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Simulation based control for Energy Efficiency building operation and maintenance (Energy IN TIME)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Buildings Operational stage represents 80% of building’s life-cycle cost of which 50% is consequence of the energy use. Up to 90% of the buildings’ life cycle carbon emissions occur during their operational phase, mainly as consequence of the HVAC, lighting and appliances’ energy use. Therefore, energy and cost saving strategies addressing this building operation phase will have a major impact in ...
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Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (ITARS)

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

"This proposal brings together a group of universities, research organisations and high-tech companies from different disciplines (meteorology, geosciences, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics) with the aim to foster training and further development in the area of remote sensing of the atmosphere. The last years have brought a rapid development in instrumental techniques, i.e. lidar, rad ...
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geohazards and geomechanics (GEO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"This proposal aims to bring together the complementary expertise of world leading groups carrying out research on the engineering assessment, prevention and mitigation of geohazards, the main ones being floods, landslides, and earthquakes considering also the effect of climate change and human activity on soil degradation.To mitigate these disasters it is necessary to improve our understanding of ...
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Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas (PERSEUS)

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

The overall scientific objectives of PERSEUS are to identify the interacting patterns of natural and human-derived pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas, assess their impact on marine ecosystems and, using the objectives and principles of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive as a vehicle, to design an effective and innovative research governance framework based on sound scientific knowl ...
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Natural Water Systems and Treatment Technologies to cope with Water Shortages in Urbanised Areas in India (NAWATECH-EU PART)

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

The here proposed NAwATech Europe proposal is closely interconnected with the partner project NaWaTech India. In order to reach the maximal impact the two projects have formed one common work plan for both projects, targeting the same objectives, will present their results at the same web-site and formed a joint management team. Providing adequate water supply and sanitation, particularly in urban ...
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Secure Location-Aware Cooperative Network-Coded WSNs for better Quality of Life (WSN4QoL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

WSN4QoL aims at bringing together experts, from industry and academia, with the long-term goal of designing and developing a more efficient pervasive healthcare system in the interest of the society. WSN4QoL wishes to achieve this objective by enhancing and promoting the industry-academia cooperation, as well as by creating a long-term cooperation program among industrial and academic partners in ...
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Learning about Interacting Networks in Climate (LINC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Improving our understanding of the Earth’s climate phenomena, such as El Niño, has a huge economic and social impact for present and future generations, and can underpin advances in areas as diverse as energy, environment, agricultural, etc. There is a great shortage of qualified workforce to perform this task and a major challenge is the training of qualified researchers that can approach climate ...
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Aerial Robotics Cooperative Assembly System (ARCAS)

Start date: Nov 28, 2011, End date: Nov 27, 2015,

Description The ARCAS project proposes the development and experimental validation of the first cooperative free-flying robot system for assembly and structure construction. The project will pave the way for a large number of applications including the building of platforms for evacuation of people or for landing aircrafts, the inspection an ...
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Novel biomimetic strategy for bone regeneration (INNOVABONE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The importance of developing novel approaches for bone repair is underscored by the heavy burden on health care costs and patient suffering caused by traumatic, osteoporotic and osteolytic metastatic bone lesions. To address these health challenges, we will develop optimally performing bioinspired biomaterials mimicking the natural physiological processes underlying bone repair. Our overall approa ...
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Integrated prevention and Detection sOlutioNs Tailored to the population and Risk Factors associated with FALLs (I-DONT-FALL)

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

Description Falls are the most prominent among the external causes of unintentional injury, since they account for approximately 40% of all injury deaths. Fall rates (and related mortality rates) vary depending on the country and the studied population. At the same time, falls are also associated with various risk factors, spanning the areas ...
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Virtual control methods for coupling heterogeneous problems (HEVICO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

In this project we aim at addressing mathematical and numerical methods based on virtual controls for the coupling of heterogeneous problems described by partial differential equations.These problems arise in many practical applications. For example, whenever different phenomena have to be taken into account in two or more subregions of the computational domain, or when, for the description and si ...
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Data without Boundaries (DWB)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

