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DISCOVERER – DISruptive teChnOlogies for VERy low Earth oRbit platforms (DISCOVERER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2021,

We envision a radical redesign of Earth observation platforms for sustained operation at significantly lower altitudes than the current state of the art, using a combination of new aerodynamic materials, aerodynamic control and air-breathing electric propulsion for drag-compensation, for a variety of observation methods with the aim of creating a new platform paradigm.This vision requires foundati ...
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Being Lean and Seen: Meeting the challenges of delivering projects successfully in the 21st century (BeingL_S)

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

The advancement of project management (PM) knowledge and the development of PM capability of people is crucial to the successful delivery of projects. As the overall project-related spending in the EU is assumed to be about € 3.27 trillion there are huge societal and economic challenges of reducing the massive financial and psychological costs of poor project delivery. Especially as about 6% of al ...
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Project to Lead Ecodesign Integration with Aerospace Development and Engineering Systems (PLEIADES)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

The primary industrial objective of the PLEIADES project is to enable an integrated approach to the industry focused eco-design of aerospace products as part of existing engineering development workflows. The project will focus on the further development of the existing eco-design tools developed in collaboration with Rolls-Royce during the SAMULET project to enable a progressive transition from e ...
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Integrated Climate forcing and Air pollution Reduction in Urban Systems (ICARUS)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

ICARUS will develop innovative tools for urban impact assessment in support of air quality and climate change governance in the EU. This will lead to designing and implementing win-win strategies to improve the air quality and reduce the carbon footprint in European cities. An integrated approach will be used for air pollution monitoring and assessment combining ground-based measurements, atmosphe ...
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Virus-X: Viral Metagenomics for Innovation Value (Virus-X)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Biological sequence diversity in nowhere as apparent as in the vast sequence space of viral genomes. The Virus-X project will specifically explore the outer realms of this diversity by targeting the virosphere of selected microbial ecosystems and investigate the encoded functional variety of viral gene products. The project is driven by the expected large innovation value and unique properties of ...
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Simulation Supported Real Time Energy Management in Building Blocks (Sim4Blocks)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The growing share of variable renewable energy necessitates flexibility in the electricity system, which flexible energy generation, demand side participation and energy storage systems can provide. SIMBLOCK will develop innovative demand response (DR) services for smaller residential and commercial customers, implement and test these services in three pilot sites and transfer successful DR models ...
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Triangulum: The Three Point Project / Demonstrate. Disseminate. Replicate. (Triangulum)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The Triangulum project will demonstrate how a systems innovation approach based around the European Commission’s SCC Strategic Implementation Plan can drive dynamic smart city development. We will test the SIP across three lighthouse cities: Manchester, Eindhoven and Stavanger, which represent the main typologies of European cities. They will be complemented by our follower cities Prague, Leipzig ...
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Holistic Approach of Spray Injection through a Generalized Multi-phase Framework (HAoS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

Development of fuel injection equipment (FIE) able to reduce pollutant emissions from liquid-fueled transportation and power generation systems is a top industrial priority in order to meet the forthcoming EU 2020 emission legislations. However, design of new FIE is currently constrained by the incomplete physical understanding of complex micro-scale processes, such as in-nozzle cavitation, primar ...
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Health and Disease (TRAIN-ERS)

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

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is emerging as a common feature in the pathology of numerous diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, metabolic syndromes and inflammatory diseases. Thus ER stress represents a potential therapeutic intervention point to be exploited to develop novel therapies, diagnostic tools and markers for these diseases. However, exploitation is hampered by the ...
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Projet Patrimoine Européen pour un Avenir Culturel Ensemble

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

...of labeling (UNESCO, European Capital of Culture) but how many of them can develop and manage in a sustainable and successful way their land with their heritage? There is a lack of trained staff and university does not have a prospective vision of the future and is unable to change its methods. Consequently, many European cultural projects do not develop as they could. It is also difficult to defi ...
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Building Innovation in the Extended Digital Chain (InnoChain)

