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Strengthen International Research Collaborations on the Development of Functional Surfaces between the EU, Brazil and Mexico (FUNCTIONAL)

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: Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159600.0
EU funding (EUR): 159600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The FUNCTIONAL project is aimed to achieve the strengthening cooperation between the European Union with third countries such as Brazil and Mexico in order to transfer knowledge in the development of functional and high-performance nanostructured surfaces. Therefore, the networking RTD activities among the four partners involved will strengthen the International dimension of the European Research Area by promoting the secondments of researchers either by receiving incoming staff members from Brazil and Mexico or by sending outgoing staff members from Spain and Germany. The main objectives of the joint exchange programme are: 1) Strengthening collaboration between European R&D centres of excellence and other organizations belonging to third countries. 2) Development of new research capacities in knowledge areas of large potential impact. 3) Maintaining sustainable research cooperation between EU countries and Brazil and Mexico through an exchange system between the partners not only during the project but also beyond it, promoting the creation of active and formal partnerships between the partners. The programme of exchange is focused on developing high-performance and functional nanostructured coatings able to withstand wear and corrosion hard conditions present during life-in service of many components for several industries. New advanced techniques (laser and friction stir based techniques) will be used in order to create this functional surface.

Keywords: nanostructured,cryomilling,coatings,friction stir processing,friction surfacing,laser beam deposition,corrosion,wear,aluminium alloys,magnesium alloys,materials engineering
mSAFE: mobile Smart Applications for Evacuation (MSAFE)

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: Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 65100.0
EU funding (EUR): 44100.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project will deliver advances in the understanding of cognition under stress, real-time semantic querying and mobile human-computer interaction. Research in this project will cover four related areas. Each area comprises of a theoretical, a system development and an evaluation part. The four areas are: 1) the semantic representation of data, where we will look into data representation and access issues from the suitability of different sensor setups to ontologies for and semantic queries of relevant data for evacuation scenarios; 2) the calculation and communication of evacuation routes, where we focus on the calculation of safe, easy exit routes and their reliable verbal communication ; 3) evacuation maps, which are graphical advices ideally suited to communicate evacuation information on a mobile device’s small screen; 4) user requests that will ensure that users can ask back in case they are unsure about how to proceed, which will avoid fatal situations arising from misunderstandings. Areas 2-4 will yield at least one system prototype that will be subsequently evaluated in human subject studies (area 1 will result in a framework for real-time data access crucial for the development of future systems).

Keywords: technological sciences,natural sciences
The Sixth Annual European Security Research Conference (SRC11)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Security
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2011-03-19
End date: 2011-11-18
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 439962.0
EU funding (EUR): 219981.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the Security Research Conferences is to disseminate information on Security Research in FP7 among all interested stakeholders. SRC`11 is a dissemination channel for current European research activities, including ongoing EU and national projects, and a platform for shaping the new European consortia, able to answer the identified technological shortcomings. Industry, science, end–users, Human Rights activists, government representatives, etc. are welcomed to come and share with the others their often contradictory opinions, and learn about different perspectives on known phenomena. Along with the presentations of the project’s findings there is a potential for finding partners for continuation of studies on more promising research directions and/or industrial implementation of its results. In line with the Lisbon Treaty, SRC`11 meeting will continue to search for most efficient and beneficial ways of cooperation between Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry with European Space Agency and European Defence Agency. It will have a direct impact on increased number of the high quality projects, which content will not duplicate with ideas from the other agencies. Thus, there will be more efficient management of funding of research topics. Finally, the Conference will be a chance to bring new partners from Third Countries, such as Ukraine, closer to the European research space of the FP7. It will be a good opportunity to exchange experience and meet new valuable partners, whom later can be invited to be a part of a research consortium.

