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Marine Algae as Biomass for Biofuels (MABFUEL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom,Ireland,Türkiye,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1430841.0
EU funding (EUR): 1430841.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Currently most research into efficient algal-oil production is being carried out by the private sector, but if predictions from small scale production experiments are realised then using algae to produce biodiesel may be the only viable method by which to produce enough bio-fuel to replace current world petrol/diesel usage. Micro-algae in particular have much faster growth-rates than terrestrial crops. The yield of oil from algae is estimated to be from between 19,000 to 75,000 litres per acre, per year; this is 7 to 31 times greater than the next best crop, oil of palm. As terrestrial contributions are greatly limited by the finite area of land available under any culture method, it is essential that the potential of the marine environment as a source of biomass for bio-fuel production is realised. The group intends to facilitate a multi-disciplinary research programme through the recruitment of experienced researchers aimed at the acquisition of new knowledge and skills in the production of biofuels from native seaweed and cultured micro-algae. The project will identify the native seaweed and cultured micro-algal processes with the most potential for fuel production, the best time and technique to harvest seaweed and the culture methodologies for micro-algae along with an economic and environmental appraisal which will identify the size of the farm required and the feasibility of a commercial size operation. This will provide the physical (biomass product) and the intellectual (methodology for production and extraction) tools to enable the bio-fuel sector to base it’s business on the most suitable and profitable process.

Keywords: natural resources management,aquatic biology,sustainable exploitation,resource studies,aquaculture
The Syntax of the Mind: A Comparative Computational Approach (SOMACCA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1957598.0
EU funding (EUR): 1957598.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Does a shared computational basis underlie human artistic and linguistic accomplishments? Why do humans create and enjoy orderly patterns in music and visual arts? Are the mechanisms involved uniquely human or shared with other species? This project explores the cognitive underpinnings of language, music & visual art in humans, directly comparing them with the pattern perception abilities of other animals. The proposal is grounded in a rigorous, mathematically-based theoretical framework ("formal language theory"), developed by computer scientists and theoretical linguists, which is extended here to include rule-governed patterns in the musical and visual domains. The types of patterns recognizable by different species will be tested using innovative empirical testing methods (based on "artificial grammar learning") applicable to both humans and animals. An important additional innovation of this research is the proposed use of repetitive visual patterns (akin to quilts, tilings and other "decorative" arts) and isomorphic musical and speech stimuli, all generated using the same "grammars" (abstract rule systems). The addition of the visual dimension allows experimental manipulation of the short-term memory resources involved in pattern perception in a way impossible with acoustic stimuli. The animal species tested include nonhuman primates and birds, and have been chosen to allow evaluation of the effects of relative brain size on pattern perception and cognition in general. The doubly comparative approach adopted here will allow us to evaluate the degree to which general-purpose cognitive abilities, cutting across domains, differentiate human minds from those of other animals, or are shared. Either way, the results of this research will have wide-reaching implications for both the behavioural sciences and humanities.

Keywords: formal language theory,artificial grammar learning,animal cognition,modularity,cross-disciplinary research.
Administrative Document Automate Optimization (ADAO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 363182.0
EU funding (EUR): 363182.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

ITESOFT and CVC plan to develop together a transfer of knowledge program. The vector of this program will be the design of an automatic document processing system. Public organizations, social security services and large companies handle every day a large volume of various documents : identity cards, forms, mails, etc. They look for help in process optimization, cost reduction and customer satisfaction. The automation is an answer. The French SME ITESOFT has developed products to automate the classification and the data extraction from administrative documents. More recently ITESOFT has prototyped a new generation of software which still need improvement on key-technologies : Graphs matching algorithm, Logo classification, Handwritten recognition, Document graphical classification, Document segmentation for overlapping documents, Color image segmentation. The Document Analysis and Pattern Recognition Group of the public lab Computer Vision Center (CVC) in Barcelona has large R&D experience in the field of Document Image Analysis and Recognition. The group is doing active research in symbol recognition, indexing and browsing by graphical content, sketchy interfaces, diagrammatic reasoning and visual languages for graphic documents, graphics recognition architectures, reading systems for forms and structured documents, camera-based OCR. We identify several knowledge and skills that can be exchanged between ITESOFT and CVC and combined to breakthrough the current state of the art. This program will mainly involve staff exchanges. We also plan recruitments and workshops with researchers from outside the consortium. The staff exchanges will lead small collaborative teams to work together on the key-technologies.

