Projects and Grants

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Jan 2027 - Dec 2030

Title: CAPTURE: Improved Diagnosis, Monitoring and Treatment through European Doctoral Collaboration in Capsule Endoscopy. Type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network (HORIZON-MSCA-2025-DN-01-01). Funder: European Commission, Horizon Europe (European Research Executive Agency, REA). Participant Institutions: NTNU (Norway, coordinator), Sykehuset Innlandet (Norway), Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Universidad de Granada (Spain), RGU, Panepistimio Thessalias (Greece), Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), Institute of Systems and Robotics (Portugal), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy), Syddansk Universitet (Denmark). Role: Team member and co-supervisor of one doctoral candidate hosted at RGU and one doctoral candidate hosted at Sheffield. Code: 101311908. Amount: €348’738.12 (RGU share); €4’693’908.24 total network grant. URL Project: https://capture-dn.eu/.

May 2026 - Oct 2027

Title: SABER: Sustainable Alcohol By-product Enhancement for Regenerative soils. Type: Global Partnership Seedcorn Fund 2025. Funder: UKRI Natural Environment Research Council. Participant Institutions: University of Leeds, RGU, Tec de Monterrey (Mexico), University of Oviedo (Spain), Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico), University of Auckland (New Zealand). Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Amount: £100’000. URL Project: https://carlosfmorenog.github.io/saber/ 

Jul 2026

Title: Candidate City Bid Support for the Aberdeen bid to host MICCAI 2030. Type: Mobility Grant. Funder: VisitScotland. Participant Institutions: RGU, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Convention Bureau, P&J Live. Role: Member of the bidding committee; award supported the travel of four committee members. Requested and administered by Aberdeen Convention Bureau. Amount: £5’000 (total award, held by Aberdeen Convention Bureau). Purpose: Attendance at MICCAI 2026 (Strasbourg, France) to present the Aberdeen candidature. Status: Bid pending.

Sep 2025

Title: Visit Britain Candidate City Support. Type: Mobility Grant. Funder: Visit Britain. Participant Institutions: RGU, P&J Live, Aberdeen Convention Bureau. Role: Principal Investigator. Amount: £7’500. URL Call: https://www.visitbritain.org/resources-business-events-partners/business-events-growth-programme/candidate-city-bid-support. Status: Bid awarded.

Nov 2024–Mar 2025

Title: RIS International Collaboration Fund. Type: Mobility Grant. Funder: Research Innovation Scotland. Participant Institutions: RGU, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain), University of Oviedo (Spain). Role: Principal Investigator. Code: 2487563. Amount: £5’000. URL Call: https://www.research-innovation-scotland.co.uk/ris-international-collaboration-fund/

Oct 2023–Nov 2024

Title: HE Connects: UK - Americas Partnerships for TNE and Internationalisation. Type: British Council Transnational Education Programme. Funder: The British Council Mexico. Participant Institutions: RGU, Tec de Monterrey (Mexico). Role: Principal Investigator. Code: 2053596. Amount: £20’000. URL Call: https://americas.britishcouncil.org/work-with-us/jobs/opportunities-suppliers/he-connects-uk-americas-partnerships-tne

Aug 2023–Aug 2025

Title: Automation of Digital Twin Creation and Inspection. Type: Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, EServ. Role: Principal Investigator. Code: 1739225. Amount: £182’832.54. URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/project/1739225/automation-of-digital-twin-creation-and-inspection

Apr 2023 – May 2023

Title: Machine Learning for Process Mapping of Multi-investment Platforms. Type: Smart Grant. Funder: Consultancy. Participant Institutions: RGU, Sticklr. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 1778109. Amount: £30’000.

Sep 2022 – Jun 2023

Title: Advanced Computer Vision for Inspection in the Energy Sector. Type: Short course funding. Funder: The Data Lab. Participant Institutions: RGU. Role: Principal investigator. Code: 1681568. Amount: £30’000.

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023

Title: Transferring knowledge on climate change and circular economy from the Mexican diaspora. Type: Capacity Development Lab grant. Funder: European Union Global Diaspora Facility (EUDiF). Participant Institutions: Red Global MX. Role: Co-Investigator. Amount: In-kind contribution (guidance by experts and funds to organise events). URL: https://diasporafordevelopment.eu/working-with-mexican-diaspora-academics-to-accelerate-climate-change-and-circular-economy-education/

Feb 2022 – Mar 2022

Title: AI-Empowered Document Mapping and Testing for Investment Platform Processes. Type: Innovation Voucher. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Sticklr. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 1529307. Amount: £5’000.

Feb 2022 – Aug 2022

Title: SAIBOK: Subsea Artificial Intelligence Body Of Knowledge. Type: Industry/Academia Collaboration. Funder: OGTC. Participant Institutions: RGU, National Subsea Centre, Intel. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 933101. Amount: £100’000.

