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STARs that 'R' Young : When do stars form in clustered environments? (STARRY)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

STARRY (STARs that ‘R’ Young) is a twin site EID that will provide training to 2 inexperienced researchers in the development of sophisticated research tools in order to exploit, interpret and analyse astronomical data from state-of-the-art observatories in the field of star formation. The joint training programme is provided by world experts in stellar astrophysics at the University of Leeds, UK ...
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Passenger-centric Big Data Sources for Socio-economic and Behavioural Research in ATM (BigData4ATM)

Start date: May 9, 2016, End date: May 8, 2018,

The Flightpath 2050 report envisages a passenger-centric air transport system thoroughly integrated with other transport modes, with the goal of taking travellers from door to door predictably and efficiently. However, ATM operations have so far lacked a passenger-oriented perspective, with performance objectives not necessarily taking into account the ultimate consequences for the passenger. Ther ...
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Coordinating Air transport Time Efficiency Research (CATER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Europe, through the High Level Group on Aviation Research, ACARE and the Commission, has a vision for air transport in meeting societal & market needs over the coming 30 years. Central to this is time efficiency, meaning reduced door-to-door journey times, seamless inter-modal connections and reliability. For this Europe will engage in large scale, intensive and coordinated research & innovati ...
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Global ATM security management (GAMMA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The GAMMA project stems from the recognition that while the SESAR initiative is effectively addressing some security issues in the new global ATM scenarios, there is a need to extend this scope to ensure a comprehensive assessment of the full set of security threats and vulnerabilities affecting ATM, considered as a system of systems and covering operational as well as technological aspects. In ad ...
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Accelerated Checkpoint Design Integration Test and Evaluation (XP-DITE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

The aim of the XP-DITE project is to develop, demonstrate and validate a comprehensive, passenger centred approach to the design and evaluation of integrated security checkpoints (CPs) at airports. The approach encompasses a variety of different types of requirements, relating to security, airport operations and societal aspects. An ethical framework will be defined which enables designers and op ...
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Collaborative evaLuation Of border Surveillance technologies in maritime Environment bY pre-operational validation of innovativE solutions (CLOSEYE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

CLOSEYE comes to life with the aim of providing the EU with an operational and technical framework that would increase situational awareness and improve the reaction capability of authorities surveying the external borders of the EU. This initiative also comes in response to an urgent sudden major challenge for the control of the migratory pressure from the North African coast and to a limited mar ...
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Advanced Cockpit for Reduction Of StreSs and workload (ACROSS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Outstanding safety level of air transport is partly due to the two pilots standard. However situations where difficult flight conditions, system failures or cockpit crew incapacitation lead to peak workload conditions.The amount of information and actions to process may then exceed the crew capacity. Systems alleviating crew workload would improve safety.ACROSS Advanced Cockpit for Reduction of St ...
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UAV BASED INNOVATIVE MEANS FOR LAND AND SEA NON-COOPERATIVE VEHICLES STOP (AEROCEPTOR)

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

Organized crime does an intensive use of non-cooperative vehicles (cars and motorboats mainly) for a variety of criminal activities, as they are transport of illegal immigrants or smuggling of goods (especially drugs). This generates a very large number of operations carried out by law enforcement agencies in order to intercept these vehicles. During the vehicle interception operations, non coope ...
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early Pursuit against Organized crime using envirOnmental scanning, the Law and IntelligenCE systems (ePOOLICE)

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

Organized crime is becoming more diverse in its activities and methods including “greater levels of collaboration between criminal groups, greater mobility in and around the EU, a diversification of illicit activity, and a growing dependence on a dynamic infrastructure, anchored in key locations and facilitated by widespread use of the Internet” (the Director of Europol, in his foreword to the OCT ...
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AIRBorne information for Emergency situation Awareness and Monitoring (AIRBEAM)

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

The AIRBEAM project proposes a situation awareness toolbox for the management of crisis over wide area taking benefit of an optimised set of aerial (unmanned) platforms, including satellites.The number of unmanned air- and space-borne platform available and their associated sensors present a new set of challenges to end users involved in the effective management of emergencies and actions of law e ...
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Explosive Neutralisation and Mitigation Countermeasures for IEDs in Urban/Civil Environment (ENCOUNTER)

