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Cost-reduction through material optimisation and Higher EnErgy outpuT of solAr pHotovoltaic modules - joining Europe’s Research and Development efforts in support of its PV industry (CHEETAH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,Germany,Denmark,Germany,Germany,Austria,Italy,Switzerland,Norway,Belgium,United Kingdom,Estonia,Germany,Portugal,Türkiye,Spain,Spain,Greece,United Kingdom,European organisations area,Finland,Spain,Belgium,Netherlands,France
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-IRP, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13282037.27
EU funding (EUR): 9696132.0
Participants: 35
Project status: CLOSED

Europe has invoked the SET-Plan to design and implement an energy technology policy for Europe to accelerate the development and deployment of cost-effective renewable energy systems, including photovoltaics. With lower cost of solar electricity, PV could significantly contribute to the achievements of the 20-20-20 objectives. The Joint Program on PV of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA-PV) aims to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of PV R&D through alignment and joint programming of R&D of its member institutes, and to contribute to the R&D-needs of the Solar Europe Industry Initiative. In CHEETAH, all EERA-PV members will, through collaborative R&D activities, (1) focus on solving specific bottlenecks in the R&D Joint Program of EERA-PV, (2) strengthen the collaboration between PV R&D performers in Europe through sharing of knowledge, personnel and facilities, and (3) accelerate the implementation of developed technologies in the European PV industry. Specifically, CHEETAH R&D will support Pillar A (performance enhancement & energy cost reduction) of the SEII Implementation Plan, through materials optimization and performance enhancement. CHEETAH’s objectives are threefold: 1) Developing new concepts and technologies for wafer-based crystalline silicon PV (modules with ultra-thin cells), thin-film PV (advanced light management) and organic PV (very low-cost barriers), resulting in (strongly) reduced cost of materials and increased module performance; 2) Fostering long-term European cooperation in the PV R&D sector, by organizing workshops, training of researchers, efficient use of infrastructures; 3) Accelerating the implementation of innovative technologies in the PV industry, by a strong involvement of EPIA and EIT-KIC InnoEnergy in the program It is the ambition of CHEETAH to develop technology and foster manufacturing capabilities so that Europe can regain and build up own manufacturing capacity in all parts of the value chain in due time.

Keywords: cost reduction,performance enhancement,thin film pv,crystalline silicon pv,ultra-thin wafers,light management,chalcopyrite,organic pv,low cost barriers,micro concentrators,eera-pv
Responsible Research and Innovation in Business and Industry in the Domain of ICT for, Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing (RESPONSIBLE-INDUSTRY)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Cyprus,Spain,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Finland,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1881663.65
EU funding (EUR): 1496992.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The Responsible-Industry project will design an Exemplar Implementation Plan of RRI in Industry to demonstrate how industry can work productively together with societal actors and integrate principles and methodologies of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into research and innovation processes. To achieve maximum impact where it is most needed, the implementation plan will focus on the grand challenge of health, demographic change and wellbeing. More specifically the project will focus on the role that research and innovation in ICT can play in addressing this challenge. Responsible-Industry will guide interactive discussions between leading industry partners, established RRI experts, policy advisors and civil society organisations to drive the research and innovation process with the principles of RRI in mind. In doing so, Responsible-Industry will achieve the following objectives: - Synthesis of current discourses on RRI in the industrial context, based on an extensive literature review, 30 in-depth interviews with industry thought leaders, 5 bottom-up case studies and 2 Horizon Scanning reports. - Investigation, through practical cases and in depth dialogue with stakeholders (industry, CSOs, policy makers and emerging global stakeholders), of processes, challenges and opportunities leading to responsible innovation along specific value chains of products and applications. - International Delphi Study of RRI in industry involving 130-150 stakeholders and an international Multi-Stakeholder workshop. - Development of a detailed implementation plan to be tested in at least 4 pilot projects. - Reflection on the viability of the implementation plan, supported by least 15 industry-driven focus groups. - Development of models of RRI in industry as a basis of specific recommendations to be disseminated to the various stakeholders through an Exemplar Implementation Plan of RRI in Industry.

