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EnhANcing emergencY management and response to extreme WeatHER and climate Events (ANYWHERE)

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

The ultimate purpose of ANYWHERE is to empower exposed responder institutions and citizens to enhance their anticipation and pro-active capacity of response to face extreme and high-impact weather and climate events. This will be achieved through the operational implementation of cutting-edge innovative technology as the best way to enhance citizen's protection and saving lives.ANYWHERE proposes t ...
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iBUS – an integrated business model for customer driven custom product supply chains (iBUS)

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

The overall objective for iBUS is to develop and demonstrate by 2018 an innovative internet based business model for the sustainable supply of traditional toy and furniture products that is demand driven, manufactured locally and sustainably, meeting all product safety guidelines, within the EU. The iBUS model focuses on the capture, creation and delivery of value for all stakeholders – consumers, ...
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INTEGRATED AND ADAPTIVE RESPONSES TO TOXIC EMERGENCIES FOR RAPID TRIAGE: ENGINEERING THE ROADMAP FROM CASUALTY TO PATIENT TO SURVIVOR. (TOXI-triage)

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

The seven specific objectives of TOXI-triage address the operational; technological; ethical and societal dimensions of CBRN response and recovery, and importantly the economic base from which sustainable CBRN and multi-use systems are derived.19 partners in 4 Task forces will deliver 9 Work Packages (WPs) that address: end user specifications; Design and delivery; Test and Validation; and, Impact ...
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Flora Robotica: Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids as Social Architectural Artifacts (flora robotica)

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

This project's objective is to develop and to investigate closely linked symbiotic relationships between robots and natural plants and to explore the potentials of a plant-robot society able to produce architectural artifacts and living spaces. We will create a society of robot-plant bio-hybrids functioning as an embodied, self-organizing, and distributed cognitive system. The system grows and dev ...
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Industrial optimal design using adjoint CFD (IODA)

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

Adjoint-based methods have become the most interesting approach in numerical optimisation using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) due to their low computational cost compared to other approaches. The development of adjoint solvers has seen significant research interest, and a number of EC projects have been funded on adjoint-based optimisation. In particular, partners of this proposal are member ...
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Blended Academic International Mobility

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

International exposure during studies has a significant impact on personal and inter-personal development of students and on their employability but there are several obstacles of different kind to international mobility. Innovative teaching paradigms are required in order to facilitate international exposure and to develop transversal skills required by the labour market. Blended mobility overcom ...
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Promoting civic engagement via exploration of evidence: Challenges for Statistics Education

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...f learners. Coming from diverse backgrounds, different home departments (Education, Mathematics, Economics, Human Services) and rooted in different networks and professional environments (College and University Teaching, National Statistics Offices, continuing teacher education networks) they complement each other in unique ways with their experiences in ICT-based data visualisation, in tertiary a ...
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Supporting Graduate Entrepreneurship in the Creative Sector

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Factory floors are progressively being replaced by creative communities whose raw material is their ability to imagine, create and innovate. In this new digital economy, immaterial value increasingly determines material value, as consumers are looking for new and enriching "experiences". It is widely accepted that there is a profound shortage of coherent entrepreneurship training programmes throug ...
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Green Entrepreneurship Training - Underpinning Prosperity

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

There is little doubt that the development of the green economy can make a significant contribution to restoring Europe’s economy to growth by harnessing new business and employment opportunities that green businesses offer and many countries are looking to green growth as the way out of the current economic crisis. The global market for environmental goods and services is vast and it continues to ...
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Quantum Controlled Ultrafast Multimode Entanglement and Measurement (QCUMbER)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Ultrafast light pulses offer the fascinating opportunity to study system dynamics at ultrashort time scales. Trains of ultrafast light pulses also feature a broad frequency comb structure that has been exploited e.g. in high precision metrology. These characteristics have made ultrafast optics with coherent control techniques a flourishing field in recent years. A rich toolbox has been developed t ...
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Skill Matching Assistance and Reporting Tool

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

...sations and a technical partner will bring in the expertise to run a project that considers many perspectives and needs. The chair of Business, Human Resource Education and Evaluation Research of the University of Paderborn is highly experienced in the field of career orientation, the development of competency models and evaluation in general. Professor Jindal-Snape from the University of Dundee i ...
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Quantum Simulation on a Photonic Chip (QUCHIP)

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

Simulation is a fundamental computational tool for modern science with applications ranging from drug design to materials science. Quantum simulators have the potential to revolutionize the way simulations are performed by accessing system sizes that are untractable in classical machines. As a result, they will become a suite of powerful and precise instruments enabling the investigation of releva ...
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Service Programing and Orchestration for Virtualized Software Networks (SONATA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Virtualisation and software networks are a major disruptive technology for communications networks, enabling services to be deployed as software functions running directly in the network on commodity hardware. However, deploying the more complex user-facing applications and services envisioned for 5G networks presents significant technological challenges for development and deployment. SONATA addr ...
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Photonic Integrated Compound Quantum Encoding (PICQUE)

