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The role of consumer behavior and heterogeneity in the integrated assessment of energy and climate policies (COBHAM)

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

The objective of this project is to quantify the role of consumers’ behaviour on the design and assessment of policies aimed at enhancing energy efficiency and conservation and at promoting climate change mitigation. The project brings together different disciplines –namely energy policy, environmental and ecological economics, behavioral public finance, experimental economics, and technology poli ...
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Research infrastructure for research and innovation policy studies (RISIS)

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

The RISIS project aims at creating a distributed research infrastructure to support and advance science and innovation studies. This will give the field a strong scientific push forward, and at the same time, provide a radically improved evidence base for research and innovation policies, for research evaluation, and for the quality of policy relevant indicators.The field of science and innovation ...
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Sustainable Lifestyles 2.0: End User Integration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EU-INNOVATE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Typically, end users or “consumers” are perceived as adopters of sustainable products and services, developed by companies. Thus, a lot of attention is paid to the (non-) diffusion of sustainable products and services. From this perspective end users are seen as – more or less – passive recipients of sustainable products and services.We propose to investigate the active roles of end users in shapi ...
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Environmentally Low Impact Cooling Technology (ELICIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

This proposal outlines a range of activities that will help efficient gas-free magnetic cooling move from being a laboratory scale technology to being a high-volume marketable product. This project specifically focuses on the application of magnetic cooling technology to the domestic refrigeration market. This is a technology being developed by SMEs but which will eventually be used by global app ...
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MANufacturing through ergonoMic and safe Anthropocentric aDaptive workplacEs for context aware factories in EUROPE (MAN-MADE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The MAN-MADE project aims at defining new socially sustainable workplaces where the human dimension is a key cornerstone. Workers are foreseen at the centre of the factory, on the one hand, in terms of workplace adaptation (and production planning, at large) to skills, expertise and characteristic of each single worker and, on the other hand, in terms of capability to make the most out of worker’ ...
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Design driven development of touch sensitive luminous flexible plastics for applications in care & well-being (Light.Touch.Matters)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

In Light.Touch.Matters, product designers and material researchers will collaborate to jointly develop a fully new generation of smart materials that combine touch sensitivity with luminosity, based on latest developments in polymeric piezo materials and flexible OLEDs. Manufactured on plastic substrates, these novel ‘light touch materials’ will be thin, flexible and formable, allowing seamless in ...
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Local flexible manufacturing of green personalized furniture Close To the Customer in time, space and cost (CTC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The CTC project aims to support European Industry to adapt to global competitive pressures by developing methods and innovative enabling technologies towards local flexible manufacturing of green personalized products close to the customer in terms of features offered, place of fabrication, time to deliver, and cost. This vision is implemented and demonstrated within an European industrial sector ...
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Embedded systems Service-based Control for Open manufacturing and Process automation (E-SCOP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"E-SCOP project is built under ARTEMIS Sub-programme 4: Embedded systems for manufacturing and process automation. The project aims to overcome the current drawbacks for the shop floor control level (i.e. MES and deterministic / real-time control), thus improving the state of the art of the overall production control system architecture. This goal is achieved by introducing an innovative approach ...
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Future Internet Technologies for MANufacturing (FITMAN)

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

According to the 2010 EC Competitiveness Report, Manufacturing is still the driving force of Europe's economy, contributing over € 6553 billion in GDP and providing more than 30 million jobs. It covers more than 25 different industrial sectors, largely dominated by SMEs, and generates annually over € 1535 billion (42%) worth of value added services.The mission of the FITMAN (Future Internet Techno ...
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Linked Knowledge in Manufacturing, Engineering and Design for Next-Generation Production (LinkedDesign)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

What is clearly missing in the current ICT landscape for manufacturing is an integrated, holistic view on data across the full product lifecycle. Especially the design and engineering of products and manufacturing processes is decoupled from the actual process execution. As experiences of the past show, a tight integration of all tools used throughout a product lifetime is not feasible.LinkkME add ...
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PAtients Leading and mANaging their healThcare through EHealth (PALANTE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

