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CI-NERGY Smart cities with sustainable energy systems (CI-NERGY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The CI-NERGY Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) aims to train young scientists to develop urban decision making and operational optimisation software tools to minimise non-renewable energy use in cities. The training will be carried out by a close collaboration of six of the best academic research centres and four leading industrial companies from the energy and software technology sector ...
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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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Big data roadmap and cross-disciplinarY community for addressing socieTal Externalities (BYTE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The Big data roadmap and cross-disciplinarY community for addressing socieTal Externalities (BYTE) projectwill assist European science and industry in capturing the positive externalities and diminishing the negativeexternalities associated with big data in order to gain a greater share of the big data market by 2020.BYTE will accomplish this by leveraging the BYTE advisory board and additional ne ...
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Construction of Improved HT-PEM MEAs and Stacks for Long Term Stable Modular CHP Units (CISTEM)

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

The vision of the CISTEM project is to develop a new fuel cell (FC) based CHP technology, which is suitable for fitting into large scale peak shaving systems in relation to wind mills, natural gas and SMART grid applications. The technology should be integrated with localized power/heat production in order to utilize the heat from the FC via district heating and should deliver an electrical outpu ...
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eCO-friendly urban Multi-modal route PlAnning Services for Mobile uSers (eCOMPASS)

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

The demand for mobility of people and goods in urban environments steadily increases raising long-term sustainability, quality of life and environmental concerns. While ICTs have established the ground for developing intelligent transport services and applications, their effective use for supporting cleaner urban mobility still represents a major research challenge.eCOMPASS introduces new mobility ...
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"A Framework for electrical power sysTems vulnerability identification,dEfense and Restoration" (AFTER)

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

"AFTER project addresses the challenges posed by the need for vulnerability evaluation and contin-gency planning of the energy grids and energy plants considering also the relevant ICT systems used in protection and control.Project emphasis is on cascading events that can cause catastrophic outages of the electric power systems.The main addressed problems are related to high impact wide spread mul ...
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European Research Infrastructures for Nuclear Data Applications (ERINDA)

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

Different concepts involving critical (fast) reactors or subcritical accelerator-driven systems are being studied in view of their transmutation capabilities. These design studies imply high demands on the underlying nuclear database. The need for improved nuclear data has been expressed in the Strategic Research Agenda of the SNE-TP ( Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform).The accurate k ...
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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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Novel integrated strategies for worldwide mycotoxin reduction in the food and feed chains (MycoRed)

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

MYCORED aims at developing strategic solutions to reduce contamination by mycotoxins of major concern in economically important food and feed chains. The following toxins and commodities are especially considered in the project: aflatoxins, trichothecenes, zearalenone, fumonisins in wheat/maize food and feed chains; ochratoxin A in the grape-wine and wheat chains; and aflatoxins in the dried fruit ...
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Future INternet for Smart ENergY (FINSENY)

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

The energy sector has entered a period of major change which will continue for many years to come. The increasing proportion of electricity from renewable sources means that the architecture of the energy grid will have to support the distributed, in addition to the centralised, generation of energy and to adapt to a highly volatile supply e.g. from wind and solar generators. From the consumption ...
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Work and Life Quality in New and Growing Jobs (WALQING)

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

"In order to explore the linkages between ‘new jobs’, conditions of work and employment in these jobs and more or less favourable outcomes for employees’ quality of work and life, WALQING combines data analysis on the chief European data sources, in-depth comparative investigation of stakeholder policies, organisational arrangements and strategies, and the perspectives and agency of individuals in ...
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OLIGOPEPTIDASE INHIBITORS IN BRAIN FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION: TOWARDS NEW THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES FOR NEUROPROTECTION (NEUROPRO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"At present more than 5 million people in the EU suffer from dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases and that number will grow as the average age of the population continues to increase. The efficacy of current medicines is limited and new therapeutic targets are sorely needed. Several independent lines of evidence have established an important role of prolyl oligopeptidase (PREP) in brain f ...
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CLOUD Initial Training Network (CLOUD-ITN)

Start date: Aug 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

"The aim of the proposed Marie Curie Initial Training Network is to establish a multi-site network of early stage researchers (ESRs, here predominantly PhD students) at 9 partner institiutions across Europe to investigate various aspects of the interactions of cosmic rays with aerosols and clouds, which bears on the possibility of a ""solar indirect"" contribution to climate change. Besides the i ...
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Exact Geometry Simulation for Optimized Design of Vehicles and Vessels (EXCITING)

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

"This project focuses on computational tools for the optimized design of functional free-form surfaces. Specific applications are ship hulls and propellers in naval engineering and car components, frames, and turbochargers in the automotive and railway transportation industries. The functionality of these products depends on the shape of the surfaces, and even small variations may have significant ...
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"Innovative Design and Top Quality in Gold Jewellery Casting through Integration of Applied Computer Simulation, Design-of-Experiments and Rapid Prototyping" (INTOGOLD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

"The European jewellery industry is facing a severe competition from Far Eastern countries on both home and export markets. The import of large volumes of low cost jewellery puts the margins under pressure. European companies, often employing less than 10 persons, traditionally show poor attraction for co-operation and research. This attitude hinders changes and innovation, though current producti ...
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