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

The InnoChain ETN network is a shared research training environment examining how advances in digital design tools challenge building culture enabling more sustainable, more informed and more materially smart design solutions. The network aims to train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers with a strong industry focus that can effect real changes in the way we think, design and build o ...
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Role of technologies in an energy efficient economy – model-based analysis of policy measures and transformation pathways to a sustainable energy system (REEEM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

REEEM aims to gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of the system-wide implications of energy strategies in support of transitions to a competitive low-carbon EU society. Comprehensive technology impact assessments will target the full integration from demand to supply and from the individual to the entire system. It will further address its trade-offs across society, environment and econom ...
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Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management (STORM)

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

Starting from previous research experiences and tangible outcomes, STORM proposes a set of novel predictive models and improved non-invasive and non-destructive methods of survey and diagnosis, for effective prediction of environmental changes and for revealing threats and conditions that could damage cultural heritage sites. Moreover, STORM will determine how different vulnerable materials, struc ...
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Exploiting native endowments by re-factoring, re-programming and implementing novel control loops in Pseudomonas putida for bespoke biocatalysis (EmPowerPutida)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

We aim to engineer the lifestyle of Pseudomonas putida to generate a tailored, re-factored chassis with highly attractive new-to-nature properties, thereby opening the door to the production of thus far non-accessible compounds. This industrially driven project capitalises on the outstanding metabolic endowment and stress tolerance capabilities of this versatile bacterium for the production of spe ...
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Optical Quantum Control of Magnetic Molecules (OptoQMol)

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

A revolution is underway, as molecular magnets are establishing a fundamental link between spintronics, molecular electronics and quantum computation. On the other hand, we know almost nothing on how a magnetic molecule is affected by electrons flowing through it or by the excitation of a molecular group. OptoQMol will investigate these uncharted waters by developing innovative, ultra-clean method ...
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Ensuring the Integrity of the European food chain (FOODINTEGRITY)

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

Food Integrity “the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished or in perfect condition”.Providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about the safety, authenticity and quality of European food (integrity) is of prime importance in adding value to the European Agri-food economy. The integrity of European foods is under constant threat from fraudulently labelled imitations that try to ...
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PREVention of diabetes through lifestyle Intervention and population studies in Europe and around the World (PREVIEW)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

"The primary goal of PREVIEW is to identify the most efficient lifestyle pattern for the prevention of type-2 diabetes in a population of pre-diabetic overweight or obese individuals. The project comprises two distinct lines of evidence, both embracing European and overseas countries:1) A multicentre, clinical randomized intervention trial with a total of 2,500 pre-diabetic participants, including ...
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Simulation tool development for a composite manufacturing process default prediction integrated into a quality control system (SimCoDeQ)

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

Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) involves moderate pressure resin injection of a dry preform placed in sealed rigid tooling. Fast and effective processing requires correct placement of the reinforcement to avoid defects and potential race tracking, appropriate selection of inlet and outlet locations, and careful control of flow speeds to minimise porosity and dry regions; furthermore, suitable cure c ...
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Cross-Layer and Multi-Objective Programming Approach for Next Generation Heterogeneous Parallel Computing Systems (PHANTOM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

As today “to out compute is to out compete”, the position of Europe in all industrial sectors and societal challenges is highly depending on the technological progress in computing. However, although computing has reached an unparalleled progress, it still remains a research topic as new challenges impose its transformative nature and adaptation, among others the evolution towards Cyber Physical S ...
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Exploiting MELanoma disease comPLEXity to address European research training needs in translational cancer systems biology and cancer systems medicine (MEL-PLEX)

