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Integrated inter-sector framework to increase the thermal resilience of European workers in the context of global warming (HEAT-SHIELD)

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

Environmental heating is a growing challenge for our community and problems are already experienced by millions of Europeans during the summertime and aggravated during heat waves or occupational settings. In addition to the well-known health risks related to severe heat stress, a number of studies have confirmed significant loss of productivity due to hyperthermia. Even if countries adopt the EU ...
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Photovoltaic module life time forecast and evaluation (SOLAR-TRAIN)

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

The quality assurance in the photovoltaic industry is yet in its infancy, requiring both underpinning science and trained personnel to reduce costs of energy. An unmet industrial requirement is an accelerated, and operating environment specific, service life time and energy yield assessment. SOLAR-TRAIN will qualify ESRs in the field of PV durability as part of a highly innovative, multi-disciplin ...
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Soot Processes and Radiation in Aeronautical inNOvative combustors (SOPRANO)

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

For decades, most of the aviation research activities have been focused on the reduction of noise and NOx and CO2 emissions. However, emissions from aircraft gas turbine engines of non-volatile PM, consisting primarily of soot particles, are of international concern today. Despite the lack of knowledge toward soot formation processes and characterization in terms of mass and size, engine manufactu ...
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My Active and Healthy Aging (my-AHA)

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

BackgroundWe propose a holistic view of interrelated frailties: cognitive decline, physical frailty, depression and anxiety, social isolation and poor sleep quality, which are a major burden to older adults and social and health care systems. Early detection and intervention are crucial in sustaining active and healthy ageing (AHA) and slowing or reversing further decline.Aims and RelevanceThe mai ...
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Switch and Crossing Optimal Design and Evaluation (S-CODE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The overall aim of the S-CODE project is to investigate, develop, validate and initially integrate radically new concepts for switches and crossings that have the potential to lead to increases in capacity, reliability and safety while reducing investment and operating costs.The S-CODE project will identify radically different technology concepts that can be integrated together to achieve signific ...
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Innovating dialogue and problems appraisal for a safer Africa (SaferAfrica)

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

SaferAfrica project aims at establishing a Dialogue Platform between Africa and Europe focused on road safety and traffic management issues. It will represent a high-level body with the main objective of providing recommendations to update the African Road Safety Action Plan and the African Road Safety Charter, as well as fostering the adoption of specific initiatives, properly funded. The involve ...
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INTEGRATED AND ADAPTIVE RESPONSES TO TOXIC EMERGENCIES FOR RAPID TRIAGE: ENGINEERING THE ROADMAP FROM CASUALTY TO PATIENT TO SURVIVOR. (TOXI-triage)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

The seven specific objectives of TOXI-triage address the operational; technological; ethical and societal dimensions of CBRN response and recovery, and importantly the economic base from which sustainable CBRN and multi-use systems are derived.19 partners in 4 Task forces will deliver 9 Work Packages (WPs) that address: end user specifications; Design and delivery; Test and Validation; and, Impact ...
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HYDRALAB+ Adapting to climate change (HYDRALAB-PLUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

HYDRALAB is an advanced network of environmental hydraulic institutes in Europe, which has been effective in providing access to a suite of major and unique environmental hydraulic facilities from across the whole European scientific community.A continuation project will prepare environmental hydraulic modelling for the upcoming urgent technical challenges associated with adaptations for climate c ...
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Novel Cell Migration Assay Based on Microtissue Technology and Tissue-Specific Matrices (MATRIXASSAY)

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

Cell migration assays are commonly used to study wound healing, cancer cell invasion, and tissue development. Problems associated with the gap closure assays typically employed are that: (i) the stopper or scratch used to make the migration zone damages the extracellular matrix (ECM), (ii) the migration zone size is limited by the size of the stopper, and (iii) the scratched migration zone shapes ...
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Cement-based materials, properties, evolution, barrier functions (Cebama)

