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REliability and Safety Engineering and Technology for large maritime engineering systems (RESET)

Start date: May 1, 2017, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

Failure of large complex engineering systems often leads to catastrophic consequences. Their efficient and safe design and operation will avoid or reduce malfunctions, failures and accidents, which would have a significant impact on the daily life of the public in terms of service and product delivery, business interruption, economic losses, human injuries/fatalities, and property and environmenta ...
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A sound fundament for our future buildings (Acoutect)

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

To ensure a healthy environment for people living and working in buildings, research and engineering in the area of building acoustics is essential. Developments in modern building concepts, such as sustainable low-energy consuming buildings, buildings with lightweight materials and open plan working environments, as well as the need to build in extremely noisy areas, require involvement of acoust ...
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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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MetaMaterials antenna for ultra-high field MRI (M-CUBE)

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

M-Cube aims at changing the paradigm of High-Field MRI and Ultra High-Field antennas to offer a much better insight on the human body and enable earlier detection of diseases. Our main objective is to go beyond the limits of MRI clinical imaging and radically improve spatial and temporal resolutions. The clinical use of High-field MRI scanners is drastically limited due to the lack of homogeneity ...
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Hybrid Optomechanical Technologies (HOT)

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

The hybrid optomechanical technologies (HOT) consortium will lay the foundation for a new generation of devices, which connect, or indeed contain, several platforms at the nanoscale in a single “hybrid” system. As hybrid interfaces they will allow to harness the unique advantages of each subsystem within a nano-scale footprint, while as integrated hybrid devices they will enable entirely novel fun ...
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Innovation pathways, strategies and policies for the Low-Carbon Transition in Europe (INNOPATHS)

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

The Paris Agreement substantially increased the need for countries and regions to understand the full economic, social and environmental implications of the deep decarbonisation to which the global community is now committed. The EU has long had decarbonisation ambitions, but there remains considerable uncertainty as to precisely how these ambitions will be achieved, or what the impacts of such ac ...
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Zero Waste Ligno-Cellulosic Biorefineries by Integrated Lignin Valorisation (Zelcor)

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

Zelcor project aims at demonstrating the feasibility of transforming lignocellulose biorefinery recalcitrant side streams into high added-value biobased products, including fine chemicals. Its concept is to combine chemical and enzymatic catalysis with insects-based biological conversion, within a biorefinery integrated approach. The project is conceived to avoid waste production by recycling wast ...
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An e-infrastructure for software, training and consultancy in simulation and modelling (E-CAM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

E-CAM will create, develop and sustain a European infrastructure for computational science applied to simulation and modelling of materials and of biological processes of industrial and societal importance. Building on the already significant network of 15 CECAM centres across Europe and the PRACE initiative, it will create a distributed, sustainable centre for simulation and modelling at and acro ...
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Critical Raw materials Elimination by a top-down Approach To hydrogen and Electricity generation (CREATE)

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

CREATE aims at developing innovative membrane electrode assemblies for low-temperature polymer-electrolyte fuel cell (FC) and electrolyzer (EL) with much reduced cost. This will be achieved via elimination or drastic reduction of critical raw materials in their catalysts, in particular platinum group metals (PGM).Key issues with present low-temperature FC & EL are the high contents of PGM in devic ...
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VisorSurf - A Hardware Platform for Software-driven Functional Metasurfaces (VISORSURF)

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

Metasurfaces, thin film planar, artificial structures, have recently enabled the realization of novel electromagnetic (EM) and optical components with engineered functionalities. These include total EM radiation absorption, filtering and steering of light and sound, as well as nano-antennas for sensors and implantable devices. Nonetheless, metasurfaces are presently non-adaptive and non-reusable, ...
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Convergence of Electronics and Photonics Technologies for Enabling Terahertz Applications (CELTA)

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

CELTA: Convergence of Electronics and Photonics Technologies for Enabling Terahertz Applications aims to produce the next generation of researchers who will enable Europe to take a leading role in the multidisciplinary area of utilizing Terahertz technology for applications involving components and complete systems for sensing, instrumentation, imaging, spectroscopy, and communications. All these ...
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Advanced Networking for Nuclear Education and Training and Transfer of Expertise (ANNETTE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The present situation of nuclear energy in Europe asks for a continuing effort in the field of Education and Training aimed to assure a qualified workforce in the next decades. In this scenario, the present proposal is aimed at enhancing and networking the Europe-wide efforts initiated in the past decades by different organisations belonging to academia, research centres and industry to maintain a ...
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SpaceMaster-Joint European Master in Science and Technology