Keywords: security research,presidency,cooperation,networking
Integrated Multidisciplinary & Multiscale Modeling for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (IM3OLED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2011-EU-RUSSIA, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-15
End date: 2014-04-14
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2158674.2
EU funding (EUR): 1499899.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

OLED lighting holds the promise of entering the annual global lighting-fixture market that is estimated between $US 50-90 billion. OLED technology provide an environmentally friendly technology that requires no mercury and can enable energy savings up to 90 % (per lamp socket). Global transition to such efficient lighting sources will dramatically reduce energy. Since the onset of the solid state lighting initiative towards the end of last century, the advance in OLED technology has been accelerated by a world-wide investment in material science, process technology, and infrastructure. The technological hurdles are still challenging and numerous, and achieving the target efficiency, colour, colour rendering and lifetime has only partly been accomplished. In the last decade, progress in raising OLED efficiency has stagnated and advanced optical techniques proved to be essential in order to meet the annually growing performance targets. Interest in modelling tools capable of simulating material properties and devices becomes more and more important in order to overcome the remaining fundamental challenges and to accelerate research and development. The overall goal of IM3OLED is the development, evaluation and validation of a predictive multi-scale and multi-disciplinary modelling tool that will accelerate research and development of organic light-emitting diodes for lighting applications. IM3OLED aims to strengthen the leading position of the European OLED Industry by enabling a higher integration level of predictive computational methodologies that accelerate research and development of OLED Lighting technology. Furthermore, accelerated R&D enables an earlier market introduction of OLED Lighting technology in Europe which will create long-term European manufacturing jobs due to the high degree of technical novelty and required specialization.

Keywords: oled,modeling,light extraction,electrical simulation
Persia and its Neighbours: the Archaeology of Late Antique Imperial Power in Iran (PERSIA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2488003.0
EU funding (EUR): 2488003.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The Sasanian Empire (3rd-7th c. AD) stretched from Mesopotamia to the west of the Indian Subcontinent. A pilot study has shown that major frontier walls and geometrical fortifications, whose scale and sophistication surpasses those in contemporary Europe, date to the Sasanian era, as do grand urban foundations and canal systems. Yet, excavations and surveys of Sasanian monuments have been far and few between and have mostly employed conventional approaches. Publications amount to a fraction of those on Roman studies. Our interdisciplinary project will provide unique insights into one of the great powers of the age, but the one that is most poorly understood. It will achieve this by bringing together a broad range of complementary methods. Satellite images will be analysed to examine the Empire’s frontier zones. Key sites will be selected for geophysical survey, targeted excavation, scientific dating and systematic analysis of artefacts, faunal and botanical remains. Combining large-scale survey with small-scale case studies promises to provide unrivalled insights into military infrastructure, urbanisation and rural settlement – intertwined phenomena, as agricultural surplus production enabled large-scale construction projects. Our in-depth study of Sasanian frontier territories promises to fill a major gap in our understanding of Late Antiquity and shed light on the reasons behind the longevity, economic and military dominance and dynamism of one of the largest empires of the ancient world, far beyond what has been achieved so far. The Empire’s capabilities challenge our traditional Eurocentric approach. While it is acknowledged that the later Caliphate’s military power and urban culture were unrivalled in Western Europe at the time, our project promises to show that some of these advances have their roots in the pre-Islamic era. Our project will open up new fields of research, and will have a major impact on archaeological studies and ancient and medieval history.

Keywords: cultural heritage,geomagnetism,geophysics,iran,medieval history,mesopotamia,military history,near east,persia,paleaomagnetism,sasanian empire,underwater archaeology
VARiability In safety critical Embedded Systems (VARIES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Embedded Computing Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ARTEMIS (Art-185)
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Belgium,Spain,Germany,Norway,Belgium,Denmark,Finland,Belgium,Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (ARTEMIS-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13179396.56
EU funding (EUR): 2200959.2
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

