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CONCERTED INNOVATIVE APPROACHES, STRATEGIES, SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES IMPROVING MOBILITY AND EUROPEAN TOURISM (CONCERTOUR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES for implementation of the TRANSPORT PROGRAMME
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Portugal,Norway,Greece,France,Belgium,Romania
Call:  (FP7-TPT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-09-30
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 652199.0
EU funding (EUR): 652199.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Tourism sector is a key driver of economic growth and employment and has a fundamental role in matching the Lisbon Strategy objectives: making the EU more competitive and dynamic economy.The recent communication "A renewed European Union Tourism Policy:Towards a stronger partnership for European Tourism" introduces the strategy to be pursued for better exploit growth and employment potentials of the tourism sector in a sustainable way.It also refers how the stakeholders can be involved in the EC actions.CONCERTOUR is an Horizontal Activity(Support Action)aiming at creating synergies between transport research and tourism services in Europe,improving competitiveness,encouraging co-modality,focusing on the subject regardless of the involved DG Programme.The overall objective is to propose new concepts guiding tourists through "the stages of whole travel itinerary" and to support EU policies in improving tourism competitiveness,considering emerging needs and tourism demand by acting on main aspects affecting tourism market (e.g.intermodality,information,ticketing).In CONCERTOUR tourism market and transport supply are considered as integrated environment,starting from the assumption that the local community is key to successful tourism destination as they are guardians of the local resources and provide the service for paying guests. The project will identify policy driven solutions to remove barriers,creating the conditions for value added transport services provision(e.g.institutions/instruments facilitating co-ordination between governmental departments in the planning phase,tourism travel plans,pricing policies and technical standardisation).The project focuses on transport as lever/opportunity and not as barrier to sustainable development and competitiveness,taking in consideration relevant key factors such as:improvement of socio-economic benefits,sites attractiveness,reduction of adverse environmental/social impacts,guarantee fair/equal access to tourism for all

Keywords: tourism,transport,competitiveness,co-modality,integration,networking,concertation,support
Equitable Testing and Evaluation of Marine Energy Extraction Devices in terms of Performance, Cost and Environmental Impact. (EQUIMAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Norway,United Kingdom,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,France,France,Spain,Belgium,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-1-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-15
End date: 2011-04-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5482036.4
EU funding (EUR): 3990024.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

EquiMar will deliver a suite of protocols for the equitable evaluation of marine energy converters (based on either tidal or wave energy). These protocols will harmonise testing and evaluation procedures across the wide variety of devices presently available with the aim of accelerating adoption though technology matching and improved understanding of the environmental and economic impacts associated with the deployment of arrays of devices. EquiMar will assess devices through a suite of protocols covering site selection, device engineering design, the scaling up of designs, the deployment of arrays of devices, the environmental impact, in terms of both biological &amp; coastal processes, and economic issues. A series of protocols will be developed through a robust, auditable process and disseminated to the wider community. Results from the EquiMar project will establish a sound base for future standards (e.g. IEC TC 114)

Keywords: pre-normative research,equitable evaluation,ocean energy,environmental assessment,engineering assessment,economic assessment,protocols
Adaptive and Passive Flow Control for Fan Broadband Noise Reduction (FLOCON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Sweden,France,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,Italy,Romania
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5277681.87
EU funding (EUR): 3562536.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Air traffic is predicted to grow by 5% per year in the short and medium term. Technology ad-vances are required to achieve this growth without unacceptable levels of noise. FLOCON addresses this issue by reducing fan noise at source through the development of innovative concepts based on flow control technologies. FLOCON is aimed primarily at reducing fan broadband noise. This is one of the most signifi-cant noise sources on modern aircraft and FLOCON provides one essential element of a wider effort by the industry to achieve established targets for noise reduction. Previous attempts at reducing broadband noise have been inhibited by a limited understand-ing of the dominant mechanisms and by a lack of high-fidelity numerical models. These is-sues are addressed in the ongoing PROBAND FP6 project. In FP7, FLOCON moves beyond the scope of PROBAND to the development of specific concepts for reducing noise in aero-engine fan stages. A wide range of concepts will be considered and brought up to Technology Readiness Level 4 (laboratory scale validation): • Rotor trailing edge blowing • Rotor tip vortex suction • Rotor overtip treatments • Rotor and Stator leading and trailing edge treatments • Partly lined stator vanes Experiments will be performed on two rotating rigs, supported where possible by more detailed measurements on a single airfoil and a cascade. Numerical methods will be used to optimize the concepts for experimental validation and to extrapolate the results from labora-tory scale to real engine application. The potential benefit of each concept will be assessed, including any associated penalties (weight, complexity, aerodynamic performance). Recommendations will be given as to which concepts could be integrated into new engine designs and which will require further valida-tion at industrial rig or full engine-scale. Required developments in enabling technologies will also be identified.

