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ESTABLISHING THE EU-MEDITERRANEAN ICT RESEARCH NETWORK (JOIN-MED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Egypt,Morocco,Algeria,Jordan,Lebanon,Tunisia,Israel,Syrian Arab Republic,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1121020.0
EU funding (EUR): 910000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The first objective of Join-MED is to create a sustainable network of ICT research organisations in the Medi-terranean Partner Countries (MPC) and Europe, reinforcing the Research Cooperation between these two regions on a wider scale. To achieve this, Join-MED will organise a series of networking events in the MPC that will bring researchers from different MPC and EU together. Furthermore, it will support the creation of institutionalised networks on a cross-regional basis, suggesting appropriate methodologies for accomplishing this. To support all networking activities Join-MED will develop an interactive web-based directory of research organisations from both regions, the MPC and EU. To help unfold the potential of the research capacity across the MPC, where R&amp;D is still driven by national initiatives with very little cross-regional co-operation, Join-MED will promote closer research co-operation across the region. This will achieved by moving from country-focused networking events to cross-regional ones. The second objective of Join-MED is to support the Information Society policy dialogue and the co-ordination of national policies on international S&amp;T co-operation in the MPC. This will be achieved by for-mulating a harmonised MPC ICT policy and through an open dialogue, among the MPC as well as with Europe. Join-MED will establish close links with existing and emerging co-operation projects addressing the MPC, in particular the NCP Network, to exploit synergies with the different objectives they pursue, maximise impact and contribute to the definition of co-operation strategies.

Keywords: policy dialogue,networking,international cooperation
Variable Impedance Actuation Systems Embodying Advanced Interaction Behaviours (VIACTORS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Italy,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4503559.0
EU funding (EUR): 3350000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Most of today's robots have rigid structures and actuators which require complex software control algorithms and sophisticated sensor systems in order to behave adaptable, compliant, and safe in contact with unknown environments or with humans. Moreover, in terms of energy efficiency, peak force and speed, these robots are still considerably weaker than their biological archetypes. An alternative design approach is to build actuators with physically adjustable compliance and damping, which are able to store and release mechanical energy, react softly when touching the environment, and provide an intrinsic degree of safety, just like muscles do. The ability to vary the impedance (i.e., stiffness and damping) is crucial in order to optimally adapt to a large variety of situations. However, the technological realisation of such systems is very challenging, having many open problems in terms of materials, design, actuation, and control concepts. VIACTORS addresses the development and use of safe, energy-efficient, and highly dynamic variable-impedance actuation systems which will permit the embodiment of natural characteristics, found in biological systems, into a new generation of mechatronic systems. Target outcome of the project is that of obtaining the intended physical interaction and motion behaviours of the robotic system intrinsically by its physical structures to the maximum extent possible. This will not only save computational and communication costs for controlling the robot motion; it will also allow us to match the task requirements in a natural and highly dynamic way as it can be observed in biology. And, perhaps most important, to provide a powerful, human-like physical interface which can be accessed by higher (cognitive) intelligence levels without having to care for basic motion generation principles. This advance in technology will pave the way towards new application fields, such as industrial co-workers, household robots, advanced prostheses and rehabilitation devices, and autonomous robots for exploration of space and hostile environments. Therefore, results of this project will deeply impact applications where successful task completion requires people and robots to collaborate directly in a shared workspace or robots to move autonomously and as efficiently as humans.

