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WADI

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

The overall objective of WADI project is to contribute to the reduction of losses in water transmission systems and decrease the related energy consumption required for the process. WADI aims to develop an airborne water leak detection surveillance service to provide water utilities with adequate information on leaks in water infrastructure outside urban areas, thus enabling the utility to promptl ...
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REgeneration MOdel for accelerating the smart URBAN transformation (REMOURBAN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

REMOURBAN aims at the development and validation in three lighthouse cities (Valladolid-Spain, Nottingham-UK and Tepebasi/Eskisehir-Turkey) of a sustainable urban regeneration model that leverages the convergence area of the energy, mobility and ICT sectors in order to accelerate the deployment of innovative technologies, organisational and economic solutions to significantly increase resource and ...
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Short supply chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

SKIN is an ambitious initiative of 20 partners in 14 countries in the area of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs). It intends to systematise and bring knowledge to practitioners, promote collaboration within a demand-driven innovation logic and provide inputs to policymaking through links to the EIP-AGRI. SKIN will build and animate a community of about 500 stakeholders, with the strategic objective ...
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Bioeconomy Awareness and Discourse Project (BioCannDo)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The Bioeconomy Awareness and Discourse Project (BioCannDo) will raise awareness and acceptance of the broad public towards the bioeconomy and bio-based products through a strategic, stakeholder-driven information campaign and education. Convincing people that the bio-based economy offers something desirable, with new products, functionalities and applications for their daily life, that provide ans ...
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Modelling the PRocesses leading to Organised crime and TerrOrist Networks (PROTON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

PROTON aims at improving existing knowledge on the processes of recruitment to organised crime and terrorist networks (OCTN) through an innovative integration between social and computational sciences. Moving beyond the state of the art, this integration will support evidence-based policies at the international, national and local level. To achieve its aim, PROTON will complete three specific obje ...
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Standardised approaches and products for the systemic retrofit of residential Buildings, focusing on HEATing and cooling consumptions attenuation. (BuildHEAT)

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

Heating consumption in the residential sector in Europe is around 2300 TWh/y, DHW consumptions reaches 500 TWh/y, while cooling consumption is less than 100 TWh/y. The construction sector offers unique opportunities to decarbonise the European economy. However, as the replacement rate of the existing stock is very small (1-1.5 % per year), acceleration is needed.On top of this, the reorganisation ...
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Breakthrough solutions for adaptable envelopes for building refurbishment (BRESAER)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

The overall objective of BRESAER project is to design, develop and demonstrate an innovative, cost-effective, adaptable and industrialized envelope system for buildings refurbishment including combined active and passive pre-fabricated solutions integrated in a versatile lightweight structural mesh:‒ Dynamic window with automatic and controlled air-tightness and insulated solar blinds complementin ...
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RepliCable and InnovaTive Future Efficient Districts and cities (CITYFIED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

"CITyFiED project aims to develop a replicable, systemic and integrated strategy to adapt European cities and urban ecosystems into the smart city of the future, focusing on reducing the energy demand and GHG emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy sources by developing and implementing innovative technologies and methodologies for building renovation, smart grid and district heating ...
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Best practices and implementation of innovative business models for Renewable Energy aggregatorS (BestRES)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Europe´s electricity sector is in the midst of major transformation moving from public monopolies to competitive private companies in liberalized markets. The liberalization is expected to increase competition and thus increase cost-efficiency in energy production, transmission and distribution with the result of decreasing electricity prices. The efforts of Member State governments to create a mo ...
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Creating effects through communication and engagement in Future and Emerging Technologies (EFFECT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The aim of the 24-months EFFECT project is (1) to enhance visibility and impact of FET research among a wide variety of actors - researchers, industry, policy makers, civil society organisations, citizens and students - and (2) to stimulate debate and collaboration among multiple stakeholders through dedicated community building and public engagement activities. EFFECT proposes an innovative and c ...
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iMETland: A new generation of Microbial Electrochemical Wetland for effective decentralized wastewater treatment (iMETland)

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

iMETland project aims to construct and validate a full-scale application of a eco-friendly device to treat urban wastewater from small communities at zero-energy operation cost. Our concept comes from the integration of Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (MET) with the biofilters used in constructed wetlands. iMETland outperforms classical biofilters from constructed wetlands by using electroa ...
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Citizen Interaction Technologies Yield Community Policing (CITYCoP)

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

Theories underlying community policing received new impetus with the recent advent of smartphones and social media and especially user-generated content (UGC) where citizens engage in closer interaction with their local community and law enforcement agency (LEA). The years 2010-2014 have seen a rapid upsurge of smartphone apps aimed at improving crime reporting and other forms of UGC and interacti ...
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Unleashing the potential of Crowdfunding for Financing Renewable Energy Projects (CrowdFundRES)

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

We are currently seeing a deceleration of renewable energy growth in Europe. This is partly attributed to the challenges for financing renewable energy projects. Reduced access to conventional financing options over the past few years has triggered innovative financing schemes to emerge, with crowdfunding attracting a lot of attention.CrowdFundRES recognises the vast potential of crowdfunding for ...
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Future and Emerging Art and Technology (FEAT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