In order to succeed or even to survive, manufacturers and system integrators must be able to deliver new products with speed, diversity, high quality, and at an acceptable cost. Embedded Systems (ES) are rarely entirely conceived from scratch. Companies developing ES constantly face decisions about using and adapting existing products or product assets versus new developments. Determining the long term risk and benefits of such decisions is very challenging. Complex ES are often produced by assembling parts supplied by different partners. This adds extra complexity that all actors in the supply chain need to manage. Safety critical ES product ecosystems require mechanisms allowing safe and trusted integration of ES components. Furthermore, safety critical ES need to comply with stringent safety standards. Determining the safety level based on individual parts’ safety characteristics is far from straightforward. The main goal of the VARIES project is to help ES developers to maximize the full potential of variability in safety critical ES. The objectives of this project will be therefore (i) to enable companies to make informed decisions on variability use in safety critical ES; (ii) to provide effective variability architectures and approaches for safety-critical ES; and (iii) to offer consistent, integrated and continuous variability management over the entire product life cycle. The VARIES project will deliver the VARIES Platform: a complete, cross-domain, multi-concern, state-of-the-art reference platform for managing variability in safety critical ES. Special attention will be given to aspects specific to safety critical ES, in particular the impact of reuse and composition on certification. In addition to this ambitious goal, the VARIES project will create a Center of Innovation Excellence (CoIE) for managing variability in ES. The VARIES CoIE will support the European ES industry on the 3 aforementioned objectives. APPROVED BY ARTEMIS_JU On 23rd April 2015 (partial transfer of rights from #14 ATEGO UK to #24 PTC). Part B description is for ATEGO UK + PTC together

Keywords: safety product lines,re-composition of safety critical systems,variability management,decision support for safety critical products evolution and change,center of excelence.
SOCIAL NETWORK SITES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE (SOCNET)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2475376.0
EU funding (EUR): 2475376.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The last few years have witnessed an explosive increase in the use of social networking sites. Today there are over 500 million on Facebook, and 100 million on QQ - the Chinese equivalent, as well as Orkut and Twitter. The primary purpose of this research project is to determine the nature of these sites and assess the challenge they represent to assumptions at the core of social science with regard to the decline in social relations, including the degree to which these sites have been appropriated to alleviate the negative impact of this decline. It will also focus on trends including the shift to older and less affluent users, and key consequences such as the impact on migrants and on separated families which rely on such communications. It will assess recent academic debates regarding the consequence of social networks for political action and activism, the nature of privacy and the public domain. But the research method is holistic and the seven proposed books will include a general re-thinking of core social science theory in the light of this phenomenon as well as monographs on more specific trends in usage and an overall assessment of social and welfare implications. Research has mainly been on the earlier users, mainly college students and focused on the US. But recent trends suggest future growth in older populations and in middle income regions such as Brazil and Turkey. The research consists of 15 months intensive ethnographic participation and observation, appropriate given the intimate nature of these communications. There will be seven ethnographies all based in small town sites. Some aimed at demographic breadth in China, India, Brazil and Turkey others at depth in Romania, Trinidad and the UK. The study will also include long term online participation in the social networking sites themselves with 150 informants from each country. The intensity of ethnographic depth will be matched by a commitment to comparative analysis and generalisation.

Keywords: anthropology social networking sites
Optimization of Oxygen-based CFBC Technology with CO2 capture (O2GEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Cross-cutting actions between activities Energy-5 and Energy-6
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,Spain,France,Spain,Italy,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-18
End date: 2016-01-17
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11864683.51
EU funding (EUR): 6604702.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The project objective is to demonstrate the concept of the second generation oxyfuel combustion that reduce significantly (50%) the overall efficiency penalty of CO2 capture into power plants, from approximately 12 to 6 efficiency points. One of the main drawbacks of CCS is the additional energy used for operation. This energetic penalty reduces the power plant efficiency, and increases the cost of electricity and the use of resources (mainly fossil fuels but also water, raw materials and additional equipment). The reduction of the parasitic losses associated with CCS is a major challenge in the next years. The concept focuses on one of the most important recommendations of the ZEP´s report for the deployment of CCS in the European Union (EU): the use of higher O2 concentrations in oxyfuel combustion reducing the flue gas recirculation and energy penalty. The use of higher oxygen concentration has important advantages: lower boiler size (CAPEX and OPEX cost), improved possibilities to take advantage of high temperature energy and process integration, the reduction of flue gas recirculation and improved system flexibility. However to achieve this objective is necessary to demonstrate and analyze the effect of high oxygen concentrations in combustion performance, fuel flexibility, controllability of solid looping within the boiler, material performance, the effects on carbon procession unit and, depending on the results obtained in the demonstration tests, how to use-integrate-optimize the energy/heat from different parts of the process to obtain a reduction of the overall penalty caused by CCS. The project is going to deals with this challenge. The project technical leaders are Foster Wheeler Energia Oy and Air Liquide, the demonstration facility is CIUDEN and the utility is Endesa Generación.

