One of the grand challenges of our times is to change agriculture into a more eco-friendly and biodiversity-friendly business. This transition requires, among others, production systems to change towards systems that are more intelligent and autonomous. This particular change is also mentioned in the newly launched Innomission Roadmaps. To support this transition we need better safety systems in agriculture. The safety systems available today, having exploited well-established sensing technologies, are not safe enough for humans and animals to live and work next to an autonomous agricultural machine. This project has gathered the best competences in Denmark to secure this shift towards safety systems that we can trust, exploiting recent advances in novel sensing technologies and completely rethought perception pipelines. We need that change now, for the benefit of the business and the society as a whole.

Imagine reading a text that knows you are looking at it – one that adapts to how you read it, supporting your unique reading habits as you read. Our primary aim is to develop a reading app that can be used by beginning readers, particularly children who struggle with reading. A secondary potential outcome is for this application to become a radical innovation for supporting reading at large. The ScreenReads project will develop software that utilize biosensor data of eye-movements and speech recognition to identify how a child is reading in real-time. It will provide real-time support by adjusting the level of difficulty when it detects that a child is struggling. This will facilitate an experience of a fluent reading session. By understanding the nature of the struggle, the software will suggest relevant engaging exercises and provide digital support for children to supplement one-on-one adult assistance. As biosensor will inform the app about the skill level of the reader, it can reward and validate the specific desired behavior rather than rely on the clicking of buttons, as is otherwise the norm for existing learning tools. By improving reading skills through audio and visual support and biosensor-based reading exercises, we will create a learning tool that can evolve and expand existing teaching methods. The project is also likely to succeed as it is built on an existing reading application, EyeJustRead 1.0. The outcome will be a new reading application: EyeJustRead

We need to create value by recycling our emissions. Not only due to resource scarcity, but also to create local circular regenerative bioeconomies that restore the planetary boundaries and health. SeaFree will transform emissions into revenue streams by developing a novel eco-industrial symbiosis, integrating an innovative seaweed production system – the Seaweed Synergy Plug’N’Play solution - into existing land-based Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) producing both fresh and storage stable green seaweed and emission free fish and shrimps. The SeaFree project moves the seafood sector into the era of the regenerative circular economy enabling zero emission land-based seafood production. The innovative design of the Seaweed Synergy Plug’N’Play solution allows for Heat, CO2 and nutrient Emission Capture and Utilisation (HECU) into seaweed production, expanding RAS into Integrated Multitrophic Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (IMRAS). Innovative food products and every day meal recipes with green seaweed will be developed with focus on taste and nutritional quality. The recipes and products will be distributed and disseminated via existing consumer channels, and new markets will be opened for seaweed food supplements and clinical nutrition. Consumer surveys will evaluate transition of societal readiness. Integral system analysis will document the SeaFree sustainability and techno-economy, and develop consumer readiness and market projections scenarios.

There is a shift in aquaculture production towards Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) because these systems have lower nutrient emission and lower water consumption compared to traditional open systems. However, for aquaculture production to increase there is an urgent need to adapt species like pike-perch to RAS. The company AquaPri, which is world leading in production of pike-perch, and Center of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, which are experts in breeding and genetics, will work together to adapt pike-perch to RAS using selective breeding. We will develop an innovative technology to obtain phenotypes and combine it with advanced breeding and DNA tools. Selecting for improved performance of pike-perch in RAS will result in an improved product, which is price competitive in a rapidly expanding global market, and thereby increase exports. The cost of producing the fish will be approximately 30% lower in 2035 compared to today. In addition, the production can be scaled up 8 times, which will create 60 new jobs in the company. The project will decrease emission of CO2 by 35% per kg fish in 2035, which comes from producing more with the same resources and increased efficiency. We also expect to improve fish welfare by decreasing stress by adapting the fish to RAS. The project will serve as a flagship for the potential of adapting several aquaculture species to RAS systems both in Denmark and internationally.

The project aims to develop a symbiotic teleoperation solution to the Wind Turbine Blade (WTB) maintenance. The current solution to the WTB maintenance largely relies on human technicians who must be hung by ropes from the nacelle of a wind turbine and perform demanding maintenance tasks, such as, sanding and coating, on a blade. Such kind of tasks require dexterous manipulation skills based on careful observation, sensitive touch, and rich experience of humans, which is the main reason why the technicians must take care of these tasks in person despite the high risk of working at height and these tasks are very hard to be automated by using specialized machines. In this project, we aim to develop a robotic teleoperation system to solve this challenge. The technicians can be trained to use the system to receive visual feedback through extended reality technology (careful observation), haptic feedback through wearable haptics technology (sensitive touch), and teleoperate a remote robot on a blade to perform the tasks through a skill learning and transfer system (rich experience). This proposed solution is expected to largely reduce the risk of working at height for the technicians and cut down the cost of the WTB maintenance, and becomes a safe, cost-efficient, and SENSIBLE solution. EU intends to double the wind capacity by 2030 to reduce CO2 emissions towards the politically prioritized mission of Green Transition. The demand for this innovative solution is urgent and huge.

This project will increase energy efficiency and accelerate the green transition of the global maritime sector and develop the position of the Danish maritime industry as frontrunner for decarbonisation by promoting a digital transformation through a cohesive and multifaceted innovation action covering: - Development of vessel performance prediction tools by using potential theory and CFD methods to design vessels optimized for wave response, and to advance methods for simulation of vessels behaviour in a seaway against real operational data. Potential savings are app. 3% of the annual fuel consumption. - Development of biofouling prediction models to cover all major types of coatings and calibrated with operational data from more than 10,000 vessel years. The models are expected to increase overall hull efficiency by 1% corresponding to an annual CO2 saving of 90,000 tonnes for the shipping companies participating in the project alone. - Development of a digital twin for predicting engine wear enabling annual cost savings of more than $250,000,000 and CO2 savings of app. 600,000 tonnes based on the 800 vessels already connected to MAN ES’ CEON database. - Development of an integrated system for digital land-based pilotage enabling remote navigation, thereby decreasing CO2 emission by up to 200,000 tonnes annually in Danish waters alone. - Development of a system improving the comfort and health of crew on board CTV’s and increase energy efficiency by up to 8% per CTV.