The aim of FEAT is to stimulate take-up of FET research results and create internationally significant new forms of impact and innovation by embedding and supporting high profile international artists to develop innovative artworks through deep engagements with FET projects. The project will embed six artists within FET projects where they will collaborate to develop and create new artworks that w ...
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Total Renovation Strategies for Energy Reduction in Public Building Stock (BRICKER) (BRICKER)

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

"A scalable, replicable, high energy efficient, zero emissions and cost effective SYSTEM to refurbish existing public-owned non-residential buildings to achieve at least 50% energy consumption reduction through:a) A systemic methodology for optimal building retrofitting towards zero emissions, developed to ensure cost effectiveness, scalability and replicability of the interventions taking into ac ...
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Resource and Energy Efficient Manufacturing (REEMAIN)

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

REEMAIN combines cutting edge knowledge and experience from production processes, professional energy simulation, energy and resource planning, and renewable energy and storage to develop and demonstrate a methodology and platform for the boost, of efficiency resources.Based on the knowledge of who are the energy consumers in manufacturing REEMAIN offers 3 solutions. 1) Innovation in technologies ...
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Deployment of high pressure and temperature food processing for sustainable, safe and nutritious foods with fresh-like quality (HIPSTER)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

High pressure and temperature (HPT) processing is a candidate technology for commercial food processing to obtain safer, high quality food products with extended shelf life, both chilled and shelf stable. Although it is accepted that HPT is environmentally friendly and can help to retain the fresh-like characteristics of foods better than conventional and other novel treatments, it has not yet bee ...
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Renovation of Residential urban spaces: Towards nearly zero energy CITIES (R2CITIES)

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

R2CITIES aims to develop and demonstrate an open and easily replicable strategy for designing, constructing, and managing large scale district renovation projects for achieving nearly zero energy cities. For this purpose, it will be developed a demonstration and dissemination framework of very innovative strategies and solutions for building energy renovation at district level, based in the follow ...
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Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Networks in response to extreme weather (RAIN)

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

The RAIN vision is to provide an operational analysis framework that identifies critical infrastructure components impacted by extreme weather events and minimise the impact of these events on the EU infrastructure network. The project has a core focus on land based infrastructure with a much wider consideration of the ancillary infrastructure network in order to identify cascading and inter-relat ...
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Demonstration at European Level of Innovative and Replicable Effective Solutions for very Low Energy new Buildings (DIRECTION)

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

DIRECTION project aims at the creation of a framework of demonstration and dissemination of very innovative and cost-effective energy efficiency technologies for the achievement of very low energy new buildings . This framework is based in three pillars:• Analysis of suitable energy efficiency technologies (technical and economic viability)• Demonstration activity deployed in three new buildings• ...
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European Network of Knowledge Transfer in Health (ENTENTE)

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

The objective the ENTENTE project is to reinforce knowledge transfer (KT) offices in universities, public research organisations, hospitals and to promote industry academia transnational collaboration in the health sector. This will be achieved through seven sub-objectives:1-The development of a web platform for shared learning and networking including best practices, video interviews, networking ...
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Maintaining all Green and Ecoinnovation Results in a Living Portal (GREENXPO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2015,

The greenXpo consortium comprises a balanced group of policy makers, SMEs, multipliers, technical and innovation experts from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Taiwan that are strongly committed to boosting the green economy through the greenXpo eco-innovation expertise portal.The consortium is best prepared for this action since it comprises organisations that have already led ...
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Communication of Food, Fisheries, Agriculture and Biotechnologies research – a network to support EU-funded research projects (CommFABnet)

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

The effective communication of research results of EC funded research projects to end users is hampered by a number of factors including• Lack of confidence and communication skills within the scientific community• Inherent difficulties in effectively reaching out to the media and other multipliers with research resultsPoor dissemination of research results significantly reduces the potential proj ...
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Highlighting EU-funded Health research results via TV media and the internet (HIGHLIGHT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

"The strategic objective of HIGHLIGHT is to contribute to the development of public awareness on European Health research in all European countries through the professional use of television media and the internet.The technical objectives of HIGHLIGHT are:• Surf the Health Theme in FP7 to identify most prominent results achieved by individual projects in FP7.• Produce and release a series of 21 hi ...
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Efficient ENergy for EU Cultural Heritage (3ENCULT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"The project 3ENCULT bridges the gap between conservation of historic buildings and climate protection, which is not an antagonism at all: historic buildings will only survive if maintained as living space. Energy efficient retrofit is useful for structural protection as well as for comfort reasons - comfort for users and “comfort” for heritage collections.The joint task of conservation and energy ...
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"Professional promotion of eco-innovative research results through a new media integrated platform for SMEs, research and the public" (ECO-PRO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"Public funded research needs to fully benefit society. This is especially true for environmental and climate research where successful market uptake is particularly urgent. However, the market uptake for public environmental R&D results remains a challenge. The main barriers have been identified by the partners for DG Research (2006) as fragmentation of information, inward communication of resear ...
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