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

"Quantum information was born from the merging of information science and quantum physics. Its main objective consists of harnessing the quantum nature of information and learning how to process it by using physical systems operating according quantum mechanics laws. Being supported by numerous proofs-of-principle, the field is now ready to proceed to move to the next level of applications, where ...
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Secure Dynamic Cloud for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability based on Pan-European Disaster Inventory (SecInCoRe)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

SecInCoRe will design a Secure Dynamic Cloud based concept for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability including information exchange and access to a ‘common information space’. This will be based on a pan-European disaster inventory focusing on specific artefacts of response to regional, national as well as cross European emergencies and disasters. SecInCoRe develops models for s ...
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Foundational Research on MULTIlevel comPLEX networks and systems (MULTIPLEX)

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

Future advancements in ICT domain are closely linked to the understanding about how multi-level complex systems function. Indeed, multi-level dependencies may amplify cascade failures or make more sudden the collapse of the entire system. Recent large-scale blackouts resulting from cascades in the power-grid coupled to the control communication system witness this point very clearly. A better unde ...
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Harnessing the Learning Assets Within the SME Business Community

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

When SMEs succeed, Europe succeeds. ‘SME’ is a little acronym but it covers a huge diversity of companies, sectors and circumstances. Hidden within this large universe of companies across Europe are the champions of tomorrow. Since 2008 Europe has been suffering the effects of the most severe economic crisis it has seen in 50 years: in the majority of EU Member States small and medium-sized enterp ...
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Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling (FORTISSIMO)

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

The importance of advanced simulation to the competitiveness of both large and small companies is well established. The principal objective of Fortissimo is to enable European manufacturing, particularly small to medium enterprises (SMEs), to benefit from the efficiency and competitive advantage inherent in the use of simulation. However, the simulation of, for example, high-pressure gas cylinders ...
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Future RepAIR and Maintenance for Aerospace industry (REPAIR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

The Project RepAIR will perform research on future repair and maintenance for the Aerospace industry. Therefore the onsite maintenance and repair of aircraft by in-tegrated direct digital manufacturing is in the focus of this project. The main objective of RepAIR is to shift the “make” or “buy” decision towards the “make” decision by cost reduction in the remake and rework of spare parts and there ...
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Efficient Energy Integrated Solutions for Manufacturing Industries (EFENIS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The overall objective of EFENIS is to facilitate and accelerate a move to low carbon manufacturing processes and site management by deployment and demonstration of innovative energy management systems and enabling efficiency technologies, which extend the scope of energy management outside the boundaries of a single plant to total site and then beyond the total site to district heating/cooling sys ...
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Design Technologies for Multi-scale Innovation and Integration in Post-Combustion CO2 Capture: From Molecules to Unit Operations and Integrated Plants (CAPSOL)

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

A new technology towards breakthrough innovation in solvent based post-combustion CO2 capture for enhanced energy efficiency, improved cost effectiveness and increased process sustainability and environmental benefits is developed. Advances in the identification of highly performing solvents and solvent blends in CO2 absorption, the design of innovative separation equipment internals, and the deve ...
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Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems (EPiCS)

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

The EPiCS project aims at laying the foundation for engineering the novel class of proprioceptive computing systems. Proprioceptive computing systems collect and maintain information about their state and progress, which enables self-awareness by reasoning about their behaviour, and self-expression by effectively and autonomously adapt their behaviour to changing conditions. Concepts of self-aware ...
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SCALing by means of Ubiquitous Storage (SCALUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Storage research increasingly gains importance based on the tremendous need for storage capacity and I/O performance. Over the past years, several trends have considerably changed the design of storage systems, starting from new storage media over the widespread use of storage area networks, up to grid and cloud storage concepts. Furthermore, to achieve cost efficiency, storage systems are increa ...
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Flexible, Fast and Future Production Processes (F³ FACTORY)

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

The F3 consortium’s vision is that the EU’s chemical industry’s competitive position would be strongly enhanced if it could operate modular continuous plant (F3 plant) which combines world scale continuous plant efficiency, consistency and scalability with the versatility of batch operation. Our project will deliver such a radically new production mode based on: a) Plug–and–play modular chemical ...
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Quantum Interfaces, Sensors and Communication based on Entanglement (Q-ESSENCE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

Quantum entanglement has the capacity to enable disruptive technologies that solve outstanding issues in: - Trust, privacy protection, and security in two- and multi-party transactions; - Novel or enhanced modes of operation of ICT devices; - Reference standards, sensing, and metrology. The development of entanglement-based strategies addresses these challenges and provides the foundations for qua ...
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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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Intensified Heat Transfer Technologies for Enhanced Heat Recovery (INTHEAT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"A core part of this proposal is the development of methodologies to select and rigorously design the appropriate type of enhancement technology into energy optimisation studies to a practical level, whereby process plant engineers can plan and carry out plant energy reduction programmes in which they will have confidence. The project aims to achieve at least 20% to 30 % energy savings in the ener ...
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European Desktop Grid Initiative (EDGI)

