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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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European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus (ECHORD Plus Plus)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Description ECHORD++ will create new opportunities for European robotics researchers to work directly with SME/start-ups and new users/customers to create innovative products. ECHORD++ will continue ECHORD’s two pillars, “experiments” and “structured dialogue”, taking advantage of experience and investment in the infrastructure. In addition, ...
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Super Light Architectures for Safe and Affordable Urban Electric Vehicles (URBAN-EV)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

URBAN-EV will apply innovative manufacturing technologies and materials to produce prototypes of a 2-seat urban electric vehicle with considerably enhanced autonomy vs. the SoTA EV of its kind, and a similar occupant safety level than normal passenger cars. Specifically, a purely electric range (in urban conditions) of 150 Km is targeted as well as a compelling acceleration time of 10 s for 0-100 ...
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The coordination of national research activities of Member States and Associated States in the field of Ocean Energy (ERA-NET) (OCEANERA-NET)

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

Europe’s vast coast line harbours a huge potential resource of ocean energy to be exploited as a renewable electricity source contributing towards the 2020 targets and beyond. The ocean is a complex working environment, relatively little is known about it and it is widely used by others, such as fishing, shipping and recreation. However, the prize for introducing ocean energy generation is high, e ...
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eUropean naturalistic Driving and Riding for Infrastructure & Vehicle safety and Environment (UDRIVE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Road transport is indispensable for the exchange of goods and persons, but at the same time has severe negative consequences, among others related to road safety and environment. In order to meet EU targets, both the number of road crashes and vehicle emission levels need to be reduced substantially. For identifying the next generation of measures that will enable us to actually reach these target ...
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NUBOMEDIA: an elastic Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud for interactive social multimedia (NUBOMEDIA)

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

Description NUBOMEDIA is an elastically scalable cloud infrastructure specifically devoted to the provision of real-time multimedia services.The most remarkable problem developer's face when creating real-time multimedia services is complexity. NUBOMEDIA proposition is to minimize complexity by creating a specific purpose cloud platform b ...
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The Electric Vehicle revOLUTION enabled by advanced materials highly hybridized into lightweight components for easy integration and dismantling providing a reduced life cycle cost logic (EVOLUTION)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Hybrid-EVs and Full-EVs on the market are products where the Internal-Combustion-Engine (ICE) is supplemented by an electric-motor (HEV) or replaced by an all-electric power-train (FEV). Neither approach address lightweight or modularity inheriting the same disadvantages as conventional ICEV - Electrification of mobility must face a conceptual rEVOLUTION! This project breaks the paradigm of curren ...
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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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Advanced High Volume Affordable Lightweighting for Future Electric Vehicles (ALIVE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

By bringing together 21 partners including 7 major carmakers, 7 major suppliers, 2 SME's and 5 academia / research centres, ALIVE will develop directly exploitable knowledge on materials and design concepts which offer a high potential for significantly reducing the weight of vehicles for affordable application to high productions volumes, focusing on next generation Electric Vehicles (EVs).Specif ...
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People Centric easy to implement e-mobility (FREE-MOBY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The FREE-MOBY project is focused to the implementation of easy to deploy micro fully electrical vehicles (450-650kg and speeds up to 90+ km/h)) and city EVs (650-1000kg).By an extra cost of only 15% solar installations in roof houses can be integrated with robust battery packs that can smooth peak powers up to 30%. Solar parking and integrated photovoltaic-battery installations are becoming more a ...
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Premium Low weight Urban Sustainable e-MOBilitY (PLUS-MOBY)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"The Plus-Moby project is focused to the implementation of low cost and low energy intensity technologies to manufacture premium four wheel fully electrical micro vehicles (450-650kg and speeds up to 90+ km/h)) that can be upgraded to M1 configurations.•Technologies and methodologies developed in previous calls of the EU Green Car will be implemented in terms of low aero-drag and safe structural ...
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Wireless technologies for isolated rural communities in developing countries based on cellular 3G femtocell deployments (TUCAN3G)

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

TUCAN3G is built upon the basic premise that considers information and communications as a key factor of human development. The diffusion of ICT in developing countries has been very asymmetric between densely populated urban areas and isolated rural areas. Geographical conditions have often conditioned solutions for Internet connectivity in rural areas, often based on wireless 2G cellular technol ...
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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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IMPROVING THE SAFETY AND MOBILITY OF VULNERABLE ROAD USERS THROUGH ITS APPLICATIONS (VRUITS)

