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Compositional security certification for medium- to high-assurance COTS-based systems in environments with emerging threats (certMILS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

certMILS develops a security certification methodology for Cyber-physical systems (CPS). CPS are characterised by safety-critical nature, complexity, connectivity, and open technology. A common downside to CPS complexity and openness is a large attack surface and a high degree of dynamism that may lead to complex failures and irreparable physical damage. The legitimate fear of security or function ...
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SmArt BI-directional multi eNergy gAteway (SABINA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

Flexibility needs to be added to Europe’s power system to accommodate an increasing share of variable power generation from renewable sources. Indeed, service quality issues start to arise on the grid when this share in electricity consumption reaches 10%. To meet the EU’s targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions this share should rise to 30% by 2030 and up to 50% by 2050. The cost of thi ...
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Building and district thermal retrofit and management solutions (THERMOSS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

... platform for smart energy management at building and district-level. The THERMOSS technologies have been picked out from the catalogs of prominent European industrial players, Bosch, Veolia, Exergy, Schneider Electric taking into account business profitability, energy efficiency and potential for large-scale deployment. They will be tuned, combined and sized as part of the project thanks to dedic ...
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Interactions between automated energy systems and Flexibilities brought by energy market players (InterFlex)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Five DSOs (CEZ distribuce, ERDF, EON, Enexis, Avacon) associated with power system manufacturers, electricity retailers and power system experts, propose a set of six demonstrations for 12 to 24 months. Within three years, they aim at validating the enabling role of DSOs in calling for flexibility sources according to local, time-varying merit orders. Demonstrations are designed to run 18 separat ...
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GrowSmarter

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

GrowSmarter aims to:• Improve the quality of life for European citizens by better mobility, housing and the quality of urban infrastructure while improving the citizens economy by lower energy costs and creating as much as 1500 new jobs (on the demonstration level).• Reduce the environmental impact by lower energy needs by 60 % and increased use of renewable energy thus reducing GHG emissions eve ...
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Smart system of renewable energy storage based on INtegrated EVs and bAtteries to empower mobile, Distributed and centralised Energy storage in the distribution grid (INVADE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

An inspiration for INVADE are the world-wide agreements on minimisation of human caused effects to climate change and energy efficiency targets set at the European Union with ambitious goals for reduction of greenhouse gas emission and for increase of renewable energy share. To enable a higher share of renewable energy sources to the smart grid and gain a traction in the market place a few critica ...
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Massive InteGRATion of power Electronic devices (MIGRATE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

...ation. European TSOs from Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and UK have joined to address such challenges with manufacturers (Alstom, Enercon, Schneider Electric) and universities/research centres. They propose innovative solutions to progressively adjust the HVAC system operations. Firstly, a replicable methodology is developed for appraising ...
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Unlocking European grid local flexibility trough augmented energy conversion capabilities at district-level (PENTAGON)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2019,

Pentagon is a 3-years research and innovation project that will investigate the potential of wider deployment of energy conversion technologies and strategies at district-level, with the aim to foster flexibility in the low-voltage and medium-voltage grid. The rationale that underlies Pentagon approach is that multi-vector smart districts can be the key enablers of future smart grids, provided the ...
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Standardised approaches and products for the systemic retrofit of residential Buildings, focusing on HEATing and cooling consumptions attenuation. (BuildHEAT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Heating consumption in the residential sector in Europe is around 2300 TWh/y, DHW consumptions reaches 500 TWh/y, while cooling consumption is less than 100 TWh/y. The construction sector offers unique opportunities to decarbonise the European economy. However, as the replacement rate of the existing stock is very small (1-1.5 % per year), acceleration is needed.On top of this, the reorganisation ...
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Architecture-driven, Multi-concern and Seamless Assurance and Certification of Cyber-Physical Systems (AMASS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Embedded systems have significantly increased in technical complexity towards open, interconnected systems. This has exacerbated the problem of ensuring dependability in the presence of human, environmental and technological risks. The rise of complex Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has led to many initiatives to promote reuse and automation of labor-intensive activities. Two large-scale projects are ...
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Energy and economic efficiency for today’s smart communities through integrated multi storage technologies (NETFFICIENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The project will deploy and demonstrate local storage technologies which have reached TRL 5-6 in a real electrical grid, and will develop ICT tools to exploit the synergies between them, the smart grid and the citizens. The demonstration in this real environment will be driven by five use cases covering low voltage and medium voltage scenarios and a wide range of applications and functionalities. ...
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European Network of competencies and platforms for Enabling SME from any sector building Innovative CPS products to sustain demand for European manufacturing (EuroCPS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

SMEs play a key role in European economies; they constitute the largest business block and provide the bulk of employment. They generate most of the innovative ideas for ICT and CPS-enabled IoT products, two areas which represent an inflection point for innovators and industry in Europe. EuroCPS is an ambitious project that aims to arm Europe with a network of design centres that will boost and i ...
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Framework for Innovation Competencies Development and Assessment