While access to anonymised official microdata for researchers is still uneven both at national and at European level, access to highly detailed and sensitive microdata is now increasingly on the agenda. Different member states have substantially different outcomes for research access to Official data, and the issue is not just efficiency, but real harm to the contribution of the social sciences to ...
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INCREASE OF AUTOMOTIVE CAR INDUSTRY COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH AN INTEGRAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DRIVEN ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EuroEnergest)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The challenge of climate change is real and growing. Every industrial sector must look deep into its operations and use every opportunity to play its part in reducing overall emissions. Euroenergest project aims is to reduce 10% of energy consumption in a specific areas of the automotive industry, such as HVAC.For achieving this goal, an Intelligent Energy Management Systems (iEMS) will be develop ...
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Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The Arctic is engaged in a deep climatic evolution. This evolution is quite predictable at short (year) and longer scales (several decades), but it is the decadal intermediate scale that is the most difficult to predict. This is because the natural variability of the system is large and dominant at this scale, and the system is highly non linear due to positive and negative feedback between sea ic ...
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Cross-lingual Knowledge Extraction (X-Like)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The goal of the X-LIKE project is to develop technology to monitor and aggregate knowledge that is currently spread across global mainstream and social media, and to enable cross-lingual services for publishers, media monitoring and business intelligence.In terms of research contributions, the aim is to combine scientific insights from several scientific areas to contribute in the area of cross-li ...
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Novel approaches for prevention and degeneration of pathogenic bacteria biofilms formed on medical devices e.g. catheters (NOVO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"Biofilms are bacterial communities encased in a self-produced hydrated polymeric matrix. An important characteristic of microbial biofilms is their innate resistance to the immune system and susceptibility to antibiotics. This resistance has made microbial biofilms a common cause of medical infections, and difficult-to-treat infections caused by colonized foreign bodies.The NOVO project aims at d ...
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SUstainable and PERsuasive Human Users moBility in future cities (SUPERHUB)

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

The SUPERHUB project aims at realizing a new services mobility framework supporting an integrated and eco-efficient use of multi-modal mobility systems in an urban setting.SUPERHUB provides a user-centric, integrated approach to multi-modal smart urban mobility systems, through an open platform able to consider in real time various mobility offers and provide a set of mobility services able to add ...
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"MAINtenance, renewaL and Improvement of rail transport iNfrastructure to reduce Economic and environmental impacts" (MAINLINE)

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

"Growth in demand for rail transportation across Europe is predicted to continue. Much of this growth will have to be accommodated on existing lines that contain old infrastructure. This demand will increase both the rate of deterioration of these elderly assets and the need for shorter line closures for maintenance or renewal interventions. However, interventions on elderly infrastructure will al ...
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Future Internet testbeds/experimentation between BRazil and Europe - EU (FIBRE-EU)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

In the last two decades networks, and especially the Internet, have become part of the critical infrastructure of governments, businesses, homes and schools. The current Internet architecture, designed about 30 years ago, has suffered many extensions in recent years, to include new functionalities, which were unforeseen in the original design. Many network experts now consider it is necessary to u ...
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Active collaboration in data centre ecosystem to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions (All4Green)

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

Instead of focusing on the energy optimization of single ICT elements, or subsets of the ICT elements making up a data centre, All4Green broadens the scope of energy savings to the full ecosystem in which data centres operate. The novel approach proposed by All4Green specifically fosters collaboration between all entities in this ecosystem with the common goal of saving energy and emissions (hence ...
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Enhancing Scientific Cooperation between the European Union and Central America (ENLACE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

ENLACE aims at supporting the bi-regional dialogue between the EU and the Central America Countries (CAC) on S&T issues, identifying common interests in research areas, setting up S&T priorities, supporting capacity building activities, and enhancing the dialogue within the region.The planned activities are: policy dialogue meetings between EU and CA stakeholders to identify research priorities of ...
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Singularities of Lie Group Actions in Geometry and Dynamics (SILGA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"This project continues and advances the research lines of my past scientific activity, in the context of a reintegration to my home scientific community and the starting of a stable academic activity with a tenure track and a subsequent permanent position.The scientific part of the proposal is the investigation of the geometry of actions of Lie groups in several dynamical and geometrical context ...
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Numerical Modelling of Artificial Ground Freezing (NuMAGF)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The project focuses on the theoretical and applied study of freezing soils in the context of the use of Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF) in excavations and underground construction. The ever-increasing density of urban environments poses new challenges to tunnelling for transit projects. This implies the necessity to carry out open excavations and bored tunnels in the urban environment, often in d ...
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Making Sense of Nonsense (iSense)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description The emergence of networked embedded systems and sensor/actuator networks has made possible the collection of large amount of real-time data about a monitored environment. In many cases the collected data may be incomplete, or it may not make sense, thus compromising the sensor-environment interaction and possibly affecting the ab ...
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Building on the International Year of Astronomy: Making young children aware of the Universe (EU-UNAWE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

