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Defining FET research topics supporting the ICT challenges of mineral extraction under extreme geo-environmental conditions (EXTRACT-IT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 314925.0
EU funding (EUR): 249959.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Europe’s dependency on imports of strategic metallic minerals is growing every year despite efforts in the development of recycling technologies and advances in material science that allow for the replacement of these minerals by alternative substitutes. External geo-political circumstances are now directing the attention of policy makers to assess the feasibility of exploiting mineral resources within the EU that are located under such difficult formations and depths that a few years ago they would have been out of scope of mining operations. The technological challenges to extract these minerals are, however enormous. Fundamental breakthroughs will be needed in the fields of automation (e.g. self-organised swarms capable of adapting to dynamic geo-environmental conditions), tele-presence (e.g. completely new modalities for individual and group perception), data transfer and automated processing (e.g. self-aware and adaptive autonomic data processing systems) in order to build the clean, robot-operated, intelligent mines of the future. The objective of the present proposal is to define and develop a series of FET Proactive topics that will provide foundational ICT knowledge for Europe’s extractive sector to meet future technological challenges. This objective will be reached with the help of a foresight exercise that includes surveys and a series of complementary workshops. As a part of the foresight a future scenario will be created in which Europe is self-sustained in strategic minerals and large-scale underground developments are taking place. Working back in time by reversing the process that leads from basic research to full scale industrial demonstration, we intend to identify future industry requirements in the present and corresponding research avenues starting from the level of basic/exploratory sciences that could mature into technological solutions via applied research and demonstration by 2040 or beyond.

Keywords: fet proactive,robotics,mineral extraction,geology,extractive industry,mining,strategic minerals,emerging technologies,space
SIMPLI-CITY - The Road User Information System of the Future (SIMPLI-CITY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Ireland,Austria,Sweden,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4921467.0
EU funding (EUR): 3591991.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays, mobile Internet is available almost everywhere. Nevertheless, the impact of this "ubiquitous Web access" has not arrived at road user information systems with a few exceptions for navigation systems or traffic monitoring. Making full use of the Internet availability can enable a whole range of new services and apps for road users, helping them to make their journey safer, more comfortable, and more environmental friendly. In order to foster the wide usage of those services, a holistic framework is needed which structures and bundles potential services that could deliver data from various sources to road user information systems. SIMPLI-CITY will provide this framework. SIMPLI-CITY will facilitate two main RTD results: 1. A European wide service platform allowing the creation of mobility services as well as creation of corresponding apps. This will enable third parties to create a wide range of interoperable, value-added services, and apps for drivers and other road users. 2. An end user assistant allowing road users to make use of the information provided by apps and to interact with them in a non-distracting way – based on a speech recognition approach. Analogously to the "App Revolution", SIMPLI-CITY adds a "software layer" to the hardware-driven "product" mobility. SIMPLI-CITY will take advantage of the great success of mobile apps. These apps have created new opportunities and even business models by making it possible for developers to create applications on top of the mobile device infrastructure. Many of the most advanced and innovative services have been developed by new players, who bring in fresh ideas. Hence, SIMPLI-CITY will support third party developers to efficiently realise and sell their mobility-related service ideas by a range of tools and methods. For this, SIMPLI-CITY will deliver a Mobility Service Framework (including according Service and Application Marketplaces), Mobility-related Data as a Service, and the Personal Mobility Assistant, and will build example services.

