I’MNOVATION is ACCIONA’s open innovation program, where we actively collaborate with startups, scaleups, spin-offs, and other players in the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem to co-develop new solutions and business models that address the challenges of our business units and the major demands of the market.

I’MNOVATION acts as a hub for identifying, attracting, and activating new growth opportunities for ACCIONA, where active collaboration between business units and different ecosystem stakeholders is key to generating impact not only for the companies involved but also for society at large.

This 7th edition features a total of 16 challenges related to the diverse solutions offered by ACCIONA:

  • TRANSPORTATION

    • Real-time monitoring of cutter wear in tunnel boring machines (TBMs)

    • New geological recognition techniques for TBMs

    • New ground improvement treatment techniques in tunnels

    • Real-time mapping of physical parameters of soil sections and roadbeds through indirect methods

    • Road monitoring

  • WATER

    • Development of systems to measure and certify water footprint

    • Monitoring systems for irrigation communities

    • Hydrogen (Hâ‚‚) production in a wastewater treatment plant

  • CITIES

    • Digital visualization of infrastructures to optimize and expand their functional capacities

  • REAL ESTATE

    • Tool to maximize the performance of a real estate project

  • ENERGY

    • Risk assessment of climate change impacts on renewable generation

    • Inspection of wind turbine blades in motion

    • Ultra-short-term production forecasting (nowcasting) for photovoltaic plants

    • Design and optimization of evacuation systems for offshore wind farms

    • Optimization of energy efficiency in industrial HVAC systems

  • FINANCIAL SERVICES

    • Natural Language Processing to improve investor satisfaction and service quality

You can find more details about the 2024 edition of I’MNOVATION here.