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Biomimetic trick to re-balance Osteblast-Osteoclast loop in osteoporoSis treatment: a Topological and materials driven approach (BOOST)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

One out of 5 people in their fifties will experience a bone fracture due to osteoporosis (OP)-induced fragility in their lifetime. The OP socio-economic burden is dramatic and involves tens of millions of people in the EU, with a steadily increasing number due to population ageing. Current treatments entail drug-therapy coupled with a healthy lifestyle but OP fractures need mechanical fixation to ...
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Hybrid immune-eluding nanocrystals as smart and active theranostic weapons against cancer (TROJANANOHORSE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Nanomedicine tools for cancer treatment comprise many nanosized systems, so far developed with smart functions such as efficient drug delivery and cell targeting abilities. However they remain still undercharacterized in terms of immunogenicity, potential toxicity due to the materials itself or the unwanted release of drugs. To overcome these challenges this project aims to develop a new generatio...
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Biomacromolecules from municipal solid bio-waste fractions and fish waste for high added value applications. (DAFIA)

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

Municipal solids waste (MSW) are collected by municipalities and represents more than 500 kg/capita (EU-27 average), 300 million tonnes overall every year in the EU-32. Currently, approximately 50% of this volume is landfilled. More than 1.3 million tonnes of Marine rest raw material (MRRM) are generated in Europe each year. Some countries, such as Norway and Denmark, have traditionally for anima...
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Advanced materials solutions for next generation high efficiency concentrated solar power (CSP) tower systems (NEXTOWER)

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

NEXTOWER shall introduce a set of innovative materials to boost the performance of atmospheric air-based concentrated solar power (CSP) systems to make them commercially viable. In particular, tower systems are appealing for the great environmental compatibility and offer tremendous potential for efficient (electrical and thermal) power generation. Yet, their industrial exploitation has been so fa...
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Multi-scale Composite Material Selection Platform with a Seamless Integration of Material Models and Multidisciplinary Design Framework. (COMPOSELECTOR)

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

The mission of COMPOSELECTOR is to develop a Business Decision Support System (BDSS), which integrates materials modelling, business tools and databases into a single workflow to support the complex decision process involved in the selection and design of polymer-matrix composites (PMCs). This will be achieved by means of an open integration platform which enables interoperability and information ...
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Training REsearch and Applications network to Support the Ultimate Real time high accuracy EGNSS solution (TREASURE)

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

TREASURE will provide specialist training in the strategic and emerging area of European GNSS. Collectively, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) includes systems such as the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian GLONASS, as well as the new, under development systems like China’s Beidou and most importantly Europe’s Galileo. Galileo is what we call the European GNSS (EGNSS) and ...
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Sand Mitigation around Railway Tracks (SMaRT)

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

In the last decade, a growing number of railways and other civil or industrial infrastructures have been designed and/or built in arid regions worldwide. The European Railway Industry is often selected for such projects, because of its strong overall know-how.In arid environmental conditions, windblown sand can have undesired effects on both the safety and the serviceability/ maintenance of railwa...
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MOdular high concentration SolAr Configuration (MOSAIC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

MOSAIC project aims to exceed the goal of the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan - European Commission of producing CSP electricity at a cost below 0.10 €/kWh. To exceed this goal a commercial CSP plant of > 1GW of nominal capacity is foreseen, in which high nominal capacity of CSP plant is reached in a modular way where each MOSAIC module delivers thermal energy to linked thermal energy stor...
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Supporting Urban Integrated Transport Systems: Transferable tools for authorities (SUITS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

SUITS takes a sociotechnical approach to capacity building in Local Authorities and transport stakeholder organisations with special emphasis on the transfer of learning to smaller sized cities, making them more effective and resilient to change in the judicious implementation of sustainable transport measures. Key outputs will be a validated capacity building program for transport departments, an...
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Integrated DEsign and control of Sustainable CommUnities during Emergencies (IDEal reSCUE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Integrated DEsign and control of Sustainable CommUnities during Emergencies
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Improving the crashworthiness of composite transportation structures (ICONIC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

