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A.dditive MA.nufacturing for T.iltrotor HO.using (AMATHO)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2021,

AMATHO (A.dditive MA.nufacturing T.iltrotor HO.using) is aimed to design, assess and manufacture a novel tiltrotor drive system housing exploiting the features of additive manufacturing techniques. Preliminarily, functional, structural and technological peculiarities of rotorcraft main gearbox housings are analysed and relevant requirements are issued. In the meantime, viable AM processes are revi ...
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Advanced direct biogas fuel processor for robust and cost-effective decentralised hydrogenproduction (BIOROBURplus)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

BioROBURplus builds upon the closing FCH JU BioROBUR project (direct biogas oxidative steam reformer) to develop an entire pre-commercial fuel processor delivering 50 Nm3/h (i.e. 107 kg/d) of 99.9% hydrogen from different biogas types (landfill gas, anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, anaerobic digestion of wastewater-treatment sludges) in a cost-effective manner.The energy efficiency of biogas ...
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Intuitive Natural Prosthesis UTilization (INPUT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

"INPUT will strive to make the control of complex upper limb prostheses simple, natural and to be used on a daily basis by amputees effortlessly after donning -"don and play". Currently, the most advanced routine prosthetic control on the market is more than 4 decades old, outdated and constitutes the bottle neck to introducing highly dexterous prostheses. The project builds on achievements reache ...
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Novel ALL-IN-ONE machines, robots and systems for affordable, worldwide and lifetime Distributed 3D hybrid manufacturing and repair operations (4D hybrid)

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

From aeronautics to oil&gas, complex metal parts embrace major challenges across their lifecycles from the green field intensive manufacturing to the numerous maintenance and repairing operations worldwide distributed. The synergic combination of additive and subtractive processes could overcome individual shortcomings, going beyond the simple succession of steps. 'Plug and produce' modular approa ...
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Collaborative Recommendations and Adaptive Control for Personalised Energy Saving (enCOMPASS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Achieving the European environmental objectives for 2020 requires not only technological progress, but also a major change in energy consumption behaviour. The enCOMPASS project will implement and validate an integrated socio-technical approach to behavioural change for energy saving, by developing innovative user-friendly digital tools to make energy consumption data available and understandable ...
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Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation (FAR-EDGE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Despite the proclaimed benefits (i.e. scalability, reliability, cost-effectiveness) of Future Internet (FI) technologies (i.e. edge & cloud computing, IoT/CPS) for factory automation, their adoption from manufacturers remains low for various reasons, including technology issues (e.g., poor situation awareness, limited deployments, no standards-based reference implementations) and the lack of a smo ...
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HUman MANufacturing (HUMAN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

EU manufacturers are increasingly adopting automation solutions that can improve productivity and reduce costs.Enterprises’ ability to utilize these technologies may be their single most important competitive advantage, and the specific skills, experiences, competences,and flexibility of workers are pivotal to and at the core of this ability.To create a healthy workplace and increase the competiti ...
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Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS (Daedalus)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Daedalus is conceived to enable the full exploitation of the CPS concept of virtualized intelligence, through the adoption of a completely distributed automation platform based on IEC-61499 standard, fostering the creation of a Digital Ecosystem that could go beyond the current limits of manufacturing control systems and propose an ever-growing market of innovative solutions for the design, engine ...
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CHEAP AND EFFICIENT APPLICATION OF RELIABLE GROUND SOURCE HEAT EXCHANGERS AND PUMPS (Cheap-GSHPs)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

To reduce the total cost of low enthalpy geothermal systems by 20-30 % the project will improve actual drilling/installation technologies and designs of Ground Source Heat Exchangers (GSHE’s). This will be combined with an holistic approach for optimum selection, design and implementation of complete systems across different underground and climate conditions. The proposal will focus on one hand ...
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Incubate a New Learning and Inspiration Framework for Education (INLIFE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

