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Scientific and Technological Alliance for Guaranteeing the European Excellence in Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy (STAGE-STE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Solar Fuels, Solar Process Heat and Solar Desalination that are called to play a major role in attaining energy sustainability in our modern societies due to their unique features: 1) Solar energy offers the highest renewable energy potential to our planet; 2) STE can provide dispatchable power in a technically and eco ...
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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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Total Renovation Strategies for Energy Reduction in Public Building Stock (BRICKER) (BRICKER)

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

"A scalable, replicable, high energy efficient, zero emissions and cost effective SYSTEM to refurbish existing public-owned non-residential buildings to achieve at least 50% energy consumption reduction through:a) A systemic methodology for optimal building retrofitting towards zero emissions, developed to ensure cost effectiveness, scalability and replicability of the interventions taking into ac ...
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A European Industrial Doctorate on Security and Trust of Next Generation Enterprise Information Systems (SECENTIS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"This proposal is for a European Industrial Doctorate on SECurity and Trust of Next Generation ENTerprise Information Systems (SECENTIS). In the near future, the security needs of enterprises and organizations will increase and be more varied, ranging from the protection of own resources to those managed on behalf of end-users and customers. These desiderata will be particularly important for ven ...
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Development of an integrated SPECT/MRI system for enhanced stratification of brain tumour patients prior to patient-specific radio-chemo therapy and early assessment of treatment efficacy (INSERT)

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

"The purpose of the project INSERT is to provide clinically relevant stratification and improved personalized radio-chemo therapy for brain tumour patients using a specifically developed multi-modality imaging tool. The system will also be used for early assessment of treatment efficacy. The initial focus will be on patients with glioma but there is future potential to target a range of tumours in ...
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Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia (FESTA)

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

"FESTA is concerned with implementing changes in the working environment of academic researchers, to encourage female researchers to stay and make a career in the academy and to create organizational environments where their competence is valued and fostered. In particular, we address the working environment of researchers in the lower levels of their careers, to make it possible for them to advan ...
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Indoor/outdoor LOCation and Asset management Through open gEodata (i-locate)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The goal of i-locate is twofold. First it will create a virtual hub for indoor open geographical data regarding public spaces (hospitals, public offices, shopping malls, museums etc). This will have significant economic business impact and it will be enable a number of indoor/outdoor (based on existing open data) businesses.The second goal is to create a easy-to-integrate open middleware for indoo ...
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Advanced Software Protection: Integration, Research and Exploitation (ASPIRE)

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

Traditional security solutions based on custom hardware like smart cards, set-top boxes, and dongles, are not convenient on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Software protection is therefore utterly important; it can be a maker and breaker in domains like multi-screen mobile TV, software licensing, and credentials and sensitive data stored on mobile devices. However, current software pr ...
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Integrated SYsteM based on PHOtonic Microresonators and Microfluidic Components for rapid detectioN of toxins in milk and dairY products (SYMPHONY)

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

In the milk industry, one of most pressing unmet needs is the timely detection of mycotoxins that originate from animal feed and are secreted into milk. In particular, milk and dairy products can be contaminated by aflatoxin M1, a potent carcinogen. The aflatoxin contamination represents a hazard for human health and an economic loss for the dairy industry. The available technology for aflatoxin d ...
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Collaborative Network for Training in Electronic Skin Technology (CONTEST)

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

"Future electronic systems will be bendable and conformable. They will be wearable, disposable, and ubiquitous. CONTEST will train young researchers in the fast expanding field of flexible and large area electronics with emphasis on “wearable” devices.Training will be implemented through well-defined work packages covering critical aspects of flexible electronics, converging towards an electronica ...
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Steering towards Green and Perceptive Mobility of the Future (STREETLIFE)

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

The goal of the STREETLIFE project is the reduction of carbon emissions through a sustainable mobility concept in cities based on ICT. In particular, the aim of the project is to reduce the number of car trips by i) informing commuters about the existing transport alternatives and their real value (in terms of time, cost, carbon footprint), ii) enhancing public transport to meet the needs of the c ...
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CIVIS

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

Smart grids make current energy networks more intelligent and accessible; new ways of producing energy will soon make citizens not only energy users but also energy producers. The CIVIS project explores the potential of social networks and communities to significantly reduce energy use and carbon emissions. We'll enable this by developing business models for the resulting energy value system and s ...
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Subject-Orientation for People-Centred Production (SO-PC-Pro)

