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Hybrid Algae Cultivation System Based on Conditioned Environment with Efficient Light Collection and Distribution System (SOLALGEN)

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: Croatia,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1483817.55
EU funding (EUR): 1136008.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The strategic overall objective of the proposed project is to develop an optical light distribution system that will significantly increase the productivity of existing open pond algae cultivation plant designs while maintaining low capital and operating costs and consequently reducing the overall costs per unit mass of algae oil produced. Light intensity is a key parameter affecting algae growth. Depending on the algae species and cultivation environment maximum production rates are achieved with the light intensities between 30 W/m2 and 100 W/m2 - which is around 1/10 of the light intensity of direct sunlight. Furthermore algae are very efficient in absorbing the light that hits them and with fairly dense algae concentrations all light is absorbed in the thin top layer of the algae pond in the order of only few centimetres. These factors make open pond algae cultivation systems inefficient in their conversion of sunlight into algae oil mass. Photo bioreactors are closed systems with controlled light distribution and algae environment. Existing prototypes of photo bioreactors show significant increases in productivity, but are very complex and expensive to build. High capital and operating costs increase overall costs per unit mass of algae oil produced in photo bioreactors over open ponds, even with these significant increases in productivity. In order to achieve the objectives we are presenting innovative concept of hybrid open pond – photo bioreactor technology that will exploit advantages of both algae cultivation technologies, low capital and operation costs of open ponds with the light distribution system of photo bioreactors for higher productivity, in a new hybrid algae cultivation technology. Two technical approaches will be explored in the project: • open pond with light distribution system and • open pond / photo bioreactor hybrid system with light distribution and low cost closed algae environment system.

Keywords: luminescent concentrators,algae strain selection,control systems
Secure Location-Aware Cooperative Network-Coded WSNs for better Quality of Life (WSN4QOL)

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: Spain,Greece,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1707621.0
EU funding (EUR): 1707621.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

WSN4QoL aims at bringing together experts, from industry and academia, with the long-term goal of designing and developing a more efficient pervasive healthcare system in the interest of the society. WSN4QoL wishes to achieve this objective by enhancing and promoting the industry-academia cooperation, as well as by creating a long-term cooperation program among industrial and academic partners in the area of advanced Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies for pervasive healthcare applications. WSN4QoL aims at providing new cooperative protocols, Network Coding (NC) for multi-hop/cooperative diversity, and distributed localization algorithms are developed to meet the specific requirements of WSNs-enabled healthcare applications, and to overcome the limitations of existing services and products. The proposed solutions are developed by taking into account the specific requirements of pervasive healthcare e.g. energy-efficiency, low-latency, data reliability, context-awareness, and security. Furthermore, WSN4QoL aims at providing a proof-of-concept of the proposed solutions through the realization of experiments with real healthcare devices. WSN4QoL achieves these objectives via the fruitful collaboration of three partners, one from academia, i.e., UPC, one SME, i.e., VIDAVO, and a Spin-Off of the University of L’Aquila(Italy), i.e., WEST. As a whole, the partners have consolidated and complementary expertise in the analysis, design, and experimentation of WSNs and their application to pervasive healthcare. Finally, we mention that this is the re-submission of a project submitted in 2009. This new proposal has been significantly re-shaped and updated by taking into account the suggestions of the evaluators. We have significantly improved its organization, with main emphasis on ToK, secondments, and implementation activities. On the scientific side, new research topics have been added to update the project with current state-of-the-art needs for pervasive healthcare.

Keywords: technological sciences,telecommunications engineering
High-speed all electric bio-cantilever (ALBICAN)

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: Switzerland,Germany,Austria,Bulgaria,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1517233.6
EU funding (EUR): 1137600.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Advances in micro-, nano-, and biotechnology put increasing demands on nanoscale microscopy and characterization. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is one of the highest resolution microscopy methods used in this area. In this project, we will develop a new type of AFM sensor, which will significantly increase the performance of AFM and make it suitable for a much broader range of applications, especially in the life sciences. While traditional AFMs using optical detection of the cantilever sensor, yield very high resolution images, their imaging speed is low, they are difficult to automate and integration with other analysis techniques is limited due to the required optical components. This project aims at removing these limitations for a large area of attractive AFM-applications such as fast analysis in materials science and biological applications. The innovative concept is based on "all electric bio cantilevers", ALBICAN. These cantilevers will use novel granular tunneling resistors (NTR), which are fabricated with a mask-less direct writing technique: focused electron beam induced deposited (FEBID). The AFM cantilever will be equipped with an NTR deflection sensor that directly measures the cantilever signal electrically, which removes the need for optical cantilever detection. Recent improvements in AFM cantilever technology have increased the imaging speed of AFM by up to two orders of magnitude by miniaturizing AFM cantilevers (SCL-Sensor.Tech., AMG-T). The unique approach in this proposal, which builds on new materials and fabrication processes (Nanoss), will allow the manufacturing of unprecedented small cantilever sensors with vastly superior performance in imaging speed and usability. These cantilevers will be compatible with a wide variety of existing AFMs and applications in materials and life science. Thereby providing a unique technological edge for the involved SMEs, and opening new avenues for the commercialization of their products and technologies.