INLIFE will provide an innovative gamification framework targeting both typical as well as special education and social inclusion activities based on Serious Games. INLIFE’s core concept leverages on the potential of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm to directly link actions, decisions and events happening in real-life with in-game educational progress and modern gaming technologies. This brid ...
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Multi-disciplinArY integrated simulAtion and forecasting tools, empowered by digital continuity and continuous real-world synchronization, towards reduced time to production and optimization (MAYA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

MAYA aims at developing simulation methodologies and multidisciplinary tools for the design, engineering and management of CPS-based (Cyber Physical Systems) Factories, in order to strategically support production-related activities during all the phases of the factory life-cycle, from the integrated design of the product-process- production system, through the optimization of the running factory, ...
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SYMBIONICA - Reconfigurable Machine for the new Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing of next generation fully personalized bionics and smart prosthetics (Symbionica)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Medtech products belongs to a huge expanding market, in which Europe hosts some of the biggest global player, accounting for 30% of the world market and for more than 575,000 people employed by nearly 25,000 medical technology companies – 95% of which are SMEs.Symbionica project focuses on the manufacturing of personalized bionics, smart endoprosthetics and exo-prosthetics that require geometric a ...
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Movement Assisting Devices: Manufacturing of personalized Kineto-Dynamics parts and products for workers, elderly and children (MovAiD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

I - Over forty million workers in the EU are affected by work-place related musculoskeletal disorders, as a result of working in painful or tiring positions and handling heavy loads with repetitive hand or arm movements.II - The aging population is growing fast and approaching the mean age where loss of function and hence loss of mobility is to begin. In addition to diabetic and obesity, in 5 year ...
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Human-mimetic approach to the integrated monitoring, management and optimization of a symbiotic cluster of smart production units (SYMBIOPTIMA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Improvements of the overall sustainability of process industries from an economic, environmental and social point of view require the adoption of a new industrial symbiosis paradigm - the human-mimetic symbiosis - where critical resources (materials, energy, waste and by-products) are coordinated among multiple autonomous Production Units organized in industrial clusters.SYMBIOPTIMA will improve E ...
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Open social transport network for urban approach to carpooling (SocialCar)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

SocialCar is an Intelligent Transport System based on an innovative approach to transport demand management, and more specifically to carpooling in urban and peri-urban areas. SocialCar’s main objective is devopping a new communication network for intelligent mobility, sharing information of car-pooling integrated with existing transport and mobility systems. It will be achieved by means of powerf ...
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Borealis – the 3A energy class Flexible Machine for the new Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing on next generation of complex 3D metal parts. (BOREALIS)

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

Borealis project presents an advanced concept of machine for powder deposition additive manufacturing and ablation processes that integrates 5 AM technologies in a unique solution. The machine is characterized by a redundant structures constituted by a large portal and a small PKM enabling the covering of a large range of working cube and a pattern of ejective nozzles and hybrid laser source targe ...
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FREE and open source software tools for WATer resource management (FREEWAT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"FREEWAT aims at promoting water management and planning by simplifying the application of the Water Framework Directive and other EU water related Directives. FREEWAT will be an open source and public domain GIS integrated modelling environment for the simulation of water quantity and quality in surface water and groundwater with an integrated water management and planning module.Specific objecti ...
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Virtual Prototyping of Tactile Displays (PROTOTOUCH)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"It is estimated that touch screen module revenues will reach $23.9 billion by 2017. These user interfaces have become one of the most common input devices for digital media, e.g. in mobile phones and computers. Current devices incorporate relatively primitive vibrotactile haptic-feedback. The aim of PROTOTOUCH is to develop tactile displays with high fidelity haptic recognition, so that buttons w ...
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Digital Social Innovation for Europe (DSI4EU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The DSI4EU project will support, grow and scale the current Digital Social Innovation network of projects and organisations, bringing together social entrepreneurs, hackers, communities and academics working on key DSI fields such as the makers movement, the collaborative economy, open democracy and digital rights.DSI4EU will foster digital innovations for the social good, helping communities shar ...
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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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Constructing buildings with customizable size PV modules integrated in the opaque part of the building skin (CONSTRUCT-PV)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Construct-PV will develop and demonstrate customizable, efficient, and low cost BIPV for opaque surfaces of buildings. Opaque surfaces are selected because they represent massive wide-area spaces of untapped harvesting potential across Europe. To develop highly efficient systems, most promising PV technologies have been selected, i.e. back contact cells fabricated with MWT technology, extensively ...
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European Roadmap for Cyber-Physical Systems in Manufacturing (sCorPiuS)