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

EU’s Innovation Union Initiative underlines the importance of innovations in all sectors of the economy. For creating new innovations we need individuals that are capable to participate in diverse everyday innovation processes. One main problem is that universities don’t have proper tools to measure the development of the students’ innovation competencies during their studies. Therefore, we don’t ...
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Real proven solutions to enable active demand and distributed generation flexible integration, through a fully controllable LOW Voltage and medium voltage distribution grid (UPGRID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Unlike the control and observability put in service in HV/MV, LV networks are still being substantially managed as usual: no visibility of power and voltage or grid components status, poor knowledge of connectivity, manual operation of switches or few tools for worker support. The LV grid characteristics (radial topology, exposition to local disturbances, local accumulation of distributed generati ...
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Local Electricity retail Markets for Prosumer smart grid pOWER services (EMPOWER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The aim is to explore and develop an integrated ICT solution to support the development of an electricity local market place and innovative business models, including operational methods to encourage micro-generation with renewable resources and participation of consumers and prosumers. The creation of incentives for all players would allow for exploiting the latent flexibility of the user-side of ...
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ADVanced communicAtions and iNformaTion processing in smArt Grid systEms (ADVANTAGE)

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

"Smart Grid systems represent a significant new technology to provide more energy efficient power delivery systems that reduce carbon emissions and can handle a mix of energy sources from small scale renewable energy to large power stations. The design and implementation of the smart grid will be very complex, involving a large number of systems, layers and relationships. In order to make the infr ...
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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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Take the energy bill back to the promised building performance (TRIBUTE)

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

Today, Building Energy Performance Simulation (BEPS) analysis tends to show a large discrepancy with real energy performance. Most cases are due to gross mistakes rather than fundamental inadequacy of available technology and methods. The reasons are manifold. Highly simplified calculation methods are used far beyond their domain of validity. Assumed boundary conditions such as occupant behaviour ...
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Certification Européenne de Technicien de la Performance Energétique du Bâtiment

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The fight against global warming , the mobilization of renewable energy and energy efficiency are key issues for all countries . European policy on climate and energy until 2030 sets binding targets for reducing Greenhouse Gases, for renewable energies , and integrates energy efficiency because no transition to a safe, sustainable and competitive energy system is possible without this improvement. ...
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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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Distributed Renewable resources Exploitation in electric grids through Advanced heterarchical Management (DREAM)

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

The DREAM project will lay the foundations for a novel heterarchical management approach of complex electrical power grids, providing new mechanisms for consumer involvement in economical and ecological electricity use as well as stable and cost effective integration of distributed renewable resources.Applying the principles of autonomous agent-based systems to the control and management of the el ...
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Ideal Grid for All (IDE4L)

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

The IDE4L project will define, develop and demonstrate the entire system of distribution network automation, IT systems and applications for active network management. Active distribution networks will utilize distributed energy resources (DERs) for network management including both real time operation and long-term network planning viewpoints. DERs consist of aggregated distributed generation, de ...
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Autonomous Management System Developed for Building and District Levels (AMBASSADOR)

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

To solve the energy dilemma, research effort was concentrated on stand-alone buildings weakly tight to their immediate environment. Specifically in each building only key sub-systems were considered individually. Such individual systems were made more effective by becoming pervasive into any building area (the reign of “boxes” and “controllers”). Importing parameters from other sub-systems allowed ...
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Energy Efficient Converters using GaN Power Devices (E2COGAN)

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

The E2COGaN project will target the demonstration of GaN-on-Si as a disruptive power device technology platform through the whole value chain up to demonstrators with high industrial, societal and environmental relevance. Its innovative character will be proven through a well-balanced and application specific trade-off between the “corner” benefits given by higher efficiency, higher switching freq ...
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School of the Future – Towards Zero Emission with High Performance Indoor Environment (SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE)

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

The aim of the “School of the Future” project is to design, demonstrate, evaluate and communicate shining examples of how to reach the future high performance building level. School buildings and their primary users pupils - the next generations - are in the focus of the project. Both, the energy and indoor environment performance of 4 demo buildings in 4 European countries and climates will be gr ...
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Smart integration of GaN & SiC high power electronics for industrial and RF applications (SMARTPOWER)

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

Description Packaging and thermal management in an efficient and cost effective way for SiC and GaN-based power devicesFor industrial motor-drive, UPS and solar inverters applications and aerospace or telecom radio frequency applications, new emerging power semiconductor technologies, respectively SiC and GaN, have demonstrated their high ...
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Micro Retina Thermal Infrared (MIRTIC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 1, 2016,

