INCIT-EV, a EUR 18.6 million project led by RENAULT, aims to demonstrate an innovative set of charging infrastructures, technologies and their associated business models, ready to improve the EV user experience beyond early adopters, thus fostering the EV market share in the EU.
Five demo environments in urban, peri-urban and extra-urban conditions will be ready for the deployment of seven use cases, addressing: smart and bi-directional charging optimised at different aggregation levels, a dynamic wireless charging lane in an urban area, dynamic wireless charging for long distance (e-road prototype for TEN-T corridors), charging Hub in a park and ride facility, superfast charging systems for EU corridors, low-power DC bi-directional charging infrastructure for EVs, including two-wheelers and opportunity wireless charging for taxi queue lanes in airports and central stations.
With 33 participants, Qi has been assigned as WP9 leader and participates in a total of 15 tasks. WP9 intends to generate economic analysis of the five demos and seven use cases to find sustainable business models and a roadmap to speed up the introduction of the proven technologies in the marketplace.

EMASESA, is the public Water Supply and Sanitation Company of Aguas de Sevilla SA. It manages the direct supply of drinking water and the public sewerage and purification service of the Andalusia capital and several nearby towns.
Qi acceded to the contract to develop the public-private cooperation strategy, mainly in the Americas-Caribbean-Pacific areas, aligned with the strategies set by the companies, financing funds and national and international multilateral organizations that operate in those areas in relation to the water supply, management, associated services and sanitation.
One of the activities implemented within the framework of the project was to promote Corporate Social Responsibility, transparency and good governance activities, identifying measures to undertake and how to visualize and implement them in the organization.

The GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference ("GPIC") is a global marketplace and ecosystem where leading private sector actors including project sponsors, institutional investors, financial institutions, climate leaders, and the public sector come together to accelerate climate action in developing countries.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a new global fund created to support the efforts of developing countries to respond to the challenge of climate change. The GCF helps developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change. It seeks to promote a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient development, taking into account the needs of nations that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. It was set up by the 194 countries who are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010, as part of the Convention’s financial mechanism. It aims to deliver equal amounts of funding to mitigation and adaptation, while being guided by the Convention’s principles and provisions.
Qi established a relationship with GPIC in 2017 to provide sound sustainable projects to the organization.

The Institute of Energy Technology of Valencia (ITE), hired Qi to reorganize its third-party services and identify the lines of strategic interest aligned with the new trends in European research programmes; specifically, identification of strategic research lines and related collaborative projects, internal reorganization associated with the new lines, identification of topics of interest in the European R&D framework programmes (Horizon2020 and HorizonEurope) and preparation of proposals including business models for the associated emerging technologies (impact section).

Qi has developed numerous manuals on European R&D programmes (for example for the Autonomous Communities of Madrid and Valencia) and has taught courses on the preparation of European proposals. It has also advised on the development of material oriented towards sustainability and new technologies for schoolchildren. Spacetechies is a company dedicated to face-to-face training in a space dedicated to the teaching of technologies, digital skills, programming and robotics in central Madrid.
The training is for children, adolescents and adults and provides purely technical training in technological tools and devices but also supports the emotional, social and personal development of students and integrates the educational project in the centres. Qi also provides in-company training on ESG concepts.

URBANREC has implemented an eco-innovative and integral bulky waste management system (enhancing prevention and reuse, improving logistics and allowing new waste treatments to obtain high added value recycled products) and demonstrate its effectiveness in different EU regions: Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and South-eastern areas in Europe, represented in URBANREC by 3 EU-28 countries and Turkey. These countries currently have very different urban waste recycling rates, from around a 70% in Belgium, 25-30% in Spain, 20% in Poland, to less than 5% in Turkey, thus being representatives of the different scenarios at European level for the evaluation of different activities proposed in URBANREC project.
The FP7 URBAREC project, coordinated by the plastic’s technological centre AIMPLAS (Spain), with 21 partners and EUR 10 Million budget was awarded by the EU with a grant of EUR 8.6 million. Qi participated in the project structuring and design of the business model associated to the technical solution. The impact section of the file was fully prepared and redacted by Qi.

CL-Windcon addressed multi-fidelity dynamic modelling and open and closed-loop advanced control algorithms at farm level by treating the entire wind farm as a comprehensive real-time optimisation problem. CL-Windcon has taken farm-level controls from the current non-existent or basic static approach to dynamic open and closed-loop control strategies.
Dynamic closed-loop wind farm control can deal with both time-varying inflow conditions and model mismatch/uncertainties, thereby removing important technological barriers. During the preparation phase, Qi elaborated the ‘impact assessment’ section and participated in the project as a partner, evaluating how the novel control algorithms affect the reliability of the wind farm. Qi also optimised the operation and maintenance costs, thereby easing the deployment of renewable wind energy within the energy mix and accelerating its roll-out. To finish, Qi evaluated the total economic worth of the new wind farm control algorithms, maximising the potential payoffs coming from the new technology and contributing to the European Security of Supply.

CARBOMART, www.carbomart.com , is an online carbon-trading platform which brings together carbon credit buyers and carbon credit sellers. Managed by the Turkish company Green Consult and Finance, CARBOMART allows the carbon credit buyers to evaluate the carbon emission reduction projects by performing line by line project comparisons according to the social, environmental and economic sustainability criteria.
Moreover, the buyers can directly access the emission reduction projects with their sales prices directly set by the project developers/owners (sellers). This allows both buyers and sellers to get reference carbon credit prices and reference sustainability benchmarks for the emission-reduction projects. Green Consult and Finance was assessed. The company was advised in the development of the online platform and the user-friendly interface, in addition to strengthening its business plan with strategic alliances with other actors in the IT sector.

