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Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought (MARSOL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region are facing the challenge of managing its water resources under conditions of increasing scarcity and concerns about water quality. Already, the availability of fresh water in sufficient quality and quantity is one of the major factors limiting socio economic development. Innovative water management strategies such as the storage of reclaimed water or ex ...
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Materials, Components and Footwear with enhanced comfort properties based on nanotechnologies (NANOFOOT)

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

NANOFOOT main goal is to develop advanced and innovative nanotechnology based solutions for leathers and polymers components for footwear products, aiming a new sustainable and customer-driven production of consumer goods; where the health, environment, high quality of components, fair marketing communication and competitive sales price are combined to promote the competitiveness of the companies. ...
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Advanced Cyber Defence Centre (ACDC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

In ACDC, we bring together partners from 14 European countries, including public administrations, private sector organizations and academia, in order to achieve a sustainable victory over a powerful cyber threat commonly known as botnet. We integrate the matured knowledge of our consortium into an integrated strategy ranging from adoption to governance, supported by a full service offer for contro ...
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Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3plus)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

This proposal details activities that will ensure the continued enhancement and ongoing operation of the leading-edge GÉANT network, supporting a range of network and added-value services, targeted at users across the GÉANT service area.In the area of multi-domain network service operation, GN3plus plans to deliver fast, efficient provisioning of advanced services, develop operational support acro ...
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Increase Innovation and Research within Security Organisations (INSec)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

Research within Security Organizations by analyzing the main aspects of Innovation Management in security-related operators (end-users), both public and private and not only in terms of quantity but also quality. It is important to assist these organisations to become conscious of the importance of managing Research and Innovation activities.INSec will establish a framework that will contribute to ...
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Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators - Phase 2 (WHERE2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The availability of position information plays an increasing role in wireless communications networks already today and will be an integral part of future systems. They inherently can offer the ability for stand-alone positioning especially in situations where conventional satellite based positioning systems such as GPS fail (e.g., indoor). In this framework, positioning information is an importan ...
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EUROPEAN OPEN PLATFORM FOR SMART CARD TICKETING, PAYMENT AND MULTISERVICES IN INTEROPERABLE MASS TRANSIT APPLICATIONS (EUROPTIMA)

Start date: Jan 3, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

EUROPTIMAChanging the paradigm in data and fare collection systemsEUROPTIMA addresses the need for implementing data and fare collection systems adapted to the requirements of mass transit operators in terms of cost of implementation, cost of operation, modularity of the system and flexibility in terms of fare evolutions, interoperability and customer relationship. In particular, EUROPTIMA targets ...
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Europe Africa Marine Network (EAMNet)

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

EAMNet aims to construct a network linking Earth Observation (EO) information providers, user networks and centres of excellence in Europe and Africa in the area of coastal and marine observations towards sustainable development in Africa. The network will undertake capacity building and maintenance and build upon existing infrastructure and expertise in Africa. The overall aim is to improve the e ...
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Development of a Novel Integrated Inspection System for the Accurate Evaluation of the Structural Integrity of Rail Tracks (INTERAIL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The European rail industry is showing signs of steady recovery after a long period of decline. The technological advances in train design have led to the manufacturing of faster, greener and more comfortable trains making rail transport a more attractive option for passengers in comparison with other means of transportation. The ever growing need for the society to employ more environmentally fri ...
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Quality of Service and MObility driven cognitive radio Systems (QoSMOS)

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

QoSMOS is a 3-year Integrated Project that aims at researching, developing and integrating a Cognitive Radio (CR) framework to enable mobile broadband systems to improve utilisation of licensed and/or unlicensed bands, by adding dynamic exploitation of under-utilised spectrum. The technical focus is on opportunistic use of spectrum combined with managed Quality of Service (QoS) and seamless mobili ...
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Advancing knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation for growth and social well-being in Europe (AEGIS)

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

The proposed research project will study the interactions between knowledge, economic growth and social wellbeing in Europe. It focuses on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship as a necessary mechanism and an agent of change mediating between the creation of knowledge and its transformation into economic activity. Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship is perceived herein as a core interface between ...
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Anticipating the Network of the Future - From Theory to Design (Euro-NF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Future networks became a central topic with a large debate whether moving towards the new networked society will be evolutionary or disruptive. In the future networked society the physical and the digital worlds will merge based on the massive usage of wireless sensor networks. Objects will be able to identify and locate themselves and to communicate through radio interfaces. Self-organized edge n ...
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Pan-European Photonics Task Force: Integrating Europe's Expertise on Photonic Subsystems (EURO-FOS)

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

EURO-FOS aims at creating a powerful pan-European network on photonic subsystems by clustering top European systems groups with proven track record in the design, development and evaluation of photonic subsystems. EURO-FOS aims at bridging the gap between research on device-level physics and new architectures from the network-level. The first objective of the project is the integration of research ...
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A Preparatory phase proposal for the Square Kilometre Array (PrepSKA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be one of the largest scientific projects ever undertaken. It is a machine designed to answer some of the big questions of our time: what is Dark Energy? Was Einstein right about gravity? What is the nature of dark matter? Can we detect gravitational waves? When and how did the first stars and galaxies form? What was the origin of cosmic magnetism? How do Eart ...
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Integrated Approaches for Sustainable European Wine Production (SUSTAVINO)

