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Sugar Alcohol based Materials for Seasonal Storage Applications (SAM.SSA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewables for heating and cooling
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Romania,Netherlands,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3922745.12
EU funding (EUR): 2941997.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The SAM.SSA project aims at developing new phase change materials (PCM) for thermal energy seasonal storage applications (STES) in the range of medium temperatures. The generated materials shall provide: • Low cost, environmentally sound and safe solutions for seasonal storage applications • Easy adjustment of the melting point for optimal ”tuning” to the required applications • Energy densities > 200 kWh/m3 for compact storage • Long-term storage with significant reduction of thermal losses • Storage heat release at "high" temperature with reduced discharge power requirements PCM are rarely proposed for STES due to i) insufficient energy densities and ii) the high risk of PCM solidification during the storage period caused by poor insulation inadequate for maintaining temperatures beyond the melting point. These problems will be overcome by the materials proposed in SAM.SSA. SAM.SSA will develop molecular alloys based on sugar alcohols (MASA). These molecular alloys allow for adjustment of the melting point and lead to a significantly increased energy density compared not only to that of their components, but also to that of n-alkanes molecular alloys. Furthermore sugar alcohols permit high levels of undercooling thus minimizing the risk for spontaneous PCM solidification and at the same time reducing insulation requirements as well as thermal losses during long term storage. The application of a local thermal shock or ultrasound will induce nucleation and subsequent crystallization thus provoking easy discharge of the storage system. Like most PCM, sugar alcohols due to their low thermal conductivity (typically < 1 W/m/K) impose a principal heat transfer problem on the storage design. SAM.SSA research will overcome this problem by increasing the MASA thermal conductivity using low-cost, tailor-made carbon porous structures, and increasing the specific area of heat exchange through MASA macro- or micro-encapsulation with organic, inorganic and hybrid shells.

Keywords: masa,phase change materials,seasonal storage,sugar alcohol
Industrial Process Heat by Solar Collectors (INSUN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewables for heating and cooling
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Austria,Germany,Austria,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6452963.07
EU funding (EUR): 4062623.96
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The main idea of InSun is to demonstrate the reliability and quality of large scale solar thermal systems for different types of industrial process heat applications on medium and high temperature levels. Three different types of collector systems are demonstrated and compared: improved flat plate collectors combined with a small parabolic trough collector field as temperature booster for an Austrian meat factory for steam pre-heating up to 95°C and tracked concentrating Fresnel collectors for an Italian brick drying factory at 200°C. Each of these applications offers a high replication potential. Missing standards especially for concentrating collectors and the large uncertainty of system integration costs are the main bottlenecks for a fast system deployment in the industrial sector. Therefore, the project aims to give a significant input to the standardization process in terms of construction, integration and dimensioning of this young and innovative technology which will be supported by the foundation of a special interest group for lobbying work including key members of the relevant collector producers and research organizations. The industrial driven management board of InSun ensures a strong and continuous participation of the industrial partners involved. This management board will be responsible for the observation of the progress and quality of the demonstration projects, for the quality assurance of dissemination activities and of support actions pushing the standardization process and to lead the market deployment strategy development tasks. Three periodically organized international expert workshops with strong support from ESTIF (see attached letter of support) will include selected external experts from other ongoing research or commercial projects. Furthermore, InSun aims to contribute to the IEA Task 49 and Task 45.

Keywords: solar process heat,industrial process heat,solar collectors,fresnel,parabolic trough,cpc vacuum tube,flat plate collector,solar thermal energy,low/medium temperature,co2 reduction
Novel CPV system fit for mass production, for electricity costs beyond grid parity and for applications in B2B, industrial and residential areas (CPV4ALL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,France,Netherlands,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12135896.01
EU funding (EUR): 7252307.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

CPV4ALL propose an innovative solution for concentration-based photovoltaic electricity beyond grid parity kWh prices and is oriented on short term results. CPV4ALL aims towards large scale replication in 2015 so that the demonstrated technologies will quickly lead to market deployment and thus significantly contribute to the EU energy and climate change policy (20-20-20 targets by 2020). CPV4ALL focuses on demonstrating and validating, at industrial scale, the production technology for the components and the assembly technology for the CPV modules and system. The developed CPV systems itself will undergo extensive evaluation programmes at test sites and real situations by CEA-INES. In order to realize the concepts and objectives described in the previous sections, a structure of six work packages has been defined. WP1 is focused on RTD activities and deals with the development and optimisation of the system components. In WP2-3-4 the necessary demonstration activities will be defined and developed. WP2 is dedicated to the demonstration of pilot line for the manufacturing of components and module assembly for volume > 100.000 modules/yr, while WP3 focuses on the demonstration of high-throughput manufacturing processes of critical system components for volume > 1 million units/yr. During WP4 will take place the demonstration and evaluation of CPV systems in various location (France, Austria, The Netherlands) and for various system configuration (Agricultural, Transport, Real estate, etc..). Dissemination activities under WP5 include also the preparation of a market deployment plan and the identification and selection of third parties. WP6 is dedicated to the project and risk management .

