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Nanometrology Standardization Methods for Magnetic Nanoparticles (NANOMAG)

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

The NanoMag project is to improve and redefine existing analyzing methods and in some cases, to develop new analyzing methods for magnetic nanostructures. Using improved manufacturing technologies we will synthesize magnetic nanoparticles with specific properties that will be analyzed with a multitude of characterization techniques (focusing on both structural as well as magnetic properties) and b ...
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Infrastructure for the European Network for Earth System modelling - Phase 2 (IS-ENES2)

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

IS-ENES2 is the second phase project of the distributed e-infrastructure of models, model data and metadata of the European Network for Earth System Modelling (ENES). This network gathers together the European modelling community working on understanding and predicting climate variability and change. ENES organizes and supports European contributions to international experiments used in assessment ...
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Elearning, Communication and Open-data: Massive Mobile, Ubiquitous and Open Learning (ECO)

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

Open Educational Resources (OER) has the potential to widen access to education and to improve the quality and cost-efficiency of teaching and learning in Europe. The most successful way to achieve a practical implementation of OERs are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are large-scale online courses and represent one of the latest developments in open education in its continuous e ...
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EUropean Provision Of Regional Impact Assessment on a Seasonal-to-decadal timescale (EUPORIAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Recent advances in our understanding and forecasting of climate and climate change have brought us to the point where skilful and useful predictions are being made. These forecasts hold the potential for being of great value for a wide range of decision-makers who are affected by the vagaries of the climate and who would benefit from understanding and better managing climate-related risks. Howeve ...
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Human subsistence and climate change in European refugia: late Neanderthals and early modern humans (EUROREFUGIA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

EUROREFUGIA aims to contribute to the on-going debate about the causes of the rapid replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in Europe around ±45 kyr BP and the probable difficulties that the former could have faced while withdrawing to certain refuge areas until their final extinction ±10 kyr years later. This is a key period of human evolution that witnessed the confrontation of two differen ...
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Mont-Blanc 2, European scalable and power efficient HPC platform based on\nlow-power embedded technology (Mont-Blanc 2)

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

The Mont-Blanc project aims to develop a European Exascale approach leveraging on commodity power-efficient embedded technologies. The project has developed a HPC system software stack on ARM, and will deploy the first integrated ARM-based HPC prototype by 2014, and is also working on a set of 11 scientific applications to be ported and tuned to the prototype system.The rapid progress of Mont-Blan ...
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COgnitive & Perceptive CAMeraS (COPCAMS)

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

Vision systems are becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives. Complex analysis of images from multiple cameras will become the norm in the future, from cars to industrial systems, from smart cities to facility monitoring, aimed at extracting meaningful, context-dependent information.Today’s market is dominated by a combination of relatively simple, fixed function, configurable cameras that stream vid ...
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Engineering multicellular biocircuits: programming cell-cell communication using plasmids as wires (PLASWIRES)

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

Conjugation is a natural communication mechanism used by plasmids (autonomous self- replicating DNA molecules) to travel from bacteria to bacteria as a survival strategy. The genes and proteins that control conjugation are well known by biologists. This conjugation hardware is highly specific and robust and has been refined over millions of years of natural selection. It allows the independent tra ...
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Chromophore-Sensitized Up-Conversion in Lanthanide Materials (ChromSENSUC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

This proposal seeks to demonstrate and understand a new class of materials for up-converting infrared (IR) radiation into the visible range through linear radiation-matter interactions, exploiting the optical and electronic properties of trivalent rare-earth ions and organic-based light harvesting compounds.It is known that materials doped with lanthanide ions are capable of combining low energy e ...
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New tailor-made biopolymers produced from lignocellulosic sugars waste for highly demanding fire-resistant applications (BRIGIT)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

BRIGIT aims to develop a cost-competitive and environmentally friendly continuous process to produce biopolymers (polyhydroxybutyrate, PHB, and succinate-based biopolyesters, PBS-Poly-Butylene-Succinate) from waste-derived lignocelullosic sugar feedstock liquor of wood sulphite pulping process based on “in-situ” fermentation process and new fermentation culture technology without alteration of the ...
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RApid Deployment and adoption of sustainable socially-aware and intelligent sensing services for emerging smart cities (RADICAL)

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

Exploring and addressing the challenges of urban social ecosystems has gained focus, with various initiatives aiming at combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development. Several European cities have already deployed sophisticated ICT infrastructures as a means to offer added-value services to their citizens, in order to cope with societal challenges while at the same time enabling new b ...
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Towards COast to COast NETworks of marine protected areas ( from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with sea-based wind energy potential (COCONET)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Environmental policies focus on protecting habitats valuable for their biodiversity, as well as producing energy in cleaner ways. The establishment of Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks and installing Offshore Wind Farms (OWF) are important ways to achieve these goals. The protection and management of marine biodiversity has focused on placing MPAs in areas important for biodiversity. This has p ...
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"Innovative Multi-purpose off-shore platforms: planning, Design and operation" (MERMAID)

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

"European oceans will be subject to massive development of marine infrastructure in the near future. The most obvious is the energy facilities e.g. offshore wind farms, exploitation of wave energy, expansion of electricity connections, and also further development and implementation of marine aquaculture. This will also lead to an increased need for marine infrastructure to support installation an ...
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Evolution and Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance (EVOTAR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Antibiotics are essential therapeutics in the treatment of bacterial infections. However, the indiscriminate use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria that pose a major threat to human health as options for treating infections by these bacteria have become limited. The evolution, emergence and spread ofantibiotic resistance genes are still only poorly understood ...
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ConstRaint and Application driven Framework for Tailoring Embedded Real-time Systems (CRAFTERS)

