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Energy efficient UV LED curing without inerting (UV LED)

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: Finland,Austria,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1450157.6
EU funding (EUR): 1115545.85
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project is focused on supporting more than 60 000 SMEs that produce wood products in the EU, by reducing their energy consumption. EU industrial wood product manufacturers are coming under increased competition from imports and are looking to reduce their costs. About 11% of industrial wood products in the EU are coated with UV curable coatings, which contain zero VOCs and are fast curing. UV LED lamps, which emit near-UV radiation, are 60-80% more energy efficient than conventional UV lamps and have environmental, health and safety benefits, but UV LED cured coatings cure much slower than coatings cured with traditional UV lamps, even under an inert atmosphere. The technological objective of the UVLED project is to enable UV coatings to cure using UV LED lamps at the same rate as conventional UV curing, without the need for an inert atmosphere. Our approach is to prepare new, high efficiency near-UV photoinitiator packages, by developing novel silicon- and germanium-based photoinitiators and new chemical methods of overcoming oxygen inhibition. As a result of the UVLED project, we expect to improve our collective competitiveness and generate increased sales of coating and equipment products into the EU industrial wood products market of at least €106M over a 5 year period. In addition, we estimate that an end-user with just one UV curing unit would save about €13K in energy costs per year, compared to the use of conventional UV curing lamp systems. We therefore expect to improve the competitiveness of the European coated wood products industry. Our consortium includes 4 SMEs that represent different aspects of the supply chain from photoinitiator manufacturer to the wood applicator. Although this project focuses on UV LED industrial wood coatings, the materials developed have extensive application to inks, vinyl flooring and conformal coatings too. Therefore this technology has considerable potential value outside the defined scope of this project

Keywords: uv curing photoinitiators wood coatings
An innovative low-cost and flexible 3D scanning system (NAVOSCAN)

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: Germany,Iceland,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Switzerland,Austria,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1351428.44
EU funding (EUR): 1016994.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The three-dimensional optical measurement of objects and surfaces is a state of the art technology in many industries like the automotive or medical sector. It is used for the reverse engineering process, the quality management and new fields of application like inspection and accelerated development process. The total cost of such a system ranges from 25T€ to 200T€ making it almost not affordable for SMEs which can therefore not benefit from this technology compared to LEs. White light hand-scanner systems which do not require a high-cost position tracking system are becoming more important having high potential for a boost in this market. The accurate and easy creation of three dimensional images of real objects is achieved by sequential measured surface scans. Existing 3D white light scanners suffer from complex manual post-processing due to inaccurate measured data and technical limited number of surface scans. The goal is to create a system with remarkable advantages compared to existing scanning devices. A method and technology for the continuously real-time 3D white light scanning will be developed. The innovation will focus on the ability of full automated accurate processing of the surface data.

Keywords: 3d low-cost scanner,white light scanning,fringe projection,visual-inertial navigation
CoeLux: the sky light reconstruction in artificial illumination by means of solid transparent nanocomposites. (COELUX)

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: Italy,Switzerland,Italy,Austria,Italy,Spain,Lithuania,Romania
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1605176.0
EU funding (EUR): 1223176.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The quality of artificial illumination is a major concern in modern society, where living conditions often deprive us of the comfort of natural light. The global replacement of incandescent with fluorescent or white-LED lighting, foreseen owing to energy-saving constrain, will represent impoverishment in terms of colour-rendering capacity, thus raising the problem to the level of health care. In a scenario where all scientific and industrial efforts are spent on developing low-consumption light sources with the same spectrum as that of the sun, “CoeLux” enters with a ground breaking proposal, based on the evidence that the sun cannot provide natural light in the absence of sky. With the aim of producing those colour distributions captured by artists in their masterpieces, “CoeLux” develops nanocomposite materials, incorporates them in lighting installations, and so recreates the same atmospheric light scattering that produces all colour variety in transmitted sunlight, and the blue tinge in the shade under diffused sky light. In so doing, spectacular sky-and-sun illumination in noon or sunset modes, under a clean or stormy-day sky, will be made available for apartments, working areas, malls, sport centres, railway stations, as well as for squares, parks, and stadiums, during night time. The technology is compatible with low-consumption fluorescent lamps or LED’s, being less demanding in terms of source quality. Finally, “CoeLux” will disseminate the results beyond the project by promoting a European exhibition in which such technological apparatus is shown to provide a unique perspective for a deeper understanding of the connection existing between fine art, architecture, literature, photography and our everyday experience of light.

