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International Conference of the Spanish EU Presidency 2010. The European Framework Programme: from Recovery to Sustainability (EU2010_R2S)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-CSA-3, 2009)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 322204.0
EU funding (EUR): 317948.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The “International Conference of the Spanish EU Presidency 2010. The European Framework Programme: from Recovery to Sustainability” conference has two clear objectives: ­- To raise awareness and to share and disseminate the information about the European Research Framework Programme contribution to the strategies for the economic recovery: the Recovery Plan launched by the European Commission with the aim of driving Europe’s recovery from the current economic crisis. ­- To provide recommendations for the EU competitiveness council in 2010. The European Commission Recovery Plan, anounced by the President Barroso on the 26th November 2008, stated: “The Recovery Plan includes detailed proposals for partnerships between the public sector – using Community, EIB and national funding - and private sectors to boost clean technologies through support for innovation: these include a European green cars initiative with combined funding of at least €5 billion, a European energyefficient buildings initiative worth €1 billion; and a &quot;factories of the future&quot; initiative estimated at €1.2 billion”. Beyond this there is an aspect of the Recovery Plan related to the “High speed Internet for all” or Future Internet. The conference will focus in the just above mentioned “smart investments” of the Recovery Plan: the energy efficient buildings initiative, the &quot;factories of the future&quot; initiative and the European green cars initiative, as well as on the “future Internet” This proposal is focused in the first day of the conference, devoted to plenary sessions led by high level representatives of the industry, research and public administration in the EU and Spain, as well as to parallel sessions dedicated to the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) more closely related to NMP: Factories of the future and energy efficient building.

Keywords: european economic recovery plan,smart investments,clean technologies,innovation,factories of the future,energy efficient buildings,7th framework programme conference,european council.
Sources and Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron Isotopes in Marine Environments (ISOMAR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Iron (Fe) is now recognized as a limiting nutrient in large regions of world’s ocean and changes in the supply of Fe to the upper ocean may lead to climate change by affecting biological productivity and altering rates of carbon sequestration. However, there is a continuing debate over the sources of dissolved Fe to the global ocean. Therefore, it is difficult to predict how climate-driven changes in weathering and coastal hypoxia might impact future Fe delivery to the global ocean. In this project, the applicant aims to apply a promising new technique for measuring Fe isotopes in seawater in order to determine if oceanic Fe sources derived from benthic diagenesis or seafloor hydrothermal systems have characteristic isotope signatures that are distinct from riverine or atmospheric Fe sources. In order to test this hypothesis, the applicant will investigate four contrasted region of the world’s ocean, including (1) seafloor hydrothermal plume from the mid-Atlantic ridge at 5°S (2-3) oxygen minimum zones in the Pacific affected by either hydrothermal input from Loihi Seamount or shelf input from the Peru Margin and (4) Atlantic zonal section affected by variable dust deposition. This study will involve international collaborations with US and EU scientists and the results will be integrated in the context of the Geotraces and InterRidge international programs. The applicant is expecting to return in France in September 2009 to hold a 3-years term position at the European Institute of Marine Studies (IUEM) in France. By providing the necessary resources, this project will strengthen the competitiveness of the host institution in this rapidly evolving research field and will enhance the reintegration of the applicant in the EU scientific community.

