HS4U – Healthy Ship 4U

HS4U employs an evidence-based approach to extend standardized design and regulatory frameworks towards industry 5.0. The project focuses on promoting modularization, optimization, and smart systems engineering to enhance the detection, prevention, mitigation, and management of large passenger and cruise ships. HS4U aims to provide holistic stress relief solutions during health crises by evaluating typical cruise designs and everyday operations. Utilizing two case studies (CELESTYAL and COLUMBIA BLUE) and its 4U(nique) pillars of research—societal/human, environmental, technological, and legislative factors—it delivers cutting-edge technologies to redefine health and safety frameworks.

HS4U integrates multidisciplinary expertise across sectors to enhance research findings and establish best practices, policy recommendations, and comprehensive crew training solutions through multi-player gaming. The proposed technologies and passenger behavioral models will be validated via live experiments. Notable HS4U open source/FAIR offerings include:

Collaborative Digital Framework (CDF): Facilitates live interaction between crew, passengers, and IoT edge devices on the ship using co-robotics concepts and AI mechanisms and models.
Viral Detection Sensor (VDS): To be developed, tested, validated, delivered, patented, and commercialized for real-time detection of airborne pathogens in indoor environments.
“Robot-cabin” Real-life Demonstrator: Showcases evidence-based 4U solutions for the interoperability of smart and innovative ship systems to ensure rapid detection, prevention, mitigation, and management during health crises, ensuring safe ship operations and return to port.

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

AHI Carrier SEE, a joint venture with Carrier Corporation, is a leading provider of innovative and sustainable climate control systems in Southeast Europe. We distribute and service Carrier, Toshiba, and Totaline brands, building on Carrier Corporation's 120-year legacy of innovation. Together, we're committed to a sustainable future. Our ambitious goals include achieving carbon neutrality in our operations by 2050 and empowering customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over one gigaton by 2030. We're achieving this by developing next-generation HVAC solutions that minimize energy consumption and emissions, integrating smart technologies, optimizing building energy use and grid stability, transitioning to refrigerants with significantly lower environmental impact, and designing products with a lower carbon footprint throughout their lifecycle.

Silver Sponsors

	Motor Oil Group with more than 51 years of activity on the energy scene, has proven that it knows very well how to adapt to new conditions, driven by high resilience, the ability to change, to modernize the business and operating model and, above all, by trust in people, who are at the core of all the Group's activities. Energy transition is important for climate balance and energy security is important for prosperity. Motor Oil invests in both. Invests 2,5 billion in the transition of the Group, but also invests 1,5 billion in the resilience and the expansion of the capacity of the existing energy business which is a pillar of energy security for the country.
	DESFA, as the Operator of the Greek National Natural Gas System, operates and develops with safety and innovation a wide network of modern infrastructure throughout the country, while daily paving the way for a greener future. Guided by our values, integrity, excellence & leadership, collaboration, as well as sustainability and innovation, we stay true to our vision of the safe operation and development of a technologically advanced transmission and storage network of clean, reliable and affordable gas energy operators, creating added value in the Greek economy and the societies where we operate and shaping a brighter, more sustainable future for everyone.

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