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Advanced Training and Research in Energy Efficient Smart Structures (ANTARES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Smart mechatronic structures of the future will have to be extremely energy efficient and self-powering in as many situations as possible. In addition to capabilities such as sensing and reacting to their environment in a predictable and desired manner, the next generation of smart structures will have to exhibit top class energy efficiency.In the context of the proposed ANTARES project (Advanced ...
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Proteomic prediction and Renin angiotensin aldosterone system Inhibition prevention Of early diabetic nephRopathy In TYpe 2 diabetic patients with normoalbuminuria (PRIORITY)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Patients with diabetes are at risk of developing diabetic nephropathy, which will ultimately result in the requirement for renal replacement therapy and is also associated with high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Detection of low concentrations of albuminuria in urine (microalbuminuria) is the current clinical standard for detecting those at significant risk and targeting preventive treat ...
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re-conceptualize shopping malls from consumerism to energy conservation (COMMONENERGY)

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

CommONEnergy focuses on existing shopping malls to be refurbished and buildings with a different original function, redesigned to become shopping malls. Wholesales&Retail buildings represent 28% of the total non-residential building stock (BPIE, 2010), accounting for approximately 157 Mtoe in 2005 (EU EEAP). Considering typical shopping malls high impact on modern society (ICSC, 2008), the project ...
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Enhanced Lightweight Design (ENLIGHT)

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

Lightweight materials such as carbon-fibre reinforced plastics have been used up to now mostly in high-performance cars with relatively high cost & low production volumes. Instead the electric cars of the future require lightweight solutions that not only enable specific design requirements to be respected but are also cost effective and sustainable throughout their lifecycle.ENLIGHT aims to accel ...
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SUStainable, innovative and energy-efficient CONcrete, based on the integration of all-waste materials (SUS-CON)

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

The project aims at developing new technology routes to integrate waste materials in the production cycle of concrete, for both ready-mixed and pre-cast applications, resulting in an innovative light-weight, eco-compatible and cost-effective construction material, made by all-waste raw materials and characterized by low embodied energy and CO2 and by improved ductility and thermal insulation perfo ...
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Ecoefficient Biodegradable Composite Advanced Packaging (EcoBioCAP)

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

EcoBioCAP will provide the EU food industry with customizable, ecoefficient, biodegradable packaging solutions with direct benefits both for the environment and EU consumers in terms of food quality and safety. This next-generation packaging will be developed using advanced composite structures based on constituents (biopolyesters, fibres, proteins, polyphenolic compounds, bioadhesives and high pe ...
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Parallel Cable Robotics for Improving Maintenance and Logistics of Large-Scale Products (CableBOT)

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

The CableBOT project deals with a novel methodology for designing, developing and evaluating cable robots customised for the automation in large-scale auxiliary processes. Parallel cable robots extend the payloads and workspace of conventional industrial robots by more than two orders of magnitude.The main objective is to develop a new generation of modular and reconfigurable robots able to perfor ...
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Evaluation of critical and emerging technologies for the elaboration of a security research agenda (ETCETERA)

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

"The ETCETERA project is a contribution to effective and efficient security research planning on a European level. Its aim is three-fold:1. to develop novel methodologies for future strategic research planning,2. to identify risks and potential benefits associated with Critical Dependencies and Emerging Technologies with security implications, and3. to recommend research plans to deal with these r ...
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Integrated cost-effective construction process for transport infrastructures, based on a flexible industrialisation of FRP components (Trans-IND)

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

Polymer based manufactured components for construction applications have been designed, developed and demonstrated in European projects such as HP FUTURE-Bridge, SAFEFLOOR and MEGAWIND. The results are very promising regarding customer requirements, quality, technical and economical feasibility and the favourable impact of using this kind of composite-based components in terms of sustainability, s ...
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Holistic, extensible, scalable and standard Virtual Factory Framework (VFF)

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

The project uttermost objective is to foster and strengthen the primacy of Future European Manufacturing by defining the next generation Virtual Factory Framework. The VFF will promote major time and cost savings while increasing performance in the design, management, evaluation and reconfiguration of new or existing facilities, supporting the capability to simulate dynamic complex behaviour over ...
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Thermohaline Overturning - at Risk? (THOR)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"THOR will establish an operational system that will monitor and forecast the development of the North Atlantic THC on decadal time scales and access its stability and the risk of a breakdown in a changing climate. Together with pre-existing data sets, ongoing observations within the project will allow precise quantitative monitoring of the Atlantic THC and its sources. This will, for the first ti ...
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High Power Electric propulsion: a Roadmap for the future (HiPER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

The main objective of the HiPER project is to initiate technological and programmatic consolidation in the development of innovative electric propulsion technologies (and of the related power generation) to fulfill future European space transportation needs. The objective will be pursued by conceiving and substantiating a long term vision for European space transportation and exploration, conside ...
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Enhanced Durability Resurfacing Endoprosthesis (EnDuRE)

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

Each year in Europe there are:- • 800000 hip operations costing approximately €1,942 per/implant, worth over €1.5 billion • Hip implant operations are rising by approximately 15%. • Currently 10% of all the prosthesis implanted are in patients under 55 years of age of which 33% of these will fail within 16 years with a further 20% of implant fitted to over 55’s failing with in 20 years requiring r ...
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