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Integrated Research Programme on Wind Energy (IRPWIND)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

IRPWIND is an integrated research programme that combines strategic research projects and support activities within the field of Wind Energy, with the aim of leveraging the long term European research potential. The concept behind this programme is built on the success of existing initiatives supporting the SET Plan Agenda such as the European Energy Research Alliance Joint Programme on Wind Ener ...
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Cost-reduction through material optimisation and Higher EnErgy outpuT of solAr pHotovoltaic modules - joining Europe’s Research and Development efforts in support of its PV industry (CHEETAH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Europe has invoked the SET-Plan to design and implement an energy technology policy for Europe to accelerate the development and deployment of cost-effective renewable energy systems, including photovoltaics. With lower cost of solar electricity, PV could significantly contribute to the achievements of the 20-20-20 objectives.The Joint Program on PV of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA-P ...
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Impact of Biogenic versus Anthropogenic emissions on Clouds and Climate: towards a Holistic UnderStanding (BACCHUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Clouds are a very important, yet not well understood feedback factor in climate change and they contribute to the effective radiative forcing (ERF) from aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI). The uncertainty in ERFaci is larger than for any other forcing agent. Also, feedbacks between the terrestrial and marine biosphere and the atmosphere involving ACI are thought to play an important role in regulati ...
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CI-NERGY Smart cities with sustainable energy systems (CI-NERGY)

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

The CI-NERGY Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) aims to train young scientists to develop urban decision making and operational optimisation software tools to minimise non-renewable energy use in cities. The training will be carried out by a close collaboration of six of the best academic research centres and four leading industrial companies from the energy and software technology sector ...
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Infrastructure for the European Network for Earth System modelling - Phase 2 (IS-ENES2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

IS-ENES2 is the second phase project of the distributed e-infrastructure of models, model data and metadata of the European Network for Earth System Modelling (ENES). This network gathers together the European modelling community working on understanding and predicting climate variability and change. ENES organizes and supports European contributions to international experiments used in assessment ...
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North Atlantic Climate: Predictability of the climate in the North Atlantic/European sector related to North Atlantic/Arctic sea surface temperature and sea ice variability and change (NACLIM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

NACLIM aims at investigating and quantifying the predictability of the climate in the North Atlantic/European sector related to North Atlantic/Arctic sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice variability and change on seasonal to decadal time scales. SST and sea-ice forcing have a crucial impact on weather and climate in Europe. Rather than running climate forecasts ourselves, we will analyze the ...
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Development of a low-cost point-of-care test for Tuberculosis detection (Pocket)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Pocket will develop a novel point-of-care (PoC) urine test for the detection of tuberculosis (TB), achieving at the same time a low cost (5 to 10 euro end-user cost per test, including depreciation cost of the instrument) and a high accuracy (>80% capture of TB-positive patients, which is much better than the present solutions which reach 60%). The test positions itself between current low-end imm ...
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Semiconductor Equipment Assessment for Key Enabling Technologies (SEA4KET)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

SEA4KET (Semiconductor Equipment Assessment for Key Enabling Technologies) is an IP proposal taking the consequent step from equipment R&D to equipment assessment experiments. The strategic objective is to effectively combine resources and expertise in a joint assessment of novel equipment for key enabling technologies to foster and accelerate the successful transfer of novel European equipment in ...
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Portable Automated Water Analyser for Viruses (AQUAVIR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Water-borne viral diseases pose high risks for public health worldwide. The urban wastewater contains large number of pathogen viruses, and even the most advanced wastewater treatment is not safe for full removal of virus particles.The conventional biological water quality indicators do not provide adequate information about the presence of pathogenic viruses. The currently available reliable viru ...
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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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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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Intervention Research On Health Literacy among Ageing population (IROHLA)

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

The IROHLA project aims at innovating the conceptual understanding of health literacy interventions in Europe. Health literacy is one of the social determinants of health and reflects how well persons can understand, digest and critically reflect on information with regard to health and illness. People with sufficient health literacy skills are able to act proactively on health issues, take their ...
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Collaborative and Adaptive Process Planning for Sustainable Manufacturing Environments (CAPP-4-SMES)

