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The Genus Haslea, New marine resources for blue biotechnology and Aquaculture (GHaNA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

The GHaNA project aims to explore and characterize a new marine bioresource, for blue biotechnology applications in aquaculture, cosmetics and possibly food and health industry. The project will determine the biological and chemical diversity of Haslea diatoms to develop mass-scale production for viable industrial applications by maximising biomass production and associated high-value compound pro ...
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ElasTest: an elastic platform for testing complex distributed large software systems (ELASTEST)

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

The demand for larger and more interconnected software systems is constantly increasing, but the ability of developers to satisfy it is not evolving accordingly. The most limiting factor is software validation, which typically requires very costly and complex testing processes. This project aims at significantly improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process and, with it, the ov ...
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Secure Management Platform for Shared Process Resources (SHAREBOX)

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

To pave the way forward for IS as a solution for more efficient processing and energy systems for the process industry, we will develop a secure ICT platform (SHAREBOX) for the flexible management of shared process resources that will provide plant operations and production managers with the robust and reliable information that they need in real-time in order to effectively and confidently share r ...
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Intelligent Hybrid Thermo-Chemical District Networks (H-DisNet)

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

The innovative thermo-chemical (TC) network technology of H-DisNet will contribute to next-generation district energy networks. The technology will exploit high chemical potential of absorption processes for loss-free transport and storage of energy potential. It will be applied to form an intelligent district network with thermal, electric and gas networks. This intelligent thermo-chemical distri ...
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Soft modular biomimetic exoskeleton to assist people with mobility impairments (XoSoft)

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

The XoSoft project will develop a modular soft lower-limb exoskeleton to assist people with mobility impairments. The consortium includes 5 research groups and 3 companies each with EU project experience in exoskeleton/assistive orthoics development. XoSoft, a class I medical device, assists people with low to moderate levels of reduced mobility, enabling them to remain active performing tasks of ...
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Robust and affordable process control technologies for improving standards and optimising industrial operations (ProPAT)

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

The Process Industries require a high degree of automation, monitoring, and advanced simulation and control for their often complex manufacturing processes and operations. Emphasis is on continuous or batch production, mixing, reaction and separation of materials of higher value. Indeed, increased globalisation and competition are drivers for process analytical technologies (PAT) that enable seaml ...
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Bringing FIWARE to the NEXT step (FI-NEXT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Digital technologies underpin innovation and competitiveness across a broad range of market sectors. A key technology to boost such innovation and competitiveness is represented by the full and wide adoption of Open Service Platforms. In fact, they will allow increased competition and market penetration because they should be built on top of royalty-free open specifications, adopting open source r ...
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Integrierte Lese- und Schreibförderung im Fachunterricht der beruflichen Bildung

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

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT Reading and writing skills are not only important requirements for participating in professional and social life, but are also the basis for taking part in democratic society. Poor language abilities can cause school and work dropouts and result in unequal opportunities, poverty and social exclusion. This project, which works towards the integrative promotion of r ...
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Intensified by Design® for the intensification of processes involving solids handling (IbD)

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

IbD® will create a holistic platform for facilitating process intensification in processes in which solids are an intrinsic part, the cornerstone of which will be an intensified-by-design® (IbD). The IbD approach is hinged on the use of robust data about a process to ‘redesign’, modify, adapt and alter that process in a continuous, intensified system, and will be the new paradigm in the intensific ...
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Measurement and Architecture for a Middleboxed Internet (MAMI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

Recent revelations about large-scale pervasive surveillance of Internet traffic have led to a rapidly expanding deployment of encryption in order to protect end-user privacy. At the same time, network operators and access providers rely on increasing use of in-network functionality provided by middleboxes and network function virtualization (NFV) approaches to improve network operations and manage ...
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Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens (Dropsa)

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

The DROPSA consortium will create new knowledge and understanding of the damage and losses of fruit crops resulting from pests and pathogens, with a specific focus on the new and emerging threats due to Drosophila suzukii and quarantine pathogens Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas fragariae and X. arboricola. The project will deliver a cost effective approach that can be widely implemented by the E ...
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Small cEllS coordinAtion for Multi-tenancy and Edge services (SESAME)

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

SESAME targets innovations around three central elements in 5G: the placement of network intelligence and applications in the network edge through Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Edge Cloud Computing; the substantial evolution of the Small Cell concept, already mainstream in 4G but expected to deliver its full potential in the challenging high dense 5G scenarios; and the consolidation o ...
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Biological control manufacturers in Europe develop novel biological control products to support the implementation of Integrated Pest Management in agriculture and forestry (BIOCOMES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

"The objective of BIOCOMES is to develop 11 new biological control agents (BCAs) for key markets in European agriculture and forestry. BCAs were identified through market analysis by six manufactures of biological control products. BCAs will primarily be for use in open field crops of vegetables (3), of which 2 are also for use in protected crops, arable crops (3), fruit crops (3), and three diffe ...
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Optimised food products for elderly populations (OPTIFEL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Optilfel has as its ultimate goal to contribute to elders’ health by combating denutrition due to both physical capacities diminution and appetite loss. The concept of Optifel is to translate the knowledge on nutritional needs, food preferences and physical capacities into accurate specifications for food products and packaging. Food products (including packaging and food serving methods) will the ...
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EnhAnced Government LEarning (EAGLE)