Keywords: iron,seawater,hydrothermal,oxygen minimum zone,global changes,stable isotopes
Alpha CaMKII autophosphorylation as a mechanism to regulate alcohol consumption. (ALCO_CAMK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-05-03
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding molecular basis of alcohol addiction still remains a great challenge for science and at the same time the only chance for designing successful molecular therapy. Calcium and calmoduline-dependent kinase II alpha (alpha CaMKII) is a major protein of forebrain glutamatergic neurons with well established function in various aspects of cell physiology, e.g. actin remodelling. Alcohol-induced actin remodelling has been recently implicated in control of alcohol resistance and consumption in mice. Interestingly, we have found that mice with mutated autophosphorylation domain (T286A) of alpha CaMKII (Giese et al., 1998) have decreased basal level of polymerized actin as well as alcohol consumption and preference (Radwanska, unpublished observations). Thus we would like to hypothesis that alpha CaMKII autophosphorylation is a key modulator of alcohol-induced actin-remodelling and thus alcohol consumption and preference. To verify our hypothesis we shell accomplish the following objectives: - to test whether autophosphorylation of alphaCaMKII regulates acute behavioural response to alcohol as well as to long-term alcohol drinking; - to identify brain regions in which autophosphorylation of alphaCaMKII contributes to actin remodelling; - to investigate which signalling pathways connect CaMKII autophosphorylation in mutant mice with actin remodelling; - to test whether autophosphorylation of alphaCaMKII regulates actin remodelling induced by alcohol; Here we will establish the role of CaMKII autophosphorylation in actin remodelling and alcohol preference. Toward this end, integrative approach will be used: behavioural studies with mutant mice (CaMKIIT286A) will be combined with various molecular and biochemical analyses of protein expression and phosphorylation. This research will advance our understanding of molecular basis of alcohol preference and alcohol consumption, which are the critical prerequisites for alcohol addiction.

Keywords: health sciences,neurobiology,chronic diseases,brain research
Role of Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acids in the Regulation of Blood Pressure, Renal Hemodynamics and Sodium Excretion in Renovascular Model of Hypertension (RENAL FUNCTIONS/EETS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cytochrome P450 (CYP) metabolites are more frequently recognized as important regulators of cardiovascular and renal functions. CYP epoxygenases produce epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) that exhibit vasodilatory and natriuretic properties. EETs are degraded by the enzyme soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH). Inhibition of sEH increases the level of EETs and attenuates blood pressure (BP) and end organ damage in several models of hypertension. We would like to define the role of EETs in BP regulation in the model of renovascular two kidney one clip (2K1C) hypertension. We will examine whether sEH inhibition attenuates BP and improves renal autoregulation and pressure natriuresis in 2K1C hypertension. In addition, we will study the signaling of EETs in isolated renal arterioles to determine the changes in EETs - mediated signal transduction in hypertension. Overall, these studies could elucidate the role of EETs in the regulation of renal functions and BP under physiological conditions and in hypertension. In addition, these studies could provide new evidence supporting the role of sEH inhibitor as the new candidate for antihypertensive therapy.

Keywords: renovascular hypertension,cytochrome p450,eets,soluble expoxide hydrolase,epoxygenase,renal function,renal blood flow,renal autoregulation,natural sciences,vascular dilation
SeCUring the EU GNSS adopTion in the dangeroUs Material transport (SCUTUM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,France,European organisations area,Austria,France,Not available
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-18
End date: 2011-12-17
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2243123.4
EU funding (EUR): 1407188.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

SCUTUM objective is to launch and pursue a concrete path supporting EGNOS services adoption in the transport of dangerous goods in Europe. SCUTUM is conceived to exploit the added value of EGNOS CS/EDAS for providing “guaranteed positioning” services. The project rationale is to follow-up the actions identified in MENTORE enabling the evolution of EGNOS use from prototype to large adoption. SCUTUM approach is to convey existing commercial initiatives into EGNOS, in order to: 1. Ensure large scale use involving the main stakeholders (institutions, authorities, goods owners, transport operators, service/application providers, equipment manufacturers) 2. Extensively validate EGNOS CS/EDAS based solution in real commercial operations 3. Initiate technical standardisation 4. Provide technological and market inputs for EGNOS CS pricing 5. Define and validate the commercial distribution and market strategy. SCUTUM enhances existing solutions (on-board units and service/application platforms) to use EGNOS CS/EDAS services. SCUTUM implements a system and operates it in a large scale trial involving 100 vehicles transporting hydrocarbons in Europe via road. SCUTUM trial starts from an Italian best case and extends it in two neighbouring countries, France and Austria, as a first step for its deployment. The successive step is its explosion to other European countries, and extension to other modes of transport and other freight types. SCUTUM exploitation is conceived to boost the EGNOS EDAS-based services uptake in the freight transport, and as in line with the European policies and Action Plans related to ITS deployment, eLogistics and eFreight. Moreover it can provide contributions to the elaboration of the Action Plan on EGNOS and Galileo. SCUTUM will become a commercial initiative. The involved companies, supported by the preliminary business plan results, intend to commercialise the developed products and services at the end of the SCUTUM trials.