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

The HORIZON 2020 EURATOM Collaborative Project “Cement-based materials, properties, evolution, barrier functions (Cebama)” is developed with the overall objective to support implementation of geological disposal of nuclear waste by improving the knowledge base for the Safety Case. Cement-based materials are highly relevant in this context, being used as waste forms, liners and structural component ...
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Rebuilding an Inclusive, Value-based Europe of Solidarity and Trust through Social Investments (RE-InVEST)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

In 2013, as a response to rising inequalities, poverty and distrust in the EU, the Commission launched a major endeavour to rebalance economic and social policies with the Social Investment Package (SIP). RE-InVEST aims to strengthen the philosophical, institutional and empirical underpinnings of the SIP, based on social investment in human rights and capabilities. Our consortium is embedded in th ...
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Adult Education as a Means for Active Participatory Citizenship (EduMAP)

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

The existing research and policy reports show that adult education policies and practices are designed and carried out in ways and using means which are not always appropriate to vulnerable minority groups. In the EduMAP Project the diversity of societal participation and the wide range of cultural contexts and communicative practices among learners will be acknowledged. In particular, the educati ...
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Boosting the scientific excellence and innovation capacity in additive manufacturing of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (AMaTUC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...f the automotive industry and personalised products markets. To achieve this aim, the 3 year project will build upon the existing strong research and innovation base of TUCN and its twinning partners Loughborough University (LbU), FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences (ACUAS) and Intelligentsia Consultants (Intelligentsia). The AMaTUC project aims to boost TUCN and twinning partners' scientific ...
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Advanced Wind Energy Systems Operation and Maintenance Expertise (AWESOME)

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

AWESOME network aims to educate eleven young researchers in the wind power operation and maintenance (O&M) field by constructing a sustainable training network gathering the whole innovation value chain. The main EU actors in the field of wind O&M have worked together, under the umbrella of the European Wind Energy Academy (EAWE), in order to design a training program coping with the principal R&D ...
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Application of combined gene and cell therapy within an implantable therapeutic device for the treatment of severe hemophilia A (HemAcure)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The main objective of the HemAcure project is to develop and refine the tools and technologies for a novel ex vivo prepared cell based therapy to treat the bleeding disease haemophilia A (caused by genetic deficiency in clotting factor VIII (FVIII)) that should ultimately lead to improved quality of life of the patients. The concept is a further development of our approach, established during the ...
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Open dynamic Manufacturing Operating System for Smart Plug-and-Produce Automation Components (openMOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Higher agility for the European Manufacturing Industry is the main MOTIVATION for the openMOS project. While automated systems are appealing to achieve high productivity and quality requirements, their sensitivity to change is becoming increasingly a bottleneck to substantial reduction of lot sizes and more frequent change-overs. The project VISION is to enable full economic sustainability of the ...
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Production harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery (PERFoRM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

PERFoRM - Production harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery aims to the conceptual transformation of existing Production Systems towards plug&produce production systems in order to achieve a flexible manufacturing environments based on rapid and seamless reconfiguration of machinery and robots as response to operational or business events.These objectives require research acti ...
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Energy-efficient SCalable Algorithms for weather Prediction at Exascale (ESCAPE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

"ESCAPE will develop world-class, extreme-scale computing capabilities for European operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) and future climate models. The biggest challenge for state-of-the-art NWP arises from the need to simulate complex physical phenomena within tight production schedules. Existing extreme-scale application software of weather and climate services is ill-equipped to adapt ...
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Safety CaUsation, Benefits and Efficiency (SafetyCube)

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

The objective of SafetyCube is to develop an innovative road safety Decision Support System (DSS) that will enable policy-makers and stakeholders to select and implement the most appropriate strategies, measures and cost-effective approaches to reduce casualties of all road user types and all severities.At the core of the project will be a novel and comprehensive analysis of accident causation fac ...
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Innovative Intelligent Rail (IN2RAIL)