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

Public administrations (PA) need to cope with various challenges: new regulations, an aging workforce and the need for adopting their ICT. Technology-enhanced learning (TEL) represents thus a sensible option notably for rural local governments (RLG) that need to keep up with such changing environments, but do have limited ac-cess to training courses.From interviews of a pre-study with RLG in 5 Eur ...
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Network Functions as-a-Service over Virtualised Infrastructures (T-NOVA)

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

Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) is an emerging concept, which refers to the migration of certain network functionalities, traditionally performed by hardware elements, to virtualized IT infrastructures, where they are deployed as software components. NFV leverages commodity servers and storage, including cloud platforms, to enable rapid deployment, reconfiguration and elastic scaling of net ...
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Intelligent exoskeleton based on human-robot interaction for manipulation of heavy goods in Europe’s factories of the future (ROBO-MATE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Workplace injuries cost European societies up to 4% of GNP. Over 25% of Europeans experience back injury due to work. Robots are traditionally inflexible to use for many manual handling tasks. The world robotics market is set to double to $66Bn pa in the next 15 years. Europe could corner the industrial collaborative human-robotic part of that market (currently Asia). The goal of Robo-Mate is to a ...
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Green networked Data Centres as Energy Prosumers in smart city environments (GEYSER)

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

Despite the ongoing efforts on energy efficiency improvements,, the lower energy consumption per data centre does not compensate the cumulative increasing energy demand, due to the combined action of increasing load density in the computer room and rising digitization of human activities. Hence data centres are consuming increasing amount of energy, with a negative impact on the environment and on ...
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Future Internet - Core (FI-Core)

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

FI-WARE has started to materialize as a powerful foundation for the Future Internet. FI-WARE is an innovative, open cloud-based infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, at a scale not seen before. FI-WARE is now well under way to successfully achieve its goals of boosting the effectiveness of creating new services of high economic and societal value, reinforcing EU comp ...
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Coordination and Collaboration Facilitation for Next Generation Future Internet Public Private Partnerships (CONCORD) (CONCORD)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

CONCORD advances European Future Internet research and innovation by supporting the successful implementation of the European Commission's Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) Programme. As a Programme Facilitation and Support Action, CONCORD coordinates and facilitates the alignment of FI-PPP activities to ensure the relevance, rigor and robustness of the emerging Future Internet ( ...
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Demonstration of a Decontamination Device Protoype for buisness jets and Experimental Validation (CLEANLE2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"This project is to validate a cleaning device capable of clearing out small debris from the leading edges of business jets or airliners, to keep the flow as laminar as possible on the leading edge of the wing. The cleaning concept will be compatible with the surface treatment of the leading edge of commercial aircrafts. Typically this concerns the contamination of leading edges by insect impact. ...
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Proton Ionization Molecular Mass Spectrometry (PIMMS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

"The need for quantitative and fast identification of trace gaseous compounds in complex chemical matrices continuously pushes the limits of analytical chemistry in many areas of relevance to the EU, including food, health, the environment, and security. A relatively new broad-based and rapidly growing analytical technique, proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS), combines excellent c ...
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Boltless assembling Of Primary Aerospace Composite Structures (BOPACS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"The main challenge of the BOPACS project is to reduce the weight and costs of primary aerospace structures by developing bolt free adhesive bonded joints that comply with the airworthiness requirements.Until today thin walled composite primary aerospace structures are joined by using a large number of fasteners. Bolt free joining would considerably contribute to the weight and cost reduction of a ...
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Plug and PRoduce Intelligent Multi Agent Environment based on Standard Technology (PRIME)

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

There is an increasing pressure on European SMEs to deliver high quality, often customised products using cost effective manufacturing processes and systems while competing in the global market. One of the key production processes in high labour cost areas such as Europe is assembly of final products in sectors such as automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical and medical industries. They all require ...
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A MEasurement Tool to determine the quality of the Passenger EXperience (METPEX)

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

"Public transport is central to people’s lives and well-being, especially vulnerable groups (e.g. less mobile, elderly and disabled). It is essential in providing access to employment, shops, services and leisure. The need to encourage greater public transport use is critical in achieving sustainability targets. For many, the perception and reality of public transport does not encourage use, espec ...
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eXperimental Infrastructures for the Future Internet (XIFI)

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

XIFI will establish a sustainable marketplace for trial infrastructures and Future Internet services.XIFI will achieve this vision by integrating and federating a multiplicity of heterogeneous environments – starting from the generic and specific enablers provided by the FI-WARE core platform and the FI-PPP use cases and early trials.Through this approach XIFI will demonstrate and validate the pot ...
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International Foresight Academy (IFA)

