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EU funds TalTech Twinning project with TU Darmstadt and EPFL on AI building energy control
SMARTWIN, a Horizon Europe Twinning project, will help Tallinn University of Technology build expertise in machine-learning-based energy control for buildings, with TU Darmstadt and EPFL as partners and a new laboratory planned.
Why it matters: Early-career researchers at TalTech gain joint supervision and mobility with TU Darmstadt and EPFL, and the university is set to gain a smart building control lab.
CORDIS, the European Commission's research project database, lists SMARTWIN as a Horizon Europe Coordination and Support Action under the strand for widening participation and spreading excellence, designed to raise Tallinn University of Technology's (TalTech) research standing in reliable, learning-based energy control for buildings.
According to the project description, TalTech is strong in building physics, modelling, explainable machine learning and smart-building systems, but does not yet have enough depth in machine-learning-supported control and optimisation that can be applied in practice.
The partners, TU Darmstadt and EPFL, are to pass on methods such as physics-informed meta-learning and safe model predictive control, jointly supervise and host early-career researchers, and run workshops, summer schools and a shared online course (MOOC).
The plan also covers improving TalTech's research management so the university can coordinate future Horizon Europe bids, and creating a laboratory for smart building control at TalTech that is meant to remain after the project ends.
Editor’s view
Joseph Lopez, Collaboration Editor
TalTech's early-career researchers and research managers are the direct beneficiaries: if the plan is delivered, the university will have its own facility for testing advanced building control in real conditions, along with tools intended to let it coordinate Horizon Europe proposals.
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