Keywords: innovative solar modules,high-throughput solar systems,high efficiency,industrial and residential solar applications
Semiconductor Industry Leading towards Viable Energy Recovery (SILVER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ENIAC (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy,France,Netherlands,Spain,Belgium,Italy,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,France,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (ENIAC-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2014-12-01
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10695205.0
EU funding (EUR): 1786100.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

There is no doubt that ICT, supported by semiconductor technology, can play in using more efficiently energy resources and in allowing the adoption of renewable energy production, care must be taken that the complete life cycle of the envisaged technologies is considered, and that also the energy costs for the production of the critical semiconductor components are minimized. This concept applies also to all industrial sectors, like photovoltaics and solid-state lighting, that are largely based on the same technologies as semiconductor manufacturing. The envisaged “green society” can only be such if based on “green fabs” for the manufacturing of the critical components. The SILVER project targets at the design, development and assessment of innovative and comprehensive approaches to reduce the environmental impact of existing semiconductor manufacturing. The project will focus on the development of innovative solutions for the reduction of water and energy consumption, which will result also in the mitigation of greenhouse effect. The project aims to achieve the result through a sequence of coordinated R&D actions involving facility and equipment development. The path to solution will be: a) Reduction of direct energy consumption through: • control of the idle mode of equipment • equipment and process modelling • optimization of process recipes on plasma equipment b) Reduction of D.I. water consumption through: • Introduction of new cleaning procedures; • Optimization of water consumption in critical process steps; • Water recycling and re-use. The final objective is to demonstrate new technologies that will enable the participating companies to achieve reduction in water and energy consumption in line with the targets that international organizations are defining for the next period.

Keywords: energy saving,water saving,manufacturing efficiency
Integration, Homogenisation and Extension of the Scope of Anthropometric Data Stored in Large EU Pools (EUROFIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Iceland,Greece,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-SME-DCL, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2353176.0
EU funding (EUR): 1710000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last decades, human body metrics have been used to improve human-product interaction. Along this period, the use of 1D-measurements in “classic” ergonomic applications (e.g. workplace design) has been extended to consumer goods industries such as the automotive, apparel, furniture or orthopaedic sectors. New technologies for the gathering, storage and analysis of anthropometric data (i.e. 3D scanners) have boosted the availability of digital anthropometric resources. Since 1999, over 16 large-scale national body scanning surveys have been conducted around the world (six in Europe) gathering 3D shape data from over 120,000 subjects (~50,000 Europeans). The availability of these data pools has created the opportunity to exploit shape information beyond current 1D-measure use. However, these data pools are dispersed and heterogeneous (e.g. obtained through different scanning technologies and owned by different organisations) and, above all, the exploitation of 3D data at industry level requires knowledge, skills and resources beyond the means of companies, especially SMEs. These barriers have until now confined the use of existing 3D shape data to scientific research. Our overall aim is thus to implement an online platform and an open framework that enables: 1) Designers and industrialists to draw useful shape information and use it in their product development processes in an easy and direct way 2) Database owners to pool the data they already hold and obtain revenues from its exploitation 3) Third party IT companies to develop new services to reuse pooled data in unforeseen ways R&D work will focus on the systematisation of proven methods for 3D shape data aggregation and analysis in a reliable but economically sustainable way, as well as the development of sector-specific applications and user-friendly interfaces. Project work will include the aggregation of 4 national databases and the running of a four-month demonstration by industrial end-users.

Keywords: digital anthropometry data,3d body scanner,morphometry,multivariate shape analysis,optimisation,ergonomics,design,sizing,fit,fashion,functionality,personal protective equipment,orthopedic
Language Resources for Portable Multilingual Spoken Dialogue Systems (PORTDIAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Greece,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-SME-DCL, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2462419.0
EU funding (EUR): 1874040.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Speech services are becoming an increasingly important market segment for Europe's SMEs. A major roadblock in producing low-cost high-quality spoken dialogue system (SDS) applications is the lack of linguistic resources that will enable the porting of SDS to new domains or languages. Currently, porting spoken dialogue systems to new domains is time-consuming, requires expertise in language engineering and iterative tuning. Although by now mature technologies exist that can facilitate SDS porting to new domains, e.g., ontology enrichment, linking text data to ontologies, automatic grammar induction, these technologies have not penetrated through to commercial systems yet. In PortDial, we bring together European SMEs that are developing state-of-the-art spoken dialogue systems and the handcrafted semantic components underlying such systems with research institutions at the forefront of progress in the automatic creation or enrichment of semantic language resources. Together with the commercial partners, we have identified a list of mature technologies that can help automate (or machine-assist) the process for the creation of SDS concepts, services and grammars. PortDial will result in 1) a commercial platform for quick prototyping of interactive spoken dialogue applications to new domains and languages, 2) the corresponding multilingual collections of concepts-services-grammars for specific application domains (marketed separately), and 3) a multilingual linked-data ontological corpus that can be freely used for spoken dialogue research and prototyping for non-commercial purposes. The resulting platform will reduce the effort for prototyping new application domains by up to 30%, and up to 50% for porting the application to new languages. The SDS linguistic resources will lower the barrier to entry for European SMEs to SDS technologies, allowing for inexpensive proof-of-concept demonstrator development, opening up new markets and application domains.

