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Olive Alive: Towards the design and certification of biodiversity friendly olive groves. (LIFE Olivares Vivos)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Background Olive groves extend over nearly five million hectares in the EU and are one of the main crops in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. With nearly 1.9 million olive farms (Eurostat, 2007) the olive sector is a vital source of employment and economic activity in many European regions. In Andalusia almost 100 000 ha of olive groves are located in in ...
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Translating neuroimaging findings from research into clinical practice (PSYSCAN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Abstract 9Neuroimaging (NI) has enormous potential to improve the clinical care of patients with psychiatric disorders, but has yet to deliver. The PSYSCAN project will address this issue directly by developing a NI-based tool that will help clinicians resolve key clinical issues in the management of patients with psychotic disorders. Clinicians will use the tool to assess patients with a standard ...
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Seeing through cataracts with advanced photonics (SEECAT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"Cataract is the opacification of the crystalline lens of the human eye. It is usually related with age and is one of the leading causes of blindness. The increase in light scatter in the lens reduces the contrast in the retinal images severely degrading vision. The current solution is to perform surgery to remove the natural lens that is substituted by an artificial intraocular lens. This is a su ...
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Molecular Reclassification to Find Clinically Useful Biomarkers for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (PRECISESADS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

We concur to the IMI on “Reclassification of SLE, connective tissue diseases and RA” call by presenting a proposal aimed at using the power of OMICs, and bioinformatics to identify new classifications for diseases known to share common pathophysiological mechanisms. Such knowledge has not been applied to individual patients, depriving them from potential benefits in terms of the use of new therape ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus (ECHORD Plus Plus)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Description ECHORD++ will create new opportunities for European robotics researchers to work directly with SME/start-ups and new users/customers to create innovative products. ECHORD++ will continue ECHORD’s two pillars, “experiments” and “structured dialogue”, taking advantage of experience and investment in the infrastructure. In addition, ...
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The impact of alternative care integration strategies on Health Care Networks’ performance in different Latin American health systems (Equity-LA II)

Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2018,

Health services fragmentation is one of the main obstacles to effective health care in Latin-America, particularly for chronic diseases. This research builds upon results from Equity-LA (FP7-B-223123) and focuses on one of the most promoted policies to respond to fragmentation in LA, the development of Integrated Health Care Networks (IHN). The general objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of ...
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Initial Training Networks for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future (ITN-DCH)

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

"Cultural Heritage (CH) is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in CH are fragmented and mostly design to be of a single-discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage ( ...
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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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Targeted disease prophylaxis in European fish farming (TargetFish)

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

European aquaculture production provides direct employment to 65.000 people with a turnover of 3 billion €. However, the lack of authorised veterinary medicinal products and the consequent disease outbreaks in farmed fish species costs the sector 20% of the production value. The most appropriate method for disease control, both on economical and ethical grounds, is disease prevention by vaccinatio ...
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Aging Eye (AGEYE)

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

"AGEYE is a coherent training and career development platform for the training and career development of 12 young researchers in Vision Sciences. It aims to structure the collaboration in research and training between 5 leading academic centres in Europe, bringing together a new combination of in-depth expertise from 4 countries. Furthermore, to strengthen the contact with the industrial world, th ...
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Hub of Application Laboratories for Equipment Assessment in Laser Based Manufacturing (APPOLO)

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

During more than 50 years of the laser existence, they have been proved as the unique tool for diverse material processing application. New application ideas, coming from universities and research institutions, are usually implemented by spin-off companies with limited resources for market penetration. Research laboratories are using universal laser tools, while effective and low-cost production r ...
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Embedded Multi-Core Systems for Mixed Criticality Applications in Dynamic and Changeable Real-Time Environments (EMC2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Embedded systems are the key innovation driver to improve almost all mechatronic products with cheaper and even new functionalities. Furthermore, they strongly support today's information society as inter-system communication enabler.Consequently boundaries of application domains are alleviated and ad-hoc connections and interoperability play an increasing role. At the same time, multi-core and ma ...
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SmartH2O: an ICT Platform to leverage on Social Computing for the efficient management of Water Consumption (SmartH2O)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Description SmartH2O: an ICT Platform to leverage on Social Computing for the efficient management of Water Consumption  The SmartH2O project develops an ICT platform for improving the management of urban and peri-urban water demand thanks to the integrated use of smart meters, social computation, ...
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Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure (DEWI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

