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Hydrodynamic Limits and Equilibrium Fluctuations: universality from stochastic systems (HyLEF)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

A classical problem in the field of interacting particle systems (IPS) is to derive the macroscopic laws of the thermodynamical quantities of a physical system by considering an underlying microscopic dynamics which is composed of particles that move according to some prescribed stochastic, or deterministic, law. The macroscopic laws can be partial differential equations (PDE) or stochastic PDE (S ...
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In Silico Pair Plasmas: from ultra intense lasers to relativistic astrophysics in the laboratory (InPairs)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

How do extreme electromagnetic fields modify the dynamics of matter? Will quantum electrodynamics effects be important at the focus of an ultra intense laser? How are the magnetospheres of compact stellar remnants formed, and can we capture the physics of these environments in the laboratory? These are all longstanding questions with an overarching connection to extreme plasma physics.Electron-pos ...
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REliability and Safety Engineering and Technology for large maritime engineering systems (RESET)

Start date: May 1, 2017, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

Failure of large complex engineering systems often leads to catastrophic consequences. Their efficient and safe design and operation will avoid or reduce malfunctions, failures and accidents, which would have a significant impact on the daily life of the public in terms of service and product delivery, business interruption, economic losses, human injuries/fatalities, and property and environmenta ...
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Integrating National Research Agendas on Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (INSHIP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Despite process heat is recognized as the application with highest potential among solar heating and cooling applications, Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP) still presents a modest share of about 0.3% of total installed solar thermal capacity. As of today’s technology development stage – economic competitiveness restricted to low temperature applications; technology implementation requiri ...
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Sharing Cities (SHAR-LLM)

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

Sharing Cities has four key objectives. 1) To achieve scale in the European smart cities market by proving that properly designed smart city solutions, based around common needs, can be integrated in complex urban environments. This will be done in a way that exhibits their true potential and allows for the significant scale-up and consequent increase in social, economic and environmental value. ...
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Matter and strong-field gravity: New frontiers in Einstein’s theory (MaGRaTh)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Gravity is the weakest but the most intriguing fundamental interaction in the Universe. In the last decades a formidable intellectual effort has shown that the full-fledged geometric nature of gravity offers much more than a beautiful description and understanding of all stellar and galactic. In the quest for the ultimate theory of gravity, new and spectacular connections between high-energy physi ...
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Fishfriendly Innovative Technologies for Hydropower (FIThydro)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

FIThydro addresses the decision support in commissioning and operating hydropower plants (HPP) by use of existing and innovative technologies. It concentrates on mitigation measures and strategies to develop cost-efficient environmental solutions and on strategies to avoid individual fish damage and enhancing population developments. Therefore HPPS all over Europe are involved as test sites. The f ...
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Development of an Integrated Exposure – Dose Management Tool for Reduction of Particulate Matter in Air (LIFE Index-Air)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Background The health effects of air pollution have been subject of intense study in recent years. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne particulate matter (PM) has been associated with increases in mortality and hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular disease. PM is a complex mixture of microscopic particles derived from anthropogenic ...
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Biodiversity in Standards and Labels for the Food Industry (LIFEBioStandards)

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

Background The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 underlines the importance of motivating the corporate sector to reduce its negative impacts on biodiversity. Intensive agriculture is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss, through the use of heavy machinery, pesticides and synthetic nitrogen fertilisers, land consolidation, drainage, etc. Therefore, ...
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MULTIple DRONE platform for media production (MULTIDRONE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

MULTIDRONE aims to develop an innovative, intelligent, multi-drone platform for media production to cover outdoor events, which are typically held over wide areas (at stadium/city level). The 4-10 drone team, to be managed by the production director and crew, will have: a) increased decisional autonomy, by minimizing production crew load and interventions and b) improved robustness, security and ...
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Strong Gravity and High-Energy Physics (StronGrHEP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

This project explores strong-gravity phenomena involving black holes in the context of high-energy physics applications and astrophysical observations including gravitational waves. The proposed studies can be loosely classified into four groups with considerable overlap.(i) Fundamental fields in strong gravity.Fundamental fields coupled to curvature are essential for cosmological models, for expl ...
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The Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures (LASERLAB-EUROPE)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

LASERLAB-EUROPE is the European consortium of major national laser research infrastructures, covering advanced laser science and applications in most domains of research and technology, with particular emphasis on areas with high industrial and social impact, such as bio- and nanophotonics, material analyses, biology and medicine. Recently the field of advanced lasers has experienced remarkable ad ...
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Proposal for a Horizon 2020 Design Study on the “European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications“ (EuPRAXIA) (EuPRAXIA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

EuPRAXIA will produce a conceptual design report for the worldwide first 5 GeV plasma-based accelerator with industrial beam quality and user areas. EuPRAXIA is the required intermediate step between proof-of-principle experiments and ground-breaking, ultra-compact accelerators for science, industry, medicine or the energy frontier (“plasma linear collider”). The study will design accelerator tech ...
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Groundwater and Global Change - Impacts and Adaptation

