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Leicester College Construction Project

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

This project will target learners from Leicester Colleges construction department, who are studying one of the following Level 3 qualifications:- Electrical Installation- Plumbing- Construction and the Built EnvironmentThe participants will complete a 4 week Mobility in Seville, Spain where they will work within several construction companies, improving their work based knowledge and skills and in ...
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Evolution of Shared Semantics in Computational Environments (ESSENCE)

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

"In everyday life, humans exhibit strong skills in resolving communication problems by re-negotiating what theymean. Modern-day computational systems, however, are lacking in resilience and robustness in this respect. Whenever different components with different vocabularies and models of meaning interact within distributed, open enviroments, they have to rely on their human designers’ abilities t ...
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EURO-MEDITERRANEAN Cooperation through ERANET joint activities and beyond (ERANETMED)

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

The main aim of the project is to enhance Euro-Mediterranean co-ownership through innovation and competitive research in the societal challenges of the region. The project aims at reducing fragmentation of programming in the Mediterranean region by increasing coordination among national research programmes of European Member States, Associated Countries and Mediterranean Partner Countries.Followin ...
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Online Network TraffIc Characterization (ONTIC)

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

Accurate identification and categorization of network traffic is a crucial task in many network management and engineering activities, such as QoS evaluation, capacity planning and attack detection. Terabytes of data may be transferred through the core network of a typical ISP every day, and an exponential growth in traffic is expected in the short-term, with more than 50 billions of Internet-conn ...
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District of the Future (DoF)

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

Cities are increasingly recognizing the need of addressing climate and energy challenges. The District of the Future (DoF) project is a project funded by the European Union (EU) with the objective to increase energy efficiency in a city district using innovative Information and Communication Technology (ICT) approaches. It will help city leaders to achieve quantifiable and significant reduction up ...
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Multi-technology positioning professionals (MULTI-POS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

"The global navigation market (products and services) is expected to grow to more than 160 billion EUR revenue by 2015 with significant growth being driven by mobile terminals. The pillars of the future wireless society will be the trustworthiness of the wireless positioning device (e.g., what user can get in terms of location integrity, availability, privacy) and eco-friendliness of the t ...
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Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling (FORTISSIMO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The importance of advanced simulation to the competitiveness of both large and small companies is well established. The principal objective of Fortissimo is to enable European manufacturing, particularly small to medium enterprises (SMEs), to benefit from the efficiency and competitive advantage inherent in the use of simulation. However, the simulation of, for example, high-pressure gas cylinders ...
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Large-Scale Demonstration of Advanced Smart GRID Solutions with wide Replication and Scalability Potential for EUROPE (GRID4EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Grid4EU project is an innovative SmartGrid project proposed by a group of Distribution System Operators (from Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden), in close partnership with a set of electricity retailers, manufacturers and research organizations.Adopting a systemic approach and organized around large-scale demonstrations networks located in six different countries, its struct ...
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Ingredients for Food and Beverage industry from a lignocellulosic source (LIGNOFOOD)

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

Obtaining value-added products from agricultural waste is one of the most relevant key objectives to develop a greener bio-based economy and a future sustainable agricultural framework. This is indeed the objective of LIGNOFOOD project: ingredients for food and beverage industry from a lignocellulosic source.LIGNOFOOD project brings together 5 recognized research organisms and 4 bio-technological ...
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Next generation European system for cattle improvement and management (Gene2Farm)

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

The Gene2Farm project will address the needs of the cattle industry, in particular of the SMEs and end users, for an accessible, adaptable and reliable system to apply the new genomic knowledge to underpin sustainability and profitability of European cattle farming. Gene2Farm will undertake a comprehensive programme of work from statistical theory development, through genome sequencing, to address ...
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Management and Authenticity Verification of multimedia contENts (MAVEN)

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

The MAVEN project will focus on the development of a set of tools for multimedia data management and security. More specifically, MAVEN objectives will be centered on two key concepts, “search” and “verify”, integrated in a coherent manner; MAVEN will first search for digital contents containing “objects” of interest (e.g. a face appearing on CCTV, or a specific logo appearing in the news). Once t ...
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eXperimental Infrastructures for the Future Internet (XIFI)

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

XIFI will establish a sustainable marketplace for trial infrastructures and Future Internet services.XIFI will achieve this vision by integrating and federating a multiplicity of heterogeneous environments – starting from the generic and specific enablers provided by the FI-WARE core platform and the FI-PPP use cases and early trials.Through this approach XIFI will demonstrate and validate the pot ...
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GMES pre-operational security services for supporting external actions (G-NEXT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

According to the potential application areas identified under SEA (GMES Security working group in Support to External Actions), and the experience gained by the proposal consortium in Security and Emergency precursor projects (LIMES, G-MOSAIC, SAFER) this proposal will identify and exploit a set of Services able to provide reliable support to the EU External Action service and suitable to be integ ...
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FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform (FI-WARE)