EU-UNAWE responds to the outreach part of the Coordinating Action for FP7-SPACE-2010-1. It meets the specific requirements of the call (Section 1.1.2.4).EU-UNAWE exploits inspirational aspects of astronomy and space to interest very young disadvantaged children in science and technology, broaden their minds and stimulate European and global citizenship. The proposal builds on Universe Awareness (U ...
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Smart on-line water salinity measurement network to manage and protect rice fields (SMART-PADDY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"Rice is the main crop in wet areas such as river deltas and is an essential tool in Europe in managing protected ecosystems. Irrigation water is a key factor in the production of rice and water quality has a major impact on crop yield as a result of tolerance of rice to factors such as dissolved salts. Rice is more water consuming than many other crops: in continuous flooding cultivation it takes ...
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Intelligent Monitoring System based on Acoustic Emissions Sensing for Plant Condition Monitoring and Preventative Maintenance (MOSYCOUSIS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"Unexpected failure in an industrial production chain does not only involve the costs of failed parts replacement and the associated man-hour labour, but downtime costs have also have to be considered. To keep a machine functioning well it is a must to have good predictive maintenance, as it helps to reduce operating risk, avoids plant failures, provides reliable equipment, reduces operating costs ...
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ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE-BASED SYSTEM TO MONITOR DRYING PROCESS IN SAUSAGES (DRYCHECK)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"Dry fermented sausage production comprises an important segment of the European meat industry and market. However, the European meat processing industry is extremely fragmented and characterised by businesses of very small size. Small and medium enterprises play an important role in the food sector, both in economical and social terms. The traditional and farm workshops are often based in rural a ...
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IP Networks as a Service (MANTYCHORE)

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

Current National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Europe provide connectivity services to their customers: the research and education community. Traditionally these services have been delivered on a manual basis, although some efforts towards automating the service setup and operation have been initiated. At the same time, more focus is being put in the ability of the community to contro ...
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HIRF Synthetic Environment (HIRF SE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2013,

"The HIRF SE research project has the goal of providing the aeronautics industry with a framework which can be used during the development phase to mitigate the EM aspects. In addition it will provide a considerable reduction in the certification/qualification tests required on air vehicle. The HIRF SE main objectives can be summarized by the two followings items: • Full validated and integrated s ...
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Rapid Application Innovation for SMEs (RAISME)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"This project is an innovative collaboration between three high-tech SMEs with global aspirations and arguably three of the best RTD performers in Europe. The project itself and the outcomes resulting from the work will have a unifying theme of innovation, flexibility, collaboration, and of delivering whole product solutions as a norm. In technology markets the goal is market share via whole produ ...
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PERFOMANCE OF INNOVATIVE MECHANICAL CONNECTIONS IN PRECAST BUILDINGS STRUCTURES UNDER SEISMIC CONDITIONS (SAFECAST)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

"The seismic behaviour of connections in precast construction systems has been largely recognized as a crucial matter to be addressed both by the industry sector and by the related research community. In spite of this situation, the complexity of the problem and the variety of inherent issues to be harmonizedly dealt with in proposing design procedures for connections and precast structures as a w ...
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INNOVATION IN THE TEACHING OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LIFE SCIENCES IN EUROPE

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

The I.S.L.E network: Innovation in the teaching of Sustainable Development in Life sciences in Europe, will ultimately involve HEIs, Research institutes, and enterprises from 32 countries (including two "third countries" Ukraine, Belarus), interested in introducing the concept of Sustainable Development in their curricula and/or institutions having had experience in this area and who are willing t ...
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