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Proactive Risk Management through Improved Cyber Situational Awareness (PROTECTIVE)

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

PROTECTIVE is designed to improve an organisations ongoing awareness of the risk posed to its business by cyber security attacks. PROTECTIVE makes two key contributions to achieve this enhanced situational awareness. Firstly it increases the computer security incident response team’s (CSIRT) threat awareness through improved security monitoring and increased sharing of threat intelligence between ...
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Action Plan for the future of Mobility in Europe (MOBILITY4EU)

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

Global socio-economic and environmental megatrends are urging for a paradigm shift in mobility and transport that involves disruptive technologies and multimodal solutions. The individual transport sectors face diverse technical and non-technical requirements and rather individual, sometimes contradicting challenges. An action plan for the coherent implementation of innovative transport and mobili ...
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Environment in the VET system: a powerful tool for the future

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

The project starts from the observation that the environmental sustainability is often presented at high school in a simplistic way and not always in the correct manner, although it represents one of the 5 key issues of Europe 2020 and a crucial EU document Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe ‘11 aims to transform the Europe’s economy in a sustainable one by 2050. It is fundamental that this co ...
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REgional process innovations FOR Building renovation packages opening markets to zero energy renovations (REFURB)

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

As stated by the EC, renovation by the private housing sector towards increased energy efficiency is seriously lagging behind. As more than sufficient technological solutions are available, focus must be on removing non-technological barriers.The main barriers relate to fragmentation of the renovation offers, resulting in inefficient or only partial solutions. In addition to financial restrictions ...
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SAFR – Storage Application For Renewables (LIFE-SAFR)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

Background A key priority of the EU is to reduce CO2 emissions and promote renewable energy sources. The related quantified goals are laid down in the EU “20-20-20” targets. To reach these targets, the actors along the electricity value chain need to overcome some technical and operational challenges. Energy storage is considered to play a critical ro ...
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Automotive Fuel Cell Stack Cluster Initiative for Europe II (Auto-Stack CORE)

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

Several automotive OEMs have announced plans for the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles from 2014/15. Industrial partnerships such as H2-Mobility in Germany, the UK or Hydrogen Highway in Scandinavia are working to establish the required initial H2- infrastructure While this is a clear signal for the functional readiness of fuel cell technology in automotive application, durability, efficienc ...
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Evaluation of phage therapy for the treatment of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa burn wound infections (Phase I-II clinical trial) (PHAGOBURN)

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

...basis for an optimization of current regulatory guidelines.PHAGOBURN is coordinated by the French Ministry of Defence. The Consortium also includes the following partners: Pherecydes (French SME) and Clean Cells (French SME) for the GMP bioproduction of drug products, CHU Vaudois (CH) burn wards, as well as the Royal Military Academy of Belgium (Queen Astrid).
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SOLUTIONS: Sharing Opportunities for Low carbon Urban transporTatION (SOLUTIONS)

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

Transport is a key enabler of economic activity and social connectedness. While providing essential services to society and economy, transport is also an important part of the economy and it is at the core of a number of major sustainability challenges, in particular climate change, air quality, safety, energy security and efficiency in the use of resources (EC 2011: Transport White Paper).The ove ...
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SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN: Sustain and enhance cooperation on sustainable development between Europe and Southeast Asia (SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN)

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

This coordinating action will focus on climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials issues and will aim to enhance collaboration between researchers in the EU and the ASEAN region . Addressing these issues in a coherent way is vital for sustainable development that leads to economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental integrity. Both regions have developed innovative ideas to re ...
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INnovative COst efficient management system for next generation high voltage BATteries (INCOBAT)

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

In recent years, electric mobility has been promoted as the clean and cost-efficient alternative to combustion engines. Although there are already solutions on the market, mass take-up has not yet taken place. There are different challenges that hinder this process from an end user point of view such as costs of the vehicle, driving range, or infrastructure support. Several of these challenges are ...
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TAILORed Energy Distributions for Laser WELDing (TailorWeld)

