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Physical layer for dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio (PHYDYAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Finland,Belgium,Norway,Spain,Greece,Italy,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-10-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4082939.0
EU funding (EUR): 2846143.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

PHYDYAS proposes an advanced physical layer, using filter bank-based multicarrier (FBMC) transmission, for the new concepts in radiocommunications: dynamic access spectrum management (DASM) and cognitive radio. It shows that the performance and operational flexibility of systems are enhanced by exploiting the spectral efficiency of filter banks and the independence of sub-channels. Combining with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OQAM), no cyclic prefix is needed, all the radiated power is used and gains in maximum throughput compared to OFDM are achieved. Robustness to Doppler and jammers is obtained and new functionalities are possible. The high resolution spectrum analysis capability is exploited for DASM and cognitive radio and a single device can do spectrum sensing and reception simultaneously. Research in signal processing is carried out to complete the knowledge in filter banks for transmission and satisfy requirements of new radio systems: fast initialization, optimum transmit-receive processing for single and multiple antenna (MIMO) systems, scalability. Research in communications concerns dynamic access and cross-layer aspects, and compatibility with OFDM. In cognitive radio, research deals with radio scene analysis and channel identification and the impact of the independence of sub-channels on transmit power control and dynamic spectrum management. A simulation software is developed for a typical WiMAX configuration and scenario and performance comparison with OFDM is carried out. A real time soft/hardware demonstrator is built to complete simulation results and show efficient architectures. The expected impact of PHYDYAS is the migration of wireless systems to a physical layer that is more efficient and better responds to the needs of dynamic access and cognitive radio. The consortium consists of leading academic research groups across Europe, teamed with world leading companies in infrastructures, circuit design and instrumentation.

Keywords: radio,phy,physical layer,dynamic access,cognitive radio,multicarrier,filter bank,mimo,cross-layer
Food Labelling to Advance Better Education for Life (FLABEL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Denmark,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Greece,Germany,United Kingdom,Poland,Türkiye,Germany
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3706666.4
EU funding (EUR): 2858471.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Nutrition labels are potentially a major instrument for enabling consumers to make healthier food choices, but current insights into how nutrition labels are used by consumers in real-world shopping situations are limited, making the science-based formulation of new labelling policies and the evaluation of existing ones difficult. The objectives of this project are to determine how food nutrition labelling can affect dietary choices, consumer habits and food-related health issues by developing and applying an interpretation framework incorporating both the label and other factors/influences. Based on this, guidelines will be developed on use of nutrition labelling for EU policy and the food industry, especially SMEs, which will include recommendations for assessing the impact of ongoing and future legislative and voluntary food labelling schemes. These objectives will be achieved by a work programme covering an analysis of current penetration of and exposure to nutrition labels in the EU, determinants of attention to and reading of nutrition labels, determinants of consumer liking of nutrition labels, understanding how consumers infer healthiness of food products from label information in combination with other sources, in-store use of labels, and effects of label use on dietary intake. The project will draw heavily on the involvement of stakeholders from the whole food sector to ensure results with high practical relevance.

Keywords: nutrition labelling,consumer behaviour
Development of nanosensors for the detection of quality parameters along the food chain (NANODETECT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Slovenia,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2732785.8
EU funding (EUR): 2108788.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

In NANODETECT, the nanoreaction technology will be used to develop on-line and off-line monitoring systems (sensors) which combine the expertise of sensitive molecular biological processes with the potency of nanotechnology for application in liquid process food streams. The nanosensors will interact with information technology tools and thus contribute to improved quality control systems within small and large industries. The partners have chosen milk as example process stream because it is subject to different contaminations of which the following were chosen as models: Pathogenic microorganisms (e.g. Listeria monocytogenes), Mycotoxins (e.g. Aflatoxin M1), Drug residues (e.g. sulphonamides) and Fraud (e.g. high value goat milk blended with cow milk). The nanosensors will work on different types of immunoassays, depending on the application. Single modules will be developed for the detection and quantification of specific contaminants which can be combined according to user’s requirements. It is planned to develop on-line systems with suitable software and automated decision support systems (DSS) for large industries as well as bench top and or handheld devices for small companies with flexible production units. Up to now, there is no technology available for the rapid, in-situ recognition and quantification of unwanted substances in liquid process streams. The device includes a dedicated nanosystem for sample preparation that allows the passage of each molecule of the process stream and associated immuno-assays for the direct quantification of the contaminants in the process stream. The novel sensor will comprise activated nanostructures and innovative techniques for a specific concentration within sample preparation and analysis, respectively. This innovative technology features advantages such as significantly lower costs, high conversion rates, direct quantification, and to be realized as in-line as well as bench top and or handheld device.