Keywords: fan noise,broadband noise,flow control,experimental assessment,numerical approach
Flutter-Free Turbomachinery Blades (FUTURE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Sweden,Germany,Sweden,Spain,United Kingdom,France,France,United Kingdom,France,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,South Africa,Spain,France,Switzerland,Spain,Italy,Italy,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10790680.4
EU funding (EUR): 6996196.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

FUTURE brings together European and international well reputed centres-of-excellence in order to reach major scientific & technical objectives in striving towards flutter-free turbomachine blades. By advancing the state-of-the-art in flutter prediction capabilities and design rules, the FUTURE project will lead to benefits in terms of decreased development cost, reduced weight and fuel consumption, and increased ability to efficiently manage flutter problems occurring on engines at service. Eight interconnected turbine and compressor experiments will be performed in the project, in combination with numerical modelling of vibrating blades and the related unsteady aerodynamics. Cascade experiments will be employed to study unsteady aerodynamic properties in detail. These tests are supporting more complex rotating turbomachinery tests (turbine and compressor) to study the addressed phenomenon in engine-typical environment. The knowledge from both component tests will be then condensed into “best practice” for both experimental and computational (CFD) set-ups, and will be used towards a combined effort of physical understanding of travelling waves and interferences between the vibrating structures and the surrounding fluid. The acquired knowledge is aimed to be employed by the aeroelastic specialists in the companies, research institutes and universities to identify updated and better aeromechanical design rules. In the process of reaching this unique knowledge status a sophisticated, not yet available, measuring technique will be developed, and a new excitation mechanism will be implemented as back-up to the free-flutter experiments. Furthermore, a unique database with combined structural and unsteady aerodynamic results will be established and made available for further dissemination among the partners. This database will contain significantly more detailed data than any other existing database in the world.

Keywords: flutter,turbine,compressor,aeroelasticity,aerodynamic damping,flutter prediction,flutter-safe design,fuel reduction,stable operation,aircraft safety,competitiveness,sustainability
ROad Safety ATTributes exchange infrastructure in Europe (ROSATTE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Netherlands,France,Belgium,Norway,Germany,Germany,France,Sweden,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4665156.0
EU funding (EUR): 3079936.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Up-to-date safety attributes are needed by road authorities and for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). ADAS applications are commercial products that can contribute significantly to achieving objectives for reducing the yearly number of road fatalities on European roads by half in 2010. The fact that solutions for providing access to such data, and especially to timely incremental updates thereof do hardly exist in Europe constitutes a major bottleneck in the data chain for large-scale exploitation of in-vehicle road safety applications. A viable solution would require commitment by road authorities to report and notify updates in a timely and standardized manner. The ROSATTE project aims at establishing an efficient and quality ensured data supply chain from public authorities to commercial map providers with regards to safety related road content. The ROSATTE project will consider national organisational issues and technical interoperability issues and include a substantial number of road authorities and motorways operators, both with and without national road databases. The proposed solution is based on appropriate procedures and tools to be implemented by road authorities (data owners) at the different levels (national, regional, local) with respects to their organisational and legal framework and an adapted harmonised data exchange infrastructure. A viable solution needs to generate benefits for the administrations themselves in addition to enabling the data provision to third parties. Hence, one effect of this project may be that road authorities decide to move forward to establish national road databases. The ROSATTE project intends to develop the enabling infrastructure and supporting tools that will ensure European access to road safety attributes including incremental updates. This infrastructure will facilitate administrative internal functions as well as supply of data to third parties e.g. for safety relevant services.

