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FLUIDGLASS

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

The FLUIDGLASS project develops a new and innovative concept for multifunctional solar thermal glass façades systems. The FLUIDGLASS approach turns passive glass façades into active transparent solar collectors while at the same time controlling the energy flow through the building envelope.FLUIDGLASS unites four key functionalities in one integrated system: The system firstly acts as a fully tran ...
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Re-design of the dairy industry for sustainable milk processing (SUSMILK)

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

Industrial food production serves to satisfy basic human needs and the dairy industry accounts with 13% turnover for the total food and drink industry in Europe. The aim of the project SUSMILK is to initialise a system change within the whole process chain for market milk and milk products to minimise energy and water consumption and establish renewable energy resources. Milk processing is charact ...
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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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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. If we can rise to the challenge, we can gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain diseases and build revolutionary new computing technologies. Today, for the first time, modern ICT has brought these goals within sight. The goal of the Human Brain Project, part of the ...
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Advanced Testing Methods for Better Real Life Performance of Biomass Room Heating Appliances (BeReal)

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

Existing test standards for biomass room heating appliances (pellet and firewood stoves, and inset appliances) have supported technology development tremendously in past decades. Due to today’s changing and more demanding requirements, however, there is the obvious need for refined testing procedures in order to differentiate between poor and excellent products. Such differentiation should take in ...
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"Self healing innovative elastomers for dynamic seals, damping and noise reduction" (SHINE)

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

"Overall objective of the SHINE project is to develop a novel generation of elastomers that undergo spontaneous self-healing, leading to enhanced durability and reliability of the products made thereof (dynamic seals, shock absorbers, anti-vibration devices for vehicles, roads, railroads and bridges). The elastomers can heal without human intervention and can undergo multiple healing stages. They ...
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Dynamic manufacturing of thin-walled work pieces by milling process (DYNAMILL)

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

Lightweight components are gaining in importance in EU key industries with good market growth potential (aerospace, automotive, power generation, medical technology etc.). To achieve weight reductions, complex thin-walled structures are combined with high strength materials. However, the lower stiffness of work pieces leads to severe challenges during the milling process:- Difficulty to achieve hi ...
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Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0 (STORK 2.0)

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

"Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0" builds on the success and results of STORK by taking further steps to decisively push the lines for wider uptake of eID in Europe, aiming at realising a single European electronic identification & authentication area. Its highly innovative focus lies on the convergence of private and public sectors in an operational framework and infrastructure encompass ...
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Design, Monitoring and Operation of Adaptive Networked Embedded Systems (DEMANES)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Large scale societal challenges require large scale monitoring and control solutions. Technological developments will make it possible to design and build these large systems. A major obstacle in realizing these systems is the lack of a versatile methodology to design and implement adaptive monitoring and control systems taking into account intrinsic properties of system of systems (decentralizati ...
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3D GaN for High Efficiency Solid State Lighting (GECCO)

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

Solid State Lighting sources, presently being completely based on the semiconductor material Gallium Nitride, will replace inefficient and environmentally harmful conventional light sources, and therefore contribute significantly to a sustainable energy saving and carbon footprint reduction. In order to further support this transition, white LEDs with higher efficiencies and lower cost per lumen h ...
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Sustainable Organisation between Clusters Of Optimised Logistics @ Europe (SOCOOL@EU)

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

The project aims to create an open European platform of excellence in the area of supply chain management and logistics in connection with hubs and gateways. Its purpose is to enable research-driven regional clusters throughout Europe to collaborate and exchange experiences for increasing sustainability and competitiveness of logistical services and (intermodal) transport operations. The consortiu ...
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A user-oriented, knowledge-based suite of Construction Industry LifE Cycle CosT Analysis (CILECCTA) software for pan-European determination and costing of sustainable project options (CILECCTA)

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

The principal objective of the CILECCTA project is to bring together a top class consortium of academic and industrial researchers, associations and enterprises – both SMEs and LEs – to develop a suite of software that is: capable of full Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA); compatible with codified Price Banks (PBs) and Life Cycle Inventories (LCIs) across Europe; customisable / configurable for whol ...
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Distributed Cloud product specification and supply chain manufacturing execution infrastructure (ManuCloud)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