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

Laser beam welding is a high-performance joining process that is rapidly growing; highlighted by the fact that the global market for laser welding equipment has grown 50% since 2004, and was worth €1.1 Billion in 2011. The market is expected to grow a further 6% in 2012, and approximately 50% of revenues are generated from sales to European manufacturers. The large increase in uptake observed sin ...
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Combined Plasma Biotrickling system for treating industrial VOC emissions (PBTech)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2016,

PBTech will address the current limitations that conventional technologies for air pollution control encounter when treating difficult waste gas streams containing mixtures of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with variable composition and medium concentrations. By combining two techniques, non-thermal plasma and biotrickling filter, VOC emissions generated in industrial activities will be efficie ...
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Demonstration of soil remediation technique for in situ cleaning of soils contaminated with heavy hydrocarbon mixtures (SORBENT-DEMO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

...threats to ecosystem and human health. Through the EU, thousands of sites have been contaminated by previous industrial use, former military sites and other sources of pollution. Despite of different cleaning measures applied, area of contaminated land is constantly increasing as a result of almost all sort of human activities as well as inadequate practices and accidents. The European Commission ...
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Coordinating and Leveraging regional knowledge for initiating a Sustainable and optimised EU Waste to Energy Programme (COOLSWEEP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

COOLSWEEP comprises 5 established research driven triple helix clusters, one cluster under development and a specialist cluster analysis organisation. The clusters have recognised that the newly emerging field of waste-to-energy urgently requires the establishment of a coordinated “smart specialisation strategy‟.The proposed work will compare and contrast the 6 regions to determine the global pict ...
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Real time, quantified insight into the environmental performance of ships (Clean Shipping Index)

Start date: Dec 31, 2010, End date: Dec 30, 2015,

Cargo owners increasingly influence the logistic chains for their goods. The drivers are efficiency and costs, but also reliability and sustainability. In the Clean Shipping Index database ships and ship owners are ranked in accordance with their environmental performance. In order to minimize their corporate environmental footprints, cargo owners may use the information from the Clean Shipping In ...
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CLEAN AIR (CA)

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

...ch as diesel soot as a component of PM10, also contribute significantly to climate change. The Europan Air Quality Directive (2008/50/EC) has summarised five previous acts on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe to improve the efficiency of individual laws, and to achieve more clarity and simplification in terms of improved implementation by Member States. The directive combines provisi ...
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GREENHOUSE GAS RECOVERY FROM COAL MINES AND UNMINEABLE COALBEDS AND CONVERSION TO ENERGY (GHG2E)

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

Coal mining and utilisation results in release of significant amounts methane and represent an important threat to the fight against climate change. Coal Mine Methane drainage processes can be set up to recover methane from the emissions during coal production. Methane can also be extracted from virgin coal seams trough primary and enhanced coalbed methane recovery. The main objective of the prop ...
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Transnational cooperation for the improvement of buildings energy performance and efficiency  (TRACE)

Start date: Oct 31, 2012, End date: Oct 30, 2014,

The building sector, responsible for about 40% of the EU's total final energy consumption and CO2 emissions, provides many cost-efficient opportunities for action, while contributing at the same time to the welfare of EU citizens. The EU is making a real effort to improve the energy efficiency of Europe's buildings and recently revised its legislation to prompt faster improvements. The Energy Perf ...
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My Modular, Intelligent, Low cost, Do it yourself, nearly zero energy House for our Eco Green Village  (MILD HOME)

Start date: Sep 30, 2012, End date: Sep 29, 2014,

The project aims at defining, designing and boosting the building the first MILD HOMEs (zero emission, in passive house style, reliable, recyclable and low cost) conceived to be located in an Eco Green Village (energetically self sustainable, zero emission, with eco waste management and low water footprint) in order to make it evident in the SEE area that low environmental footprint villages are f ...
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Natural Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (NEES )

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

The NEES Project will identify and promote products and services which aim to improve energy efficiency in existing domestic buildings, which make use primarily of renewable or recycled materials and services based on natural processes, which originate and are normally accessible in the Northern Periphery Programme region. These products and services should have the potential for being mainstreame ...
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FROM MARGINAL TO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES SITES Recovering marginal territories, making them regain their lost value by pursuing sustainable development programs (M2RES)