Keywords: robot actuation,variable impedance,muscle,bio-inspired actuators,intrinsic robot safety,manipulation,locomotion,rehabilitation,prosthetics
Robust Robot Locomotion and Movements Through Morphology and Morphosis (LOCOMORPH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,Denmark,Belgium,Canada,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3924475.0
EU funding (EUR): 2699996.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Locomorph's goal is to push beyond the state of the art in robotic locomotion and movements, by increasing efficiency, robustness, and thus usability in unknown environments. As robotic research and industry are competing to increase robots' usability towards the highly-in-demand service robotics, advancements in robotic locomotion today would give Europe a significant competitive advantage. Locomorph combines multidisciplinary approaches from biology, biomechanics, neuroscience, robotics, and embodied intelligence to investigate locomotion and movements in animals and robots, focusing on two concepts: morphology and morphosis. We will build many diverse robots using heterogeneous modules to explore various morphological factors (shape, materials, sensors, compliance, etc) and sensory-motor control strategies, in order to generate novel and optimal robotic designs which exploit the physical dynamics emerging from the interaction among the physical morphology, control, and environment. The second concept, morphosis (changing of morphology), extends this concept further. Voluntary morphosis is a valuable skill for robots, as it can increase their adaptivity to current tasks/environments. We will adopt two complementary approaches. We will conduct animal/human experiments to study biological strategies in dealing with voluntary/involuntary morphosis. We will extract insights from the results to develop strategies for effective robotic morphosis and motor control solutions for dealing with morphosis. This, combined with the robot&apos;s modularity, will create highly robust robots, able to deal with body changes e.g. limb loss. Through an exploration of morphology and morphosis, we aim to develop robots with increased maneuverability, self-stabilization, energy efficiency, and adaptivity to unknown environments. These advances will bring us closer to service robotics, as a large part of these robots must able to locomote safely, regardless of surfaces, layouts, or terrains.

Keywords: robotic locomotion and movements,sensory-motor control,morpho-functional machines,modular robotics
Severe Accident Research Network of Excellence 2 (SARNET2)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: France,Hungary,Germany,France,Italy,Sweden,Spain,Greece,Germany,Germany,Germany,Romania,Bulgaria,Slovenia,Sweden,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany,Belgium,France,Slovakia,Czechia,United Kingdom,Germany,Finland,Slovakia,European organisations area,Canada,Korea, Republic of,United States,India
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 39588707.2
EU funding (EUR): 5750000.0
Participants: 45
Project status: CLOSED

Most of the actors involved in severe accident research in Europe, plus Canada, Korea and the United States (41 partners), will network in SARNET2 (Severe Accident Research NETwork of Excellence - Phase 2) their capacities of research in order to resolve important pending issues on postulated severe accidents of existing and future Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). The project has been defined in order to optimise the use of the available means and to constitute a sustainable consortium in which common research programmes and a common computer tool to predict NPP behaviour during a postulated severe accident (ASTEC integral code) are developed. With this aim, the SARNET2 partners contribute to a Joint Programme of Activities, which consists of: - Maintaining and improving an advanced communication tool (developed during SARNET Phase 1) for accessing all project information, fostering exchange of information, and managing documents; - Harmonizing and re-orienting the research programmes, and defining new ones; - Performing experimental programmes on high priority issues, defined during SARNET Phase 1; - Analyzing experimental results in order to elaborate a common understanding of relevant phenomena; - Developing the ASTEC code (including its applicability to all types of European NPPs), which capitalizes in terms of physical models the knowledge produced within SARNET2; - Developing Scientific Databases, in which all the results of research programmes are stored in a common format (DATANET); - Developing education courses on severe accidents for students and researchers, and training courses for specialists; - Promoting personnel mobility amongst various European organizations; - Organizing yearly a large international conference on Severe Accident research (ERMSAR). After the first phase (2004-2008), and the four-year proposed second phase, co-funded by the EC, the network will evolve toward self-sustainability: a legal entity will be created.