Keywords: road user information system,service platform,data integration,personal mobility assistant,mobility apps
Learning Layers - Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters (LAYERS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Estonia,Austria,Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Finland,Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12476284.0
EU funding (EUR): 9900000.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Learning Layers develops a set of modular and flexible technological layers for supporting workplace practices in SMEs that unlock peer production and scaffold learning in networks of SMEs, thereby bridging the gap between scaling and adaptation to personal needs. By building on recent advances in contextualized learning, these layers provide a meaningful learning context when people interact with people, digital and physical artefacts for their informal learning, thus making learning faster and more effective. Building on mobile learning research, we situate learning into physical work places and practices to support situated, faster and more meaningful learning. Learning Layers provide a shared conceptual foundation independent of the tools people use and the context they are in. Learning Layers are based on a common light-weight, distributed infrastructure that allows for fast and flexible deployment in highly distributed and dynamic settings. We apply these technologies in sectors that have been particularly hesitant to take up learning technologies, i.e. health care and building and construction. Involving two representative and large-scale regional SME clusters allows us to involve end users in co-design of the system and later scale up the approach to more than 1,000 learners within 4 years. By inviting a larger set of stakeholders to adapt and build on our solutions and through research in sustainable business training models, the project will generate significant impact by boosting the ability of regional innovation systems to adapt to change and thereby remain competitive, on the individual, organisational and regional level. We demonstrate the impact in the two chosen sectors, but widen the scope to other sectors and regions towards the end of the project.

Keywords: workplace learning,informal learning,learning technologies,small and medium enterprises,regional cluster,scaffolding,peer production,mobile learning,social semantic technologies,participatory design
MyGrid; Energy Efficient and Interoperable Smart Energy Systems for Local Communities (GREENCOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,Denmark,Ireland,Denmark,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4850745.0
EU funding (EUR): 3458976.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

One promising answer leveraging the time frame of investment in changes of power supply and demand is to optimize the grid capacity with Smart Grids. However, a managed customer demand with intensive grid monitoring, automation and reliable customer flexibility is needed to allow for a real and secure reduction in residual capacity. The aim of GreenCom is to utilise the flexibility and intelligence in the low-voltage demand and local supply side infrastructure to create increased regulation capacity and reserve power in the centralised power grid by extending the means to effectively and securely manage demand and supply within defined boundaries. GreenCom thus aims to balance local exchange of energy at the community microgrid level (e.g. Smart Cities), to avoid destabilizing the centralized grid. GreenCom adopts a business model driven development approach, mapping dynamic value constellations to business cases capturing the service concept idea to consolidate user requirements and drive the user evaluation. The GreenCom Smart Energy System will collect, aggregate and analyse data from appliance level consumption such as appliances, smart home devices, sensors and actuators and smart meters. The data analysis will provide real-time consumption data on type of devices and location together with short term forecasts (up to 4 hours) aggregated over several sectors of the grid. A value based demand control based on individual consumer contracts with attractive tariffs, reward/penalty clauses and other elements will allow intelligent energy demand management and control including local energy generating and storage installations. GreenCom will allow energy distributors to start focussing on Energy System effectiveness. Energy suppliers will be able to shift from Smart Power Grid to Smart Energy System allowing e.g. DSOs or Retailers, to balance electricity load demand without adversely affecting grid stability and reducing critical peak situations.

Keywords: smart energy systems,smart grid,demand management,res,business models
Intelligent Synthesis and Real-tIme Response using Massive Streaming of Heterogeneous Data (INSIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Ireland,Germany,Germany,Israel,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3921739.0
EU funding (EUR): 2779995.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The instrumentation of the world with diverse sensors, smart phones, and social networks acquires exascale data that offer the potential of enhanced science and services. In particular, a better societal management of the overall cycle of disaster monitoring and response becomes possible, citizens may now become involved in decision making and data acquisition (crowd-sourcing), and advanced planning can conserve resources. Current systems are limited in three important elements: (i) lack of methods for handling heterogeneous data streams in real-time,(ii) absence of social computing integrated with big data analysis, (iii) real-time prediction and alarm capabilities have not yet been incorporated into the infrastructure for intelligent management. The goal of the INSIGHT project is to radically advance our ability of copying with emergency situations in Smartcities by developing innovative technologies, methodologies and systems that will put new capabilities in the hands of disaster planners and city personnel to improve emergency planning and response It brings together a strong group of researchers with domain experts in three representative case studies of urban transportation, flood management, and emergency response. A large collection of data sets of different types ranging from Twitter to Traffic Flow Sensing and Mobile Phone Data are available and in use by the project partners Dublin City Council, German Federal Office of Disaster Assistance BBK, Fraunhofer, University of Athens and Technion. Their value will be enhanced by data analysis and data fusion. Geographically and socially correlated aspects will be taken into account by novel methods for streams, parallel data handling (Hadoop, GPUs), and data analysis. Data will be enriched by pro-active social computing with incentives and prepared for different usages. INSIGHT aims at a participatory approach to the automated management of resources and emergency response in smart cities and countries.