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

The worldwide economic downturn forces the Western companies to cut costs and enhances the performances of their processes in order to maintain the European leadership and excellence in manufacturing. Effectively, European businesses cannot compete anymore on workforce costs with Eastern countries: as a result the manufacturers have to leverage on more sustainable and efficient production systems. ...
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New Approaches to Network Design (NEWNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"Networks pervade every aspect of nowadays life. This is one of the reasons why their design, management, and analysis is one of the most active areas of theoretical and empirical research in Computer Science and Operations Research. The main goal of this project is to increase our theoretical understanding of networks, with a special focus on faster exact exponential-time algorithms and more accu ...
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ADvanced Digital technologies and virtual engineering for mini-Factories (ADDFACTOR)

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

In today globalized world, companies are trying to remain competitive through the adoption of a strategy where high quantity production of goods is the leverage to reduce costs.By negating this approach, ADDFactor proposes the “Mini-factories” concept, which is conceived to be an innovative solution for most of the actors involved in the whole supply chain: the relationship between retailers and t ...
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Computational Cloud Services and Workflows for Agile Engineering (CloudFlow)

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

Traditionally, the European manufacturing industry is characterized by innovative technology, quality processes and robust products which have leveraged Europe's industrialization. However, globalization has exposed Europe's industry to new emerging and industrialized manufacturing markets and the current economic challenges have decelerated the internal boost and investment, respectively. Hence, ...
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Demonstration at industrial scale of the FLeXible manufacturing of SMART multifunctional photovoltaic building elements (SMART-FLEX)

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

Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is a promising area while it is still considered as a novelty dedicated only to exclusive construction. However, BIPV potential is much greater and many more solutions could be developed and BIPV could become a broadly accepted technology if the main barriers, hindering the market deployment are overcome.SMART-FLeX consortium aims to address the identified ...
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Biogas robust processing with combined catalytic reformer and trap (BioRobur)

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

In the BioROBUR project a robust and efficient fuel processor for the direct reforming of biogas will be developed and tested at a scale equivalent to 50 Nm3/h production of PEM-grade hydrogen to demonstrate the achievement of all the call mandates. The system energy efficiency of biogas conversion into hydrogen will be 65%, for a reference biogas composition of 60%vol CH4 and 40%vol CO2.Key innov ...
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white room based on Reconfigurable robotic Island for optoelectronics (whiteR)

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

The young optoelectronic industry has critical mass and already impacts for more than the 10% on the European economy, employing 290 000 people and guarantees a stable double digit growth in current and coming years. Europe is playing a leading role in R&D (>1,000 research organization active) and is still able to face Far East and American competitors in manufacturing. white’R is a necessary acti ...
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MANufacturing through ergonoMic and safe Anthropocentric aDaptive workplacEs for context aware factories in EUROPE (MAN-MADE)

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

"The MAN-MADE project aims at defining new socially sustainable workplaces where the human dimension is a key cornerstone. Workers are foreseen at the centre of the factory, on the one hand, in terms of workplace adaptation (and production planning, at large) to skills, expertise and characteristic of each single worker and, on the other hand, in terms of capability to make the most out of worker’ ...
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Advanced Material Textile for Reinforced Structures for Complex Lightweight Applications (MADMAX)