Keywords: egnos/edas services,dangerous goods transport,large scale trials,standardisation,european action plans,business plan,commercial exploitation
Laser printing of organic/inorganic material for the fabrication of electronic devices (E-LIFT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Greece,Spain,United Kingdom,Romania,Italy,France,France,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4163312.0
EU funding (EUR): 2995000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Backgroung The main purpose of this project is the development of the Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) process that permits the deposition of a wide variety of materials, with high spatial resolution (a few micrometers) for the manufacturing of electronic devices. It has been successfully applied so far in laboratory-scale trials for the deposition of organic and inorganic compounds, polymers and biomaterials on various substrates and the realisation of devices such as OLEDs or TFTs. Breakthrough This process will address the same market as inkjet printing, but it should be significantly faster, doesn&apos;t require any post-annealing, allows for the deposition of multilayer structures without any risk of undesirable material mixing and can enable printing of a wide range of materials and phases. The ability of printing such a diverse range of materials with a unique process opens up new perspectives for increasing the performances of devices. Objectives The aim of the present project is to integrate the expertise in laser physics, chemistry and microelectronics from academics, integrators and product manufacturers from industry in order to validate this technology, define its capabilities and its limits, and finally to ensure its successful transfer towards real-world applications in manufacturing. - Our first objective is to optimize the LIFT process for representative materials and substrates (flexible and rigid) in order to solve the potential technological blocking points and to determine the process windows. - The second objective is to validate the LIFT process. Some specific applications will be addressed and that will lead to the realisation and characterisation of components like TFTs, OLEDs, sensors, energy harvesters, and the laser printing of the most promising of these composites onto RFID tags. This scientific effort will pave the way to the definition of the laser printing prototype together with reliability and productivity considerations.

Keywords: laser printing,manufacturing,oled,sensor,organic/inorganic microelectronic
ERA-NET-PLUS on photonics-based internet access networks of the future (PIANO+)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Israel,Poland,Austria,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 22506834.0
EU funding (EUR): 7321710.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

High speed internet access is recognised as becoming increasingly important as demands for bandwidth increase. One of the key issues for Europe is how to enable ubiquitous broadband access of at least 1 Gb/s per subscriber economically within the next decade, whilst meeting the shorter term needs of system operators and users. Investment in the development of next generation optical access technologies will enable a future network to be deployed which will radically reduce infrastructure costs through removal of local exchanges and much of the metro network. PIANO+ aims at consolidating the respective funding activities throughout Europe and achieving the best possible exploitation of the resources and the innovative potential of European industry and science. This shall be achieved through a joint call focussing on photonic technology and system architectures for the scalable, future proof, cost-effective and energy efficient access network. Topic and basic concept of this EN+ originate from the Mirror Group of the European Technology Platform Photonics21 which is made up of governmental representatives from the Member and Associated States involved with the promotion of photonics.