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

"The objective for the ENCOUNTER project is to identify, explore and validate both existing and innovative techniques for mitigation and neutralisation of found Improvised Explosive Devises (IED) in urban/civil environment.ENCOUNTER will start off with revisiting actual practices. Relevant scenarios will be developed where different types of IEDs and different stand-off distances will be considere ...
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Aviation Safety and Certification of new Operations and Systems (ASCOS)

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

"Fundamental changes in the institutional arrangements for aviation regulation in Europe, the introduction of new technologies and operations, and demands for higher levels of safety performance call for the adaptation of existing certification processes. Therefore, the main objective of ASCOS is to develop novel certification process adaptations and supporting safety driven design methods and too ...
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Protection of European seas and borders through the intelligent use of surveillance (PERSEUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

PERSEUS contributes to Europe’s efforts to monitor illegal migration and combat related crime and goods smuggling by proposing a large scale demonstration of a EU Maritime surveillance System of Systems, on the basis of existing national systems and platforms, enhancing them with innovative capabilities and moving beyond EUROSUR’s 2013 expectations, addressing key challenges: supporting the netwo ...
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Virtual Centre of Excellence for Ethically-guided and Privacy-respecting Video Analytics (VideoSense)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

VideoSense will integrate leading European research groups to create a long term open integration of critical mass in the twin areas of Ethically-Guided and Privacy Preserving Video Analytics where the advent of new data intelligence technologies against the background of dynamic societal and citizen’s goals, norms, expectations, safety and security needs and thus surveillance requirements have al ...
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Advanced Video Surveillance archives search Engine for security applications (ADVISE)

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

ADVISE aims to design and develop a unification framework for surveillance-footage archive systems, in an effort to deal with the increasingly critical need to provide automated and smart surveillance solutions.This need arises due to the continuous growth of surveillance systems in scale, heterogeneity and utility. There are two major obstacles: the variety on the technical components of the surv ...
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Validate Operations to Reduce Impact on Environment (VALORIE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"VALORIE (VALidate Operations to Reduce Impact on Environment) aims to support Systems for Green Operations ITD in validation of novel, environment-aware practices of aircraft take-off and cruise against a wide spectrum of available operational expertise. The modelling of a broader operational environment that includes ATC, airports, CFMU, etc. can be well done by advanced simulation and gaming t ...
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Support to security end users (ARCHIMEDES)

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

Weak participation of end-users & operators (EU&O) in all the stages of security research is jeopardizing the competitiveness of new solutions & services and Europe’s security. The objective of this 3 year ARCHIMEDES project is to increase the R&T uptake. It will: 1) Develop an Innovation Management methodology enabling EU&O to efficiently benefit from R&T results and promote a common innovation c ...
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All Condition Operations and Innovative Cockpit Infrastructure (ALICIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"ALICIA addresses the ACARE objective of increasing time efficiency within the future air transport system. The aim will be to develop a new and scalable cockpit application which can extend operations of aircraft in degraded conditions – “All Conditions Operations”. A key objective will be to deliver an extensible application that can be applied to many aircraft types. This will necessarily enta ...
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"Passenger station and terminal design for safety, security and resilience to terrorist attack" (SECURESTATION)

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

"The aim of the SECURESTATION project is to improve passenger station and terminal resilience to terrorist attacks and safety incidents through technologies and methodologies enabling design to reduce the impact of blast, fire and the dispersion of toxic agents on passengers, staff and infrastructure.Objectives:SecureStation will consider threats from terrorist attacks and safety incidents caused ...
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EXploiting safety results aCROSS transportation modes (EXCROSS)

