Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TORO20250305006
- Term of Validity
- 9 April 2025 - 9 April 2026
- Company's Country
- Romania
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- The University, located in the South-Muntenia region of Romania, is a multi-campus state institution, hosting over 7,500 students and 258 academic staff. Its fields of expertise include education, business, science, ICT, engineering and humanities, among others. In addition, the University comprises a scientific and multidisciplinary research institute.
- Full Description
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A public comprehensive university located in the Muntenia region, southern Romania, with multiple campuses, over 7,500 students, and 258 academic staff. The university specializes in education, business, science, ICT, engineering, and humanities and hosts an institute for scientific and multidisciplinary research.
The university is actively involved in research and innovation, particularly in energy and sustainability. It develops advanced Energy Management Systems (EMS) to support decarbonization and energy efficiency, aligning with EU strategies. Its digital Local Energy System enhances flexibility services and cross-sector integration, contributing to the European energy transition.
Additionally, research efforts focus on food quality monitoring and loss reduction through controlled atmosphere storage, ensuring better preservation of fresh fruits and vegetables. These initiatives support sustainability, human health, and economic efficiency across the entire supply chain.
With strong engagement in European projects, the university plays a vital role in advancing knowledge and innovation in key strategic areas.
Research and Innovation in Energy:
Within the university campus, the multi-vector Energy Management System (EMS) supports energy managers and decision-makers in achieving decarbonization goals and implementing energy efficiency strategies. By leveraging smart control algorithms, improvements have been observed in renewable energy self-consumption and cost reduction. The digital Local Energy System enhances flexibility services and cross-sector integration, aligning with the EU strategy on energy system integration.
Digitalization and smart grids facilitate cross-sectoral connections, supported by appropriate legal frameworks in line with the EC RePower initiative. Knowledge sharing among energy stakeholders across various sectors at the European level contributes to a smoother transition.
Research and Innovation in Bioeconomy:
Reducing food losses is an essential strategic objective at European level and has multiple significant social, environmental and economic effects. The storage duration of fresh fruits and/or vegetables, with preserving their sensory and nutritional properties suitable for consumption, varies depending on parameters such as temperature, humidity, the concentration of gases (i.e. oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc.) of the atmosphere in the storage facilities. Controlled atmosphere in the storage premises is one of the methods to improve the food preservation conditions, with direct positive effects on human health, environmental protection, and economy, for all participants involved in the chain of production-distribution-consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Research and Innovation in Signal Processing, Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence:
The loss of hearing seriously impacts the quality of life of human beings, and this is an increasing medical problem in Romania, the European Union, and worldwide. Current results obtained at Valahia University envisage hearing aid design advances, especially regarding howling, occlusion, and entrainment effects. Europe's increasing age problem implies further research motivation for developing new expertise in gait-related disorders, heart disease detection, diabetic foot ulcer detection, and sign language recognition. Other area of interest is image processing for automated pest and disease detection using computer vision for precision agriculture and smart farming. Furthermore, the research teams from Valahia University have expertise in image enhancement, and image watermarking. For example, the design of state-of-the-art reversible watermarking algorithms can be mentioned. Currently, reversible image enhancement algorithms that provide visual enhancement have been developed, ensuring the exact recovery of the original image from the enhanced version, without storing or transmitting any other data. - Advantages and Innovations
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The University, member of KreativEU European University Alliance (international consortium of 11 Universities. - Knowledge & Creativity European University), has experience in projects/initiatives targeting areas, not limited at the following, such as (please find in the Full description section the description for each of these):
- Research and Innovation in Energy;
- Research and Innovation in Bioeconomy;
- Research and Innovation in Signal Processing, Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence. - Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- Goal 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- Goal 4: Quality Education
- IPR status
- No IPR applied
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The university seeks partnerships for research collaborations within European and international projects, focusing on its key areas of expertise: energy and sustainability, ICT, engineering, science, business, education, and humanities.
The university is open to collaborating with academic institutions and research centersto drive impactful innovation and address global challenges. - Type and Size of Partner
- R&D Institution
- University
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 004006001 - Energy management
- 01006007 - Research Networking, GRID
- 02010002 - Engineering
- 11002 - Education and Training
- Market keywords
- 06003008 - Other alternative energy
- 06007001 - Other energy production
- 07005004 - Education and educational products and materials
- Targeted countries
- All countries