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European and Chinese Platform for Stacked Aero-Structure Drilling Process and Equipment (ECSASDPE)

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

Weight reduction and cost savings have driven composites research towards a number of recent high profile achievements. The increased use of anisotropic AL/CFRP/Ti stacks in aircraft structures has in turn created enormous challenges for the industry due to the difficulties that arise from drilling these heterogeneous stack materials. The project “European and Chinese Platform for Stacked Aero-Str ...
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Big Data Value ecosystem (BDVe)

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

The mission of BDVe is to support the Big Data Value PPP in realizing a vibrant data-driven EU economy or said in other words, BDVe will support the implementation of the PPP to be a SUCCESS.Behind that mission, there are multiple goals to achieve, which should be taken into full consideration when defining the directions of the PPP. Some of the most challenging ones are: (1) achieving a more comp ...
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Secure Data Processing in the Cloud (RESTASSURED)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Secure cloud computing is key for business success and end-user adoption of federated and decentralized cloud services and thus essential to stimulate the growth of the European Digital Single Market. RestAssured will provide solutions to specific technical concerns of data protection in the cloud (such as geo-location restrictions on personal data), which are imposed by the dynamic, multi-stakeho ...
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REady for BUSiness - Integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies

Start date: Oct 15, 2016, End date: Oct 14, 2019,

European business sector pays an ever more increasing attention to competences such as sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. The recommendation 2006/962/EC on key competences for lifelong learning highlights paramount importance of these key competences for employability. These competences related to entrepreneurship play a paramount role in EU neighbouring countries in their development proc ...
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Transforming Transport (TT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Big Data will have a profound economic and societal impact in the mobility and logistics sector, which is one of the most-used industries in the world contributing to approximately 15% of GDP. Big Data is expected to lead to 500 billion USD in value worldwide in the form of time and fuel savings, and savings of 380 megatons CO2 in mobility and logistics. With freight transport activities projected ...
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A New Way for New Talents in Teaching

Start date: Jan 15, 2016, End date: Jan 14, 2019,

Our consortium members - 15 partners from the public, academic and non-government sectors from 7 EU countries - believe there are shared structural challenges related to the teaching profession in school systems across the EU. Unless adequately addressed, these challenges might jeopardize the achievement of the ambitious EU 2020 strategy education goals. These threats include: incipient teacher sh ...
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Research Training Network on Integrated Component Cycling in Epithelial Cell Motility (InCeM)

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

Cell migration (cell motility) is a fundamental biological process that is pivotal in (i) tissue formation and repair (health) and (ii) tissue invasion during carcinogenesis (disease). Understanding and controlling cell migration will have major clinical impact. Clarifying mechanisms driving cell motility has been challenging due to the complex underlying cellular mechanisms; these involve multipl ...
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Improved decision-making in contaminated land site investigation and risk assessment (Remediate)

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

The REMEDIATE ETN comprises 10 beneficiaries (from 5 EU Member States – the UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, and Italy) and 15 partner organisations. The beneficiaries and partner organisations are committed to the provision of innovative research and training for more cost effective and sustainable remediation of contaminated land. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration between internationally ren ...
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FIber-Wireless Integrated Networks for 5th Generation delivery. (FIWIN5G)

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

This European Training Network aims to produce the next generation of early stage researchers who will enable Europe to take a leading role in the development of future devices, systems and networks supporting the 5G high-speed wireless internet. To do this, researchers must be able to work in interdisciplinary teams, integrate their activities, share expertise, and promote a vision of a converged ...
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Synthesis of methanol from captured carbon dioxide using surplus electricity (MefCO2)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Methanol represents one of the most common and widespread platform chemicals and precursors for further synthesis, and is traditionally produced from synthesis gas, obtained by the reforming of natural gas. This methanol synthesis process operates in a stable, high-throughput manner and demands low carbon dioxide/carbon monoxide ratios in feed. The current project, nonetheless, is to encompass fle ...
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Nanomaterials via Gas-Phase Synthesis: A Design-Oriented Modelling and Engineering Approach (NanoDome)