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

"EXCROSS is a Supporting Action (SA) to enhance cross-fertilization and synergies between research initiatives dealing with safety in the different transport modes (e.g. road transportation, aviation, etc.), reducing the fragmentation that exists in Europe between these initiatives. In particular, the objectives of this SA are:1) Identify synergies and opportunities for cross fertilization between ...
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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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Canadian Networking Aeronautics Project for Europe (CANNAPE)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"The proposal creates a platform for enhancing aeronautics and air transport research and development cooperation between the EU and Canada, and to explore the potential for and to promote the participation of Canadian stakeholders with their European counterparts in common activities. The objectives for CANNAPE are:• To explore the potential for enhancing EU and Canadian cooperation through anal ...
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Versatile InfoRmation Toolkit for end-Users oriented Open Sources explOitation (VIRTUOSO)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"VIRTUOSO projects aims at providing European Security stakeholders with a toolkit based on an open-source-software framework and a set of advanced information processing tools. This toolkit will allow building end-user oriented applications: - Ranging from open source collection to decision support - Providing at each step actionable, rated, validated information - Integrated in an open framework ...
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Maritime Assisted Volumetric Navigation System (ARIADNA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"A Volumetric Navigation System (VNS) started with great interest in new traffic navigation solutions considering certain scenarios in which all the vehicles share information in order to be part of a collaborative navigation network. In those scenarios, 3D volume dimensions are used to define the position of an associated volumetric envelope in time. In the maritime navigation the “volume” of the ...
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Future Internet Applied to Public Safety in Smart Cities (SafeCity)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Safecity deals with smart Public safety and security in cities. The main objective is to enhance the role of Future Internet in ensuring people feel safe in their surroundings at time that their surroundings are protected.Safecity is the result of the elaboration of a vertical Use Case Scenario based on Public Safety in European cities. The main goal of this project is to collect specific require ...
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Foresight Security Scenarios: Mapping Research to a Comprehensive Approach to Exogenous EU Roles (FOCUS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"FOCUS will allow designing European security research to effectively cope with future EU roles responding to tomorrow’s challenges resulting from the globalization of risks, threats and vulnerabilities. It will do so through the elaboration of multiple scenarios based on IT-supported foresight in the form of alternative futures that are plausibility-probed and not just threat scenarios. FOCUS wil ...
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Turnaround Integration in Trajectory and Network (TITAN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"The TITAN project will analyse the current Turnaround process to detect gaps and to study the influence of external actors, specially the effect of land-side process like passenger flow or baggage handling. A concept shall be defined for this improved process, which will be modeled and validated using the most appropriate platform. Using the validated concept, a decision-making support tool for t ...
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Mechanisms for Optimization of hybrid ad-hoc networks and satellite NETworks (MONET)

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

The potential of Mobile wireless Adhoc Networks (MANET) is significantly high. However, MANET applications often happen in infrastructure-less or remote regions where remote connectivity to the outside world has to be provided by some other means. Satellite is one of the solutions to provide this and sometimes the only solution. Current expectations dictate that satellite will be seen not only as ...
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"OPARUS (Open Architecture for UAV-based Surveillance System) (topic : SEC-2009.3.4.1 Continuity, coverage, performances, secure datalink)" (OPARUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

"The goal of this project is to elaborate an open architecture for the operation of unmanned air-to-ground wide area land and sea border surveillance platforms in Europe. This architecture is based on analysis of concepts and scenarios for UAV-based aerial surveillance of European borders. It takes into account the emerging legislation for insertion of UAS into controlled civil airspace. The techn ...
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A New Agenda for European Security Economics (EUSECON)

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

"EUSECON analyses the newly emerging field of European security economics by identifying the nature and scope of this research field, by bringing together the leading European research players in this field and by building new analytical and conceptual insights on the most pressing research needs in this field. By implementing these research activities, EUSECON will establish an operational networ ...
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Innovative and Novel First Responders Applications (INFRA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"The objective of project INFRA is to research and develop novel technologies for personal digital support systems as part of an integral, secure emergency management system to support First Responders (FR) in crises occurring in various types of Critical Infrastructures (CI) under all circumstances. Project INFRA will focus on innovation at 2 levels: A. Create an open, standards based interope ...
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Guidelines for cooperation of Latin American countries in European aeronautics and air transport research (CoopAIR-LA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

CoopAIR is an ambitious and innovative action supporting Latin American (LA) cooperation. It aims at deepening strategic RTD cooperation between Europe and LA by building, starting from what already exist a multinational and multistakeholder community that will involve a significant representation of the relevant RTD European and LA actors (researchers, companies, policy makers, users) and by iden ...
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