The objective of the ManuCloud project is the development of the service-oriented IT infrastructure “ManuCloud” as basis for the next level of manufacturing networks by enabling inter-enterprise integration down to shop floor level. R&D Approach The ManuCloud IT infrastructure will consist of a set of services providing knowledge-based product specification based on the actual available manufactur ...
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Solid State Lighting for Europe (SSL4EU)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The lighting industry worldwide faces a paradigm shift as a new era of lighting appears at the horizon: that is Solid State Lighting (SSL). Light emitting diodes (LEDs) based on inorganic semiconductors are mercury-free, have a long lifetime and instant on/off, can be colour tunable and most important: they will become the light source with the highest energy-efficiency in the near future. Thus, L ...
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Models and generic interfaces for easy and safe Battery insertion and removal in electric vehicles (EASYBAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"“The Battery is the Car”. New traction battery packs make the fully electric & plug-in vehicles more and more capable. Their share of the price of the car is set to become even more dominant. Factors driving this include the strident demand for better car range. Battery packs increasingly incorporate electronics for safety and power conversion. The integration of these new complex battery packs p ...
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Nanoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks for production (NanoMOF)

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

The discovery of porous hybrid materials constructed from inorganic nodes and organic multifunctional linkers has established a new area of inorganic-organic hybrids (Metal-Organic Frameworks, MOFs) with extraordinary performance as compared to traditional porous solids such as zeolites and activated carbon. “NanoMOF” will focus beyond discovery and integrate MOFs into products with industrial imp ...
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Cross-Organisational Assessment and Development of Intellectual Capital (CADIC)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"In a global knowledge-based economy high performing clusters of different organisations are seen as the core of innovation, regional development and competitiveness for their members. Therefore there is a growing need for SMEs in Europe to engage and collaborate in networks and clusters. The European research project CADIC will help a large number of SME to set up and strengthen own clusters and ...
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Interactive Knowledge Stack for small to medium CMS/KMS providers (IKS)

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

Description A Semantic-based Open Source Platform for Small to Medium CMS ProvidersIKS will raise the semantic capability of European software houses to develop intelligent content management solutions for their customers. What is IKS? IKS is an integrating project targeted at the hundreds of SMEs in Europe, which are providing technology ...
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geoland2 - towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (geoland2)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

geoland2 intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS). The three components (Local, Continental and Global) of the LMCS are addressed. The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the LMCS, and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional o ...
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An intelligent window for optimal ventilation and minimum thermal loss (CLIMAWIN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"The CLIMAWIN consortium, a group of European SME manufacturers and suppliers of windows and ventilation systems, aims to address a major market opportunity regarding energy efficient fenestration systems for renovation of residential and commercial buildings. Specifically, the consortium aims at developing a novel high performance window with electronic operation of an auto-regulated natural vent ...
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Atmospheric Plasmas for Nanoscale Industrial Surface Processing (PlasmaNice)

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

Atmospheric plasma techniques as processing methods have a number of advantages which include their ability to tailor the surface chemistry at the nanometre level. As such, the plasma treatments are energy efficient, reproducible and environmentally clean. In-line, continuous reel-to-reel processing equipment has been developed in the last 5 years. The wide scale application of this nano-processin ...
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Modular Urban Transport Safety and Security Analysis (MODSafe)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

The European Urban Guided Transport sector (Light rails, Metros, but also Tramways and Regional Commuter trains) is still characterized by a highly diversified landscape of Safety Requirements, Safety Models, Responsibilities, Roles, Safety Approval, Acceptance and Certification Schemes. While a certain convergence in architectures and systems can be observed the safety life cycle still differs f ...
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euroFOT (European Field Operational Test on Active Safety Functions in vehicles) (euroFOT)

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

The Intelligent Car Initiative has identified road safety, energy efficiency, and traffic congestion as the main challenges currently being faced by European transportation. Despite their severity, these issues may be improved with the use of new in-vehicle technologies currently not available in the market. However, implementing new technologies implies a risk to manufacturers. Factors such as di ...
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COllaboration and INteroperability for networked enterprises (COIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility at disposal of the European networked enterprises from any industrial sector and domain in order to rapidly set-up, efficiently manage and effectively operate different forms of business collaborations, from the most traditional supply chains to the m ...
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Organic LED Lighting in European Dimensions (OLED100.eu)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The overall goal of OLED100.eu is to develop all the necessary technologies forming the basis for efficient OLED applications for the general lighting industry in Europe. The European Council has agreed to cut at least 20% in CO2 emission by 2020. Recent studies conducted by the JRC of the EC show a huge potential for saving energy by better energy efficiency. Still, some citizens are not aware t ...
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Ubiquitous Care System to Support Independent Living (CONFIDENCE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

The main objective of this proposal is the development and integration of innovative technologies for the detection of abnormal events (such as falls) or unexpected behaviours that may be related to a health problem in elderly people.With the proposed approach, the elderly will gain confidence and independence. CONFIDENCE will be a cost effective, non-intrusive and reliable system that will increa ...
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