Keywords: scanning probe,high-speed atomic force microscopy,nanogranulate films,bioengineering
Synergies of Life and Material Sciences to Create a New Future (SYLICA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4402376.0
EU funding (EUR): 3928918.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SYLICA – Synergies of Life and Material Sciences to Create a New Future concentrates on unlocking and developing research potential of CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology located in Brno, Czech Republic. The SYLICA project applicant is Masaryk University, the main beneficiary of CEITEC, and the second largest Czech university. CEITEC concentrates the best teams (51 research groups and 7 scientific programmes) in life sciences and advanced materials research, including interdisciplinary interactions with a promising scientific potential. It is both interdisciplinary and international scope, which create the major added value of SYLICA, and which also need further endeavour based on an international evaluation. SYLICA creates important synergies with the EU Structural Funds; CEITEC expects a large investment worth € 163 mil. from the ERDF into the state-of-the-art infrastructure with national and international significance. By combining ERDF and FP7, the EU added value is created, and a strict complementary approach is followed. SYLICA principally concentrates on the missing expertise for the new core facilities of CEITEC. Through a series of workshops, seminars, postdoctoral and expert inter-ships and visits, and reintegration of experienced nationals, the project will strengthen our research potential on one hand in methodologies and techniques needed for the infrastructure, and on the other hand in the interdisciplinary research fields including studies of novel biomaterials and composites with enhanced biological and mechanical properties. SYLICA will foster strategic partnerships with prestigious EU research institutions and attract external users of the infrastructure and research results including industry. It will contribute to the vision of CEITEC as a flourishing research centre well-networked and integrated in the ERA, training a new generation of researchers, and delivering research results of top level European quality and significance.

Keywords: life sciences,advanced materials and technologies,interdisciplinary research,central european institute of technology,synergies with erdf,strategic partership,integration in the era
A novel sound absorption technology to enable energy efficient construction techniques and promote the health and wellbeing of occupants. (ECHO2ECO)

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,Ireland,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1376397.0
EU funding (EUR): 1043921.25
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The building sector consumes 40% of Europe’s energy. With rising energy prices and greater focus on energy efficiency the building sector offers the single largest potential for energy savings. This is reflected in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, EPBD, 2002/91/EC. This Directive strongly encourages the use of passive heating and cooling techniques such as thermal mass in building construction and refurbishment. Passive techniques such as thermal mass offer the potential to save up to 50% of energy used in heating and cooling. However, there is a barrier to its effective implementation. In order for thermal mass to work effectively the concrete and brick surfaces must be in contact with ambient air and kept free of insulation, including conventional mineral wool type sound absorbers. The acoustics reverberations (echos) however caused by this can affect the health and work efficiency of inhabitants and in some severe cases rendering the building uninhabitable. Whilst there are some high end solutions to the problem, primarily thick polymer or metal panels, these are too expensive in all but high end applications. There is an urgent and growing need for a low cost, high performance acoustic absorber that allows thermal mass techniques to work effectively yet is at a price comparable to low end mineral wool solutions. The SMEs in this proposal have come together as a supply chain to develop just such a new type of sound absorber, for public and commercial non-residential buildings, Echo2eco. This solution will use an array of laser cut micro slits, of width 100 micron in 200 micron film. There are significant technical challenges in achieving this solution, however with our research partners and innovations in multi-layer polymer material formulation/lamination and novel laser beam/optics configurations we are confident we will be successful. In so doing we aim to generate additional sales revenue of €112m within 5 years post project completion.

Keywords: polymer film,acoustics,laser cutting,passive heating,cooling,thermal mass
Electron Spin Noise Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (ESNSTM)

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: Israel,Italy,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1376126.9
EU funding (EUR): 1376126.9
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The final goal of this proposal is to develop an SPM technique which is capable of identifying the type of atom which is under the tip while tunneling. The idea is to exploit the recent success in detection the hyperfine coupling between electron and nuclear spins on the surface and to detect the hyperfine coupling between the electron spin on the tip and a nuclear spin on the surface. ESN-STM is an emerging technique that is capable of single spin detection through modulation at the Larmor frequency of the tunneling current. Recently preliminary studies have shown that using ESN-STM for chemical contrast is a feasible and realistic goal. To achieve this goal, several improvements to the technique are necessary. To this end, we propose to develop and study four advanced ESN-STM setups: 1) at ambient conditions, 2) at ultra-high vacuum (UHV), 3) at low temperature (LT) and 4) LT-UHV. Each of these setups has its own particular advantage. We shall improve the rf recovery system, the spectroscopic analysis and we shall use magnetic tips and quadrature detection. The spectroscopic parameters that we will use are the g factor and hyperfine tensors and the longitudinal and transverse relaxation times. With the new technique, the chemical identity of the spin centers, the surrounding nuclei, the viscosity, the oxidation state and the motion of atoms and molecules etc can be revealed on the single atom and single molecule levels. The spectral parameters will be sensitive to the local environment. This local information is normally averaged out in macroscopic spectroscopy. The (expected) successful improvement of ESN-STM will provide the SME a market for a new technique of studying paramagnetic species on the surface. Yet, a full success of the project in developing an SPM technique with atom identification capability will result in a huge market for a new nano-chemical analysis tool.

