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Towards a EU framework for the security of Widezones (ZONESEC)

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

The advancement of 24/7 surveillance systems for the security of WideZones with multiple assets at localized scales is of extreme strategic relevance to European economies, industries, authorities and Citizens. Nevertheless, the cost for large deployments and maintenance of ground sensing networks for local surveillance across these WideZones is extremely high. Hence, large areas of high economic ...
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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT APPROACHES (PASTA)

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

This project focuses on the systematic promotion and facilitation of active mobility (AM) (i.e. walking and cycling including the combination with public transport use) as an innovative approach to integrate physical activity (PA) into individuals’ everyday lives. In contrast to sports or exercise, AM requires less time and motivation, since AM provides both convenience as a mode of transport, and ...
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MicrOwave Spintronics as an AlternatIve Path to Components and Systems for Telecommunications, Storage and Security Applications (MOSAIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Description Process (mix, modulate, synchronise) and detect microwave frequencies based on innovative spin transfer devices.The overarching objective of the MOSAIC project is to bring the device level knowledge acquired in the past years by the partners towards systems as a first crucial step towards industrialization, warranting the lead ...
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Sense&React – The context-aware and user-centric information distribution system for manufacturing (Sense and React)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The number of sensors and the amount of data gathered on the factory floor constantly increases. This opens the vision of truly connected production processes where information is exchanged seamlessly and in real time between humans, machines and the produced goods.However, it is a long way before the huge amount of information gathered and generated in separate disconnected sub-systems is present ...
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Cloud platforms Lead to Open and Universal access for people with Disabilities and for All (CLOUD4all)

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

As we move inextricably into a digital economy there is a looming crisis for a growing number of increasingly marginalized individuals. The accessibility technologies we have are meeting the needs of only some, at high cost, and will not work with many new technologies. The path and pace of technological change predestines these approaches to fail in the very near future. At the same time the inci ...
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LEADS: Large-Scale Elastic Architecture for Data as a Service (LEADS)

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

There is a wealth of publicly available data in today's Internet (e.g., Web pages, government law texts, public statistics, media archives, etc.) that can be exploited by large and small companies in various business domains. Storing, processing, and querying such ever increasing amounts of data is becoming a major challenge, and having the capability to do so is a strong asset for the few big com ...
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Parallel Distributed Infrastructure for Minimization of Energy (ParaDIME)

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

The increasing power and energy consumption of modern computing devices is perhaps the largest threat to technology minimization and associated gains in performance and productivity. On the one hand, we expect technology scaling to face the problem of "dark silicon" (only segments of a chip can function concurrently due to power restrictions) in the near future and lead us to use devices with comp ...
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CIliates as NAtural Reservoir of potentially PATHOgenic BACTERia: an ecological, functional and evolutionary genomic investigation (CINAR PATHOBACTER)

Start date: May 20, 2011, End date: May 19, 2015,

In the last years, Protists (Protozoa) gained a significant attention from the scientific community because of their role as Trojan horses respect to opportunistic pathogens of humans and animals. Although this role is nowadays well established and accepted for some Protists like Acanthamoeba, little is known for other groups of possible hosts. Recently, members of the coordinating unit of Pisa go ...
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Interworking and JOINt Design of an Open Access and Backhaul Network Architecture for Small Cells based on Cloud Networks (iJOIN)

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

Motivation. The last decades brought an exponential increase in mobile traffic volume. This will continue and a 1000-fold increase by 2020 has been forecasted. Small-cells promise to provide the required data rates through an increased spatial utilisation of the spectrum.Problem statement. Due to strong inter-cell interference, small-cell deployments will require a high degree of coordination as o ...
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A holistic approach towards the development of the first responder of the future (E-SPONDER)

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

"The E-SPONDER is a suite of real-time data-centric technologies which will provide actionable information and communication support to first responders that act during abnormal events (crises) occurring in critical infrastructures. This information will enable improved control and management, resulting in real time synchronization between forces on the ground (police, rescue, firefighters) and ou ...
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SCUBA - Self-organising, Cooperative, and robUst\n Building Automation (SCUBA)

