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Enhancing electrocatalysis in low temperature fuel cells by ionic liquid modification (IL-E-CAT)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

The commercialization of low temperature fuel cells is restricted by the high cost and low durability of cathode catalysts. Intense efforts have been devoted to tackle this issue by engineering the structure of Pt-based catalysts. Herein, a novel concept towards enhancing the performance of low temperature fuel cell catalysts is proposed, namely by tuning the local active site microenvironment wit ...
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The origin of heavy elements: a nuclear physics and astrophysics challenge (EUROPIUM)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

Where in the universe are heavy elements synthesized? How are these elements produced? These are two exciting and interdisciplinary questions in nuclear astrophysics today and will be investigated in my ERC project EUROPIUM. The favored astrophysical sites are neutrino-driven winds following core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, where extreme conditions enable the rapid neutron captur ...
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An Artificial Leaf: a photo-electro-catalytic cell from earth-abundant materials for sustainable solar production of CO2-based chemicals and fuels (A-LEAF)

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

A novel concept for a photo-electro-catalytic (PEC) cell able to directly convert water and CO2 into fuels and chemicals (CO2 reduction) and oxygen (water oxidation) using exclusively solar energy will be designed, built, validated, and optimized. The cell will be constructed from cheap multifunction photo-electrodes able to transform sun irradiation into an electrochemical potential difference (e ...
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Goal-based Open-ended Autonomous Learning Robots (GOAL-Robots)

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

This project aims to develop a new paradigm to build open-ended learning robots called `Goal-based Open-ended Autonomous Learning' (GOAL). GOAL rests upon two key insights. First, to exhibit an autonomous open-ended learning process, robots should be able to self-generate goals, and hence tasks to practice. Second, new learning algorithms can leverage self-generated goals to dramatically accelerat ...
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Policy Learning of Motor Skills for Humanoid Robots (SKILLS4ROBOTS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

The goal of SKILLS4ROBOTS is to develop a autonomous skill learning system that enables humanoid robots to acquire and improve a rich set of motor skills. This robot skill learning system will allow scaling of motor abilities up to fully anthropomorphic robots while overcoming the current limitations of skill learning systems to only few degrees of freedom. To achieve this goal, it will decompose ...
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Convergence of Electronics and Photonics Technologies for Enabling Terahertz Applications (CELTA)

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

CELTA: Convergence of Electronics and Photonics Technologies for Enabling Terahertz Applications aims to produce the next generation of researchers who will enable Europe to take a leading role in the multidisciplinary area of utilizing Terahertz technology for applications involving components and complete systems for sensing, instrumentation, imaging, spectroscopy, and communications. All these ...
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NOVel, critical materials free, high Anisotropy phases for permanent MAGnets, by design. (NOVAMAG)

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

The demand for lower dependency on critical raw materials (CRM) such as rare earths (RE) is not only a European but a global problem that demands immediate action. The purpose of this project is to exploit advanced theoretical and computation methods together with state-of-the-art materials preparation and characterization techniques, to develop the next generation RE-free/lean permanent magnets ( ...
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GEMex: Cooperation in Geothermal energy research Europe-Mexico for development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems and Superhot Geothermal Systems (GEMex)

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

The GEMex project is a complementary effort of a European consortium with a corresponding consortium from Mexico, who submitted an equivalent proposal for cooperation. The joint effort is based on three pillars: 1 – Resource assessment at two unconventional geothermal sites, for EGS development at Acoculco and for a super-hot resource near Los Humeros. This part will focus on understanding the tec ...
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High-Intensity Coherent Nonlinear Optics (HICONO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

