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Development of a sustainable and cost effective ballast water treatment technology with reverse pulsed DC electric field that excludes formation of oxidising free radicals (ECOSEASAFE)

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: Norway,Italy,Germany,Poland,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1257697.0
EU funding (EUR): 956881.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the proposed project is development of a ballast water treatment system by using a pulsed DC electrical field for microbial inactivation of invasive species in ballast water. The EcoSeaSafe applies an electrical designed pulse shape with instant reversation of the current direction, which generates a reversed electric field that prevents a secondary reaction of radicals which change the water chemistry while fully eliminating target species specified by the gudelines of International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Transfer of invasive marine species by ballast water is a major global ecological and economic problem. As a result, IMO has adopted a convention that requires proper management of ballast water that all ships must comply with progressively staring in 2009. There are, however very few treatment systems that have obtained IMO approval in spite of efforts being done a number of technology developers and vendors. With huge global market for new ballast water treatment technologies, the proposers of EcoSeaSafe have identified a new and big market opportunity that can enable them exploit a superior technology and enhance their competitive position and economic growth as well as international network of cooperation. The EcoSeaSafe system is a cost effective, environmentally accepted, user friendly, compact and safe technology. It has minimal footprint and can be easily installed on new ships and retrofitted on existing vessels without disrupting the structural integrity of the vessel. To attain the technological objectives of the proposed project, innovative developments will be undertaken that include development of innovative pulse generator, a novel radical reactor of innovative alloys and a process control unit for controlling the required pulse frequency, amplitude and shape as well as efficient inactivation with minimal electrode distance.

Keywords: ballast water,invasive species,eco system,reversed dc electric field
Development of a combined and automated hard turning and polishing production system – effective, automated, safe and integrated hard turning and polishing (EASITAP)

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,Germany,France,Netherlands,Germany,Türkiye,Hungary,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1483500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1100000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

European SMEs which produce high precision parts by means of hard turning are facing a steady loss of competitiveness in their growing markets since existing manufacturing technologies do not fulfil increasing demands on part quality and variety. During the last years the competition has worsen due to up-coming low wages countries outside Europe and an increasing cost pressure. Additionally these days the economic crisis causes a tremendous drop in orders. To sustainably ensure the survival and competitiveness of the SMEs a technology must be provided which enables a faster part-production with concomitantly better part-qualities. This technology has to consist of an automated production system integrated in one lathe which ensures a reliable flexible production of high-precision parts of hardened steel. To achieve this goal, the development of several components to be merged into an innovative production system for the reliable production of high-precision parts of hardened steel by means of the combined process of hard turning and polishing is obligatory. These components will encompass the following: - a new developed monitoring system will detect and avoid the generation of undesirable surface defects like so called white layers. - an optical measurement device will calibrate a new tool directly and measure the cutting edge geometry and wear of the tool in order to compensate form errors in conjunction with the controlling of the lathe - the system will be completed by a polishing device to be able to produce up to optical surface qualities. To reach the envisaged high-level efficiency of the production system concerning the quality and production times the process strategy of the combined process of hard turning and polishing will be developed. Thus the “easiTAP” system enables the SMEs to a reliable production and a drastic reduction of non-productive times and thus to a significant increase of their productivity.

Keywords: - combined hard turning and polishing - process monitoring
Farm and Agriculture Stabilised Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion (SMART TANK)

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,Germany,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1016074.42
EU funding (EUR): 799462.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

EU farmers face significant costs related to the management and disposal of on-farm organic waste arisings such as manures and slurries through having to comply with specific EU legislation such as the Nitrates Directive and the Landfill Directive. Rising waste disposal costs have been cited as a contributing factor to the estimated closure of 7,000 EU farms per annum. Our consortium consists of five SMEs who manufacture and supply a range of equipment for anaerobic digestion (AD) systems in agricultural, wastewater treatment and municipal waste management markets. Whilst AD-based markets are growing and are expected to continue to grow over the next 5 years and beyond, they are dominated by larger enterprises - eight companies provide 80% of the municipal solid waste market in the EU - which makes competition on a cost basis difficult. Existing technologies for the anaerobic digestion of agricultural waste at the farm-scale are based on mesophilic processes and have a number of associated limitations, such as the requirement for codigestion with a high percentage of energy crops, a high capital equipment cost and a long payback period. The Smart-Tank project will develop a reliable thermophilic AD system with closed-loop control that will give us a clear technology differentiated product and offer the following benefits to farmers: • Standalone operation. • Demonstrate minimum biogas production levels of 90m3 per tonne feedstock from codigestion with a minimum manure or slurry content of 60%. • Have a payback period of less than 6 years. The development of the Smart-Tank system will allow our SME consortium to compete in the growing market in Germany, France and the UK for agricultural AD technology and the estimated €2.13Bn EU market for the AD of municipal solid waste.

