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Marine Renewable Infrastructure Network for Enhancing Technologies 2 (MARINET2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2021,

Integrating activities planned under MaRINET 2 build upon the achievements of the advanced community created in MaRINET FP7. MaRINET 2 will ensure the continued integration and enhancement of all leading European research infrastructure and facilities specialising in research, development and testing of offshore renewable energy systems including electrical sub systems and grid integration through ...
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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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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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Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe (NIMBLE)

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

NIMBLE: collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe will develop the infrastructure for a cloud-based, Industrie 4.0, Internet-of-things-enabled B2B platform on which European manufacturing firms can register, publish machine-readable catalogs for products and services, search for suitable supply chain partners, negotiate contracts and supply logistics, and ...
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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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Real proven solutions to enable active demand and distributed generation flexible integration, through a fully controllable LOW Voltage and medium voltage distribution grid (UPGRID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Unlike the control and observability put in service in HV/MV, LV networks are still being substantially managed as usual: no visibility of power and voltage or grid components status, poor knowledge of connectivity, manual operation of switches or few tools for worker support. The LV grid characteristics (radial topology, exposition to local disturbances, local accumulation of distributed generati ...
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The coordination of national research activities of Member States and Associated States in the field of Ocean Energy (ERA-NET) (OCEANERA-NET)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Europe’s vast coast line harbours a huge potential resource of ocean energy to be exploited as a renewable electricity source contributing towards the 2020 targets and beyond. The ocean is a complex working environment, relatively little is known about it and it is widely used by others, such as fishing, shipping and recreation. However, the prize for introducing ocean energy generation is high, e ...
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A common European approach to the regulatory testing of nanomaterials (NANOREG)

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

The innovative and economic potential of Manufactured Nano Materials (MNMs) is threatened by a limited understanding of the related EHS issues. While toxicity data is continuously becoming available, the relevance to regulators is often unclear or unproven. The shrinking time to market of new MNM drives the need for urgent action by regulators. NANoREG is the first FP7 project to deliver the answe ...
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Fast Reactor Experiments for hYbrid Applications (FREYA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"Building up on the former activities accomplished in the previous FPs, namely MUSE in FP5 and EUROTRANS in FP6, it is proposed in the FREYA project to extend the investigations of the subcritical configurations for validation of the methodology for on-line reactivity monitoring of ADS systems. The investigations will be related to the different subcriticality levels for the nominal operation mode ...
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Integrated Circuit for Advanced Battery Management (ICAB)

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

"The SME consortium behind the ICAB project wishes to address a major market opportunity by developing a new battery management system (BMS) for large scale lithium-ion battery packs, targeted primarily at electromobility applications. Specifically, the consortium wants to develop an innovative integrated circuit for performing advanced battery management, at lowered cost of production, which enab ...
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Realizing the European Network in Biodosimetry (RENEB)

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

Creating a sustainable network in biological dosimetry that involves a large number of experienced laboratories throughout the EU will significantly improve the accident and emergency response capabilities in case of a large-scale radiological emergency. A well organised cooperated action involving EU laboratories will offer the only chance for a fast and trustworthy dose assessment urgently neede ...
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Smart and Sustainable Insular Electricity Grids Under Large-Scale Renewable Integration (SINGULAR)

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

A large share of the recent renewable energy sources (RES) installed capacity has already taken place in insular electricity grids, since these regions are preferable due to their high RES potential. However, the increasing share of RES in the generation mix of insular power systems presents a big challenge in the efficient management of the insular distribution networks, mainly due to the limited ...
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SMART MOBILITY IN SMART CITY (MOBINCITY)

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

Urban transport is responsible for about a quarter of CO2 emissions from transport. The gradual phasing out of 'conventionally-fuelled' vehicles from the urban environment is a major contribution to significant reduction of oil dependence, greenhouse gas emissions and local air and noise pollution. Fully Electric Vehicles (FEV), for public and private transport, can contribute significantly to the ...
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Development of Energy Efficiency in Architecture: Energy Renovation, Innovation and ICTs (EDEA-RENOV)

