Smart-Cities, Living-Labs and Open Innovation Ecosystems

• Frugal innovations in developing countries

• Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems and Smart Specialisation

• Developing tech-based family firms and social enterprises

• Science and technology parks and business incubators

• Collaborative innovation and living-labs

• Open Data and Big Data for Social Change

• Technology foresight and technology road mapping

• Novel Approaches, Frameworks and Paradigms for Innovation  

• Best Practices in Innovation Management for Product, Service, Process and Business Model Innovation

• Value Co-creation and Co-Innovation Strategies

• Open Innovation Networks and Ecosystems

• Open User-Centred Innovation Ecosystems in Living Labs

• User-Driven Innovation & User Co-creation

• Social & Responsible Innovation

• Cutting Edge Tools and Methodologies for Creativity & Innovation

Systems Engineering

• Innovative methods and tools for product and service design and engineering

• New business models for mass-customized products and services

• Intelligent maintenance and repair operations and services

• Advanced after-sales services

• Global value chain design and management    

• Distributed engineering and manufacturing

• Lifecycle analysis, estimation, assessment and optimization

• Lean and system thinking in engineering and development

• Virtual and digital tools for lifecycle engineering

Factories of the Future: Advances in Engineering, Technologies and Innovation

• Digital Technologies in the Factory Floor

• Energy and Material Efficiency

• Collaborative and Networked Factories

• Human-Centred Manufacturing

• Data Security, Liability & Integrity in Connected Factories

• Product Life-Cycle Management & Business Models in a Product-Service Economy

• Lightweight Components & High Precision Manufacturing

• High-Performance Computing & Simulation

• Additive Manufacturing & Advanced Joining Technologies

• Next Generation Robotics & Mechatronics in Manufacturing  

• Innovation in integrated approaches for sustainable process industries

• Innovative Products and Services

• Advanced Middleand End-of-Lifecycle Services

• Circular Manufacturing

• Industrial Product Service Systems

• Lean and System Thinking in Engineering

• Lifecycle Analysis, Estimation, Assessment and Optimisation

• Closed-Loop and Reverse Value Chains and Networks

• Digital Technologies and New Business Models

• ICT for Manufacturing

Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

• Advanced Computing and Cloud Computing

• Software Technologies

• Collective awareness platforms for sustainability and social innovation

• Big data methods and analytics

• Cross-Sectorial and Cross-Lingual data integration    

• Media and content convergence

• Smart digital content in creative industries

• Technologies for Learning and Skills

• Learning Analytics

• Gaming and Gamification

Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)

• Smart Cyber Physical Systems

• Smart Systems Integration

• Engineering, Technology and Innovation in IoT/CPS application domains

• Usage of Networked Devices Enabled Intelligence

• NFC Technology and its Application in IoT

• Tracking and Tracing in the Supply Chain

• Distributed decision systems

• Multi-agent systems

• Data-driven mechanisms

• Servicisation of the CPS architecture    

• Quality and resilient control of manufacturing systems

• Specification languages for monitoring and testing

• Combination of statistic and dynamic analysis

• Standardisation challenges in IoT

• Data privacy and security in IoT

• Next Generation of Networked RFID Systems

• Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems towards Future Internet of Things

• The Future IoT Applications

ICT for Health, Wellbeing and Active Assisted Living (AAL)

• Role of Connected Health Innovation Centres and Intermediaries

• Human-centered design for Connected Health

• Advances in tele-health, digital health and tele-monitoring

• M-health solutions and technologies for disease management

• Assistive living and point of care diagnostics

• Connected health and wellbeing business modelling and case studies

• Solutions to implementation barriers and revenue models

• Frugal health and wellbeing products and services

• Big data to support better diagnosis and treatment outcomes

• Health care for citizens through ICT solutions

• Mobility of citizens with chronic diseases

• Improve the social capacity of citizens and medical professionals to utilise eHealth technologies

• Empowerment of citizens through lifelong learning and self-monitoring

• eHealth among medical professionals and citizens

• ICT based solutions for Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions of Elderly People

• ICT based solutions for Advancement of Social Interaction of Elderly People

• ICT-based Solutions for Advancement of Older Persons’ Independence and Participation in the “Self-Serve Society”

• ICT based solutions for Advancement of Older Persons’ Mobility

• ICT-based Solutions for (Self-) Management of Daily Life Activities of Older Adults at Home

• ICT based solutions for Supporting Occupation in Life of Older Adults

• Care for the future

• Living actively and independently at home

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

• Engineering, Technology and Innovation in Robotics and Autonomous Systems application domains

• Symbolic and sensory based robot control

• Learning in the context of autonomous systems

• Multi-modal sensor-based robot control    Human oriented approaches for robotics

• Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment

• Intelligent Autonumous Systems

• Effective, robust, and scalable robotic systems

Sustainable Green Engineering

• Smart Energy Grids

• Energy Efficiency in Social Housing and Energy Storage

• Smart, green and integrated transport    Sustainable and eco-friendly products and services

• Intelligent and extended products and services

• Metrics and performance measurement for sustainable products and services

Crisis and Disaster Management

• Crisis management networks

• Disaster connectivity and communication

• Sustainable product, service and system development    

• Implementation strategies for sustainable innovation

• Collaborative environments and workplaces

• Collaborative smart networks, homes, cities and regions

Sustainable Technology Management

• Management of Technology Programmes

• Technology & Knowledge Transfer Offices

• Technology Foresight and Technology Roadmapping    

• Technology Commercialisation Strategies

• Intellectual Property Management

• Patenting & Licensing Strategies 

Educating Tomorrow’s Project Managers, Engineering Managers and Innovation Managers

