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Autonomous Printed Paper products for functional Labels and Electronics (APPLE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

A new generation of sustainable paper products with specific autonomous functionalities aiming at interacting with their users and/or reporting changes in their environment is developed. The project focuses on the development of new functional materials (paper, fibres, inks), new functional components (battery, sensors, display, memory) and innovative, flexible and cost-effective manufacturing pro ...
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PhotoVoltaic European Research Infrastructure (SOPHIA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The objective of the SOPHIA project is to strenghten and optimise research capabilities, mainly by coordinating efforts on important but precompetitive issues. Large research infrastructures working together will avoid the useless replication of a large number of small efforts. The SOPHIA project aims at pulling together the main European photovoltaic research infrastructures in order to provide t ...
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Flash Optical Sensor for Terrain Relative Robotic Navigation (FOSTERNAV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

"The general goal of the project is to develop an innovative solution for spacecrafts' Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) sensor for relative navigation. It is a contribution to the strengthening of the European position for space exploration. It targets the improvement of the accuracy and robustness of spacecraft position and attitude control to, for example, land softly and precisely sensitiv ...
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Robust, affordable photonic crystal sensors for point-of-care disease diagnostics (Phast-ID)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

Point-of-care testing is essential to provide better patient care by aiding physicians in making informed decision during patient visits. This will enable the start of immediate treatment for many conditions and reduce the strain on resources in secondary care, resulting in reduced outpatient clinic time. A key challenge in the development of point-of-care diagnostic devices is the requirement fo ...
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Development of a Smart Integrated Miniaturised Sensor System for analytical challenges in diagnostics, industry and the environment (SIMS)

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

The widespread availability of smart miniaturised systems is limited by the inability to integrate a sufficient number of functionalities into a single device at low cost and high volume using traditional production technologies. Organic, flexible and printed electronics (OFPE) offers this possibility. However, it too must overcome some significant challenges relating to device interfacing and fab ...
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Large Area Photonic Crystal Chemical Sensors (PHOTOSENS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The PHOTOSENS project aims to develop a low-cost, mass-manufacturable, nano-structured, large-area multi-parameter sensor array using Photonic Crystal (PC) and enhanced Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) methodologies for environmental and pharmaceutical applications. Integrating the PC and SERS based sensors with integrated optics coupling structures within a single sensor platform allows t ...
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Advanced interfaced microsystems Research for analysis of Real-wOrld clinical, food, environmental and Waste Samples (ARROWS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The goal of ARROWS is to develop a microengineered platform for the analysis of 'real-world' samples from the food, drink and healthcare industries. The principle deliverable will be a chip-scale capillary electrophoresis/liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (CE/LC-MS) that matches the performance of today's mainframe systems.The ARROWS innovation is to integrate and interface multiple chip te ...
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ACcess To Micro-Optics Expertise, Services and Technologies (ACTMOST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Micro-optics holds tremendous potential for SMEs and large companies to develop competitive products and to boost product innovation. Micro-optics however continuously requires advanced knowledge as well as a complex technology supply chain, which are very often not affordable. This project targets to pro-actively provide companies with timely, cost-effective, investment-free Access to a unique "o ...
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NoE FlexNet - Network of Excellence for building up Knowledge for improved Systems Integration for Flexible Organic and Large Area Electronics (FOLAE) and its exploitation (FlexNet)

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

In the NoE FlexNet, 17 participants from eleven European countries work together in order to support Europe in becoming a world leader in Flexible, Organic and Large Area Electronics (FOLAE). FlexNet aims at interlinking Europe's FOLAE-expertise in the domains of science, technology development, components, devices and systems integration technologies. A special emphasis will be set on the subsequ ...
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Cost-Efficient Lighting devices based on Liquid processes and ionic Organometallic complexes (CELLO)

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

CELLO aims at developing a) thin film flexible and large area lighting sources with power efficiencies >25 lm/W and lifetimes >5000 hours based on light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC) that rely on phosphorescent ionic transition metal complexes as the single active component and b) a scale-able and roll-to-roll compatible wet processes to deposit the molecular active component and t ...
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Miniaturised photoacoustic gas sensor based on patented interferometric readout and novel photonic integration technologies (MINIGAS)

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

High-sensitivity gas sensors measure the presence of trace gases. They have a wide range of applications. Finnish SME Gasera has recently developed a MEMS-based mechanism for detecting the pressure waves created in photo-acoustic cells. This innovation can be used to realize infrared gas sensors of extreme sensitivity. Instead of the usual microphone (membrane with capacitive readout) the Gasera c ...
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Network of Excellence for Biophotonics (PHOTONICS4LIFE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Today Biophotonics is an emerging multidisciplinary research area, embracing all light-based technologies applied to the life sciences and medicine. Enhancing diagnosis, therapy and follow-up care, Biophotonics drives the trend towards personalized medicine and plays a crucial role in limiting health-care costs and appropriately addressing the accelerating challenges associated with population agi ...
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Zero- and First-level Packaging of RF-MEMS (MEMSPACK)

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

Future personal and ground RF communications systems and communications satellites necessitate the use of highly integrated RF front-ends, featuring small size, low weight, high performance and low cost. Off-chip, bulky passive RF components, like discrete PIN diode switches and ceramic filters, are limiting further chip scaling. MEMS technology is now rapidly emerging as an enabling technology to ...
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EUWB - Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology (EUWB)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

Description EUWB – Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio TechnologyMain ObjectivesEUWB is an industry-led initiative of 21 major industrial and excellent academic organisations all around Europe and Israel. Its key objective is to explore the enormous economic potential of innovative and disruptive radio technology ...
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Mapping Optimisation for Scalable multi-core ARchiTecture (MOSART)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Description Key InnovationThe widening gap between performance requirements of applications and their related power consumption and what is afforded by technology scaling and architectural techniques clearly focuses the multiprocessor  architectures as the today and future solution for computing and embedded systems. The present day wireless ...
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Genetic Message Oriented Secure Middleware (GEMOM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

The core scientific focus of GEMOM is the significant and measurable increase in end-to-end intelligence and resilience of complex, distributed information systems. GEMOM's definition of intelligence and resilience include:- Insensitivity or significant reduction in sensitivity to individual and sometimes multiple faults in the system. Fault is defined as any deterioration of the functional profil ...
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Generic Embedded System Platform (GENESYS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2009,

The objective of the GENESYS project is to develop a cross-domain reference architecture for embedded systems that can be instantiated for different application domains to meet the requirements and constraints documented in the ARTEMIS strategic research agenda. These requirements are composability, networking, security, robustness, diagnosis, integrated resource management and evolvability. The r ...
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