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Smart Forwarder for sustainable and efficient forest operation and management (Forwarder2020)

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

Forest biomass is currently one of the most important source of renewable energy and accounts for almost half of the EU’s total renewable energy consumption. In addition to raw materials, forests also provide a wide range of vital non-wood services that should be protected during wood extraction. The innovation project Forwarder2020 has the main aim of improving sustainability of wood production a ...
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Constructing an Alliance for Value-driven Cybersecurity (CANVAS)

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

The growing complexity of the digital ecosystem in combination with increasing global risks entail the danger that enforcing cybersecurity may bypass other fundamental values like equality, fairness or privacy, whereas downplaying cybersecurity would undermine citizens’ trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure. Technology developers as well as legal and philosophical scholars and empiric ...
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City Platform as a Service - Integrated and Open (CPaaS.io)

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

Data has been termed to be the „oil of the 21st century“. Data will also be what the smart city of the future runs on. To make this a reality, cities need a platform where data from a variety of sources – IoT and sensor data, open government data, social media, and other 3rd party data providers – can be processed, linked, and analysed in order to extract valuable information that in turn can also ...
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Kompetenzaufbau für eine wirkungsorientierte Steuerung in kleinen und mittleren Kommunen

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

Kompetenzaufbau für eine wirkungsorientierte Steuerung in kleinen und mittleren Kommunen KoWiSt (Kompetenzaufbau für eine wirkungsorientierte Steuerung - Competence Building for Impact Oriented Management) is a cooperation between Bern University of Applied Science, the European Academy of Bolzano EURAC (IT), Carinthia University of Applied Science (AT), Hochschule Harz - University of Applied Sci ...
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Hub of Application Laboratories for Equipment Assessment in Laser Based Manufacturing (APPOLO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

During more than 50 years of the laser existence, they have been proved as the unique tool for diverse material processing application. New application ideas, coming from universities and research institutions, are usually implemented by spin-off companies with limited resources for market penetration. Research laboratories are using universal laser tools, while effective and low-cost production r ...
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Innovative continuous upgrades of high investment product-services (USE-IT-WISELY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

In the past, customers invested in high cost, long service-life products. Today, they demand complex product-services capable of adapting to new customer goals and rapidly changing markets. The Use-it-wisely project will enable European manufacturers to operate successfully within this new paradigm.The project will investigate a new business model that implements continuous product-service adaptat ...
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Building with Massive Wood - developing student understanding and workmanship in the use of modern massive wood construction elements, while cherishing our local building traditions and celebrating the diversity of architectural expressions.

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

1. Context - Timber is ecologically sustainable building material and the use of timber in construction is moving towards a more industrial production mode. Vocational training needs to understand this shift and develop a relevant response. 2. Goal - we want to develop a comprehensive understanding of the modern value-chain of timber and apply this to a discussion on the relevant vocational trai ...
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Advances in FOrestry Control and aUtomation Systems in Europe (FOCUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The forest-based value chains are one of the dominant contributors to the GDP in the rural regions of Europe. Besides the traditional value chains, novel ones are in the horizon, with significant impacts on the requirements for the raw material supply chains. A major roadblock for improving forest-based value chains is the lack of integrated control and planning mechanism. FOCUS will demonstrate h ...
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Fusepool Publish-Process-Perform Platform for Linked Data (Fusepool P3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

To make publishing and processing of linked data easy, the proposed project develops a set of integrated software components based on open-source Linked Data Platform best practices. The tightly integrated components support the multilingual data value chain from data exploration (e.g. identifying structured and unstructured data sources), extraction (e.g. using named entity recognition, RDF conv ...
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Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0 (STORK 2.0)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

"Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0" builds on the success and results of STORK by taking further steps to decisively push the lines for wider uptake of eID in Europe, aiming at realising a single European electronic identification & authentication area. Its highly innovative focus lies on the convergence of private and public sectors in an operational framework and infrastructure encompass ...
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Solutions for adapted forest management strategies under the threat of climate change - learning from a climate gradient from Germany over Italy to South Africa (CLIMATE-FIT FORESTS)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Forests play an important role in carbon fixation and in providing CO2 neutral raw materials. Due to predicted climate changes it is important to know to what extent European forests will be impacted by climate change, how best to mitigate these potential changes through adaptive forest management strategies, maintain current carbon fixation rates and minimize carbon emissions by forest operations ...
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Electromobility solutions for cities and regions (ELMO`s)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The overall goal of the proposed project is to promote more sustainable transport through the development of electromobility solutions for cities and regions (ELMOS). The projects aims at delivering concepts for a better exchange of electromobility knowledge at regional and EU level, concepts for new business models and for cross-border field tests which should lead to an improved standardisation ...
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Fusing and pooling information for product/service development and research (Fusepool) (Fusepool)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Fusepool develops an user-adaptive «Living Knowledge Pool» for product development and research. Compared to existing search and knowledge management solutions, Fusepool provides two core benefits: the automated transformation of content from web-harvesting and participating organizations into structured Linked Open Data format and the automated group-specific optimization of knowledge finding and ...
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Policy and Security Configuration Management (PoSecCo)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Future Internet (FI) applications will see dynamic compositions of services providing a broad diversity of functions, starting with business functionality down to infrastructure services. Their progress crucially depends on the service providers' ability to deal with two interdependent challenges: (1) to achieve, maintain and prove compliance with security requirements stemming from internal needs ...
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Extruded window profiles based on an environmentally friendly wood-polymer composite material (ExtruWin)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

It has been demonstrated that by adding wood particles or wood fibres to a thermoplastic matrix, the stiffness, insulating properties and thermal stability of the resulting composite (wood-plastic or wood-polymer-composite, WPC) may be significantly improved. Simultaneously, production costs can be decreased due to the replacement of synthetic polymers with a renewable feedstock, i.e., wood. Assum ...
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Autonomous cleaning robot for large scale photovoltaic power plants in Europe resulting in 5% cost reduction of electricity (PV-Servitor)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The PV-Servitor project focuses on concepts for a fully autonomous cleaning robot for ground mounted large scale photovoltaic power plants consisting of several 100 kW units. The PV-Servitor shall be able to automatically clean glass surfaces of solar modules in several areas of up to 2,500 square meters in an unrestricted way. Its application will increase the electricity output of the PV plant b ...
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Computer Aided Cryptography Engineering (CACE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Development of hardware devices and software products is facilitated by a design flow, and a set of tools (e.g., compilers and debuggers), which automate tasks normally performed by experienced, highly skilled developers. However, in both hardware and software examples the tools are generic since they seldom provide specific support for a particular domain. The goal of this project is to design, d ...
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Innovawood Edu - Expanding Good Practice in Education in the Forestry-Wood Chain Sector Through the Innova Network

The project is a Transnational Network focussing on the transfer of innovation. Based on the InnovaWood network, it focuses on recently acceded and pre-accession countries. It will form a network of specialists and special centres of vocational training that will share expertise and foster new approaches to training in this sector. The aim is to facilitate the exchange of experiences, good practic ...
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