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European Liaison on Electricity Committed Towards long-term Research Activities for Smart Grids (ELECTRA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The ELECTRA Integrated Research Programme on Smart Grids (ELECTRA) brings together the partners of the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Grids (JP SG) to reinforce and accelerate Europe’s medium to long term research cooperation in this area and to drive a closer integration of the research programmes of the participating organisations and of the related national programmes. ELECTRA’s joint research a ...
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CI-NERGY Smart cities with sustainable energy systems (CI-NERGY)

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

The CI-NERGY Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) aims to train young scientists to develop urban decision making and operational optimisation software tools to minimise non-renewable energy use in cities. The training will be carried out by a close collaboration of six of the best academic research centres and four leading industrial companies from the energy and software technology sector ...
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Energy efficient & Cost competitive retrofitting solutions for Shopping buildings (EcoShopping)

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

EcoShopping project aims to build a holistic retrofitting solution for commercial buildings to reduce primary energy consumption down to less than 80kWh/m2 per year and increase the share of RES (Renewable Energy Sources) more than 50% compared to the state of the art. The approach will be systemic by developing (1). Novel thermal insulation solutions using cost effective materials to further redu ...
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Energy efficiency Management for Vehicles and Machines (EMVEM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

In view of reducing the ecological footprint of machines and vehicles, effective and efficient analysis techniques and adequate measurement technologies are required to produce world-leading products with a high energy-efficiency, without compromising functionality/safety/performance/etc. Combined with the increasing trend towards virtual design and prototyping, to reduce costs and development tim ...
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Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS)

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

The objective of ARTS is to benefit policy, practice and theory related to accelerating sustainability transitions and to create opportunities for innovation (including social innovation) by coupling, rescaling and accelerating sustainability initiatives in European city-regions. ARTS will create interfaces between policy, practice and theory that are spaces for co-creation, theory building, polic ...
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"ROlling resistance, Skid resistance, ANd Noise Emission measurement standards for road surfaces" (ROSANNE)

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

"The main objective of this project is to advance the harmonization of measurement methods for skid resistance, noise emission and rolling resistance of road pavements and prepare for standardization. In this the project will follow the recommendations of key predecessor projects like TYROSAFE, HERMES, SILVIA and MIRIAM. The project aims at performing prenormative research to enable the creation o ...
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Tomorrow's Elastic, Adaptive Mobility (TEAM)

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

TEAM aims at developing systems for participants in transportation networks, which help them to behave better – by explicitly taking into account the needs and constraints of other participants and the network itself. Focus will be placed upon decision-making in a time interval, above what is commonly associated with reactive safety (typically less than 5 seconds) and below long-term planning appl ...
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SEiSMiC, Societal Engagement in Science, Mutual learning in Cities (SEISMIC)

Start date: Oct 29, 2013, End date: Oct 28, 2016,

The European Research Area is targeting efforts in research and innovation on thecurrent challenges faced by society. These challenges are complex, multidimensional and require the engagement of different actors alongside researchers, particularly relating to integrated and sustainable urban development.In an effort to bridge the gap between the scientific community and society, SEiSMiC (Societal ...
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OPtimising Hybrid Energy grids for smart citieS (OrPHEuS)

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

The global demand for energy will challenge energy supply directly impacting the productivity for future growth and prosperity of cities. Stability and efficiency across multi domain energy grids are crucial. Coupling technologies like Combined Heat and Power (CHP) allow theses multi-utility grids to be considered and operated as Hybrid Energy Network increasing even more efficiency levels and red ...
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Adaptable power density coating for energy efficient heating of cockpit and cabin (HELI-COMFORT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The objective of HELI-COMFORT is to advance the technology readiness level of an innovative, purpose made, prototypic electrical heating system to a TRL 4 or higher level. After laboratory scale tests on smaller samples and an CFD based numerical simulation of such heating elements in a helicopter interior, this heating system will be integrated in an 1:1 helicopter mock-up and investigated under ...
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IntegratinG Renewables in the EuropEaN Electricity Grid (IGREENGRID)

