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Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural Interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity (CISGLA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 954523.0
EU funding (EUR): 954523.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research is intended to initiate the process of formulating an integrated approach to the evolution and spread of early Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean, Caucasus and Middle East. Thus far this work has been constrained by geographical, linguistic and denominational boundaries meaning that there has been a plethora of regional studies in the field but no comprehensive overview attempting to develop a coherent picture of wider cultural interaction. By beginning a project that seeks to explore the relationship between the Syrian and Georgian Churches from a variety of different disciplines, this project intends to develop a framework from which to construct a comprehensive overview of the development of Eastern Christianity in late antiquity. This work will open a new phase in the study of late antique Christianity by seeking to place the different denominations that split apart after the Christological and Mariological controversies of the fifth century into a wider context that allows comparative study of their liturgical, architectural and theological development and interaction. It is logical to begin with the Syrian and Georgian traditions as the Georgians wrote in an Aramaic script, known as Armazi, until the evolution of the Georgian alphabet in the fifth century. Syriac, the liturgical language of the Syrian Church tradition, is also an Aramaic dialect that developed in the city of Edessa (now Şanliurfa in south-eastern Turkey). Edessa stood between Syria and Georgia and provided the main conduit for the transmission of culture between the two regions. In addition Georgia historically received monasticism and a renewed evangelical movement through the "Thirteen Syrian Fathers", thirteen Syrian monks who were credited with expanding on the work of evangelisation begun in Georgia by St Nino of Cappadocia in the fourth century. Beginning with these two inter-linked traditions this framework can be applied to other traditions in future.

Keywords: cultural interaction,late antiquity,eastern christianity,georgia,syria,liturgiology,ecclesiastical history,archaeology,art and architectural history
Space Thermoacoustic Radio-Isotopic Power System (SPACE TRIPS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Latvia,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2603350.4
EU funding (EUR): 1877981.75
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The project relates to an advanced thermal to electric conversion for radio-isotopic power systems (RPS). Indeed RPSs are a key for space exploration as the solar power is very low in deep space, notably in Jupiter orbit and beyond. These systems will be also useful for Mars exploration, where solar power is subject to nights and dust storms. So Europe aims to get its independence for such missions, and ESA have initiated development of RPS. If thermoelectricity fits well with small RPS (e.g.20We), for 100We range, high efficiency conversion is desirable. Indeed this leads to save between 2/3 up to 3/4 of the radioisotope mass. This is of real importance in term of cost and safety. Stirling converters under development in USA have low reliability due to pistons (sensitive to launch vibrations and shocks, subject to wear). Thermo acoustic (TAc), coupled with magneto hydrodynamic (MHD) generator is innovating technology free of moving parts. Unfortunately, the Technological Readiness Level is low and the priority is given to Stirling in ESA’s programme, even if ESA has supported the first studies of TAc-MHD systems. This project is complementary with ESA’s approach. So, the objective of this proposal is to raise the TRL of this technology from 2 to 3-4 and show that this option is viable for European RPSs. The approach is based on 3 axes:  Theoretical modeling, which has been already developed but needs to be validated,  Experimentation of a thermo acoustic engine coupled with a MHD generator,  Design of the space RPS, equipped with this conversion system, to check if the technology is suitable for space mission. The targets are:  to validate the process efficiency (close to 20% or above),  to justify the compatibility of the technology with space missions, In Europe, there is a strong expertise in thermo acoustic and MHD. But these technologies have never been coupled. The consortium, coordinated by the start-up company HEKYOM, associates three research organizations: CNRS in France, IPUL in Latvia and Rossendorf in Germany. The space and nuclear industries are represented by THALES ALENIA Space-Italy and AREVA. THALES ALENIA Space represents also the end-user in term of space systems.