Keywords: era-net-plus,photonics,ict,transnational funding,joint call,internet,access networks,pon,optical fibre,components
Printable, organic and large-area realisation of integrated circuits (POLARIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,Austria,Sweden,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13810590.0
EU funding (EUR): 9859375.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to realise high-performance organic electronic devices and circuits using large-area processing compatible fabrication methods. The high performance of the organic circuits referred to here means high speed (kHz-MHz range), low parasitic capacitance, low operating voltage, and low power consumption. The related organic thin film transistor (OTFT) fabrication development will be focused to enable a high resolution nanoimprinting lithography (NIL) step, which is compatible with roll-to-roll processing environment. Applying NIL will enable smaller transistor channel lengths (down below 1 µm) and thereby an increase in the speed of the device. Another important concept to improve the performance is the self-aligned fabrication principle, in which the critical patterns of the different OTFT layers are automatically aligned in respect to each other during the fabrication. This decreases the parasitic capacitances and thereby increases the speed of the device, and is one of the key elements to enable the use of large-area fabrication techniques such as printing. Also complementary transistor technology will be developed, which will enable a decrease in operating voltage and power consumption. The high performance organic transistors will be tested in basic electronic building blocks such as inverters and ring oscillators. The technology development will be exploited in the active matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) and radio-frequency identification (RFID) demonstrators. In addition to showing that sufficient performance can be reached without sacrificing the mass fabrication approach, solutions for the fabrication of roll-to-roll tools in order to make serial replication viable will be provided. Finally, the design, characterization, and modeling of submicron low-power OTFTs will be done in order to support the fabrication of the demonstrators based on the technology developed in the project.

Keywords: complementary circuits,flexible substrate,large-area manufacturing,organic electronics
LIVESAILING FOR PROFESSIONALS (LS4P)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Not available
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 765165.87
EU funding (EUR): 484832.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

LiveSailing for Professionals (LS4P) is an innovative GNSS service application targeted to sailing professionals. In the past years, BeTomorrow has been developing intensively the LiveSailing Mass Market edition for sailing event broadcasting. But the standard GPS terminals commonly used by BeTomorrow revealed not to offer enough positioning accuracy and reliability to meet more severe requirements than the ones needed for race event broadcasting. The future availability of the EGNOS and European GNSS systems now paves the way for much more precise and reliable positioning capabilities which offer in turn new perspectives for the development of a range of innovative LiveSailing for Professionals applications: High precision and reliable positioning systems will allow to monitor and to record in a fully synchronized mode, on a continuous basis and all along the race duration all the parameters of the race and racing site. The LiveSailing for Professionals system will then become part of the official racing chronometers which will be used by regattas organizers to detect wrong departures and to certify boats ranking. Back to the shore, the sailors and their coaches will also be able to replay the whole race to assess how far they have been from the maximum theoretical performance of their boats. They will also be able to compare their trajectory with an ideal one to be computed from the real measurement of wind and sea conditions all along the race duration. BeTomorrow and Septentrio will bring into the project, their technological excellence in multimedia platform management and in high end GNSS systems. The Olympic British Team will behave as a key representative end-user. The project is strongly supported by the official timekeeper of the LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES.

Keywords: innovative egnos galileo multimedia interactive application sailing professionals performance analysis regattas timekeeping
Coastal Surveying of Depths with EGNOS to Enhance Charts (COSUDEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-14
End date: 2011-12-13
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 456011.27
EU funding (EUR): 356496.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to create a system for enhanced surveying of coastal waters through using standard navigation equipment, as an alternative to the standard approach of using specialist Hydrographic surveyors and high precision instruments. Instead, we use a large amount of data logged by vessels carrying out their normal business, and later uploaded to our server for processing. By using a large amount of data, the errors from using less accurate instruments can be remoed. We believe this can be developed to provide a cost effective system that will enable much of the shortfall in surveys to be made up. The benefits of this are safer navigation to all vessels in coastal waters, in particular to the leisure, fishing and workboat sectors, and also greater information for the GIS community, coastal engineers, port, harbour and waterway authorities, and applications such as tide power or offshore wind farms. The system will use GPS receivers equipped with EGNOS to provide the required level of positional accuracy, and will use statistical techniques to remove errors from depth measurements from echo sounders that cannot otherwise be resolved. The data logged will be available both as survey data and as chart data. It will be made available in the IHO S-100 format, which is suited to chart creation by Hydrographic Offices and to the wider GIS community, including use in OGC Web Map Servers and Web Feature Servers.

Keywords: egnos marine chart survey hydrography