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Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The IoF2020 project is dedicated to accelerate adoption of IoT for securing sufficient, safe and healthy food and to strengthen competitiveness of farming and food chains in Europe.It will consolidate Europe’s leading position in the global IoT industry by fostering a symbiotic ecosystem of farmers, food industry, technology providers and research institutes.The IoF2020 consortium of 73 partners, ...
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Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (RadioNet)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

RadioNet is a consortium of 28 institutions in Europe, Republic of Korea and South Africa, integrating at European level world-class infrastructures for research in radio astronomy. These include radio telescopes, telescope arrays, data archives and the globally operating European Network for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (EVN). RadioNet is de facto widely regarded to represent the interests o...
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Demonstration of soft stimulation treatments of geothermal reservoirs (DESTRESS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

DESTRESS is aimed at creating EGS (Enhanced geothermal systems) reservoirs with sufficient permeability, fracture orientation and spacing for economic use of underground heat. The concepts are based on experience in previous projects, on scientific progress and developments in other fields, mainly the oil & gas sector. Recently developed stimulation methods will be adapted to geothermal needs, app...
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Systematic Design and Testing of Advanced Rotating Packed Bed Processes and Phase-Change Solvents for Intensified Post-Combustion CO2 Capture (ROLINCAP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

ROLINCAP will search, identify and test novel phase-change solvents, including aqueous and non-aqueous options, as well as phase-change packed bed and Rotating Packed Bed processes for post-combustion CO2 capture. These are high-potential technologies, still in their infancy, with initial evidence pointing to regeneration energy requirements below 2.0 GJ/ton CO2 and considerable reduction of the e...
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SynchroniCity: Delivering an IoT enabled Digital Single Market for Europe and Beyond (SynchroniCity)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

SynchroniCity represents the first attempt to deliver a Single Digital City Market for Europe by piloting its foundations at scale in 11 reference zones - 8 European cities & 3 more worldwide cities - connecting 34 partners from 11 countries over 4 continents. Building upon a mature European knowledge base derived from initiatives such as OASC, FIWARE, FIRE, EIP-SCC, and including partners with le...
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A New Dimension in Asia-Europe Relations: Exploring EU’s Global Actorness and Strategic Partnership in Asia (China, India, Japan and South Korea)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Running title for this project is “A New Dimension in Asia-Europe Relations (NEAR): Exploring EU’s Global Actorness and Strategic Partnership in Asia (China, India, Japan and South Korea).” The ASEM framework, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2016, provides one of background factors of this project. EU’s cooperation with Asia should be strengthened in the future, given the potential o...
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Revolutionary embedded memory for internet of things devices and energy reduction (REMINDER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

REMINDER aims to develop an embedded DRAM solution optimized for ultra-low-power consumption and variability immunity, specifically focused on Internet of Things cut-edge devices. The objectives of REMINDER are :i) Investigation (concept, design, characterization, simulation, modelling), selection and optimization of a Floating-Body memory bit cell in terms of low power and low voltage, high relia...
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Enabling precision chemical methodologies applied to natural-based systems for the development of multifunctional biomedical devices (CHEM2NATURE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

CHEM2NATURE addresses current limitations of UMINHO in the Chemistry field regarding its scientific know-how and partnerships with world-leading institutions. UMINHO seeks to improve the multifunctionality of natural-origin polymers, often with limited bioactivity and stimuli-responsiveness, and increase the performance of cell-based therapies. Introducing such properties by precision chemical mod...
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Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT/cloud Testbeds and Applications (FIESTA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Despite the proliferation of IoT and smart cities testbeds, there is still no easy way to conduct large scale experiments that leverage data and resources from multiple geographically and administratively distributed IoT platforms. Recent advances in IoT semantic interoperability provide a sound basis for implementing novel cloud-based infrastructures that could allow testbed-agnostic access to Io...
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Materials’ Innovations for a Safe and Sustainable nuclear in Europe (MATISSE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The European Energy Research Alliance, set-up under the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan, has launched an initiative for a Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials (JPNM). The JPNM aims at establishing key priorities in the area of advanced nuclear materials, identifying funding opportunities and harmonizing this scientific & technical domain at the European level by maximizing complementarit...
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Development of sensor-based Citizens' Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities (CITI-SENSE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

