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FOSTERING INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS FOR A SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE INTENSIVE INDUSTRY ACROSS THE EXTENDED CONSTRUCTION VALUE CHAIN (FISSAC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The overall objective of FISSAC project is to develop and demonstrate a new paradigm built on an innovative industrial symbiosis model towards a zero waste approach in the resource intensive industries of the construction value chain, tackling harmonized technological and non technological requirements, leading to material closed-loop processes and moving to a circular economy.A methodology and a ...
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Low Energy And Near to zero emissions Ships (LeanShips)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The specific challenge for waterborne transport call MG4.1 is, “To support developments that make new and existing vessels…more efficient and less polluting”. A sound way to support developments is, to demonstrate solutions that are sufficiently close to market so that ship owners will consider these in their future investment plans. Following this reasoning LeanShips will execute 8 demonstration ...
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Architecture-driven, Multi-concern and Seamless Assurance and Certification of Cyber-Physical Systems (AMASS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Embedded systems have significantly increased in technical complexity towards open, interconnected systems. This has exacerbated the problem of ensuring dependability in the presence of human, environmental and technological risks. The rise of complex Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has led to many initiatives to promote reuse and automation of labor-intensive activities. Two large-scale projects are ...
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Holistic Innovative Solutions for an Efficient Recycling and Recovery of Valuable Raw Materials from Complex Construction and Demolition Waste (HISER)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

EU28 currently generates 461 million tons per year of ever more complex construction and demolition waste (C&DW) with average recycling rates of around 46%. There is still a significant loss of potential valuable minerals, metals and organic materials all over Europe.The main goal of HISER project is to develop and demonstrate novel cost-effective technological and non-technological holistic solut ...
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Virtualisation of the testing environment (VITE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The VITE proposal is addressed to the call S2R-OC-IP2-02-2015-IT virtualization of testing environment. The main objective of VITE proposal is to reduce on-site tests for signalling systems leading to reducing overall testing costs. To achieve this main objective the work is organized in two main streams:First, to propose a testing framework by carefully analysing user’s needs and current situatio ...
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Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Large scale demonstration for the bio-based bulk chemicals BDO and IA aiming at cost reduction and improved sustainability (BIO-QED)

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

Europe is preparing for a transition from a fossil- to a bio-based economy and this European Bioeconomy offers, as described in the EC Strategy Paper and Action plan “Innovating for Sustainable Growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe”, a comprehensive answer to key societal challenges, like creating and maintaining jobs, maintaining the competitiveness of the European Process Industries, adaptation to cli ...
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Energy Efficient Safe SHip OPERAtion (SHOPERA)

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

The 2012 guidelines on the attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships (MEPC.212(63)) represent a major step forward in implementing the REGULATIONS ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF SHIPS (resolution MEPC.203(62)). There are, however, serious concerns regarding the sufficiency of propulsion power and of steering devices to maintain the manoeuvrability of ships in adverse conditions, hence ...
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Inspection Capabilities for Enhanced Ship Safety (INCASS)

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

In the day-to-day ship operations, structural and machinery failures may lead to major accidents, endangering crew and passengers lives onboard, posing a threat to the environment, damaging the ship itself and having a great impact in terms of business losses. Moreover, with the introduction and building of a big number of new ships, their monitoring and inspection from both regulatory bodies and ...
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Pollen thermotolerance and crop fertility (SPOT-ITN)

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

The Marie Curie Initial Training Network SPOT-ITN will establish a multi-site network of early stage and experienced researchers at 9 partner institutions - including 3 from the private sector - in 4 European member countries and Israel to investigate fundamental and applied aspects of thermotolerance mechanisms contributing to the protection of pollen development at increased ambient temperatures ...
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Adaptive and smart materials and structures for more efficient vessels (ADAM4EVE)