Keywords: sarnet,severe accident,network of excellence,astec,corium,containment,source term
Tools and Expertise for 3D Collection Formation (3D-COFORM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Greece,Belgium,Switzerland,Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,France,Egypt,Cyprus,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11311516.0
EU funding (EUR): 8449994.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The 3D-COFORM project will advance the state-of-the-art in 3D-digitsation and make 3D-documentation an everyday practical choice for digital documentation campaigns in the cultural heritage sector. The project addresses all aspects of 3D-capture, 3D-processing, the semantics of shape, material properties, metadata and provenance, integration with other sources (textual and other media); search, research and dissemination to the public and professional alike. A strong technical research program is complemented by research into practical business aspects: business models for exploitation of 3D assets, workflow planning and execution for mass digitisation, socio-economic impact assessment; and above all the creation of a Virtual Centre of Competence in 3D digitization. The VCC-3D will act as a catalyst in enhancing the sector’s capacity for mass digitization of 3D assets – the tangible artefacts of the physical cultural heritage of the world. The 3D-COFORM consortium brings together 19 partners, mainly former core partners in the EPOCH NoE, to form a world class team on 3D-digisation complemented by an equally prestigious group of Cultural Heritage organizations, with the Victoria and Albert Museum as a full partner and signed-up collaborations from the Louvre, the Florentine Museums authority, the Museum of the Imperial Forums in Rome, World Heritage Sites in Cyprus and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The consortium also contains organizations tasked at a national level with helping museums move in these directions: CNRS-LC2RMF, the research arm of the French National Museums and CultNat the digitization body for cultural and natural heritage funded by the Egyptian Government. The combination in 3D-COFORM of research and take-up activities (VCC-3D) will contribute decisively to reinforce 3D-digitisation capability and to the realisation of the objectives of the European initiative on digital libraries and its flagship project Europeana (European Digital Library).

Keywords: 3d-digitisation,centre of competence,digital libraries,shape semantics,metadata abstraction,artefact digitisation,mesh processing,cidoc-crm
Synergetic Content Creation and Communication (SYNC3)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Netherlands,Ireland,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4480596.0
EU funding (EUR): 3100000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of SYNC3 is to create a framework for structuring, rendering more accessible and enabling collaborative creation of the extensive user-provided content that is located in personal blogs and refers to running news issues. The main obstacle for blogosphere content exploitation has been the difficulty to structure the disparate and vast information found in blog posts. On the other hand, news articles have a multitude of favorable characteristics that make their analysis easier. Some of these features are the synchronization of publication of the same story, the finite repertory of information in the &quot;current news&quot; domain, the use of the same lingo, indicative headings, etc. Since news articles and comments posted on blog posts that refer to news articles share the same thematology, SYNC3 follows the logical but unexplored path of deriving the thematology from the news articles and then applying it to the blogosphere domain. The thematology is formulated in the form of news events. The news event is the fundamental atom that constitutes the everyday news, and is defined as any coherent textual form which statistically exhibits consistency in the bulk of news articles. News events are determined by an innovative algorithm combining statistical and language processing. The pioneering concept of SYNC3 is that while the underlying semantics of news events is not studied, the news event is the most appropriate thematology atom for the task of associating user commentaries on news articles. Having partitioned the &quot;current news&quot; space in clearly defined atoms (i.e. news events), SYNC3 has a actually obtained a clear basis for reasoning on the domain. This becomes apparent considering the features that are now accesible. By processing in combination news articles and associated news events, SYNC3 can derive relations (temporal, causal, geographical) between news events.

Keywords: semantics,news,blogosphere
Development of crosslinked flexible bio-based and biodegradable pipe and drippers for micro-irrigation applications (HYDRUS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Belgium,Spain,Slovenia,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1482459.4
EU funding (EUR): 1104858.76
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The Southern Accession countries and Southern EU countries use the largest percentages of abstracted water for agriculture (75 % and 50 %, respectively), primarily for irrigation. This means consume of 120.000 Millions of m3/year of water. The use of micro irrigation system can reduce the water consume in near 60%, i.e., reduction in consume of 70.000 millions of m3/year. Furthermore, this market is expected to grow quickly due to new water regulations in the near future (due to the worrying problems of the desertification and longer periods of drought).Despite the benefits that the micro-irrigation systems present, there are some limitations that burden its use by the farmers: a).High cost to remove the product at the end of its useful life (even higher in combination with mulching system) and b). Non recyclable pipes due to its conditions of use the material losses its mechanical properties by the effect of UV radiation, is chemically attacked and has contaminants. The aim is to develop plastic pipes and drippers for micro-irrigation produced with bio-based and biodegradable material which will maintain their functional properties during lifespan and at the same time biodegrade after use without the need to remove and dispose. HYDRUS approach will consist on two-step process:1.Reactive extrusion: A low module biopolymer and/or polymeric plasticisers and graft coupling agents will be added to the current PLA, using a compounding multi screw extruder.2.Extrusion pipe line+ crosslinking(standard equipment): Addition of organosilanes or peroxides to the previous blend (PLA + additives) and production of the pipe. The same process will be applied for the drippers with standard injection moulding machines. The new pipe will show Good thermal,Environmental Stress Cracking and flexural resistance, in addition to this,the drip will also meet the dimensional stability,fulfilling therefore the requirements needed in normal conditions for traditional micro-irrigation systems

