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Understanding the atmospheric circulation response to climate change (ACRCC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"Computer models based on known physical laws are our primary tool for predicting climate change. Yet the state-of-the-art models exhibit a disturbingly wide range of predictions of future climate change, especially when examined at the regional scale, which has not decreased as the models have become more comprehensive. The reasons for this are not understood. This represents a basic challenge to ...
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Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa (DACCIWA)

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

"Massive economic and population growth and urbanisation are expected to lead to a tripling of anthropogenic emissions in southern West Africa (SWA) between 2000 and 2030, the impacts of which on human health, ecosystems, food security and the regional climate are largely unknown. An assessment of these impacts is complicated by (a) a superposition with effects of global climate change, (b) the st ...
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Systematic and thermodynamically consistent coarse graining the flow of complex fluids (CGcomplexfluidflow)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The overall aim of this project is to develop a systematic and thermodynamically consistent method to derive macroscopic constitutive equations from molecular models of polymeric and anisotropic fluids.Since the constitutive equations describe the transport and flow behavior of the material on a coarse-grained level, many phenomenological approaches have been proposed in the past. The method we wi ...
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European Reanalysis of the Global Climate System (ERA-CLIM2)

Start date: Nov 11, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

Production of an extended climate reanalysis of the 20th century, with consistent descriptions of the global atmosphere, ocean, land-surface, cryosphere, and the carbon cycle. Production of a new reanalysis of the satellite era with near-real time data updates for climate monitoring. Research and development in various aspects of coupled data assimilation to improve the use of observations in futu ...
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Enhancing prediction of tropical Atlantic climate and its impacts (PREFACE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Tropical Atlantic climate recently experienced pronounced shifts of great socio-economic importance. The oceanic changes were largest in the eastern boundary upwelling systems. African countries bordering the Atlantic strongly depend upon their ocean - societal development, fisheries, and tourism. They were strongly affected by these climatic changes and will face important adaptation challenges a ...
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Global to Local Impacts of Flow over Orography (GLIMFLO)

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

"Developing accurate forecasts for weather, climate and meteorological natural hazards has become a priority due to the ensuing savings in human lives and property damage. Mountain waves affect the atmosphere over a wide range of scales, causing severe local weather phenomena such as downslope windstorms, lee-wave rotors and clear-air turbulence, which are also important aviation hazards. However, ...
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Dynamical controls on regional aspects of climate change (DCRACC)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

"It is now apparent that climate change is occurring and will continue to occur, and many sectors of society have a growing need for accurate information concerning the nature and extent of this change, at a regional scale, on various timescales to consider together with other risk factors in their planning. Computer models based on fundamental physical laws are our primary tool for predicting cli ...
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Intelligent Piracy Avoidance using Threat detection and Countermeasure Heuristics (IPATCH)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

... economic and societal implications of existing counter piracy measures.(2) To produce a manual to aid in the usage and further development of counter-piracy measures.(3) To develop an onboard ship automated decision support tool providing the operator with a robust real time threat assessment and mitigation of piracy threats.The analysis performed under (1) will lead to recommendations for the us ...
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A harmonized, modular reference system for all European automated border crossing points (FASTPASS)

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

FastPass will establish and demonstrate a harmonized, modular approach for Automated Border Control (ABC) gates. FastPass brings together key players of the entire ABC value chain - system and component producers, research institutions, governmental authorities and end-users.The development of a harmonized ABC gate will be accomplished with continuous end-user involvement. The entire innovation pr ...
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Infrastructure for the European Network for Earth System modelling - Phase 2 (IS-ENES2)

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

IS-ENES2 is the second phase project of the distributed e-infrastructure of models, model data and metadata of the European Network for Earth System Modelling (ENES). This network gathers together the European modelling community working on understanding and predicting climate variability and change. ENES organizes and supports European contributions to international experiments used in assessment ...
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WATCHME Workplace-based e-Assessment Technology for Competency-based Higher Multi-professional Education (WATCHME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Continuing education at the workplace has seen increasing demand as a crucial means of acquiring the requisite professional knowledge and skills. Electronic Portfolios (e-portfolios) for workplace training provide a global view of each trainee's progress but offer no dynamic feedback to exploit the rich learning assessment data that could be analysed to support responsive adaptation for more effi ...
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EUropean CLimate and weather Events: Interpretation and Attribution (EUCLEIA)

Start date: Nov 13, 2013, End date: Jan 1, 2017,

Climate change is expected to impact extreme weather in Europe. There is therefore a clear need to adapt effectively to climate change, particularly in Europe, where recent heatwaves, floods and droughts have demonstrated the vulnerability of European citizens to extreme weather. However, scientifically robust information about the extent to which recent extreme weather can be linked to climate va ...
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End-user driven DEmo for cbrNe (EDEN)

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

The accidental or deliberate release of CBRNE materials are low probability events that can have a significant impact on citizens and society. Whenever and wherever they occur, they usually require a gradual and multi-facetted response as they tend to provoke severe and unexpected physical, psychological, societal, economical and political effects that cross EU-borders. Successful CBRNE resilience ...
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Privacy Preserving Perimeter Protection Project (P5)

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

The goal of the P5 project is an intelligent perimeter proactive surveillance system that works robustly under a wide range of weather and lighting conditions and that has strong privacy preserving features. The system will monitor the region outside the security area of critical buildings and infrastructure, and give early warning if terrestrial or airborne threats are detected. The system will s ...
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Maximising the Exploitation of Linked Open Data In Enterprise and Science (MELODIES)