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

European production companies face a variety of challenges arising from the increasingly complex and dynamic environment in which they operate. These challenges have been understood mostly in economic terms based on the time-cost-quality triangle. The main approach to tackling these challenges has been to rationalise production processes through standardised work procedures and automated systems, ...
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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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Critical System Engineering Acceleration (CRYSTAL)

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

CRYSTAL aims at fostering Europe’s leading edge position in embedded systems engineering in particular regarding quality and cost effectiveness of safety-critical embedded systems and architecture platforms.Its overall goal is to enable sustainable paths to speed up the maturation, integration, and cross-sectoral reusability of technological and methodological bricks of the factories for safety-cr ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

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

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Internet Enabled Services for the Cities accross Europe (IES Cities)

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

IES Cities is the last iteration in a chain of inter-related projects promoting user-centric and user-provided mobile services that exploit open data and user-supplied data. The technical components and achievements of several former European projects will be integrated to assemble an open Linked Data apps-enabling technological platform. Such platform will be deployed in different cities across E ...
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Quantum Technologies for Europe (QUTE-EUROPE)

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

Research in Quantum Information and Communication Technologies (QICT) has since many years gained an important European dimension. The number of research groups active in the field as well as the number of publications testify to the vigorous and scientifically proliferate state of the community and show that QIPC research in Europe is well on par and highly competitive with comparable activities ...
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ALLOW Ensembles

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

The recent advances in pervasive technologies enable construction of large-scale socio-technical systems which tightly interweave humans and their social structures with the technology. These systems are realized as a collective of diverse heterogeneous actors situated both in the physical world such as people, objects etc., and in the backend computer systems such as control processes. The object ...
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Building structured event indexes of large volumes of financial and economic data for decision making (NewsReader)

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

The volume of news data is enormous and expanding, covering billions of archived documents and millions of documents as daily streams, while at the same time getting more and more interconnected with knowledge provided elsewhere. Professional decision-makers that need to respond quickly to new developments and knowledge or that need to explain these developments on the basis of the past are faced ...
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Distributed MILS for Dependable Information and Communication Infrastructures (D-MILS)

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

Modern critical systems bear great responsibilities and face escalating challenges. Distributed systems for critical applications are costly and time-consuming to develop and to certify. Since there is little automated support for early assurance that a system faithfully implements its architectural design and satisfies its requirements, qualification testing and certification processes often reve ...
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Linked Open Data for environment protection in Smart Regions (SMARTOPENDATA)

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

The Linked Open Data (LOD) Strategy is becoming a source of unprecedented visibility, enabling the generation of new businesses and significant advances for research in the environmental area. Nevertheless, in order for this strategy to become a reality, it is necessary to advance the publication of existing environmental data, usually owned by public bodies.This proposal is focused on how the LOD ...
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REgional innovation STrATEgy relies on researchers’ mobility (RESTATE)

Start date: Oct 17, 2011, End date: Oct 16, 2015,

"Science is the driver of change in economic activity, in the delivery of public services, and in the private life of citizens in all professions and ages. Change reaches society through mobile individuals carrying innovation from laboratories to applications. Young researchers are in the best position to drive this process, and to benefit from the opportunity.Trentino hosts quality institutions o ...
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nSafety Certification of Software-Intensive Systems with Reusable Components (nSafeCer)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

European industry has a great potential to achieve a leading position in the growing global market of safety-relevant embedded systems, provided it is able to devise efficient and industrial-strength methods and processes for their development and certification.nSafeCer targets increased efficiency and reduced time-to-market by composable safety certification of safety-relevant embedded systems. A ...
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SUB nanosecond Leverage In PET/MR ImAging (SUBLIMA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The SUBLIMA project aims at truly simultaneous, fully integrated, solid-state PET/MR technology for concurrent functional and anatomical imaging with unsurpassed image quality. It will combine the extremely sensitive functional imaging possibilities provided by PET with the excellent soft-tissue contrast and complementary functional imaging capabilities of MR. For the first time, time-of-flight (T ...
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3D Digitisation of Icons of European Architectural and Archaeological Heritage (3D-ICONS)

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

3D-ICONS proposes to digitise a series of architectural and archaeological masterpieces of world and European cultural significance and provide 3D models and related digital content to Europeana, with the aim of contributing to the critical mass of highly engaging content available to users.Public fascination with the architectural and archaeological heritage is well known, it is proven to be one ...
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Moses Open Source Evaluation and Support Co-ordination for OutReach and Exploitation (MosesCore)