Keywords: technological sciences,computer graphics,knowledge engineering,document processing
International Network in Theoretical Immunology (INTI)

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: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230400.0
EU funding (EUR): 230400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of this proposal is to set up an International Research Network inn Theoretical Immunology that involves both experimental and theoretical immunologists. This Network will create new collaborations and reinforce existing ones in order to develop a lasting and fruitful research cooperation between all the partners. Other objectives of this proposal are (1) Establish a lasting and fruitful research cooperation between the experimental and theoretical immunologists of the network with the aim to provide immunology with a more quantitative basis. (2) Establish a lasting and fruitful research cooperation between the different groups that work in theoretical immunology, with the aim to discuss, compare, test and validate different modelling approaches. (3) Train the new generation of theoretical immunologists, with the aim to exchange postgraduate students and research fellows, so that they benefit from the broader knowledge, skills and tools provided by the Network. (4) A final objective of the Network is to develop, by means of the Staff Exchange Scheme, four long-term directions for modelling in immunology. In particular, (i) To develop stochastic models for the motion of pathogens and of cells of the immune system, validated by comparing with experiments. (ii) To build a model of the immune system as a whole using stochastic dynamics of interacting populations. We aim to understand how the system maintains its diversity of millions of lymphocyte populations and how populations of naive and memory cells are maintained. (iii) To develop stochastic models of T cell and B cell maturation. (iv)To develop models of autoimmunity.

Keywords: biomathematics,population biology,modelling tools
Aeroelastic tailoring of a passive wind turbine rotor and validation of design code (WINDFLOWER)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,Denmark,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 465495.0
EU funding (EUR): 465495.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Wind turbines have grown in size throughout the last decade from several hundreds of kW to several MW’s, the large majority being of the classic three-bladed upwind configuration. However for off-shore installations and off-grid systems reliability, robustness and ease of installation are important design drivers that lead to different technological concepts. Under these circumstances a lightweight flexible turbine can provide electricity at lower cost than the classic turbine concept. One key element of this concept is a rotor with a high degree of bend-twist coupling effectively shedding loads at high windspeeds and passively controlling peak power and rotor speed by large deformations of the rotor blades. Design tools and especially aero-elastic simulators have been conceived with different wind turbine configurations in mind and as such claim to be compatible with any design concept. The industry has provided ample opportunities for the research institutes and engineering consultancies to calibrate and validate their design software for the classic concept of the 3-bladed upwind turbine. Very few projects however have made it possible to fine-tune the design tools for turbines incorporating a high degree of flexibility in rotor blades. This project will deliver proof-of-concept of a wind turbine rotor that uses aero-elastic tailoring techniques as a passive means of controlling the power and speed of the turbine. The analysis of the appropriate structural lay-out and the right choice of materials are among the key research elements of this project. Additionally the project will provide a platform to validate a state-of-the-art aeroelastic design tool and CFD code by using them throughout the design process of the flexible rotor and afterwards compare the predicted behaviour of the rotor with windtunnel test results on a scale model. Finally, knowledge will be gained on the testing procedures for flexible rotors in a rotating test configuration.

Keywords: wind energy technology,aeroelasticity,materials engineering
Combustion Models for Industrial Applications (COMBINA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,France,Germany,Türkiye,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 811419.0
EU funding (EUR): 811419.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Combustion processes are an essential component of energy conversion and their accurate modeling is required if the objectives of reduction of fuel consumption and emissions are to be realized. Meeting these requirements will involve a substantial effort, in particular towards the development and availability of accurate and reliable simulation tools for reactive flows and more experimental data. In the COMBINA project, collaboration between a CFD software developing SME, which is coordinating this project, four major research groups on combustion and an SME specialized in experimental analysis of combustors is established. The research partners are originating from Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany and Turkey. The partners will share and contribute with complementary expertise on the modeling of premixed, partially premixed and spray combustion including RANS and LES modeling and the generation of new experimental results for their validation. An industrial observer group (IOG) of representatives from the gas turbine manufacturing industry will advice the consortium on longer term industrial objectives and provide additional test cases. The current COMBINA project opens new pathways across the different sectors. The coordinating SME-1 is having the most recent numerical combustion models integrated in its software system towards the demands of end users in the manufacturing industry. SME-2 will benefit from intensive exchanges and transfers on experimental and numerical techniques and tools. The university partners will gain access to industrially relevant testcases from SME-2 and the IOG and to an industrial CFD software environment for testing advanced models on real-life applications that so far have only been applied with academic codes on simplified configurations. Actions towards networking and dissemination will involve training activities, as well as two workshops, on combustion modeling and on experimental techniques for combustors.

Keywords: technological sciences,partially premixed combustion,premixed combustion,spraycombustion,combustion les,flamelet generated manifolds (fgm),gas turbine and aero-engine combustors
Computational simulation to enhance technology development of thermal spray coating (SIMUSPRAY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 678790.0
EU funding (EUR): 678790.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

SIMUSPRAY is to develop a pan European partnership by uniting research activities between a SME and a leading EU university. 8 researchers will be trained with latest techniques in computational simulation and surface engineering by solving industry-focused engineering problems. The use of the state-of-the-art modelling approaches will revolutionise the technology development in protective coating and surface engineering industry.