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

The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. FI- ...
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CONCERTO communities towards optimal thermal and electrical efficiency of buildings and districts, based on MICROGRIDS (PIME'S)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

PIME’s is a CONCERTO joint proposal from Salburua community in Vitoria (ES), Dale community in Sandnes (NO) and Szentendre community in Szentendre (HU). The three communities will work together on RTD, demonstration and dissemination in order to maximise the effect of the measures implanted and the impact of the individual projects. The project has 14 partners from 4 countries. The proposal unites ...
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Advanced cellulose packaging (ADCELLPACK)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The use of bio-based materials is a promising alternative in the packaging industry to reduce the disposal and the use of non-renewable resources. A 5% substitution of these materials using Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) applications would reduce over 300.000 tons of non renewable plastic packaging wastes disposal. Packaging used in MAP is usually based on multilayer plastic materials that ar ...
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Society as infrastructure for e-science via technology, innovation and creativity (Socientize)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The Socientize project will coordinate all the agents involved in the citizen science setting the basis of this new open science paradigm promoting the usage of the infrastructures composed by dedicated and external resources which are based on scientists and amateur people. It will set a network where infrastructure providers and scientific researchers will join with the society recruiting volunt ...
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Impact of climate change and globalisation on safety of fresh produce – governing a supply chain of uncompromised food sovereignty (VEG-i-TRADE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

VEG-i-TRADE provides platforms to identify impacts of anticipated climate change and globalisation on food safety, microbiological and chemical hazards, of fresh produce and derived food products. Control measures of managerial and technological nature will be developed in the supply chain of crop production, post-harvest processing and logistics to minimize food safety risks. The assessment of th ...
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Task-oriented search and content annotation for media production (TOSCA-MP)

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

TOSCA-MP aims to develop user-centric content annotation and search tools for professionals in networked media production and archiving (television, radio, online), addressing their specific use cases and workflow requirements. This will be achieved by scalable and distributed content processing methods performing advanced multimodal information extraction and semantic enrichment. Other key techno ...
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Long-term performance of Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS) (PEBS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The main aim of the project PEBS (Long-term Performance of the Engineered Barrier System) is to evaluate the sealing and barrier performance of the EBS with time, through development of a comprehensive approach involving experiments, model development and consideration of the potential impacts on long-term safety functions. The experiments and models cover the full range of conditions from initial ...
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La Noche de los Volcanes – an awareness raising Night for the work of volcanologist and geologist scientists II (Volcanoes Night 2)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

People have been fascinated by volcanoes ever since the dawn of mankind and treated them with utmost respect. The rapid development of converging technological areas, such as informatics, material science or space research multiplied our knowledge of earth processes and created some highly specialised fields within volcanology. At the same time a dramatic gap has formed between the professionals a ...
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Selection and improving of fit-for-purpose sampling procedures for specific foods and risks (BASELINE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Food Safety Objectives (FSO) and Performance Objectives (PO) are new criteria complementing the existing concepts of microbiological criteria and MRL for many chemical contaminants. However, to achieve these objectives it is critically important a harmonisation of food safety control procedures.BASELINE project intends to obtain the following objectives: 1) To review the sampling schemes currentl ...
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III Researchers in Real Life (ESC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The project “Researchers in real life” will achieve third edition this year, which let us to enhance the experience of previous editions in three main targets: more public attendance to the activities (15% increases to 13.500), more social impact through appropriate awareness campaign and more researchers involved in the project (100% of researchers working in Aragon as potential participant).Esci ...
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Smart on-line water salinity measurement network to manage and protect rice fields (SMART-PADDY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"Rice is the main crop in wet areas such as river deltas and is an essential tool in Europe in managing protected ecosystems. Irrigation water is a key factor in the production of rice and water quality has a major impact on crop yield as a result of tolerance of rice to factors such as dissolved salts. Rice is more water consuming than many other crops: in continuous flooding cultivation it takes ...
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Bio-engineered micro Encapsulation of Active agents Delivered to Shellfish (BEADS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2013,

"The project aims to continue with some exciting work following up a development in delivering active agents to bivalve molluscs through micro-encapsulation. The early work showed that bacteria with a potential in vitro to break down some algal toxins could be effectively delivered to the gut of the bivalve. The size and nature of the micro-capsule (bead) was shown to be key. The SMEs and Other in ...
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Development of postcombustion CO2 capture with CaO in a large testing facility: “CaOling” (CaOling)

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

This project is aiming at the scaling-up of one of the most promising concepts for CO2 capture from coal power plants: postcombustion carbonate looping systems. This project focuses on the experimental pilot testing and scaling up of the process at scales in the 1 MW range. The 1 Mw carbonate looping pilot will be built in the Hunosa 50 Mwe CFB coal power plant of “La Pereda”, using a side stream ...
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Communicating environmental impacts on water quality, availability and use (ComEnvir)

