Projects

15 ongoing and 15 completed projects. A project moves to the completed list on its own once its end date has passed.

Ongoing

15

SYNDAQ – Synthetic data for AI across the space mission lifecycle

● Ongoing · since 2025

Finds where synthetic data can enable or improve AI along a space mission, with priority to ground segment engineering, operations and space safety. DSIP develops and validates methods for selected data types in minimum viable products and drafts the roadmap towards operational products.

ESA· ESA AO/1-12821/25/D/SR

CORSIA – Corsia

● Ongoing · since 2025

Two AI algorithms for road safety. The first estimates whether a driver's behaviour, from floating car data, is consistent with the safe speed, using accident statistics, weather, traffic and road geometry from OpenStreetMap; the second warns the driver in real time about the speed to keep before and through a bend.

PNRR – CN MOST cascade funding

IT4LIA AI Factory

● Ongoing · 2025–2028

The Italian AI Factory: high-performance computing and AI services for start-ups, SMEs, public administrations and research. OpenIoT develops AI models for climate-resilient and resource-efficient agriculture.

EuroHPCWithOpenIoT

AIFDIR – AI for Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery

● Ongoing · since 2024

Software components that combine machine learning with symbolic models of systems and faults to make FDIR more accurate and efficient. The goal is more autonomous and reliable aerospace systems, such as satellites and exploration vehicles, over a 24-month project.

Precipitation nowcasting

● Ongoing · since 2024

A deep-learning model on weather-radar data forecasts thunderstorms, heavy rain, snow and hail at 500 m and 5-minute steps up to 100 minutes ahead, in under 10 seconds. The system gathers radar, satellite, lightning and ground-station data and issues automatic alerts by SMS, email, phone and the IO app.

Autonomous Province of Trento

ExploDTwin – Digital Twin for Space Exploration Assets

● Ongoing · since 2024

An intelligent digital twin for mission operations, developed with the support of ESA's European Space Operations Centre. It keeps itself synchronised and calibrated with the physical asset, forecasts its state by combining simulation and machine learning, including physics-informed models, and uses AI for planning, what-if analysis, fault detection and diagnosis.

ESA

RETE – Climate resilience of the national transmission grid

● Ongoing · since 2024

A prototype service for the climate resilience of critical infrastructures, with the national transmission grid as test case. In pilot areas it studies geotechnical hazards, such as landslides, and weather and climate extremes, and builds resilience scenarios by joining climate information with complex-network models.

PNRR – ICSC, Spoke 4 Earth & Climate

CLEANER – Cleaner

● Ongoing · since 2024

Stationary PEM fuel cells above 100 kW running on industrial-grade hydrogen without repurification. DSIP uses machine learning to model how hydrogen impurities degrade the electrochemical parameters, the performance and the durability of the cells.

Horizon Europe – Clean Hydrogen Partnership· HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2023-1

HAMMON – Hammon

● Ongoing · since 2023

Tools and methods for industrial users to quantify the impact of extreme natural events on the Italian territory: risk factors, medium-term forecasts of the events and impact assessment after a disaster. Scientific visualisation and AI help evaluate the assets at risk.

PNRR – ICSC, Spoke 4 Earth & Climate

Glassform Evolution

● Ongoing · since 2023

AI-based predictive models and IoT data architectures to optimise production in hollow-glass manufacturing plants.

Autonomous Province of Trento (Law 6)WithOpenIoT

AgrifoodTEF

● Ongoing · 2023–2027

European testing and experimentation facilities where companies validate their AI and robotics solutions for agriculture and food.

Digital EuropeWithOpenIoTTeV3DOM

AI-MATTERS

● Ongoing · 2023–2027

European testing and experimentation facility for AI in manufacturing, with 24 organisations from eight countries.

Digital EuropeWithTeV3DOM

ICSC Spoke 4 – ICSC – Spoke 4 Earth and Climate

● Ongoing · since 2022

National Research Centre in HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing: an interdisciplinary network for advanced Earth system modelling.

PNRRWith3DOM

InCUBE

● Ongoing · since 2022

Unlocking the EU renovation wave with standardised and integrated processes: digitalisation, new technologies and materials, industrialisation. 23 partners from 7 countries.

Horizon Europe· HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01With3DOM

RUBY – Robust and reliable general management tool for performance and durability improvement of fuel cell stationary units

● Ongoing · since 2020

A management tool to monitor stationary fuel cell units and improve their performance and durability.

Horizon 2020 – Fuel Cells and Hydrogen JU· H2020-JTI-FCH-2019-1

Completed

15

AI nowcasting for the Province of Bolzano

Completed · from 2025

A multi-source system (radar, satellite, lightning, ICON model) for probabilistic forecasts of precipitation and lightning at 0.5 km and 5 minutes, up to about 1.5 hours ahead.

Autonomous Province of Bolzano

AI for electric fleet management

Completed · from 2024

AI to plan the daily operation and the maintenance of an electric bus fleet, and to anticipate unexpected events.

Space It Up

Completed · from 2024

A strategic partnership of 33 research and industrial organisations for innovation in space exploration.

ASI – PNRR

BinD – Digital rails

Completed · from 2024

AI for the diagnosis and prognosis of railway track degradation, such as corrugation and critical points at joints.

CN MOST cascade funding

AISHGO

Completed · from 2024

AI-driven solutions to automate mission operations in four use cases across two domains.

Catchme

Completed · from 2023

Online detection and recognition of insect pests on sticky traps.

PASSIONS

Completed · from 2022

Autonomous on-board software with machine learning, to give space systems high-level reasoning capabilities.

ESA· ESA AO/1-11225/22/NL/AR/va

AD(H)OC – Advanced optimizer for cogeneration plants

Completed · from 2022

Consumption forecasting and operation planning for industrial plants with cogeneration of electricity, heat and cooling.

RobDT

Completed · from 2021

A robotic digital twin that combines data-based, physics-based and symbolic models, fitted at runtime on real data.

ESA· ESA AO/1-10647/21/D/SR

Finite state machine enriched deep learning

Completed · from 2021

Predicting the duration of (bio)chemical reactions in pharmaceutical manufacturing by combining finite state machines and deep learning when data are scarce.

AIIoT Bonfiglioli

Completed · from 2021

On-edge anomaly detection and remaining-useful-life estimation for gearmotors.

MIA-RAD

Completed · from 2020

Deep learning to improve weather nowcasting.

MAPPIAMO

Completed · from 2020

Models and algorithms for prediction on an integrated platform for modern agriculture.

Fruitipy

Completed · from 2017

Pre-harvest analytics for winemaking with a miniature spectrometer and AI trained on more than 20,000 spectra.