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

"The proposed International Foresight Academy is the first organization to bind together Foresight activities around the globe and from contrasting cultural and political contexts. As the Mapping Report of the European Foresight Monitoring Network (2009) has documented, Foresight is used differently in various regions of the world. Foresight activities vary according to sponsors and customers, met ...
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Mapping European regional Transport Research and Innovation Capacities (METRIC) (METRIC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

METRIC will map regional transport innovation capacity and identify the competitive advantage of identified regions. Based on their strengths, guidelines for the preparation of regional innovation roadmaps (strategy plans) will be developed. METRIC will also explore the regional innovation potential and make recommendations on how to support weak regions. The project will ultimately contribute to ...
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The Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool (AVERT) provides a capability rapidly to deploy, extract and remove both blocking and suspect vehicles from vulnerable positions and confined spaces (AVERT)

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

In Europe, terrorism threatens horrific loss of life, extensive disruption to city transport and damage to commercial real estate. Vehicles provide an ideal delivery mechanism because they can be meticulously prepared well in advance of deployment and then brought in to the Area of Operations. Furthermore, a real and present danger comes from the threat of Chemical, Radiological, Biological and Nu ...
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Responsible innovation Agenda for Competitive European transport industries up to 2050 (RACE2050)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"RACE2050 foresight study aims to identify key success factors for a sustainable growth of the European Transport industry and for policies which can increase its strength in a long perspective up to 2050. By integrating the tremendous available foresight intelligence into a comparative synopsis, we will be able to compare and assess various visions and especially different policies to reach these ...
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REsearch on a CRuiser Enabled Air Transport Environment (RECREATE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

This proposal is all about the introduction and airworthiness of cruiser-feeder operations for civil aircraft. Cruiser-feeder operations are investigated as a promising pioneering idea for the air transport of the future. The soundness of the concept of cruiser-feeder operations for civil aircraft is explained in the proposal, taking air-to-air refuelling operations as an example. A comprehensive ...
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Cost Effective Reinforcement of Fastener Areas in Composites (CERFAC)

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

"CERFAC’s major challenge is the design and manufacturing of strong and cost-efficient joints for high performance CFRP aero-structures.In particular, transfer of distributed loading along rivets lines in the assembly of flat or curved thin-walled stiffened panels, and introduction of concentrated loads for connecting lugs with thicker laminates are special & frequent problems. Hence, CERFAC focus ...
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FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform (FI-WARE)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. FI- ...
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Integrated Multidisciplinary & Multiscale Modeling for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (IM3OLED)

Start date: Oct 15, 2011, End date: Apr 14, 2014,

OLED lighting holds the promise of entering the annual global lighting-fixture market that is estimated between $US 50-90 billion. OLED technology provide an environmentally friendly technology that requires no mercury and can enable energy savings up to 90 % (per lamp socket). Global transition to such efficient lighting sources will dramatically reduce energy.Since the onset of the solid state l ...
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Solid Oxide Fuel Cells – Integrating Degradation Effects into Lifetime Prediction Models (SOFC-Life)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Long-term stable operation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) is a basic requirement for introducing this technology to the stationary power market. Degradation phenomena limiting the lifetime can be divided into continuous (baseline) and incidental (transient) effects.This project is concerned with understanding the details of the major SOFC continuous degradation effects and developing models that ...
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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description Strengthening the knowledge transfer between scientific research and industry in robotics and stimulating their cooperation In Europe the robotics industry is strong, but still fragmented and dispersed. The objective of ECHORD is to provide new opportunities for coordinated and target- ...
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Optimising Passenger Transport Information to Materialize Insights for Sustainable Mobility (OPTIMISM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"OPTIMISM's main outcomes is the creation and development of different sets of strategies and methodologies for optimising passenger transport systems based on co-modality ICT solutions. OPTIMISM also takes into consideration the passenger needs and the carbon-neutral objective. The main scope is to provide a scientifically documented insight of the transport system and people’s travel choices v ...
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Rational design of plant systems for sustainable generation of value-added industrial products (SmartCell)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Plants sustainably produce low levels of secondary metabolites of high industrial value. However, they are often too complex to be economically manufactured by chemical synthesis. Advanced metabolic engineering and exploitation of plants as Green Factories has been prevented due to poorly understood metabolic pathways in plants and the regulation thereof. SmartCell brings together 14 leading Europ ...
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Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation (PROMISE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

Description Advancing the Evolution and Benchmaking of Multimedia and Multilingual Information SystemMeasuring is a key to scientific progress. This is particularly true for research concerning complex systems, whether natural or human-built. Multilingual and multimedia information systems are increasingly complex: they need to satisfy di ...
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Smart Catheterization (SCATh)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Modern medicine is irreversibly shifting towards less invasive surgical procedures. Conventional open surgery approaches are systematically being replaced by interventions that reduce access trauma and thereby minimise pain and hospitalisation periods for patients. The downside of this approach is that it is highly demanding for the interventionalist, entailing unacceptable risks for the patient. ...
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