Keywords: sensor networks,smartphones,big data,streaming data,social networks,twitter,emergency response,traffic monitoring,real-time event processing,data mining,machine learning,smartcities
Multi-coRe, multi-level, WDM-enAbled embedded optical enGine for Terabit board-to-board and rack-to-rack parallel optics (MIRAGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Austria,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Israel,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4314208.0
EU funding (EUR): 2999964.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Data centers are becoming the hot spots of internet, and content providers request a technology for practical and cost-effective upgrade to Tb/s capacities. MIRAGE is an industry-driven photonic integration project that aims to provide this technology and present a viable path to scale datarate (+640%), power (-70%) and no. of fibrer (-90%) by squeezing bulk parallel optical components into 3D integrated chips. MIRAGE will introduce new dimensions of parallelization in interconnects to gracefully upgrade capacity and density combining for the first time multi-core fiber multiplexing, coarse WDM multiplexing and multi-level modulation. To address cost, performance and volume MIRAGE relies on the strengths of Si photonics and electronics and extends it using the right synergies with established photonic integration materials (InP and glass) to provide a future-proof, upgradeable technology. MIRAGE optical board will provide efficient (2dB) vertical coupling for photonic 3D integration and compact wavelength multiplexing on 8” Si wafers. MIRAGE will exploit the efficiency of VCSEL technology to develop the first SOI-compatible 40Gb/s InP VCSELs at 1550nm and will upgrade them to 80Gb/s through simple multi-level modulation. To further address parallelization, MIRAGE will integrate the InP VCSELs in monolithic WDM arrays. Leveraging advances in single-mode multicore fiber MIRAGE aims to mitigate cabling cost and size and reduce chip area for pigtailing by developing low-cost glass multi-core interfaces with simple assembly on the SOI chip. 4-element silicon TIA and VCSEL driver arrays will be implementedfor 40 Gbaud multi-level modulation. Low-cost industry-compatible 3D assembly techniques will be optimized for high-speed electro-optic chips, bringing a >50-fold improvement in electrical vias capacitance. MIRAGE will deliver fully functional 3D PICs: a) 208 Gb/s board-level interconnect b) 320 Gb/s QSFP active optical cable (AOC) c) 960 Gb/s CXP AOC with QSFP breakout.

Keywords: tb/s active optical cable,optical interconnects,multi-core fibre coupling,1550nm vcsel,through silicon via,3d electronic-photonic integrated component,cmos photonics,laser inscripted waveguides
Ameliorating the Sustainable Control of Invasive Insects (ASCII)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,France,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260400.0
EU funding (EUR): 260400.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The general aim of this project is to promote the integration of new practices (derived from fundamental research in biology, genetics & biological control) for promoting the sustainable control of two invasive pests the tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta and the spotted wing fly Drosophila suzukii by: (i) strengthening the links between researchers from several disciplines, needed to conduct top-quality programs of sustainable control (ii) integrating updated techniques for characterizing the populations of each pest and natural enemy (iii) refining methods for monitoring and detecting different stages of each pest and natural enemy (iv) assessing target and non-target effects from pesticides (v) characterizing the semiochemicals regulating tritrophic interactions in selected cropping systems (vi) supporting and training researchers/growers/advisors in invaded and to-be-invaded countries ASCII will support the development of sustainable control programs against two invasive pests by making possible durable collaboration between partners working against the same crop pests, each partner participating with its own expertise and helping visiting partners in familiarizing with different techniques and approaches finalized to the sustainable control of target pest. The impact of ASCII can be summarized as follows: improving research collaborations for the development of techniques in crop protection; improving communication and exchange of expertise, methods and ideas through the creation of stable and durable networks of single researchers and research teams; enhancing the sustainable control against 2 pests currently invading Europe.The strong link between each partner and local farmers and stakeholders guarantees the immediate resonance of the results representing the modern concept of research that is devoted to the solution of practical problems in agriculture. The resources from the European network ENDURE will be taken advantage of.

