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Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water Resources under multiple Stress (MARS)

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

"MARS will support managers and policy makers in the practical implementation of the WFD, of related legislation and of the Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water Resources by conducting new research and synthesising existing knowledge concerning effects and management of multiple stressors in surface water and groundwater bodies; by advising the 3rd RMBP cycle and the revision of the WFD; and by d ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
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TRADEIT: Traditional Food: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Transfer (TRADEIT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The TRADEIT project is a multidisciplinary, multi-sectorial collaborative project supporting a Network of Traditional Food SMEs and Food Researchers in the areas of Collaboration, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Technology Transfer to increase the competitiveness and inter-regional advantage of Traditional Food Producing SMEs. This will be achieved through focused regional coordination ...
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Robots need Language: A computational mechanism for generalisation and generation of new behaviours in robots (POETICON++)

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

Description Handling novel situations beyond learned schemas or set behaviours is still a quest in engineering cognitive and embodied systems. Powerful generalisation mechanisms are necessary for any agent to operate effectively in real-world environments. POETICON++ suggests that natural language can be used as a learning tool for generalis ...
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Development of adaptive ProductioN systems for Eco-efficient firing processes (DAPhNE)

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

The overall scope of the DAPhNE project is to develop and demonstrate a package of integrated solutions for energy intensive processes (ceramics, cement and glass), based on tuning micro-wave technologies to the material characteristics and on intelligent control systems, to provide real time information about the energy consumption as well as the product quality.Microwave heating is now a well e ...
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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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Neuronal NanoCarbon Interfacing Structures (NeuroCare)

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

NeuroCare aims to create better retinal, cortical and cochlear implantable devices through the use of improved interfacing between the electronic implants and living cells. The NeuroCare concept involves low-cost, carbon-based materials, well-adapted for medical implants, because they (i) offer wide range of electronic properties (metal, semiconductor and insulator), (ii) are bio-inert and (iii) a ...
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PLAtform for the deployment and operation of heterogeneous NETworked cooperating objects (PLANET)

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

Efficient deployment and management has been identified as one of the main problems for the acceptance of new technologies based on Cooperating Objects (COs). The goal of PLANET is to provide an integrated planning and maintenance platform that enables the deployment, operation and maintenance of heterogeneous networked COs in an efficient way. The main objective of the project particularly emphas ...
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Kernel-based ARchitecture for safetY-critical cONtrol (Karyon)

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

The use of autonomous mobile systems as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or smart cars are desirable for example for environmental surveillance like the monitoring of ash clouds emitted by volcano eruptions as seen in 2010. Also increasing traffic throughput by improving vehicle density in roads by smart cars co-ordinating their behaviours without driver involvement will be a means to maintain mobi ...
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Semantic Tools for Carbon Reduction in Urban Planning (SEMANCO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

While many cities in Europe and in the world have issued climate change policies and set targets for reduction of CO2 emissions, their implementation in urban planning practice remains a major challenge. Devising effective decision systems which support CO2 emissions reduction demands a systems approach which enables different actors -policy makers, planners, engineers, consultants, and inhabitant ...
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The sustainable improvement of European berry production, quality and nutritional value in a changing environment: Strawberries, Currants, Blackberries, Blueberries and Raspberries (EUBerry)

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

The main objective of the EUBerry project is to provide the necessary knowledge and tools to facilitate development of high quality, consumer-desirable fresh berry fruits of high nutritional quality optimal for human health at a competitive cost. The further objective is the development and validation of a set of tools to improve competitiveness of European berry production and consumer accessibil ...
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Flexible Skill Acquisition and Intuitive Robot Tasking for Mobile Manipulation in the Real World (FIRST-MM)

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

Description New generation of autonomous mobile manipulaition robots Many industrial processes highly depend on the reliability and robustness of robotic manipulators. Research on mobile robots has led to systems that demonstrated the capability of safe and accurate navigation. The goal of the FIR ...
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A Robotic Sense of Movement (RoboSoM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

Description New design model based on the human sense of movement The objective of RoboSoM is to investigate and to apply new approaches to the design and development of humanoid robots with advanced perception and action capabilities, showing robust, adaptive, predictive and effective behaviour i ...
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MODERN - MObility, Development and Energy use ReductioN (MODERN)

Start date: Oct 15, 2008, End date: Feb 14, 2013,

The project outlines a bold package of integrated measures in all the cities of the consortium, and covers all the areas required by the CIVITAS PLUS programme. The project shows ambitious goals which will have a substantial impact on the state of the mobility in the cities and a good visibility at the European level, mixing measures with large scale application actions based in existing and comme ...
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"Surveillance platform based on multi-source video analytics, localized data and cognitive interfaces" (SV3D)

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

"The current surveillance systems used in big buildings or infrastructures are based on the juxtaposed display of multiple alarms, sensors, and independently captured and processed video feeds. That array of inputs generates such a volume of information that is near to impossible to manage by the system users. The SV3D project aims at designing and implementing a security software platform to face ...
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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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DREAM - Dynamizing Research and Education for All through Mobility in ACP

Start date: Jul 15, 2013,

DREAM includes 20 partners: 8 EU (UP, ULg, ULille, UR, UNICA, ULE, UVA, Cardiff), 9 African (UNDJ, USTM, DU, UA, UJES, UEM, CBU, UNICV, UNN), 1 Caribbean: UWI (ranging 11 countries: Antigua & Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Dominica; Grenada; Jamaica; St Kitts & Nevis; St Lucia; St. Vincent & the Grenadines; T&T) and 2 Pacific: UNTL (East Timor) and USP (ranging 11 countries: Cook Isl., Fiji, ...
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University and school for a European literary canon

Start date: May 1, 2010,

The project is motivated by an urgent cultural-policy need: how to build a Europe of citizens in which Europeans can recognise intellectually, ideally and emotionally that they are members of a common civilisation.As an area of emotions, ideals and criticism (self-criticism), literature seems in this regard to be highly significant. Each European country has established its own political and conce ...
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