Acronym: ACCELERATE
Funding agency: HORIZON-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-Staff Exchanges
Total budget: € 1,656,000
Harokopio University budget: € 345,000
Start date: 01/2025
End date:
Project duration: 48 months
Principal Investigator: George P. Petropoulos
Description: “ACCELERATE” is funded by Horizon 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01-01) and has a duration of 48 months. The project proposes the development of a fertile inter-discipline and inter-sectoral ecosystem that aims to radically contribute towards enhancing UAV technology to enable sustainable environmental management.
It also brings together enthusiastic staff from academia and industry via a series of carefully designed secondments, establishing a unique fertile collaborative research and innovation environment to promote pioneering research in environmental and socioeconomic studies implementation within urban, natural and agricultural environments. The project Coordinator is Harokopio University of Athens and Dr George P. Petropoulos, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography is the project’s PI and coordinates the effort.
A strong inter-sectoral experienced research team of 16 partners from 9 countries of 8 academic and 8 industrial partners coming from Greece (2), Romania (3), Italy (2), Cyprus (1), United Kingdom (4), North Macedonia (1), France (1), Germany (1) and Portugal (1) constitute the project’s Consortium.
Keywords: UAVs, Sustainable environment, Artificial Intelligence, Remote Sensing