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From Patient Data to Clinical Diagnosis in Neurodegenerative Diseases (PredictND)

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

Dementia is a growing health problem with enormous costs to society: the costs currently equal 1% of the global gross-domestic product and a three-fold increase to 115 million dementia cases is expected by 2050. Addressing this grave human and economic challenge requires efficient solutions that do not exist yet: tools to detect and diagnose persons at an early phase, and interventions for delayin ...
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QUANTItative scanning probe microscopy techniques for HEAT transfer management in nanomaterials and nanodevices (QUANTIHEAT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The thermal properties of nanostructured materials are of fundamental importance to modern technology, but at present reproducible metrological definitions, tools and methods do not exist. This is because the mechanisms of heat transport at the nanoscale are entirely different to those at the macro scale.The project will place nanothermal metrology on a solid basis by an integrated physics-based e ...
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Beyond 2020 heterogeneous wireless network with millimeter wave small cell access and backhauling (MiWaveS)

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

Providing broadband wireless communications to a majority of European citizens is a major objective of the EC at the horizon of 2020. With a current annual growth rate in the range of 70%, the mobile data traffic of smartphones, tablets, machine-to-machine and other portable devices dramatically challenges the 4G wireless cellular network currently under deployment. To sustain this growth, high da ...
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Multiscale Modelling Platform: Smart design of nano-enabled products in green technologies (MMP)

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

The high-tech industry strives to increase overall functionality and quality of products by the application of nano-enabled materials and devices. The development of such products would significantly benefit from a thorough understanding of multiscale phenomena and adequate numerical tools to guide nano-enabled design.The scientific challenge lies in defining proper scale transition relations to t ...
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Advanced Manufacturing of Multi-Material Multi-Functional Products Towards 2020 and Beyond (4M2020)

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

"4M2020 is focused on building upon the durable integration mechanisms/structures and innovation chains created within three levels of project clusters in the field of multifunctional miniaturised products and their applications in energy, medical, optoelectronics and microoptics, printed electronics and ultra precision engineering industrial sectors that led to the creation of long term R&D+I par ...
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Advances in FOrestry Control and aUtomation Systems in Europe (FOCUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The forest-based value chains are one of the dominant contributors to the GDP in the rural regions of Europe. Besides the traditional value chains, novel ones are in the horizon, with significant impacts on the requirements for the raw material supply chains. A major roadblock for improving forest-based value chains is the lack of integrated control and planning mechanism. FOCUS will demonstrate h ...
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EUrope-Japan opening of LIMMS (EUJO-LIMMS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2016,

EUJO-LIMMS aims to reinforce research collaboration between Europe and Japan to tackle new challenges in micro and nano technologies. The strategy consists in opening the activity of an international laboratory, the Laboratory for Integrated Micro Mechatronic Systems (LIMMS), located in Tokyo, to European partners. The LIMMS is a research unit between CNRS and the Institute of Industrial Sciences ...
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Vertically integrated Array-type Mirau-based OCT System for early diagnostics of skin cancer (VIAMOS)

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

Description Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer. Its early diagnosis is essential since it can be treated more effectively when detected earlier. Visual inspection followed by histological examination is, still today, the gold standard for clinicians. However, a large number of unnecessary surgical procedures are still ...
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Demining tool-BOX for humanitarian clearing of large scale area from anti-personal landmines and cluster munitions (D-BOX)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Landmines and the cluster munitions still kill or maim civilians every day in an indiscriminate manner even long after conflicts are over. At the current rate of clearance of about 500,000 mines per year and assuming no additional mines are laid from now on, it could still take hundreds of years to find and clear all the landmines around the world.D-BOX will tackle the burning issue of anti-person ...
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Membrane-based phononic engineering for energy harvesting (MERGING)

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

The aim of this proposal is to realise a compact thermoelectric module to harvest the energy of devices to be used in applications requiring heterogeneous integration packaging techniques leading to small size, integrability and high thermoelectric efficiency.Our concept, which goes up to a test device, is based on deep understanding of the behaviour of phonons, their control leading to the contro ...
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100 Gb/s Optical RAM on-chip:\nSilicon-based, integrated Optical RAM enabling High-Speed Applications in Computing and Communications (RAMPLAS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

For over two decades ICT witnesses the steadily increasing gap between processor and memory speed. RAM is too slow to keep up with processor speeds, creating a bottleneck in system performance. To address this, RAMPLAS will revisit RAM fundamentals and will lay the foundations for optical RAM technology and for optical RAM-enabled green and ultra-fast computing architectures. RAMPLAS will develop ...
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Epixfab services specifically targeting (SME) industrial take-up of advanced silicon photonics (ESSenTIAL)