The European aerospace, automotive, and rail industries are committed to improving their energy efficiency to meet targets set within the EU’s climate, energy and transport policies. This is motivating the increased use of lightweight composite materials in lieu of heavier metallics. To implement this transition, these industries must reach, at least, the same level of crash performance achieved w...
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DEMOnstration of large SOFC system fed with biogas from WWTP (DEMOSOFC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Energy Context and EU positionThe “Europe 2020” strategy promotes the shift towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon economy to achieve sustainable growth. The European policies on energy and sustainability are thus contributing to the diversification of the primary energy mix and to the introduction of distributed power technologies with high efficiency and low carbon emissions. , From the point...
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Advanced direct biogas fuel processor for robust and cost-effective decentralised hydrogenproduction (BIOROBURplus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

BioROBURplus builds upon the closing FCH JU BioROBUR project (direct biogas oxidative steam reformer) to develop an entire pre-commercial fuel processor delivering 50 Nm3/h (i.e. 107 kg/d) of 99.9% hydrogen from different biogas types (landfill gas, anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, anaerobic digestion of wastewater-treatment sludges) in a cost-effective manner.The energy efficiency of biogas...
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Coping with water scarcity in a globalized world (CWASI)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

We intend to set up a new globalized perspective to tackle water and food security in the 21st century. This issue is intrinsically global as the international trade of massive amounts of food makes societies less reliant on locally available water, and entails large-scale transfers of virtual water (defined as the water needed to produce a given amount of a food commodity). The network of virtual...
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Cloud-MicroPhysics-Turbulence-Telemetry: An inter-multidisciplinary training network for enhancing the understanding and modeling of atmospheric clouds (COMPLETE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

Clouds are the largest source of uncertainty in weather prediction, climate science, and remain a weak link in modeling atmospheric circulation. This is rooted in the fact that clouds depend on the physical and chemical processes over a huge range of scales, from the collisions of micron-sized droplets and particles to the airflow dynamics on the scales of thousands of meters. Since ambiguities re...
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Modified cost effective fibre based structures with improved multi-functionality and performance (MODCOMP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Current technological demands are increasingly stretching the properties of advanced materials to expand their applications to more severe or extreme conditions, whilst simultaneously seeking cost-effective production processes and final products. The aim of this project is to demonstrate the influence of different surface enhancing and modification techniques on CF-based materials for high value ...
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MOtivating end-users Behavioral change by combined ICT based tools and modular Information services on energy use, indoor environment, health and lifestyle (MOBISTYLE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The overall aim of MOBISTYLE is to raise consumer awareness and awareness of ownership, thus empowering consumers and providing confidence of choosing the right thing, by providing attractive tailor-made combined knowledge services on energy use, indoor environment, health and lifestyle, by ICT-based solutions. This awareness will support and motivate end-users to well informed pro-active behavi...
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Design, manufacturing and control of INterfaces in THERMally conductive polymer nanocomposites (INTHERM)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

This proposal addresses the design, manufacturing and control of interfaces in thermally conductive polymer/graphene nanocomposites. In particular, the strong reduction of thermal resistance associated to the contacts between conductive particles in a percolating network throughout the polymer matrix is targeted, to overcome the present bottleneck for heat transfer in nanocomposites.The project in...
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Synthesis and photopolymerisation of new fluorinated macromonomers for the obtaining of high performance fluoropolymers (PhotoFluo)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The PhotoFluo project consists in a consortium of three teams (two from Europe and one from Canada) committed to work for developing novel fluoropolymers suitable for optical and electronic devices, membranes for fuel cells and Li batteries, microfluidics, and biomaterials. This ambitious goal will be achieved starting from designing new perfluoropolyalkylether building blocks (PFPAE) improving sa...
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Novel ALL-IN-ONE machines, robots and systems for affordable, worldwide and lifetime Distributed 3D hybrid manufacturing and repair operations (4D hybrid)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