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

In the past, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) success has been achieved primarily though equipment of the vehicle and infrastructure. The focus of these ITS has been on clean, safe and efficient mobility for vehicles.The Vulnerable Road User (VRU) has reaped fewer benefits of the ITS developments. While some projects have considered VRUs from a safety viewpoint, they often aimed to avoid or mit ...
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Television Ring - Testbeds for Connected TV services using HbbTV (TV-RING)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Description TV-Ring, testing advanced network infrastructures and Connected TV applications.The TV-Ring project joins European broadcasters, research centres, software developers and service providers with a common objective: to develop and test applications and infrastructures that will shape the future internet-based television, aiming ...
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Optimization of joining processes for new automotive metal-composite hybrid parts (METALMORPHOSIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The MetalMorphosis aims to develop a new range of novel metal-composite hybrid products for the automotive industry, based on the knowledge transfer from the Electromagnetic Forming (EMF) usage in joining dissimilar metal products and taking advantage of new developed composites and its capability to be bonded to metal.MetalMorphosis approach is to combine and involve all the main players – Top-do ...
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Novel high performance, waterbased “high solids”and bio-based industrial wood coating (NEXT1KOAT)

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

The stringent Solvent Emission Directive (1999/13/EC), fully transposed in 2007, imposes limitations of emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) due to the use of organic solvents in paints and varnishes. The most economical way of limiting VOC emission is using water-based coating formulas in which water replaces a substantial amount of the organic solvents traditionally used. Unfortunately, ...
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Collaborative Open Market to Place Objects at your SErvice (COMPOSE)

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

The COMPOSE project aims at enabling new services that can seamlessly integrate real and virtual worlds through the convergence of the Internet of Services with the Internet of Things. COMPOSE will achieve this through the provisioning of an open and scalable marketplace infrastructure, in which smart objects are associated to services that can be combined, managed, and integrated in a standardise ...
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Study on the need for food and health research infrastructures in Europe (EURO DISH)

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

"Europe is facing major challenges in promoting health and reducing the disease burden of age- and diet-related NCDs by means of lifestyle, food and nutrition. Research collaboration, innovation, and capacity building are essential to efficiently benefit from the – mainly public – research resources. To realise this, EU-wide Research Infrastructures (RIs) are essential. The aim of EURO-DISH is to ...
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Protection of European seas and borders through the intelligent use of surveillance (PERSEUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

PERSEUS contributes to Europe’s efforts to monitor illegal migration and combat related crime and goods smuggling by proposing a large scale demonstration of a EU Maritime surveillance System of Systems, on the basis of existing national systems and platforms, enhancing them with innovative capabilities and moving beyond EUROSUR’s 2013 expectations, addressing key challenges: supporting the netwo ...
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MELT SPUN FIBRES BASED ON COMPOSTABLE BIOPOLYMERS FOR APPLICATION IN AUTOMOTIVE INTERIORS (BIOFIBROCAR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

"The main objective of the research project is to manufacture textile substrates (woven or non-woven) for vehicle interiors from renewable resource-based synthetic fibres from Polylactic Acid derivatives that can be used as a substitute for the polyester fibres that are currently used. These biofibres must fulfil the same requirements that the fibres used at the moment including thermal resistance ...
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INtelligent Renewable Optical ADvisory System (INROADS) (INROADS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

"This project aims to develop Intelligent Road Studs (IRS) combining LED lighting, sensor systems and communication technologies. The IRS will integrate renewable energy technologies that will fully or partially power the devices, making them self contained. The principle identified renewable technologies are solar photovoltaic and piezoelectric, although other sources will be investigated. Poweri ...
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Innovative strategies, methods and tools for occupational risks management of manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs) in the construction industry (SCAFFOLD)

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

Manufacturated nanomaterials and nanocomposites are being considered for various uses in the construction industry and related infrastructure industries, not only for enhancing material properties and functions but also in the context of energy conservation. Despite the current relatively high cost of nano-enabled products, their use in construction materials is likely to increase because of highl ...
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Self learning Energy Efficient builDings and open Spaces (SEEDS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

This project develops a novel Self Learning Energy Efficient builDings and open Spaces (SEEDS) Facility Management system. The system will allow buildings to maintain user comfort whilst minimising energy consumption and CO2 emissions.SEEDS will develop an open architecture suitable both for retrofitting existing buildings and open spaces and for new building design.SEEDS will be based on research ...
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HarmoniSed ENvironmental Sustainability in the European food and drink chain (SENSE)

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

SENSE will deliver a harmonised system for the environmental impact assessment of food&drink products. The research will evaluate existing relevant environmental impact assessment methodologies, and consider socio-economical, quality and safety aspects, to deliver a new integral system that can be linked to monitoring and traceability data. The system will integrate: (a) (regionalised) data gather ...
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Virtual certification of acoustic performance for freight and passenger trains (ACOUTRAIN)

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

ACOUTRAIN will simplify and improve the acoustic certification process of new rolling stock, in particular relating to the TSI Noise. Today the need of conformity assessment for a new vehicle according to the TSI Noise represents a significant element of both cost and time to market due to the need to carry out expensive and time consuming tests. The goal of the proposed project is to speed up the ...
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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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New embedded Systems arcHItecturE for multi-Layer Dependable solutions (nSHIELD)