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

"The European Open Data Strategy establishes important new principles that ensure that European public sector data will be released at no cost (or marginal cost), in machine-readable, commonly-understood formats, and with liberal licenses enabling wide reuse. These data encompass both scientific data about the environment (from Earth Observation and other fields) and other public sector informati ...
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Dynamic Social and Media Content Syndication for 2nd Screen (SAM)

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

Description The SAM project enables consumers to "socialise around media", via their second screens, where they are fed with relevant digital content created once and fully syndicated to all for maximum impact.Today people use “2nd screen” tablets or smartphones while watching their “1st screen” – typically a TV. They engage in activities ...
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Sea-level change due to climate change (Seachange)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Sea-level rise as a consequence of climate change will have severe impacts on coastal populations and ecosystems. However, owing to the incomplete state of scientific knowledge, there is a large range of uncertainty in the predictions, of a factor of more than two for any given emissions scenario during the 21st century, and much larger for subsequent centuries. This is a serious obstacle to the a ...
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Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (ITARS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"This proposal brings together a group of universities, research organisations and high-tech companies from different disciplines (meteorology, geosciences, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics) with the aim to foster training and further development in the area of remote sensing of the atmosphere. The last years have brought a rapid development in instrumental techniques, i.e. lidar, rad ...
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SciCafe 2.0

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

...citizens empowerment. SciCafe2.0 will support i) A portable Virtual Platform and Observatory for Crowd Sourcing, extending wiki-based and other media and a knowledge base with an invitational and customisable interface, to engage both offline/online communities and support them in a joint deliberation to resolve the real problems/ dilemmas faced by society; ii) Local and global scale knowledge sha ...
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Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy for Cultural Heritage (TISCH)

Start date: Feb 17, 2014, End date: Feb 16, 2016,

The purpose of this proposed project is to establish terahertz technology as a viable, nondestructive, and noninvasive tool for the study of cultural heritage; which will contribute to the conservation and sustainability of artifacts. Terahertz spectroscopic imaging is a nascent technique—established only in the last 20 years, and developed only in the last five years for cultural heritage applica ...
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Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe (EMBRACE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

In an interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative context, emBRACE aims to improve the framing of resilience in the context of disasters in Europe. It will develop a conceptual and methodological approach to clarify how the resilience capacity of a society confronted with natural hazards and disasters can be characterized, defined and measured. On the basis of a systematic evaluation o ...
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Intelligent Tutoring Interface for Technology Enhanced Learning (INTUITEL)

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

...grated learning environment that configures itself in response to any learner, monitors his/her progress and behaviour, combines these data with pedagogical and methodological knowledge and then by automated reasoning deduces optimal guidance and feedback. The deductive process may include the current learner performance, the daily learning attitude and emotional setting of the learner, personal a ...
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Characterisation of metadata to enable high-quality climate applications and services (CHARME)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

A major difficulty faced by users of climate data is how to judge whether the data are fit for purpose. This is a serious barrier to widening the use of climate data by non-expert users. Different users require different information, such as reports on validation campaigns, the robustness of the algorithms used, and the data policy. We term this information 'Commentary' metadata. Much work has bee ...
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Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate Interim Implementation (MACC II)

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

MACC II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for prototype operational GMES services for the atmospheric domain. From late-2011 MACC II will continue the operation and development of the GMES service lines established by the MACC project and prepare for its transition in 2014 to become the atmospheri ...
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Regulating Emerging Robotic Technologies in Europe: Robotics facing Law and Ethics (RoboLaw)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2014,

"The main objective of the research in this proposal is to investigate the ways in which emerging technologies in the field of (bio-)robotics (e.g. bionics, neural interfaces and nanotechnologies) has a bearing on the content, meaning and setting of hard versus soft law. We will research the ways in which regulation (both in terms of soft and hard law) may be affected by, and even in need of adjus ...
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Architecture for the Recognition of thrEats to mobile assets using Networks of multiple Affordable sensors (ARENA)

Start date: May 16, 2011, End date: May 15, 2014,

.... Hijacking, piracy, theft raise major security concerns, as well as problems to the personnel and companies who own or manage the platform or goods.The objective of ARENA is to develop methods for automatic detection and recognition of threats, based on multisensory data analysis. Research objectives include:o To robustly and autonomously detect threats to critical mobile assets in large unpredic ...
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SmartSantander

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

SmartSantander proposes a unique in the world city-scale experimental research facility in support of typical applications and services for a smart city. Tangible results are expected to greatly influence definition and specification of Future Internet architecture design from viewpoints of Internet of Things and Internet of Services.This unique experimental facility will be sufficiently large, op ...
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Emergence of communication in RObots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction (ROSSI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

Description Robots endowed with neural/computational mechanisms and sensorimotor systems structurally similar to human beings The ROSSI project addresses the question how the possibility of communication between agents (e.g. humans and robots) is affected by differences in sensorimotor capacities. ...
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Surveillance of Unattended Baggage and the Identification and Tracking of the Owner (SUBITO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

"The SUBITO programme has been developed to address Theme 10 - Security, specifically Topic SEC-2007-2.3-01 Detection of Unattended Goods and of Owner. It will focus on the automated real time detection of abandoned luggage or goods and the fast identification of the individual who left them and their subsequent path. The key design drivers will include an assessment of the situations faced in s ...
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