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smARTplaces - A European Audience Development Project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2020,

SmARTplaces (SP) is a visionary, long-term European Audience Development Project, aiming to revolutionize the way culture and art can be perceived and consumed, using digital technology and new forms of cultural mediation. SmARTplaces will be delivered by a partnership of 8 museums from 6 different countries in Europe (supported by 2 research partners) in order to achieve a new approach to audienc ...
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PRONTO: PROcess NeTwork Optimization for efficient and sustainable operation of Europe’s process industries taking machinery condition and process performance into account. (PRONTO)

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

The typical lifetime of an industrial process plant is between 30 and 50 years. Technologies to enhance the operation and optimization of process plants can both guide the development of new state-of-the-art process plants and, perhaps more pertinently, can ensure that the large installed base of existing plants operates efficiently. The PRONTO Consortium partners are strongly convinced that for E ...
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Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe (iSCAPE)

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

The iSCAPE project aims to integrate and advance the control of air quality and carbon emissions in European cities in the context of climate change through the development of sustainable and passive air pollution remediation strategies, policy interventions and behavioural change initiatives. It will tackle the problem of reducing air pollution at target receptors with an innovative SME-led appro ...
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Improved decision-making in contaminated land site investigation and risk assessment (Remediate)

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

The REMEDIATE ETN comprises 10 beneficiaries (from 5 EU Member States – the UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, and Italy) and 15 partner organisations. The beneficiaries and partner organisations are committed to the provision of innovative research and training for more cost effective and sustainable remediation of contaminated land. It is a multidisciplinary collaboration between internationally ren ...
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Purchasing education and research for European competence transfer

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

...ropean project management competence and practical exposure with a very strong background and international network in PSM. The consortium consists of Prof. Dr. Michael Henke, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Prof. Dr. Holger Schiele, University of Twente, Dr. Stephen Kelly, Staffordshire University, Prof. Dr. Lydia Bals, Hochschule Mainz, Prof. Dr. Jukka Hallikas, Lappeenranta University of Tech ...
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ICT Policy, Research and Innovation for a Smart Society: towards new avenues in EU-US ICT collaboration (PICASSO)

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

The aim of the 30-months PICASSO project is (1) to reinforce EU-US collaboration in ICT research and innovation focusing on the pre-competitive research in key enabling technologies related to societal challenges - 5G Networks, Big Data, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems, and (2) to support the EU-US ICT policy dialogue by contributions related to e.g. privacy, security, internet gover ...
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Mobile Robots with Novel Environmental Sensors for Inspection of Disaster Sites with Low Visibility (SmokeBot)

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

SmokeBot is driven by the application needs for robots that operate in domains with restricted visibility. The focus is on civil robots supporting fire brigades in search and rescue missions, e.g. in post-disaster management operations in response to tunnel fires. Existing sensor technology and the related cognitive approaches cannot cope with such demanding conditions. SmokeBot addresses this sho ...
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Rethinking Urban Transportation through advanced tools and supply chain collaboration (U-TURN)

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

"The U-TURN project aims at addressing freight urban distribution, focusing on food logistics. The project will contribute to our understanding of freight distribution in urban areas, especially addressing the special requirements and needs of food transportation, and will suggest innovative collaboration practices and tools towards achieving more efficient operations from both an environmental an ...
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Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE)

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

SI-DRIVE extends knowledge about social innovation (SI) in three major directions:- Integrating theories and research methodologies to advance understanding of SI leading to a comprehensive new paradigm of innovation.- Undertaking European and global mapping of SI, thereby addressing different social, economic, cultural, historical and religious contexts in eight major world regions.- Ensuring rel ...
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From DISCOvery to products: A next generation pipeline for the sustainable generation of high-value plant products (DISCO)

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

"Plant natural products have been utilised by human civilisation for millennia, providing vital medicines and essential dietary components. More recently bioactive compounds from plant sources have been used in cosmetics, as health supplements and are important components of feedstuffs. Despite significant investments new activities and new sustainable biosources are required to alleviate our reli ...
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Development of an integrated approach based on validated and standardized methods to support the implementation of the EC recommendation for a definition of nanomaterial (NANODEFINE)

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

Nanotechnology is a key enabling technology. Still existing uncertainties concerning EHS need to be addressed to explore the full potential of this new technology. One challenge consists in the development of methods that reliably identify, characterize and quantify nanomaterials (NM) both as substance and in various products and matrices. The European Commission has recently recommended a definit ...
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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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Public Participation in Developing a Common Framework for Assessment and Management of Sustainable Innovation (CASI)

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

"The proposal responds to the Horizon 2020 challenge called ""Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials”. In addition, it addresses the second specific challenge of the Mobilising and Mutual Learning Action Plans (MMLAP) topics, listed in the Science in Society call for proposals of the Capacities Work Programme 2013, namely ""Assessment of sustainable innovation"". The project’s main ...
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Secure Dynamic Cloud for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability based on Pan-European Disaster Inventory (SecInCoRe)