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

IGREENGrid focuses on increasing the hosting capacity for Distributed Renewable Energy Sources (DRES) in power distribution grids without compromising the reliability or jeopardizing the quality of supply. Based on the experience of six world class DRES integration Demo Projects in low & medium voltage grids (led by some of EEGI members; Distribution System operators –DSOs-) and other EU initiativ ...
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Concepts, Capacities and Methods for Testing EV systems and their interOperability within the Smartgrids (COTEVOS)

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

In order to promote the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EV) in Europe and to reduce the different regulatory, commercial or political barriers, it is imperative that EVs, Charging Points (CPs) and all kind of systems needed to allow the charging and other additional services are compatible to some extent.EVs emerge as a great challenge for the grid infrastructure. During the last years m ...
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Distribution grid planning and operational principles for EV mass roll-out while enabling DER integration (PLANGRIDEV)

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

The anticipated mass roll-out of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe and the continuously increasing number of distributed energy resources (DER) are posing major challenges to Europe’s Distribution System Operators (DSOs) with regard to ensuring a secure and reliable energy supply and network operation. Despite ongoing research and demonstration activities in this field, particularly the developmen ...
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EUROPEAN NETWORK for CANCER research in CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS (ENCCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"ENCCA aims to establish a durable, European Virtual Institute clinical and translational research in childhood and adolescent cancers that will define and implement an integrated research strategy and will facilitate the necessary investigator-driven clinical trials to introduce the new generation of biologically targeted drugs into standard of care for children and adolescents with cancer. This ...
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Development of Novel ICT tools for integrated Balancing Market Enabling Aggregated Demand Response and Distributed Generation Capacity (eBADGE)

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

The 3rd Energy Package clearly boosts the development of an Integrated European balancing mechanism. In this context, ACER has in 2011 started the development of the Framework Guidelines on Electricity Balancing.It is expected from the ACER statements that Demand Response will play significant role in the future integrated balancing market allowing Virtual Power Plants, comprising Demand Response ...
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Advanced manufacturing processes for Low Cost Greener Li-Ion batteries (GREENLION)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

GREENLION is a Large Scale Collaborative Project with the FP7 (topic GC.NMP.2011-1) leading to the manufacturing of greener and cheaper Li-Ion batteries for electric vehicle applications via the use of water soluble, fluorine-free, high thermally stable binders, which would eliminate the use of VOCs and reduce the cell assembly cost.GREENLION has 6 key objectives: (i) development of new act ...
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Tools for Enhanced Photovoltaic System Performance (PERFORMANCE PLUS)

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

For a continued decrease of levelised costs of energy from photovoltaics (PV), the prices of PV system components have to be further decreased while performance, functionality, reliability and lifetime on the component and system level need to be increased. In an integrated view, PV system performance emerges from, but is not limited to the performance of the components. The Performance Plus proje ...
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ICT Roadmap and Data Interoperability for Energy Systems in Smart Cities (READY4SmartCities)

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

READY4SmartCities operates in a European context where other initiatives are currently running in order to create a common approach on Smart Cities, Such initiatives, even if of fundamental importance for the EU, have some relevant gaps not allowing them to fully cover fundamental aspects for Smart Cities, i.e. to define a common data framework allowing full interoperability among different city s ...
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Eco-design and Validation of In-Wheel Concept for Electric Vehicles (EUNICE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Promotion of Electric Vehicles is strategic for the European Community, but nowadays battery performance is still poor and all forecasts for near future transport electrification suggest that A-B class EV cars with limited range are the first step to develop. Even in the actual economic crisis, global demand of A-B class cars is expected to grow by about 5.3% in 2010, with a positive sale scenario ...
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TRANSFORMation Agenda for Low Carbon Cities (TRANSFORM)

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

Urban areas are responsible for three quarters of the global energy demand. Most decisions on implementing energy innovations are made in cities. TRANSFORM supports cities to meet the 20-20-20 targets by the integration of energy in urban management. In interactive Smart Urban Labs, stakeholders will be able to turn ambitions into tangible Implementation Plans.TRANSFORM’s integrative approach brin ...
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Sounds for Energy Control of Buildings (S4ECoB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

