Competences on Horizon 2020 research topics
These descriptions aim to be a first step in a process of promotion of the research potential of the University.
For more information, you can contact the Research Development units of the Research and Competitive Funding Division.
Agrifood
Contacts
SSRD - Process units Research development - Life Sciences and Bioeconomy
email: lsb@unibo.it
- Animal productions [.pdf]
- Aquaculture [.pdf]
- Economics and management for sustainable food chains and rural renaissance [.pdf]
- Fisheries [.pdf]
- Food & consumer science [.pdf]
- Food and health [.pdf]
- Food processing, preservation and packaging [.pdf]
- Food safety and traceability [.pdf]
- New technologies and digital innovations in agrifood [.pdf]
- Primary plant production [.pdf]
- Waste management [.pdf]
Blue growth
Contacts
SSRD - Process units Research development - Life Sciences and Bioeconomy
email: lsb@unibo.it
- Aquaculture [.pdf]
- Blue biotech for marine environment [.pdf]
- Climate: dynamics, change, impact [.pdf]
- Fisheries [.pdf]
- Marine coastal cultural heritage [.pdf]
- Marine ecosystems, sustainable management and resilience to anthropic impacts [.pdf]
- Marine spatial planning and integrated coastal zone management [.pdf]
- Marine tourism [.pdf]
- Marine transport technologies and infrastructures [.pdf]
- Multi-purpose offshore platforms [.pdf]
- Oceanographic observational and modelling systems [.pdf]
- Risks and costal protection [.pdf]
Climate
Contacts
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
- Air quality [.pdf]
- Circular cities [.pdf]
- Climate and climate services [.pdf]
- Cryoshpere [.pdf]
- Heritage-led innovative solutions and services [.pdf]
- Nature based-solutions [.pdf]
- Raw materials [.pdf]
- Water resource management [.pdf]
- Waste management [.pdf]
Circular economy
Contacts
SSRD - Process units Research development - Life Sciences and Bioeconomy
email: lsb@unibo.it
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
- Bio-based products and processes [.pdf]
- Biomass feedstocks, environment and plant biotech [.pdf]
- Blue biotech for marine environment [.pdf]
- Climate and climate services [.pdf]
- Industrial symbiosis [.pdf]
- Raw materials [.pdf]
- Renewable energy [.pdf]
- Waste management [.pdf]
- Water resource management [.pdf]
Energy
Contacts
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
- BioFuels [.pdf]
- Carbon capture utilization and storage [.pdf]
- Energy efficient building [.pdf]
- Energy efficient industrial processes [.pdf]
- Energy storage [.pdf]
- Fuel cells & hydrogen [.pdf]
- Heat production, transfer and recovery [.pdf]
- Materials for energy [.pdf]
- Nuclear energy [.pdf]
- Renewable energy [.pdf]
- Smart energy systems [.pdf]
Health
Contacts
SSRD - Process units Research development - Life Sciences and Bioeconomy
email: lsb@unibo.it
- Ambient assisted living [.pdf]
- Big data and omics medicine [.pdf]
- Brain ageing and neurodegeneration [.pdf]
- Cancer [.pdf]
- Digital medicine and eHealth [.pdf]
- Epidemiology, biobanking and cohorts [.pdf]
- Health, non communicable diseases and the environment [.pdf]
- Multimorbidity and ageing [.pdf]
- Pharmaceutical biotech [.pdf]
- Rare diseases and undiagnosed disorders [.pdf]
- Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering [.pdf]
- Skeletal health and diseases [.pdf]
- Systems and personalised medicine [.pdf]
ICT
Contacts
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
- Advanced communication and networking [.pdf]
- Artificial intelligence [.pdf]
- Automation and robotics [.pdf]
- Cloud computing ecosystem [.pdf]
- Converging media & content, gaming [.pdf]
- Data value chain (including big data and open data) [.pdf]
- Digital security [.pdf]
- High performance computing [.pdf]
- Internet of things, cyber physical systems and smart system integration [.pdf]
- Micro/Nano-electronics, organic and large area electronics [.pdf]
- Operation research [.pdf]