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

Machine translation (MT) has increasingly become an indispensable tool for coping with Europe's linguistic diversity. However machine translation systems are complex software applications requiring significant levels of cooperation and coordination to enable research to continue to flourish, and to improve the usage rate amongst commercial translators, and public bodies. This project will provide ...
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Bridges Across the Language Divide (EU-BRIDGE)

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

Today Europe is facing larger and more critical language challenges than ever before. The production of multilingual content now far outpaces our ability to translate it by human effort and we must turn to automatic methods to cope. Thus, effective and innovative alternatives must be provided to Europe's citizens and businesses. High performing machine translation technology can be part of the sol ...
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EXploring Customer Interactions through Textual EntailMENT (EXCITEMENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Identifying semantic inference relations between texts is a major underlying language processing task, needed in practically all text understanding applications. For example, Question Answering and Information Extraction systems should verify that extracted answers and relations are indeed inferred from the text passages; multi-document text summarization needs to infer that one sentence entails a ...
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European Nuclear Science and Applications Research (ENSAR)

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

ENSAR is the Integrating Activity of Nuclear Scientists from almost all European countries performing research in three of the major subfields of Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Astrophysics and Applications of Nuclear Science. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking (NAs), Transnational Access and Joint Research Activities (JRAs), which will ensure qualitative and quantitative ...
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Distant-speech Interaction for Robust Home Applications (DIRHA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The DIRHA project addresses the development of voice-enabled automated home environments based on distant-speech interaction in different languages. A distributed microphone network is installed in the rooms of a house in order to monitor selectively acoustic and speech activities observable inside any space, and to eventually run a spoken dialogue session with a given user in order to implement a ...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HADRONPHYSICS3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured into nine Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities.The Project will profit of the success of the previous HadronPhysics project in FP6 and the current HadronPhysics2 in FP7, and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scienti ...
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FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform (FI-WARE)

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

The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. FI- ...
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Fully Networked, Digital Components for Photon-starved Biomedical Imaging Systems (SPADnet)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Description SPADnet aims to develop a new generation of smart, CMOS-based large area networked image sensors for photon-starved biomedical applications, build ring-assembly modules for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, and carry out performance tests in a PET system evaluation testbed.While suited to applications offering repetitiv ...
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Machine Translation Enhanced Computer Assisted Translation (MateCat)

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

Worldwide demand of translation services has dramatically accelerated in the last decade, as an effect of the market globalization and the growth of the Information Society. Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools are currently the dominant technology in the translation and localization market. These include spell checkers, terminology managers, electronic dictionaries, full-text search tools, c ...
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immersiVe ENhancemenT of User-woRld Interactions (VENTURI)

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

Augmented Reality (AR) is a concept and a vision that has been with us, and will be with us, for the foreseeable future. We're already augmented today using mobile devices with a connection to the Internet allowing us to almost instantly gain access to the collective global human knowledge. We're starting to add visual augmentation into some devices, but we are only tapping into a small part of th ...
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PlanetData

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Description The PlanetData project aims to establish an interdisciplinary, sustainable European community of researchers, helping organizations to expose their data on the Web PlanetData will push forward the state-of-the-art in large-scale data management and its application to the creation of us ...
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Task-oriented search and content annotation for media production (TOSCA-MP)

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

TOSCA-MP aims to develop user-centric content annotation and search tools for professionals in networked media production and archiving (television, radio, online), addressing their specific use cases and workflow requirements. This will be achieved by scalable and distributed content processing methods performing advanced multimodal information extraction and semantic enrichment. Other key techno ...
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Demonstrating the potential of a multilingual Web portal for Sustainable Agricultural & Environmental Education (Organic.Lingua)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The Organic.Lingua project will extend the current Organic.Edunet portal to fill the gaps in multilingual support and cross-language resource organization and search, by significantly expanding its linguistic coverage. It particularly it aims at analyzing and re-engineering the service infrastructure and the related facilities and business models, in order to be able support more widely and effect ...
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Future Internet Testing (FITTEST)

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

The Future Internet will be a complex interconnection of services, applications, content and media, on which our society will become increasingly dependent for critical activities such as public utilities, social services, government, learning, finance, business, as well as entertainment. Consequently, Future Internet applications have to meet high quality demands.Testing is the mostly used qualit ...
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