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

Materials and structures are called adaptive if they can change certain properties in a predictable manner due to the forces acting on them (passive) or by means of built in actuators (active). Those materials and structures are referred to as smart if they provide best performance when operation circumstances change. The project ADAM4EVE focuses on the development and assessment of applications o ...
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Open Platform for EvolutioNary Certification Of Safety-critical Systems (OPENCOSS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Safety assurance and certification are amongst the most expensive and time-consuming tasks in the development of safety-critical embedded systems. European innovation and productivity in this market is curtailed by the lack of affordable (re)certification approaches. Major problems arise when evolutions to a system entail reconstruction of the entire body of certification arguments and evidence. F ...
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Green Retrofitting of Existing Ships (REFRESH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Traditionally, the environmental performance of ships in terms of air emissions has never been among the primary concerns of the maritime industry. However, this situation is bound to change considering that the greening of the transportation sector is imminent and unavoidable. This tendency is manifested with activities ranging from regularly published statistics regarding the air pollution of ge ...
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Sustainable Cruise - Prototypes and approaches for raising the waste hierarchy on board and certifying it (Sustainable Cruise)

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

Background According to the EU’s Waste Framework Directive, waste prevention should be the first priority of waste management, while re-use and material recycling should be preferred to energy recovery from waste. A cruise ship is like a small town and, given the degree of luxury afforded passengers on cruise ships, per capita waste production is even ...
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THE INTERMODAL BIKE - Multi-modal integration of cycling mobility through product and process innovations in bicycle design (BIKE INTERMODAL)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2014,

"Goals • Object of this work is to provide -by means of product and process innovations- an advanced compactable bicycle, making it practical to carry along a bicycle aboard public transportation, easily, safely and for a large number of passengers. The ultimate goal is a synergic, intermodal integration of public transport and cycling, expanding the share of both modalities in the urban mobility. ...
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The consolidation of systems biology research – stimulating the widespread adoption of systems approaches in biomedicine, biotechnology, and agri-food (ERASysBio+)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

Systems biology is still considered a young discipline in the field of life sciences. It integrates mathematics, chemistry, physics, informatics, engineering and other fields in biological research. The fragmentation of the discipline concerns all levels of the field: (i) It confronts researchers with a new combination of knowledge, methods, skills and expertise from different disciplines. (ii) It ...
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VERSO LA CREAZIONE DI UN SISTEMA INTEGRATO PUBBLICO-PRIVATO PER LA COMPETITIVITÀ, LINNOVAZIONE E IL CAPITALE UMANO NEL SETTORE NAUTICO ALTO MEDITERRANEO (INNAUTIC)

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

In Tuscany, Liguria, Corsica and Sardinia, the boating industry is very active, despite the differences between areas, both in terms of shipbuilding production, which in terms of socio-environmental, the project's overall objective delineation a path towards a joint approach involving the districts of four regions in the Mediterranean partners. For the sake of consistency with the Lisbon Strategy ...
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Network of European Stakeholders for Enhancing User Centricity in eGovernance (NET-EUCEN)

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

The NET-EUCEN project will create, animate and manage a working network of stakeholders in the Governance and Policy Modelling domains belonging to all the European countries and with relevant knowledge of massive on-line service fruition and eInclusion policies and interests, thus covering the whole supply chain of the Service for Users (S4U). The project will address the following specific objec ...
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Breakthrough in European Ship and Shipbuilding Technologies (BESST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

"Initiated by EUROYARDS, BESST aims to achieve a breakthrough in competitiveness, environmentally friendliness and safety of EU built ships. Focusing on passenger ships, ferries and mega-yachts, the results will to a large extend be applicable also to other ships. A holistic life cycle performance assessment on ship level will guide the technical developments on system level, clustered in System G ...
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Emerging communities for collective innovation: ICT Operational tool and supporting methodologies for SME Associations (collective)

