About us

FOURIER is the first European Doctoral Network (DN) dedicated to digital inspection and smart infrastructure management. It brings together expertise from civil engineering, computer science, sensing technology, emergency management, social sciences, and applied mathematics. By bridging these fields, the project creates a new body of knowledge that empowers researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers to build smarter, more sustainable, and resilient infrastructure systems that benefit both industry and society. FOURIER is pushing the boundaries of innovation in the field of critical infrastructure (CI).

Unlike previous EU projects that focused on isolated aspects of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and resilience, FOURIER takes a holistic, multidisciplinary approach, integrating socio-technical systems to ensure scalability, adaptability, and real-world impact.

FOURIER is redefining the way we monitor, manage, and future-proof critical infrastructure. By pushing the boundaries of AI, big data, and augmented reality, the project delivers cutting-edge innovations in:

• AI-driven technologies for intelligent automation and decision-making
• Big data processing & multimodal data fusion for deeper insights
• AR-powered inspections & visualization tools for real-time monitoring
• Policy recommendations to guide the future of EU infrastructure
• Next-generation training & knowledge transfer for researchers and professionals
• Advanced resilience management for sustainable, future-ready infrastructure

The Doctoral Candidates will enjoy a highly integrated training network coordinated by Politecnico di Torino, an interdisciplinary and intersector training environment, enriched through secondments with the network of academics and non-academics partners from Italy, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Portugal, Croatia, Greece and Switzerland.