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Innovative risk-based tools for ship safety inspection (SAFEPEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Norway,France,Netherlands,Germany,Greece,Sweden,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-TRANSPORT-2013-MOVE-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3662029.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499968.5
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Ships are subject to inspections from different stakeholders, such as port states, classification societies, ship owners, managers and operators, among others. Each one has its own inspection method depending upon its role in the vessel operation. Consequently, all inspections monitor the ship condition and report respective data. However no means exist today to inter-relate the data which are systematically collected by the stakeholders. In fact, few studies have investigated the effectiveness of the different inspections methods; therefore, it is uncertain to which extent the current inspection regimes are contributing to reduce accidents. On the other hand, risk-based methods are gaining more importance in different industries. Initially, catastrophic accidents in the shipping industry demonstrated the need for proactive safety furthermore risk-based methods allow consideration of safety in processes. Risk assessment methodologies are based in the systematic or quantitative collection of potential hazards and end up with qualitative measures to eliminate or reduce these hazards. The SAFEPEC project aims to promote proactive safety and develop a ‘unified risk-based framework’ built upon the analysis of historical data of casualties, near miss cases, deficiencies and non-conformities that are detected by various types of inspections. Another outcome of the project is a software prototype that enables the interoperability and coherent interpretation of those data sources; and can contribute to the early detection of failure, either in the ship structure or its equipment. Workshops and other engagement activities will be organised to collect the stakeholder views about the products developed during the project. Based on the feedback obtained along these events, a set of recommendations for proactive ship inspection policy will be elaborated.

Keywords: risk assessment,ship safety,inspections,preventive policy,inspection technology,e-inspection,vulnerabilities,risk analysis,near-loss incidents,casualties,deficiencies,port state control
Enhanced Process Monitoring and Control Technology to Accelerate Development of Bioresorbable Polymeric Medical Devices (BIO-POLYTEC)

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: Ireland,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Netherlands,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1015391.2
EU funding (EUR): 787595.95
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The manufacture of bioresorbable medical devices for temporary implantation inside the human body is growing into a high-value industry with many benefits over traditional devices. Bioresorbable devices do not need a removal operation, reducing patient trauma and significant healthcare costs. Due to the ability to add antibacterial or antibiotic drugs and to control the release rate at the implant site, such devices can reduce the number of post-operative complications and open up possibilities for new therapies. However, development times for new devices can be lengthy and extremely expensive. Bioresorbable materials have a high cost and are difficult to process, resulting in high scrap rates. The addition of fillers such as bioactive particles further complicate the manufacture. In Bio-PolyTec, sensor technology - centering on optical spectroscopic techniques - will be developed for in-process monitoring of the key quality measures of polymer degradation and additive dispersion. The availability of this information in real-time rather than after time-consuming and expensive laboratory testing represents a significant improvement in Quality Control for bioresorbable devices as well as enabling better process control. The influence of typical processing procedures on the degradation and mixing and hence subsequent bioresorption/release behaviour and mechanical properties will be fully investigated for the commercial products of the consortium SMEs to optimise their processes to achieve specific and consistent product requirements. In particular the processing of Polylactic Acid (PLA) and dispersion of bioactive Calcium Phosphate particles for orthopaedic implants will be investigated among other polymer/filler systems. The innovations in sensor technology will extend outside the consortium to enable other device manufacturers to reduce scrap rates and hence production costs for bioresorbable devices. The 'trial-and-error' guesswork is taken out of the process development stage for new products, significantly reducing the time and cost and stimulating activity in the market. Possible batch-to-batch variation will be eliminated, avoiding adverse behaviour of the products after implantation in a patient.