Keywords: industry,responsibility,ethics,innovation
Scientific and Technological Alliance for Guaranteeing the European Excellence in Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy (STAGE-STE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Switzerland,France,Germany,Italy,Cyprus,Portugal,Spain,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,Italy,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Spain,Saudi Arabia,Mexico,South Africa,Libya,Australia,Brazil,China,Chile,Morocco,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-IRP, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 21134658.37
EU funding (EUR): 9997207.0
Participants: 43
Project status: CLOSED

Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Solar Fuels, Solar Process Heat and Solar Desalination that are called to play a major role in attaining energy sustainability in our modern societies due to their unique features: 1) Solar energy offers the highest renewable energy potential to our planet; 2) STE can provide dispatchable power in a technically and economically viable way, by means of thermal energy storage and/or hybridization, e.g. with biomass. However, significant research efforts are needed to achieve this goal. This Integrated Research Programme (IRP) engages all major European research institutes, with relevant and recognized activities on STE and related technologies, in an integrated research structure to successfully accomplish the following general objectives: a) Convert the consortium into a reference institution for concentrating solar energy research in Europe, creating a new entity with effective governance structure; b) Enhance the cooperation between EU research institutions participating in the IRP to create EU added value; c) Synchronize the different national research programs to avoid duplication and to achieve better and faster results; d) Accelerate the transfer of knowledge to industry in order to maintain and strengthen the existing European industrial leadership in STE; e) Expand joint activities among research centres by offering researchers and industry a comprehensive portfolio of research capabilities, bringing added value to innovation and industry-driven technology; f) Establish the European reference association for promoting and coordinating international cooperation in concentrating solar energy research. To that end, this IRP promotes Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) and, in parallel, performs Coordinated Projects (CP) covering the full spectrum of current concentrating solar energy research topics, selected to provide the highest EU added value and filling the gaps among national programs.

Keywords: concentrating solar power,solar thermal electricity,solar fuels,solar process heat,solar desalination,thermal energy storage,linear concentrators,central receiver systems,strategic research agenda
Explaining the Nature of Technological Innovation in Chinese Enterprises (E.N.T.I.C.E.)

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,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-15
End date: 2016-04-14
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243600.0
EU funding (EUR): 243600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The emergence of a new breed of Chinese global technology companies stirs up mixed feelings in the West. Regardless of the kind of feeling, all mirror the need to know and understand more about China’s technology rise. The assessment of the impacts of the Chinese scale up and the development of strategic cooperation in technology and innovation are increasingly higher on the agenda of the EU and its Member States. The objective of the proposed exchange programme is to pool the competences and on-going research efforts of EU and Chinese partners to carry out a comprehensive investigation to analyse the role and the interplay of the main factors that characterise technological innovation and related performance in Chinese enterprises. The final aim is to create the first nucleus of a unique EU-China network of scientists, universities and research centres with the mission of facilitating the joint development of research programs and fostering the bi-directional mobility of researchers between the EU and China. The exchanges comprise of the involvement of an experienced team of 29 researchers with business, engineering and neuroscience backgrounds coming from 2 EU Universities (Italy and Spain) and 4 Chinese Universities (Beijing and Guangzhou), for 116 months over the 2 and half-a-year duration of the programme. The consortium of researchers will investigate international technology transfer and intellectual property protection, absorptive capacity and technology innovation networks, human resource management, the creative cognitive processes of R&D workers, and how the interplay of these factors influences technological innovation in Chinese enterprises, as well as the associated impacts on EU policies and enterprises. Thus, the proposed partnership has the potential to provide EU stakeholders with rigorous, up-to-date and field-based knowledge. In doing so, the partnership will also contribute strengthen bi-lateral collaboration with China on technology.