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

SecInCoRe will design a Secure Dynamic Cloud based concept for Information, Communication and Resource Interoperability including information exchange and access to a ‘common information space’. This will be based on a pan-European disaster inventory focusing on specific artefacts of response to regional, national as well as cross European emergencies and disasters. SecInCoRe develops models for s ...
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Boosting the Impact of Social Innovation in Europe through Economic Underpinnings (SIMPACT)

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

SIMPACT advances understanding of social innovation’s economic dimensions, creating new concepts, models and instruments for policy makers, innovators, investors and intermediaries. It systematically investigates how social innovations can enable the most vulnerable in society to become economic assets, integrating critical analysis of current and previous work with future-oriented methodologies, ...
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Climate Information Platform for Copernicus (CLIPC) (CLIPC)

Start date: Nov 11, 2013, End date: Dec 1, 2016,

CLIPC will provide access to climate information of direct relevance to a wide variety of users, from scientists to policy makers and private sector decision makers. Information will include data from satellite and in-situ observations, climate models and re-analyses, transformed data products to enable impacts assessments and climate change impact indicators. The platform will complement existing ...
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Cooperation for European Research in Economics (COEURE)

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

The European Union is the world's largest economic entity, yet its ability to design and implement effective economic policies is not commensurate with its size. While the field of economics has seen an impressive growth, the economic research remains fragmented across the Member States. Developing an efficient research area is essential for growth and to the process of European integration. Howev ...
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Alternative Energy Forms for Green Chemistry (ALTEREGO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"The ALTEREGO project aims at overcoming the existing bottlenecks towards implementation of alternative energy technologies for intensified chemical manufacturing. We plan to establish a new hierarchical methodology towards enabling highly efficient chemical syntheses with alternative energy forms through reliable process data collection with advanced analytical tools, robust multiscale modeling a ...
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Intelligent Systems Configuration Services for Flexible Dynamic Global Production Networks (FLEXINET)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"Competitive manufacturing industry must be able to react to change and to understand the balance of possible options when making decisions on complex multi-faceted problems. Understanding how best to configure and re-configure a global production network, set against rapidly changing product-service requirements is one such complex problem area. This project aims to provide services that support ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

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

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Robust affinity materials for applications in proteomics and diagnostics (PEPMIP)

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

"PEPMIP represents a joint European effort involving eleven partners aimed at the development of the next generation of dedicated separation materials, designed to recognize peptides and proteins, and the implementation of these materials in new high performance methods for peptide and protein analysis. Artificial receptors will be developed by various Molecular Imprinting techniques. This will be ...
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Spin-Photon Angular Momentum Transfer for Quantum-Enabled Technologies (SPANGL4Q)

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

The goal of this project is the development of a suite of nanophotonic devices that interface with spins, for application in quantum information and quantum-enabled classical communi-cation technologies. Our technologies will be based on electron and nuclear spins in semi-conductor quantum dots (QDs) embedded in nanophotonic devices. We will combine knowledge of the physics of semiconductor spin ...
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Last Mile Logistics (LaMiLo)

Start date: May 11, 2011, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

Freight transport of consumer goods has a global dimension with the first mile element of the supply chain often in a different country to the last mile that reaches out to the end customer. This element is inefficient and costly to businesses and consumers. The urban density of the NWE programme area. while especially vulnerable to congestion and pollution. offers excellent conditions to demonstr ...
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Energy Efficiency in the Supply Chain through Collaboration, Advanced Decision Support and Automatic Sensing (e-SAVE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

The e-SAVE project aims to contribute to an energy-efficient supply chain by providing the system, services, collaboration platform and management tools that will help companies monitor, manage and share energy use and carbon footprint data in order to support operational as well as strategic decision making and supply chain design decisions. The project will specifically focus on the consumer goo ...
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Computational Geometric Learning (CG Learning)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

High dimensional geometric data are ubiquitous in science and engineering, and thus processing and analyzing them is a core task in these disciplines. The Computational Geometric Learning project (CG Learning) aims at extending the success story of geometric algorithms with guarantees, as achieved in the CGAL library and the related EU funded research projects, to spaces of high dimensions. This ...
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Spin effects for quantum optoelectronics (SPIN-OPTRONICS)

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

"We propose to join the forces of ten leading European teams in order to achieve a critical mass in the new research field of Spin-Optronics, a vast novel research area at the crossroads of fundamental physics of quantum-mechanical spin, optoelectronics and nanotechnology, and establish the European leadership in this area on a world-wide scale. All three main directions of the Network research ac ...
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Flexible, Fast and Future Production Processes (F³ FACTORY)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