Start date: Sep 15, 2015, End date: Sep 14, 2018,

The main objective of the NanoDome project is to develop a robust model-based design and engineering toolkit for the detailed prediction of complex nanomaterial structures produced in a commercially-relevant generic bottom-up Gas-Phase (GP) synthesis process, to improve the control of the nanomaterial production and the industrially-scalable GP synthesis process for more accurate final product pro ...
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Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: Cumulative Disadvantage, Coping Strategies, Effective Policies and Transfer (EXCEPT)

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

Against the background of increasing labour market insecurities among youth during the recent crisis, the aim of this interdisciplinary and internationally comparative project is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the consequences of youth labour market vulnerability for risks of social exclusion in Europe. A multidimensional dynamic perspective on both objective and subjective dimensions ...
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Imaging Magnetism in Nanostructures using Electron Holography (IMAGINE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

"Future developments in the control, functionalization and manipulation of magnetic nanoparticles and nanoscale magnetic devices require an understanding of collinear and non-collinear spin configurations and correlated changes of electronic structure on the sub-nanometer scale.In this project, an experimental methodology will be developed to allow magnetic spin structures in differently shaped na ...
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Quality of Jobs and Innovation Generated Employment Outcomes (QuInnE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

The EU is facing long-term structural challenges compounded by the recent economic crisis. More and better jobs are needed to lower unemployment, raise the employment participation rates of female, older, migrant, low-skilled and young workers and thus tackle social exclusion and inequality. The EU’s growth strategy, Europe 2020, wants smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, with innovation and j ...
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Managing Aquatic ecosystems and water Resources under multiple Stress (MARS)

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

"MARS will support managers and policy makers in the practical implementation of the WFD, of related legislation and of the Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Water Resources by conducting new research and synthesising existing knowledge concerning effects and management of multiple stressors in surface water and groundwater bodies; by advising the 3rd RMBP cycle and the revision of the WFD; and by d ...
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Demonstrate Ecosystem Services Enabling Innovation in the Water Sector (DESSIN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The main objectives of DESSIN are- To demonstrate and promote innovative solutions to water-related challenges with a focus on: (i) water quality issues related to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and (ii) water scarcity.- To demonstrate a methodology for the valuation of ecosystem services (ESS) as catalyser for innovation in water management.DESSIN will launch demonstrat ...
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European Lead Factory (EUC²LID)

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

The European Lead Factory concept proposed by the EUC2LID Consortium relates to the discovery of novel small molecule candidates to serve as starting points for subsequent optimization to either drug candidates or high-quality pharmacological tools for the experimental validation of targets. The concept intends to bridge academic and applied research interests. The European Lead Factory will provi ...
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Radio technologies for 5G using advanced photonic infrastructure for dense user environments (RAPID)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

In RAPID, we propose to use a centralized radio access (C-RAN) architecture to support high-capacity heterogeneous (3g, 4G and 60 GHz) radio access technologies through low-cost, but ultra-high-bandwidth photonic techniques for the fibre distribution. To meet the requirement to transport the high-frequency (and wide-bandwidth) wireless signals at low-cost, a novel coherent radio-over-fiber (CRoF) ...
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Europe Engage - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service-Learning within Higher Education in Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The ‘Europe Engage’ Project seeks to embed the concept and practice of the civic university through service-learning and student engagement with community. The overall aim of ‘Europe Engage’ will be to promote Service-Learning as an innovative pedagogical approach that embeds and develops civic engagement within higher education, students, staff and the wider community. Europe Engage will sup ...
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Generally Accepted Reliability Principle with Uncertainty modelling and through probabilistic Risk assessment (GARPUR)

