872,192 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/03/2015• End Date: 28/02/2017• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: GeoNumerics S.L.

MapKITE is a terrestrial-aerial surveying system that combines theadvantages of the terrestrial and airborne (manned or unmanned) ones.It responds to corridor mapping market needs only fulfilled by muchmore expensive separate terrestrial and aerial missions.The first objective of mapKITE project is to build a mature EGNSSenabled prototype of a novel tandem terrestrial-aerial mapping systembased on a terrestrial vehicle (TV) and on an unmanned aircraft (UA),both equipped with remote sensing payloads. The UA will follow the TVat a constant flying height above ground while geodata are acquiredsimultaneously from the TV and the UA. The final product is highresolution, oriented, calibrated and integrated images of a corridor andits environment. The second objective is to demonstrate services; i.e.,the technical/commercial feasibility of the concept. The third objectiveis to develop the market: at the end of the project, contracts ornegotiations shall be in place so the prototype can be used inoperational conditions. MapKITE targets corridor mapping.

PARADISEPrecise and Robust Navigation enabling Applications in Disturbed

Signal Environments

• Contract Number: 641629• Total Cost: 1,157,271 €• EU Contribution: 838,590 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 30/09/2016• Duration: 21 months• Coordinator: IFEN GmbH

The primary objective of the PARADISE project is to develop a solution thatmakes survey-grade GNSS-based positioning available in situations where todate GNSS could not be adopted due to prohibitively bad signal conditions,such as indoors, urban canyons, forests etc.The project will focus on the following three applications, with the clear aimto increase the overall efficiency of the work flow of these applications byintroducing GNSS based positioning: Surveying inside and near forests, Harvesting wood, Augmented reality of construction works in urban canyons.Thus PARADISE targets the development and demonstration of a GPS/Galileobased navigation and attitude determination system that provides improvedaccuracy of positioning in a cost efficient way under degraded signalconditions. The receiver will realize the robust and precise positioning andattitude solution by a combination of improved GNSS signal processingtogether with an adapted and highly performing precise-point-positioning(PPP) algorithm.

MISTRALEMonitoring of Soil moisture and water-flooded areas for

agriculture and environment

• Contract Number: 641606• Total Cost: 3,337,858 €• EU Contribution: 2,599,246 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2017• Duration: 36 months• Coordinator: M3 Systems Belgium

The MISTRALE project proposes to address soils moisture management inagriculture as well as wetlands or flooded areas monitoring by using GlobalNavigation Satellite Systems reflected signals (GNSS-R) as a powerfultechnology for humidity or flooded mapping.The detection by GNSS-R is known to be much more reliable than visible/NIRimagery, and will be usable even under a cloud cover, during the night andeven under vegetation (bushes, grass, trees) when passive remote sensing isnot applicable. The main objective is to demonstrate a service chain indifferent use cases: pilot projects will be carried out in soil humidity mappingfor agriculture (optimizing the water resource management), wetlands andflooded areas (risk management, flood-prone areas, damages evaluation). Inorder to meet the objectives, a GNSS-R receiver embedded into a small RPAS(Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) will be developed and implemented into anoperational chain to provide the service.The overarching aim of the MISTRALE project is to reach thecommercialisation of a service providing soil moisture maps. To achieve that,MISTRALE will develop and demonstrate a prototype of GNSS Reflectometry(GNSS-R) sensor embedded on a dedicated Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems(RPAS) platform for measuring soil moisture using the GNSS reflectedsignature.

COREGALCombined Positioning-Reflectometry Galileo Code Receiver for

Forest Management

• Contract Number: 641585• Total Cost: 1,225,000 €• EU Contribution: 906,270 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: DEIMOS Engenharia

The main objective of COREGAL is the development of aninnovative Galileo based positioning platform enabling low-cost,high-accuracy and unprecedented use of airborne GNSS-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) for biomass retrieval and related andrelevant applications as carbon mapping and land management.The main idea behind the project is to combine different types ofdata related with biomass, namely Earth Observation (EO) data(e.g. satellite imagery), regional data (e.g. airborne imagery andGNSS-based remote sensing data) and, when available, local data(in situ measurements) to improve current biomass estimationalgorithms, with many environmental and social applications as,for example, carbon mapping and forest management. Galileo is akey enabler of the proposed concept, providing accuratepositioning and supporting image georeferencing and remotesensing.