Keywords: oxyfuel,circulating fluidized beds,optimization,co2 capture
Foundations of Economic Preferences (FEP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110406, 2011)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494759.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494759.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Preferences are a representation of individuals’ behavioral goals. Assumptions about individual preferences are a decisive component of almost all economic models. In fact, any social science that aims at explaining both individual behaviors and aggregate outcomes in terms of individuals’ goals and constraints has to make assumptions about preferences. Knowledge about preferences is thus key for the ability to predict the behavior of individuals and groups, and for assessing the welfare consequences of different policies. There are, however, still large empirical gaps in our knowledge about preferences. Extremely little is known about the social, economic and biological factors that causally shape them. There is also limited knowledge about how preferences are distributed in society, how they relate to demographic and socio-economic factors, how time, risk and social preferences are interrelated, and the extent to which preferences are stable across time and strategic situations. Therefore, we propose to study these foundational questions by applying economic and neuroeconomic tools that enable us to measure structural preference parameters and the social and biological forces that shape them. In particular, we will study the four following topics. (1) The distribution and stability of time, risk and social preference parameters based on nationally representative behavioral experiments. (2) The relationship between time, risk and social preferences. (3) The causal impact of the social environment on preferences. (4) The neural and genetic determinants of preferences. The proposed research program promises to yield important insights into the causal determinants, the structure and the relationships between time, risk and social preferences. This will inform and constrain theoretical models and policy conclusions based on such models.

Keywords: economic preferences,experimental economics,neuroeconomics,social preferences,tim preferences,risk preferences
Solar Brewing the Future (SOLARBREW)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewables for heating and cooling
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Netherlands,Germany,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4894032.8
EU funding (EUR): 2628572.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to demonstrate the technical and economical feasibility of large-scale solar thermal system integration in the brewing industry for the first time. Brewing and malting processes are especially suitable to be supplied by solar thermal systems since basically all required processes are in the temperature range between 50°C and 100°C. Three large-scale solar thermal systems are going to be applied at three different sites: in one drying process of a malting plant, at one mashing process of a brewery and one pasteurizing process of a brewery. The total installed capacity of the three plants is going to be 5.08 MWth, corresponding to 7,270 m² of collector area. Besides the different processes also different climatic zones were chosen for the solar thermal systems in order to evaluate the performance of the plants under different solar radiation conditions. The objective is to have good examples and best practices for the brewing sector which can act as the basis for the large-scale market deployment of the huge potential of the solar thermal source in the whole beverage sector. Special efforts are going to be devoted to an integrated approach combining energy efficiency measures in the brewing and malting processes itself and advanced solar integration concepts, which are adapted to the special requirements of these processes. Special requirements of the type and size of solar thermal systems relate to stagnation behaviour, collector field hydraulics and an intelligent heat storage management in combination with the related batch processes. Based on the operation experience and the monitoring results the so called “Green brewery sector concept” will be developed. This sector concept will serve as basis for a broad European wide training and dissemination programme, which is going to take place for the energy manager of all breweries of the HEINEKEN group, solar experts and energy consultants.

Keywords: integrated approach - energy efficiency and advanced large-scale solar thermal system integration in brewing industry stagnation behaviour,large collector field hydraulics,heat storage management