...SD (Greece) for image synchronization development which can enable the use of multi-sensor heads in a same area without information overlapping, METAIO for enhanced reality management systems and Schneider Electric for home automation. Surveillance application with visible and infrared fusion could also be addressed by this development.As a result of this project, a new product line will be create ...
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web-based enerGy management system foR the optimization of the EnErgy coNsumption in Hospitals (GREEN@Hospital)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Hospitals are known to be large energy consumers and in most European countries the high proportion of ageing building stocks makes hospitals amongst the least energy efficient public buildings. Nowadays there is a growing urgency to achieve real energy savings from existing building stocks and to build more sustainable new hospitals.The GREEN@Hospital project aims at integrating the latest ICT so ...
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SCUBA - Self-organising, Cooperative, and robUst\n Building Automation (SCUBA)

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

Large scale embedded Monitoring and Control (M&C) systems in energy management, transporta-tion, security and safety often co-exist alongside each other with little cooperation within and among heterogeneous systems which hampers the increasing demand to operate the whole system optimally. A good example is building management, a market worth in excess of $36 billion annually by 2015, where a wide ...
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Sustainable Oriented and Long-lasting Unique Team for energy self-suffIcient cOmmuNities (SOLUTION)

Start date: Nov 6, 2009, End date: Nov 5, 2014,

The SOLUTION project mobilises public / private resources to build showcases of energy self sufficient communities in Austria, Croatia, Finland and Switzerland (together with the associated Slovenian community) with a strong potential for replication throughout Europe. SOLUTION is designed to respond to the needs of an effective take-off of the European SET-plan by demonstrating novel applications ...
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Intelligent Management System to integrate and control energy generation, consumption and exchange for European Sport and Recreation Buildings (SPORTE2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

The European Sport and Recreation Building Stock accounts for approximately 1,5 Million buildings or 8% of the overall building stock. These facilities are unique by their physical nature, their energy consumption profiles, the usage patterns of people inside, ownership, and comfort requirements. SPORTE2 aims to manage and optimize the triple dimensions of energy flows (generation, grid exchange, ...
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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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ArchitecturE for Service-Oriented Process - Monitoring and Control (IMC-AESOP)

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

IMC-AESOP will investigate a Service-oriented Architecture approach for monitoring and control of Process Control applications (batch and continuous process). Large process industry systems are a complex set of multi-disciplinary, connected, heterogeneous systems that function as a complex system of which the components are themselves systems. They link many components from individual groups of se ...
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Green public building platform for the promotion of a Green City (GREENCITY)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Background Energy consumption in EU buildings is increasing and Directive 2002/91/EC aims to develop an energy efficiency certification for all buildings. This European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) sets minimum energy requirements that were to be included in French national legislation by the end of 2010 and implemented by the end of 2 ...
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European stakeholders' forum crossing value and innovation chains to explore needs, challenges and opportunities in further research and integration of ICT systems for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (ICT 4 E2B Forum)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

ICT 4 E2B Forum is aimed at bringing together all relevant stakeholders involved in ICT systems and solutions for Energy Efficiency in Buildings, at identifying and reviewing the needs in terms of research and systems integration as well as at accelerating implementation and take-up.ICT 4 E2B Forum intends to promote, through community building activities, a better understanding, a closer dialogue ...
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INTelligent Electrical Grid Sensor communications (INTEGRIS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

INTEGRIS project proposes the development of a novel and flexible ICT infrastructure based on a hybrid Power Line Communication-wireless integrated communications system able to completely and efficiently fulfill the communications requirements foreseen for the Smart Electricity Networks of the future.This includes encompassing applications such as monitoring, operation, customer integration, dema ...
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Cooperating Objects NETwork of excellence (CONET)

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

A number of different system concepts have gained a lot of relevance in the area of embedded systems over the past couple of years: Embedded systems, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networks. These three types of quite diverse systems share a lot of commonalities but also have some complementary aspects in common that make a combination into a coherent system vision promising.The term "Coo ...
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Development of a clean and energy self-sustained building in the vision of integrating H2 economy with renewable energy sources (H2SUSBUILD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

More than 40% of the total energy consumed in the EU is used to cover the needs for heating, cooling and electricity of buildings. As the major part of this energy is produced from combustion of oil and natural gas, both the EU and the EU Building Sector are highly depended on imported fossil fuels. Moreover, the Sector is also a major contributor to Green-House Gas (GHG) emissions. To address iss ...
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Flexible Wireless Automation in Real-Time Environments (flexWARE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

The project Flexible Wireless Automation in Real-Time Environment aims to implement a novel platform, which will have a real-time communication based on WLAN (IEEE 802.11). This novel secure middleware between the physical communication and the application will be designed with special respect to security, flexibility and mobile, real-time enabled nodes that can roam between the Access Points of t ...
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Masters Ingénieurs Economistes de l'Energie et du Développement Durable

"The project aims at integrating modules of teaching modules about economics and management in the curricula for engineers;" The specific objectives are: "? Intégrer des modules d’enseignement en économie et management dans les curricula d’ingénieurs? Intégrer des modules d’enseignement en technologies et énergie, dans les curricula d’économistes? Créer des enseignements des fondements et instrume ...
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