Keywords: anaerobic digestion,annular tank,automation
Whole Life Rail Axle Assessment and Improvement (WOLAXIM)

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,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1495431.4
EU funding (EUR): 1157590.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Axles for railway trains are carefully engineered and high value items that are designed to last 20 years or more. There is however a current trend for axles to be withdrawn from service before this because of corrosion on the surface long before their design lives. The decision to withdraw from service is taken without the full knowledge of the way in which the failure will result from corrosion, as this requires a crack to initiate and the mechanism for this is unknown. Cracks in axles can also initiate from ballast strikes and electrical faults. The failure rate is about 2 axles per year in the UK. If these withdrawals take place while a train is in-service there is a consequent significant cost associated while the train is out of service for additional maintenance. Inspection of the axles for cracking takes place at intervals set by knowledge of crack growth rates and inspection sensitivities. The most sensitive inspection methods are surface inspection methods designed for crack detection (such as MPI, eddy current and ACFM) and these do not typically attempt to measure the corrosion. However inspection of axles while the train is in service is still required and this is inconvenient and costly for the train operators. WOLAXIM aims to provide three new and better methods of crack detection and corrosion assessment for railway axle inspection. One method is for the exposed body of the axles (intended primarily for freight wagon or passenger trailing axles) and can be carried out automatically as the vehicles pass an inspection station that could be installed in carriage sidings or marshalling yards. A second method is specifically for the hollow axles of high speed trains and aims to improve the speed of the inspection and improve crack detection reliability. This could be deployed while the train is in depot overnight and without dismantling of the wheelset. The third method is to improve the measurement of corrosion and therefore the sentencing of corro

Keywords: failure,failure rate,significant cost,cracking,senstive inspection,corrosion,train operators,automatically,carriage sidings,crack detection,railway axles
Harmonised Semantic Meta-Search in Distributed Heterogeneous Databases (HARMOSEARCH)

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: France,Austria,Germany,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1435417.99
EU funding (EUR): 961303.2
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Objective of HarmoSearch is to leverage the use of an existing mediation and harmonisation service for the European tourism market, called Harmonise, by adding new components of clear market value addressing specific user needs. The current version of Harmonise, Harmonise 2.0, is an online service to exchange data with others partners without the need to change the local data schema. Research work is needed to develop an (semi-) automatic mapping tool, which allows users to generate mappings without any technological knowledge or mapping skills, and a semantic meta-search component, based on a semantic registry, to addresses scientific issues like mapping of search queries and intelligent routing to appropriate data sources. HarmoSearch is based on the work of past projects and activities, like Harmonise (IST 2000-29329), Harmo-TEN (eTEN C510828), a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA 15992:2009 E), activities of the non-profit HarmoNET association, the euromuse.net project (eTEN C046229) and portals like e.g. VisitEurope.com. This project brings together five SME partners with a history in the domain and of which some have already made investments in the Harmonise system in the past. They would benefit from a broader use of the Harmonise system in general, but each partner also brings a specific need in addition. Even in a conservative business model, carefully evaluating future incomes, the project could generate additional sales on a five year horizon doubling the total project volume and exceeding the investment needed by SME partners for this project. Not considering the overall positive impact on the European tourism market by overcoming technical obstacles for new and improved services. Project results are first of all the ownership of the SME partners, while RTD partners have the right to use knowledge for their research work and other partners may use the outcomes for their networks (HarmoNET and euromuse.net).

Keywords: semantic systems,ontologies,meta-search,automatic mapping,interoperability,harmonisation,mediation
Diagnosing Parkinson’s Disease by neuromuscular function evaluation (DIPAR)

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,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Finland,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1776955.0
EU funding (EUR): 1374117.44
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

MANUS Neurodynamica, a high-tech startup based in the North East of England has developed a novel system to detect and characterize the earliest changes in the neuromuscular system associated with the onset of Parkinson’s disease. This illness, which affects 5 citizens in every 1000 over the age of 60, is chronic, degenerative and currently incurable. Although there are promising therapies on the horizon, the best patient outcome available today can only be delivered on basis of early and accurate diagnosis, leading to superior management and care planning, resulting in enhanced quality of life for the patient. Across the developed world, the population is ageing, leading to increases per capita in neuromotor conditions. Based upon Manus’ existing technology, it is intended to develop: • A novel intelligent decision support system, trained against live patient data capable of discerning markers of PD • A communications framework, supporting secure data transfer between remote clinics and healthcare centres and the MANUS central service • An enhanced version of the unique and patented hand-held stylus, capable of detecting the minute movements indicative of Parkinson’s and other neuromotor diseases • A preclinical trial, conducted at the University Medical Centre Groningen (Netherlands), demonstrating the efficacy of the system. The proposed consortium is a new, vertically integrated supply chain, leveraging significant revenues from the sale and licensing of the project end results through collaboration with other innovative SMEs involved in the DiPAR project.