Keywords: safety attributes,adas,digital maps,data exchange,public/private cooperation
Sustainable and integrated production of liquid biofuels, bioenergy and green chemicals from glycerol in biorefineries (GLYFINERY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Poland,Germany,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-1-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4973221.0
EU funding (EUR): 3754806.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The EU target to increase the use of renewable energy carriers in the transportation sector in the coming years has already started to boost the production of biodiesel from rapeseed and other vegetable oils. This is leading to an immense increase in the production of glycerol, which is an unavoidable by-product from the esterification process. Since the volume of the glycerol-byproduct has already started to exceed the current market need, the biodiesel producers are requesting new methods for sustainable glycerol management. The GLYFINERY project is targeted to development of a novel technology based on biological conversion of the glycerol by-product into known and new, advanced liquid biofuels, bioenergy and valuable biochemicals in an integrated biorefinery concept. Implementation of the glycerol bioprocessing line into the biodiesel plant will improve the economics of the biodiesel biorefinery by enhanced energy conversion efficiency of the traditional raw materials and by generating valuable, highly demanded bioproducts. The GLYFINERY project will achieve the aim of the highly efficient process scheme through a multidirectional effort using new biocatalysts tailored by genetic modification for specific conversion routes, highly efficient fermentation processes for maximum possible conversion of glycerol into the target products, highly efficient methods for product recovery and the overall process integration. The individual processes are proposed to be studied in the lab-scale, and the most promising process scheme will be tested in the pilot-scale as an integrated concept for demonstration of the suitability of the GLYFINERY concept implementation into the large-scale biorefineries. The environmental and economical assessment will be performed along with the technological assessment for obtaining of the overall, integrated assessment of the optimized multi-stage process.

Keywords: glycerol,biofuels,bioenergy,biorefinery,green chemicals,microbial conversion,renewables,process integration
Coupling charge transport to internal degrees of freedom at the single molecule level (SINGLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Sweden,Netherlands,Switzerland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3535410.0
EU funding (EUR): 2580000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

By exploiting the internal degrees of freedom of molecules the idea underlying the present proposal is to project electronic function resembling transistors, diodes, switches, or memory onto a single molecule prepared by chemical synthesis. The scientific aim is to understand transmolecular conductance at a single molecule level and how it is affected by the strength of the electronic coupling to the electrode and to internal degrees of freedom such as vibrations, conformational changes, intramolecular electronic levels, spins, tautomerism or external stimuli (e.g. magnetic field, light). The strategy is simply to investigate well-defined test systems experimentally in two and three terminal devices and support the results by theory. Applied aspects are long term with high risk and high potential for possible applications. Work will proceed by iterative cycles of synthesis (WP1), measurements of transconductance (WP2), modeling of results (WP3) and eventually integrating the most promising systems in more advanced prototype devices (WP4). Separate Work Packages will be allocated for Dissemination (WP5) and Management (WP6).

