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Femtosecond comb optical parametric oscillators for high-resolution spectroscopy in the mid-infrared (METROCOMB)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Israel,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1955360.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The research necessary to extend the application areas of femtosecond frequency combs through the development of compact, robust, low-cost, commercially-exploitable sources is now possible; taking advantage of the fact that ultrafast laser pulses of femtosecond widths, separated by nanoseconds, manifest themselves as a phase-coherent comb of frequencies spread over a wide spectral band. Furthermore, the development of femtosecond frequency combs in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond offers enormous opportunities for exploitation in broad spectrum detection and metrology. Robust industrial laser sources such as those produced by the SME supply chain grouping brought together in this proposal can be used by the leading research groups in this consortium to develop frequency comb based spectroscopy systems offering unprecedented detection sensitivity and measurement accuracy. Moreover, if the wavelength range of the comb sources can be extended to cover the mid-IR region then such a source would be ideal for coherent Fourier-transform spectroscopy in the absorption-rich mid-IR 'molecular fingerprint' region delivering real-time acquisition of molecular spectra and real-time imaging with chemical identification for applications in large fast-growing global markets including environmental monitoring, real-time analysis of chemical /bio threats and explosives, trace molecular detection, and medical breath analysis. The project will be led by the SME group coordinated by M-Squared Lasers and produce IP which can be exploited across the supply chain covering optics, crystals, lasers and OPOs.

Keywords: photonics,ultrafast lasers,frequency combs,mid-infrared
Application of distributed control on smart structures (ARRAYCON)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Czechia,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 464224.69
EU funding (EUR): 464224.69
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed training program aims at bridging the gap between industry and academia in the field of smart structures. The motivation comes from the aerospace and automotive industries where the growing popularity of light composite structures introduces demands to attenuate weakly damped flexible modes which are very tightly packed. This will be achieved by a tandem between a high level academic, well established partner in the control community: CTU in Prague, and the industrial partner LMS, well embedded in the aforementioned sectors. Scientifically, the novelty is in the introduction of distributed control concepts in the world of flexible structures and vibrations. Through a dedicated training program, the potentials of the modern paradigm of spatially distributed control using arrays of actuators and sensors for smart (mechanical) structures will be investigated. Recent advances in sensors and actuators make the concept of a large and dense array of sensors and actuators a feasible and attractive option for large flexible structures. Rather than controlling the mechanical structure through a small set of isolated points, a dense array will be considered which approaches the behavior of a spatially continuous distributed actuator. This invokes the concept of spatially distributed control, whether the actual controller will be designed and implemented as centralized or also distributed. The key focus of the project is on providing a multi-disciplinary training in mathematical modeling, involving the structures, actuators and sensors, and on the control design. To develop entrepreneur skills, the ESRs will have the responsibility for building a demonstrator that will serve for experimental verification and will also facilitate the dissemination of the project review to larger audience, other than a purely scientific community.

Keywords: active damping for lightweight structures,sensors and actuators arrays,design methods for spatially distributed control laws
Eco-friendly digital advertising display, based on novel printable electrochromic polymers (ECOPIX)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Türkiye,Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1512319.97
EU funding (EUR): 1147636.23
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Advertisers have always looked to new and creative ways to reach their audience, via print media, billboards and retail signs, radio, television, or the internet. Today, despite the internet revolution, one of the fastest growing advertising mediums is outdoor advertising, otherwise known as “out-of-home” advertising or “OOH”. Digital OOH (DOOH) is a major component of this growth However, these displays, which are typically LED or LCD-based, have a high capital cost, a high electrical power consumption and also represent an electronic waste issue at their end of life. The proposed ECOPIX technology will be a new state of the art eco-friendly alternative to existing out-of-home advertising methods. By 2014, ad spend on DOOH in Europe is expected to reach €500 million, representing 9% of total OOH spend. However, the consolidation of DOOH advertising companies in Europe and the domination of large enterprises in the sector seriously limits the ability of SMEs to gain market share in this high growth sector. The aim of the project is to develop an out-of-home digital billboard system based on new, state of the art eco-friendly multi-colour electro-chromic pixels. ECOPIX is a low power solution, as the electro-chromic pixels only require power when changing states. Furthermore, the media can be recycled at its end of life. European small and medium sized companies involved in the ECOPIX project will acquire a cutting-edge out-of-home digital advertising media platform which provides an affordable, environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional printed billboards, and which is capable of remote updating, with significantly lower weight and power consumption than existing digital billboards.

