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HEDoctoral network2024–2027

BRIDGITISE · Industrial Doctoral Network on Bridge Digitalised Integrity Management

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2024-01-01 → 2027-12-31
EU contribution
€4,023,287
Participants
26
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN-ID

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Results in brief

Industrial Doctoral Network on Bridge Digitalised Integrity Management

Many European bridges built in the mid‑20th century are now ageing, exposed to growing traffic, environmental pressures and the effects of climate change. At the same time, the bridge sector remains only partially digitalised, relying heavily on manual inspections and fragmented information. This situation limits timely decision‑making and leads to higher costs, reduced reliability and avoidable environmental impacts. Digital technologies—such as sensors, drones, satellite measurements, cloud platforms and artificial intelligence—offer major opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency and sustainability across the whole lifecycle of bridges, yet their uptake in the sector remains slow. BRIDGITISE addresses this challenge by establishing the first European Industrial Doctorate devoted to the digital transformation of bridge integrity management. The project brings together academic institutions, technology providers and infrastructure operators to train a new generation of specialists capable of merging engineering knowledge with advanced digital skills. Its core objective is to develop and validate innovative methods to collect, process and model bridge information in a cost‑effective and sustainable way. The project focuses on three research goals: improving data collection using emerging technologies; creating secure and efficient tools to process and share large volumes of information; and developing digital models to support better maintenance and investment decisions. These solutions will be tested using real‑world bridge data. BRIDGITISE also promotes open science, inclusiveness and responsible innovation, ensuring that digitalisation benefits society widely. By enabling earlier detection of deterioration, reducing disruptions, extending service life and lowering emissions, the project is expected to strengthen the resilience, safety and sustainability of Europe’s transport infrastructure while helping to close the digital skills gap in the construction sector.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The BRIDGITISE doctoral network will focus on the digitalisation of bridge management across the lifecycle through the development of innovative approaches to information management. The basic idea underlying the project is that the achievement of excellence in this field requires the development and validation onsite of innovative technologies for the cost-effective management of bridge information and their use to support decisions relevant to bridge integrity management across the lifecycle. To this aim, a network of 15+1 PhD projects is structured around three main research and training clusters focused on the development and validation of: -innovative low-cost, large scale and automatic technologies, to collect bridge information- Artificial Intelligence and IoT technologies specifically tailored to bridges to process and share information,- digital decision support tools able to manage bridges across their lifecycleThe project will combine the expertise of six universities, one research center, and seventeen industrial companies and end-users who will provide case studies to apply and validate the project results thereby fostering the technological transfer of the research findings. This powerful combination of expertise from industry and academia will introduce the DCs to the topics of the project and add to their inter-sectoral employability, enabling Europe to build world-class competitive capacity in a strategic market. Deliverables of the BRIDGITISE DN will be technology-enhanced training and dissemination tools, international workshops, and Training Schools. Furthermore, an Open platform for sharing data related to bridge management will be built to develop collaborative and information-sharing skills of the DCs and to increase the impact of the project.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • POLITECNICO DI MILANO · MilanoCoordinatorItaly
  • AALBORG UNIVERSITET · AalborgDenmark
  • BEXEL CONSULTING DOO BEOGRAD · BeogradSerbia
  • BUNDESANSTALT FUER STRASSEN-UND VERKEHRSWESEN · Bergisch GladbachGermany
  • CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DE MATERIALES Y CONTROL DE OBRA SA · MalagaSpain
  • CESTEL CESTNI INZENIRING DOO · TrzinSlovenia
  • EGNATIA ODOS AE · THESSALONIKIGreece
  • EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · ZuerichSwitzerland
  • EXPRIVIA SPA IN THE ALTERNATIVE FORM AIS SPA AISOFTW@RE SPA ARTIFIFICIAL INTELLIGENC SOFTWARE SPA · BARIItaly
  • HRVATSKE AUTOCESTE DRUSTVO S OGRANICENOM ODGOVORNOSCU, ZA UPRAVLJANJE,GRADENJE I ODRZAVANJE AUTOCESTA · ZAGREBCroatia
  • IBM RESEARCH GMBH · RUESCHLIKONSwitzerland
  • Ingenieursbureau Westenberg B.V. · HarderwijkNetherlands
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · StockholmSweden
  • LUNDS UNIVERSITET · LundSweden
  • MITTE KASUTADA / NOT IN USE · TallinnCity levelEstonia
  • NORTH-CONSULTING I/S · STOVRINGDenmark
  • PEDELTA SL · BarcelonaSpain
  • POLITECNICO DI BARI · BariItaly
  • RAMBOLL DANMARK AS · KOBENHAVNDenmark
  • SAFECERTIFIEDSTRUCTURE INGEGNERIA S.R.L · RomaItaly
  • SOCOTEC MONITORING FRANCE · GuyancourtFrance
  • TALLINNA LINN · TallinnEstonia
  • TRE ALTAMIRA SRL · MILANOItaly
  • UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · EnschedeNetherlands
  • WOLFEL ENGINEERING GMBH + CO. KG · HOCHBERGGermany
  • ZAVOD ZA GRADBENISTVO SLOVENIJE · LjubljanaSlovenia

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union