March 27, 2025
eBOS hosted the plenary meeting of the HORIZON Europe project NESTLER
On March 26th and 27th, 2025, eBOS hosted the plenary meeting of NESTLER project at the company’s premises in Nicosia, Cyprus. This hybrid event was chaired by Project Coordinator Prof. Theodore Zachariades (SYNELIXIS) while partners from Greece (SYNELIXIS), Germany (ADAPTIT GMBH), the Netherlands (IDH), Italy (Zanasi Alessandro SRL), Cameroon (AGRIX), Uganda (CTPH), Kenya (ICIPE), Ethiopia (EIAR), Rwanda (RAB), Nigeria (IITA), UK (UCL) and Bulgaria (RINISOFT LTD) attended both in person and remotely. eBOS was represented by Georgia Pantelide, Senior R&D Project Manager.
NESTLER is a joint project between the EU and African member states designed to promote One-Health sustainable partnership. The project aims to bring together interdisciplinary technological advances to effectively monitor the well-being of animals, plants, and humans in a holistic approach. The complementarity between the stakeholders is extended upon the ongoing initiatives from FARM2FORK strategies that have resulted in integrated hardware and software solutions.
The novelty of the NESTLER project lies in the development and integration of advanced technologies. The NESTLER platform develops software interfaces for ingesting satellite data sources along with video streams captured from unmanned aerial vehicles and other IoT devices installed for monitoring the environmental and animal well-being. The large-volume of data ingested into the platform is subjected to additional processing for the extraction of intuitive insights with the assistance of ML and AI algorithms. Remote sensing technologies and GIS systems are developed to conduct environmental surveillance on large-scale areas. The extracted insights are translated into predictive models affecting One-Health sustainability program.
NESTLER also undertakes research activities to investigate the impact of insect protein on the circular economy for the well-being of animals. Moreover, methodologies are developed for edible insect farming to feed farmed animals. Research studies are conducted on the impact of animal waste in crop-based farming. In complementary to the analysis of health benefits, the project evaluates the economic sustainability of such farming practices which lead to the setup to joint EU-Africa joint task force on One-Health Sustainability. NESTLER results are associated to the transition from a linear economy to a circular economy delivering sustained growth.
In NESTLER, eBOS leads the development of an economic risk assessment model by training algorithms using deep-learning architectures for predicting the risk index using regression. Moreover, eBOS guides the work which aims at unifying the outcomes of the developed components and services in other project areas in order to release the integrated NESTLER platform by developing a solid integration and validation plan. eBOS also contributes towards the creation of an interactive toolkit for data visualization and standard interface for information exchange with external services and the project platform architecture design and integration. Lastly, eBOS contributes to the development of a last mile communication platform tailored for UAV (drone) data transmission, addressing the limitations of current systems in terms of range, efficiency, size, cost and security.
This project has received funding from the EU Horizon Europe research and innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101060762.