Keywords: nanocomposites,scattering,atmospheric phenomena,photorealistic rendering,architecture,colored shadows
Development of an innovative, completely automated antifouling test system for professional examinations of marine coatings (IATS)

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: Czechia,Estonia,Germany,Czechia,Netherlands,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1335197.4
EU funding (EUR): 998550.51
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Scientists try to develop coatings that prevent of fouling. Development of new coating formulation takes 5 years, beginning from R&amp;D study to the date of launching. Taking into account the marine market development and the change of low requirements connected to the environmental issues this time is too long. Formulation time distances depend mainly on testing. In Europe the only method is testing in natural conditions. Antifouling tests are carried out in different regions of the world to check performance in different biological and chemical conditions. The high price and the long time of testing cause too long payback time for SME that exist on the market. That is the reason why just big companies are able to develop new coating formulation and the marked is not available for SMEs. Significant decrease of antifouling test performance will cause large decrease of new coating formulations development time and cost, will let SMEs to enter to the market and will decrease the coatings prices.The project’s idea is to develop an innovative, automated antifouling test system for professional examinations of coatings. The proposed system will let to perform tests in laboratory conditions and will decrease the test time by 500%. The fouling appearance will be measured by the image analyzer. The test system will allow to detect the fouling appearance even if it is not visible to the naked eye. The tests will be carried out automatically, 24 hours a day without supervision. The test data will be collected and stored on a continuous basis by the database and this data will be available on-line. Selected species will be so characteristic as to ensure that during laboratory tests the worst conditions for coatings that exist in natural conditions are replicated. The proposed project will let to construct relatively cheap, available for SME antifouling test set that let European SME to enter to the huge marine coatings market and become a rival company for market potentat

Keywords: antifouling test system,protective coating,marine coating
Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network for Emerging Energy Technologies (MARINET)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Ireland,Denmark,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany,France,Portugal,Denmark,Netherlands,Norway,Italy,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Brazil,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11045266.22
EU funding (EUR): 8999997.58
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

Offshore Renewable Conversion systems are mostly at the pre-commercial stage of development. They comprise wave energy and tidal stream converters as well as offshore wind turbines for electrical generation. These devices require research to be undertaken at a series of scales along the path to commercialization. Each technology type is currently at a different stage of development but each one also needs specific research infrastructures to facilitate and catalyze commercialization. The aim of this project is to coordinate research and development at all scales (small models through to prototype scales from Laboratory through to Open Sea tests) and to allow access for researchers and developers into facilities which are not available universally in Europe. The linking together of facilities at different scales together with the incorporation of test facilities for components such as power take-off systems, grid integration, moorings, environmental tests will ensure a focusing of activities in this area. MaRINET brings together an Infrastructure with 42 Facilities from 28 Partners spread across 11 EU countries and 1 ICPC, Brazil. It also brings together a network of expertise in the Offshore Marine Renewable Energy sector with experience at all scales of offshore technology research and development. MaRINET offers over 600 weeks of access to 300 projects and 800 external users. The majority (77%) of the MaRINET budget has been targeted in the areas most prioritized in the EC Call such as networking, training, dissemination and transnational access.

Keywords: marine energy,offshore energy,grid integrattion,environmental impact,transnational access and networking,commercialisation,sea trials
International Conference Space and Security 2010 (EUSPACE2010)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 154600.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Conference seeks to facilitate a structured dialogue amongst all actors involved in security-related Space matters embedded in two main programmes: GMES and SSA. The Conference will contribute to move forward the state of the art on the different issues related to both programmes, GMES and SSA, described so far, namely: - The GMES Security Service - National dual missions relevant to GMES - The future of SSA in the institutional set-up: ESA, EC, EDA, EUSC - The role of existing European Centres and Institutions The aim is to build upon the status of discussions on these two programmes in Space Council Resolutions, in GMES Communications from the European Commission and in GMES-related Conferences of previous EU Presidencies (Graz, Munich, Lisbon, Portoroz, Lille, Prague, Stockholm).

Keywords: space,security,conference
Innovative Industrial Process for printing Lenticular Images Directly on Textiles with Jetting Technology for safety (protective clothing) application (LION-TEX)

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: Italy,Poland,Italy,Italy,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1220215.0
EU funding (EUR): 900313.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

In Europe 16 Million workers operate in low visibility environments, including roadway construction personnel and vehicle operators, utility workers, survey crews, emergency responders, railway workers and accident site investigators, school crossing guards, parking and toll gate personnel, airport ground crews and law enforcement personnel directing traffic, parking service attendants, workers in warehouses with equipment traffic, shopping cart retrievers, sidewalk maintenance workers, and delivery vehicle drivers, to name a few. Statistics report that every year 6000 are injured by vehicles or human operated equipment, because of a lack of visibility, specially in night time operations. To address this issue and minimise accidents, the EU launched directives 89/656/EEC and 89/686/EEC, which oblige employers to make available high visibility clothes to their employees. State-of-the-Art solutions consist in applying reflective material stripes onto the garment surface. Lion-tex suggests an innovative product for high visibility garments, which exploits the lenticular effect. In the project three objectives are defined: first of all to develop a portfolio of innovative 3D lenticular effects, that will be exploited on 3D surfaces (like textiles) instead of flat substrates; second objective is to develop an industrial plotter for textiles that allows, all at once, the printing of interlaced images made of reflective and fluorescent ink and the deposition of resins through a jetting device for constructing the lenticular layer; finally a new set of high visibility garments will be prototyped, demonstrating not only the higher efficiency of this product in protection, but also the lower cost, with respect to the state of the art, for a stronger SMEs competitiveness.