Start date: Feb 28, 2011, End date: Feb 27, 2014,

The EU territory has an enormous under-valorised natural asset: marginal terrains (exhausted landfills, mines & quarries, brownfields & contaminated terrains, former military sites, etc). The project aims at re-qualifying marginal areas through investments programmes that focus on the installation of RES (PV, Wind, Biomass, geothermal, biogas, etc) that will contribute to a significant amount of r ...
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Semiconductor Equipment Assessment Leveraging Innovation (SEAL)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

... mask manufacturing and intelligent overlay management are addressed as well as massively parallel e-beam lithography. In addition, three important processes are addressed: low temperature oxidation, cleaning of sensitive interconnect stacks/structures and ion implantation for ultra shallow junctions and defect engineering. For metrology and analysis, the main focus is on enabling innovative syste ...
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Advanced Intelligent Machine Adaptive Control System (AIMACS)

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

"Current machining technologies and practices have many inefficiencies. Numerous unpredictable machining variables often cause overload and unstable conditions and catastrophic damage to the machine tool system. In addition, this results in frequent disruptions in production that can often be excessive, leading to considerable losses in productivity, capital and energy resources. In an effort to p ...
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Flexible Compression Injection Moulding Platform for Multi-Scale Surface Structures (IMPRESS)

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

IMPRESS targets the development of a technological injection moulding platform for serial production of plastic components incorporating micro or nano scale functional features. The platform will be based on the gathering of up to date and most advanced facilities based on three main modules, each of them being a tool box including several building blocks:- a tool manufacturing module involving di ...
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"Self-learning modular manufacturing platform for flexible, patient-specific cell production" (MANUCYTE)

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

...ut. This objective will be reached by combining several high-sophisticated technologies such as a modular and scalable plug-in concept for the setup of cell production platforms, the application of a cleanroom and sterilisation concept to keep cell cultures cross-contamination free, a micro-fluidic component for customized cell culture medium composition, inline monitoring methodologies to enable ...
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Understanding Social behaviour for Eco-friendly multimodal mobility (USEmobility)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

USEmobility applies a novel approach that directly identifies the reasons for behavioural change in the mobility of European citizens and forecasts future potential. This approach is based on the behavioural change, which has already taken place.A survey will be conducted in 10 selected regions in 5 European countries to find out the real reasons for mobility changes. Citizens will be interviewed ...
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Water Decontamination Technology For The Removal Of Recalcitrant Xenobiotic Compounds Based On Atmospheric Plasma Technology (WATERPLASMA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"Assuring good quality water supply is a major concern in Europe. Wastewater treatment is carried out in order to minimise environmental impact, as well as to provide an alternative source of potable water. Unfortunately, currently available treatments based on physico-chemical or biological processes are limited, since they are unable to efficiently remove recalcitrant xenobiotic substances commo ...
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NOVEL METHOD TO REMOVE CHLOROANISOLES PRESENT IN CORK STOPPERS (NEATCORK)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"Cork taint refers to a common fault in wine, associated with the presence of haloanisole compounds (particularly, 2,4,6-trichloroanisole or TCA) in large enough concentrations - above 3 ng/l, to degrade the sensorial attributes of wine. Cork taint affects as much as 5% of the bottled wine in Europe, and results in annual losses of €700M. Cork stoppers are the main TCA contamination source. Even t ...
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Intelligent personal protective clothing for the use with high-power hand-held laser processing devices (PROSYS-LASER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

Prosys-Laser is dedicated to develop highly innovative “passive” and “active” laser protective clothing for the use with hand-held laser processing devices (HLD), which are not available on the market today. Major project objectives are: a) Open new markets for high performance PPE and its testing, especially enforcing participating SME to widen their product range and directly benefit from projec ...
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Construction and Assembly of a Prototype Surface Pre-treatment Tool for In-filed use (cleancompFIELD)