DEWI (dependable embedded wireless infrastructure) envisions to significantly foster Europe’s leading position in embedded wireless systems and smart (mobile) environments such as vehicles, railway cars, airplanes and buildings. These environments comprise wireless sensor networks and wireless applications for citizens and professional users. Therefore the consortium introduces the concept of a “s ...
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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser ...
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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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Cold Spray Radical Solutions for Aeronautic Improved Repairs (CORSAIR) (CORSAIR)

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

CORSAIR project is a wide investigation concerning the capabilities of Cold Spray Technology for maintenance and repair of aeronautic frames and components. Today, deep and systematic investigation in Cold Spray is required to better understand the capabilities and fully validate the technology in aeronautics. In this scenario, the activities planned in CORSAIR project are (1) Explore the real cap ...
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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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Polymer - Carbon Nanotubes Active Systems for Photovoltaics (POCAONTAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Organic solar cells (OSC) feature several advantages over “classical” silicon solar cells: low cost, energy effective production, low weight and semi-transparency. This makes them apt for novel applications like, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) with high market potential. However, both the efficiency and the long-term stability must be enhanced for OSCs to become profitable. POCAONTAS wil ...
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Holistic Human Factors and System Design of Adaptive Cooperative Human-Machine Systems (HOLIDES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

HoliDes addresses development and qualification of Adaptive Cooperative Human-Machine Sys-tems (AdCoS) where many humans and many machines act together, cooperatively, in a highly adaptive way. They adapt to each other and to the context to guarantee fluent and cooperative task achievement. Such systems with higher levels of automation are urgently needed to enhance safety and to increase the conf ...
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TRAINING NETWORK ON ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS INTEGRATED WITH LIVING SYSTEMS FOR NEUROSCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS AND APPLICATIONS (OLIMPIA)

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

"OLIMPIA is a training network initiative built on research and development of innovative organic optoelectronic devices interfaced and integrated with living systems. The living systems of choice are neural cells (glia and neuron) that will be interfaced and integrated in vitro and in vivo with different organic electronic and optoelectronic devices (such as OLED, OFET/OLET, OECT, OPD). The major ...
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Secure and sMArter ciTIes data management (SMARTIE)

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

The Internet of the Future will be an essential part of the knowledge society and will provide new information-based business. The usage of the Internet of Things for large-scale, partially mission-critical systems creates the need to address trust and security functions adequately.The vision of SMARTIE (Secure and sMArterciTIEs data management) is to create a distributed framework for IoT based a ...
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Future INternet and Open Data EXpansion (FINODEX)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

FINODEX is a project born to provide new economic and societal value to the European society, through the promotion and the support of innovative ICT services based on FI-PPP technologies and the massive reuse of open data while involving the SMEs and Web entrepreneurs on their creation. They will be able to take advantage of the availability of open data and FI-PPP technologies to create, in a fa ...
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A New Halo-Imidazolums and Halo-Triazoliums Halogen-Bonding Receptors for Anion Recognition and Sensing (CIGACP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"With a view to increasing the understanding of molecular recognition processes in biological systems and producing new molecular sensors, switches and devices, my research is focused on the synthesis of novel host molecules that contain redox- or photo-active reporter groups. These systems have been designed to complex and sense, anionic or neutral inorganic or organic guest species via electroch ...
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Joining up ICT and service processes for quality integrated care in Europe (SmartCare)

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

Against the background of the European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing, SmartCare aims to define a common set of standard functional specifications for an open ICT platform enabling the delivery of integrated care to older European citizens. A total of 24 regions and their key stakeholders will define a comprehensive set of integration building blocks around the challenges of dat ...
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The DECIPHER Project (Distributed European Community Individual Patient Healthcare Electronic Record) (DECIPHER)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

Description The DECIPHER project wants to enable secure cross-border mobile access to existing patient healthcare portals which are individually supported by national (governmental) bodies. DECIPHER will deploy Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP) to create step-change innovations in mobile patient ICTs. Using electronic patient records as the k ...
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Advanced Coatings for Offshore Renewable ENergy (ACORN)

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

In spite of the considerable development in the field of marine protective coatings, there is still significant room for improvement. Very long lasting (20+ yrs) coating systems that offer reliable protection against corrosion/biofouling or corrosion/cavitation, and which also avoid the need for supplementary cathodic protection are not available. The need for such coatings is acute in the case of ...
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DEvelopment platform for Safe and Efficient dRiVE (DESERVE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