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Objective The objective of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Space Science and Technology – SpaceMaster is to open opportunities for all highly qualified students around the world to study space science and technology at an advanced level in a research-oriented environment.Course duration Two years (120 ECTS)Brief DescriptionThe Course consists of four semesters. The 1st compulsory semester take ...
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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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SoBigData Research Infrastructure (SoBigData)

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

One of the most pressing and fascinating challenges scientists face today, is understanding the complexity of our globally interconnected society. The big data arising from the digital breadcrumbs of human activities promise to let us scrutinize the ground truth of individual and collective behaviour at an unprecedented detail and scale. There is an urgent need to harness these opportunities for s ...
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HYDRALAB+ Adapting to climate change (HYDRALAB-PLUS)

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

HYDRALAB is an advanced network of environmental hydraulic institutes in Europe, which has been effective in providing access to a suite of major and unique environmental hydraulic facilities from across the whole European scientific community.A continuation project will prepare environmental hydraulic modelling for the upcoming urgent technical challenges associated with adaptations for climate c ...
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Role of technologies in an energy efficient economy – model-based analysis of policy measures and transformation pathways to a sustainable energy system (REEEM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

REEEM aims to gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of the system-wide implications of energy strategies in support of transitions to a competitive low-carbon EU society. Comprehensive technology impact assessments will target the full integration from demand to supply and from the individual to the entire system. It will further address its trade-offs across society, environment and econom ...
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Advanced Learning and Inclusive EnviroNment for Higher Education through greater knowledge and understanding of migration processes

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

... partnership institutions based in Poland (Polish Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw School of Economics), UK (Glyndwr University and University of the West of Scotland), Finland (Aalto University) and Greece (Technopolis). Methodologies This project will combine diverse innovative education methods including: 1. inquiry-based learning as one of the student-centred approaches to t ...
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Towards Replacement of Critical Catalyst Materials by Improved Nanoparticle Control and Rational Design (CritCat)

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

The CritCat proposal aims to provide solutions for the substitution of critical metals, especially rare platinum group metals (PGMs), used in heterogeneous and electrochemical catalysis. CritCat will explore the properties of ultra-small transition metal (TM) nanoparticles in order achieve optimal catalytic performance with earth-abundant materials. The emphasis will be on industrially-relevant ch ...
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Multidisciplinary Approach to Plan Smart Specialisation Strategies for Local Economic Development (MAPS-LED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The joint Exchange programme is based on a research proposal finalized to examine how smart specialization strategies (S3) to regenerate local economic areas can be implemented, according to the new agenda of Europe 2020. This can be largely achieved by incorporating a place-based dimension. The main aim is to identify and prescribe the implementation S3 in terms of spatial, social and environmen ...
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FUture Cabin for the Asian Market (FUCAM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

In many respects, the evolution of the Japanese airline passenger represents an anticipation of the societal trends for the world's future airline passenger (ageing and being connected from point to point for instance). If the design of the future human-centered passenger cabin is able to satisfy the highly demanding expectations from the Japanese customer (in terms of safety, perceived quality, c ...
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Knowledge Alliance for Urban Challenges

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

This Knowledge Alliance aims at creating an international educational programme, the Urban Challenge Programme (KAUC), as we have identified a need to create a foundational unit for students, teachers, municipalities and businesses across disciplinary backgrounds and national borders to cooperate on addressing urgent challenges and sustainability issues in different European urban settings. The fu ...
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Building an IoT OPen innovation Ecosystem for connected smart objects (bIoTope)

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

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings opportunities for creating new services and products, reducing costs for societies, increasing the service level for the citizens in a number of areas, and changing how services are sold and consumed. Despite these opportunities, current information system architectures create obstacles that must be addressed for leveraging the full potential of IoT. One of the ...
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Ceramics and its dimensions

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Our cultural heritage leads to tomorrow’s creativity: Ceramics and its dimensionsIn ceramics no development can be looked upon as national, it is common European heritage. Generating routes from Past to Future, the project brings together 16 partners from 11 countries: museums, universities, research institutes, companies: Documenting the past it shows the scope in usage of ceramics. Past and Pres ...
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Trash-2-Cash: Designed high-value products from zero-value waste textiles and fibres via design driven technologies (Trash-2-Cash)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Within Trash-2-Cash, growing problems with paper fibre waste from the paper industry and textile fibre waste, originating from a continuously increasing textile consumption, will be solved through design-driven innovation. This will be performed by using the wastes to regenerate fibres that will be included into fashion, interior and other products. The cotton production suffers from non-sustainab ...
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The Novel Materials Discovery Laboratory (NoMaD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Essentially every new commercial product, be they smart phones, solar cells, batteries, transport technology, artificial hips, etc., depends on improved or even novel materials. Computational materials science is increasingly influential as a method to identify such critical materials for both R&D. Enormous amounts of data, precious but heterogeneous and difficult to access or utilise, are already ...
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the international Learning Network of networks on Sustainability