CITI-SENSE will develop “citizens’ observatories” to empower citizens to contribute to and participate in environmental governance, to enable them to support and influence community and societal priorities and associated decision making. CITI-SENSE will develop, test, demonstrate and validate a community-based environmental monitoring and information system using innovative and novel Earth Observa...
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"Ultra thin glass membranes for advanced, adjustable and affordable quadruple glazing windows for zero-energy buildings" (MEM4WIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"Windows are critical elements to control the energy performance of buildings especially for zero-energy buildings. It is of paramount importance to develop windows which show reduced U-value, weight and costs and certain features to control and harvest energy. Such a window will have a high impact in the window industry and will reduce green house gas emissions as long as the window is affordable...
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Enabling SDN ExperiMentAtion in WiReless Testbeds exploiting Future Internet Infrastructure in South KoRea and Europe (SMARTFIRE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The main target at which SMARTFIRE aims is the design and implementation of a shared experimental facility spanning different islands located in Europe (EU) and South Korea (KR). This large scaled facility will promote joint experimentation among EU and KR experimenters, encouraging them to conceive and implement innovative protocols, able to take advantage of the current leading network technolog...
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Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (RADIONET3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

RadioNet is an I3 that coordinates all of Europe’s leading radio astronomy facilities in an integrated cooperation to achieve transformational improvement in the quality and quantity of the scientific research of European astronomers. RadioNet3 includes 27 partners operating world-class radio telescopes and/or performing cutting-edge R&D in a wide range of technology fields important for radio ast...
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Open Collaborative Model for Tuberculosis Lead Optimisation (ORCHID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

"Early stage Drug Discovery efforts over the last 5 years have resulted in the identification of a number of promising lead compounds in the fight against TB. These leads need to be further progressed and optimised into candidates for pre-clinical development through the Drug Development progression cascade.Three compound families are of particular interest: 1) InhA Inhibitors, 2) New potent whole...
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Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

The goal of EINS is coordinating and integrating European research aimed at achieving a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the development of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact, whose evolution is increasingly interwined with that of human societies. Its main objective is to allow an open and productive dialogue between all the disciplines which study Internet systems und...
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Small-molecule Inhibitor Leads Versus emerging and neglected RNA viruses (SILVER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

RNA virus infections kill millions of humans annually, largely due to the lack of suitable vaccines and drugs to control them. This problem is addressed in this FP7 call and in response a consortium of Europe’s and Asia’s leading molecular virologists, structural biologists, medicinal chemists and bioinformaticians has been brought together to generate a state-of-the-art drug discovery and design ...
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MATerials TEsting and Rules (MATTER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The 2010-2012 implementation plan of the European Sustainable NuclearIndustrial Initiative (ESNII), in the frame of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNE TP), establishes a very tight time schedule for the start of construction of the European Gen IV prototypes; namely the construction of the LFR ETPP (European Technology Pilot Plant) Myrrha will start in 2014 and that of the SF...
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio...
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Support at the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (SUP@VAMDC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) is a major new European initiative now building a unified, secure, documented, flexible and interoperable e-science environment-based interface to 17 existing A+M databases.The SUP@VAMDC (Support at VAMDC) aims at building upon the VAMDC e-infrastructure, supporting different studies and actions linked to the VAMDC e-infrastructure that will in ...
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Internet Connected Objects for Reconfigurable Ecosystems (iCore)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The iCore initiative addresses two key issues in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), namely: (a) how to abstract the technological heterogeneity that derives from the vast amounts of heterogeneous objects, while enhancing context-awareness, reliability and energy-efficiency. (b) to consider the views of different users/stakeholders (owners of objects & communication means) for ensuring pr...
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Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System - Preparatory Phase (SIOS-PP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"Environmental change and climate change in particular, are expected to be most pronounced in the polar regions. For this reason, a multi-disciplinary research infrastructure covering all important elements of the coupled Earth System in the Arctic is a very valuable tool to quantify the ongoing global change and to verify the capability of Earth System models to predict future changes. The propos...
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Universal Integration of the Internet of Things through an IPv6-based Service Oriented Architecture enabling heterogeneous components interoperability (IoT6)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The IoT6 project aims at exploiting the potential of IPv6 and related standards (6LoWPAN, CORE, COAP, etc.) to overcome current shortcomings and fragmentation of the Internet of Things, in line with the CERP-IoT and EC recommendations.Its main challenges and objectives are to research, design and develop a highly scalable IPv6-based Service-Oriented Architecture to achieve interoperability, mobili...
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LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data (LOD2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Description Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data - Research and development of novel, innovative Sematic Data Web technologies. - Expansion and integration of openly accessible and interlinked data on the web. - Adoption and implementation of Linked Data for media, enterprise and government.LOD2 will integrate and syndicate linked d...
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Discovery and preclinical development of new generation tuberculosis vaccines (NEWTBVAC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"With 14.4 million prevalent cases and 1.7 million deaths tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most serious infectious diseases to date. An estimated 2 billion people are believed to be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and at risk of developing disease. Multi- and extensively drug resistant strains are increasingly appearing in many parts of the world, including Europe. While with current ...
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Multiscale Materials Modelling on High Performance Computer Architectures (MMM@HPC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