S4ECoB will develop and deliver a prototype to optimize the existent Building Management Systems (BMS) by means of acquiring, identifying, monitoring, and adding the parameter of "occupancy level" in buildings and surroundings to enhance operations and eliminate unnecessary consumptions of energy for Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, Lighting (HVACL), and other existent production and consum ...
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Large scale Smart Grids demonstration of real time market-based integration of DER and DR (ECOGRID EU)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The key objective of the EcoGrid EU project is to demonstrate efficient operation of a distribution power system with high penetration of many and variable renewable energy resources. The demonstration will take place on the Danish island Bornholm with more than 50 % of electricity consumption from renewable energy production.A real-time market concept will be developed to give small end-users of ...
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PhotoVoltaic European Research Infrastructure (SOPHIA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The objective of the SOPHIA project is to strenghten and optimise research capabilities, mainly by coordinating efforts on important but precompetitive issues. Large research infrastructures working together will avoid the useless replication of a large number of small efforts. The SOPHIA project aims at pulling together the main European photovoltaic research infrastructures in order to provide t ...
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High energy density Li-ion cells for traction (EuroLiion)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

The research described in this proposal aims to develop a new Li-ion cell for traction purposes with the following characteristics:• High energy density of at least 200 Wh/kg• Low costs i.e., a maximum of 150 Euro/kWh• Improved safetyAlthough the Li-ion cell appears to be the most appropriate technology to meet these goals, considerable research and development is required. For example, the much- ...
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eVADER: Electric Vehicle Alert for Detection and Emergency Response (EVADER)

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

"Recent studies suggest that vehicles, driven in electric mode, either hybrid or pure electric vehicles, are considerably quiet and, thus, that they constitute a safety hazard for pedestrians and bicyclists in traffic. It is claimed that such vehicles are not acoustically perceived due to the power unit being exchanged from a combustion engine to electric motors; something that essentially cuts aw ...
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Tomorrow's Road Infrastructure Monitoring and Management (TRIMM)

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

Problem descriptionEffective, fair and sustainable road management require streamlined objective and up to date information. Advances in a range of sensing technologies and information processing have built up a potential for implementing new monitoring techniques that deliver key information for road management. The traditional monitoring techniques suffer for example in cost efficiency, time and ...
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Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation (NERA)

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

"The overall aim of NERA is to achieve a measurable improvement and a long-term impact in the assessment and reduction of the vulnerability of constructions and citizens to earthquakes. NERA will integrate the key research infrastructures in Europe to monitor earthquakes and assess their hazard and risk, and will combine expertise in observational and strong-motion seismology, modeling, geotechnic ...
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Supporting the Development of the European Electricity Grids Initiative (EEGI) (GRID+)

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

The present project provides the necessary support to the EEGI Team gathering, in a structured and organised way, a team of top level players (research centres, SMEs, universities, in close coordination with ENTSO-e and EDSO for SG) to design in a coordinated way with both TSOs and DSOs a set of accompanying activities to make sure that the EEGI will pass through the critical 2012-2014 period (pre ...
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Hybrid Commercial Vehicle (HCV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The HCV project aims to develop urban buses and delivery vehicles with advanced second generation of energy efficient hybrid electric powertrains in line with objectives in topic SST 2008.3.1.5. The final result will be the demonstration of a passenger bus and a distribution truck with this advanced technology. In addition early second generation buses and distribution trucks will be demonstrated ...
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Design of a decision support tool for sustainable, reliable and cost-effective energy strategies in cities and industrial complexes (CitInES)

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

The overall objective of CitInES is to design and demonstrate a multi-scale multi-energy decision-making tool to optimise the energy efficiency of cities or large industrial complexes by enabling them to define sustainable, reliable and cost-effective long-term energy strategies. Demonstrations will take place in two cities in Italy, Cesena and Bologna, and in one oil refinery in Turkey, Tupras.In ...
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Modelica Electrical System Simulation and Analysis (MODELSSA)

