Cascade Grants

Proponents:
University of Bologna

Thematic Areas:
Development of open, energy-efficient, high-performance hardware and software tools and solutions for the supercomputers and computing systems of the future.

Deadline:
15/02/2024

Proponents:
Polytechnic University of Milan

Thematic Areas:
Development of quantum computer applications and tools and software for their validation, compilation and optimization. Development of software for emulating quantum architectures on classical computers. Development of hardware and software to support the implementation of quantum computers.

Deadline:
12/02/2024

Proponents:
Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Thematic Areas:
Development of applications and procedures for testing and deploying in silico medicine, in silico trials, pathway analysis and drug repositioning solutions. Production and analysis of multi-omics data and their advanced integration through AI-based methods for the idenfication and validation of novel drug targets. Production and analysis of metagenomics data from PDAC patients.

Deadline:
26/03/2024

Proponents:
Italian Institute for Nuclear Phisycs (INFN)

Thematic Areas:
Development and optimization of tools and solutions, both hardware and software, for the acquisition, storage and analysis of data produced by experiments conducted in the fields of astroparticle physics, gravitational physics and fundamental particle physics. Implementation of tools and pilot projects in the Space Economy domain.

Deadline:
29/03/2024

Proponents:
Italian Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)

Thematic Areas:
Development of innovative solutions and methodologies for scientific visualization, algorithm acceleration, parallelization and acceleration of scientific codes, feature classification and detection, and data analysis within astrophysics and cosmology space experiments and missions.

Deadline:
22/04/2024

Proponents:
National Research Council (CNR)

Thematic Areas:
Development of innovative solutions and methodologies for atomic-scale simulation and modeling of new materials and molecules. Migration to HPC architectures of the solutions built within the Spoke and development of new HPC applications to optimize them. Development of methodologies, techniques and tools for managing Spoke-generated data.

Deadline:
24/04/2024

Proponents:
University of Naples Federico II

Thematic Areas:
Development and implementation of innovative Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and digital simulation services, systems and techniques for the analysis and visualization of data related to traffic, air and climate quality and healthiness, and waste production and concentration, which can improve the control of these urban phenomena and their management and increase the quality of life of citizens.

Deadline:
7/05/2024

Proponents:
University of Bari Aldo Moro

Thematic Areas (I Grant):
Development and implementation of systems, Digital Twin, and integrated platforms for the protection of historic-architectural assets; for the acquisition, management, integration, and analysis of data related to the state of the subsurface; for the analysis and mitigation of risk associated with landslides, fires, and earthquakes; and for the assessment of citizen preparation and ecosystem resilience to disasters.

Deadline:
3/05/2024

Proponents:
CMCC Foundation

Thematic Areas:
Activities include: supporting and optimizing numerical codes; increasing data exploitation and integrating services created by the Spoke with ICSC’s Cloud infrastructure; developing and implementing services and applications aimed at using Spoke 4 results; improving the capacity of modeling chains used within the Spoke.

Deadline:
10/05/2024

Proponents:
University of Bari Aldo Moro

Thematic Areas (II Grant):
Development of methodologies and tools capable of modeling and quantifying the structural performance of existing bridges; Application of AI, data analysis and virtual reality for monitoring and management of infrastructure and resources and for multi-hazard analysis at regional scales; Interferometric and Tomographic SAR data processing for monitoring Volcanoes and Forests.

Deadline:
20/05/2024