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The LeNSin project aims at the internationalization, intercultural cross-fertilization and accessibility of higher education by consolidating and empowering a global network called the Learning Network on Sustainability. This network is composed of 6 existing, functioning regional networks (14 HEIs in 5 partner countries and 4 European HEIs): LeNS_Brasil, LeNS_Mexico; LeNS_South Africa, LeNS_China ...
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Research Infrastructure on Consumer Health and Food Intake using E-science with Linked Data Sharing (RICHFIELDS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

RICHFIELDSResearch Infrastructure on Consumer Health and Food Intake using E-science with Linked Data SharingThere is growing interest in consumer health as related to food, behaviour and lifestyle determinants. However, data is fragmented, key information is lacking, and the resulting knowledge gap prohibits policy makers and companies to make effective public health nutrition strategies and refo ...
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Bridging the gap: from Individual Behaviour to the Socio-tEchnical MaN (IBSEN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Developing models of real-world societal scenarios and systems is a key topic in the research agenda of social sciences, but is hindered by the lack of controlled experimentation with large groups of people. IBSEN will provide a breakthrough by building a repertoire of human behaviour in large (1000+ persons) structured groups using controlled experiments. To that end, we will develop a novel setu ...
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An integrated pilot line for micro-fabricated medical devices (InForMed)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

The goal of the InForMed project is to establish an integrated pilot line for medical devices. The pilot line includes micro-fabrication, assembly and even the fabrication of smart catheters. The heart of this chain is the micro-fabrication and assembly facility of Philips Innovation Services, which will be qualified for small/medium-scale production of medical devices. The pilot facility will be ...
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NE©XT Accelerator

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

NE©XT Accelerator: Creates transnational entry routes into international careers for generations of talented emerging artists, enabling them to make a living from creative production; Makes cultural/creative incubators more entrepreneurial, innovative and transnational; Boosts transnational mobility and entrepreneurial learning opportunities for arts graduates, art educators and incubator leaders; ...
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FUEL FLEXIBLE, NEAR -ZERO EMISSIONS, ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE MARINE ENGINE (HERCULES-2)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The project HERCULES-2 is targeting at a fuel-flexible large marine engine, optimally adaptive to its operating environment. The objectives of the HERCULES-2 project are associated to 4 areas of engine integrated R&D:• Improving fuel flexibility for seamless switching between different fuel types, including non-conventional fuels.• Formulating new materials to support high temperature component ap ...
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ONLINE Platform for Smart Specialisation Policy Advice (ONLINE-S3)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

This project aims to develop an e-policy platform augmented with a toolbox of applications and online services, which will assist national and regional authorities in the EU in elaborating or revising their smart specialisation agenda, in terms of policies and strategy. The platform will leverage existing methodologies, initiatives and tools developed by the EC for the RIS3 strategy, but it will a ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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Scalable and Secure Infrastructures for Cloud Operations (SSICLOPS)

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

The SSICLOPS project will focus on techniques for the management of federated private cloud infrastructures, in particular cloud networking techniques (within software-defined data centres and across wide-area networks). Key deliverables from the project will include a meta data description language for workloads, resources and policies, a flexible scheduling system using meta data, workload-speci ...
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architectuRe for an Internet For Everybody (RIFE)

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

RIFE addresses the major societal challenge of providing affordable Internet access to those who cannot afford it by solving the technological challenge to increase the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the involved architectures and protocols. The RIFE solution will harness unused transmission capacity, combined with placing content caches and service functionality closer to the ...
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POINT: iP Over IcN - the betTer ip (POINT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The goal of POINT is to develop technology, innovations, and business value chains for commercially viable IP-over-ICN deployment, based on the hypothesis that many current IP-based applications can run ‘better’ on an ICN-based network than on current IP networks.To achieve this, we will first define a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to specify what exactly 'better' means. Then, we will s ...
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Early identification of STEM readiness and targeted academic interventions

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...ct will be carried out by three key partners (Hamburg University of Technology [TUHH], University of Zilina and KU Leuven), three supporting partners (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Aalto University, and University of Birmingham) and the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) as a network partner. The three key partners have prior experience in STEM education research ...
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TACCLE3 - Coding

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project aims are: • To encourage and support teachers to introduce coding, programming and / or computational thinking as part of the curriculum in the 4 – 14 classroom to better equip pupils to develop the skills needed by the European labour market. • To broaden teachers’ digital skills base and enhance their professional competence • To show how entrepreneurial skills can be developed and ...
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