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Sustainable Processes and Optimized Technologies for Industrially Efficient Water Usage (SPOTVIEW)

Start date: Oct 3, 2016, End date: Apr 2, 2020,

The objective of the SPOTVIEW project is to develop and demonstrate innovative, sustainable and efficient processes and technology components, in order to optimize the use of natural resources, especially water, in three industrial sectors (Dairy, Pulp and Paper and Steel) contributing to 44% of industrial water usage in EU. This resource optimization (including water, energy, raw materials and ad ...
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Evidence and opportunities for responsible innovation in SMEs (COMPASS)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The challenge of the COMPASS project is to collect and deploy evidence on how RRI can be meaningfully integrated into extant innovation systems in European industry. COMPASS will pursue three overarching objectives: Providing evidence for better uptake of RRI in industrial R&D&I, fostering collaboration in three key innovation fields (healthcare, nanotechnology, ICT) and promoting responsible and ...
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Improving university, industry and society interfaces to boost the throughput capacity of Europe's innovation stakeholders (Science2Society)

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

Science2Society creates, pilots and shares good practices, guidelines and training materials that improve awareness and practical performance in seven concrete university-industry-society interfacing schemes especially affected by Science 2.0 and open innovation. It covers a very wide range of interfacing / co-creation approaches (and the synergy between them) and advances far beyond the tradition ...
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Embedded Multi-Core Systems for Mixed Criticality Applications in Dynamic and Changeable Real-Time Environments (EMC2)

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

Embedded systems are the key innovation driver to improve almost all mechatronic products with cheaper and even new functionalities. Furthermore, they strongly support today's information society as inter-system communication enabler.Consequently boundaries of application domains are alleviated and ad-hoc connections and interoperability play an increasing role. At the same time, multi-core and ma ...
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Additive Manufacturing Aiming Towards Zero Waste & Efficient Production of High-Tech Metal Products (AMAZE)

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

The overarching goal of AMAZE is to rapidly produce large defect-free additively-manufactured (AM) metallic components up to 2 metres in size, ideally with close to zero waste, for use in the following high-tech sectors namely: aeronautics, space, automotive, nuclear fusion and tooling.Four pilot-scale industrial AM factories will be established and enhanced, thereby giving EU manufacturers and en ...
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High-Resolution Solar Physics Network (SOLARNET)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

This project aims at integrating the major European infrastructures in the field of high-resolution solar physics. The following actions will be taken: (i) realise Trans-national Access to external European users; (ii) enhance and spread data acquisition and processing expertise to the Europe-wide community; (iii) increase the impact of high-resolution data by offering science-ready data and facil ...
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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

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

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser ...
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Efficient Systems and Propulsion for Small Aircraft (ESPOSA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The ESPOSA project will develop and integrate novel design and manufacture technologies for a range of small gas turbine engines up to approx. 1000 kW to provide aircraft manufacturers with better choice of modern propulsion units. It will also deal with engine related systems which contribute to the overall propulsion unit efficiency, safety and pilot workload reduction. Through the newly develop ...
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Cross-border textile innovation window (G.T.T.I)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

A cross-border textile innovation window has been established for young designers, people looking for new job opportunities and executives. It promotes exchanges between these three groups to bring new ideas to the cross-border textiles sector.
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Knowledge-based energy management for public buildings through holistic information modeling and 3D visualization (KnoholEM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Energy efficiency in the building sector through intelligent energy management is a key measure for the global reduction of greenhouse gas emitted by this sector and additionally facilitates user costs reduction in the context of growing energy prices and harshness of natural resources.The KnoholEM project's aim is the engineering of an intelligent energy management solution that will considerably ...
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ple. Researchers and Organisations Using Design for co-creation and innovation (PROUD)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2014,