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

Novel treatment options and associated personalised, patient-tailored therapies need to be explored and developed for highly heterogeneous and chemotherapy resistant cancers, such as malignant melanoma. This can only be achieved by industry-academia collaborations in newly emerging, innovative research disciplines such as translational cancer systems biology and systems medicine. These disciplines ...
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' SENsing SKIN' for Monitoring-Based Maintenance of the Transport Infrastructure (SENSKIN) (SENSKIN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is expected to play a predominant role in the management of the transport infrastructure. Yet, SHM techniques continue to rely on point-based, as opposed to spatial, sensing requiring a dense network of these point-sensors increasing considerably the monitoring cost. Additionally, commercially available, strain sensors cannot measure strains beyond 1% to 2% and, ...
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Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling 2 (Fortissimo 2)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Fortissimo 2 will drive the uptake of advanced modelling, simulation and data analytics by European engineering and manufacturing SMEs and mid-caps. Such an uptake will deliver improved design processes, better products and services, and improved competitiveness. For the European Union as a whole this means improved employment opportunities and economic growth.The importance of advanced ICT to the ...
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Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

This project situates Museums of Ethnography and World Cultures at the centre of ongoing discussions about citizenship and belonging in contemporary Europe. Migrations and contemporary trans-border movements within the European Union have refigured the demography and citizenry of European nation states. Within this framework also the role of these museums with their rich collections cataloguing th ...
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Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (HEALS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Assessing individual exposure to environmental stressors and predicting health outcomes implies that both environmental exposures and epi/genetic variations are reliably measured simultaneously. HEALS (Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys) brings together in an innovative approach a comprehensive array of novel technologies, data analysis and modeling tools th ...
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Enabling Exascale Fluid Dynamics Simulations (ExaFLOW)

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

We are surrounded by moving fluids (gases and liquids), be it during breathing or the blood flowing in arteries; the flow around cars, ships, and airplanes; the changes in cloud formations or the plankton transport in oceans; even the formation of stars and galaxies are closely modeled as phenomena in fluid dynamics. Fluid Dynamics (FD) simulations provide a powerful tool for the analysis of such ...
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Furthering the Knowledge Base For Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Shale Gas Development (FracRisk) (FracRisk)

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

FrakRisk further develops the knowledge base for understanding, preventing and mitigating the potential impact of the exploration and exploitation of shale gas reserves found throughout Europe. This will include international experience, state of the art process understanding, state of the art modelling techniques and the further development of fully accepted risk assessment tools for site screeni ...
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Raising Awareness on PROduct Lifecycle Management via Education and Industrial Strategic Collaboration within Europe

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

...e companies; • Obtain necessary background in order to start future multi-disciplinary research activities and collaborations focused on PLM. The consortium is composed of 6 partners. Ege University and Industrial partners VESTEL and CMS are from Turkey. VPE of the University of Kaiserslautern and IAT of University of Stuttgart are from Germany. TU Wien–MIVP is from Austria. Project partners are c ...
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Promoting societal engagement under the terms of RRI (PROSO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The main objective of PROSO is to foster societal engagement under the terms of RRI in the research and innovation systems in Europe through generation of a policy guide for developing governance for the advancement of societal engagement under RRI in relation to three fields of R&I.The policy guide will be based on the results that PROSO will achieve through an analysis of barriers and incentives ...
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Rydberg Quantum Simulators (RYSQ)

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

Quantum Simulators provide new levels of understanding of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of many-body quantum systems, one of the most challenging problems in physics. The main objective of the RYSQ project is to use Rydberg atoms for quantum simulations, because their outstanding versatility will allow us to perform a great variety of useful quantum simulations, by exploiting diffe ...
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Technology and Innovation for Development of Modular Equipment in Scalable Advanced Life Support Systems for Space Exploration (TIME SCALE)

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

The TIME SCALE project will bring closed regenerative life support system (CRLSS) to the next level by further development of the European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS). The EMCS has been successfully operated on the International Space Station (ISS) for 7 years with rotors allowing scientific research under Moon and Mars gravity exposures in addition to microgravity conditions. The EMCS modul ...
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Ecosystem infrastructure for smart and personalised inclusion and PROSPERITY for ALL stakeholders (Prosperity4All)