Keywords: process,lenticular,digital printing
Data without Boundaries (DWB)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,Finland,Spain,Slovenia,Germany,Norway,Sweden,Romania,Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Greece,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8686425.56
EU funding (EUR): 6493017.0
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

While access to anonymised official microdata for researchers is still uneven both at national and at European level, access to highly detailed and sensitive microdata is now increasingly on the agenda. Different member states have substantially different outcomes for research access to Official data, and the issue is not just efficiency, but real harm to the contribution of the social sciences to democracy in an information society. Therefore the primary impact of this application is to prepare the essential relationships and build trust, common view and agreements on standards between the European Statistical System led by Eurostat, other stakeholders as the Central banks, the Data Archives European network (CESSDA) and the researchers who are the final users; from access as a postcode lottery, to an integrated model where the best solutions for access are available irrespective of national boundaries and are flexible enough to fit national arrangements. It aims at a) discussing frameworks and proposing pilots for a European accreditation and a distributed remote access for confidential microdata to be expanded later to other partners, both for national and European datasets; b) fostering discussions and promoting improvements and solutions for the entire communities through annual/bi-annual European data Forum, regional workshops, users conferences, training sessions, staff visits c) preparing an easy and single point of access (What data are available? How can I access them?) for the researchers, to be linked to the CESSDA portal where NSIs metadata could be harvested when not available through the CESSDA archives still providing access to official microdata; d) immediately enhancing access to official data making European datasets more useable (metadata, routines) and supporting foreign researchers transnational access both on site and through remote access system to countries official microdata. Close coordination with the European Statistical System discussions and initiatives as well as with on-going and future related projects is developed to ensure maximum synergy and incorporation of outputs.

Keywords: official statistics,data archives,cessda,standards,data access,resource discovery,social science
Development of a Novel Stone Sawing Equipment to valorise Undersized and Irregular Stone Blocks for a more rationale Use of Natural Stone Quarry Resources (XSTONE)

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: Italy,Greece,Portugal,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1625962.32
EU funding (EUR): 1083489.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

In 2007 EU countries represented about 40% of global natural stone production, bringing Europe as one of world’s largest produces and exporters of natural stone. European countries like Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain, are important players while other European countries are in positively growing. The European sector consisted of 60,000 companies and employing a total of more than 500,000 workers is strongly dominated by SMEs, being more than 90% and having less than 50 employees each. In spite of its leading role on the global market, Europe has been loosing power due to non-European aggressive trading competition. As a result, employment decreased of more than 15% in the last 6 years. At extraction only 20-25% of extracted blocks are accepted, having the requirements of a standard-sized and regular shaped block to be processed into a cost-efficient product. This quantity constitutes a major environmental impact because the discarded waste blocks (75-80%) are considered unprofitable to process with the current equipment. As a result, the situation is severely affecting European landfills and most crucially its global competition. The need of new equipment is necessary to profitably process irregular and undersized stone blocks, resulting in additional yields, higher productivity, and lower waste material produced. Within the framework of reducing waste by valorising, processing, and exploiting discarded stone blocks, the project addresses the development of a compact high-productivity sawing frame specifically designed to saw irregular and undersized blocks. The system includes a novel block holding system, with dynamically driven hydraulic cylinders, developed to control the rocks stability during the cutting operation, main issue for current machines. Furthermore, a real-time control will be developed allowing the machine to adapt to any cutting conditions thanks to on-line monitoring of cutting parameters and real-time adaptation to processing conditions.

Keywords: stone-tool interaction,adaptive control,block holding system
Electric sail propulsion technology (ESAIL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Finland,Germany,Sweden,Italy,Sweden,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2413184.0
EU funding (EUR): 1747393.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail) is a recent invention of ultra-efficient propellantless in-space propulsion technology. It uses the solar wind charged ions as natural source for producing spacecraft thrust. The E-sail is composed of a set of long, thin, conducting and positively charged tethers which are centrifugally stretched from the main spacecraft and kept electrically charged by an onboard electron gun powered by solar panels. The E-sail concept is an enabling technology for reducing significantly the time, cost and mass required for spacecraft to reach their destinations. It has been estimated that it has the potential to improve the state of the art of propulsion systems by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude if using the lifetime integrated total impulse versus propulsion system mass as the figure of merit. Furthermore, the E-sail propulsion technology is truly a green propellantless method reducing significantly the mission launch masses and the amount of chemical propellant burnt in the atmosphere. As an electromechanical device it does not need any poisonous, explosive or radioactive substances or dangerous construction procedures. In the proposed project, we develop the key E-sail technologies (tethers, tether reels, spinup and guidance/control method based on gas and FEEP thrusters) to prototype level. The goal is that after the project, the decision to build and fly the first E-sail demonstration mission in the solar wind can be made. As a secondary technological goal, the project will raise the FEEP and gas thruster readiness level for general-purpose satellite attitude control purposes.

Keywords: electric sail,advanced space propulsion,solar wind,feep thruster,gas thruster