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PRONTO: PROcess NeTwork Optimization for efficient and sustainable operation of Europe’s process industries taking machinery condition and process performance into account. (PRONTO)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,
The typical lifetime of an industrial process plant is between 30 and 50 years. Technologies to enhance the operation and optimization of process plants can both guide the development of new state-of-the-art process plants and, perhaps more pertinently, can ensure that the large installed base of existing plants operates efficiently. The PRONTO Consortium partners are strongly convinced that for E ...
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ICT Policy, Research and Innovation for a Smart Society: towards new avenues in EU-US ICT collaboration (PICASSO)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,
The aim of the 30-months PICASSO project is (1) to reinforce EU-US collaboration in ICT research and innovation focusing on the pre-competitive research in key enabling technologies related to societal challenges - 5G Networks, Big Data, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, and (2) to support the EU-US ICT policy dialogue by contributions related to e.g. privacy, security, internet gover ...
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Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social, economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.- Ensuring rel ...
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From DISCOvery to products: A next generation pipeline for the sustainable generation of high-value plant products (DISCO)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
"Plant natural products have been utilised by human civilisation for millennia, providing vital medicines and essential dietary components. More recently bioactive compounds from plant sources have been used in cosmetics, as health supplements and are important components of feedstuffs. Despite significant investments new activities and new sustainable biosources are required to alleviate our reli ...
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Embedded Multi-Core Systems for Mixed Criticality Applications in Dynamic and Changeable Real-Time Environments (EMC2)
Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,
Embedded systems are the key innovation driver to improve almost all mechatronic products with cheaper and even new functionalities. Furthermore, they strongly support today's information society as inter-system communication enabler.Consequently boundaries of application domains are alleviated and ad-hoc connections and interoperability play an increasing role. At the same time, multi-core and ma ...
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Climate Information Platform for Copernicus (CLIPC) (CLIPC)
Start date: Nov 11, 2013, End date: Dec 1, 2016,
CLIPC will provide access to climate information of direct relevance to a wide variety of users, from scientists to policy makers and private sector decision makers. Information will include data from satellite and in-situ observations, climate models and re-analyses, transformed data products to enable impacts assessments and climate change impact indicators. The platform will complement existing ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,
This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Flexible, Fast and Future Production Processes (F³ FACTORY)
Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,
The F3 consortium’s vision is that the EU’s chemical industry’s competitive position would be strongly enhanced if it could operate modular continuous plant (F3 plant) which combines world scale continuous plant efficiency, consistency and scalability with the versatility of batch operation. Our project will deliver such a radically new production mode based on: a) Plug–and–play modular chemical ...
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Water Treatment by Molecularly Imprinted Materials (WATERMIM)
Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,
The present “WATERMIM” proposal is focused on the advancement and optimization of the MIP technology in order to produce functional materials with well-defined morphologies with respect to pore structure and selectivity for water treatment applications. The project aims at the elimination of the random distribution and the uneven accessibility of receptor sites in the volume of the imprinted mater ...
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ArtistDesign – Design for Embedded Systems (ArtistDesign)
Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,
The ArtistDesign NoE is the visible result of the ongoing integration of a community, that emerged through the Artist FP5 Accompanying Measure and that was organised through the Artist2 FP6 NoE.The central objective for ArtistDesign is to build on existing structures and links forged in Artist2, to become a virtual Center of Excellence in Embedded Systems Design. This will be mainly achieved throu ...
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REseArch, methodoLogIes and technologieS for the effective development of pan-European key GRID infrastructures to support the achievement of a reliable competitive and sustainable electricity supply (REALISEGRID)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,
The European electricity system is facing major challenges to implement a strategy for a reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply. The development and the renewal of the transmission infrastructure are central and recognised issues in this strategy. Indeed the transmission system is a complex and strongly interconnected infrastructure that offers a wide range of benefits like relia ...
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Climate Change and Territorial Effects on Regions and Local Economies in Europe (ESPON CLIMATE)
Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been pivotal in raising awareness on the costs of human inaction and interference with the climate system. The IPCC also indicated the urgency for studies disaggregated to the regional and even local scale. Furthermore, the IPCC identified a strong need for scenarios at regional and local scales to enable appropriate impact assessments. In i ...