From aeronautics to oil&gas, complex metal parts embrace major challenges across their lifecycles from the green field intensive manufacturing to the numerous maintenance and repairing operations worldwide distributed. The synergic combination of additive and subtractive processes could overcome individual shortcomings, going beyond the simple succession of steps. 'Plug and produce' modular approa...
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Values and ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in EUrope (VIRT-EU)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The networked future promises new relationships between people and artifacts, the private and the public, the individual and the collective. The increased networking capabilities of pervasive technologies mean that of personal data are being produced, analyzed, monetized and connected to other data streams in ways that hold both enormous potential and pose profound challenges for European society....
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Dependability Engineering Innovation for CPS - DEIS (DEIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Cyber-Physical-Systems harbor the potential for vast economic and societal impact in all major application domains, however in case of failure this may lead to catastrophic results for industry and society. Thus, ensuring the dependability of such systems is the key to unlocking their full potential and enabling European industries to develop confidently business models that will nurture their soc...
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Decentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem (DECODE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Today’s Internet is becoming increasingly centralised, slowing innovation and challenging its potential to revolutionise society and the economy in a pluralistic manner. DECODE will develop practical alternatives through the creation, evaluation and demonstration of a distributed and open architecture for managing online identity, personal and other data, and collective governance in a citizen-fri...
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MesopOrous matrices for localiZed pH-triggered releAse of theRapeuTic ions and drugs (MOZART)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The concept behind MOZART is to develop a library of inorganic nanomatrices to be used as smart platforms for effective, non-invasive and highly targeted therapies. MOZART will address, as proof of concept, nanomatrices to treat delayed bone healing and non-healing chronic skin wounds, which are both characterised by an inflammation and often infection. Mesoporous therapeutic glasses (MTGs), doped...
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Blended Vocational-Engineering-Industry Shared Learning Environment for Stream of Socially- and Technically-Competent Technicians and Engineers

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

A shared learning environment for vocational and engineering students is developed, in which project-based learning methodology is implemented targeting both students’ groups in final two years of their academic track. The developed education methodology is expected to yield a new line of industry human capital (engineers and technicians), who are technically and socially competent for professiona...
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WALL Insulation NOvel Nanomaterials Efficient systems (WALL IN ONE)

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

WALL IN ONE will develop a consistent package of new advanced sustainable insulation products and systems. The HONEST (High performance Optimized Nanomaterial Energy efficient SysTem) package is a “modular toolbox system” providing a set of complementary solutions that will address most of the complex challenges raised by thermal renovation as well as new construction.The HONEST package includes: ...
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Skills and competences development of future transportation professionals at all levels (SKILLFUL)

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

The Transportation sector employs over 10 million persons in the EU today. At the same time, Transport is a social sector that is rapidly developing, changing and being influenced to the maximum extent by the development of automation, electrification and greening of transport, among others, thus facing problems in staffing its several domains with appropriate and qualified personnel. This fact, m...
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Renewables in a Stable Electric Grid (RE-SERVE)

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

Future energy systems will use renewable energy sources to minimise CO2 emissions. Currently large generators powered by fossil fuel turbines maintain the stability and quality of energy supplies through their inertia. The inertia of these generator-turbine groups gives providers a significant time window in which to react to network events. We urgently need to find ways to stabilise energy sys...
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Theranostic Injectable Hydrogel for Glioblastoma (HyGlio)

Start date: Sep 30, 2016, End date: Sep 29, 2019,

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most frequent brain tumor in adults and is characterized by invariably fatal prognosis. Although the incidence of GBM is less than 10 to 100,000, the median survival of approximate 1 year from diagnosis makes it a considerable socio-economic burden. The presence of biological barriers for effective drug transport to the brain, the strong migrating-ability of th...
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Tandem Electrocatalytic Reactor for energy/Resource efficiency And process intensification (TERRA)

