In the context of assessing the scalability potential of EU funded R&I projects in the Mediterranean region, INTEL-IRRIS project has been selected among the very high potential projects invited to participate in the Euro Mediterranean innovation market place in Cairo on 3 October 2024!

We will take this opportunity to (i) present the main results and achievements of the INTEL-IRRIS project to raise awareness on how cost-effective designs and adapted solutions can increase technology acceptance in the smallholder farmer communities, thus reducing the digital divide and (2) to meet stakeholders, projects/innovators, potential investors to scale-up further the INTEL-IRRIS’s hardware & software solutions.

Quoted from European Commission:

In the context of the implementation plan, the European Commission launched  a mapping and analysis of a portfolio of 252 projects. The relevance of each project regarding the R&I roadmaps as well as the type of actions covered by the projects (Coordination, R&I and/or Capacity building) was assessed. Details on the methodology applied and the findings were presented in the published report. Phase II focused on assessing scalability potential of some of these R&I projects. A total of 448 results that have some technological or innovation potential were identified in a portfolio of 126 R&I projects funded through Horizon 2020, PRIMA and ENI CBC programmes. Very high potential was identified in 47 results. The results with very high potential covered mainly advances in the areas of Renewable Energy and Climate Change, 24 and 21, respectively. Some of the identified results with very high potential were of high business/market maturity and further investigation of their potential to be scaled-up or introduced to the market would be beneficial to achieving the roadmaps goals.