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

Large scale embedded Monitoring and Control (M&C) systems in energy management, transporta-tion, security and safety often co-exist alongside each other with little cooperation within and among heterogeneous systems which hampers the increasing demand to operate the whole system optimally. A good example is building management, a market worth in excess of $36 billion annually by 2015, where a wide ...
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Coastal Research Network On Environmental Changes (CREC)

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

Coastal wetlands experience dramatic changes as a consequence of temperature increase, sea level rise, or nutrient accumulation. This has raised great concern about the future fate of such systems, their functioning and services. Conservation policies are in need of new approaches in order to understand the complex feedback mechanisms driving organismic responses to environmental changes, and impr ...
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Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like materials: new synthetic strategies lead to new materials (INTIF)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

Inorganic nanotubes (INT) and particularly inorganic fullerene-like materials (IF) from 2-D layered compounds, which were discovered in the PI laboratory 16 years ago, are now in commercial use as solid lubricants (www.apnano.com) with prospects for numerous applications, also as part of nanocomposites, optical coatings, etc. The present research proposal capitalizes on the leadership role of the ...
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Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States - Initial Training Network (FACETS-ITN) (FACETS-ITN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

FACETS-ITN is a research and training network involving partners from 11 universities and research centres, 3 industrial companies and 1 semi-industrial research centre from 6 European countries. It combines competencies in neurobiology, computational neuroscience, information science, physics and electrical engineering. The scientific goal is to experimentally and theoretically explore the struct ...
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Micro-Request-Based Aggregation, Forecasting and Scheduling of Energy Demand, Supply and Distribution (MIRABEL)

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

The MIRABEL project's main goal is to develop a conceptual and infrastructural approach that allows energy distribution companies to efficiently manage higher amounts of renewable energy and balance supply and demand. Currently, most renewable energy sources (RES; e.g. windmills, solar panels) pose the challenge that the production depends on external factors, such as wind speed and direction, the ...
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Distribution Line Carrier: Verification, Integration and Test of PLC Technologies and IP Communication for Utilities (DLC+VIT4IP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Today, there are largely no communications infrastructure deployments in European medium and low voltage power distribution networks. Powerline communications has a large potential to enable new and intelligent applications to and from the last branch of the distribution grid. However, current powerline communication technologies cannot offer the reliability, quality of service and interoperabilit ...
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Gas Flows in Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (GASMEMS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

Gas flows in microsystems are of great interest for various applications that touch almost every industrial field. This diversity is typified through the following examples: fluidic microactuators for active control of aerodynamic flows, vacuum generators for extracting biological samples, mass flow and temperature micro-sensors, pressure gauges, micro heat-exchangers for the cooling of electronic ...
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Risk-based management of chemicals and products in a circular economy at a global scale (RISKCYCLE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Many potentially hazardous compounds are traded as chemicals or incorporated as additives in products. Their release to the environment has been a concern of EC, UNO, WHO and OECD. The discussion of the assessment and management of chemicals and products led to the OECD program Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). The World Summit encouraged countries to i ...
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Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins (SBMPs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Membrane proteins (MPs) are known to be key molecules in cellular communications, from signal transduction to transport of ions, metabolites and other molecules. They also participate in the synthesis of ATP, the import of soluble or MPs from the cytosol, and they protect living organisms from toxic factors. The proposal consists in a joint training effort involving the major biophysical methods t ...
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Realistic computational modelling of large-scale wave propagation problems in unbounded domains (Wave propagation)

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

The correct prediction of the propagation of noise and vibration in soil or air is of great relevance with respect to environmental protection in Europe. Here, the numerical modelling of wave propagation in unbounded domains is required. This task belongs to the major research fields in computational mechanics, since the correct description of radiation damping in infinite media is a challenge, an ...
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Intake Flow Simulation and Optimisation for Hydropower (IFLOW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

"The flow simulation and optimization in terms of the efficient water power utilization is the essential topic of the proposal. The main goals of the submitted project are: - To identify the negative influence of ill-designed intake structures at run-off river power plants on the water turbine efficiency and the rotor vibrations; - To find and prove the methodology of intake structure geometry opt ...
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