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

The ComEnvir project aims to narrow the gap between EU sponsored environmental research and European citizens. Water (resources, quality, pollution and biodiversity issues) has been chosen as a common theme to be addressed by the project. It will cover environmental stressors, waste treatment, health effects, biodiversity, risks and therefore the role of water quality in its different environmenta ...
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Professional Receiver via Software Radio (PRECISIO)

Start date: Jan 15, 2010, End date: Apr 14, 2013,

"The PRECISIO project shall define, design, develop and validate a multi-constellation, multi-frequency GNSS software receiver targeting professional markets and applications. In parallel to the technical development, the project shall also carry out a business analysis and develop an implementation plan for a future software receiver product."
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Development of High Efficiency CFB Technology to Provide Flexible Air/Oxy Operation for Power Plant with CCS (FLEXI BURN CFB)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

This project combines the CFB’s intrinsic advantages (fuel flexibility and low emissions) with oxygen-firing for carbon capture and storage (CCS). In oxygen-firing systems the fuel is burned in a mixture of pure O2 and recirculated flue gas instead of air. The absence of air nitrogen produces a flue gas stream with a high concentration of CO2, making it much easier to separate the CO2. CFB technol ...
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Novel Integrated Water Management Systems for Southern European Regions (NOVIWAM)

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

Most countries in European Union are suffering severe water scarcity caused by a negative balance between water resources and water demands. A sustainable management of hydrological resources results totally necessary, as it is established by the European Water Framework Directive (60/2000/EC), which makes compulsory for every water management authority in EU to prepare a river basin management pl ...
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Carbohydrate Multivalent Systems as tools to study Pathogen interaction with DC-SIGN (CARMUSYS)

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

"The importance of glycosciences in the development of biology and medicine and the central role played by chemistry in this process have recently been pointed out by ESF. However, it appears that exposure of young scientists in their training phase to the chemical biology of carbohydrates is still lacking. This multidisciplinary project intends to approach the design and synthesis of carbohydrate ...
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Polymeric composite materials with enhanced thermal conductivity properties for heat exchangers applications (THERMALCOND)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"The main goal of the project is to develop a new family of low cost polyolefin based components (sheets, pipes and fittings) to be used in the manufacture of flat-plate solar thermal collectors. These components are expected to be a viable alternative to current collector’s metallic components. However, due the current limitations of thermoplastics materials (low thermal conductivity and low resi ...
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Pan European Grid Advanced Simulation and state Estimation (PEGASE)

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

"PEGASE is a four year project dealing with the High and Extra High Voltage transmission and sub-transmission networks in Europe (designated as ETN) and implemented by a Consortium composed of 20 Partners including TSOs, expert companies and leading research centre’s in power system analysis and applied mathematics. Its overall objectives are to define the most appropriate state estimation, optimi ...
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European approach to GEOSS (EUROGEOSS)

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

EuroGEOSS demonstrates the added value to the scientific community and society of making existing systems and applications interoperable and used within the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks. The project will build an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. It will then undertakes the research nec ...
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AGroFOod clusters platform with common long-term Research and Innovation Strategy towards Economic growth and prosperity (AGFORISE)

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

"The overall objective of AGFORISE Project is to create a common dialogue platform and a joint action plan among the Agrofood clusters that will maximise capacity for research and benefit from research infrastructure through complementariness and synergy, so as to contribute for sustainable development, prosperity, economic growth and global competitiveness of the regions. In this content the spec ...
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Fusion Energy Materials Science – Coordination Action (FEMaS-CA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The timely availability of qualified materials for use in fusion power reactors is a necessity for the fast deployment of fusion power. 27 European institutions have joined together in the FEMaS-CA to advance fusion materials science in Europe and in close cooperation with EFDA, the European Fusion Development Agreement. The overarching objective of this Coordination Action is: The FEMaS-CA w ...
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EST: The large aperture European Solar Telescope (EST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

"This is the project definition for the Conceptual Design Study of the large aperture European Solar Telescope (EST). EST is a pan-European project involving 29 partners from 14 different countries. A consortium EAST (European Association for Solar Telescopes) exists with the aim, among others, of undertaking the development of EST, to keep Europe in the frontier of Solar Physics in the world. EST ...
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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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Competitiveness and knowledge in the tourist sector.Improving the competitiveness and strategic position through the establishment of a platform for the generation and transmission of Knowledge (TOUREG)

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

"The strategic objective of this proposal is to establish a platform for developing a competitive tourist industry based on the generation and application of knowledge revolving around a new international research-driven cluster in the tourist industry.From this angle, the project’s general objectives are to: to adapt and to strengthen the R&D+I public policies, the specific or related ones to th ...
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Grid-friendly software licensing for location independent application execution (SmartLM)

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

The existing licensing models for commercial applications are focusing on software used on compute resources within an administrative domain. A problem occurs when we want to use this software in a distributed service oriented infrastructure where the resources are often not in the same administrative domain that hosts the license server which is authorizing the application use. Today licenses usu ...
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