Novel holistic intelligent tools for variable retrofit and decarbonised scenarios (ZEWT Partnership)
Pays one project up to EUR 4 million to build an AI design tool that plans multi-technology decarbonisation retrofits for existing ships.
This is a single-stage Innovation Action funded as a lump sum, with the Commission expecting to fund just one project from the topic; applicants use the standard Horizon Europe application form together with a lump-sum-specific detailed budget table. Proposals have to cover every listed requirement together, not a chosen subset: an intelligent design tool that integrates multiple decarbonisation t…
The Commission wants a digital design tool that can plan ship decarbonisation retrofits holistically — accounting for how alternative fuels, propulsion systems and renewable-energy additions interact with each other and with a ship's stability, weight and hull strength, rather than treating each retrofit technology in isolation. Proposals should validate the tool at model scale and then apply it to six virtual demonstrations covering the six ship types set out in the ZEWT Partnership's research agenda.
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