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

IN2RAIL is to set the foundations for a resilient, consistent, cost-efficient, high capacity European network by delivering important building blocks that unlock the innovation potential that exists in SHIFT2RAIL: innovative technologies will be explored and resulting concepts embedded in a systems framework where infrastructure, information management, maintenance techniques, energy, and engineer ...
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Digital Innovation in Cultural and Heritage Education in the light of 21st century learning

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Mar 14, 2018,

Context & background Integrating the necessary skills to deal with complex 21st century realities in primary school education, such as the 4Cs Critical thinking, Creativity, Communication and Collaboration, asks for innovation. Cultural and heritage education has the potential of integrating 21st century learning in education, whereas digital resources can make cultural and heritage education more ...
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"Trans-Atlantic Micromechanics Evolving Research ""Materials containing inhomogeneities of diverse physical properties, shapes and orientations""" (TAMER)

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

"The project addresses materials with realistic - heterogeneous and anisotropic - microstructures that contain inhomogeneities (pores/cracks/inclusions) of diverse shapes, orientations and physical properties. An important feature of such microstructures, that complicates the analysis but has a profound impact on their overall behavior, is their “irregular” character. For example, pores typically ...
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Cost-reduction through material optimisation and Higher EnErgy outpuT of solAr pHotovoltaic modules - joining Europe’s Research and Development efforts in support of its PV industry (CHEETAH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Europe has invoked the SET-Plan to design and implement an energy technology policy for Europe to accelerate the development and deployment of cost-effective renewable energy systems, including photovoltaics. With lower cost of solar electricity, PV could significantly contribute to the achievements of the 20-20-20 objectives.The Joint Program on PV of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA-P ...
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Complex wetting phenomena (COWET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Static and dynamic wetting of solid surfaces by liquids is a focus of numerous theoretical, computational and experimental investigations. Most of the research and training activities are focused on the wetting of simple solids by one-component liquids. However, a wide variety of industrial processes mostly include wetting/spreading of complex multiphase liquids over heterogeneous, structured or ( ...
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Support of cloud services for multimedia delivery and consumption (CLOUDSCREENS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The CLOUDSCREEN project will not only train ESRs on their scientific and technical skills in an unique multinational, multidisciplinary and intersectoral research training network, but will also help talented ESRs to develop their confidence, personal character, entrepreneurial skills and to foster their creativity. The main training objective is to offer a unique training program, integrating sci ...
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A Unified Approach to Evaluating Cellular Immunotherapy in Solid Organ Transplantation (THE ONE STUDY)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Preventing immunological rejection of transplanted organs without the need for long-term use of pharmacological immunosuppression is a primary objective in transplantation medicine. Reducing the need for immunosuppression would dramatically improve the outcome for transplant recipients and reduce health costs for society. The means to achieve this goal has not been realised with pharmacological or ...
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Academia and Industry Collaboration for Digital Pathology (AIDPATH)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"Advances in digital pathology are generating huge volumes of whole slide and tissue microarray images which are providing new insights into the causes of some of today’s most devastating diseases. They also present tremendous opportunities for developing and evaluating new and more effective treatments that may revolutionize the care of patients with cancers and other diseases. The challenge is t ...
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Narrative educational resources for socio professionnal inclusion

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...ainings will allow partners to share their knowledge in order to execute the OER production tasks. The project involve 8 partners from 8 countries: 2 universities (Vytautas Magnus University, LT and Loughborough University, UK), a HE school (WSBINOZ, PL), a SPI operator/training center (Perspectives, BE), a training center for trainer (ELC, ES), an association specialized in digital storytelling ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Building life-cycle evolutionary Design methodology able to create Energy-efficient Buildings flexibly connected with the neighborhood energy system (Design4energy) (Design4energy)

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

17 partners from11 countries covering all building life cycle will develop an innovative Integrated Evolutionary Design Methodology that can allow the stakeholders to predict the current and future energy efficiency of buildings (both at individual level and neighbourhood level) and make better informed decision in optimising the energy performance at building life cycle level, including operati ...
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PhDs Enhanced for Prospects- ErasmUs Plus