Co-design is a process in which designers create new contexts to have consumers or end users involved in the development of new products or services for value creation. The overall aim of PROUD is to employ design as driver for innovation. economic growth and sustainable development. PROUD partners create cross sectoral partnerships between public authorities. industries & businesses and design ...
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Sustainable Cruise - Prototypes and approaches for raising the waste hierarchy on board and certifying it (Sustainable Cruise)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Background According to the EU’s Waste Framework Directive, waste prevention should be the first priority of waste management, while re-use and material recycling should be preferred to energy recovery from waste. A cruise ship is like a small town and, given the degree of luxury afforded passengers on cruise ships, per capita waste production is even ...
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Design led Innovations for Active Ageing (DAA)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2014,

The Design led Innovations for Active Ageing project consists of a network of cities that drastically need to find economic and innovative yet sustainable solutions for senior care. Each participating city brings forth a best practice in the field of senior care and a need for a change of policy in that area. The project’s starting point is a shared European challenge: Demographic ageing is identi ...
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ORGANZA - Network of Medium Sized Creative Cities (ORGANZA)

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

ORGANZA's objective is to systematically collect and exchange policy experiences of local and regional authorities regarding creative industries. ORGANZA focuses on medium size regions and cities that lack critical mass and face brain drain of creative talent. A key element in the lack of critical mass is an incomplete production structure and environment. Often either creative entrepreneurship or ...
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Cradle to Cradle Network (C2CN)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2011,

Cradle to Cradle (C2C) (metaphor, antagonism cradle to grave) approach on waste, waste = food, offers a breakthrough in waste prevention and production in closed loops. The Cradle to Cradle concept envisages a challenging future, where the emphasis is on creating eco-effective solutions. The power of C2C lies in its ability to mobilise and inspire.The Cradle to Cradle Network (C2CN) is a capitalis ...
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Sharing Experience Europe - policy innovation design (SEE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Jun 29, 2011,

...Oct-Dec 2008) were mainly focused on setting up the partnership, the Subsidy Contract, Partnership Agreement and project guidelines.The opening conference also took place in October (Cardiff, UK) and centred on good practices in design policies and design support programmes for SMEs. Among the presenters was Charlotte Arwidi from the European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise and Indus ...
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Intermodality and Interoperability in the Baltic Sea Region - InterBatlic (InterBaltic)

Start date: Dec 27, 2005, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

...pt of MoS content, considering elements of particular interest for the Baltic Sea. This includes good connections to the North Sea / North Atlantic area and to hinterland (dry ports/ logistic centres)The Baltic Ring – strengthening the internal intermodal transport systems between the countries around the Baltic Sea, by developing improved interoperability across national borders.The aim of the pr ...
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Innovation Clusters for the Transport Industry (InnoTrax)

Start date: Aug 31, 2004, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The operation InnoTrax- Innovation Clusters for the Transport Industry focuses on microsystem technology, optics and telematics in the transport industry. Technology centres, universities and institutes supporting innovation in the transport sector are scattered throughout the EU and lack suitable networks. Similarly, innovative SMEs of the transport sector require more integrated structures to im ...
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INTER GET UP - an interregional approach for the stimulation of techology-oriented start-ups in Europe (INTER GET UP)

Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

...jective / Objectif général The operation focuses on improving the climate for technology-oriented start-ups based on the collaboration of national, regional and local public authorities, incubation centres, regional development agencies and universities from nine different countries. A major sub-goal is to further spread and refine existing regional economic development instruments such as the Sta ...
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Industrial Change Network (ICN)

Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Dec 30, 2006,

The primary objective of ICN is the sustainable improvement of regional development and social cohesion both within and between regions in the enlarged Europe. By sharing experience and knowledge, the project partners will look for innovative solutions to assist in solving the challenges of industrial regions in change. The partnership also aims to ensure that new EU Member States benefit from exp ...
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Innovation and Ecodesign in the Ceramic Industry

Ecodesign is a well established concept amongst environmental specialists in Europe, but there is a lack of know how to support the systematic integration of environmental considerations in the design of ceramic products. Despite its economic importance, the ceramic industry is suffering the effects of the slowing down of the European economy and it reports the effects of the competition of produc ...
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