Floating offshore wind (FOW) is an emerging and fast-growing technology with a very large potential market and the possibility to contribute with a large share to decarbonise the global energy mix. Following the European strategy, a complementary and experienced industry consortium with leading academic & research partners was set up to undertake the Demowind WIP10+ project with the main objective of accelerating the deployment of FOW by demonstrating at open sea using a cost-competitive wind energy solution rated at 2*6 MW of power.
Qi was responsible for preparing the business model, make calculations for LCC and LCOE and prepare the impact section.

Insulcloud won an SME instrument grant to develop the Insulclock medical device, a small electronic device very easily plugged into any insulin-injection pen, which helps patients automatically track critical information about their treatment, such as remembering the date, time and dosage of the last shot and the time of the next one, as well as monitoring the type of insulin and its temperature. A reminder system which employs visual and acoustic alerts avoids mistakes and omissions.
Qi provided coaching services, assigned by the European Commission (EASME), to the company aiming to accelerate the penetration of the emerging company in the marketplace.
The company had significant challenges ahead in terms of product refining, clinical trials, product certification, app development (telemedicine), production organisation, internal restructuring, marketing and sales launching at national and international levels (market segmentation), cooperation agreements and phase III access. In all these phases, our coach service was required to optimise those activities, reducing dead time and accelerating the market uptake.

Sorbos ORIGINAL inspired designers to come up with a straw made of water, gelatine, sugar and a stabilizing ingredient or thickener, but with the sturdiness and functionality of plastic. However, Qi was contracted to elaborate the business plan and the feasibility study for a new ZERO sugar version in its pre-commercial pilot phase which completely modifies the formulation with fewer calories. This modification has offered the possibility of adding nutrients and vitamins and has made for a healthier version than the predecessor as it has no sugar content. The project was granted as well with an H2020 SME EU aid

EMASESA is the public Water Supply and Sanitation Company of Aguas de Sevilla SA. It manages the direct supply of drinking water and the public sewerage and purification service of the Andalusian capital and several nearby towns.
Qi acceded to the contract to develop the public-private cooperation strategy, mainly in the Americas-Caribbean-Pacific areas, aligned with the strategies set by the companies, financing funds and national and international multilateral organizations that operate in those areas in relation to the water supply, management, associated services and sanitation.
The strategy designed by Qi allowed EMASESA more efficient and effective technical and economic participation in the different existing cooperation programmes, networks, forums and organizations, where it participated positively identified and analysed, optimising the impact of their activities at a national and international level, enhancing its reputation and contributing to the sustainable public management.
The contract proposed a strategic action plan that included a strategic diagnosis to determine EMASESA's position in the context of multilateral cooperation, the identification of EMASESA's differentiating capabilities, a motivated proposal to boost its presence in national and international networks and the analysis of geographical areas of interest to export EMASESA's capabilities to third countries.

EMASESA, is the public Water Supply and Sanitation Company of Aguas de Sevilla SA. It manages the direct supply of drinking water and the public sewerage and purification service of the Andalusian capital and several nearby towns.
Qi acceded to the contract to develop the public-private cooperation strategy, mainly in the Americas-Caribbean-Pacific areas, aligned with the strategies set by the companies, financing funds and national and international multilateral organizations that operate in those areas in relation to the water supply, management, associated services and sanitation.
One of the chapters of this extensive work consisted of the identification and classification of the national and international networks where EMASESA should have a presence and actions in social networks and direct marketing to value ESG actions in order to gain prestige and reputation.

FABRIC responds to the need to assess the potential and feasibility of a more extensive integration of electric vehicles in the mobility and transportation system, focusing primarily on dynamic wireless charging which allows practically all drawbacks of on-board battery packs to be avoided. On-road charging also enables the direct link to renewable energy sources.
Qi partially redacted the ‘impact’ section and participated in the project as the entity responsible for executing the business models associated with three selected scenarios using Wireless Dynamic charging of EVs, E-Trucks and E-buses on motorways, peri-urban areas and urban areas. A Cost-benefit analysis, a Life Cycle Costing and the business models where delivered during the project for the mentioned market niches.

PRoPosit is a Spanish medical company that has investigated new blood derivatives to be used at the clinical level in humans and veterinary fields. The PRoPosit PRP protocol is an a new Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) procedure developed by PRoPosit that allows the production of autologous Platelet-Rich Plasma of high purity and quality and a lower cost to be used in different medical specialist fields such as traumatology, dermatology, urology, aesthetic medicine, vascular surgery, etc.
PRoPosit contracted Qi to boost the technical and commercial development of its ‘Para-T’ device. The Para-T system is defined as a medical device to perform a direct, quick and permanent ABO group identification in a bag containing whole blood or red blood cells and/or in the catheter inserted in the vein of a patient, to identify the ABO group and to prevent incompatible transfusions between the transfusion bag and the recipient.
Qi carried out the business model, the preparation and defence of the EU grant and the related feasibility analysis during a period of around 2 years aimed at introducing the product in the market.

Preparation of a file to ask the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a soft loan to offer several complete integrated systems to convert 10,000 tons per year of low-quality copper scrap into FRHC rods skipping the anode/cathode transformation through new plasma technology. The usage of copper scrap instead of cathodes has a positive impact both on the company economics and for the environment safeguard

Qi implemented the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) for the company JAP Energéticas Medioambientales SL of a patented hydrogen generation process based on the processing of ammonia and aluminium. The SimaPro software and the Ecoinvent v3 database were used.
The H2Recycling project intends to recover discarded aluminium through an exothermic reaction in which aluminium reacts in a reactor with ammonia water to generate aluminium hydroxide and hydrogen gas. The reaction is carried out under strongly alkaline conditions to avoid the passivation of aluminium. Upon completion, Qi wrote a sales folder for the sale of the technology to third parties