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The PEP-UP project will identify the feasible features of PhD education programs that need to be emphasized to make engineering PhD graduates more prepared for employment in industry and more able to use their talents and training for the benefit of the economy, regions and society. Eight leading technical universities in Europe, with the contribution of two European companies and regio ...
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Interparliamentary Cooperation in EU External Action - Parliamentary Scrutiny and Diplomacy in the EU and Beyond

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Focusing and analysing inter-parliamentary cooperation and parliamentary diplomacy is the objective of PACO. The project aims to discover and explain if and why inter-parliamentary cooperation in the field of external relations (i.e. CFSP/CSDP, human rights, development, trade, etc.) has added to an increased scrutiny via the EP and national parliaments, and if and why parliamentary diplomacy can ...
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Crystallisation Systems Engineering – Towards a next generation of intelligent crystallisation systems (CRYSYS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The project proposes the development of an intelligent crystallisation system by combining state-of-the-art process analytical technologies and novel model-based and statistical feedback control approaches, to provide a fully integrated and adaptive system for efficient engineering of particulate products. The developed adaptive and robust control approaches will be incorporated in a Crystallisati ...
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Health Monitoring and Life-Long Capability Management for SELf-SUStaining Manufacturing Systems (SelSus)

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

The vision of SelSus is to create a new paradigm for highly effective, self-healing production resources and systems to maximise their performance over longer life times through highly targeted and timely repair, renovation and up-grading. These next generation machines, fixtures and tools will embed extended sensory capabilities and smart materials combined with advanced ICT for self-diagnosis en ...
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Low Emissions Core-Engine Technologies (LEMCOTEC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The main objective of the LEMCOTEC project will be the improvement of core-engine thermal efficiency by increasing the overall pressure ratio (OPR) to up to 70 leading to a further reduction of CO2. Since NOx increases with OPR, combustion technologies have to be further developed, at the same time, to at least compensate for this effect. The project will attain and exceed the ACARE targets for 20 ...
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Interactions in Community Treatment (INTERACT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"The goal of the project INTERACT (Interaction in Community Treatment) is to explore practices of face-to-face communication and social interaction used to implement Therapeutic Community (TC) programmes in the area of addiction recovery. The concerns for the continuing marginalisation of vulnerable people expressed in EU documents (e.g. Europe 2020, Green Paper “Improving the mental health of the ...
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eUropean naturalistic Driving and Riding for Infrastructure & Vehicle safety and Environment (UDRIVE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Road transport is indispensable for the exchange of goods and persons, but at the same time has severe negative consequences, among others related to road safety and environment. In order to meet EU targets, both the number of road crashes and vehicle emission levels need to be reduced substantially. For identifying the next generation of measures that will enable us to actually reach these target ...
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Strategic action for future CPS through roadmaps, impact multiplication and constituency building (Road2CPS)

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

The miniaturisation of sensing, actuating, and computing components together with the increasing number of interacting systems in strongly connected environments, and the growing complexity of such systems have triggered a paradigm shift. CPS concepts address challenges for system implementation such as increasing complexity and flexibility. These challenges and the need to optimise performance an ...
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EEB ICT ClustERS (EEBERS)

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

EEBERS focus on identifying opportunities for synergies in ICT related RTD in the EeB (energy efficient buildings) domain and to engage stakeholders in networking for future RTD and exploitation of results. There areabout 134 EeB direct and indirectly related projects that will be active beyond 2014. From these about 86 are likely to add¬ress ICT as one of their key priorities. – These projects a ...
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Trans-Atlantic Modelling and Simulation For Cyber-Physical Systems (TAMS4CPS)

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

...nce European M&S capabilities for CPS. The overall aim of TAMS4CPS is to lay the foundations for concrete EU-US collaboration in modelling and simulation for cyber-physical systems. To achieve this, Loughborough and Newcastle Universities (M&S) will work with Steinbeis Innovation (road mapping) and leading researchers in the field at top US universities to create:- A strategic research and collab ...
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