Keywords: polymer processing,bioresorbable polymers,bioresorption rate,process monitoring,process spectroscopy,nir,process modelling,process control
Applying Pilot Models for Safer Aircraft (A-PIMOD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Czechia,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Czechia,Ireland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4772266.4
EU funding (EUR): 3472661.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The A-PiMod proposal addresses improved flight safety by proposing a new approach to human centred cockpit design, which expands the understanding of the human factor in joint human-machine system, taking into account increasing levels of operational complexity and new operational concepts (SESAR). The project will advance concepts for a fully adaptive and human centered automation, through the integration of Pilot behavioural and cognitive models with automation models – resulting in the generation of real time inferences about the Pilot state and mental picture. With this capability it will be able to support, in an adaptive and cooperative way, the total set of functions (both human and automation) necessary to the achievement of a safe flight under a performance driven ATM system (SESAR). In order to do so, the A-PiMod concept depends on an innovative multimodal human-machine interface, which provides a higher level of human-machine interactivity. This advanced interface will be coupled to a dynamic risk assessment evaluation tool, which enables the detection of potential safety gaps due to loss of Situational Awareness for example. This will further enhance the safety improvements of the proposed A-PiMOD human centred automation design, and associated cockpit interface. In addition, the project will advance new training concepts and allied interactive training tools, exploiting real time pilot or crew state inference. This will ensure that pilots become better and faster aware of the new design philosophy and of how to interact with the new systems. In addition to the extensive cockpit based validation exercises, more system based evaluations will be undertaken, to understand the broader safety and operational impact of the A-PiMOD system. Together with the A-PiMod Advisory Board and the industry participation, this will ensure that project results are taken up by the market in the earliest possible phase of new cockpit design.

Keywords: human centered design,cockpit,multimodal in-/output,cognitive pilot model,automation,real time,dynamic risk assessment,human centred automation,validation,cognitive model,situation awarenes
BIOtechnology for the recovery of valuable peptides from industrial RICE by-products and production of added value ingredients for nutraceuticals, functional foods and cosmetics (BIORICE)

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: Italy,Germany,France,France,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1633706.5
EU funding (EUR): 1164000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The nutraceutical, functional food and cosmetic EU and worldwide markets are rapidly evolving sectors always in need to develop new classes of products. One of the most important market trends is the use of new bio-based ingredients obtained by environment-friendly extraction processes and testing methods. Of particular importance is the re-cycling and valorization of agro-food industry by-products as feedstocks for the isolation of bioactive molecules. The BIORICE project aims to fill the gap of knowledge of the involved SMEs on rice protein by-product pre-treatment, peptide isolation and relative bioactivity and safety testing. In particular, BIORICE research activities will produce added value bioactive ingredients (semi-purified digestates and small molecular weight peptides) starting from protein by-products contained in the processing water of the rice starch production stream. The protein by-products will be pre-treated via biotechnological approaches (enzymatic proteolysis, microbial treatments) and different small molecular weight (lower than 15 kDa) peptides will be isolated by means of innovative eco-sustainable and not degrading techniques. A new method for in vitro evaluation of the skin sensitization potency will be developed so that the products will be tested without using laboratory animals. The BIORICE project brings together 7 partners distributed in 3 EU Member States and 1 Associated Country. In BIORICE 3 RTD Performers will make their multidisciplinary and complementary expertise in the areas of plant biotechnology, downstream processing and human tissue engineering available to 4 SMEs operating in the nutraceutical, food and cosmetic markets. The project results are expected to have a significant impact on the competitiveness of SME Participants that will be able to expand their business by adding to their product range new bioactive ingredients and protocols enabling new product formulations applicable in food, cosmetic and nutraceuticals sectors.

Keywords: rice by-products,bioactive peptides,molecular distillation,cosmetics,nutraceuticals,functional foods,enzyme hydrolysis,lactobacillus,langherans's cells
EUropean Training and Education for Medical Physics Experts in Radiology (EUTEMPE-RX)

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: Belgium,Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Greece,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1864346.2
EU funding (EUR): 1658000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Medical exposures for radiological examinations represent the highest and fastest growing contribution to manmade radiation exposure in the EU underlying the need for medical physics experts (MPEs), regulators and scientists in industry to bring in new research results and expertise and to deploy resources in addressing this important issue. The EC recognized the urgency and the EU tender ‘European guidelines for the Medical Physics Expert (MPE)’ (TREN/H4/167‐2009) was issued to develop and update the role of MPEs in Europe. The final report has been approved by the EC and includes an agreed mission statement and key activities for MPEs. The new qualification framework defines the MPE as an MP who, through planned advanced training and CPD, achieves the highest level possible (i.e., European Qualifications Level 8) in her/his specialty. However, it is recognized that few Member States have the expertise and facilities to provide the necessary training. A preliminary survey among National Organisations of MP and medical device companies showed that a dedicated training scheme has become a necessity. Three end-users were identified: the hospital MPE, the scientist in industry and regulators assessing exposures in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. The EUTEMPE-RX consortium will develop, put into practice and evaluate a new pilot EFTS for the MPE in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, which includes both face-to-face and on-line teaching. The aim is to ensure that candidates become knowledgeable about all current issues in radiation safety culture in hospitals and to make the MPE a radiation protection advocate for patients. The course will address the themes identified in the MELODI strategic research agenda, DoreMi and EMAN projects. A business plan will be developed for the sustainability of the network, which would provide a template for the development of similar programmes in the other specialties of medical physics.