Keywords: food quality and safety,biosensors on-line and off-line,nanotechnology,information technology tools,immunoassays
Industrialization of Manufacturing Technologies for Composite Profiles for Aerospace Applications (IMAC-PRO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,France,Belgium,Switzerland,Austria,Greece,Israel,Czechia,Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Austria
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7911403.21
EU funding (EUR): 4998870.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Main aim of the project is the development of a complete, integrated process chain for the cost effective serial production of various aerospace CFRP stiffener profiles. The production is foreseen in the two steps: Preform manufacturing and infiltration / curing. The project will focus on complex profile geometries with variable cross sections, single or multiple curvature and integrated load introduction areas. Braiding will be useful for the net shaped preforming of more massive straight and curved profiles like frames and floor beams, as well as for drive shafts, rods and other pipe-like structures. The technology offers a high potential for the cost effective production of net shaped fibre preforms with respect to optimized load paths and light weight design. For the production of stringers, especially for those with double curvature, the so called Fibre Patch Placement FPP should be used to manufacture tailored non crimped multidirectional tapes . FPP works with spread and bindered rovings, which can be laid up in any desired angle and in uni- or multilayer configuration, according to the needs of the stringer design. The infiltration of the preforms is planned with RTM technology or with the so called Stacked Curing technique, an open mould infiltration technique which allows the simultaneous curing of up to 20 profiles in one shot in a tool with comparably low complexity.

Keywords: aerostuctures,beams,frames,stringers,industrial production,textile preforming,braiding,fibre patch placement,rtm,cure monitoring
European Laser Laboratories Integrated Initiative Continued (LASERLAB-EUROPE CONT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Greece,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Sweden,Germany,Czechia,United Kingdom,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-03-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2532937.09
EU funding (EUR): 1600000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

LASERLAB-EUROPE, an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) in FP6, combines the majority of the largest national laboratories in the area of laser-based inter-disciplinary research at the European level. Together they represent a comprehensive collection of modern laser technologies and laser research, and pursue applications in sciences and life sciences through in-house research and services to the relevant communities. They are complemented within the Consortium by selected laboratories with special expertise and equipment which are crucial for the further development of the field. LASERLAB-EUROPE combines 17 laser infrastructures from 9 European countries, including new EU member states. The present Continuation Project will be called LASERLAB-EUROPE CONTINUATION (LLEC). It is in its composition and goals largely identical with LASERLAB-EUROPE. The overall concept of LLEC is the continuation of the activities defined under the Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) activity of FP6, using the methods and objectives described below, and aiming at the integration of national laser infrastructures to form a powerful and effective “virtual infrastructure” of Pan-European dimension. Objectives Networking and Integration: The integration process among the participating European Laser Infrastructures will be strengthened and continued during the continuation period of LLEC, using the functionalities of the present internet platform as well as other means. Networking activities include management, publicity and dissemination of results, equipment and staff development strategies, User relations, and strategic foresight activities. Trans-National Access: The LLEC Consortium will continue to engage in the trans-national Access Programme in a highly co-ordinated fashion, providing essential services to the community. Specifically, it will provide more than 700 days of Access during the project period.

Keywords: physical sciences,optics,lasers,spectroscopy
Sustainable Urban Metabolism for Europe (SUME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable management of resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Sweden,Greece,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Austria,China,Poland,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3630576.0
EU funding (EUR): 2867860.4
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Societies in their urban (and also non-urban) segments, are extracting materials and energy from their natural environment, processing these flows, eventually accumulating portions of them as stocks and, in the end, deleting them into the environment as wastes, emissions or deliberate discharges. Urban settlements – cities – are a specific type of stocks in the metabolism of societies, and the way these cities are being built and operated has a substantial influence on the quantities and qualities of material and energy flows needed to sustain their existence. In SUME, the urban metabolism shall be understood as a metaphor for our societies’ way of dealing with its natural environment. With global climate change, limited resources and sources of energy, the question of how a healthy level of metabolic exchange with the environment can be achieved is gaining a dramatic new actuality. It is the question of how existing urban areas shall be transformed and new cities or expansions should be planned – to be researched in SUME with a truly comprehensive approach. The concept of urban metabolism, as understood and applied in SUME, will be including all relevant flows (material, energy, waste etc.), and – as link to future planning – consider the influence of the various urban spatial forms and ways of urban restructuring on the levels and qualities of the flows. In order to search for a reduced extraction of resources and energies, new criteria for planning and governing of urban development will be needed. The urban metabolism approach will be tested as a guideline for such knowledge and methodological improvement. As a comprehensive approach, the concept of metabolism also is scrutinizing the effects of investment, asking if an intensified use of flows for the renewal of urban structures will pay off in the future by lowering the levels of material/energy flows over time, thus attempting to make urban metabolisms more sustainable.