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Sep 14, 2019,

"TERRA project aims to develop, from TRL 3 to 5, a tandem electrocatalytic reactor (TER) coupling an oxidation reaction to a reduction reaction, with thus the great potential advantage of i) saving resources and energy (needed to produce the oxidant and reductants for the two separate reactions), and ii) intensify the process (reduce the nr. of steps, coupling two synthesis processes and especiall...
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Spatial containment of Vespa velutina in Italy and establishment of an Early Warning and Rapid Response System (LIFE STOPVESPA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Background The Asian predatory wasp (Vespa velutina) is an invasive alien species that poses a serious threat to European biodiversity due to its alimentary habits. The wasp feeds larvae on animal proteins from native wasps, bees, other hymenoptera, diptera and lepidoptera. The species is being controlled in France through the use of baited traps and the ...
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IMplementation of Powertrain Control for Economic and Clean Real driving emIssion and fuel ConsUMption (IMPERIUM)

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

Fuel economy is a key aspect to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency of freight traffic, thus increasing truck competitiveness.The main objective of the IMPERIUM project (IMplementation of Powertrain Control for Economic and Clean Real driving EmIssion and ConsUMption) is to achieve fuel consumption reduction by 20% (diesel and urea) whilst keeping the vehicle within the legal limits for ...
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Cost-effective CO2 conversion into chemicals via combination of Capture, ELectrochemical and BI-ochemical CONversion technologies (CELBICON)

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

CELBICON aims at the development, from TRL3 to TRL5, of new CO2-to-chemicals technologies, conjugating at once small-scale for an effective decentralized market penetration, high efficiency/yield, low cost, robustness, moderate operating temperatures and low maintenance costs.In line with the reference Topic text, these technologies will bridge cost-effective CO2 capture and purification from the ...
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European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC-CSA)

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

The aim of the EMMC-CSA is to establish current and forward looking complementary activities necessary to bring the field of materials modelling closer to the demands of manufacturers (both small and large enterprises) in Europe. The ultimate goal is that materials modelling and simulation will become an integral part of product life cycle management in European industry, thereby making a strong c...
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Increasing Gender Diversity in STEM

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

Lack of gender diversity in STEM studies and careers remains a persistent problem in most western countries, for example most western countries have 20% or less of graduating engineers as female, and often less than 10% of the engineering workforce.Much research has been done on the reasons for this imbalance, with a general consensus that a resolution is highly challenging, requiring multifaceted...
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Advanced Lithium Sulphur battery for xEV (ALISE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

ALISE is a pan European collaboration focused on the development and commercial scale-up of new materials and on the understanding of the electrochemical processes involved in the lithium sulphur technology. It aims to create impact by developing innovative battery technology capable of fulfilling the expected and characteristics from European Automotive Industry needs, European Materials Roadmap,...
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Improving Resilience to Emergencies through Advanced Cyber Technologies (I-REACT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2019,

Society as a whole is increasingly exposed and vulnerable to natural disasters because extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, are becoming more frequent and longer. To increase the resilience of European citizens and assets to natural disaster we propose I-REACT: Improving Resilience to Emergencies through Advanced Cyber Technologies. The proposed system targets public administrati...
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FULLY INTEGRATED ANALYSIS, DESIGN, MANUFACTURING AND HEALTH-MONITORING OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES (FULLCOMP)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Composite structures are massively exploited in many engineering fields. For instance, the state-of-the-art civil aircraft (B787 and A350) are mostly made of composite materials. The design of composites leads to challenging tasks since those competencies that stemmed from the adoption of metallic materials are often inadequate for composites. Insights on many different disciplines and tight acade...
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AGeing effects on human aORta: from shApe to flowS (AGORAs)

Start date: May 16, 2016, End date: May 15, 2019,

Age-related remodeling of the aorta is associated with alterations in morphology and hemodynamics . These alterations are involved and accelerated in the presence of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), suggesting that they are the likely culprits that underlie the increased cardiovascular risk associated with ageing . However, an advanced characterization of the age-related morphological/hemodynamic a...
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Securing against intruders and other threats through a NFV-enabled environment (SHIELD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Nowadays, cybercrime is one of the most relevant and critical threats to both the economy and society in Europe. Establishing efficient and effective ways to protect services and infrastructures from ever-evolving cyber threats is crucial for sustaining business integrity and reputation as well as protecting personal and sensitive data.To that end, the SHIELD project proposes a universal solution ...
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