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

The nSHIELD project is, at the same time, a complement and an improvement of “pSHIELD”, a pilot project funded in ARTEMIS Call 2009 as the first investigation to build the SHIELD Architectural Framework for SPD. The roadmap proposed in this pilot project aims at addressing Security, Privacy and Dependability (SPD) in the context of Embedded Systems (ESs) as “built in” rather than as “add-on” funct ...
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Reduction of Suicides and Trespasses on RAILway property (RESTRAIL)

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

The aim of the RESTRAIL project is to reduce the occurrence of suicides and trespasses on railway property and the costly service disruption these events cause, by providing the rail industry with an analysis and identification of cost-effective prevention and mitigation measures.The project starts by identifying the state of the art of best practices and research findings (inside and outside Euro ...
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Electric-VEhicle Control of individual wheel Torque for On- and Off-Road Conditions (E-VECTOORC) (E-VECTOORC)

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

Description The E-VECTOORC project brings together 11 complementary partners from industrial and research backgrounds to address the individual control of the electric motor torques of fully electric vehicles to enhance safety, comfort and fun-to-drive in both on- and off-road driving conditions. The key objectives of the proposal are: • Dev ...
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SUPERSONIC DEPOSITION OF NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES (SUPERSONIC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"The basic scientific and technological concept of the project is to use agglomerated nanophased powders to be transferred onto a substrate in the form a coating with very little or none change of crystal structure. This will allow to obtain nano-structured coatings with a crystal size very close to the powder one. The concept will be extended to an important breakthrough concept that is the “Sup ...
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"Development of low-cost, lightweight Highly Insulating Polymers for refrigerated transport, heating and cooling installations" (HIP)

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

"Our members, as operators of refrigerated transport and installers of HVAC systems, are dependent on excellent insulation for energy efficiency. There are over 600,000 refrigerated vehicles and containers in Europe and each one wastes thousands of Euros of energy each year due to poor insulation. Likewise, payback on renewable energy systems is compromised by poor thermal storage, reducing their ...
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"GOAL: Growing Older, stAying mobiLe: The transport needs of an ageing society" (GOAL)

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

"The aim of GOAL is to provide an action plan for innovative solutions to fulfil the transport needs of an ageing society. This action plan will be developed by state-of-the-art reviews, identification of possible and relevant societal developments and alternatives to transport. We identify relevant research gaps and product developments through contacts in the USA and Japan. The focus of GOAL is ...
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Reduced Certification Costs for Trusted Multi-core Platforms (RECOMP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The proposed RECOMP (Reduced certification cost for trusted multi-core platforms) research project will establish methods, tools and platforms for enabling cost-efficient certification and re-certification of safety-critical systems and mixed-criticality systems, i.e. systems containing safety-critical and non-safety-critical components.RECOMP recognizes the fact that the increasing processing po ...
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Implementation of Virtual Testing in Safety Regulations (IMVITER)

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

"Computer aided engineering is a routinely used technology for the design and testing of road vehicles, including the simulation of their response to an impact and the prediction of the risk of injuries sustained by the potential victims. But, so far, the release of a vehicle on the market still depends on the verification of the product compliance with safety standards through a series of type ap ...
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Assessing the causes and developing measures to prevent the escape of fish from sea-cage aquaculture (Prevent Escape)

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

The escape of fish from sea-cage aquaculture is perceived as a serious threat to natural biodiversity in Europe's marine waters. Escaped fish may cause undesirable genetic effects in native populations through interbreeding, and ecological effects through predation, competition and the transfer of diseases to wild fish. Technical and operational failures of fish farming technology cause escapes. C ...
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European Initiative for a better use of the results of agri-food research (AgriFoodResults)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

AgriFoodResults intends to answer the need for a better dissemination of food results. The vision is to improve the cost effectiveness of agri-food research activities by enhancing the transfer of the results to the end-users. The project combines capacity building with the creation of sustainable services for dissemination managers. Theses services include web-sites, innovative approach to commun ...
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The development project for a cheap, innovative 100% bacteria free brush for the food and health care sector (Superhygiene)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The main aim of the Superhygiene project is to develop a cheap, innovative 100% bacteria free brush that repels water and grime, ensuring bacteria are given the poorest living conditions. This will be achieved through in mould tufted filaments using ultrasonic vibration and also through developing a method of achieving a super hydrophobic surface, giving the brush lotus effect, that will help keep ...
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Fibre Optic Networks for Distributed and Extendible Heterogeneous Radio Architectures (FUTON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

Current two big trends in wireless communications are the development of new broadband component and the integration of heterogeneous wireless networks, to achieve the vision f the so-called 4G network.The FUTON project addresses both issues by proposing the development of a hybrid fiber-radio infrastructure transparently connecting remote antenna units to a central unit where a joint processing c ...
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University and school for a European literary canon

Start date: May 1, 2010,

The project is motivated by an urgent cultural-policy need: how to build a Europe of citizens in which Europeans can recognise intellectually, ideally and emotionally that they are members of a common civilisation.As an area of emotions, ideals and criticism (self-criticism), literature seems in this regard to be highly significant. Each European country has established its own political and conce ...
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