Program 5.8 - European and International Cooperation;
Sub-program 5.8.1 - SUPPORT Awarding participation in Horizon 2020 - Institutions
Smart Grid-Efficient Interactive Buildings
Short description of the awarded project:
Title: Smart Grid-Efficient Interactive Buildings
Official website: https://www.evelixia-project.eu/
Objectives:
UCN sets an ambitious objective within this project: the development of new solutions of renewable energy sources, capable of expanding the flexibility and self-sustainability potential of buildings: 1) geothermal wall and 2) photovoltaic panels (resulting from recycled panels) that also perform the function of shading. Testing and validating these solutions within the project will allow their large-scale implementation and will also lead to an increased visibility for TUCN. The sustainability of TUCN’s participation in projects funded by the European Union will also be increased.
Description of the activities financed within the project PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2023-0143, 56PHE:
- Encouraging experienced researchers, but more importantly motivating young researchers in the team, by financing research grants. This will have as an impact the loyalty of young researchers, the increase of the research potential of the team and the possibility to maintain and even further increase their involvement in international projects (There are currently 4 project proposals submitted and under evaluation and 3 projects under development on related topics: integration of renewable energy, decarbonisation, energy efficiency, energy management in local communities)
- TUCN’s team intends to develop project proposals as a coordinator, also involving researchers from other university departments, in order to provide a multidisciplinary approach in EU-targeted research directions. These actions aim to develop the human resources involved in the writing of the projects, as well as the quality of the elaborated projects.
- In order to increase the impact of publications and the visibility of the university, we intend to publish, during the implementation period of the project,papers in ISI or IDB journals, as well as to participate in dedicated conferences.
Results achieved in the first year of implementation:
- 1 paper published in ISI Journal with impact factor
- 2 papers published at the International Conferences, ISI și IDB indexed:
- A.G. Berciu; D.D. Micu; E.H. Dulf, “Enhancing Electricity Consumption Forecasting with Artificial Intelligence on Small Datasets: A Comparative Study”, 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 12-15 December 2024, Dubai, EAU.
- 1 research scholarship
Results achieved in the second year of implementation:
- 1 paper submitted to an ISI Journal with impact factor
- 6 papers published at the International Conferences, ISI și IDB indexed:
A. G. Berciu, D. D. Micu and E. H. Dulf, “Real Help? Smoking, Alcohol, and Their Effects on Sleep Quality in Military Environments,” in Innovations in Industrial Engineering IV (ICIENG 2025), Prague, Czech Republic, 2025.
A. S. Baldean, A. G. Berciu, D. Jurj, A. Muresan and D. D. Micu, “Artificial Intelligence-Powered Image Analysis for Load Disaggregation via Fog Computing,” in Future Energy Solutions, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2025.
A. G. Berciu, D. D. Micu and E. H. Dulf, “Digital Twins: The Next Frontier in Military Innovation,” in 25th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), Bucharest, Romania, 2025.
A. G. Berciu, D. D. Micu and E. H. Dulf, “Artificial Intelligence in Human-Centric Sleep Monitoring,” in Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (INFUS 2025), Istanbul, Türkiye, 2025.
X. Wang, X. Wang, j. Zhao, D.D. Micu, “A Cooperative Game-Based Green Electricity Sharing Framework for Multi-EV Charging Stations”, in IEEE ETFG 2025.
M. Cretu, L. Czumbil, D. Let, A. Let, A. Ceclan, A. Polycarpou, D.D. Micu, “Analysis with regard to Research Building Conversion into Prosumer”, IEEE UPEC 2025.
- 1 research scholarship