Keywords: electrocromic display,printed electronics,polymer based electrochromic devices,ultra-thin display sheets,printable inks
A portable device for Early detection and treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury based on advanced qEEG and HD-TES to prevent major Health problems and specially for use in emergencies and telemedicine. (EMEREEG)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,Norway,Estonia,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499989.4
EU funding (EUR): 1187000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is recognized as a major public health concern, especially for teenagers and young adults, since it can lead to significant disruption in education, working ability, and quality-of-life in general. It is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. 1.2 million EU citizens are hospitalized with TBI each year and of which 50.000 die. The total economic burden in Europe for TBI of all known severities is estimated EUR 33 billion annually. Currently, there is no objective method for diagnosing TBI in an early stage or in emergency, which is a premise to prevent serious health impact. Our idea is to develop a portable medical device for objective and reliable emergency diagnosis of TBI and a monitored personalized treatment based on qEEG (quantitative electroencephalography) and HD-TES (High-Definition Transcranial Electric Stimulation). We propose to create innovative technology for the early detection and treatment of one of the most severe cognitive diseases for the use in emergency, telemedicine, hospitals, and rehabilitation centers. We will achieve this by 1) developing a novel vacuum based helmet device that will enable an accurate positioning system of up to 32 electrodes, 2) developing an instrumentation system that will combine qEEG recording and HD -TES treatment, 3) developing a data processing system that will control all measurements and data analysis including the algorithm for early detection and treatment of TBI. Our innovation will increase quality-of-life, improve first-aid care, and healthcare in remote and rural areas. Moreover, the society will benefit from sustainable savings in costs for healthcare and for work disability. We, the SMEs, will benefit from increased revenue and sales of the developed technologies and expect 5 year post-project an accumulated revenue of € 125 million and creating and estimated 833 jobs.

Keywords: traumatic brain injury (tbi),transcranial electrical stimulation (tes),neuroimaging,neurofeedback
Assessment of Regional CApabilities for new reactors Development through an Integrated Approach (ARCADIA)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Fission/fusion cross-cutting actions
Destination: Cross-Cutting Actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Romania,Slovenia,Belgium,Italy,Hungary,Bulgaria,France,Romania,Lithuania,Poland,Poland,France,Hungary,Italy,Czechia,Sweden,Estonia,Portugal,Greece,Romania
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1961683.31
EU funding (EUR): 1499435.38
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

The ARCADIA project has been conceived so as to provide a twofold support to the further development of nuclear research programs in the NMS, targeting two major areas included in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of SNETP: ESNII, through the support of the ALFRED project towards its realization in Romania, and NUGENIA, approaching remaining safety aspects of Gen III/III+ that could be built in Lithuania, Poland ,Czech Republic and Slovenia. On one hand, it focuses on the identification of the primary needs for the ALFRED project, mainly to what concerns E&T, supporting Infrastructures and Regulatory aspects (and integrating – for the R&D needs – the outcomes of other research projects in a common frame of National and Regional needs); on the other hand, it investigates the existing National and Regional supporting structures – with a particular attention to the ones in Romania and in all the participating New Member States – for defining a map of competences potentially eligible to satisfy the previously identified needs. The entire work dedicated to ALFRED project will be performed within the frame of strategic orientations to be compiled for the ALFRED project, and with the scientific, technical and regulatory advising of the costituendum provisional ALFRED consortium on one side, and of the Romanian Regulatory Body on the other side. Finally, Networking, Cooperation and Dissemination activities will provide the connection with the international scientific community, with the European institutional organizations and with the general public, for ensuring the soundness and palatability of both Gen III/III+ and ALFRED projects in general.

Keywords: widening participation,euratom,horizon2020,nuclear safety,new reactor systems,waste disposal,fuel cycle,dismantling,radiation protection,networking,cohesion funds,competences,education
Demonstrating technical and market feasibility of an advanced web semantic information system supporting SMEs innovation processes (DISCOVER-IT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Estonia,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1104035.0
EU funding (EUR): 639000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The DISCOVER-IT objective is to support SMEs innovation processes through an advanced information system based on semantic technologies. The project starts from the results reached in the European project "INSEARCH", consisting in a prototype information system able to support SMEs in the search and extraction of knowledge related to innovation process present in structured and unstructured information sources within enterprises and on the Web. The final objective of DISCOVER IT, reached through technical improvements of the INSEARCH results and demonstration in real use cases, will consist of: - an advanced information system based on semantic spaces for lexical semantic information in Information Retrieval, able to search and retrieve relevant knowledge for innovation processes such as patents, scientific papers and documents; it is also able to monitor sets of URLs of interest for the users, and to crawl and recommend web sites providing contents relevant to the innovation processes of SMEs; - a complex form of search and exploration across innovation-related data through semantic models for exploratory search; - the application of state-of-the-art methods of correlations among textual properties of documents to discover novel concepts in data streams.

Keywords: semantic web technology,innovation processes,information retrieval,extraction techniques,natural language processing
Wind turbine blade Anti / De-icing, combined Ultrasonic guided wave and vibration system (DEICE-UT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Poland,Bulgaria,Greece,Portugal,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1380668.94
EU funding (EUR): 1066000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The DeICE-UT project will overcome the current limitations of existing wind turbine blade de-icing systems by developing an innovative dual de-icing system combining both high power ultrasonic guided waves and low frequency vibrations. Previous work on helicopter blades has shown that low frequency vibrations are highly effective at de-icing across the blades except at the leading edges, whilst the application of ultrasound shows very good de-icing where the US power is high. The DeICE-UT project will apply these 2 technologies in combination to wind turbine blade applications, where the synergistic effects of the 2 technologies both prevent ice accumulation and remove already formed ice. To achieve high ultrasound powers within the required regions of the blade, guided wave US technologies will be utilized. By doing this, DeICE-UT will provide a solution that will enable the safe and reliable operation of wind turbines in adverse weather conditions and achieve the following benefits: • Significant reduction of downtime for ice-prone sites across the EU leading to increased efficiency and reliability of the wind turbines and increased income for wind turbine operators. • Significantly reduced maintenance and increased component lifespan, leading to reduced maintenance costs for wind turbine operators. • Significant reduction of energy to operate system – 2% of turbine power output for DeICE-UT compared to >12% for other systems. • Significant increases in the number of wind turbines located in extreme climatic regions and reduced residential complaints. • Significantly reduce the danger of accidents resulting from ice thrown from the blades. The SME consortium target a significant penetration of the EU market within a 5 year period, achieving sales of ~ €71.5 million and creating ~475 jobs. Implementation of the technology across the EU will make a significant contribution to increasing the renewable energy share and reducing CO2 emissions.