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

Over 2 billion people worldwide have different types, degrees, or combinations of disability, literacy, digital literacy or aging related barriers that impede or prevent use of ICT. Not long ago you could live without access to ICT quite well. However today access to ICT is required for most education, employment, and commerce, and is increasingly required for travel, health, safety, daily living ...
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Preparing for Extreme And Rare events in coastaL regions (PEARL)

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

"Coastal floods are one of the most dangerous and harmful natural hazards affecting urban areas adjacent to shorelines. Rapid urbanisation combined with climate change and poor governance means a significant increase in the risk of local surface flooding coinciding with high water levels in rivers and high tide or storm surges from the sea, posing a greater risk of devastation to coastal communiti ...
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Bringing CItizens, Models and Data together in Participatory, Interactive SociaL EXploratories (CIMPLEX)

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

We propose visionary research to develop modeling, computational, and ICT tools needed to predict and influence disease spread and other contagion phenomena in complex social systems. To achieve non-incremental advances we will combine large scale, realistic, data-driven models with participatory data-collection and advanced methods for Big Data analysis. In particular we will go beyond the one-di ...
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MIcro KErneL virtualizAtioN for hiGh pErfOrmance cLOud and hpc systems (MIKELANGELO)

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

MIKELANGELO is a project, targeted to disrupt the core underlying technologies of Cloud computing, enabling even bigger uptake of Cloud computing, HPC in the Cloud and Big Data technologies under one umbrella. The vision of MIKELANGELO is to improve responsiveness, agility and security of the virtual infrastructure through packaged applications, using lean guest operating system OSv and superfast ...
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AdVanced Aerodynamic Tools for lArge Rotors (AVATAR)

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

The motivation for the AVATAR project lies in the fact that upscaling wind turbine designs towards 10-20 MW requires radical innovations to make this feasible. Many of these innovationshave a strong aerodynamic component and can be considered as unconventional from an aerodynamic point of view. As such the analysis of the resulting rotor designs falls outside the validated range of applicability o ...
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SYSTEMS-BASED VIEW OF MELANOMA PROGRESSION: TOWARDS NOVEL DIAGNOSTIC (AND THERAPEUTIC) APPLICATIONS (SYS-MEL)

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

Worldwide figures show that there were 160,000 incidences of melanoma in 2002, whilst 39,000 died from the disease. These upward trends are worrying, as malignant melanoma is one of the most difficult cancers to treat, due to its ability to spread quickly and its resistance to standard chemotherapeutic agents. In order to counteract this trend, targeted therapies that inhibit melanoma metastasis a ...
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Materials’ Innovations for a Safe and Sustainable nuclear in Europe (MATISSE)

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

The European Energy Research Alliance, set-up under the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan, has launched an initiative for a Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials (JPNM). The JPNM aims at establishing key priorities in the area of advanced nuclear materials, identifying funding opportunities and harmonizing this scientific & technical domain at the European level by maximizing complementarit ...
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Innovative Wind Conversion Systems (10-20MW) for Offshore Applications (INNWIND.EU)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The overall objectives of the INNWIND.EU project are the high performance innovative design of a beyond-state-of-the-art 10-20MW offshore wind turbine and hardware demonstrators of some of the critical components. These ambitious primary objectives lead to a set of secondary objectives, which are the specific innovations, new concepts, new technologies and proof of concepts at the sub system and t ...
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Initial Training Networks for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future (ITN-DCH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Cultural Heritage (CH) is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in CH are fragmented and mostly design to be of a single-discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage ( ...
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Novel Complex Metal Hydrides for Efficient and Compact Storage of Renewable Energy as Hydrogen and Electricity (ECOSTORE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Finding novel solutions for energy storage is of high societal relevance, since it is a prerequisite for the turnaround from fossil fuels and nuclear power to energy from renewable sources, since these sources mostly are intermittent. Also for providing an ecological friendly mobility, high capacity energy storage solutions are urgently needed. Well trained experts in energy storage are a prerequi ...
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