Optical laser-based technologies are a key technology of the 21st century. Extension of the range of scientific and commercial laser applications requires a constant expansion of the accessible regimes of laser operation. Concepts from nonlinear optics, driven with ultra-fast lasers provide all means to achieve this goal. However, nonlinear optics typically suffer from low efficiencies, e.g. if hi ...
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Understand the Dimensions of Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks for Developing Effective and Efficient Security Solutions for First-line-practitioners and Professionals (TAKEDOWN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks (OC/TN) are a major challenge for the European Union and many different stakeholder groups are involved in creating awareness, preventing, identifying and intervene in case of risk or threat. But in order to develop better strategies and instruments, we still need a deeper understanding of these phenomena.TAKEDOWN therefore aims at generating such novel insig ...
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Proactive Risk Management through Improved Cyber Situational Awareness (PROTECTIVE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

PROTECTIVE is designed to improve an organisations ongoing awareness of the risk posed to its business by cyber security attacks. PROTECTIVE makes two key contributions to achieve this enhanced situational awareness. Firstly it increases the computer security incident response team’s (CSIRT) threat awareness through improved security monitoring and increased sharing of threat intelligence between ...
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European Network for Cyber-security (NeCS)

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

The European Network for Cybersecurity (NECS) was formed in response to the increased need of highly qualified experts able to cope with all the aspects of the European cybersecurity strategy that is currently under implementation.There is indeed an evident need and opportunity to grow a new generation of young researchers able to answer this demand for expertize, trained to the changing nature o ...
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Lightweight Verification of Software (LiveSoft)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

As illustrated through the advent of cloud computing, cyberphysical systems, or the Internet of Things, more and more applications are inherently distributed. At the same time, programming distributed systems is notoriously hard. Programmers have to deal with asynchrony and have to cater for partial failures -- the possibility that certain communication(s), processes, or hosts fail while others re ...
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ValChem - Value added Chemical building blocks and lignin from wood (ValChem)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

"ValChem demonstrates the technical and economic viability of sustainable and integrated process from wood to a selected platform chemical and lignin based performance chemicals. ValChem will demonstrate that this process can produce wood-based chemicals that are competitive with identical or similar-in-application products based on fossil raw materials in terms of quality and production cost.Val ...
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SUstainability-driven international/intersectoral Partnership for Education and Research on modelling next generation CONCRETE (SUPERCONCRETE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

SUPERCONCRETE is a synergetic cross-disciplinary international/intersectoral project addressing theoretical models for next-generation concretes, characterised by a significant sustainability enhancement for the construction industry. Three advanced concrete classes (CCs) are selected which represent the projects’ key research lines:- Low-Carbon Concrete (LCC), characterised by non-conventional co ...
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European Joint Doctorate in Functional Materials Research (EJD-FunMat)

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

EJD-FunMat is a European Joint Doctoral programme in the field of functional materials research. EJD-FunMat is embedded in an existing research network, with previous experience in co-tutelle doctorates, but the project will add new major elements, with the strategic aim of becoming a permanent reference European Joint Doctoral School in Materials Science and beyond.The key innovative aspects of t ...
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European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider Study (EuroCirCol)

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

The award of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics acknowledged the leading role of Europe in particle physics, which has a global community of over 10,000 scientists. To reinforce its pole position throughout the 21st century, Europe must be ready to propose an ambitious post-LHC accelerator project by 2018/19. This is one of the main recommendations of the updated European Strategy for Particle Physi ...
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European Initiative to Enable Validation for Highly Automated Safe and Secure Systems (ENABLE-S3)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

ENABLE-S3 will pave the way for accelerated application of highly automated and autonomous systems in the mobility domains automotive, aerospace, rail and maritime as well as in the health care domain. Virtual testing, verification and coverage-oriented test selection methods will enable validation with reasonable efforts. The resulting validation framework will ensure Europeans Industry competiti ...
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Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection with innovative SECurity framework (CIPSEC)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