Start date: Oct 15, 2014, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

REFERENCE: 553633-EPP-1-2014-1-NL-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB_G-watCHTITLE: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Programme in Groundwater and Global Change – Impacts and Adaptation, GROUNDWATCHObjectiveThe Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Programme in Groundwater and Global Change – Impacts and Adaptation (GROUNDWATCH) aims to address the current gaps in higher education with regard to the understanding of the interactions ...
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Skills and competences development of future transportation professionals at all levels (SKILLFUL)

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

The Transportation sector employs over 10 million persons in the EU today. At the same time, Transport is a social sector that is rapidly developing, changing and being influenced to the maximum extent by the development of automation, electrification and greening of transport, among others, thus facing problems in staffing its several domains with appropriate and qualified personnel. This fact, m ...
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Large Additive Subtractive Integrated Modular Machine (LASIMM)

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

The LASIMM project aim is to develop a large scale flexible hybrid additive/subtractive machine based on a modular architecture which is easily scalable. The machine will feature capabilities for additive manufacture, machining, cold-work, metrology and inspection that will provide the optimum solution for the hybrid manufacturing of large engineering parts of high integrity, with cost benefits of ...
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Ship Lifecycle Software Solutions (SHIPLYS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

SHIPLYS has been specified as necessary by our architect, shipbuilder and shipowner members, who, in order to survive in the world market, need to improve their capability to reduce the cycle time and costs of design and production, to be able to reliably produce better ship concepts through virtual prototyping and to meet the increasing requirements for LCCA (Life Cycle Cost Analysis), environmen ...
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Open Sea Operating Experience to Reduce Wave Energy Cost (OPERA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

Europe is endowed with abundant wave energy which could cover some 10% of its electricity needs with a clean, predictable and job-creating resource, which EU companies are at the forefront exploiting with little dependence on foreign suppliers.There remain important technical challenges to bring down costs to within investors’ reach, as a top priority open-sea operating experience must be analyse ...
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Increasing Gender Diversity in STEM

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

Lack of gender diversity in STEM studies and careers remains a persistent problem in most western countries, for example most western countries have 20% or less of graduating engineers as female, and often less than 10% of the engineering workforce.Much research has been done on the reasons for this imbalance, with a general consensus that a resolution is highly challenging, requiring multifaceted ...
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ECOPOTENTIAL: IMPROVING FUTURE ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS THROUGH EARTH OBSERVATIONS (ECOPOTENTIAL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are needed to improve ecosystem benefits in face of increasing pressures. ECOPOTENTIAL makes ...
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volumetric medical x-ray imaging at extremely low dose (VOXEL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Computerized Tomography (CT) has been one of the greatest achievements in medical imaging, but at the cost of a high, potentially harmful, X-ray irradiation dose. The ultimate goal of VOXEL is to provide an alternative to tomography with a disruptive technology enabling 3D X-ray imaging at very low dose. VOXEL aims at prototyping new cameras that will combine the X-ray penetration and nanometre sp ...
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MYRRHA Research and Transmutation Endeavour (MYRTE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The Strategic Research Agenda of the EU Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technical platform requires new large infrastructures for its successful deployment. MYRRHA has been identified as a long term supporting research facility for all ESNII systems and as such put in the high-priority list of ESFRI. The goal of MYRTE is to perform the necessary research in order to demonstrate the feasibility of trans ...
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MEDICIS-produced radioisotope beams for medicine (MEDICIS-PROMED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Pure accelerated radioisotope beams have been used for 50 years in fundamental physics R&D, e.g. for nuclear structure studies (pear shaped exotic nuclei, Nature 2013); CERN-ISOLDE plays a central role in developing accelerator technologies and fostering collaborative approaches to advance this field of isotope mass separation online. Our most recent contribution was the use of nanomaterial target ...
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Real-time optimization of extraction and the logistic process in highly complex geological and selective mining settings (Real-Time-Mining)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The overall aim of Real-Time-Mining is to develop a real-time framework to decrease environmental impact and increase resource efficiency in the European raw material extraction industry. The key concept of the proposed research promotes the change in paradigm from discontinuous intermittent process monitoring to a continuous process and quality management system in highly selective mining operati ...
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Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea (INMARE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

INMARE stands for “Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea”. It is a collaborative Innovation Action to streamline the pathways of discovery and industrial applications of new marine enzymes and bioactives for targeted production of fine chemicals, drugs and in environmental clean-up ...
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Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon 2020 through a Joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion consortium (EUROfusion)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

A Roadmap to the realization of fusion energy was adopted by the EFDA system at the end of 2012. The roadmap aims at achieving all the necessary know-how to start the construction of a demonstration power plant (DEMO) by 2030, in order to reach the goal of fusion electricity in the grid by 2050. The roadmap has been articulated in eight different Missions. The present proposal has the goal of impl ...
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Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring (MarineUAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