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

EDGI's aim is to deploy desktop grid (DG) and cloud services for EGI user communities that are heavy users of DCIs and require extremely large multi-national e-infrastructure. In order to achieve this goal software components of ARC, gLite, Unicore, BOINC, XWHEP, ADICS, 3G Bridge, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus will be integrated into SG?DG?Cloud platforms for service provision and as a result EDGI will e ...
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Continuous Social Learning in Knowledge Networks (MATURE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

Description MATURE is investigating knowledge-maturing in organisations. The project is developing individual-level tools for deepening knowledge and organisation-level tools for analysing its effects.The agility of organisations has become the critical success factor for competitiveness and requires that companies and their employees tog ...
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Correlated Noise Errors in Quantum Information Processing (CORNER)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

Any form of manipulation of quantum information (QI), be it storage or transfer, may be represented as a quantum channel, i.e. a map transforming the input state of the sender into the receiver's output state. Given the extreme sensitivity of QI to noise, it is crucial to study the impact of incoherent effects on QI processing and communication if technological applications are to become a reality ...
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Development environment and demonstrators for resonant power conversion facilitating high voltage test systems using very low frequency and DC-sources (RPC-HVTS-DCS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"This project aims to reduce costs, time to market and required design expertise and to increase market share by setting up a development environment , assisting the designer and allows building of resonant operated power supplies applied for VLF-based true sinus HV-test systems (HVTS) and dc-sources. The structure of the development environment (CAD-HVCT) will be open and flexible. Its innovative ...
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Foundations of Adaptive Networked Societies of Tiny Artefacts (FRONTS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

In the near future, it is reasonable to expect that new types of systems will appear, designed or emerged, of massive scale, expansive and permeating their environment, of very heterogeneous nature, and operating in a constantly changing networked environment. We expect that most such systems will have the form of a large society of networked artifacts that are small, have limited sensing, signal ...
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OneLab2 : An Open Federated Laboratory Supporting Network Research for the Future Internet (OneLab2)

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

...b2 will do this by directly involving pilot customers who are testing novel ideas in networking research.OneLab2's coalition assembles some of the most highly respected networking research teams from university and industry labs in Europe. Each team has an active research agenda in new network technologies, network monitoring, or test bed management. OneLab2's success would mean that PlanetLab Eur ...
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4WARD - Architecture and Design for the Future Internet (4WARD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

Today's network architectures are stifling innovation, restricting it mostly to the application level while the need for structural change is increasingly evident. The absence of adequate facilities to design, optimize and interoperate new networks currently forces a convergence to an architecture that is suboptimal for many applications and that cannot support innovations within itself, the Inter ...
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A Correct-by-Construction Workbench for Design and Verification of Embedded Systems (COCONUT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

Design and verification of modern embedded platforms are two highly related problems which are still mainly addressed by using unrelated methodologies. This effectively reduces development productivity and complicates achieving predictable system properties.The COCONUT project thus focuses on the definition of a formal framework based on a tight integration of design and verification through all r ...
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Modernization and Implementation of Business-Education-Programmes for Tourism in Belarus (MIBET)

"The project intends to develop and upgrade the existing programmes and curricula Business-Education-Programmes for Tourism at Belarus Universities with the assistance of EU partners from DE, IT, SK and CZ.Support of the reform process in the Belarusian higher education system and its integration into the European system" The specific objectives are: "Qualitative Verbesserung der akademischen Ausb ...
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BrainTrainer 2012

Start date: May 2, 2012,

"BrainTrainer 2012” is a project set up by Bilkent Universitesi Endustri Muhendisligi Operational Research Kulubu in association with ESTIEM (European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management), a network of youngEuropeans, which aims to empower and enthuse young people from different countries to take anactive and responsible role in society.The five-day intercultural event will gather 26 ...
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Modular Interactive E-Learning Course on Aluminium Fabrication Technology (aluMATTER)

Testing the mettle of aluminium production : Multi-lingual ICT based training modules have been drawn up by working groups of experts in the field. These modules follow an integrated approach and cover all aspects of aluminium production. This project started in 2002 and lasted 36 months.
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COM-I-N-EUROPE - Intercultural Communication for (technical) managerial staff

Managing language to manage business : Building on previous related projects, this initiative has developed an e-based modular course encompassing a variety of languages which will enable managerial and technical staff to cope with any international trade related situation. This project started in 2003 and lasted 24 months.
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Cultural and organisational network for new european contents in training

Die vorhandene Aus- und Weiterbildung von Auszubildenden und Ausbildern im (Außen-)Handel soll ergänzt werden um Module zur interkulturellen Kompetenz und europäisch ausgerichteten kaufmännischen Fachbildung. Akteure/Zielgruppen: Auszubildende in Handelsberufen, die in der eigenen Tätigkeit mit ihnen fremden Kulturen konfrontiert werden und damit effektiver umgehen möchten und/oder sich auf berufl ...
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