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

Background The need to optimise energy consumption in the home is widely recognised, but more work is needed. Information and communication technology and tools, in particular, represent a great opportunity for improving energy use and efficiency in the housing sector. Energy consumption is an important criterion to consider in new construction projects a ...
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European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE)

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

Scientific research is no longer conducted within national boundaries and is becoming increasing dependent on the large-scale analysis of data, generated from instruments or computer simulations housed in trans-national facilities, by using e Infrastructure (distributed computing and storage resources linked by high-performance networks).The 48 month EGI-InSPIRE project will continue the transitio ...
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Regional policy instruments and approaches for improving access to finance and speeding up investments in sustainable energy. (Regions4GreenGrowth (R4GG))

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

The EU, its Member States and EU regions have defined ambitious energy strategies, setting firm targets for an increased share of renewable energy sources, more energy efficiency and less carbon emissions in order to make Europes energy supply sustainable and future proof.An important obstacle for wide-spread introduction of renewable energy production capacity and energy efficiency measures is th ...
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Medidas de Adaptación y Mitigación al Cambio Climático a través del impulso de las Energías Alternativas en Centro, Extremadura y Alentejo (Fase II) (0406_ALTERCEXA_II_4_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

OBJETIVOS: El objetivo general del proyecto es el fomento de la producción de energía con fuentes alternativas. ACCIONES: La realización de las acciones planteadas en el marco del proyecto ALTERCEXA II permitirá la consecución de los objetivos fijados para la presente convocatoria del proyecto. Las diferentes acciones, basadas en la cooperación transfronteriza entre las regiones participantes, que ...
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Smart Vehicle to Grid Interface (SMARTV2G)

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

In a context of an obliged continuous optimisation of the energy consumption rates in developed societies, embedded systems and solutions can perform a significant role in the transition process towards a Sustainable Urban Life concept in European countries. One of the main and most promising technological areas that are expected to be able to contribute in a most relevant way to that overall targ ...
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Development of novel SOlid MAterials for high power Li polymer BATteries (SOMABAT). Recyclability of components (SOMABAT)

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

SOMABAT aims to develop more environmental friendly, safer and better performing high power Li polymer battery by the development of novel breakthrough recyclable solid materials to be used as anode, cathode and solid polymer electrolyte, new alternatives to recycle the different components of the battery and cycle life analysis.This challenge will be achieved by using new low-cost synthesis and p ...
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Mejora de los sistemas agrícolas y racionalización de cultivos para optimizar la competitividad y sostenibilidad de las explotaciones agrícolas. (0450_AGRI_SOS_6_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2013,

OBJETIVOS: Rentabilizar el sector agrario, pilar básico, económico, social y ambiental de las zonas rurales, mediante la implementación de nuevos cultivos, nuevos usos de cultivos, nuevos sistemas agrícolas, nuevas alternativas de cultivo para promover una agricultura empresarial competitiva en zonas productivas y sostenible, que garantice la seguridad y calidad en la alimentación, la protección d ...
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EFFICIENCY

Start date: Oct 19, 2010, End date: Oct 18, 2013,

La consideración de la reducción de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, en especial las emisiones de CO2, ligados a la actividad energética, supone un elemento de enorme importancia en el diseño y desarrollo de las medidas propuestas en este proyecto. Por otro lado, la aplicación de medidas de mejora de la eficiencia energética tiene indudables impactos en la mejora de la competitividad ...
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RENOW

Start date: Oct 19, 2010, End date: Oct 18, 2013,

El proyecto RENOW trata de conseguir que las Administraciones adapten tanto sus recursos como sus habilidades al entorno cambiante y que sean capaces de cubrir las necesidades de la población del medio urbano y rural según las oportunidades, recursos e inversiones presentes y futuros en Canarias, Senegal, Mauritania y Cabo Verde. Sin embargo y ante todo se tratará de evaluar los riesgos en función ...
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Efficient Development of Eco-Architecture: Methods and Technologies for Public Social Housing Building in Extremadura (EDEA)