Keywords: medical physics expert,radiology,medical exposure,low dose radiation,training scheme,network of excellence,experts,medical physics,e-learning,radiobiology,quality assurance,alara principle
Ex-post evaluation of Transport Research and Innovation in the FP7 ‘Cooperation’ Programme (TRI-VALUE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES for implementation of the TRANSPORT PROGRAMME
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,Greece
Call:  (FP7-SST-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 13.0
Total project cost (EUR): 643795.37
EU funding (EUR): 498211.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

TRI-VALUE will look back into the FP7 work on transport with the aim of performing an ex-post evaluation. The objectives are: (1) analyse implementation and management; (2) assess achievements and impacts of the transport research financed by FP7 (regarding specific objectives, economic, social and environmental impacts); (3) evaluate efficiency, effectiveness and relevance of the funding; and (4) assess sustainability and utility of the programmes. This information will be used to outline conclusions and recommendations for improving transport research and innovation. Given the complexity and timeframe of the topic, a straightforward methodology is proposed, inspired in consultancy projects. An inception meeting will be held to open direct a communication pathway with the Commission, to be maintained throughout the project. TRI-VALUE proposes to build its analytical framework based on the Research Impact Pathway methodology (developed in SITPRO and SITPRO Plus projects), to be adapted to reflect latest developments and address specific needs of TRI-VALUE (e.g. with inputs from MARPOS, METRONOME, ‘Interim Evaluation of the FP7’ and ‘Impact Assessment to Horizon 2020’). The assessment will then be prepared combining primary data (survey, project reviews and stakeholder consultation) and secondary data (databases, e.g. CORDA, SESAM; and from other projects, e.g. ‘Impact Assessment to Horizon 2020’ or EU TRAIN). This work will allow an analysis of performance across a set of indicators, complemented by a comparison with R&I systems from other economies. The team was established bearing in mind the need to capitalize knowledge from other projects. In addition to a balanced composition between consultants, research centres and universities, merging experience in transport with innovation systems and know-how of thematic areas within transport, the partnership brings in knowledge from, e.g. SITPRO, SITPRO Plus, MARPOS, METRONOME, Market-up, Pro Inno, EUTRAIN and DETRA.

Keywords: transport research and innovation,assessment methodologies,ex-post evaluation,research funding results,research funding impacts,societal challenges,transport policy,innovation union
EUropean PORTWorkers TRAIning Scheme (EU-PORTRAITS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Spain,Finland,Germany,Italy,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-TRANSPORT-2013-MOVE-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1403991.44
EU funding (EUR): 1388739.97
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

EU-PORTRAItS addresses the requirements of the SST2013.6-2 (Towards a competitive & resource efficient port transport system) topic facilitating the implementation of “broad & open dialog with the social stakeholders” under the unique goal of bringing EU ports at the forefront of competition by investing in the development of a well-trained, competent & strong human capital securing the employee rights at work. EU-PORTRAItS aims to examine the “map” of the EU ports ‘human capital’ in relation to the sector’s current and future needs & requirements for well educated, trained & qualified staff, who can ensure safe & efficient operations in EU ports, securing EU ports’ industry competitiveness. Through the establishment of a Network initially comprising key stakeholders from 7 EU Member States and additional European & International level experts and institutions, EU-PORTRAItS fosters an open dialog among parties to support policy decisions on the training of port workers in different fields of port activities. A well balanced, experienced & multidisciplinary consortium will: • Assess the future human resource requirements for EU ports in the 2030 horizon (D2.4) • Develop a template for systematically summarizing information on port training (D2.5) • Facilitate an effective, broad and open dialogue of key stakeholders (D2.2) • Evaluate current training processes (D3.8) • Identify H&S priorities and assess them within the context of future training requirements (D4.2, D4.3) Facilitate Cross-fertilization of the project results to different environments (D5.4)

