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HEritage Resilience Against CLimate Events on Site (HERACLES)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

HERACLES main objective is to design, validate and promote responsive systems/solutions for effective resilience of CH against climate change effects, considering as a mandatory premise an holistic, multidisciplinary approach through the involvement of different expertise (end-users, industry/SMEs, scientists, conservators/restorators and social experts, decision, and policy makers). This will be ...
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effective Container inspection at BORDer control points (C-BORD)

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

Efficient NII (non-intrusive inspection) of containerised freight is critical to trade and society. Freight containers are potential means for smuggling (e.g. tobacco), illegal immigration, trafficking of drugs, mis-declared goods and dangerous illicit substances, including explosives, nuclear material, chemical and biological warfare agents and radioactively contaminated goods. One inspection NII ...
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DRiving InnoVation in crisis management for European Resilience (DRIVER)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

DRIVER starts from the experience that neither successful R&D nor strong end-user demand always lead to innovation in the Crisis Management (CM) domain. This is a problem since as societies become more complex, increasing scope and unpredictability of potential crises and faster dynamics of major incidents put increasingly stringent demands on CM. European CM capabilities already constitute a matu ...
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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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Training Augmented Reality Generalised Environment Toolkit (TARGET)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

TARGET will deliver a pan-European serious gaming platform featuring new tools, techniques and content for training and assessing skills and competencies of SCA (Security Critical Agents - counterterrorism units, border guards, first responders (police, firefighters, ambulance services civil security agencies, critical infrastructure operators).Mixed-reality experiences will immerse trainees at ta ...
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The Alliance for Materials way to the creation of the MATerials Common House - MATCH (MATCH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"With this proposal, a qualified and assorted representative group of the European Materials community, intend to propose an activity for further boosting and reinforcing a concept launched by Alliance for Materials (A4M): the creation of a strong, sustainable, inclusive network where any European Materials players (from Industry, Research, University) could feel comfortable and can gain real val ...
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End-user driven DEmo for cbrNe (EDEN)

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

The accidental or deliberate release of CBRNE materials are low probability events that can have a significant impact on citizens and society. Whenever and wherever they occur, they usually require a gradual and multi-facetted response as they tend to provoke severe and unexpected physical, psychological, societal, economical and political effects that cross EU-borders. Successful CBRNE resilience ...
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Federation for FIRE (Fed4FIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

A federation of experimentation facilities will significantly accelerate Future Internet research. Fed4FIRE will deliver open and easily accessible facilities to the FIRE experimentation communities, which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and applications, and combinations thereof. The project will develop a demand-driven common federation framework, based on an open architect ...
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Unbiased Biomarkers for the Prediction of Respiratory Disease Outcomes (U-BIOPRED)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

RationaleThe inability of pre-clinical studies to predict clinical efficacy is a major bottleneck in drug development. In severe asthma this bottleneck results from: a lack of useful and validated biomarkers, underperforming pre-clinical models, inadequate and incomplete sub-phenotyping, and insufficient disease understanding.HypothesisThe use of biomarker profiles comprised of various types of hi ...
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Critical Raw Materials Innovation Network – Towards an integrated community driving innovation in the field of critical raw material substitution for the benefit of EU industry (CRM_INNONET)

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

The overall aim of the project is to create an integrated community that will drive innovation in the field of critical raw material substitution for the benefit of EU industry. The project will:•Deliver a mapping of on-going initiatives in the field of substitution of CRM at the EU level and Member States that will allow for the identification of key champions and synergies. The mapping will also ...
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Advanced Research on Interaction Mechanisms of electroMagnetic exposures with Organisms for Risk Assessment (ARIMMORA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Based on epidemiological evidence supporting an ssociation between residential exposure to extremelylow frequency magnetic fields (ELF MF) and childhood leukaemia, ELF MF have been classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans. The proposed project aims to scrutinize the underlying biophysical mechanisms andto clarify a possible causal relationship between ELF MF exposure and cancer, especially ch ...
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FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform (FI-WARE)

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

The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. FI- ...
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Commons for Europe (Commons4EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Cities face a scenario characterized by shrinking budgets, increasing demands of services from their citizens and the need to reinvent themselves in their quest to become Smart Cities.Simultaneously, the Internet brought new opportunities to orchestrate collaboration, fostering the creation of a large base of commons in code, user generated contents and even telecom infrastructures with the emerge ...
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"CATO - CBRN crisis management: Architecture, Technologies and Operational Procedures" (CATO)

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

"CATO proposes to develop a comprehensive Open Toolbox for dealing with CBRN crises due to terrorist attacks using non-conventional weapons or on facilities with CBRN material. CATO will:• combine CBRN knowledge, planning & response know-how, DSS building blocks and dedicated models and algorithms• enable the development of specific holistic CBRN-DSS• cover the entire CBRN disaster life cycle from ...
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Alliance for Materials – A value chain approach to materials research and innovation (MatVal)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Currently, there is a lack of consistent coordination between the activities of the various ETPs, which has led to a diverse range of ideas as to what is important to European materials developments, and consequently a somewhat fragmented support for these developments. In 2010, a group of ETPs (EuMaT, Suschem, Manufuture, FTC, ESTEP and SMR) with most significant material agenda, came together to ...
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"Supporting fundamentAl rights, PrIvacy and Ethics in surveillaNce Technologies" (SAPIENT)