Keywords: thermodynamic,thermo acoustics,heat exchangers,magneto hydro dynamics,magnetic field,liquid metal,gas
Trusted Vessel Information from Trusted On-board Instrumentation (TRITON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Intelligent surveillance and enhancing border security
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,Spain,Sweden,Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2139578.4
EU funding (EUR): 1533099.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

A new consciousness has arisen in the scenario of civilian and commercial maritime control: surveillance and safety systems may be under the attack of intentional or unintentional or malevolent players, whose aim (or effect) is to bypass or mystify the control system to obtain economic gain. The advances of mass-price technology, easily sold over the Internet, make this kind of potential events a serious threat that the maritime control has to cope with. TRITON (TRusted vessel Information from Trusted On-board iNstrumentation) is an R&D project that gives some of the possible answers to the threats above, focusing on increasing the trustworthiness of on-board instrumentation used to report vessel information to the control organisms. Today’s maritime surveillance operations rely on ship reporting systems such as AIS (Automatic Identification System), LRIT (Long Range Identification and Tracking) and VMS (Vessel Monitoring System), whose reported data (such as vessel ID, accurate position and time, course over ground, speed over ground, heading, rate of turn, etc.) are typically not verified nor validated in any way. Acknowledging the primary role of GNSS to support these reporting systems, a first objective of the TRITON project is to provide to the on-board unit a “trusted” GNSS-based source of positioning and timing information, robust to some intentional jamming and spoofing attacks. A second objective is to provide to the on-board unit a robust communication transceiver, featuring methods for overcoming the present limitations of the communication standards in maritime field, exploiting UHF “white spaces”. At the end of the project, a proof of concept of the proposed technological solutions will be given in a prototype and appropriate test suites. On top of this, a clear understanding of residual threats will result, based on a comprehensive analysis pursued under different viewpoints: technological, cost-benefits and regulatory.

Keywords: ship reporting systems,ais,vms,gnss receiver,jamming,spoofing,white space communication
TAp WAter RAdioactivity Real Time Monitor (TAWARA_RTM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Poland,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3414864.8
EU funding (EUR): 2564554.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The TAWARA_RTM project aims at developing a complete platform to control the quality of the tap water with respect to the radioactivity content. The platform will provide a real time measurement of the activity in the water (measuring the gross alpha and beta activity) to verify whether the distributed water is far from the limits set by the EU legislation (see Directive 98/83/CE of the European Council) reaching thresholds that require rapid actions. In case of an alarm due to an activity in the water lager than the defined thresholds, a warning message is sent to the water plant management to verify the need of stopping the water distribution. At the same time, a second part of the system is activated, to determine the nature of the contamination by gamma ray spectroscopy, defining the nature of the contamination and the corresponding counter-measures. Moreover, the determination of the contaminants is needed to establish the effects on the population and produce a full information report to the Civil Security Authorities. The prototypes of a real time monitoring system and spectroscopy analyzer will be designed, built, tested under laboratory condition and finally installed at the water plant in the North Waterworks Plant [Zakład Wodociągu Północnego] of Warsaw managed by the Warsaw Waterwork Company (Miejskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji w m.st. Warszawie S.A. – MPWIK), for the demonstration campaign. The site selected for the demonstration is particularly problematic for possible radioactivity contamination being communicating through the network of rivers and canals with the Chernobyl region and being close to a Polish National Nuclear Waste storage site.The TAWARA_RTM project will include the development of the complete platform including the fast Real-Time Monitor system (RTM), the Spectroscopic system (SPEC) as well as the Information and Communication System that will be designed to include in future also chemical and biological sensors.

Keywords: water radioactivity,water contamination,water plants,alpha-beta discrimination,gamma spectroscopy,cbrn,rtm,sensor network.
Innovative tools for the detection and mitigation of CBRN related contamination events of drinking water (SAFEWATER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Germany,Portugal,Sweden,Israel
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4773047.66
EU funding (EUR): 3494338.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