Keywords: technology & innovation,research & development,competitiveness,influencing factors,impacts
Development of a low-cost point-of-care test for Tuberculosis detection (POCKET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Belgium,Spain,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3558869.0
EU funding (EUR): 2702184.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Pocket will develop a novel point-of-care (PoC) urine test for the detection of tuberculosis (TB), achieving at the same time a low cost (5 to 10 euro end-user cost per test, including depreciation cost of the instrument) and a high accuracy (>80% capture of TB-positive patients, which is much better than the present solutions which reach 60%). The test positions itself between current low-end immunological urine tests with limited accuracy and between high-end expensive nucleic-acid-based tests, which are not truly point-of-care. Throughout this project, special attention will be paid to both end-user requirements (performance, cost, ease-of-use, …) and to manufacturability. Pocket will go well beyond the development of a mere laboratory prototype, as in the final year of the project, the instrument will be field-tested in Africa and India. The combination of low cost and high accuracy will be achieved through a unique integration of several state-of-the-art concepts, which the partners have separately developed and of which the maturity has already been shown: -a nanophotonic transducer with integrated spectrum analyser developed by UGent (Vernier ring resonator cascade with arrayed waveguide grating spectrometer). This will enable us to eliminate the cost associated with the inclusion of a high-end tunable laser (20k euro) that typically plagues the competing approaches using resonant optical nanophotonic sensors. -a high-confinement silicon nitride (SiN) platform running in a mature small-volume CMOS fab (imec). The use of SiN as opposed to the more traditional Silicon-on-Insulator material system will enable us to move the operating wavelength from 1550 nm to 900 nm, where both the sources and the detectors are significantly less expensive. -a novel TB detection system, based on a unique combination of high-quality antibodies for two different biomarkers.

Keywords: point-of-care diagnostics,labelfree biosensors,photonics,tuberculosis
EU CHINA future Internet common Activities and Opportunities (ECIAO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,France,Luxembourg,China
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 588947.0
EU funding (EUR): 499000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In 2010 an EU-China expert group was established. The main area studied by this group was the “Internet of the Future”, the “Internet of Things” and also the protocols to be defined and deployed. Particular attention was dedicated to IPv6 deployment as difficulties have been identified, both in Europe and in China. Societal aspects and cooperation in research were also addressed. The expert group met twice in July and September 2010 and had regular exchanges which led to recommendations in important areas such as future internet including FIRE and IPv6. The ECIAO project partners were all partners of the EU-China Future Internet, IPv6 and IoT (F3I) expert group and were very honoured to see that the objectives of the call for the part of the EU-China cooperation are addressing exactly the recommendations of the expert group. The ECIAO project is therefore the seamless response to the current call as the continuation and implementation of the EU-China F3I expert group work carried out in 2010 and implementing the F3I expert group recommendations as consolidated by open workshops and roundtables (September 2010) and discussed at the EU-China regular policy dialogues with MIIT and MoST in 2010 and early 2011. The ECIAO experts, who made the studies and proposed these recommendations accepted for the EU-China policy dialogues, are very pleased and highly motivated to develop this project to implement the recommendations in interoperability and standards, in strengthening collaboration in FIRE research between EU and China as well as on best practices and pilots for IPv6 deployment.

Keywords: internet of things,eu-china future internet
Evolution of Evolution (EVOEVO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3432929.0
EU funding (EUR): 2629000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Evolution is the major source of complexity on Earth, at the origin of all the species we can observe, interact with or breed. On a smaller scale, evolution is at the heart of the adaptation process for many species, in particular micro-organisms (e.g. bacteria, viruses…). Microbial evolution results in the emergence of the species itself, and it also contributes to the organisms' adaptation to perturbations or environmental changes. These organisms are not only organised by evolution, they are also organised to evolve. The EvoEvo project will develop new evolutionary approaches in information science and will produce algorithms based on the latest understanding of molecular and evolutionary biology. Our ultimate goal is to address open-ended problems, where the specifications are either unknown or too complicated to express, and to produce software able to operate in unpredictable, varying conditions. We will start from experimental observations of micro-organism evolution, and abstract this to reproduce EvoEvo, in biological models, in computational models, and in application software. Our aim is to observe EvoEvo in action, to model EvoEvo, to understand EvoEvo and, ultimately, to implement and exploit EvoEvo in software and computational systems. The EvoEvo project will have impact in ICT, through the development of new technologies. It will also have impact in biology and public health, by providing a better understanding of micro-organism adaptation (such as the emergence of new pathogens or the development of antibiotic resistances).