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

Background In the past few decades, the housing construction industry and sector has developed by maximising economical benefits and minimising costs, often due to urban pressure and speculation (especially in Spain). Such pressures have led to the construction of houses with very low energy efficiency and with significant direct and indirect impacts on ...
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ROMOción de la Eficiencia Energética y las Energías Renovables en edificios de la Administración (0397_PROMOEENER_A_4_E)

Start date: Dec 31, 2000, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

OBJETIVOS: Impulsar la implantación de equipos de climatización eficientes y renovables en edificios públicos, que sirvan de escaparate y promoción de estas tecnologías. Al tiempo que se desarrolla un sector con servicios de gran valor añadido. ACCIONES: Estudiar el comportamiento energético de 150 edificios públicos, identificando los que presenten mayores deficiencias y presentando propuestas pa ...
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Life Cycle Assessment for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EnerBuiLCA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

El objetivo último del proyecto EnerBuiLCA es fomentar la sostenibilidad en la construcción y rehabilitación de edificios, ya sean de viviendas o de uso terciario o industrial. Para ello, se plantea el desarrollo de una herramienta destinada a realizar el análisis de ciclo de vida de edificios existentes o de nueva construcción, permitiendo identificar las mejores soluciones en términos de eficien ...
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Actinide reCycling by SEParation and Transmutation (ACSEPT)

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

"Actinide recycling by separation and transmutation is considered worldwide and particularly in several European countries as one of the most promising strategies to reduce the inventory of radioactive waste, thus contributing to make nuclear energy sustainable. Consistently with potentially viable recycling strategies, the Collaborative Project ACSEPT will provide a structured R&D framework to de ...
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Central Design Team (CDT) for a Fast-spectrum Transmutation Experimental Facility (CDT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"Besides the European Global Energy Policy, the European Council adopted an action plan that covers nuclear technologies and supports research in order to ""further improve nuclear safety and the management of radioactive waste"". To obtain a more efficient and sustainable management of radioactive waste and hence reduce the burden on geological storage, one can apply partitioning and transmutatio ...
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Open Architecture for Secondary Nodes of the Electricity SmartGrid (OpenNode)

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

European energy industry is facing three major challenges:a) the increased integration of renewable, fluctuating power resources to achieve the climate goals,b) increased "smartness" especially in the electrical distribution grid to cope with increasing capacity requirements and finallyc) the stakeholder diversification separating grid operation, power provisioning, metering services, auxiliary se ...
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TRES

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

Con el objetivo de contribuir a potenciar las energías renovables en los TRES archipiélagos, el proyecto se dirige a la búsqueda de soluciones para superar las barreras técnicas que frenan su desarrollo. Las débiles redes eléctricas insulares ofrecen una serie de obstáculos técnicos que dificultan la producción de electricidad a partir de EERR de naturaleza variable e intermitente como la solar o ...
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GRID INITIATIVES FOR E-SCIENCE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA (GISELA)

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

The GISELA objective is to guarantee the long-term sustainability of the European – Latin American e-Infrastructure and thus ensure the continuity and enhancement of the Virtual Research Communities (VRC) using it. The project will focus on:•\tImplementing the Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) sustainability model rooted on National Grid Initiatives (NGI) or Equivalent Domestic Grid Structures ...
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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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Building demonstration based in solar cooler and hydrogen conversor of renewable energies (HYDRO SOLAR 21)

Start date: Dec 1, 2005, End date: May 31, 2009,

Background Within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol, Europe has committed itself to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 8% below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Lighting and air-conditioning of buildings account for a substantial proportion of Europe’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and energy consumption. Two technologies are currently considered to ...
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Improve the Implementation of Renewable Energies in Macaronesia (ERAMAC)

In the archipelagoes of Macaronesia, the costs - as much economic as environmental of the conventional production of energy, using fossil combustibles are very superior to those of the continent. The dependency of external power resources implies vulnerabilities before any crisis. Nevertheless, the Canary Islands, Madeira and Azores have an enormous potential of renewable endogenous power resource ...
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