SAFEWATER will develop an affordable global generic solution for the detection and management of drinking water crises resulting from CBRN contamination. SAFEWATER addresses the key drinking water incident management challenges at large, and in particular, the current shortcomings related to the contamination of water networks by CBRN agents - the lack of effective detection capacities, contamination warning systems, and decision support and management tools. SAFEWATER will start from best-of-breed technologies, including an EPA challenge winning event detection system. From this, the project will develop a dedicated DSS for the real-time support of decision makers, which comprises cutting-edge algorithms based on: • Improved water management models for the detection of abnormal behaviour in drinking water systems; as well as the prompt treatment of data from various sources, improving contamination alert systems of large water drinking systems • Result interpretation models to enable the real-time ranking of the severity of alerts and for the prompt identification of recovery measures • Spatial detection models to determine the contamination’s source and spread The functionalities of a leading Event Management System will be expanded by introducing beyond the state of the art online simulation capacities, allowing users to have a close to real-time view of the network’s behaviour. New sensors will be proposed for online biological and radioactive water quality measurements. SAFEWATER will improve sensor selection by carrying out benchmarking activities and develop an innovative detection approach based on “virtual sensors”, i.e. large networks of domestic sensors The project will test and validate the full SAFEWATER solution in three different scenarios, each situated in a different municipality corresponding to a different usage context and to specific security threats.

Keywords: water,cbrn,dss,ems,sensors
Europe and America in contact: a multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural transfer in the New World across time (CULTURECONTACT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Poland,Spain,Mexico
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1318840.0
EU funding (EUR): 1318840.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

At the core of this research proposal is the aim of reconstructing and understanding the nature, exact trajectories, mechanisms and implications of cross-cultural contact and transfers between Europeans and the native people of the Americas, focusing on, but not limited to, the Nahuatl-speaking zone of central Mexico. A major innovation of this project is to study this process of cross-cultural communication in its full historical depth, through the colonial and postcolonial eras up to the present day and encompassing different stages and types of contact. The meticulous and cross-disciplinary study of an extensive body of texts in Nahuatl (“Aztec”) and Spanish, complemented by present-day ethnolinguistic data, will make it possible to deduce and understand patterns across time and space in ways novel to existing scholarship, embracing both micro- and macroregional trends. The proposed research starts with identifying transfers in language, studied systematically through the creation of extensive databases, but leads to exploring the substance of cross-cultural transfer and the essence of developments, becoming a fundamental way of studying culture and its transformations. Thus, an important aim is the correlation of language phenomena with more general contact-induced culture change, including especially evolving forms of political, social and municipal organization in the native world, where the change is more salient. Breaking existing disciplinary boundaries in the humanities, the project embraces both indigenous and European perspectives, assuming that the innovation of studying both sides in a single framework and in the proposed time span is particularly promising in dealing with a notably two-sided, prolonged historical process. The complementary lines of research, native and Spanish, are expected to highlight and make understandable factors underlying and facilitating cultural convergence between them in different aspects of colonial life and beyond.

Keywords: culture contact,cross-cultural transfer,cross-cultural communication,culture change,new world,europe,spain,new spain,mesoamerica,nahuas,nahuatl,quechua
Smart technology for artificial muscle applications in space (STAMAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Cross-cutting activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2119166.0
EU funding (EUR): 1460287.35
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

In the context of European Space Policy and its requirements regarding achieving solid technological basis and industry competitiveness, SMEs play an integral role in the research and development of new technology. To prepare for the long-term expeditions of space programmes, some critical factors should be taken into account before the launching: ensuring that astronauts are mentally and physically prepared for the missions’ demands, and maintaining them in good health during and after the mission. Unfortunately, the space environment continues to have a negative effect on the astronauts’ health. Therefore, the STAMAS consortium has identified the need for developing a new type of astronauts’ suit, a “smart-suit”, which will mitigate the pernicious effects of weightlessness and motor inactivity. The project will utilise existing terrestrial experience in Shape Memory Alloys (SMA)/Electroactive Polymer (EAP) technology, and built upon this knowledge to develop an effective solution for usage in space. This adaptation will include substituting conventional hydraulic actuators for those based on biometric sensors, and control features. The overall objective is to analyse the suitability and to bring experience on the SMA and EAP based actuation technologies addressing terrestrial applications, to research in new concepts of artificial muscles for biofeedback astronauts’ suits, as an alternative to current technologies. To effectively adapt the current technology to on-board space requirements, and to make the electromechanical actuators of the developed artificial muscles for biofeedback suits more efficient, safer, smaller, and lighter, the consortium will take full advantage of smart technology. Finally, the Consortium, led by ARQUIMEA, is a balanced group of SMEs and Research Institutions that will develop validated devices to have strong impact on the space industry, facilitate high-risk/high-impact research and innovation, and contribute to new research alliances