Keywords: tuta absoluta,drosophila suzukii,parasitoids,pesticide resistance,non-target effects
Technology Enhanced Learning Livinglab for Manufacturing Environments (TELL ME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Learning and Access to Cultural Resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium,Finland,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Spain,Portugal,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8306336.0
EU funding (EUR): 5900000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The TELL-ME project (Technology Enhanced Learning Livinglab for Manufacturing Environments) aims to develop and trial in authentic contexts (SME-driven human-centric and service-oriented manufacturing workplaces) an innovative cross-enterprise methodology and IT platforms for continuous education and training in heterogeneous business ecosystems, blending Precision Teaching (PT) lifelong learning and Living Lab (LL) participative co-creation aspects in ways that can address more business needs than traditional training. This responds to several EU 2020 Strategy indicated in several Flagship Initiatives like “An Agenda for new skills and jobs", "An industrial policy for the globalisation era", “Innovation Union” and “Digital Agenda for Europe” and summarised in the two questions below: - How can SMEs blue collar workers in less advanced industrial sectors keep the pace of innovation of technologically advanced ones? - How can TEL-based training be positioned and improved, in order to have more impact on industrial sectors’ innovation and resilience? Five main challenges have been identified as fingerprints of the TELL-ME proposal: - Human-centred manufacturing and the increasing need to consider human factors and workers wellbeing in the production processes; - Service oriented Manufacturing and its increasing need to open, breed and govern globalised business ecosystems; - Learning Ecosystems are the new frontier of collaborative value networks on a global and cross-sector market; - Living Labs of SMEs and their need to constantly develop business-technical-social-market innovation via co-creation and inspirational environments; - Learning at the Workplace and its need for fast, punctual and personalized life-long learning that takes account of fluency-driven approaches to training, and trends in using TEL and OER for self-regulated learning.

Keywords: learning ecosystems and livinglabs co-learning,industrial workplaces,life-long learning,smes re- and up-skilling,digital divide bridging
Nanostructured Efficient White LEDs based on short-period superlattices and quantum dots (NEWLED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Russian Federation,France,Poland,United Kingdom,Italy,Finland,Lithuania,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-8, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11760676.0
EU funding (EUR): 8400000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

NEWLED will develop high efficiency and high brightness monolithic and hybrid all-semiconductor WHITE light-emitting GaN-based diodes. Power losses due to phosphor conversion and the problem of different ageing rates of the GaN LED pump will be eliminated by the development of phosphor free structures with increased brightness (power emitted per surface per angle). NEWLED will enhance the efficiency of yellow InGaAlP/AlGaAs LEDs by bandgap engineered superlattices. Novel light extraction approaches will target advanced directionality and colour adjustment. Values of 50 to 60% overall efficiency with a conversion of greater than 200 lm/W in the exploited warm white LEDs are targeted as well as the realisation of a colour rendering index (CRI) of greater than 95. Advanced packaging will enable effective heat dissipation and light management. The devices will have immediate applications in automotive, industrial lighting and displays industries. Widespread implementation would reduce global energy consumption by approximately 10% and reduce CO2 emissions by 3Bn tonnes with consequent economic and environmental benefits.

Keywords: light emitting diodes,luminaires,quantum dots,band gap engineering,semiconductors,lighting,photonics