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

"ICT-based service and product innovation is curtailed by the growing vertical chain of dependence on poorly interoperable proprietary technologies in Europe. This issue was identified to have high impact on European innovation productivity by the Report of the Independent Expert Group on R&D and Innovation, commonly known as the Aho-report. The report demanded incentives for the convergence of sh ...
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Joint European and South African Research Network in Anxiety Disorders (EUSARNAD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The overall aim of our proposal is to build on the strengths of an existing European network for research into causes and maintaining factors in anxiety disorders and to extend these by establishing firmer research collaboration with the University of Cape Town in South Africa.Through establishing this research exchange, we aim to share knowledge and expertise among participating centres, and ensu ...
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Mont-Blanc, European scalable and power efficient HPC platform based on low-power embedded technology (Mont-Blanc)

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

There is a continued need for higher compute performance: scientific grand challenges, engineering, geophysics, bioinformatics, etc. However, energy is increasingly becoming one of the most expensive resources and the dominant cost item for running a large supercomputing facility. In fact the total energy cost of a few years of operation can almost equal the cost of the hardware infrastructure. En ...
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Hydro-environmental modelling of multi-purpose marine renewable energy platforms (MAREN2)

Start date: Dec 31, 2013, End date: Jun 29, 2015,

MAREN2 addresses the theme of the hydro-environmental conditions for the use of multi-purpose marine renewable energy platforms. The project aims at platforms of multiple uses as a way to reduce exploitation costs of marine renewable energies. Achievements: Information ...
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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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Experimenting Acoustics in Real environments using Innovative Test-beds (EAR-IT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Description Audio sensors are cheap and often easy to deploy and, with the growing power of processing and networking capabilities it is possible to exploit audio data for a broad range of applications. The untapped value of audio data is still to be revealed but key partner in this project are already working on energy efficiency and traffi ...
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Parallel & Heterogeneous Architecture for Real-time ApplicatiONs (PHARAON)

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

Description New tools to reduce design cost of embedded systemsThe latest and greatest embedded systems integrate a wide range of very complex functionalities. A smart phone, for example, is capable to communicate through 3G and WIFI connections. It integrates phone services with high performance graphics and sophisticated software applic ...
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Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future (COCOPS)

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

"The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style (NPM) reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of leading European public administration scholars. This evidence-based project focuses on the national level and the important policy domains of health and employment ser ...
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Climate Local Information in the Mediterranean region: Responding to User Needs (CLIM-RUN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

"CLIM-RUN aims at developing a protocol for applying new methodologies and improved modeling and downscaling tools for the provision of adequate climate information at regional to local scale that is relevant to and usable by different sectors of society (policymakers, industry, cities, etc.). Differently from current approaches, CLIM-RUN will develop a bottom-up protocol directly involving stakeh ...
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Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world (FUME)

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

Fire regimes result from interactions between climate, land-use and land-cover (LULC), and socioeconomic factors, among other. These changed during the last decades, particularly around the Mediterranean. Our understanding of how they affected fire regime in the past is limited. During this century temperatures, drought and heat waves will very likely increase, and rainfall decrease. These and fur ...
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Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate (THESEUS)

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

Coastal areas are vital economic hubs in terms of settlement, industry, agriculture, trade and tourism to mention some key sectors. There are already many coastal problems including erosion, flood risk and long-term habitat deterioration. As economies continue to develop the asset base at risk will grow, while accelerating climate change will increase the likelihood of damaging extreme events, as ...
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SmartSantander

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

SmartSantander proposes a unique in the world city-scale experimental research facility in support of typical applications and services for a smart city. Tangible results are expected to greatly influence definition and specification of Future Internet architecture design from viewpoints of Internet of Things and Internet of Services.This unique experimental facility will be sufficiently large, op ...
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Provisioning of urban/regional smart services and business models enabled by the Future Internet (OUTSMART)

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

The goal of OUTSMART is to contribute to the Future Internet (FI) by aiming at the development of five innovation eco-systems. These eco-systems facilitate the creation of a large variety of pilot services and technologies that contribute to optimised supply and access to services and resources in urban areas. This will contribute to more sustainable utility provision and, through increased effici ...
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A Novel Transport System for Slaughter Pigs (TRANSUS)

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

"There is considerable concern about the effects of transport and associated handling on the welfare of pigs. In the EU, regulations to protect animals during transport are laid down in Council Regulation 1/2005. Due to the small profit margins in the pig industry, however, improving pig welfare must go hand in hand with economic benefits to get a sustainable solution. This poses a challenge to al ...
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SAIL: Scalable & Adaptive Internet soLutions (SAIL)

Start date: Aug 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

SAIL's objective is the research and development of novel networking technologies using proof-of-concept prototypes to lead the way from current networks to the Network of the Future.SAIL leverages state of the art architectures and technologies, extends them as needed, and integrates them using experimentally-driven research, producing interoperable prototypes to demonstrate utility for a set of ...
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towards a PHOtonic liquid state machine based on delay-CoUpled Systems (PHOCUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The aim of this project is to design and implement a photonics realization of a liquid state machine (LSM), with the potential for versatile and fast signal handling. We target to achieve high computational performance with only a small number of photonics components, using dynamical systems with time delay to realize the required high dimensionality for the LSM. This ambitious aim is motivated by ...
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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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Common Metadata for Climate Modelling Digital Repositories (METAFOR)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

Climate science plays an increasingly important role for European policy-makers and private sector companies. Basic research and development of effective strategies to mitigate climate change and deal with its impact on society are required, involving a wide range of experts from multiple disciplines. These expert need to access climate data, in particular data from model projections for the next ...
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