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

The pace of technological change is accelerating. Radical discontinuities seem to happen more frequently. This means that the useful lifespan of knowledge and capability is becoming shorter and that the obsolescence of knowledge/capability is increasingly the norm in innovation. For incremental innovation, specialisation is a winning strategy, but radical innovation requires an interdisciplinary a ...
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Marine INspection rObotic Assistant System (MINOAS)

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

"The increasing competitiveness in marine operations creates a need for new system concepts that introduce high technology value added products, facilitate the processes involved and minimize the downtimes. The need, thus, lies not only in incorporating the technological means so far available, but in changing the way the corresponding authorities stand against the challenges at hand.MINOAS projec ...
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"Exploiting the Potential of Structural Biology through NMR and Associated Technologies - Opportunities for Economic Development of Pharma/Biotech in Tuscany, Berlin-Brandenburg and Beyond" (EPISODE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"EPISODE’s goal is to maximize the regional benefits of Structural Biology Research Infrastructures in NMR and associated technologies for the economic development of the pharma/biotech industries in Tuscany, Berlin-Brandenburg and beyond. As traditional Structural Biology research moves towards new horizons, a major goal has become a systemic view of Life, implying a change of focus from single ...
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Virtual Press Office to improve EU Sustainable Surface Transport research media visibility on a national and regional level (PRESS4TRANSPORT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"The aim of PRESS4TRANSPORT (Virtual Press Office to improve EU Sustainable Surface Transport research media visibility on a national and regional level) is to promote sustainable surface transport research results on a national and regional level by employing an innovative dissemination methodology with a new powerful tool capable of enhancing and maximizing the media visibility of the SST result ...
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Off-shore Renewable Energy Conversion platforms – Coordination Action (ORECCA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"The objectives are to create a framework for knowledge sharing and to develop a research roadmap for activities in the context of offshore renewable energy (RE). In particular, the project will stimulate collaboration in research activities leading towards innovative, cost efficient and environmentally benign offshore RE conversion platforms for wind, wave and other ocean energy resources, for th ...
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"Innovative continuum Multiplex Optical Sensors hull stress monitoring system, supporting shipping safety and Enhancing the control capability over structural Ship integrity" (MOSES)

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

"More than 4500 total ship losses were recorded worldwide in the period from 1994 to 2002: more than 30% of such incidents are caused by structural problems. Hull stress due to loading, or stresses imparted by wave and adverse weather conditions constitute primary source of risk to all types of ships with a large hull. Bulk carriers, large oil tankers, containers carriers, LNG carriers, and roro a ...
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Network of ICT experienced organisations, sharing experiences, knowledge and supporting SMEs (NET-SHARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description The NET-SHARE project intends to create a network of experienced ICT organizations, from several European countries, to provide support to European SMEs through sharing of the experiences and knowledge gained mainly during participation in the SME domain of the former eTEN programme.The network will be composed by former and curr ...
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Good practices for European developers of advanced ICT-enabled energy-efficiency Systems (GENESYS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Apr 12, 2010,

So far, several EU funded projects and other initiatives have taken up the challenge of Promoting sustainable development, Ensuring security and diversity of energy supply, Improving industrial competitiveness, Enhancing economic and social cohesion; furthermore, very valuable research work has been carried out in the past, but the gap to the market(s) and to the full inclusion of the nowadays tec ...
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Shipping with EMAS (EMAS-SHIP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2003, End date: Jul 31, 2006,

Background In 2001, the remit of the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) extended from the industrial/manufacturing sector to cover other economic sectors, including public and private services that have an environmental impact. The move has opened up new opportunities for the shipping sector. Objectives ...
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Definition of an EPD system that can be applied at international level and its implementation in two pilot countries (Sweden and Italy) (INTEND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2003, End date: Sep 1, 2005,

Background An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), as defined according to ISO TR 14025, gives the possibility of communicating objective, comparable and credible information relating to the environmental performance of products. At international level, a working group has been established within the ISO organisation (ISO/TC 207/SC 3) to define a Tec ...
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