Keywords: thermal spray,cfd,computational simulation,plasma spray,hvof,powder metallurgy
Exploring home-based support systems for promotion of food, nutritional knowledge and personal choice. (BALANCE@HOME)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 574253.0
EU funding (EUR): 574253.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Combining work, social obligations and caring for a family in a balanced way has become an important worry of a growing group of European citizens The proposed project will help European citizens to obtain consumer solutions for a hassle-free guidance towards a balanced lifestyle. The project focuses on methods for inferring eating habits in an unobtrusive way and seeks to use this information to provide situated feedback on meal planning and preparation. Throughout all phases of the project a user-centered development (UCD) will be adopted. Since the project is targeting to change people’s behaviour, it is seen as vital to take user needs as the starting point for technology development. The main challenge will be to create solutions that give situated feedback in an enjoyable and engaging manner, leveraging social networking and the collaborative internet (i.e. Web 2.0) to affect behaviour change. The knowledge exchanged and developed in Balance@Home will strengthen both the academic and industrial sectors with knowledge on nutrition assessment, situated assistance for meal planning and preparation and the use of social networking to promote healthy eating. The partnership between Philips Research and Newcastle University will benefit from knowledge exchange in a number of fields of inquiry. Both partners have significant experience with the development of technology, this expertise is complementary, with Philips having a significant understanding of the development of consumer technologies (and the associated methods) and architectures for pervasive environments, and Newcastle University developing novel design methodologies and techniques to engage in experience-centred design and to exploit new findings in multimodal cognition. Newcastle University will also contribute nutritional expertise and external knowledge will be introduced to the partnership through the recruitment of an external expert in the social psychology of behaviour change.

Keywords: user-centered development,persuasion and behavioural change,tailored health and nutrition advice,user experience,sensor networking,connectivity
Targeted Amphoteric Carriers in ImmunoTherapy (TACIT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece,Greece,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-08-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 960985.0
EU funding (EUR): 960985.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The past year has been exciting for oligonucleotide-based drug discovery and development. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Mello and Fire for discovering RNA interference. There was also big investment from the Pharmaceutical industry to Biotechnology companies-pioneers in oligonucleotide therapeutics such as Sirna, Alnylam and Isis, all US-based. High expectations were therefore raised but further progress is hampered by the issue of systemic delivery; siRNA oligonucleotides are ineffective in vivo whereas antisense DNA oligonucleotides can be effective for liver-specific targets only. Therefore, delivery systems are a matter of intense investigation with the most recent advances being cationic liposomes with PEGylation or diffusible PEGylation. However, these carriers face tolerability issues, non-specific immune stimulation or limited biodistribution. Novosom has developed a completely novel carrier system based on amphoteric liposomes. This incorporates structural features with unique charge-reversal properties which result into safety and performance advantages over the current best alternative carriers. The aim of this Consortium is to built on Novosom’s carrier technology to develop novel improved amphoteric liposomes with targeted delivery modalities to cells of the immune system, and to apply them for therapeutic oligonucleotide delivery to inflammatory diseases. Knowledge transfer between partners will facilitate the design of novel carriers, identification of targets and validation using in vivo models of inflammatory disease. The Consortium stems from two very successful one-to-one collaborations and proposes here a fully integrated program of translational, interdisciplinary research. Knowledge transfer between Novosom, a European leader in oligonucleotide delivery technologies, and two Academic Institutions of international standing in inflammatory disease therapeutics provides the competitiveness needed for a European team in this US-dominated field.

Keywords: health sciences
Integrated numerical modelling of laser additive processes (INLADE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 329529.0
EU funding (EUR): 329529.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The processes of laser cladding, deposition and surface alloying are increasingly used in modern manufacturing as surface enhancement, rapid manufacturing, tooling and repair processes. In the simplest terms, they are based on blowing a powder stream into a moving, laser-induced melt pool. Modelling of them is difficult as they are characterised by multiple phase changes and mass and heat flow patterns. This project will link the Laser Processing Research Centre at The University of Manchester, which is one of the largest laser groups in the UK with expertise in experimental investigation and analytical modelling of these processes, with ESI GmbH based in Germany, a commercial engineering simulation and software development group with headquarters in Paris, France and with expertise in many areas of numerical engineering and thermodynamic simulation. Its aim is to develop integrated software packages to simulate all stages of the processes, including powder conveyance, powder dispersion in the melt pool, melt pool dynamics and track formation and heat flow and stress formation in the substrate. The project is 4-years in length and involves close cooperation for selection of submodels (modelling methodology), coding, sub-models testing, selection of additional process investigations where necessary etc. Additional personnel to aid dialogue and exchange of ideas will be used at stages of the project. The developed models and software packages will aid the increasing number of users of these processes, especially the aerospace industries who demand tight control of them. The models proposed also represent academic advances in this field and can be further developed for microstructure simulation beyond this project.

Keywords: laser materials processing,software development,3 d modelling,manufacturing engineering,rapid manufacturing