Keywords: spoken dialogue systems,interactive voice response systems,ontologies,linked data,grammars,portability,multilinguality
The Body-on-a-Chip (BoC) (BOC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1919000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1395000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

High attrition and failures rates in pharmaceutical and biotechnological drug development require a paradigm change towards more physiological human cell-based assays at an early time point in the process. The central idea of this proposal is to develop a versatile and reconfigurable pharmaceutical screening technology platform that relies on organotypic three-dimensional spherical microtissues. This platform will accommodate different types of human microtissues (tumor, brain, liver, heart etc.) and feature microfluidic interconnection between these tissues, thus mimicking the physiological context and conditions in a human body. Dosage of components or candidate drugs to, e.g., liver tissue will lead to the generation of metabolic products in the respective tissue compartment. These products then can be routed via the microfluidics to, e.g., connective tissue to assess the efficacy of the candidate drug and related adverse toxicological effects on the target tissue and functionally related tissues. This way, functional connectivity in a real body can be mimicked at the desired level of complexity, and the effects of drugs can be comprehensively assessed.

Keywords: microfluidics,tissue spheres,3d tissue,drug screening,pharmacology,organotypic tissue,body context
Annotation Resource Marketplace in the Cloud (ANNOMARKET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Bulgaria,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-SME-DCL, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2003654.0
EU funding (EUR): 1430000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

ANNOMARKET aims to revolutionise the text annotation market, by delivering an affordable, open market place for pay-as-you-go, cloud-based extraction resources and services, in multiple languages. This project is is driven by a commercially-dominated consortium, from 3 EU countries and with 43% of the budget assigned to SMEs. The key differentiating feature of ANNOMARKET is its open marketplace concept. In addition, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model reduces the complexity of deployment, maintenance, customisation, and sharing of text processing resources and services, making them affordable to SMEs – both users and resource providers. The main beneficiaries will be the SME providers of text analysis resources and services, who will be able to deploy their custom components/applications and receive revenue via the AnnoMarket marketplace. There will be a mixture of paid-for proprietary resources and services and free open-source ones, in different languages. AnnoMarket will also promote customisation and re-targetting to new vertical domains and languages. The open-source nature of the underlying infrastructure will foster a strong developer community and enable easy deployment on private and public cloud infrastructures. Pricing will be transparent (based on data volumes) and the business model self-sustainable. The techniques will be generic with many business applications, e.g. large-volume multi-lingual information management, business intelligence, social media monitoring, customer relations management. The project will also benefit society and ordinary citizens by enabling affordable enrichment of government data archives and health-related web content. The marketplace architecture will be refined and evaluated with early adopters from our focus group, covering these vertical domains, in five target languages.

Keywords: resource and service marketplace,large text analytics on the cloud,multilingual text analysis resources,multilingual text analysis services
GNSS DAta Pool for PerFormances PredIction and SimuLation of New AppLications for DevelopERs (GAPFILLER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Greece,Serbia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-SME-DCL, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1524927.0
EU funding (EUR): 1126536.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

With the increase of criticality level of the GPS applications, products manufacturers and developers are now requesting a relevant mean to predict performances and reliability of their future applications. Often SMEs have ideas that sometimes cannot be implemented because they depend on the availability of data resources or specialised tools that are too expensive to obtain. In this context, GAPFILLER project aims at filling the gap between big manufacturers and SMEs by providing the researchers and developers’ community with a unique extensible data pool enabling performances prediction and simulation of new Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based applications and algorithms. GAPFILLER consortium aim is to create quality content and innovative services and to allow people to access and use online content and services across GNSS technologies barriers. The main objective of the GAPFILLER project is to define, build and disseminate a powerful data pool of worldwide GNSS measurements enabling low cost tests campaigns, performances predictions and simulations of new GNSS based applications. Main targeted benefits are: -The development of an innovative use of a common GNSS database for performances assessment that will drastically reduce the cost of tests campaigns and certification process. -The adaptation of the EGNOS aeronautical integrity concept to new application domains that will allow SMEs to gain the know-how for exploiting it and getting competitive advantage. -The knowledge transfer between technology providers/data brokers and content providers (especially SMEs) boosting development speed of EGNOS and GALILEO services. By promoting adoption of EGNOS and emergence of a new data economy related to GALILEO, the consortium will maximize the Return Of Investment of one of the most important budget line of the European Commission that has already plan to invest 3.4 billion Euros for the implementation and launch of the GALILEO satellites constellation.

Keywords: galileo,gps,egnos,cloud computing,sme,performances prediction,data pool,web services.