- Software engineering, programming Languages and formal methods [.pdf]
NMBP - Nanotechnologies, advanced materials, biotechnology and advanced manufacturing and processing
Contacts
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
- Advanced manufacturing and processing [.pdf]
- Electronics and photonics materials [.pdf]
- Industrial biotechnology [.pdf]
- Industrial symbiosis [.pdf]
- Materials characterization [.pdf]
- Materials for energy [.pdf]
- Materials for health [.pdf]
- Materials for transport [.pdf]
- Materials modelling [.pdf]
- Nanomedicine [.pdf]
- Nanostructures analysis [.pdf]
- Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials [.pdf]
- Smart materials and programmable matter [.pdf]
Nanotechnologies, advanced materials, biotechnology and advanced manufacturing and processing [.pdf]
Security
Contacts
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
- Border and external security [.pdf]
- Digital security [.pdf]
- Disaster resilient society [.pdf]
- Fight against crime and terrorism [.pdf]
- Human, ethical, socio-economic and legal dimension [.pdf]
- Protection of critical infrastructures [.pdf]
Space
Contacts
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
- Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology [.pdf]
- Earth observation applications [.pdf]
- Earth observation technologies [.pdf]
- EGNSS services and applications [.pdf]
- Space and communication systems and networks [.pdf]
- Space components and systems [.pdf]
- Space exploration [.pdf]
- Space propulsion, power and thermal system [.pdf]
- Space robotics, automation and control systems [.pdf]
- Space software and data systems [.pdf]
- Space structures and materials [.pdf]
- Tools for optimal exploitation of space data (collection/modelling/processing) [.pdf]
SWAFS - Science with and for society
Contacts
SSRD - Process units Research development - Social Science and Humanities
email: ssh@unibo.it
Science with and for society [.pdf]
SSH - Social sciences and humanities
Contacts
SSRD - Process units Research development - Social Science and Humanities
email: ssh@unibo.it
- Business and society [.pdf]
- Citizenship and inclusion [.pdf]
- Creativity and creative industries [.pdf]
- Cultures and cultural identities [.pdf]
- Democracy and governance [.pdf]
- Economic policies and regulation [.pdf]
- Economic, financial and strategic analysis [.pdf]
- Education and learning [.pdf]
- Global, regional and international affairs [.pdf]
- Innovation, entrepreneurship [.pdf]
- Jobs, skills and labour market [.pdf]
- Legal and institutional framework [.pdf]
- Migration [.pdf]
- Public engagement, social resilience and behavior change [.pdf]
- Social innovation [.pdf]
- Social research on urban environment [.pdf]
- Social sciences and humanities for cultural heritage [.pdf]
- Social sciences and humanities research across societal challenges [.pdf]
- Users needs and the uptake of technologies [.pdf]
Social sciences and humanities [.pdf]
Tourism
Contacts
SSRD - Process units Research development - Life Sciences and Bioeconomy
email: lsb@unibo.it
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
SSRD - Process units Research development - Social Science and Humanities
email: ssh@unibo.it
Transport
Contacts
SSRD - Unità di processo Research development - Physical and Engineering Sciences
email: pes@unibo.it
- Aircraft design [.pdf]
- Autonomous vehicles [.pdf]
- Efficiency and resources optimization [.pdf]
- Flight mechanics and flight control systems [.pdf]
- Fluid dynamics and aerodynamics [.pdf]
- Intelligent transportation systems and monitoring [.pdf]
- Lightweight structures and materials [.pdf]
- Logistics and freight transportation [.pdf]
- Propulsion and powertrains [.pdf]
- Technologies for air traffic control [.pdf]
- Transport infrastructures [.pdf]
- Transport safety [.pdf]
- Transport services, platforms and applications [.pdf]
- Transport systems [.pdf]