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

"About 65% of the world’s wine production is managed by European winegrowers. Wine production in Europe is traditionally performed by small and medium sized, family owned companies and co-operatives. Solid and liquid residues are not treated in an appropriate way what has a serious impact on the environment. Wine production is known to produce high amounts of wastewater with sometimes extremely hi ...
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Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications (ASPIRE)

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

ASPIRE will research and provide a radical change in the current RFID deployment paradigm through innovative, programmable, royalty-free and privacy friendly middleware. This new middleware paradigm will be particular beneficial to European SME, which are nowadays experiencing significant cost-barriers to RFID deployment.European networked enterprises in general and SME in particular are still rel ...
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Building the Future Optical Network in Europe: The e-Photon/ONe Network (BONE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description Building the Future Optical NetworkMain ObjectivesThe BONE-network brings together 49 laboratories and research institutes from al over Europe in a close networking infrastructure, built on the foundations laid down by the FP6 ePhoton/ONe Network and represents the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Netw ...
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Scalable Advanced Ring-based passive Dense Access Network Architecture (SARDANA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description Scalable Advanced Ring-based passive Dense Access Network ArchitectureMain ObjectivesThe intensive use of optical transparency and the latest opto-electronic technologies enables to expand the PON performances and functionality while minimizing the infrastructure requirements at both urban and rural areas Fibre-to-the-Home net ...
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IP-Based Emergency Applications and Services for Next Generation Networks (PEACE)

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

The transition to next generation networks is often coupled with the vision of innovative services providing personalized and customisable services over an all-IP infrastructure. To enable a smooth transition, next generation all-IP networks need not only support more services but also support current vital services, namely emergency services. In the PEACE project we will provide a general emergen ...
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Handovers for Ubiquitous and optimal bRoadband connectIvity among CooperAtive Networking Environments (HURRICANE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

For any IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) or pre-IMS combined network, the key enabling function for seamless mobility and service continuity among a variety of mobile/wireless access technologies supporting IP connectivity is the handover. HURRICANE focuses on the key RTD challenge to investigate, design, implement, validate and propose for standardisation, inter-system handover operations among vari ...
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Enhanced Wireless Communication Systems Employing COoperative DIVersity (CODIV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

The CODIV project is targeting the evolutions of cellular networks and WMAN's. and aims to research develop and validate radio technologies exploiting channels diversity and cooperation between users, targeting three major goals: enable the high bit rates targeted in the broadband component of future wireless system; improve the power and spectrum efficiencies of existing wireless systems; improv ...
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Fibre Optic Networks for Distributed and Extendible Heterogeneous Radio Architectures (FUTON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

Current two big trends in wireless communications are the development of new broadband component and the integration of heterogeneous wireless networks, to achieve the vision f the so-called 4G network.The FUTON project addresses both issues by proposing the development of a hybrid fiber-radio infrastructure transparently connecting remote antenna units to a central unit where a joint processing c ...
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Context Casting (C-CAST)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

Project Context Casting (C-Cast) main objective is to evolve mobile multimedia multicasting to exploit the increasing integration of mobile devices with our everyday physical world and environment. The key motivation for this project and why we believe Europe needs a project on Context Casting is because multicasting is the key enabler that will make mobile context aware services commercially attr ...
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Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators (WHERE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

To increase ubiquitous and mobile network access and data rates, scientific and technological development is more and more focussing on the integration of radio access networks (RANs). For an efficient usage of RANs, knowledge of the position of mobile terminals (MTs) is valuable information in order to allocate resources or predict the allocation within a heterogeneous RAN infrastructure.The main ...
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Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications (SWIFT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

Identity Management is considered key to private, legal and business transactions as in the European eIDM2010. IdM frameworks are however currently confined to the web services domain. SWIFT goes beyond this by including user centricity and network operators as additional interdependent domains with IdM at the core.This new view of user centricity provides a novel perspective: Identity as central ...
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4WARD - Architecture and Design for the Future Internet (4WARD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

Today's network architectures are stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application level while the need for structural change is increasingly evident. The absence of adequate facilities to design, optimize and interoperate new networks currently forces a convergence to an architecture that is suboptimal for many applications and that cannot support innovations within itself, the Inter ...
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MOdelling and CHAracterization for SiP Signal and Power Integrity Analysis (MOCHA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2010,

Today advanced System-in-Package(SiP) can integrate several Large-Scale-Integration(LSI) technologies and functionalities (advanced System-on-Chip-SoC),high-density memories,high-performance analogue-block.It's become strategic to analize and detect potential signal and power integrity failures before the prototype phase.The key to success is a set of integrated EDA tools and modelling flows that ...
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