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

Innovative knowledge-based Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) is a key enabler to minimise cost, improve adaptability, responsiveness, robustness, and sustainability of manufacturing processes. This CAPP-4-SMEs project, planned for 36 month duration and 480 person-months, is aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of European companies, particularly SMEs, in sustainable manufacturing environmen ...
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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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Cognitive Radio Experimentation World (CREW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The main target of CREW is to establish an open federated test platform, which facilitates experimentally-driven research on advanced spectrum sensing, cognitive radio and cognitive networking strategies in view of horizontal and vertical spectrum sharing in licensed and unlicensed bands.The CREW platform incorporates 5 individual wireless testbeds (heterogeneous ISM @ iMinds-Gent, heterogeneous l ...
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Reduction of microalgae harvesting costs via the development of an ultrasound flow cell to provide pre-concentration (ALGAEMAX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The worldwide production of microalgae is currently around 5,000 tons per year of dry algal biomass, and is used for livestock feed, fish meal, and high value extracts for dietary supplements, functional foods, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Microalgae contain around 30% by weight of lipids/oil, and are regarded as a highly promising feedstock for biofuels, primarily biodiesel.Microalgae are comme ...
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Social Media Analytics and Decision Support Tools Enabling Sustainable Integration Policies and Measures (UniteEurope)

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

The integration of third-country nationals is one of the most important topics for governments and policy makers in the European Union and has risen in prominence on the agenda because it is seen as one of the most visible challenges of globalization. UniteEurope aims at building scalable and flexible Social Media analytics and decision support tools enabling sustainable integration policies and m ...
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EU Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study and Evaluation Project (EUCLIPSE)

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

Cloud feedbacks remain the largest source of uncertainty in projections of future climate. They are also a major contributor to uncertainty in other feedbacks (e.g., surface albedo, carbon cycle) in the Earth System. Through interactions with the large-scale circulation, cloud processes also contribute to synoptic circulations and regional climate. They are therefore critical to the prediction of ...
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Safe Food for Europe – Coordination of research activities and Dissemination of research results of EC funded research on food safety (FOODSEG)

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

"The proposed Coordination and support actions (Coordinating, CSA) has the overall objective to disseminate state-of-the-art research results in food safety and quality topics through a series of symposia, expert working group meetings, an online platform with best practise examples and coordination of cooperation and a plan for the preparation of future activities. In addition to the aim of disse ...
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Assessment of Climatic change and impacts on the Quantity and quality of Water (ACQWA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

As the evidence for human induced climate change becomes clearer, so too does the realization that its effects will have impacts on natural environment and socio-economic systems. Some regions are more vulnerable than others, both to physical changes and to the consequences for ways of life. The proposal will assess the impacts of a changing climate on the quantity and quality of water in mountain ...
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Treatment of long term irradiation embrittlement effects in RPV safety assessment (LONGLIFE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

In view of the increasing age of the European NPPs and envisaged life time extensions up to an EOL of 80 years, there is a need for an improved understanding and prediction of RPV irradiation embrittlement effects connected with long term operation (LTO). Effects caused by high neutron fluences such as the possible formation of Late Blooming Phases and as yet unknown defects must be considered ade ...
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Environmental Chemoinformatics (ECO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The implementation of the new EU legislation concerning the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals (REACH) requires demonstration of the safe manufacture of chemicals and their safe use throughout the supply chain. REACH encourages development of new in vitro test methods and replacement of animal tests wherever possible by alternative methods. These goals are not ac ...
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InfraStructure for the European Network for Earth System Modelling (IS-ENES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"IS-ENES will develop a Virtual Earth System Modelling Resource Centre (V.E.R.C.), integrating the European Earth system models (ESMs) and their hardware, software, and data environments. The overarching goal of this e-infrastructure is to further integrate the European climate modelling community, to help the definition of a common future strategy, to ease the development of full ESMs, to foster ...
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CLOUD Initial Training Network (CLOUD-ITN)

