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Green NUTrients RECovery systems (NUTREC)

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

Nutrient recovery from wastewater has been receiving growing interest, driven by stringent nutrient discharge limits from Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) and by the potential for valorization of the recovered nutrients, e.g. for application as fertilizers, which can represent an additional revenue source to WWTP operators. The NUTREC project focuses on the recovery of ammonia (N) and phosphorus ...
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"Identification, homing and monitoring of therapeutic cells for regenerative medicine – Identify, Enrich, Accelerate" (IDEA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Regenerative medicine focuses on repairing or replacing tissue or organ function lost due to damage or congenital defects using appropriate cells for therapy that have healing capacities like stem cells or progenitor cells. Although regenerative medicine has the potential for more effective therapeutic interventions major improvement in three areas are still needed for a wider establishment of su ...
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Nanotechnology based cochlear implant with gapless interface to auditory neurons (NANOCI)

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

Over 60 million of citizens in the EU suffer from hearing loss with its associated restrictions. In severe cases, hearing can only be restored by surgically implanting a neuroprosthesis called cochlear implant, which directly stimulates the auditory nerve.The bottleneck for optimal stimulation is caused by the anatomical gap between the electrode array and the auditory neurons in the inner ear. As ...
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Global Opportunities for SMEs in Electro-Mobility (GO4SEM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

Europe has successfully extended its competencies in key enabling technologies for electric mobility in recent years, especially in the field of information and communication technologies, components and systems. Small and medium size companies have played a crucial role as sources of creativity at all stages of the supply chain. Given the new supply chains for electric mobility being established ...
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Advanced Cyber Defence Centre (ACDC)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

In ACDC, we bring together partners from 14 European countries, including public administrations, private sector organizations and academia, in order to achieve a sustainable victory over a powerful cyber threat commonly known as botnet. We integrate the matured knowledge of our consortium into an integrated strategy ranging from adoption to governance, supported by a full service offer for contro ...
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Safe and efficient treatment and reuse of wastewater in agricultural production schemes (TREAT&USE)

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

TREAT&USE project aims to bring together 6 European SMEs and one RTD to prove and disseminate the technical and economic viability of a method for safe and economic wastewater treatment that allows a direct reuse of the water and nutrients in agricultural production with minimal operational and maintenance costs.TREAT&USE is based on the outcomes of two successful finished EU research projects: PU ...
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Efficient, low-cost, stable tandem organic devices (X10D)

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

X10D aims to enable organic photovoltaics (OPV) to enter the competitive thin-film PV market. It will achieve this by pooling the knowledge and expertise of the leading research institutes and start-up companies in Europe, and is the first project of its kind to leverage this knowledge irrespective of the processing technology. It will use the strengths available in device efficiency and architect ...
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Assessment of the potential, the actors and relevant business cases for large scale and seasonal storage of renewable electricity by hydrogen underground storage in Europe (HyUnder)

Start date: Jun 18, 2012, End date: Jul 17, 2014,

Scope and background of projectIn the 4th call of the European FCH JU (AIP 2011) a project has been called to map out the relevance of hydrogen underground storage. The focus being on seasonal energy storage at large scale, the potential, application profile, impact of and schedule to implement this concept may differ across Europe. In recent studies a clear profile for various large-scale storage ...
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Fronts and Interfaces in Science and Technology (FIRST)

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

Space-time phenomena giving rise to fronts and interfaces are central issues in many contexts of Science and Technology. A selection of some of the most challenging ones, most often of multi-disciplinary character, will be pursued by a team of 10 Full Partner Members (8 universities of different countries and two industries, Guigues Environnement (France) and Siemens (Germany)) with the help of 4 ...
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Development of an automatic irrigation and fertilization system (OPTIFERT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"Due to climate related changes, longer dry periods for European farmers and without irrigation the risk of a volatile harvests will rise, that is the reason for a tendency acrossEurope to irrigate fields. The need for innovative irrigated systems is to minimize water consumption and costs. Also in times of limited water the project will be lucrative.There are more and more increasing cost pressur ...
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Safe and Efficient Electrical Vehicle (eFuture)

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

The idea of intelligent vehicles that cope with safety requirements and adapt their energy needs is a long-term strategy. We have started our work with successive European research projects in the last years by starting with the development of a drive-by-wire platform, but the combustion engine is still a drawback. eFuture wants to prepare the next generation of electric vehicle based on our first ...
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Steep subthreshold slope switches\nfor energy efficient electronics (STEEPER)

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

Description European Union Research Initiative Aims to Increase 
Electronic Device Efficiency by 10x and Eliminate Power Consumption of Devices in Standby Mode STEEPER addresses the development of Beyond CMOS energy-efficient steep subthreshold slope transistors based on quantum mechanical band-to ...
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Semiconductor Equipment Assessment Leveraging Innovation (SEAL)

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

Description Seal is an EC-funded project covering semiconductor equipment assessment to strengthen the European semiconductor equipment industry. SEAL is an integrated project consisting of 17 equipment assessment sub-projects in the area of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The assessment th ...
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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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Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services (ETICS)

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

ETICS aims at creating a new ecosystem of innovative QoS-enabled interconnection models between Network Service Providers allowing for a fair distribution of revenue shares among all the actors of the service delivery value-chain. To this end, we will propose and analyze new business and regulatory models for converged infrastructures, taking into account applications' QoS constraints and incentiv ...
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IT Future of Medicine (ITFoM)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Data-rich, individualised medicine poses unprecedented challenges for IT, in hardware, storage and communication. We propose a data-driven, individualised medicine of the future, based on molecular/physiological/anatomical data from individual patients. We shall make general models of human pathways, tissues, diseases and ultimately of the human as a whole. Individualised versions of the models, ...
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Materials for Robust Gallium Nitride (MORGaN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The MORGaN project addresses the need for a new materials for electronic devices and sensors that operate in extreme conditions, especially high temperature, high electric field and highly corrosive environment. It will take advantage of the excellent physical properties of diamond and gallium nitride heterostructures. The association of the two materials will give rise to the best materials and d ...
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Efficient membrane filtration units with integrated High Frequency Backpulsing device (HI-FRE)

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

Membrane filtration has become a key technology for many environmental and industrial applications. Yet in spite of several cleaning options at hand, fouling phenomena such as cake layer formation and pore blocking still limit its performance. The objective of this project is to overcome these limits by developing, a high frequency back-pulsing device, integrating it into membrane filtration sys ...
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Bridging Innovation-driven GIS Research and Development to Create a GEO-Society (BRIDGE2GEO)

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

The provinces Salzburg (AT) & North Rhine-Westfalia (GE) are collaborating at political level and through economic partnerships. BRIDGE2GEO intensifies the existing links and initiates science-business partnerships within and between the regions in order to enhance S&T-based development. The cross-cutting topic is Geographic Information. Building on earlier joint actions, technological developmen ...
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Netzwerk zur Entwicklung und Verbreitung eines europäischen Wirtschaftsabiturs (European Business Baccalaureate Diploma) – EuroBacDiploma

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

Grundidee des Europäischen Wirtschaftsabiturs (European Business Baccalaureate Diploma, EuroBac) Erwerber und Inhaber einer Hochschulzugangsberechtigung sollen auch wirtschaftliche und europäische Kompetenzen haben und nachweisen können. Diese Kompetenzen sollen als Standard entwickelt werden, über ein Netzwerk europäische Anerkennung erhalten und zertifiziert werden. Dies soll im zusammenwachsend ...
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