In recent years, the majority of the world's Critical Infrastructures CIs evolved to become more flexible, cost efficient and able to offer better services and conditions for business opportunities. Towards this evolution, CIs and companies offering CI services had to adopt many of the recent advances of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) field. This adaptation however, was rathe ...
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CORE NOISE ENGINE TECHNOLOGY (CORNET)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Lean burn combustor technologies introduced to reduce NOx emissions are proving to be inherently noisier than conventional combustors, generating broadband noise that can be heard external to the aircraft. Without careful design and optimisation, there is a danger the low emission cores will cause the aircraft engines to exceed the Horizon 2020 noise requirement. The research in the CORNET propos ...
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MYRRHA Research and Transmutation Endeavour (MYRTE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The Strategic Research Agenda of the EU Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technical platform requires new large infrastructures for its successful deployment. MYRRHA has been identified as a long term supporting research facility for all ESNII systems and as such put in the high-priority list of ESFRI. The goal of MYRTE is to perform the necessary research in order to demonstrate the feasibility of trans ...
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Improving university, industry and society interfaces to boost the throughput capacity of Europe's innovation stakeholders (Science2Society)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Science2Society creates, pilots and shares good practices, guidelines and training materials that improve awareness and practical performance in seven concrete university-industry-society interfacing schemes especially affected by Science 2.0 and open innovation. It covers a very wide range of interfacing / co-creation approaches (and the synergy between them) and advances far beyond the tradition ...
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The Fablab for geodata-driven innovation - by leveraging Space data in particular, in Universities 2.0 (FabSpace 2.0)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

FabSpace 2.0 aims at making universities open innovation centres for their region and improving their contribution to the performance of societies. It will concentrate on one innovation area with high expected socio-economic and environmental impact: geodata-driven innovation, by leveraging space data in particular.When Universities must endorse a new role as co-creators of innovations in the cont ...
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Flexible Fossil Power Plants for the Future Energy Market through new and advanced Turbine Technologies (FLEXTURBINE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The share of renewable energy is growing rapidly driven by the objective to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The amount of electric power which can be supplied to the grid depends on the time of the day and weather conditions. A conventional fleet of thermal power plants is required to compensate for these fluctuations before large scale energy storage technologies will be mature and economically ...
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International Network on Advanced high energy Permanent Magnets (INAPEM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The main objective of this Marie Curie RISE action is to improve and exchange interdisciplinary knowledge of materials design by modelling, materials synthesis, characterization, and materials processing for permanent magnet development to be able to provide a critical raw free permanent magnet to the industry. Permanent magnets are indispensable for many commercial and military applications. Maj ...
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RNA-based technologies for single-cell metabolite analysis (MetaRNA)

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

Metabolism is the foundation of all living organisms. While cells in a population are often phenotypically different, most of our current analytical approaches still probe metabolism only at the population level. Because strong evidence exists that metabolic cell-to-cell heterogeneity has, for instance, disease relevance, researcher from MetaRNA will overcome this severe analytical limitation thro ...
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ACcelerating Transition in Peri-Urban areaS in East Africa (ACTUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Behind statements and statistics about newly urbanized populations in Africa, behind maps of rapid and unregulated growth and numerous disaster/risk assessments there are real people with compelling tales of coping and adapting capacities to urban challenges brought by the rapid transformation of cities. Their stories often contain more hope, ambition and imagination as portrayed in reports and sc ...
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Combustion for Low Emission Applications of Natural Gas (CLEAN-Gas)

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

Natural Gas (NG) will be one of the key parameters of the EU energy policy for the next decades. EU gas imports are expected to reach over 80% of total consumption by 2030. Thus, the EU is investing heavily in natural gas equipment. Natural gas combustion has two side effects: the production of greenhouse gases and the emission of pollutants. Conventional techniques used to reduce these emissions ...
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MICroACTuators (MICACT)

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

Electroactive polymers (EAP) consist of materials capable of changing dimensions and/or shape in response to electrical stimuli. Most EAPs are also capable of generating electrical energy in response to applied mechanical forces. These polymeric materials exhibit properties well beyond what conventional metal or plastic-based actuators can offer, including very high mechanical flexibility (can be ...
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PERSONALIZED ENGINE FOR CANCER INTEGRATIVE STUDY AND EVALUATION (PrECISE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Despite of their great promise, high-throughput technologies in cancer research have often failed to translate to major therapeutic advances in the clinic. One challenge has been tumour heterogeneity, where multiple competing subclones coexist within a single tumour. Genomic heterogeneity renders it difficult to identify all driving molecular alterations, and thus results in therapies that only ta ...
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Stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes for better climate predictions (StratoClim)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