Keywords: pla and co-polyesters/plasticizers,biopolymers crosslinking and reactive extrusion,standard extrusion and injection moulding
The New Eco-friendly Advertising Tool Which Gives an Alternative Real-Time Outdoor Advertising Media for SMEs (ECOBOARD)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Hungary,France,Spain,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1329792.8
EU funding (EUR): 976242.75
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The global advertising industry is a highly competitive business and the European market represents almost one quarter of the world’s estimated global ad-spend. Despite Europe’s global market share, the pressures experienced by the SME European media advertising sector are considerable, particularly for those marketing paper billboards using toxic ink and glue waste. These pressures, including international competition, industry consolidation and increasing incorporation of costly digital signage technologies into the advertising industry, are important factors impacting SMEs, given their limited access to investment capital. Consortium SMEs have therefore identified a clear need for an outdoor media technology that can replace paper billboards, is affordable, as equally market-effective as digital advertising and that can generate consumer appeal. However, consortium members lack investment capital and expertise to guide them in the development of such a technology, constituting this a significant threat to their competitiveness within the industry. To meet such competition, the proposed ECOBOARD solution will create a pixel-based advertising board capable of displaying static images in near real-time with relatively low initial and operational costs. ECOBOARD will use existing innovative technology combined with creativity and precision engineering to produce a new eco-friendly advertising tool that does not harm the environment. The commercial objective of this ECOBOARD is the development of a state of the art advertising outdoor media tool which provides an affordable alternative to paper billboards, and that can increase the competitive advantage of consortium SMEs in light of increasing sector dominance by large enterprises, thereby opening up new markets both within Europe and worldwide.

Keywords: precision engineering,foil technology,wireless communication,remote monitoring
Microwave Cleaning of Drilling Mud and Oil Containing Hazardous Waste (MICROCLEANMUD)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Germany,Czechia,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1501827.7
EU funding (EUR): 1145298.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Currently around 70 oil and gas exploration/production rigs drill in the North Sea and approximately 240 floating drilling rigs operate in the global industry. Totally there are several thousand drilling rigs where approximately 2400 rigs drilling for oil and natural gas in North America. Drilling processes are lubricated by a viscous oil/water invert emulsion known as drilling mud. Although Water Based Muds, (WBM), mostly are used in the top hole sections, down in the drilling/bore holes where temperatures can reach 200ºC, the mud used is still Oil Based Muds,( OBM) (mixture of 45% oil, 45% water and additives) or Synthetic Based Muds (SBM). The waste from the drilling process is a heavy sludge of rock, clay, sand and drilling mud (oil and brine). In 2004 the total amount cuttings from OBM and SBM generated on the Norwegian Shelf was nearly 250 000 tonnes cuttings and 45 000 tonnes drilling oil brought onshore. Recent operations in sensitive regions in the Barents sea even requires that WBM cannot be dumped and must be treated on-shore. From 2003 and onwards Western European countries are expected to spend on average between 0.5% to 1.5% of GDP on soil remediation in primarily the agricultural sector, industrial plants, land development and municipalities. In Western Europe there are more than 600,000 contaminated sites with a market of about € 50 billion p.a. A threshold of 0.1% Oil Content (OC) on landfill for drilling muds was established by the EU Revised European Waste Catalogue of 2002. This requires development of new technology to meet the requirements in a cost efficient manner as current state of the art solutions are either cost prohibitive or do not meet the requirements. Our proposed project aims to help cleaning up drilling waste and land contamination at an attractive cost while meeting the 0.1% OC requirement. To achieve this we will develop an innovative, efficient and compact 2-stage microwave process line to fit in a 40 feet container.

Keywords: microwave,drilling contamination,hydrocarbons,oil