• Humanitarian Engineering

• Living lab and multidisciplinary approaches

• Frugal Engineering in developing countries

• Management of Technology Programme    

• Triple-bottom line or economic/social/environmental business models and methods

• Technology-based social entrepreneurship and innovation programme

• Global multidisciplinary project teams

Women & STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

• Leadership Motivators & Influencers Shaping the Future of Women in STEM Academic Degrees

• Bias, Barriers and Opportunities for Women in STEM Professions

• Factors Impacting Women in STEM Professions    

• Female Leadership & Management in STEM Professions

• Beyond Gender Equality

• The Power of Diversity in STEM Teams

• Technology-based Projects & Initiatives Oriented to Women

Research and Innovation for Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage

• Smart digital content in the creative industries

• Richer interpretation of the past through data analytics

• Innovation in searching digital content which used to be inaccessible or buried among huge amounts of data    

• Tagging and meta-data for diverse media digital content

• Novel ways of digital content production and management in the creative industries.

• Analytical tools, automatic contextualisation and identification of digital content

Digital Entrepreneurship & Tech Startups

• Software startups

• Entrepreneurial Mindset and Attitudes

• Entrepreneurial Skills and Competencies

• Intrapreneurship in Corporations

• Coaching and Supporting [Tech] Startups & Spin-offs

• Digital start up and digital scale venture and their entrepreneurs

• Innovation procurement networks

• Understand and successfully develop digital startups and scale ups

• Support digital startups and scale ups to reach to the next level

• Address the emergence of the Internet of Everything type of start ups and scale ups    

• National, Regional & Local Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems

• Business Incubators & Accelerators Management

• Business Family Firms Guidance and Support

• Science and Technology Parks Management

• Business Model Innovation

• The emergence of the Internet of Everything type of startups and scale ups

• How cities contribute to the creation of ecosystems that help lever startups and scale ups development

• How foreseeable interconnectivity of the Internet of Everything across a myriad of city agents and devices may enable economic development and social change. 

Knowledge Management & Engineering

• Models for Strategic Knowledge Management

• Strategic Knowledge Management in Organizations

• Role of ITC in Knowledge Management

• Knowledge Management Benchmarking Systems

• Knowledge Capture

• Knowledge Modelling & Models

• Knowledge Bases

• Linked Data and Semantic Web

• Domain Ontologies (architecture, engineering, construction, operation, medicine, pharmacy, manufacturing, public sector, etc.)

• Ontology Engineering

• Ontology Alignment

• Fuzzy Ontologies

• Ontology-based Representation and Reasoning

• Big Data and Semantic Data Management

• Reinforced Learning

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

• Big data and Open data

• Security and Privacy

• Smart Urban Mobility & Logistics

• Transport network capacity planning and optimization

• ITS Infrastructure

• Environment and Energy Efficiency in ITS

• Satellite technology applied to mobility    Connected and Automated Transport

• Safe, Secure and Resilient Transport Systems

• Human Machine Interfacing in ITS

• Standardisation in ITS

• The impact of social media in ITS

• New Business Models for ITS

Smart Buildings

• Energy and resources management

• Innovative Products and Services

• Intelligent/Smart Buildings

• Smart Building and the Sustainable/Green paradigm

• Advanced Middleand End-of-Lifecycle Services: Maintenance & Repair Operations

• Remanufacturing & Refurbishment Services; Recycling Services / Circular economy

• Industrialisation / Additive manufacturing    

• Lean and System Thinking

• Distributed Engineering

• Lifecycle Analysis, Estimation, Assessment and Optimisation

• Innovative value chains, networks & frameworks

• Digital Technologies and New Business Models & ICT

• Deployment and assessment of large-scale experimentation or demonstrators of EEB (Energy-Efficient Buildings)

Energy Efficiency

• Consumers and end-users

• Buildings

• Public Authorities

• Industry     Products & Services

• Heating & Cooling

• Financial issues

Innovative Mechatronic Systems for Added Value Applications

• Modeling

• Simulation

• Formal Verification

• Synthesis

• Design

• Embedded systems

• Networked systems

• Interoperability

• Internet of Things

• Industry 4.0

• Software engineering

• Hardware engineering

• Sensors technology

• Intelligent Robotic systems    

• System analysis and control

• Discrete-Event Systems

• Real-Time Systems

• Continuous-Time Systems

• Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

• Intelligent Models and Control Systems

• Optimization-based Decision Support Models

• Web-based Decision Support Systems

• Soft Modeling in Production Engineering

• Knowledge & Learning Technologies

• Applications of Methods and Decision Support Systems

• Emerging Methodologies in Engineering Education

• Knowledge-Based Learning

Development of PEBs (Positive Energy Blocks) and their integration in Smart Cities 

• Technological aspects, especially including ICT (digital transformation)

• Processes and collaborative working

• PEB and the Circular Economy.

• Deployment and assessment of large-scale experimentation or demonstrators of PEB

Key Enabling Technologies (KET) for SME's

• New solutions building blocks for enterprise architecture

• KET based enterprise operating systems

• Integrations architectures for open solutions in industry  

• Concurrent solutions for modelling, simulation and analytic

• IT enablers to accelerate enterprise transformation

• Change management processes and sustainability growth of SME’s