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MULTIFUSE project launched with HUN-REN SZTAKI , aiming at sustainable agriculture and food security

10 December 2025

MULTIFUSE international project, led by the Leibniz University, is the collaboration of five European institutes and the Tokyo University aiming at the early detection of plant stress symptoms, integrating the expertise across plant sciences, optical sensor technology, and data processing. HUN-REN SZTAKI Department of Distributed Systems (HUN-REN SZTAKI DSD) participates in the three-year-long project.

The goal of MULTIFUSE project is the research and development to enhance a more sustainable plant production, and individual plant treatment even with climate change, extreme weather and changed practices of agriculture. The collaboration that is launched via the EIG-CONCERT Japan program, supports the cooperation between EU-countries and Japan in science, technology and innovation.

Project members:

  • Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
  • Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
  • Universitat de Girona, Spain
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France
  • HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control (HUN-REN SZTAKI)

In the project, HUN-REN SZTAKI provides and maintains the central digital research infrastructure, the research data repository and cloud services that are needed for the international data exchange among the project partners. The Department of Distributed Systems (HUN-REN SZTAKI DSD) is working on the research data management, metadata handling and prediction AI models.

During the first phase, the project partners are working on defining the data to be collected and elaborating the research methodology. Based on these, HUN-REN SZTAKI DSD leads the creation of the data management plan, that will define data collection, storage, processing and potential outputs, the datasets to be published, for the entire project period.