Feb 2021 – Feb 2022

Title: KIRK: Digitisation for Mechanical Drawings. Type: Industry funded. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Fieri Analytics. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 965267. Amount: £215’000.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021

Title: Feasibility study to assess data extraction tools for digitisation. Type: Innovation Voucher. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Archimech AI. Role: Principal Investigator. Code: 999690. Amount: £5’000.

Sep 2020 – Mar 2021

Title: ThermaFY: Thermal images for COVID detection. Type: Advanced Innovation Voucher. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Shock Innovations. Role: Co-Investigator. Code: 917856. Amount: £20’000.

Jun 2020–Aug 2020

Title: Toward fully automated framework for digitising complex engineering drawings. Type: Innovation Voucher. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Aventus AI. Role: Co-investigator. Code: 853642. Amount: £5’000.

Feb 2020 – Dec 2021

Title: Intelligent SYStems for assisted medical diagnosis for CARDIOvascular diseases (SYSCARDIO). Type: Newton Fund Institutional Links. Funder: British Council & Secretaria de Tecnología, Educación e Innovación (SECTEI, Mexico City). Participant Institutions: RGU, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Role: Principal investigator. Code: 321189. Amount: £233’000 (both institutions).

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020

Title: LiberEat Data Science Project. Type: Industry/Academia collaboration. Funder: The Data Lab (TDL Scotland). Participant Institutions: RGU, LiberEat. Role: Principal investigator. Code: 244873. Amount: £20’000.

Nov 2019 – Feb 2020

Title: SBRI Artificial Intelligence Supported Early Diagnostics in Fracture Detection. Type: Small Business Research Initiative. Funder: Scottish Government, Opportunity North East (ONE) Participant Institutions: RGU, Jiva.ai. Role: Principal investigator. Code: 321195. Amount: £20’000.

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021

Title: Multi-layer authentication platform. Type: Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Programme. Funder: Innovate UK. Participant Institutions: RGU, Mintra Group. Role: Co-investigator. Code: 166441. Amount: £180’000.

 Feb 2019 – Apr 2019

 

 

 

Title: Childhood obesity: An integrated review towards the comprehension of scientific data sources. Type: Industry/Academia collaboration. Funder: The Data Lab (TDL Scotland).  Participant Institutions: RGU, National Services Scotland (NSS), University of Aberdeen. Role: Principal investigator. Code: 177202. Amount: £20’000.

Jan 2019 – May 2019

Title: Postdoctoral and early career exchange bursary. Type: Academic exchange personal grant. Funder: The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).  Code: 191326. Amount: £3’400.

Aug 2018 – Jul 2019

 

Title: Data extraction from complex engineering drawings. Type: Industry/Academia collaboration. Funder: The Data Lab (TDL Scotland), The Oil and Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC).  Participant Institutions:  RGU, Det Norske Veritas - Germanischer Lloyd (DNV GL). Role: Co-investigator. Code: 123491. Amount: £120’000.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019

 

Title: SoftWarE Defined edGE clouds (SWEDGE). Type: Research group funding. Funder: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO-Spain).  Participant Institutions:  URV. Code: TIN2016-77836-C2-2-R.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017

Title: Intelligent digitisation platform for processing, detecting and classifying symbols in technical drawings. Type: Industry/Academia collaboration. Funder: The Data Lab (TDL Scotland).  Participant Institutions: RGU, DNV GL. Role: Research Fellow. Code: 114347.

Feb 2016 – Apr 2016

Title: DIDACtics in MAThematics (DIDACMAT) project. Type: Personal grant. Funder: URV. Code: ICEA11_1516_DIDACMAT_2A_CONV.

Sep 2015 – Dec 2015

Title: ERASMUS+ mobility grant for international research internships. Type: Academic exchange personal grant. Funder: European Commission.

Feb 2015 – Apr 2015

Jan 2014 – Dec 2017

 

Title: Psychobiology Journal (PsicoBio) project. Type: Personal grant. Funder: URV. Code: ICE_A09_1415.

Title: Community Networks & Clouds (Cloud4comm). Type: Research group funding. Funder: MINECO-Spain. Participant Institutions:  URV. Code: TIN2013-47245-C2-1-R.

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015

 

Dec 2013 – Feb 2014

 

Sep 2013 – Aug 2016

Title: A semi-supervised and interactive method to help a team of robots to solve the object identification problem through images. Type: Research group funding. Funder: URV. Code: 2014-LINE-01.

Title: Students of Mobility in Learning English (SMiLE) project. Type: Personal grant. Funder: URV. Code: ICEC01/13_SMILE.

Title: Doctoral fellowship grant. Type: Personal grant. Funder: Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONACyT-Mexico).

Sep 2012 – Aug 2013

Title: International student masters grant. Type: Personal grant. Funder: URV.