Keywords: computational evolution,artificial chemistry,evolvability,microorganisms,smart-buildings,personal companion.
Automated Driving Applications and Technologies for Intelligent Vehicles (ADAPTIVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany,Germany,France,France,Sweden,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Greece,Netherlands,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden,Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 24117279.0
EU funding (EUR): 14300000.0
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

AdaptIVe will enhance the performance and improve the acceptance of automated driving of cars and trucks. The project develops new and integrated automated functions to improve traffic safety by minimizing the effects of human errors and to enhance traffic efficiency by smoother flows and reduced congestion. The approach is based on a shared control concept, assuring proper collaboration between the driver and the automation system. This is realised using cooperative vehicle technologies, advanced obstacle sensors and adaptive schemes where the level of automation dynamically responds to the situation and driver status. The project will demonstrate and evaluate eight advanced vehicles – seven cars and one truck – with various combinations of automated functions. These implementations will be based on the needs of different environments and levels of traffic complexity, including motorways, urban scenarios and close-distance manoeuvres. Several common features developed in these vehicles will establish fundamental building blocks for the future exploitation of automated driving, in terms of architecture, fault-tolerance, and human factors. Communication technologies will be employed as a key enabler of highly automated schemes supporting cooperative traffic and improving road safety. In addition to the technological and ergonomic aspects, AdaptIVe will address important legal issues that might impact on the successful market introduction of automated systems; in particular product liability and road traffic laws. It will identify the legal implications for manufacturers and drivers and examine the need for corresponding changes in regulation. By demonstrating these results, AdaptIVe will significantly improve the knowledge base for automated driving and strengthen the position of European industries in the area of Intelligent Vehicles and road safety.

Keywords: automated driving,road safety,cooperative mobility,driver support,automation,sustainability,intelligent transportation,accident avoidance,cooperative driving,environmental perception
Molecular Quantum Spintronics (MOQUAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,France,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2692801.0
EU funding (EUR): 2006000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

MoQuaS aims at developing devices and protocols to read out and process quantum information using individual molecular spins embedded in electronic circuits. To this end, prototypical hybrid nano-devices addressing single molecular spins will be designed and reliable methods for their realization will be developed. Core of such nano-architectures are magnetic molecules, specifically functionalized to graft electrodes, and exploited as spin (qu)bits. MoQuaS will design and realize the necessary platform for the read out and the manipulation of the electron and nuclear states of single molecules. Besides electromigrated junctions, contact electrodes based on carbon allotropes, including carbon nanotubes and graphene nano-ribbons will be developed. These will allow for interfacing the specially designed magnetic molecule to the outside world with an unprecedented flexibility, beyond what is possible with metallic electrodes. The resulting hybrid device will function either as molecular spin transistors (three terminal device) or as molecular spin valves by combining carbon based channels with molecular spin filters. The ultimate ambitious goal of MoQuaS is the implementation of quantum gates that will be achieved by using additional strip lines close to our hybrid nano-devices to carry out the spin manipulation. On the way to achieving this goal, a range of challenges will be met by implementing experiments and theoretical descriptions that will ascertain the fundamental mechanisms underlying the functioning of quantum molecular devices. In particular, the key processes of the electron and nuclear spin state preparation, manipulation and read out, spin injection and relaxation will be individually investigated in order to understand the basic mechanisms and then combine the knowledge into prototypes that will set references for a new era in Spintronics in which Quantum information is encoded by Molecular processors.

Keywords: spintronics,quantum computation,molecular magnetism,molecular electronics