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

"This proposal aims at improving Modelica and the V6 Systems solutions related to Dymola technology, Dymola V6, to better address electrical modeling and simulation. The tool improvements will be developed by Dassault Systemes and the Austrian Institute of Technology will contribute by evaluating the new features and by providing new Modelica libraries.The new features that will be developed inclu ...
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Metamorphosis of Power Distribution: System Services from Photovoltaics (METAPV)

Start date: Sep 11, 2009, End date: Mar 10, 2014,

MetaPV is the first project world-wide that will demonstrate the provision of electrical benefits from photovoltaics (PV) on a large scale. Additional benefits for active grid support from PV will be demonstrated at two sites: a residential/urban area of 128 households with 4 kWp each, and an industrial zone of 31 PV systems with 200 kWp each. The enhanced control capacities to be implemented into ...
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Distributed Energy Resources Research Infrastructure (DERRI)

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

DERRI has as its primary objective the further integration of the European Distributed Energy Re-sources research community through the provision of User Access to a unique portfolio of important European Laboratories in the field of Distributed Energy Resources, focusing mainly system and architectural aspects of smart energy network based on Distributed Generation.
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The ICT Roadmap for Energy-Efficient Neighbourhoods (IREEN)

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

IREEN will deliver a comprehensive strategy (including the identification of drivers and gaps, future policies and operational support for their implementation, and the identification of new appropriate multi-disciplinary stakeholders value chain and partnerships) for European-scale innovation and take-up in the field of ICT for Energy Efficiency and performance in large areas including neighbourh ...
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"GOAL: Growing Older, stAying mobiLe: The transport needs of an ageing society" (GOAL)

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

"The aim of GOAL is to provide an action plan for innovative solutions to fulfil the transport needs of an ageing society. This action plan will be developed by state-of-the-art reviews, identification of possible and relevant societal developments and alternatives to transport. We identify relevant research gaps and product developments through contacts in the USA and Japan. The focus of GOAL is ...
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Smart and Safe Integration of Batteries in Electric Vehicles (SmartBatt)

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

The European countries are committed to keep on reducing CO2 emissions and slowing down the climate change. For the individual transport system, the pure electric vehicle technology powered by “green” electricity offers a great chance for an important contribution to the protection of the environment. Resulting from low energy density of batteries and the need to offer a convenient range, the bat ...
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QUIetening the Environment for a Sustainable Surface Transport (QUIESST)

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

"Noise Reducing Devices (barriers, claddings, covers and added devices following EN14388) play an important role in noise reduction: optimizing their global performance is of major concern towards Sustainable Surface Transport. QUIESST will merge, for the very first time and within a true holistic approach, “true” intrinsic products characteristics, whatever their materials and shapes, together wi ...
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Intelligent and Efficient Travel Management for European Cities (In-Time)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

In-Time (Intelligent and Efficient Travel management for European Cities) focuses on Multimodal Real Time Traffic and Travel Information (RTTI) services with the goal to reduce drastically energy consumption in urban areas across the different modes of transport by changing the mobility behaviour (modal shift) of the single traveller.In-Time provides mainly 3 services:Business-to-business services ...
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2-WHEELER BEHAVIOUR AND SAFETY (2-BE-SAFE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) users are greatly over-involved in serious and fatal crashes. They have between 5 and 25 times the risk of having a fatal crash compared to car drivers, depending on the country. The number of PTWs on European roads has more than doubled over the last two decades. The recent MAIDS (Motorcycle Accident In-Depth Study) study of PTW crashes in Europe found that behavioural ...
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Active Solar Panel Initiative (ASPIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The Active Solar Initiative targets development of a fundamentally new, multi-disciplinary photovoltaic technology that will enable meeting and exceeding the year 2015 cost targets of the EU Photovoltaic Strategic Research Agenda, driving European consumer premises power generation to cost parity with grid electricity. The basis of Active Solar is a novel Parallactic Tracking technology concept th ...
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