The F3 consortium’s vision is that the EU’s chemical industry’s competitive position would be strongly enhanced if it could operate modular continuous plant (F3 plant) which combines world scale continuous plant efficiency, consistency and scalability with the versatility of batch operation. Our project will deliver such a radically new production mode based on: a) Plug–and–play modular chemical ...
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A EUROPEAN BIOTECHNOLOGY TRAINING NETWORK FOR THE SUPPORT OF CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING (BIOTRAINS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The objective of BIOTRAINS is to deliver a trans-European network of industrially oriented white biotechnologists fully trained in the application of biocatalysis to sustainable chemical manufacturing. Their skills will be developed through a joint research programme at leading national CoE’s (Centre of Excellence) with research projects identified by internationally leading Principal Investigator ...
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Effective redesign of oxidative enzymes for green chemistry (OXYGREEN)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"Enzymes are extremely powerful natural catalysts able to perform almost any type of chemical reaction while being mild by nature and highly specific. In fact, the delicate functioning of enzymes forms the basis of every living creature. The catalytic potential of enzymes is more and more appreciated by the industry as many industrial processes rely on these sophisticated catalysts. However, the n ...
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Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) (IGE)

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

In order to continuously support the European computing infrastructures and to exploit possible synergies, it is of crucial importance to coordinate the European Globus activities, drive forward the developments according to the requirements of the European users and to strengthen the influence of the European developers in the Globus Alliance. Topics like security or privacy, data privacy protect ...
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Supporting EU’s Freight Transport Logistics Action Plan on Green Corridors Issues (SUPERGREEN)

Start date: Jan 15, 2010, End date: Jan 14, 2013,

The purpose of “SuperGreen” is to promote the development of European freight logistics in an environmentally friendly manner. Environmental factors play an increasing role in all transport modes, and holistic approaches are needed to identify ‘win-win’ solutions. “SuperGreen” will evaluate a series of “green corridors” covering some representative regions and main transport routes throughout Euro ...
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Emergent Connectors for Eternal Software Intensive Networked Systems (CONNECT)

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

The CONNECT Integrated Project aims at enabling continuous composition of networked systems to respond to the evolution of functionalities provided to and required from the networked environment. At present the efficacy of integrating and composing networked systems depends on the level of interoperability of the systems' underlying technologies. However, interoperable middleware cannot cover the ...
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Second Generation Locator for Urban Search and Rescue Operations (SGL for USaR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The Second Generation Locator for Urban Search and Rescue Operations (SGL for USaR) is mission oriented towards solving critical problems following large scale structural collapses in urban locations. The devotion, courage and expertise of rescuers need to be matched by procedures and technology that will enable safe and effective responses. This Integrated Project will combine chemical and physic ...
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Advancing knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship and innovation for growth and social well-being in Europe (AEGIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The proposed research project will study the interactions between knowledge, economic growth and social wellbeing in Europe. It focuses on knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship as a necessary mechanism and an agent of change mediating between the creation of knowledge and its transformation into economic activity. Knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship is perceived herein as a core interface between ...
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Foundations of XML - Safe Processing of Dynamic Data over the Internet (FOX)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

The web has brought fundamentally new challenges to datamanagement. The key features that distinguish web data fromtraditional database applications are its structure - usuallydescribed by mark-up languages, such as XML - and its dynamicnature. The FOX research programme will study these challenges indetail and investigate ways to master them. To this end, FOX aims at aparadigm shift in the modell ...
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Single or few molecules detection by combined enhanced spectroscopies (SMD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Future breakthroughs in the understanding of fundamental biological processes causing major diseases are expected from the development of miniaturized probes or microscopes able to detect and identify a single or a small number of molecules. The SingleMoleculeDetection (SMD) proposal will develop a unique device able to perform simultaneously and in a dynamic way force and spectroscopic measuremen ...
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INTELLIGENT COORDINATION OF OPERATION AND EMERGENCY CONTROL OF EU AND RUSSIAN POWER GRIDS (ICOEUR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

"The interstate integration of power grids provides multiple advantages concerning operation security, integration of renewable energy as well as energy trading. Due to this fact the UCTE interconnection expands continually since its establishment. Consideration is given to different scenarios of joint operation of UCTE and NORDEL with power grids on the territory of the former USSR. Due to the fa ...
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Water Treatment by Molecularly Imprinted Materials (WATERMIM)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The present “WATERMIM” proposal is focused on the advancement and optimization of the MIP technology in order to produce functional materials with well-defined morphologies with respect to pore structure and selectivity for water treatment applications. The project aims at the elimination of the random distribution and the uneven accessibility of receptor sites in the volume of the imprinted mater ...
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ArtistDesign – Design for Embedded Systems (ArtistDesign)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The ArtistDesign NoE is the visible result of the ongoing integration of a community, that emerged through the Artist FP5 Accompanying Measure and that was organised through the Artist2 FP6 NoE.The central objective for ArtistDesign is to build on existing structures and links forged in Artist2, to become a virtual Center of Excellence in Embedded Systems Design. This will be mainly achieved throu ...
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Security Engineering for lifelong Evolvable Systems (SecureChange)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

There is growing demand to continuously evolve systems to meet changing business needs, new regulations and policies, novel technologies and computing infrastructures.Unfortunately, the pace of required change affects our ability to ascertain and maintain the quality of a system. Our objective is thus to develop techniques and tools that ensure "lifelong" compliance to security, privacy and depe ...
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