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Optimised Microturbine Solar Power system (OMSoP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions for the use of state-of-the-art concentrated solar power system (CSP) coupled to micro-gas turbines (MGT) to produce electricity. The intended system will be modular and capable of producing electricity in the range of 3-10 kW. The aim is to make such a system available to provide energy needs for domestic and ...
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Simulation of cavitation and erosion in fuel injection systems of medium/heavy duty Diesel engines at injection pressures reaching 3000bar (FuelSystem3000)

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

The medium/heavy duty Diesel engine industry is facing new challenges for meeting the forthcoming emission regulations. Injection pressure above 2500bar and possibly reaching 3000bar and multiple injection strategy can drastically reduce the NOx/PM trade-off and allow use of cheap after treatment systems for meeting the set legislations. However, such injection strategies inevitably result to form ...
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Global and Local food chain Assessment: a MUltidimensional performance-based approach (GLAMUR)

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

General objective of the project is to integrate advancement in scientific knowledge about the impact of food chains with application of knowledge to practice to increase food chains sustainability through public policies and private strategies. This general objective will be pursued through the following specific objectives:• To develop and validate a ‘performance criteria matrix’ for assessment ...
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Certification infrastrUcture for MUlti-Layer cloUd Services (CUMULUS)

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

Cloud technology offers a powerful approach to the provision of infrastructure, platform and software services without incurring the considerable costs of owning, operating and maintaining the computational infrastructures required for this purpose.Despite its appeal from a cost perspective, cloud technology still raises concerns regarding the security, privacy, governance and compliance of the da ...
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The European Social Survey - Data for a Changing Europe (ESS-DACE)

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

ESS-DACE aims to secure the continuation and consolidation of the European Social Survey (ESS) as a key data source for measuring and understanding long-term changes in public attitudes across Europe. This will be achieved by strengthening the links between the 7 institutions responsible for the central design and coordination of the ESS infrastructure, as well as between the ESS and its funders, ...
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Urban, peri-urban and regional food dynamics: toward an integrated and territorial approach to food (PUREFOOD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

Increasing urban food-related health and environmental problems are raising an urgent need for action. Current agrifood studies tend to neglect the broader societal and spatial impacts of food. PUREFOOD will reduce the high knowledge and skills deficit that negatively affects the capacity to deliver political and developmental solutions related to food security, public procurement, health and sust ...
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Sensing User Generated Input for Improved Media Discovery and Experience (SocialSensor)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

Description Enhanced discovery, analysis, retrieval of newsworthy and high-quality content in social media sources to assist news, event professionals to improve the experience of news readers and event goers.SocialSensor offers technologies for analyzing the activity in social networks with the goal of discovering trending and high-quali ...
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Examining the relationship between linguistic- and non-linguistic cognitive processes in deaf children's vocabulary development in spoken and signed vocabulary (SignLearnSpeak)

Start date: Aug 8, 2011, End date: Aug 19, 2014,

This project is an investigation into the relationship between linguistic and –non-linguistic cognitive processes, comparing the spoken and signed language vocabulary of deaf children.Objectives are: (1) to contribute to our knowledge of modality effects on linguistic structure; (2) to contribute to the theoretical debate on the issue of language modularity; (3) to gain insight how mediated learni ...
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DRIVING INNOVATION. DETERMINANTS OF PERFORMANCE IN THE FORMULA ONE RACING INDUSTRY (AJ86RH5GYM)

Start date: Jul 15, 2012, End date: Jul 14, 2014,

"How do firms and teams outperform competitors in highly regulated environments? Despite the considerable amount of research aimed at explaining the nature of firms’ competitive advantage, scholarship has not reached a shared interpretation about the drivers of success for business organizations. This divergence of opinions has two major reasons. First, scholars have not sufficiently considered th ...
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Low Emission Gas Turbine Technology for Hydrogen-rich Syngas (H2-IGCC)

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

The overall objective of this project is to provide and demonstrate technical solutions which will allow the use of state-of-the-art highly efficient, reliable gas turbines in the next generation of IGCC plants, suitable for combusting undiluted hydrogen-rich syngas derived from a pre-combustion CO2 capture process, with high fuel flexibility. The recognised challenge is to operate a stable and co ...
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Forecasting Financial Crises (FOC-II)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

In this project we set up an interdisciplinary consortium of computer scientists, physicists, economists and policy makers to deal with the problem of understanding and forecasting systemic risk and global financial instabilities. By leveraging on expertise in the various disciplines, we want to provide a novel integrated and network-oriented approach to the issue. On one hand, we will offer a the ...
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Knowledge brokerage to promote sustainable food consumption and production: linking scientists, policymakers and civil society organisations (FOODLINKS)

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

The policy issue central to this project is food as many of today’s sustainability problems (e.g. water shortage, GHG emissions, pollution of soil and water, decrease of biodiversity, urban waste) are related to the prevailing pattern of food production and consumption (including processing and distribution). Hence, developing more sustainable food production and consumption patterns will have a s ...
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Advanced Security Service cERTificate for SOA (ASSERT4SOA)

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

The term "certification" has several different meanings in ICT. Software practitioners can earn a certificate for expertise in a certain hardware or software technology. The maturity of crucial IT processes, such as software development, can be and is often certified. Even individual software systems can be certified as having particular non-functional properties, including safety, security or pri ...
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Optimized Infrastructure Services (OPTIMIS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

With the challenges of service and infrastructure providers as the point of departure, OPTIMIS focuses on open, scalable and dependable service platforms and architectures that allow flexible and dynamic provision of advanced services.The OPTIMIS innovations can be summarized as a combination of technologies to create a dependable ecosystem of providers and consumers that will be the foundation of ...
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Software Services and Systems Network (S-Cube) (S-Cube)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Description S-Cube, the Software Services and Systems Network, will establish an integrated, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community that will enable Europe to lead the software-services revolution...S-Cube, the Software Services and Systems Network will establish a unified, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community which will e ...
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Quality and integrity in food: a challenge for chain communication and research (Transparent_Food)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

The core relevance of transparency as a critical success factor and the need for the delivery of appropriate support by research has been emphasized in the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) of the European Technology Platform 'Food for Life' from where this proposal evolved. It utilizes its links with the European-wide network of more than 30 National Technology Platforms to link up with stakeholder ...
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Social networks and idiosyncratic risk in the hedge funds industry (SNIR)

Start date: Mar 17, 2008, End date: Mar 16, 2010,

"The origin of the hedge funds industry goes back to a small group of people that began to invest in it. Over time pioneers turned to people similar to themselves in order to involve them in the industry. This makes this industry created in the image of their founders and constituted of a network of people close and similar to each other. Above all this kind of network formation affects the perfor ...
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FDI and DETERMINANTS OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE IN NEW MEMBER STATES OF EU (FDIandEUintegration)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2009,

The objective of this proposal is to measure the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on firm’s capital structure determinants in the post-liberalization era in the new twelve member states of the EU. The assumptions of this proposal are as follows: (i) firm’s that have attracted FDI in the post-liberalization period have had access to international capital markets, (ii) optimized their capi ...
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