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Wide scale demonstration of Integrated Solutions and business models for European smartGRID (WiseGRID)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

WiseGRID has two intertwined and equally important strategic goals: on the one hand, it aims at successfully putting in the market, within a horizon of 24 months after project completion, a set of solutions and technologies which increase the smartness, stability and security of an open, consumer-centric European energy grid, with an enhanced use of storage technologies and a highly increased shar ...
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SMART RENEWABLE HUBS FOR FLEXIBLE GENERATION: SOLAR GRID STABILITY (GRIDSOL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...consuming energy and/or disturbing the frequency due to embedded capacitors/impedances); power producers are usually stabilizers (synchronous turbines that provide inertia against sudden changes). Penetration of non-synchronous renewables such as Wind and PV threatens to disrupt the balance, especially in islands and poorly interconnected areas, as they provide power but rely on stability provided ...
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PRIvacy and Security MAintaining services in the CLOUD (PRISMACLOUD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

With a current volume of over USD 100 billion and annual growth rates of over 10%, the world-wide market for cloud computing can be considered as the major growth area in ICT. However, big companies and public authorities are reluctant to entrust their most sensitive data to external parties for storage and processing. The reason for their hesitation is clear: There exist no satisfactory approache ...
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New Cost Efficient Business Models for Flexible Smart Grids (NOBEL GRID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

NOBEL GRID will develop, deploy and evaluate advanced tools and ICT services for energy DSOs cooperatives and medium-size retailers, enabling active consumers involvement –i.e. new demand response schemas – and flexibility of the market – i.e. new business models for aggregators and ESCOs.Through the dual-use of telecommunication networks, and validating the integration of renewable generation pre ...
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Door to Door Information for Airports and Airlines (DORA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

DORA project is aiming at design and establishment of an integrated information system that helps passengers to optimise travel time from an origin of the travel to the airplane at the departing airport as well as from the arrival airport to the final destination. With it, the DORA integrated information system, which will be created within the project together with necessary software platforms an ...
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Standard method and online tool for assessing and improving the energy efficiency of wastewater treatment plants (ENERWATER)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) is one of the most expensive public industries in terms of energy requirements accounting for more than 1% of consumption of electricity in Europe. EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) 91/271/CEE made obligatory waste water treatment for cities and towns. Now within the EU-27, the total number of WWTPs is estimated as 22.558, for which we can estimate a total ene ...
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Prototyping of Recycled Plastic Conveyor Belt Machine and Demonstration of Recycled Plastic Tight tolerance Applications (LIFE REPLACE BELT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jul 1, 2017,

Background PVC is a form of plastic used in many applications instead of rubber. PVC accounts for 14% of all plastic produced in Europe, with 8 million tonnes per year. The European production of synthetic rubber, excluding tyres, in 2010 was around 2.8 million tonnes. The reuse or recycling of rubber and industrial plastic waste represents a big challeng ...
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Hybrid Risk Management for Utility Networks (HYRIM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Risk management is a core duty in critical infrastructures as operated by utility providers. Despite the existence of numerous risk assessment tools to support the utility providers in estimating the nature and impact of possible incidents, risk management up till now is mostly a matter of best practice approaches. Risk management tools are mostly focused on one of two major topics:- the utility n ...
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COoperative loGISTICS for sustainable mobility of goods (CO-GISTICS)

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

Key logistics stakeholders from seven European cities/logistics hubs (Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Thessaloniki, Trieste, Arad, Bilbao and Vigo) have joined forces to deploy, validate and set-up after project life of five piloted cooperative logistics services combining cooperative mobility services and intelligent cargo with real-life logistical aspects. CO-GISTICS services will increase energy efficienc ...
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asSIsted MobIlity for Older aNd impaired users (SIMON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

SIMON is a demonstration project with four large scale pilots in Madrid, Parma, Lisbon and Reading aiming to use ICT services to promote the independent living and societal participation of mobility impaired people in the context of public parking areas and multiple transport modes.The project will tackle two main challenges:- Reduction of fraud in the pre-ICT implementation of the European Disabl ...
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Go Fresh - Fresh and Quick Prepared, Healthy and Affordable Meal Solution (Go Fresh)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Due to the longer working hours, lack of time for preparation of fresh food and because of diseases caused by unhealthy fast food, health conscious consumers in developed world seek for convenient food products that provide more value and functionality: natural, healthy, time efficient and affordable. Protein diet has been recognized as one possible answer to this request due to its several positi ...
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Building Energy decision Support systems fOr Smart cities (BESOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...ights). In total >250GWh/year of consumed electricity and 168 MWh/year of produced electircity.The transferability of results is guaranteed by the strong involvement of BESOS consortium –e.g. ETRA, the municipality of Barcelona- in the City Protocol Society, where more than 30 worldwide capital cities participate.
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Protection of Critical Infrastructures against High Power Microwave Threats (HIPOW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"The HIPOW Project aims to develop a holistic regime for protection of critical infrastructures against threats from electromagnetic radiation. The holistic regime will include guidance regarding hardening measures and robust architectures, a suggested risk management process applicable on organizational level, input to standards and guidelines applicable for critical infrastructures on national a ...
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SEcure Cloud computing for CRitical infrastructure IT (SECCRIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"Cloud Computing is a style of computing where elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as optimized, cost-effective, and on-demand utility-like services to customers using Internet technologies. Being one of the major trends in the IT industry recently, it has gained tremendous momentum and started to revolutionize the way enterprises create and deliver IT solutions. As more sectors adopt clo ...
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SMARTgrid KeY NEighborhood indicator cockpit (SMARTKYE)