European countries have vast coasts and economic zones that go far into the Atlantic and Arctic oceans and are challenging to monitor and manage. The need to protect and manage the vulnerable natural environment and marine resources in a sustainable manner is an important policy that is manifested in European legislation such as the European Strategy for Marine and Maritime Research. Moreover, the ...
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Quantum fields and knot homologies (FIELDS-KNOTS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

This project is concerned with fundamental problems arising at the interface of quantum field theory, knot theory, and the theory of random matrices. The main aim of the project is to understand two of the most profound phenomena in physics and mathematics, namely quantization and categorification, and to establish an explicit and rigorous framework where they come into play in an interrelated fas ...
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Management - Innovation - Development

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

Central Asian universities could become those sites where the interest of different stakeholders – potential employers, government and youth could meet each other. An innovation and research is what modern society asks for. Creation of the Youth Centre will allow young people who usually don’t have appropriate knowledge, experience and funds to start their own business or develop any project to do ...
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International MSc Educational Programme in Environmental Management and Modelling

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The main objective of this project is to create a sustainable capacity building programme in environmental management and modelling, to improve the quality and accessibility of higher education in Iran and Iraq. E-Learning courses based on identified needs and the labour market will benefit society in terms of accessibility and quality. The management of higher education will improve through the d ...
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Smart Control Systems for Energy Management: New Master Degree

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The Middle East countries are going through a period of change where governments are forced to address the need for greater access to economic opportunity. With a challenging economic environment and a growing social demand, governments believe that subsidy reform especially in energy and food might help reconcile social protection and secure fiscal positions. With almost $17 billion spending ever ...
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Vertical Transport and Photoresponse in van der Waals hybrid structures (TranspvdW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

...is project, Bruno Amorim will work under the supervision of Prof. Eduardo V. Castro in the multidisciplinary environment provided by the Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Portugal. This project will generate high impact results, useful in interpreting current and future experimental results and in guiding the design of new vdW devices. As s ...
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Spreading ugLy Fruit Against food Waste (FLAW4LIFE)

Start date: Sep 14, 2015, End date: Sep 13, 2018,

Background In Portugal, a million tonnes of food are wasted every year, amounting to 17% of the total food production. The reasons are numerous and occur along all the food supply chain: intensive production models, inadequate storage and transportation, expiration dates that are too tight and sale discounts that encourage consumers to buy unreasonably. A ...
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Smart Water Supply System (LIFE SWSS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Background Water Supply Systems (WSS) are large-scale systems that collect, store, treat and transport water over wide geographical areas to consumers. Safe and efficient operation is crucial for these systems. WSS can have major environmental impacts due to the substantial amounts of energy consumed, as well as through the emission of greenhouse gases (G ...
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Enhancing ecoSysteM sERvices mApping for poLicy and Decision mAking (ESMERALDA)

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

Mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services (ES) are core to the EU Biodiversity (BD) Strategy. They are essential if we are to make informed decisions. Action 5 sets the requirement for an EU-wide knowledge base designed to be: a primary data source for developing Europe’s green infrastructure; resource to identify areas for ecosystem restoration; and, a baseline against which the goa ...
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Financial and Institutional Reforms for the Entrepreneurial Society (FIRES)

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

In this project we will analyse the broader contexts of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth in Europe to support implementation of the Commission’s 'Europe 2020' growth strategy and to restore Europe’s ability to innovate, grow and create jobs over the coming decades. In this proposal we argue that entrepreneurship must play a central role in that effort. 'Entrepreneurship' tends to make peopl ...
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European Network for Education and Training in Radiation Protection (ENETRAP III)

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

"For a vast amount of applications in the medical, industrial, research and other sectors, a good understanding of radiation protection (RP) is fundamental in order to protect workers, the public and the environment from the potential risks of ionising radiation. Within this perspective, building and maintaining an advanced level of competence in RP, assuring sufficient well-trained personnel and ...
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LARGE MULTIPURPOSE PLATFORMS FOR EXPLOITING RENEWABLE ENERGY IN OPEN SEAS (PLENOSE)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

"The PLENOSE project aims at establishing a multi-disciplinary network between European, North American and Indian institutes. From the perspective of an exchange of competencies, the objective of PLENOSE is to share the expertise of the partners in the fields of Marine Engineering, Structural Dynamics, Reliability Assessment, Random Processes and the necessary skills for performing experiments in ...
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Wave Energy Transition to Future by Evolution of Engineering and Technology (WETFEET)

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

The recent experience with ocean wave energy have revealed issues with reliability of technical components, survivability, high development costs and risks, long time to market, as well as industrial scalability of proposed and tested technologies. However the potential of wave energy is vast, and also positive conclusions have been drawn, in particular that wave energy is generally technically fe ...
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Scientific and Technological Alliance for Guaranteeing the European Excellence in Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy (STAGE-STE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Solar Fuels, Solar Process Heat and Solar Desalination that are called to play a major role in attaining energy sustainability in our modern societies due to their unique features: 1) Solar energy offers the highest renewable energy potential to our planet; 2) STE can provide dispatchable power in a technically and eco ...
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