According to a recent forecast published by ABI Research , a fast growth of the market of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) is foreseen in the next five years. For example, in 2016 the overall annual market for Lane Departure Warning systems is expected to reach 22 million units/year (corresponding to 14,3 billion dollars). This market growth will be possible only through the reduction of ...
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Local content in a Europeana cloud (LoCloud)

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

LoCloud aims to build on the achievements of CARARE in establishing a repository-based aggregator for Archaeological and Architectural heritage and of Europeana Local in its work with local institutions and their regional and national aggregators, which resulted in the contribution to date of well over 5 million items to Europeana.The main goals of LoCloud are: to continue to ease the task of ena ...
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Extended shelf-life biopolymers for sustainable and multifunctional food packaging solutions (NANOBARRIER)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The overall concept of NanoBarrier is to develop a new nanotechnology platform based on inorganic-organic hybrid polymers, microfibrillated cellulose, nanocapsules with controlled permeability and additive technology and combine this with resource-efficient processing technologies to realize safe and extended shelf-life and multifunctional biopolymer food packaging solutions. These solutions based ...
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Transnational access and enhancement of integrated Biological Structure determination at synchrotron X-ray radiation facilities (BIOSTRUCT-X)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The BioStruct-X consortium has 19 partners from 11 EU member and associated states, who lead in facility provision and research in structural biology using high brilliance X-rays, provided by state-of-the art synchrotrons and a free electron laser. BioStruct-X will provide integrated transnational access via 42 installations in four key areas: macromolecular X-ray crystallography, small angle X-ra ...
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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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The Astrodynamics Network (Astronet-II)

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

The objectives of the proposal are:- To introduce ESR's and ER'sto a range of astrodynamical concepts and problems and the relevant new mathematical theories and techniques. To develop their expertise in a number of these fields and to train them to conduct research, collaborate, and communicate their results.- To deepen and and broaden the knowledge and skills of ER's working in the areas of astr ...
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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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Enabling SDN ExperiMentAtion in WiReless Testbeds exploiting Future Internet Infrastructure in South KoRea and Europe (SMARTFIRE)

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

The main target at which SMARTFIRE aims is the design and implementation of a shared experimental facility spanning different islands located in Europe (EU) and South Korea (KR). This large scaled facility will promote joint experimentation among EU and KR experimenters, encouraging them to conceive and implement innovative protocols, able to take advantage of the current leading network technolog ...
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Broadband Access via Integrated Terrestrial & Satellite Systems (BATS)

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

BATS addresses the integrated delivery of BroadBand (BB) future Internet services for European coverage according to the EC Digital Agenda objective to reliably deliver >30Mbps to 100% of European households by 2020. In order to accommodate the 'unserved' and 'underserved' areas of Europe, an ultra high speed satellite system is researched that provides order of magnitude cost/bit reductions and s ...
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Technology and Innovation for Smart Publishing (TISP)

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

The TISP network aims at creating a platform for publishers and technology providers to promote wider collaboration so to make available expertise and tools on innovation and technology to publishing industry in a mutual exchange of ideas and experience between the two sectors.TISP results from the merging of two pre-existing networks, lead by the two European federations of publishing and ICT ind ...
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EPIC-CVD: Individualised CVD risk assessment: tailoring targeted and cost-effective approaches to Europe's diverse populations (EPIC-CVD)

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

"EPIC-CVD's overarching goal is to provide clinicians and policy-makers with a menu of evidence-based options for cost-effective individualised risk assessment that enables the EU's increasingly resource-constrained economies to achieve more personalised predictive medicine in harmony with Europe's diverse cultures and healthcare systems.We will achieve this through developing and validating innov ...
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Prediction of cognitive properties of new drug candidates for neurodegenerative diseases in the early clinical development (PHARMA-COG)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

PHARMA-COG aims to develop a new integrated model to accelerate the development of drug cindidates for MS, PKD and AD. The innovation relies on a 'multidimensional matrix' approach, integrating all available and renewed inputs (biomarkers/animal, human models/physiological and pharmcological challenges, Phase 0/1/1b to reduce the attrition rate, to allow an early and pertinent GO/NOGO decision bef ...
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Reef ECOlogy and design of Marine PRotected Areas (RECOMPRA)

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

Reef ecosystems are among the most productive areas of the planet, they play a major role in coastal fisheries as nursery and feeding grounds, and they further provide a huge array of ecosystem services. Coastal ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to human actions causing the erosion of marine biodiversity and the collapse of marine resources. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly used ...
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