Keywords: urban metabolism,material and energy flows,urban development policies,urban forms,urban renewal/restructuring,impact assessment,urban planning
The Upgrade of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) (ILL20/20)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6241360.0
EU funding (EUR): 4624725.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Founded in 1967, the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) is an international research centre at the leading edge of neutron science and technology. As a central facility, the ILL provides access to instruments that use low-energy neutrons of unequalled quality and breadth to a community of many thousands of researchers throughout Europe and beyond. The ILL has occupied this leading position for 35 years. In order to keep the ILL at the forefront of neutron science and to provide the best possible experimental facilities and support to its European users over the next two decades, the Institute needs to modernise its infrastructure and instrument suite. This is the scope of the proposed ILL20/20 upgrade programme, which can be summarised as follows: (i) improving neutron moderators and delivery systems; (ii) planning and prototyping new instruments and neutron technologies; (iii) strengthening the links with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), creating partnerships for science and joint scientific facilities accessible to ILL and ESRF users; (iv) developing the site shared by the ILL, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the ESRF. This proposal aims at optimising the preparatory phase of this ambitious programme. The preparation of the upgrade will involve: (i) a benchmarking to enable a strategic decision to be taken on whether or not the ILL should focus on cold instruments ; (ii) feasibility studies, on challenging technical projects to renew the ILL&apos;s neutron moderators and delivery facilities, and on neutron scattering technologies; (iii) preparing the framework for a Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter; (iv) planning the development of the ILL/EMBL/ESRF site, including the resolution of the administrative issues.

Keywords: ill upgrade,neutron sources,neutron methods,user access
Reforming of Crude Glycerine in Supercritical Water to Produce Methanol for Re-Use in Biodiesel Plants (SUPER METHANOL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Spain,Russian Federation,Netherlands,Slovenia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-1-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2997449.0
EU funding (EUR): 2093414.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Biodiesel is produced by transesterification of vegetable oils with methanol. Glycerine is a major by-product of the transesterification process. Due to the rapid increase in biodiesel production capacity in Europe also the amount of glycerine has increased rapidly. The overall project objective is to produce methanol from crude glycerine, and re-use the methanol in the biodiesel plant. This project aims to improve the energy balance, carbon performance, sustainability and overall economics of biodiesel production. The work expands on expertise generated by the consortium on reforming of glycerine in supercritical water, and to produce a synthesis gas suitable for direct once-through methanol synthesis (GtM - Glycerine to Methanol). Producers will be less dependent on the methanol spot price, there is a (partial) security of methanol supply, and their by-product is used as a green, sustainable feedstock. Further development of the GtM technology should result in an economically viable process at the scale of the biodiesel plant (3,000-10,000 t glycerine/y). There are 2 secondary objectives. Firstly: To demonstrate the complete GtM process on laboratory and pilot plant scale. Specific targets are to achieve glycerine conversions >90%, and to produce a syngas with H2/CO > 1. The overall target is a yield of 50 wt% methanol from glycerine (energy efficiency > 70%). Secondly, to prepare a detailed design for a full-scale methanol production facility integrated in a biodiesel production plant, and establish production costs for the super methanol. Target is to produce methanol at a price below 250 EUR/tonne. The project involves 2 SME’s in the field of thermo-chemical processes, 2 industrial companies in the field of biodiesel production and high-pressure technologies, and 3 academic partners highly skilled in catalysts development, thermodynamics and process modelling.

Keywords: crude glycerine,valorisation,biodiesel production,biofuels,methanol
PREPARATORY PHASE PROJECT FOR A MAJOR UPGRADE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVES (CESSDA) RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE (CESSDA-PPP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Finland,Switzerland,Hungary,Czechia,Slovenia,Norway,Romania,Italy,Germany,Denmark,France,Netherlands,Sweden,Greece,Spain,Austria
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4164974.28
EU funding (EUR): 2675250.94
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal for a major upgrade to the CESSDA Research Infrastructure is a response to the general principles and vision set out in the 2004 Blueprint for the European Research Obsrvatory for the Humanities and Social Science and will meet the goals set out in that report to ‘strengthen interdisciplinary and cross-border collaboration and comparative research on a European dimension… enhance the building of research infrastructure capacity in the less resourced European countries of today [and]… it will increase the opportunity to improve knowledge on social processes and thus holds great potential in terms of advising European and national policy-makers on how to manage the challenges currently faced by the societies of Europe.’ Building on the existing operational structure of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) network of data archives and its associated partners, this proposal for a major RI upgrade will seek to address the major gaps and deficiencies identified by the EROHS report on Research Infrastructures through the facilitation of access to and sharing of existing European and national data; the development of improved standards and documentation, and by enabling the linking of cross-national data and the generation of new and genuinely European data for the comparative researcher. Data are the single most important component necessary for a science based understanding of society and to promote and facilitate access to data is to promote research. Although there have been significant advances in recent years in making data available for scientific use, these advances have not bee European-wide. There still remains a large difference in both the actual availability of data as well as in the value that is attached to accessing data across Europe. This proposal will directly address these differences as a precursor to the implementation of an enhanced CESSDA Infrastructure.

Keywords: cessda infrastructure portal social science humanities preservation resource discovery ddi authentication sdc