Keywords: port workers training framework,social dialogue,human resources,future trends and labor demand profiles
Grey Area Mitigation for Hybrid RANS-LES Methods (GO4HYBRID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1310254.1
EU funding (EUR): 993410.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The aeronautical industry lacks confidence in the accuracy of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in areas of highly non-linear, unsteady flows close to the flight envelope borders, which demands advanced approaches and methods. The family of Hybrid RANS-LES Methods (HRLM) is the best candidate for the next generation of CFD methods for increased fidelity at industrially-feasible expense. While HRLM have been proven to perform considerably better than conventional (U)RANS approaches in situations with strong or massive flow separation, they are hampered by the Grey Area issue once they have to deal with thin separation regions and where shear layer instabilities are weaker. As exactly these areas are of high importance for aircraft performance (lift, loads) the acceptance of HRLM strongly depends on the ability to mitigate the extent of the Grey Area (GA). With the new/advanced Grey Area mitigation approaches, the Go4Hybrid project offers hybrid RANS-LES methods that improve predictive capability with increased flexibility and reduced user decision load. Hence, the incentive for future use of these highly sophisticated methods goes in line with a considerably high impact: • Progress beyond the state-of-the-art for non-zonal methods is achieved by the development and demonstration of generally-applicable extensions to mitigate the Grey Area problem, thereby extending their applicability to important industrial flows at the performance frontiers. • For embedded methods, a focus will be placed on improving methods so that they are applicable to arbitrary complex geometries, as opposed to many existing techniques that require e.g. canonical boundary layer assumptions or homogeneous flow directions and are hence fundamentally less flexible. In general, development work will pursue a number of key goals contributing to extended applicability, improved accuracy, increased flexibility, reduced user decision load and increased Technology Readiness Level of hybrid approaches.

Keywords: turbulent flow simulation,grey area,hybrid rans-les,rans,les,non-zonal methods,embedded methods
Innovative counter rotating fan system for high bypass ratio aircraft engine (COBRA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,France,Romania,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-Russia, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3500626.45
EU funding (EUR): 1198409.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of COBRA is to use technology breakthroughs to overcome the insufficient noise performance of the counter-rotating fan tested in VITAL FP6 Program. This will be achieved through exploring higher by-pass ratio (15-25) resulting in much lower blade tip speed and blades count. The designs shall comply also with higher or equal aerodynamic efficiency compare to the VITAL ouputs. COBRA is structured to benefit from the existing skills of both EU and Russian partners. It results in multidisciplinary design conception/optimization of the Ultra High Bypass-Ratio (UHBR) Counter Rotating Turbo Fan architecture. COBRA is an ambitious project that aims at meeting the ACARE environmentally objectives, where strong improvements on new engine architecture is required. Based on the current state of the art, and on the complementary skills we gather in COBRA, on the actions planned in the project, the 9 partners take on ambitious and measurable objectives: to reduce noise by 9 EPNdB per operation vs. year 2000 in service engine with the same efficiency improvement as the one achieved in VITAL for lower BPR (~2 / 2.5 points) vs. year 2000 single fan state of the art. The COBRA consortium has been chosen to provide a multidisciplinary expertise, coming from different backgrounds from Europe and Russia Federation: industrial entities, research centers, university and SME. Coordinated by ONERA for the EU side and CIAM for the Russian side, COBRA´s consortium is largely built with former partners from the VITAL WP2.4 project. Following the success of this project, a natural cooperation has been created between partners and consolidated within DREAM FP6 Programme. COBRA leans on a very dynamic consortium, with partners that know each other and therefore shall lead to a reinforced cooperation between European and Russian scientists from different disciplines.

Keywords: eu-russia cooperation,counter-rotating fan,crtf,vital,nk-93,acare,environmentally target,ultra high by-pass ratio,acoustic signature,aerodynamic efficiency,high fuel efficiency,cror,dream