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

"Power system reliability management means to take decisions under increasing uncertainty (for instance, related to renewable generation). It aims to maintain power system performance at a desired level, while minimizing the socio-economic costs of keeping the power system at that performance level. Seven TSOs (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway), together with ele ...
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Advanced Technologies for Biogas Efficiency Sustainability and Transport (ATBEST)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"The ATBEST ITN will develop innovative research and training for the biogas industry in Europe. It comprises eight training sites located in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Sweden and is a multidisciplinary collaboration between internationally-renowned research teams and industrial partners, each with complementary expertise in a wide range of environmental technologies. 12 ESRs and 2 ERs will be r ...
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Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment (NANOREM)

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

NANOREM is designed to unlock the potential of nanoremediation and so support both the appropriate use of nanotechnology in restoring land and aquifer resources and the development of the knowledge-based economy at a world leading level for the benefit of a wide range of users in the EU environmental sector.NANOREM uniquely takes a holistic approach to examining how the potential for nanoremediati ...
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Improving progress for lower achievers through Formative Assessment in Science and Mathematics Education (FaSMEd)

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

The project aims to research the use of technology in formative assessment classroom practices in ways that allow teachers to respond to the emerging needs of low achieving learners in mathematics and science so that they are better motivated in their learning of these important subjects.This international project will adapt and develop existing research-informed pedagogical interventions (develop ...
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Integrated Photonic Broadband Radio Access Units for Next Generation Optical Access Networks (IPHOBAC-NG)

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

IPHOBAC-NG addresses application-specific lasers, optical modulators and detectors to construct novel photonic millimeter-wave radios (PMWR) providing a) complementary broadband 1-10 Gb/s wireless access and b) 3 Gb/s mobile backhaul; both being seamlessly integrated in next generation optical access (NGOA) networks based upon a WDM-PON infrastructure. The proposed PMWR will employ novel radio acc ...
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Energy Efficient Safe SHip OPERAtion (SHOPERA)

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

The 2012 guidelines on the attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships (MEPC.212(63)) represent a major step forward in implementing the REGULATIONS ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF SHIPS (resolution MEPC.203(62)). There are, however, serious concerns regarding the sufficiency of propulsion power and of steering devices to maintain the manoeuvrability of ships in adverse conditions, hence ...
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Developing Hardware and Design Methodologies for Heterogeneous Low Power Field Programmable Servers (FiPS)

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

The goal of this project is to reduce the power performance ratio within data-centres by improving the usability and usefulness of FPGAs, embedded CPU (eCPU), GPUs and multi/manycore accelerators in high-performance and low-power heterogeneous computing servers. We target applications between traditional super computing tasks (where huge amount of man-power can be spent for manual algorithm optimi ...
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Innovative Social and Employment Policies for Inclusive and Resilient Labour Markets in Europe (INSPIRES)

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

The INSPIRES project aims to contribute to resilient and inclusive labour markets in Europe. It comparatively assesses the resilience and inclusiveness of labour markets in European countries, it identifies innovative policies that have contributed to resilience and inclusiveness and it analyzes strategies of policy learning that facilitate the development and transfer of these innovations within ...
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Local content in a Europeana cloud (LoCloud)

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

LoCloud aims to build on the achievements of CARARE in establishing a repository-based aggregator for Archaeological and Architectural heritage and of Europeana Local in its work with local institutions and their regional and national aggregators, which resulted in the contribution to date of well over 5 million items to Europeana.The main goals of LoCloud are: to continue to ease the task of ena ...
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Aerial Base Stations with Opportunistic Links for Unexpected & Temporary Events (ABSOLUTE)

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

Recent history has shown that in the aftermath of an emergency, disaster or related unexpected events, telecommunication infrastructures play a key role in recovery operations. In most cases, the legacy terrestrial infrastructure is seriously compromised and cannot guarantee reliable services for citizens and rescue teams. It is also well accepted that current public safety networks cannot provide ...
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REstoring rivers FOR effective catchment Management (REFORM)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