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

"The objective of this project is to regroup a cluster of private and academic laboratories supported by key manufacturers from both aeronautic, automotive and railway sectors in order to investigate the possibility to benchmark specific composites :• from the aeronautics. Depending on the application targeted, the cluster will be able to take advantage of the mutual return on experiment in order ...
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Local flexible manufacturing of green personalized furniture Close To the Customer in time, space and cost (CTC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The CTC project aims to support European Industry to adapt to global competitive pressures by developing methods and innovative enabling technologies towards local flexible manufacturing of green personalized products close to the customer in terms of features offered, place of fabrication, time to deliver, and cost. This vision is implemented and demonstrated within an European industrial sector ...
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High-frequency ELectro-Magnetic technologies for advanced processing of ceramic matrix composites and graphite expansion (HELM)

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

"Lightweight ceramics and fibre reinforced ceramic composites, such as non-oxide Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) and Expanded Graphite (EG), represent very promising solutions for high temperature applications in strategic industrial sectors, such as transport and energy. In fact, these materials are one of topical priorities of the European Technology Platform EuMAT and a strategic issue of the ...
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Development of the CYBER crime and CYBER terrorism reseach ROADmap (CYBERROAD)

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

This project will identify current and future issues in the fight against Cyber crime and cyber terrorism in order to draw a roadmap for cyber security research. A detailed snapshot of the technological, social, economic, political, and legal scenario on which cyber crime and cyber terrorism do develop will be first provided. Then, cyber crime and cyber terrorism will be studied, in order to inde ...
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INNOVATIVE THERMAL MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS FOR THERMAL PROTECTION OF FUTURE SPACE VEHICLES (THOR)

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

There are key space technologies existing at European level and during the last space calls many European projects are framed on space re-entry, but none of them dealing with radically new technologies, able to compete with technologies from other leading countries or allowing collaboration with them. The THOR project will provide knowledge in key space technologies for accessing space, through th ...
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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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NAnoSCale Engineering for Novel Computation using Evolution (NASCENCE) (NASCENCE)

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

The aim of this project is to model, understand and exploit the behaviour of evolving nanosystems (e.g. networks of nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes or films of graphene) with the long term goal to build information processing devices exploiting these architectures without reproducing individual components. With an interface to a conventional digital computer we will use computer controlled manipul ...
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Factory ECO-friendly and energy efficient technologies and adaptive autoMATION solutions (FACTORY-ECOMATION)

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

The production landscape is changing. Traditionally, energy costs represented a small part of the production expenses, meaning that the design of production facilities usually neglected efficient energy usage in favour of maximization of production throughput; the energy consumption of factories has been always high, but energy cost has increased dramatically in the last decades, pushing industria ...
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EXPLORE - EXTENDED EXPLOITATION OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECTS’ KNOWLEDGE AND RESULTS (EXPLORE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The European Manufacturing Industry competitiveness and sustainability strongly depends on Innovation, targeting new consumer needs and societal challenges. This calls for significant public and private investments in R&D, but also a growing capability to transform the created knowledge into new products, processes, services and business models.Many of these challenges are multi-sectorial as the t ...
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Development and scale-up of nanostructured based materials and processes for low cost high efficiency chalcogenide based photovoltaics (SCALENANO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

This project will exploit the potential of chalcogenide based thin film photovoltaic technologies for the development and scale-up of new processes based on nanostructured materials for the production of high efficiency and low cost photovoltaic devices and modules compatible with mass production requirements. Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 (CIGS) chalcogenide based devices have the highest efficiency of all th ...
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Wearable interfaces for hAnd function recoverY (WAY)

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

This project addresses the scientific problem of recovery of hand function after amputation, or neurological disabilities like spinal cord injury, brachial plexus injury, and stroke. It introduces several conceptual novelties which explicitly take into account and overcome the limited band-width in actual Brain-Neural Communication Interfaces (BNCI). WAY demonstrators are able to restore a physiol ...
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