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

Clean-Lasersysteme GmbH (cleanLASER), offers technology for surface treatment & ablation using pulsed solid state lasers. The company develops designs & manufactures laser units ranging from 10 to >1.000 W average power.The systems are applicable for indoor & outdoor use. CleanLASER will be capable to support installation & set-up for outdoor use of class 4 laser products.With its own application ...
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Risk-based management of chemicals and products in a circular economy at a global scale (RISKCYCLE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Many potentially hazardous compounds are traded as chemicals or incorporated as additives in products. Their release to the environment has been a concern of EC, UNO, WHO and OECD. The discussion of the assessment and management of chemicals and products led to the OECD program Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). The World Summit encouraged countries to i ...
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Novel plasma-catalyst reactor for the total conversion of the ammonia contained in pig manure into environmental neutral products (PLASMANURE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The EU trend towards concentration and intensification of livestock, in particular pig farming, has resulted in increased burdens related to waste management (increased water, soil and air ammonia pollution) as well as increased difficulties to adhere to EU environmental legislation. Consortium SMEs have identified a clear need to find a cost effective, carbon neutral way of eliminating inassimil ...
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Materials for high energy accumulators in traction and tools (MAHEATT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

A.1.2. Project summaryThe overall objective of the MAHEATT project is to develop a prototype cost-effective lithium-ion high energy battery technology with electrode performances well beyond the current state-of-the-art, with automotive applications (hybrid vehicles and electric traction) and hand held tools as application target areas. This will be achieved by innovative synthesis and design of r ...
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ENergy Efficiency and Renewables ? SUPporting Policies in Local level for EnergY (ENER - SUPPLY)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 30, 2012,

In South East Europe the introduction of innovative processes characterized by the transfer, experimentation and consolidation of know-how related to the use and production of energy following a good planning and employing the appropriate management methods is a way to improve the energy balance. The aim of the ENER-SUPPLY project is to assist the local territories towards this direction through t ...
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Baltic Green Belt

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Jan 23, 2012,

The European Green Belt is an ecological backbone of Europe, running through much of the continent from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea and following the route the former iron curtain. The Green Belt initiative started as a grassroots movement when the former military blocks collapsed. The aim was to save the natural assets that had grown alongside the iron curtain. The Baltic Green Belt project ...
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Soil remediation technique for in situ cleaning of soils contaminated with heavy hydrocarbons mixtures (SORBENT)

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

...provides a unique integration of know how on biologically active compounds, environmental and soil remediation technologies. Application of the SORBENT soil remediation technique will reduce both the clean up time and total costs by 25%. The soil contaminated by oil pollutants remediation market will have a value of over 0.93 billion EUR in 2011 for EU. More than 35% or about 0.33 billion EUR of t ...
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Raising citizens awareness and appreciation of EU research on sustainable transport in the urban environment (MOVE TOGETHER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,

"The aim of the supporting action titled "Raising citizens awareness and appreciation of EU research on sustainable transport in the urban environment", MOVE TOGETHER project, is to build an awareness raising exercise to let people become fully: 1conscious of the sustainability implications of transport in the urban context, 2 aware of what EU transport research is doing and how research results c ...
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AGORA -Network Sustainable Tourism Development in the Baltic Sea Region (AGORA)

Start date: Jun 30, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The BSR is characterised by large areas of unspoilt countryside. Because of strong economic problems just in these rural areas tourism seems to be a promising opportunity to support regional development. Sustainability considered as a guiding principle can ensure that such a development will lead to economical benefits without threaten the nature and the social structure. Consequently a lot of sus ...
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Enhancing transferability of innovative techniques, tools, methods and mechanisms to implement "sustainable building" in the Mediterranean region (SB-MED)

Start date: Jul 1, 2004, End date: Dec 31, 2006,

Background Buildings expend huge amounts of energy during their life span and roughly half of the energy consumed in Europe is used to maintain buildings. A considerable amount of work on sustainable building design has been carried out in Northern Europe to address this issue. Major environmental improvements can be made in Mediterranean cities by implem ...
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College Programme MEMRD - College Programme in Municipal Environmental Management for Regional Development

The College Programme MEMRD project will develop and pilot a modular study programme, at university/college level, in the field of 'Environmental Management' aimed particularly at municipal and regional development personnel.Development of such short-term professional training within further and higher education will thus contribute to bridging the gap between vocational and tertiary professional ...
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