With the accelerating materials development cycles, the development of simulation approaches for predictive, de-novo characterization and optimization of materials and device properties emerges as a grand challenge to European R&D. A unified multi-disciplinary approach towards the deployment of models, tools, algorithms and simulation and visualization techniques is required to transform isolated ...
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Bringing the Media Internet to Life (3DLife)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

3DLife will integrate leading European research groups to create a long-term integration of critical mass for innovation of currently fragmented research addressing media Internet. The main objective of the NoE are:-To foster the creation of sustainable relationships between existing national research groups and to start development of a Virtual Centre of Excellence in the field.-To create suffici...
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MOFs as Catalysts and Adsorbents: Discovery and Engineering of Materials for Industrial Applications (MACADEMIA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

A major challenge facing European industry involves the development of more specific, energy saving processes with less environmental impact. The recent development of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) may prove a major milestone in achieving these goals. MACADEMIA project is an extension to an FP6 STREP (DeSANNS) which highlighted some MOF materials for CO2 capture and storage. It will expand and c...
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European Middleware Initiative (EMI)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The European Middleware Initiative is a collaboration of the three major middleware providers in Europe, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other consortia. EMI aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other DCIs; extend the interoperability between grids and other computing infrastructures; strengthen the reliability of the services; and establish a su...
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Severe Accident Research Network of Excellence 2 (SARNET2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Most of the actors involved in severe accident research in Europe, plus Canada, Korea and the United States (41 partners), will network in SARNET2 (Severe Accident Research NETwork of Excellence - Phase 2) their capacities of research in order to resolve important pending issues on postulated severe accidents of existing and future Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). The project has been defined in order...
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Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (RadioNet-FP7)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

RadioNet is an integrating activity that has pulled together ALL of Europe's leading radio astronomy facilities to produce a focused, coherent and integrated proposals that will significantly enhance the quality and quantity of science performed by European astronomers. RadioNet FP7 has 25 partners. They range from operators of major radio telescope facilities to laboratories that specialise in m...
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A Preparatory phase proposal for the Square Kilometre Array (PrepSKA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be one of the largest scientific projects ever undertaken. It is a machine designed to answer some of the big questions of our time: what is Dark Energy? Was Einstein right about gravity? What is the nature of dark matter? Can we detect gravitational waves? When and how did the first stars and galaxies form? What was the origin of cosmic magnetism? How do Eart...
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European Asia-Pacific Cooperation on ICT Research (EURASIAPAC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

One of Europe's most important ideals and foundation is the single market. The single market is not limited to the free flow of goods and services. It also includes the free flow of ideas. ICT research is uniquely positioned to play an important role in globally promoting the single market for ideas through international research cooperation.International research cooperation, however, has to be s...
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IMS2020: Supporting global research for IMS 2020 Vision (IMS2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

IMS2020 aims at strengthening international co-operation and supporting global European-centric research under the IMS initiative, providing an effective interface to ongoing European roadmapping activities (such as European Technology Platform, etc.) and creating research synergies at international level through establishment of inter-regional manufacturing communities in the five Key Areas of Ac...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-Beijing genetic diversity and differential virulence and host immune responses (TB-VIR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"Improvements in TB control require the development of new tools for rapid and accurate diagnosis and intervention. This development is likely to benefit from more detailed knowledge of microbe-host relationships during infection. Following M. tuberculosis infection, only 5-10% of immunocompetent individuals develop TB. It is increasingly thought that the virulence of the infecting strain, togethe...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as...
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KOR-EU Leaders for Global Education

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

The EU consortium for the KE-LeGE, Leaders for Global Education, project consists of four universities: Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences and University of Oulu (Finland), University of Innsbruck (Austria), and University of Tallinn (Estonia). Three universities form the Korean consortium: Chungbuk National University, Sunchon National University and Korea University. Major activ...
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S2-L03-EM-BEAM-Build on Euro-Asian Mobility (JAPAN, KOREA)

Start date: Jul 15, 2010,

EM-BEAM program is mainly dedicated to research exchanges and will establish mobility scheme for more than 80 individuals, doctorates (57%), post-docs (14%) and staff (29%). More than 60% of the individuals will be European. The program is focused, but not restricted, on the main thematic fields tackling the XXIst Century challenges like Engineering, Mathematics and Informatics, and Natural Scienc...
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