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

"The aim of the proposed Marie Curie Initial Training Network is to establish a multi-site network of early stage researchers (ESRs, here predominantly PhD students) at 9 partner institiutions across Europe to investigate various aspects of the interactions of cosmic rays with aerosols and clouds, which bears on the possibility of a ""solar indirect"" contribution to climate change. Besides the i ...
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Coeliac Disease – Management, Monitoring and Diagnosis using Biosensors and an Integrated Chip System (CD-MEDICS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

The overall concept of the CD-MEDICS IP is to develop a technology platform for point-of-care diagnostics, capable of simultaneous genomic and proteomic detection, with embedded communication abilities for direct interfacing with hospital information systems. This will be achieved by exploiting breakthroughs at the confluences of bio-, micro- and nano- technologies to create a low-cost non-invasiv ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC)

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

"MACC (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for the pilot Core GMES Atmospheric Service. The project has been prepared by the consortia of the FP6 project GEMS and the GSE project PROMOTE, whose core service lines will provide the starting point for MACC. From mid-2009 MACC will continue, improve, extend, integrate and valida ...
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Ultrafast All-Optical Magnetization Reversal for Magnetic Recording and Laser-Controlled Spintronics (UltraMagnetron)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

The aim of the proposed research is to develop “opto-nano-magnetism” as a novel approach for future magnetic recording and information processing technology at the junction of coherent nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and magnetism. In particular, we are aiming to investigate effects of light on magnetic order at the nanoscale, to obtain highly efficient and ultrafast (10-12 seconds and faster) opt ...
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Bridging the gap between adaptation strategies of climate change impacts and European water policies (ClimateWater)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The Project ClimateWater is aimed as the first step on the analysis and synthesis of data and information on the likely (known, assumed, expected, modelled, forecasted, predicted, estimated etc.) water related impacts of the changes of the climate with special regard to their risk and to the urgency of getting prepared to combat these changes and their impacts. The Project will identify all adapta ...
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Climate Change - Terrestrial Adaption and Mitigation in Europe (CCTAME)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"The project will assess the impacts of agricultural, climate, energy, forestry and other associated land-use policies, considering the resulting feed-backs on the climate system. Geographically explicit biophysical models together with an integrated cluster of economic land-use models will be coupled with regional climate models to assess and identify mitigation and adaptation strategies in Europ ...
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Inter-connected European Information and Documentation System for Ethics and Science: European Ethics Documentation Centre (ETHICSWEB)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"It is the overall aim of ETHICSWEB to stimulate an enhanced democratic debate on ethical issues of science and to promote a more engaged and informed public. Therefore, existing information and documentation systems will be connected to allow and ensure an easy access to comprehensive information on science and ethics. At the same time sophisticated tools, both technical and semantic, will be app ...
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European Network to Support the Sustainable Surface Transport SMEs (Star-net Transport)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

The strategic objective of the Star-Net transport is to increase the participation of surface transport-related SMEs in the surface transport programe. The aim of the Star-Net transport project is to be the first step towards the formation and development of a consolidated structure for support of SMEs in Europe for participation in Sustainable Surface Transport activities, building on the knowled ...
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Integrated Circuit/EM Simulation and design Technologies for Advanced Radio Systems-on-chip (ICESTARS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

A big challenge awaits for technological developments to keep up with the demands in the market due to both the large variety of wireless communication channels as well as the fact that they are essentially all used at the same time by widely varying applications. For planned developments of wireless communication channels in the SHF and EHF bands, IC design automation tools are indispensable. The ...
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Method for improving the quality of frozen foods by assisting the freezing process and reducing the size of the ice crystals (MINICRYSTAL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

"Freezing is a very widespread process within the food processing industry, being used not only to manufacture products that are consumed in frozen state, such as ice cream, frozen yoghurts, sorbets, etc, but also as a very important means of preserving fresh foodstuffs. However, freezing animal and plant tissues causes many irreversible physical and chemical changes within the food matrix, often ...
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