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European Development Opportunities in Rural Areas (EDORA)
Start date: Aug 31, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,
The reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in the framework of the Agenda 2000 boosted the significance of rural development in this sector policy. Rural development, in line with the Lisbon/Gothenburg Strategy, is conceived to support job creation and economic growth in rural areas in a sustainable way. Against this backdrop, this project will provide evidence on the development opportunities o ...
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Enlargement of the EU and its polycentric spatial structure (Enlargement & Polycentrism)
Start date: Feb 12, 2003, End date: May 13, 2007,
The project focuses mainly on future implications of enlargement on EU territorial development from both the perspectives of the Member States and their regions as well as from the perspectives of candidate countries and their regions. Particular attention is paid to border regions in the EU Member States and EU candidate countries. The provision of policy options for extending a polycentric devel ...
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Spatial effects of natural and technological hazards (Natural hazards)
Start date: Feb 12, 2003, End date: Nov 15, 2005,
The main aim of the project is to represent the spatial patterns of natural and technological hazards in administrative regions of the ESPON space, on NUTS 3 level.Hazards are natural extreme events or technological accident phenomena that can lead to threats and damages among the population, the environment and/or material assets. 11 hazards, both relevant for the ESPON space and for spatial plan ...
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Innovation and Knowledge Management towards eStudent Information System
Start date: Oct 15, 2010,
The Integrated University approach set up by Bologna process transformed the existing structures into a new environment by the law of High education in 2008 and practically it started from January 1st, 2009. This process was realized with a lot of obstacles and problems, and unified the isolated faculties into one big umbrella. However, most of the functions in this process remained distributed on ...
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European Higher Education Management and Development
Start date: Oct 1, 2007,
Professional management is an important prerequisite to enable the higher education institutions to perceive themselves as autonomous organizations and act entrepreneurially rather than as subordinate to the central government. Professional management will also enable higher education institutions to increase and simplify cooperation with partners such as enterprises. As higher education instituti ...
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The EHEMD project is a curriculum development project (article 2.2.1 in the call), but simultaneously aims to promote modernization of Higher Education (article 2.2.2 in the call) and Co-operation between Universities and Enterprises (article 2.2.3 in the call). Professional management is an important prerequisite to enable the higher education institutions to perceive themselves as autonomous or ...
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The use of simulators for the training of staff at complex man-machine interfaces is a widely recognised method to improve the safety and efficiency of the operation of technical systems. The use of simulators is currently limited to a small group of 6 to 8 training centres. As one of the major obstacles for the dissemination of resource-saving and additional training situations enabling simulator ...
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The competitiveness in European enterprises is conditional on thepresence of innovation, flexibility, competence, and highly qualifiedpeople. Particularly in the field of production engineering, a continuouscompany success in international business is only guaranteed when acontinuous enhancement in knowledge and competence in connectionwith further education and advance training of people is reali ...
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Flexible Modular Master Programme in Technology
Start date: Oct 15, 2010,
The goal of the Flexible Modular Master in Technology is the development and implementation of a master programme encouraging the mobility of teachers as well as students between universities in the partner countries (PC) Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. A new modular curriculum will be developed and sustainable manufacturing technology programmes will be established for an innovative two-year master ...
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S1-L12 Strengthening Training and Research through networking and Globalization of teaching in Engineering Studies
Start date: Jul 15, 2011,
The main objective of this proposed project is to provide a quality international experience through the mobility of high quality students and emerging, early stage and established researchers between Europe and South Asia, with the objective of widening existing knowledge on electronics, energy, computing, sustainability and security of electronic communications systems, rational use of communica ...
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INTACT - It’s Time for CollaboratioN TowArds Close CooperaTion (EU - Asia)
Start date: Jul 15, 2013,
The recent rapid advances of electronics and computing built on the foundation of previous technological achievements in the field have led to the growth emerging technologies of global importance, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, e-health, internet and mobile communications. ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) is the most vibrant and rapidly evolving technological domain and i ...
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School on Cloud: connecting education to the Cloud for digital citizenship
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
The Cloud is a major technological breakthrough with huge potential for education. It allows students and their tutors/teachers to interact productively in formal and informal education situations. Hosted Cloud communities mean that learners themselves can become creators and developers. Laptops and tablets will be everywhere, eBooks will replace text books as a normal part of classroom learning. ...
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