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

SMARTKYE strategic goal is to develop a system for the future smart grid neighbourhood that will enable better business\ndecisions to be made based on real-time fine-grained data. Key end-users targeted are the public authorities who can monitor\nand manage key indicators in neighbourhoods with the goal of better energy efficiency and CO2 reduction.\nSMARTKYE results in short:\n- An open architect ...
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Co-operative ITS Systems for Enhanced Electric Vehicle Mobility (Mobility2.0)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Mobility2.0 will develop and test an in-vehicle commuting assistant for FEV mobility, resulting in more reliable and energy-efficient electro-mobility. In order to achieve a maximum impact, Mobility2.0 takes an integrated approach of addressing the main bottlenecks of urban FEV mobility: 'range anxiety' related to the limited FEV range, scarcity of parking spaces with public recharging spots, and ...
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"Prevention, protection and REaction to CYber attackS to critical infrastructures" (PRECYSE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Today, attackers are using more sophisticated technologies, making existing “add-on” security solutions obsolete or insufficient, and the number of stakeholders involved –both human and machines– is always increasing. Thus, design and embedding of new security mechanisms directly into the systems is needed to drastically increase reliability and security levels, and provide higher levels of resil ...
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Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services (GAMBAS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The overall objective of the GAMBAS project is the development of an innovative and adaptive middleware to enable the privacy-preserving and automated utilization of behavior-driven services that adapt autonomously to the context of users.With the advent of powerful Internet-connected objects an increasing number of Europeans have constant access to information on the Internet. Nowadays, these con ...
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Mobility based on eLectric Connected vehicles in Urban and interurban smart, cLean, EnvironmentS (MOLECULES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Electro-mobility (for the purpose of this document, Electro-Mobility is the mobility offer by electric vehicles that are fully integrated into a well adapted transport system) is seen as one of the largest opportunities to radically change today's transport system and make a quantum leap into the next generation of sustainable mobility.The aim is to contribute to a pre-deployment and wider uptake ...
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PLAtform for the deployment and operation of heterogeneous NETworked cooperating objects (PLANET)

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

Efficient deployment and management has been identified as one of the main problems for the acceptance of new technologies based on Cooperating Objects (COs). The goal of PLANET is to provide an integrated planning and maintenance platform that enables the deployment, operation and maintenance of heterogeneous networked COs in an efficient way. The main objective of the project particularly emphas ...
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SUstainable and PERsuasive Human Users moBility in future cities (SUPERHUB)

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

The SUPERHUB project aims at realizing a new services mobility framework supporting an integrated and eco-efficient use of multi-modal mobility systems in an urban setting.SUPERHUB provides a user-centric, integrated approach to multi-modal smart urban mobility systems, through an open platform able to consider in real time various mobility offers and provide a set of mobility services able to add ...
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Enhancing Intermodality of Content, Personalised Information and Functionality of WISETRIP Network of Journey Planning Engines (ENHANCED WISETRIP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

An attempt to integrate Journey Planning engines to form a unified intermodal planner for international journeys, has been performed by the WISETRIP FP7 project. WISETRIP has addressed important needs of the international traveller including the provision of personalized information before and during the trip, under different usage scenarios. The proposed Enhanced WISETRIP project aims at building ...
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Buildings Energy Advanced Management System (BEAMS)

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

BEAMS strategic goal is the development of an advanced, integrated management system which enables energy efficiency in buildings and special infrastructures from a holistic perspective (i.e. considering the indoors areas, the public spaces around the facility and the interaction of the overall compound with the grid and urban network outside it).The project will include an open interoperability g ...
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Neighbourhood Oriented Brokerage ELectricity and monitoring system (NOBEL)

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

Europe and the rest of the world share common goals towards energy efficiency and sustainability. European leaders committed themselves to reduce primary energy consumption by 20% compared to projections for 2020. Energy efficiency is the most cost-effective way of achieving such goal. Furthermore, improving energy efficiency also addresses the key energy challenges of climate change, energy secur ...
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Protyping of Recycled Plastic Conveyor Belt Machine and Demonstration of Recycled Plastics Structural Applications (RePlaCe)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Background Currently, the mechanical characteristics of aluminium components, especially in terms of rigidity and resilience to breakage, are much superior to those made from recycled plastic: this means that although recycled plastic is used for auxiliary or accessory parts, it is not used for main structural features. The car and construction industri ...
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PErvasive Computing in Embedded Systems (PECES)

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

The overarching goal of the PECES project is the creation of a comprehensive software layer to enable the seamless cooperation of embedded devices across various smart spaces on a global scale in a context-dependent, secure and trustworthy manner.The increasing number of devices that is invisibly embedded into our surrounding environment as well as the proliferation of wireless communication and s ...
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Smart freight transport in urban areas (SMARTFREIGHT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

Goods distribution is important for businesses and the life of a city. However, the efficiency as well as the environmental impacts is negatively influenced by traffic congestion, scarcity of loading areas, sub-optimal delivery routes and too little use of return loads. The transport of dangerous goods is also a safety risk.This project will make urban freight transport more efficient, environment ...
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Wide Scale network of E-systems for Multimodal Journey Planning and Delivery of Trip Intelligent Personalised data (WISETRIP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,

"Mobility and demand trends of tourism, travel and citizen transport need data from various transportation actors for information and route guidance. Getting the right information is complex and must consider all alternatives and special factors like time and cost related user preferences, number of hops, and other. Moreover, information about dynamic conditions (delays, traffic, weather) that aff ...
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