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

ESSenTIAL will bring silicon photonics within reach of European small and medium sized enterprises, thereby building on the track record of the Silicon Photonics Platform ePIXfab (www.epixfab.eu) and its integration into Europractice. To this end, ESSenTIAL offers affordable access to standardized active and passive silicon photonic IC and packaging technology, a path from design to manufacturing ...
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Building a European NanoPhononics Community (EUPHONON)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The aim of this project is to amalgamate the existing and future activities on phonon science and technology in Europe to establish a strong community in this emerging research field. The impact of EUPHONON will extend from academia to ICT-related industry by providing means for thermal management, optimisation of data handling and, in longer term, new methods for material characterisation and new ...
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Advanced Radar Tracking and Classification for Enhanced Road Safety (ARTRAC)

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

ARTRAC aims to develop an active safety system to protect vulnerable road users (VRUs) from vehicles in motion, that is economically viable in the volume vehicle market. The safety system will consist of both actuators for controlling vehicle driving dynamics and the perception component for the vehicle’s surroundings. It will be tested on two types of vehicle that pose the biggest hazard to VRUs ...
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Smart miniature low-power wireless microsystem for Body Area Networks (WiserBAN)

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

The WiserBAN project will create an ultra-miniature and ultra low-power RF microsystem for wireless Body Area Networks (BAN) targeting primarily wearable and implanted devices for healthcare, biomedical and lifestyle applications.The proposed research concerns the extreme miniaturization of the BAN with primarily the areas of ultra low-power radio SoC (System on Chip), RF and Low-frequency MEMS, m ...
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GlObal, Flexible, On-demand and Resourceful Timing IC & MEMS Encapsulated System (Go4Time)

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

Go4Time will target the realization of a generic miniature timing module relying on the combination of an integrated circuit together with different MEMS resonators assembled hermetically in a single package. One of the main system feature is a temperature compensated low power real time clock mode with a power consumption below 1µW and a very tight frequency stability better than +-2ppm over an i ...
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Development of SQUID-based multiplexers for large Infrared-to-X-ray imaging detector arrays in astronomical research from space (: E-SQUID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"Recently, research in astrophysics has yielded amazing new insight in the origin, evolution and structure of the Universe, and fundamental processes governing this highly dynamical system. Most of this progress was achieved thanks to the availability of extremely sensitive detectors. Common features for such detectors are extremely low noise and very small background, and the main solutions for a ...
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Bluetooth Low-energy Integrated Module for SME’s (BLIM4SME)

End date: Nov 1, 2013,

The demand for wireless sensors in healthcare and lifestyle areas is experiencing rapid growth. Such applications call for radio links which have to fulfil several stringent requirements, such as: standardized connectivity for plug-and-play interconnection with other devices; ultra-portability with tiny modules for maximal comfort for the wearer; ultra-low-power consumption for long autonomy; and ...
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Beyond CMOS Nanodevices for Adding Functionalities\nto CMOS (NANOFUNCTION)

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

Description NANOFUNCTION addresses the merging of advanced More than Moore (MtM) devices with Beyond-CMOS. Topics: Si nanowires for sensing, on-chip energy harvesting, nano-cooling and porous Si for RF passives.The NANOFUNCTION project aims to integrate at the European level the excellent European research laboratories in order to strengt ...
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Integrated Mobile Security Kit (IMSK)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"The Integrated Mobile Security Kit (IMSK) project will combine technologies for area surveillance; checkpoint control; CBRNE detection and support for VIP protection into a mobile system for rapid deployment at venues and sites (hotels, sport/festival arenas, etc) which temporarily need enhanced security. The IMSK accepts input from a wide range of sensor modules, either legacy systems or new dev ...
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Polymer Photonic multiparametric biochemical SENSor for Point of care diagnostics (P3SENS)

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

The detection of chemical or biological substances increasingly appears as an essential concern in order to prevent human or animal health and security related problems. Present analytical techniques are expensive and often require highly specialized staff and infrastructures. The principal need is to perform screening tests, which can be carried out in non-specialized infrastructures, e.g. Point ...
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Unobtrusive wearable human to machine wireless interface (Wear-a-BAN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The objective of Wear-a-BAN is to investigate and demonstrate ultra low-power wireless body-area-network (WBAN) technologies for enabling unobtrusive human to machine interfaces (HMI) into SME-driven market segments of smart fabrics / interactive textiles (SFIT), robotics for augmented reality assistance and rehabilitation, and natural interfacing devices for video gaming. The proposed research wi ...
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Hybrid MEG-MRI Imaging System (MEGMRI)

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

"We will develop and validate hybrid magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology that will allow simultaneous structural (MRI) and functional (MEG) imaging of the human brain. MEG is a non-invasive 3D functional imaging with a high temporal resolution compared to other functional imaging but often suffers from a precise structural localization which will be solved ...
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Reliable Application Specific Detection of Road Users with Vehicle On-board Sensors (ADOSE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

The White Paper on EU Transport Policy for 2010 states a key objective: 50% reduction of casualties due to road accidents by the end of 2010. Improvements on road safety are achievable increasing the EU market penetration of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), currently limited by performance and cost of sensor technologies.According to ICT-2007.6.1, ADOSE addresses research challenges in t ...
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