REFORM is targeted towards development of guidance and tools to make river restoration and mitigation measures more cost-effective and to support the 2nd and future River Basin Management Plans (RMBPs) for the WFD. Aims of REFORM are (1) to provide a framework for improving the success of hydromorphological restoration measures and (2) to assess more effectively the state of rivers, floodplains an ...
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NANOELECTROMECHANICAL MOTION IN FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (NANOMOTION)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The focus of modern solid-state technology is currently shifting from the single property (electric, magnetic, and elastic) to a coupling of different fields where a coupled materials response can be either used for their characterization or as a basis of novel applications. In the last few years, it became clear that the coupled electromechanical response of the materials (i.e., mechanical deform ...
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Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources (Open Discovery Space)

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

Open Discovery Space aims to serve as an accelerator of the sharing, adoption, usage, and re-purposing of the already rich existing educational content base. First of all, it will demonstrate ways to involve school communities in innovative teaching and learning practices through the effective use of eLearning resources. It will promote community building between numerous schools of Europe and emp ...
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FIspace: Future Internet Business Collaboration Networks in Agri-Food, Transport and Logistics (FIspace)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Insights gained in FI-PPP Phase 1 emphasize the need for novel ICT solutions that allow radical improvements for collaboration in business networks. Primary sectors demanding such solutions are Agri-Food and Transport & Logistics industries: several actors (incl. enterprises, authorities, service providers) need to exchange information & communicate across org. borders to conduct business. Current ...
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Strenghtening the development of sustainable connectivity in NWE for freight and logistics with the support of ICT innovative solutions (WEASTFLOWS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The project aims to increase sustainable freight transport. relieve congestion at key bottlenecks. remove technical barriers to modal shift and using ICT to make better use of existing infrastructure capacity in NWE. including by changing private sector behaviour. NWE manufacturing is increasingly outsourced and far eastern markets for NWE products are growing rapidly. The project treats log ...
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REsource innovation Network for European Waste (RENEW)

Start date: Jul 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

The project aims to build a dynamic trans-national. cross-sector innovation network. transforming the waste sector of North West Europe by improved innovation in the recovery of valuable resources. It will stimulate the collaboration of researchers and SMEs together with public bodies in North West Europe working to develop recovery processes meeting future market needs and will accelerate innovat ...
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RARE EARTH FREE PERMANENT MAGNETS (REFREEPERMAG)

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

"This proposal aims at developing a new generation of novel materials for high performance permanent magnets (PM) with energy product 60 kJ/m3 5) nanostructures by environmentally friendly synthesis methods and b) using high-throughput (HT) thin film synthesis and characterization techniques to identify new PM candidate phases. The first strategy, through the control of the nanostructure will le ...
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Development of functionalized nanostructured polymeric membranes and related manufacturing processes for water purification (NANOPUR)

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

The NANOPUR-project aims at leveraging on promising bottom-up technologies to develop intensified water treatment concepts based on nano-structured and nano-functionalized membranes as well as nanofilm deposition for micropollutants and virus removal.Major research needs targeted include the preparation of membranes with selective properties at the nanoscale able to maintain high permeability with ...
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Systematic screening for novel hydrolases from hot environments (HotZyme)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

There is a strong need for new thermostable hydrolases with appropriate performance and/or novel functionalities that could provide huge savings in time, money and energy for industrial processes. The HotZyme project aims to identify such enzymes from hot terrestial environments, using metagenomic screening methods. New bioinfomatic tools will be developed to facilitate function prediction of gene ...
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Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services (GAMBAS)

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

The overall objective of the GAMBAS project is the development of an innovative and adaptive middleware to enable the privacy-preserving and automated utilization of behavior-driven services that adapt autonomously to the context of users.With the advent of powerful Internet-connected objects an increasing number of Europeans have constant access to information on the Internet. Nowadays, these con ...
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Novel approaches for prevention and degeneration of pathogenic bacteria biofilms formed on medical devices e.g. catheters (NOVO)

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

"Biofilms are bacterial communities encased in a self-produced hydrated polymeric matrix. An important characteristic of microbial biofilms is their innate resistance to the immune system and susceptibility to antibiotics. This resistance has made microbial biofilms a common cause of medical infections, and difficult-to-treat infections caused by colonized foreign bodies.The NOVO project aims at d ...
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