StratoClim will produce more reliable projections of climate change and stratospheric ozone by a better understanding and improved representation of key processes in the Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere (UTS). This will be achieved by an integrated approach bridging observations from dedicated field activities, process modelling on all scales, and global modelling with a suite of chemistry clima ...
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Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control (TWIN-CONTROL)

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

Europe is the world’s largest manufacturer of machine tools but this position is threatened due to the emergence of Asian countries. However, Europe has world-class capabilities in the manufacture of high-value parts for such competitive sectors like aerospace & automotive and this has led to the creation of a high-technology, high-skill industry. European machine tool builders, part manufacturers ...
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PRIvacy and Security MAintaining services in the CLOUD (PRISMACLOUD)

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

With a current volume of over USD 100 billion and annual growth rates of over 10%, the world-wide market for cloud computing can be considered as the major growth area in ICT. However, big companies and public authorities are reluctant to entrust their most sensitive data to external parties for storage and processing. The reason for their hesitation is clear: There exist no satisfactory approache ...
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Visual Learning and Inference in Joint Scene Models (VISLIM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

"One of the principal difficulties in processing, analyzing, and interpreting digital images is that many attributes of visual scenes relate in complex manners. Despite that, the vast majority of today's top-performing computer vision approaches estimate a particular attribute (e.g., motion, scene segmentation, restored image, object presence, etc.) in isolation; other pertinent attributes are eit ...
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Open Mining INfrastructure for TExt and Data (OpenMinTeD)

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

Recent years witness an upsurge in the quantities of digital research data, offering new insights and opportunities for improved understanding. Text and data mining is emerging as a powerful tool for harnessing the power of structured and unstructured content and data, by analysing them at multiple levels and in several dimensions to discover hidden and new knowledge. However, text mining solution ...
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Robotic Manipulation for Nuclear Sort and Segregation (RoMaNS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The RoMaNS (Robotic Manipulation for Nuclear Sort and Segregation) project will advance the state of the art in mixed autonomy for tele-manipulation, to solve a challenging and safety-critical “sort and segregate” industrial problem, driven by urgent market and societal needs.Cleaning up the past half century of nuclear waste, in the UK alone (mostly at the Sellafield site), represents the largest ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time. Such an understanding can provide profound insights into our humanity, leading to fundamentally new computing technologies, and transforming the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Modern ICT brings this prospect within reach. The HBP Flagship Initiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses I ...
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Programming Abstractions for Applications in Cloud Environments (PACE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

"Cloud computing is changing our perception of computing: The Internet is becoming the computer and the software: (a) vast data centers and computing power are available via the Internet (infrastructure as a service), (b) software is available via the Internet as a service (software as a service). Building on the promise of unlimited processing/storage power, applications today process big amounts ...
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Post-quantum cryptography for long-term security (PQCRYPTO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

Online banking, e-commerce, telemedicine, mobile communication, and cloud computing depend fundamentally on the security of the underlying cryptographic algorithms. Public-key algorithms are particularly crucial since they provide digital signatures and establish secure communication without requiring in-person meetings.Essentially all applications today are based on RSA or on the discrete-logarit ...
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USER-CENTRIC MANAGEMENT OF SECURITY AND DEPENDABILITY IN CLOUDS OF CLOUDS (SUPERCLOUD)

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

Today, despite its unravelling business benefits, distributed cloud computing raises many security and dependability concerns. Root causes include increase in complexity and lack of interoperability between heterogeneous, often proprietary infrastructure technologies. SUPERCLOUD thus proposes new security and dependability infrastructure management paradigms that are : 1) user-centric, for self-se ...
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