Keywords: molecular electronics,information technology,new functionalities,switches and memory.
Advanced Cleaning Devices for Production of Green Syngas (GREENSYNGAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Norway,Sweden,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-1-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4089167.0
EU funding (EUR): 2718461.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The transport sector represents a growing share of the total fossil fuel usage in the world. In order to fulfil the commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, the world usage of fossil oil in transport sectors must be reduced. One important approach to achieving this goal is to increase the share of renewable sources such as feedstocks in conversion routes. These biomass conversion routes involve a number of difficulties that should be attended to first by a suitable process configuration to avoid catalyst poisoning in production of syngas. Second, a major problem in the production of syngas-derived fuel from renewable sources is the presence of contaminates in the product gas from biomass gasifiers. These impurities that cause catalytic poisoning should be completely removed prior to the entry in catalytic systems that utilize in upgrading steps. With the evolution of these advanced uses of biomass derived syngas, it becomes necessary to develop progressively more stringent gas cleaning systems. Therefore, the project's key goal is development of a novel gas cleanup in order to reduce impurities from the gasifier’s product gas to limits required for upgrading to syngas using as a feedstock in production of vehicle fuels. To accomplish this target that biomass conversion should preserve high energy efficiency in the subsequent synthesis steps and prevent catalytic poisoning, an alternative product route and more efficient gas cleaning systems are required. Nevertheless, biomass conversion processes offer many economical and environmental benefits, but it is clear that conversion technology should be able to compete with other conversion routes, for example via methane. Therefore, this RTD programme combines European expertise in the field of gasification, different proficiencies in cleaning technologies, high ranking catalyst expertise, catalyst company, and two research companies with R&D activities in the fields to expedite the development and commercialization of research outcomes.

Keywords: syngas,cleaning technology,tar removal,catalyst poisoning,ammonia and sulfur and alkali removal
CLASSIFICATION OF EUROPEAN BIOMASS POTENTIAL FOR BIOENERGY USING TERRESTRIAL AND EARTH OBSERVATIONS (CEUBIOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Germany,Romania,Slovenia,Croatia,Greece,Austria,Poland,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Italy,Slovakia,North Macedonia,Czechia,Bulgaria,Ukraine
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-1-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1340827.0
EU funding (EUR): 1340827.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the project is to develop a common methodology for gathering information on biomass potential using terrestrial and earth observations. This objective will be achieved by the implementation of a systematic assessment work plan and will result in the establishment of a harmonised approach and an e-training tool for dissemination. The e-training environment will be an important tool for reaching the much-needed European harmonisation, whereas a Stakeholder Platform will facilitate access to reliable and common datasets on biomass potential and as such it will offer a more efficient use of the available European biomass feedstock. The project will: - Develop a common methodology for gathering information on biomass potential using terrestrial and earth observations - Use e-technologies for disseminating information, best practices on the use and applicability of developed harmonised methodology

Keywords: biomass,harmonization,earth observation
Stone conservation for the refurbishment of buildings (STONECORE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Greece,Czechia,Netherlands,Czechia,Austria,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SME-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3369000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2453300.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

STONECORE is a project dealing with the development and application of nano materials for consolidation and conservation of natural and artificial stone. Six SMEs, four universities, one public research organisation and one public body from seven countries have jointed together in order to find a new approach for refurbishment. The idea is to develop and test nano materials compatible to the components originally used during construction together with non destructive stone assessment methods. Colloidal sols of calcium hydroxide, calcium / barium carbonate, calcium sulphate or related compounds will be in the centre of interest. These materials will be used also as new, biozide free agents for mildew removal. The project will lead from laboratory investigations and small scale applications on trial areas to the use of the developed materials on selected real objects. It is a project that aims on knowledge based refurbishment of buildings as well as monuments of cultural heritage and that combines natural sciences and the art of conservation. Thus, main subjects of STONECORE are: • The development of nano materials compatible to natural and artificial stone for refurbishment of buildings, monuments, fresco, plaster and mortar, • The development and test of suitable technologies for their application and • The development and test of non destructive assessment methods (such as georadar) in combination with traditional assessment methods (SEM, XRD, drilling resistance and other). The project will have duration of three years. The results will be presented to the public and interested companies in three workshops, in which interested parties are invited to test the developed materials and techniques on own objects. The project contributes to the EC objectives by the development of materials and technologies allowing a reduction of the material and energy consumption during refurbishment, creating new business opportunities for SMEs and protecting the cultural heritage.

Keywords: refurbishment,stone conservation,cultural heritage,mildew removal,non destructive dameg assessment