Keywords: health care-neurology-biomedical-device-development project-diagnostics-parkinson's disease
Developing innovative method for recycling used chip board furniture and plastics by producing new environment friendly reusable multipurpose composite material (FURNITREUSE)

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: Poland,Hungary,Germany,Germany,Lithuania,Poland,Spain,Poland,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1364661.9
EU funding (EUR): 1024179.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Each year thousands of tons wood based furniture including scrapped particle board and panels end their lives being thrown away by their users. At present there is no effective method for utilizing such waste other then dumping in landfills or incineration. This however means more space on landfills needed for storage of waste or contributes to the global warming by generating carbon dioxide and multitudes of potentially harmful substances released while combusting plates painted with different lacquers and surface varnishes. In parallel, plastics such as ABS used in desktop computers, screens and peripherals pose another challenge for recyclers. Currently after being separated from metal and electronic components they are crushed and milled locally, and then delivered for final recycling. Unlike with other plastics such polyethylene, this method only moves the problem away (often sending them outside Europe) without solving it accordingly. To meet the need it is proposed to blend crushed particle boards and plastics such as ABS in strictly controlled process deploying innovative heating technique to obtain a new type of a composite material. The range of proposed application of the composite material is vast including first applications in transportation (replacement of wood pallets) and garden infrastructure. The proposed process is environmentally friendly as no chemical compounds needs to be added to activate and control it. The early experiments with this new composite material confirmed on its expected physical and mechanical characteristics. It is further foreseen this new composite material will be further recycled as it reaches the end of life time. The use of proposed technology can inevitably change the recycling practices and can generate additional revenue streams for SMEs engaged in recycling sector.

Keywords: chip board and polymer processing,plastics waste,wood replacement,microwave heating
Highly sensitive and specific low-cost lab-on-a-chip system for Lyme disease diagnosis (HILYSENS)

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: Spain,Spain,Portugal,Finland,Germany,Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1553639.06
EU funding (EUR): 1111108.65
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of HILYSENS is to develop a novel lab-on-chip diagnostic tool to improve clinical diagnostic, disease monitoring and treatment of Lyme Disease by enabling specific and sensitive detection of the human serological response against its causative agent Borrelia burgdoferi infections. Lyme Disease is the most common tick-borne infection in Europe with around 85,000 new cases per year and its incidence is increasing due to climate change. Current laboratory diagnostic methods lack sensitivity and specificity to detect early cases as well as late manifestations of the disease such as chronic or autoimmune-related infections. For this reasons, disease incidence is underestimated as many cases go mis- or undiagnosed. Late, delayed, or inadequate treatment can lead to serious symptoms such as neuroborreliosis or arthritis, which can be disabling and difficult to treat. HILYSENS will develop a specific multi-antigen assay in a lab-on-a-chip device to detect Borrelia infections. HILYSENS will provide a compact and robust lab-on-chip system, designed to work with small volumes and without the need of expert operators. This tool together with a portable reader and user-friendly software will enable more precise, accurate and reproducible testing making it possible to become the standard tool for the disease diagnosis. A novel production approach for the lab-on-a-chip will be developed which will enable to target really low mass-production costs, overcoming one of the main issues of the lab-on-a-chip technology and opening great market opportunities for the participant SMEs. Sensitive and reliable patient diagnosis provided by HILYSENS device will optimise resources available to medical practitioners, heavily reducing the current costs of the disease, increasing profitability and most importantly, patients’ quality of life.

Keywords: lyme disease,infectious diseases diagnostics,mev ion lithography,multi-antigen serological assays
Barcelona Conference on European Research Infrastructures (ECRI2010)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: General Activities
Destination: General Activities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2010-10-31
Duration (months): 11.0
Total project cost (EUR): 761232.0
EU funding (EUR): 170000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The sixth European Conference on Research Infrastructures (ECRI2010) will take place in Barcelona on March 23-24, 2010, under the Spanish European Council Presidency. In line with the previous successful events in Strasbourg (2000), Trieste (2003), Nottingham (2005), Hamburg (2007) and Versailles (2008), the overall objectives of the conference will be: 1) to explore means of structuring and strengthening the European Research Area 2) to increase the efficiency of creating new facilities, 3) to intensify the exchange of views between decision-makers at international level. Following the intensive and important discussion of research infrastructures (RI) at the Fifth European Conference on Research Infrastructures in Versailles, Barcelona Conference will be focussed on: - the European Strategy for RIs - the prioritization of new RIs - the political decision making for the selection and location of new RIs relatively to existing ones - the e-infrastructure for Science - the Management and financial issues for the RIs within ERA - the Governance and future of RIs in ERA The day before the opening, on Monday 22nd of March, the opening of the ALBA Synchrotron will be organized, with the assistance of the Spanish Royal family and the Spanish President. The day after the conference, on Tuesday 25th of March, a visiting program to Research Infrastructures of interest in the area for Barcelona will be offered to the conference participants, including ALBA synchrotron and MareNostrum at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. During the conference, an international press tour will be organized, including assistance to the opening sessions, presentation from different Spanish RIs, and visits to different RIs in the area of Barcelona.

Keywords: ecri,esfri,research infrastructures