Timing/Synchronization

DEMETRADemonstrator of EGNSS Services based on Time Reference

Architecture

• Contract Number: 640658• Total Cost: 4,366,061 €• EU Contribution: 3,506,481 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: Istituto Nazionale di

Ricerca Metrologica

DEMETRA aims to demonstrate the feasibility of delivering early EGNSStiming services to end users by utilising an operational demonstratorand conducting tests with pilot applications. Based on the currentpractice of national metrological laboratories, DEMETRA will define anddevelop a prototype of a European time disseminator, based on EGNSS.An array of important service features that are necessary for a widevariety of users will be added. These will include: high accuracycalibrated time transfer to a monitored and certified remote timestamping. Nine different time services are proposed for demonstrationby consortium partners. These will be established at INRIM premises fortwo validation test campaigns: a closed loop test, aiming to validate theperformances and the second test will be with user terminals located ina real user environment, integrated into the user application to test thereal advantages and feasibility of the new proposed services.

GNSS Awareness raising and capacity building

E-KnoTE-GNSS Knowledge Triangle

• Contract Number: 641529• Total Cost: 1,674,325 €• EU Contribution: 1,674,325 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2017• Duration: 36 months• Coordinator: POLITO

The scope of the E-KnoT project is to strengthen the interactionbetween the areas of education-research-industry in Europe,leveraging on past activities already undertaken in this field, inorder to consolidate a strong EGNSS knowledge triangle, i.e. a solidnetwork for the creation of a critical mass involving the relevantactors in the three areas with the final objective of supporting theEuropean economy development.The focus of the E-KnoT project will be more on the innovationtransfer to industry, the support to the creation of innovativedownstream applications and the consolidation of the links and ofthe initiatives beyond the project duration.

GNSS.asia2Industrial cooperation across continents

• Contract Number: 641615• Total Cost: 1,153,708 €• EU Contribution: 1,153,708 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: SpaceTec Capital

Partners

Building on the success of the first phase, the new edition of GNSS.asia,financed under Horizon 2020, will continue to act as an independentcatalyst to facilitate industrial GNSS interaction between Europe andAsia-Pacific. The creation of industrial partnerships will be stimulatedthrough a series of new activities, including workshops, industryseminars, thematic events and round tables, both in Asia and in the EU.Above and beyond its geographic reach in India, China, Taiwan, Koreaand Japan, GNSS.asia will now also aim to foster industrial cooperationin a wider multi-GNSS territory, which includes Australia and a numberof selected countries in South-East Asia. In order to maximise theproject’s impact, the consortium works in close collaboration withprominent Asian companies, industry associations and researchorganisations. The GNSS.asia team will continue to assess market areasof mutual interest, analyse the GNSS landscape in the target economiesand provide expert guidance for European companies searching forbusiness opportunities in Asia.

MAGNIFICMultiplying In Africa European Global Navigation Initiatives

Fostering Interlaced Cooperation

• Contract Number: 641498• Total Cost: 2,025,686 €• EU Contribution: 1,416,165 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/02/2015• End Date: 31/01/2017• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: Pildo Consulting S.L.

MAGNIFIC project has the following main objectives: To ensure the promotion of an African EGNOS through benefits that

spread much beyond Civil Aviation Needs To ensure the promotion of the Galileo Early services To support the Awareness and the capacity building in Africa to

boost the penetration of the EGNSS applications and servicesMAGNIFIC will allow African Stakeholders to go faster in the addedvalue services deployment in the geolocalization domain and thedeployment of solutions needed by the authorities. MAGNIFIC will alsoallow to create self-sustainable partnership at research and businesseslevel between African and European entities. The project will allowGNSS EU Industries to anticipate the African needs, and together withAfrican self-sustainable partners, adapt solutions to these needs, and toease the access to the African market.

POSITIONPolish Support to Innovation and Technology Incubation

• Contract Number: 641625• Total Cost: 312,625 €• EU Contribution: 312,625 €• Project Call: H2020-GALILEO-2014-1• Start Date: 01/01/2015• End Date: 31/12/2016• Duration: 24 months• Coordinator: Black Pearls sp. z o.o.

POSITION aims at decisively supporting the GNSS up-take inPoland. Within the project the partners will build an integratedinnovation support solution that stimulates the uptake of EGNSS inPoland in a sustainable manner by actively creating a network forthe Polish GNSS sector, deepening the market and industrialcapacity intelligence and lastly providing business and financingsupport to start-ups.The overall objectives of POSITION are along 3 dimensions:1. Support EGNSS breakthrough in Poland through awareness

raising, networking and capacity building actions.2. Foster the commercialisation of EGNSS ideas and the

multiplication of EGNSS success stories.3. Facilitate access to finance for the EGNSS sector through

matching existing and future funding schemes with the needsof EGNSS project.

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