Keywords: space,biofeedback,suit,sma,eap,smart technology,actuator,shape,memory alloys
Scoping Study for a pan-European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI-SCOPE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Denmark,Belgium,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-INFSO, 2012)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1344358.0
EU funding (EUR): 830000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Our responses to many urgent social and economic challenges facing Europe will be based upon our understanding of the composition, properties and dynamics of the subsurface. Such challenges include sustainable supply of energy, water, and mineral resources; mitigation of natural hazards for the health and safety of EU citizens, containing hazardous substances (e.g. radioactive waste, contaminants); mitigating climate change by exploiting renewable energy and capturing and storing greenhouse gases; and addressing conflicting claims on the use of subsurface space. Digital geological data are the evidence upon which our responses to these challenges must be based. The potential role of geological data as an engine for economic growth and recovery is also significant at this time of unprecedented economic stresses within Europe and globally. Our earth provides rare elements and metals essential to rapidly emerging technologies in fields such as telecommunications and renewable energy. Europe’s National Geological Survey Organisations (NGSO) are responsible at national levels for the acquisition, management and delivery of geological data and information. Based on the successes of earlier joint projects including ‘OneGeology Europe’ the joint NGSO of Europe developed EGDI-Scope to prepare the ground for a “European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI)”. The need for such an infrastructure was recognised by the European Parliament Committee on Industry Research and Energy in its recent report “on an effective raw materials strategy for Europe’. The EGDI will provide the backbone for serving interoperable, pan-European geological data currently held by NGSO, and data from past, ongoing and future European projects. EGDI-Scope will focus on: 1. Developing connections with and gathering user requirements from EGDI end-users; 2. Selecting and prioritizing datasets producing maximum societal benefit; 3. Technical design; 4. Models for governance and future funding of the EGDI

Keywords: e-infrastructure,geology,european national geological survey organizations,stakeholder consultation,data harmonisation,interoperability,inspire
SEC-2012.1.3.2- Homemade explosives (HMEs) and recipes characterisation- Capability (HOMER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany,Bulgaria,Greece,Spain,Israel,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4459332.79
EU funding (EUR): 3436875.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The objective is to establish basic knowledge hitherto unknown about HMEs; their composition and characterisation. The task is also to review freely available recipes (for instance on internet) and to evaluate their dangerousness. During the study, several basic questions should be answered, how can HMEs be produced from ordinary commercially available chemicals and materials? What type of chemicals are available freely today for the direct use in HMEs? How can freely available chemicals be easily chemically changed or concentrated so they can be used for the production of HMEs? What are the concentration limits of precursors or HME formulations for them to be usable by terrorists? What is the chemical stability of HMEs? (What time span does a terrorist have between the production of an HME and the execution of an attack?). What can be done to prevent or inhibit the production of HMEs? The research of this project must be performed in close collaboration with manufacturers of precursors. The project also requires the participation from end users such as police or security services. Extensive attention should be given to dual-use and ethical issues. The goal of the HOMER project is to implement a comprehensive, coherent European study on HMEs including the identification, detection of HMEs, the prevention of HME threats and for the ease of identification of bomb factories, leading to the rapid take up of sustainable project results for the benefit of European police and security services, the manufacturers of precursors and for the safety of the EU citizen. Led by the end user, the PSNI as the HOMER project co-ordinator, will implement a comprehensive European wide study on HMEs addressing many key questions including: what can be done to prevent or inhibit the production of HMEs, what types of chemicals are available freely today for direct use in HMEs and what is the chemical stability of HMEs.

Keywords: to increase the security of european citizens and knowledge of police forces and through a better knowledge of hmes,reduce the possible occurrence of events using hme,to help detect bomb factories.