Keywords: physical sciences,single spin,scanning tunneling microscpy
Psychiatric Diagnostic and Prevention Consortium (PSYCHDPC)

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: Iceland,United Kingdom,Germany,Denmark,Norway,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1779259.0
EU funding (EUR): 1779259.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

PsychDPC contains leading European centres in genetics and psychiatry, richly endowed with expertise in both clinical and basic research. The partners bring together state-of-the-art technical facilities, high academic standards as well as established training activities, which will be utilized in concert to maximise the outcome of the project. The primary aim of PsychDPC is to translate data emerging from large-scale research efforts in genetic and genomic epidemiology of schizophrenia, conducted on large sets of well-characterized volunteer patients, into information of relevance to current practice and future clinical advances. PsychDPC will do this through effective integration of data between the partners. A range of complementary approaches will be applied with an initial focus on: 1) Discovery of novel genetic susceptibility variants from genome wide SNP association data through expanding the large sample sets accessible to partners and by imputing available sequence data into the large genotyped datasets, 2) study of the phenotypic stamp conferred by copy number variations (CNVs) and genes harbouring non-synonymous point mutations conferring high and moderate risk of schizophrenia, 3) powerful novel genetic approaches to genetic discovery including long range phasing combined with deep sequencing and 4) analysis of the relationship of uncovered variants conferring risk of schizophrenia with clinical, neurpsychological and brain structure phenotypes. The consortium has unique, very large samples from schizophrenia patients and the aim is to re-phenotype subjects carrying variants conferring high-risk to identify their specific cognitive and behavioural features. Combined with a refinement of familial risk assessment, using comprehensive national registry databases, we will utilise our findings to develop diagnostic tools, tools for early intervention and genetic counselling.

Keywords: schizophrenia,psychosis,cnv,negative selection,reduced fecundity,genetics,snp association,prevention
Ocean Surface Layer Observations (OSLO)

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: Cyprus,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-24
End date: 2013-10-23
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2152783.6
EU funding (EUR): 1499700.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Offshore activities in general face numerous risks in terms of safety, security and navigation. Above surface layer objects and (to less extent) below surface objects can be observed (detected, characterised and tracked) with numerous sensor solutions (radar, sonar, etc.) on various platforms (satellites, ships, offshore energy platforms, etc.). However, objects in the surface layer (small boats, swimmers, buoys, markers, etc.) cannot be properly observed by any of the conventional sensor technologies, especially in non-clam sea states. Such objects exposes various risks to the offshore and maritime sectors. The project aims to adapt a prototype sensor technology that (when fused with conventional observations) will enable surveillance of the ocean surface layer. The prototype solution has preliminary been tested for safety, security and navigation applications showing results way beyond the capabilities of conventional sensors. An adaptation and cost-reduction activity can allow this technology to reach a large customer base. Eight realistic demonstrations representing high-priority offshore industry exposed risks will be conducted to show the true potential of this promising technology. This will be performed with the help of a significant end-user that will be involved to assist the adaptation and operational feasibility as well as to facilitate promotion of the technology. The three leading SMEs will receive the industrial designs (including all the IPR) of the total system and the end-user will have rights to use the system developed during the project. Three industrial RTD-performers are selected to perform the majority of the cost-reduction and industrialisation work.

Keywords: ocean surface-layer data-fusion safety
Advanced Immuno-neuro-endocrine Diagnostics in Psychiatry (PSYCH-AID)

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,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3649514.0
EU funding (EUR): 3649514.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The current diagnosis of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorders, is highly subjective, due to the lack of empirical markers or objective tests specific for these diseases. PSYCH-AID searchers to fill the gap thrpugh the in-parallel study of schizophrenia and mood disorder patients combining, validating and registering 4 sets of biomarker tests already in advanced stage of development in two other EU-FP7 projects of partners (MOODINFLAME and SchizDX). Biomarkers are based on activated immune response system in conjunction with an abnormal neuro-endocrine set point. PSYCH-AID aims at the developm,ent of clinically applicable blood assays identifying pateints/individuals with such activated set points by combining the efforts of academia and industry. PSYCH-AID unites 9 European partners excelling in this field: 5 academia and 5 SMEs. The intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange of researchers will foster the translation of fundamental clinical research into practical solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of people affected by schizophrenia or mood disorders. This fit perfectly with the IAPP scheme. PSYCH-AID contributes to building a long lasting collaboration between the partners, the first consortium in the world to put objective diagnostic and prognostic tests for psychiatric disorders into practice. European industry will benefit from this competitive lead. Since the disorders have a serious impact on the quality of life of the individuals affected, an improved diagnosis and prognosis will substantially contribute to improving their quality of life. Furthermore, PSYCH-AID gives the researchers involved a platform to acquire complementary skills, thus ameliorating their professional career opportunities.

Keywords: health sciences,psychiatry,immunology,endocrinology,genomics,clinical analysis,inflammation,biomarker,diagnosis