Patient empowerment is considered a potential tool to reduce healthcare costs and improve efficiency of the health systems, reinforcing healthcare quality. Patient empowerment has become an element of high priority in the EU health strategy, supported by national and regional health authorities.Building on already existing e-health platforms and services in the participating regions, the PALANTE p ...
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Product Remanufacturing Service System (PREMANUS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

For centuries mankind has attempted to exploit the resources available to it through the reuse of objects and artifacts. However, as wealth of modern man has grown, the financial necessity to utilize the lifetime of these objects has dramatically declined, especially in developed countries with high focus on manufacturing. The demand for new products also placed undue pressure on the world's res ...
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European research and innovation agenda for future simulation and forecasting technologies (Pathfinder)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The European leadership and excellence in manufacturing are being significantly threatened by the huge economic crisis that hit the Western countries over the last years. More sustainable and efficient production systems able to keep pace with the market evolution are of paramount importance in the recovery plan aimed at innovating the European competitive landscape. An essential ingredient for a ...
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Conservazione Programmata nello spazio comune REtico (CPRE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2013, End date: Nov 29, 2014,

The project will develop methods for cultural heritage preservation in the two areas involved. The method, already experimented in Valtellina in the past several years, will be extended to the Grisons Canton which is in close proximity and culturally aligned with the former. The aim is to create a cultural common space to improve reciprocal information sharing and operational methods connected wit ...
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Eco Manufactured transportation means from Clean and Competitive Factory (EMC2-Factory)

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

According to the International Energy Agency, the Manufacturing sector is at worldwide level responsible for approximately 37% of primary energy consumption being, in most of the developed countries, it is the largest energy consumer and CO2 producer. In this new competitive scenario, European manufacturers have to rethink the current ideas of manufacturing and factories, to be prepared for the n ...
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Manufacturing SErvice Ecosystem (MSEE)

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

Description Manufacturing SErvice Ecosystem VISION: "By 2015, novel service-oriented management methodologies and the Future Internet universal business infrastructure will enable European virtual factories and enterprises to self-organize in distributed, autonomous, interoperable, non-hierarchica ...
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Production Logistics and Sustainability Cockpit (PLANTCockpit)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Today, numerous methods, systems, and tools exist to facilitate production management, optimize resource utilization, and process efficiency. However, current ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), SCADA, and special-purpose solutions are rarely integrated with each other and typically provide no more than point-to-point interfaces between selected funct ...
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Boat Management (BOMA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"After years of focusing on products quality, pleasure boat builders have realized the need to emphasize the after-sales market and their customers’ demands for products that are both easy in upkeep and environmentally friendly. Concepts of Product Lifecycle Management and Intelligent Maintenance can be applied to fulfil such requirements and solutions are available in comparable sectors such as t ...
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Sustainable Mass Customization - Mass Customization for Sustainability (S-MC-S)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The S-MC-S project aims at supporting European manufacturing to adapt to global competitive pressures by developing methods and innovative enabling technologies towards a customer oriented and eco-efficient manufacturing. To this end, S-MC-S vision is to define and research a new production paradigm, Sustainable Mass-Customization, while also presenting Customization as one of the main driving for ...
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Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services (ETICS)

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

ETICS aims at creating a new ecosystem of innovative QoS-enabled interconnection models between Network Service Providers allowing for a fair distribution of revenue shares among all the actors of the service delivery value-chain. To this end, we will propose and analyze new business and regulatory models for converged infrastructures, taking into account applications' QoS constraints and incentiv ...
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Transformative, Adaptive, Responsive and enGaging EnvironmenT (TARGET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

There is a need to reduce the knowledge worker "time-to-competence". The main aim is to develop a new genre of TEL environment that supports rapid competence development within the domains of innovation and project management.The TARGET environment consists of a learning process supported by the TARGET platform, consisting of a main core of a serious game. Here, the learner is presented with compl ...
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ActionPlanT - The European ICT Forum for Factories of the Future (ActionPlanT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2012,

ICT plays a multifaceted role in all major European industrial sectors and its contribution to the manufacturing sector has become paramount over the last few years. Quite undeniably, ICT will become increasingly intertwined with Factories of the Future and will be seen developing efficient business processes through dynamically evolving business models. Although Europe has been investing in the e ...
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