Keywords: wind turbines,ultrasound,low frequency vibration,guided waves,de-icing
Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear energy in Central and Eastern Europe (PLATENSO)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Fission/fusion cross-cutting actions
Destination: Cross-Cutting Actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,Czechia,Czechia,Hungary,Lithuania,Poland,Poland,Slovenia,Slovakia,Slovakia,Hungary,Romania,Romania,Sweden,Spain
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1224778.4
EU funding (EUR): 999760.38
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of PLATENSO is to provide a proposal towards establishing the legal base for a European Entity on Socio-Economic matters linked to nuclear technology and to develop recommendations for research strategies in PLATENSO countries. Thereby the capabilities of research institutes in Central and Eastern European countries to take part in EU research with respect to governance, social and societal aspects is enhanced. Initially, lessons learned from earlier projects, what is the state of knowledge in societal, social and governance issues, are reviewed and summarized. The research infrastructures within which project activities and future research are to take place are mapped and efforts are made to make sure research actors frame their approaches broad enough. Research strategies are formed for research in governance, social and societal issues in which participation in EU programmes is an integrated part. The strategies are tested with case studies to make sure they are feasible to implement. A number of networking activities are carried through as a major step toward actual foundation of the strategies in PLATENSO countries. In each country a PLATENSO partner will take responsibility for building a network of research institutions in its respective country. Establishment of the legal base for a European Entity on Socio-Economic matters linked to nuclear technology has potential to overcome the barriers that still exist for taking them fully into account and to make the awareness of the social and political challenges to come to action. On the basis of exploratory studies focusing on Central and Eastern Europe and contacts with relevant stakeholders in all EU, the project will analyze main aspects with regard to the implementation of the entity (organization, legal form, communication structure, content, etc.). Major areas on social, societal and governance issues for the envisaged Entity will be proposed. A nuclear energy scenario based on the Generation 4 ALLEGRO reactor concept will be given special attention as a pilot case for the European Entity giving support to ALLEGRO in social, societal and governance issues, which will include testing the draft strategy for research. The exact forms for this will be developed in close cooperation between PLATENSO and the ALLIANCE project.

Keywords: nuclear energy,governance,social issues,stakeholder involvement,research strategy,fp participation,nuclear energy scenarios,integrated approach,networking
Strengthening of Cooperation and Exchange for Nuclear Education and Training between the European Union and the Russian Federation (ENEN-RU II)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Support the development of nuclear competences at Union level and socio-economic aspects
Destination: Human Resources and training
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Czechia,Czechia,Germany,Germany,Italy,Romania,Slovakia,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 645589.2
EU funding (EUR): 530000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The entire project of cooperation with Russia titled “Strengthening of Cooperation and Exchange for Nuclear Education and Training between the European Union and the Russian Federation” consist of two parallel projects on the EU side and the Russian side. The objectives of the entire project are: - based on the achievements of the FP7 ENEN-RU project, to further define a common basis for effective cooperation between the European and Russian networks for nuclear Education &Training (E&T); - to define a detailed implementation plan based on the needs of cooperation in the long-term agreed during the ENEN-RU project; - to solve the difficulties for cooperation found during the ENEN-RU project; to implement the plan in a sustainable manner; - to operate the knowledge management framework; - to list up and promote further use of E&T facilities, laboratories and equipments. Based on the achievements of the FP7 ENEN-RU project, the ENEN-RU II project will further develop the framework of cooperation between the EU and the Russian Federation in terms of Nuclear Education and Training. It includes further analysis of short-term and long-term manners of cooperation, define opportunities and barriers for cooperation, and organise exchange courses and training sessions with EU and Russian participants during the project. The project will provide the basis for mutual recognition of the E &T programmes on both sides and expand the scope of the students, researchers and young professionals exchanges. This would offer to nuclear research institutes and industry a broader basis of human resources and foster cooperation in nuclear power development. The focus of the project is on the Master level and postgraduate education, and on Training for young professionals. The overall management of the project is assured by the ENEN Association, in close cooperation with the WP leaders in the Project Committee and with the Russian counterparts through the EU-Russian Project Committee.

Keywords: nuclear education,nuclear training,student exchange,joint phd thesis,joint master thesis,national research nuclear university,distance learning,professional training,ects,ecvet