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

"The SAPIENT project will specify for policy makers, technology developers and other stakeholders how and when smart surveillance should be used and the criteria to verify that surveillance systems respect the privacy of citizens.SAPIENT will provide strategic knowledge on the state of the art of surveillance studies, emerging smart surveillance technologies and the adequacy of the existing legal ...
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Supporting policy dialogues and cooperation with Africa to enhance ICT cooperative research links between Europe and Africa in the framework of the "Africa-EU Strategic Partnership 8" (EuroAfrica-P8)

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

The 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership interlinks 3 priorities which can leverage a faster socio-economic development in Africa. Africa/Europe have recognised that the development of STI & the spreading of ICT to all components of a society are key. P8 new Action Plan lists as a priority the development of an inclusive information society in Africa. In that perspective is being formed a multi-sta ...
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The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching (Pathway)

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

"Following the recommendations of the ""Science Education Now: A renewed Pedagogy for the Future of Europe"" report, the Pathway Supporting Action is bringing together experts in the field of science education research and teachers´ communities, scientists and researchers involved in pioneering scientific research, policy makers and curriculum developers to promote the effective widespread use of ...
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OPEN INNOVATION Mechanisms in Smart Cities (Open Cities)

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

The success of cities is linked to their efficiency, in reducing transaction costs and providing services. However, in order to maintain this success, cities have reinvented themselves many times through history.Today, Information Technologies are doomed to be the key driver of a new wave of innovation in cities that will lead, one more time, to their reinvention.However, public procurement and ma ...
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Evaluation of critical and emerging technologies for the elaboration of a security research agenda (ETCETERA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The ETCETERA project is a contribution to effective and efficient security research planning on a European level. Its aim is three-fold:1. to develop novel methodologies for future strategic research planning,2. to identify risks and potential benefits associated with Critical Dependencies and Emerging Technologies with security implications, and3. to recommend research plans to deal with these r ...
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Scoping the Single European Digital Identity Community (SSEDIC)

Start date: Nov 15, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The objective of this network will be to provide a platform for all the stakeholders of eID (electronic identity) to work together and collaborate to prepare the agenda for a proposed Single European Digital Identity Community. The network will identify the actions and the timetable for the Digital Agenda (DAE) and the successful launch of the European Large Scale Action (ELSA), as well as to prov ...
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Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment (PRESCIENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Privacy is a multifaceted concept, a moving target and a salient topic in technology policy-making. PRESCIENT will provide an early identification of privacy and ethical issues arising from emerging technologies and their relevance for EC policy. It will contribute to the quality of research in the field of ethics, by distinguishing between privacy and data protection and analysing the ethical, le ...
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Sound Exposure and Risk Assessment of Wireless Network Devices (SEAWIND)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Public exposure to electromagnetic fields in the radio frequency spectrum has increased dramatically in the last two decades. Although research has mainly focused on the exposure and health risk evaluations of cellular networks and mobile phones in recent years, studies on the effects of the pervasive and prolonged EMF exposure on human health due to the exponential growth of wireless network devi ...
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Biometric European Stakeholders Network (BEST NETWORK)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The main objective of BEST NETWORK is to bring together knowledge and hands-on experience with biometric deployments, addressing gaps in the gathering and dissemination of best practices, lessons learned in the scope of studies, pilots and deployments on European and Member States level.Recent experiences with biometrics-enabled systems and services have revealed issues beyond accuracy of identifi ...
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Knowledge-enabled Access of Central Europe SMEs to Efficient Transnational Transport Solutions (KASSETTS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2011,

The KASSETTS regions strongly base their future development on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) systems and on their transnational trade relations. Transport, logistics and related ICT services play a fundamental role for SMEs as they represent the strategic leverages to be on the Central Europe markets and to be integrated in procurement and distribution chains. Nevertheless, SMEs EU log ...
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Empowering Biomedical and Bioengineering SMEs to promote participation in FP7 projects (SM-BIO-POWER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

...e proposed project is largely based on the outcomes and the experience gained in a previous project (ETI-CT-2005-023401-SME-MPOWER) running since November 2005 and ending October 2007 (coordinated by Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Automation and Operation). The objective of the predecessor project ("the predecessor" from here on) was to “demonstrate how high-tech SMEs can be empowered long-term ...
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"Coordination action on Risks, Evolution of threatS and context assessment by an Enlarged Network for r&D rOadmap" (CRESCENDO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"Building on the experience of the PASR SeNTRE and STACCATO, the 2 year CRESCENDO Coordination Action intends to respond to the request of the users and the experts who attended these first workshops to continue working together and to enlarge their activities. They raised concerns on how to improve the innovation process, how to create a real European security market and how to strengthen Europea ...
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"HOMELAND SECURITY, BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND PERSONAL DETECTION ETHICS" (HIDE)

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

"HIDE (HOMELAND SECURITY, BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION & PERSONAL DETECTION ETHICS) is a 36 month coordination action that aims to create a PANEUROPEAN DIALOGUE PLATFORM ON ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE OF PERSONAL DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES AND BIOMETRICS. THREE KEY IDEAS LED THE CONSORTIUM TO PREPARE THE HIDE PROJECT: ** Ongoing societal concerns about the use of biometrics and personal detection technologies f ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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OVOTRAIN – On-line Virtual Vocational Training System

Ovotrain is a language competences project that is based on a former Leonardo da Vinci project “Metallurgical Expressions Translation System” (Metaltransys). This project generated the need to expand the already existing dictionary towards up-to-date vocational training methods. Ovotrain will focus on content and language integrated learning by creating a 7-language internet based expression dicti ...
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