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Portable microfluidic-based device for in situ detection of viable legionella (PINVIALEG)

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,Spain,Finland,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1667371.49
EU funding (EUR): 1134495.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Legionella outbreaks have great sanitary, economic and social implications. Diagnostic method use to prevent and control Legionella is bacteria culture. Available detection kits are based on DNA technology, unable to discriminate between viable and non-viable bacteria. On the contrary, RNA is widely used as a viable bacteria indicator. Although molecular based techniques, as PCR and qPCR, have become essential tools in genetic analyses due to its high sensitivity and accuracy, they show drawbacks as time-consuming and expensive. Recent development of integrated microfluidic systems has allowed time, volume and analysis cost reduction. An important application of microfluididc systems is the ability to efficiently process raw samples and perform the required analytical assays “on-chip”. There is no portable system to detect viable Legionella on-site in the market. This device will avoid sample pre-treatment therefore reducing data acquisition. Moreover, rapid result gathering will allow implementing a rapid plan of action for bacteria eradication. The project aims to develop a portable microfluidic device composed of a filtration and bacteria collection system and a disposable card (containing a microfluidic chamber for nucleic acids concentration, a microfluidic chamber for RNA amplification through NASBA, and a detection system based on a NALFIA strip). An essential part of PINVIALEG is the development of a portable device where the filtration system is integrated to a microfluidic based cartridge. Thus, the whole process of Legionella detection (from sample collection to results) can be performed on site. NASBA is an isothermal process, facilitating portable equipment production. Development of a NALFIA strip able to detect NASBA products as a reading system will make the device very simple to use by non-qualified personnel. A new innovative tool will be produced to detect viable Legionella on-site, with rapid result acquisition and easy to use.

Keywords: microfluidics,nasba,magnetic beads,rna,nalfia
Development of a raising, walking and exercise device with upper body support for rehabilitation of stroke victims (WALKX)

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: France,Spain,Estonia,Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,Greece,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1411310.67
EU funding (EUR): 1083794.55
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Stroke is the most common cause of adult disability in Europe. Roughly 75 % of the victims survive, but about half of these lose the ability to live independently in their own home. Rehabilitation and hospitalization represent a major economic burden for the EU of about €34Bn annually. Currently the annual incidence is approximately 2 per 1000 inhabitants in the EU, and the number is predicted to double over the next 50 years due to aging of the population. WHO Regional office for Europe’s stroke strategies for 2015 states that the goal for rehabilitation after stroke is that three months after the onset of stroke, over 70% of the surviving patients are independent in their activities of daily living. Based on the need to improve rehabilitation and increase the independence of stroke victims this project will develop a user friendly device that can support the patient in raising from sitting to standing position and enable the patient to perform walking training, with correction to correct walking pattern, and by that improve the maneuverability for many patient groups. The WalkX will in addition offer upper body support and balancing support to the user. The WalkX can be programmed as a robot enabling the user to follow the walking device or if gaining more body control to push the WalkX when walking and training. It is intended to be used in rehabilitation centers and with less need for physical support from therapists, it provides longer and more intense therapy sessions for the patients. It is estimated that the total market of WalkX is €250Mn in Europe. The SME participants in this project represent the European Medical Device Industry, comprising over 8 500 businesses where more than 80% are SMEs. The European companies are threatened by strong competition from USA and Japan and will by this project strengthen their market position.

Keywords: auxetic fibers,stabilization technology,composite technology
Long range ultrasonic system for continuous in service inspection and structural health monitoring of high temperature superheated steam pipes in power generation plant with 100% coverage (HOTSCAN)

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: United Kingdom,France,Poland,Greece,Spain,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499850.0
EU funding (EUR): 1150600.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

A typical electricity power plant of 500MW (both nuclear and conventional) has up to 4 kilometres of pipe work carrying superheated steam at pressures of up to 400 bars and temperatures up to 580 oC. The extreme pressures produce hoop stresses in a pipe causing the pipe welds to creep continuously in time until weld creep cracks are generated which, if undiscovered, may grow until the pipe ruptures. The pipes also suffer continuous cyclic loading through vibrations which produces fatigue cracks in the welds which if undetected are another cause of pipe rupture. Worldwide, failure to detect steam superheated steam pipe cracks results in a catastrophic failure every year or two with loss of life, appalling injuries, widespread power cuts and massive financial losses for the operators, typically with a cost impact of €120m per event. The project goal seeks to overcome the serious problems of superheated steamline integrity through the use of a high frequency long range ultrasonic condition monitoring system, permanently installed on pipe work, which will continuously inspect all welds in a plant during the entire plant design life whilst in service at 580oC (HotScan). Once installed at an outage there will be no need to remove lagging and perform inspection at subsequent outages, thus reducing planned outage time by 5% with a total saving €162 Million per annum (nuclear sector and €374 Million per annum (fossil fuel sector) if the HotScan system was deployed throughout the entire stock of EU power plant. The system will identify all creep and fatigue cracks of length greater than 1% of the pipe circumference, reducing the weld failure probability to below, eliminating forced outage time due to weld failure. So the forced outage time from all causes will be reduced by 10% thus saving €0.352 Billion per annum (nuclear sector) and €2.53 Billion per annum (fossil fuel sector) in the EU assuming widespread HotScan deployment.

Keywords: pressures,temperatures,cyclic loading,catastrophic failure,pipe ruptures,power cuts,cracks,planned outage,creep,weld failure
Aquatic Technology Linked to A Novel Treatment of Invasive Species (ATLANTIS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1207269.6
EU funding (EUR): 935126.45
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The development of a Ballast Water Treatment (BWT) system, that will efficiently target and incapacitate a full spectrum of marine organisms <50µm. The introduction of invasive marine species into new environments from discharge of ships’ ballast water has been identified as the 4th largest threat to the world’s oceans. The UN’s International Maritime Organisation has adopted a convention for a mandatory BWT system on both new and existing ships by 2016. Unlike other forms of marine pollution, such as oil spills, where ameliorative action can be taken and from which the environment will eventually recover, the impacts of invasive marine species are often irreversible. In addition, with 80% of the world’s commodities transported by sea, there is an environmental and commercial need to develop an effective solution to the dispersal of untreated ballast water. In the proposed Atlantis project, we intend to research and develop a BWT system using multi-biocidal delivery technology. This will efficiently target and incapacitate a full spectrum of marine organisms <50µm. We propose to develop a high surface-area substrate with multi-functional surface properties, enabling multiple biocides to be incorporated. This substrate will be designed into a filter bed that the entire volume of ballast water must pass through. Therefore, treatment of the ballast water happens as it moves through the high concentration of biocides held within the filter bed. As the biocides are held within the substrate, they can work effectively together, incapacitating the full spectrum of flora and fauna, whilst significantly reducing the amount of biocides released in the ballast system. This project will be conducted by an EC based SME consortium supported by two RTD’s, who will work towards developing a market leading system that could generate sales in excess of €80 million in 5 years after the project ends and increase profits across the SME consortium.

Keywords: reactive chemistry bonding,surface chemistry
Integrated Solutions for Improve the quality of the rest (ALL4REST)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Germany,Portugal,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499918.72
EU funding (EUR): 902668.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The present project, ALL4REST, is focused on the development of comfort-improved rest systems, using non-obstrusive technologies that promote deeper, more restorative sleep and prevent nocturnal awakenings. The successful solutions will reduce awakenings and/or reduce time to sleep after an awakening and reduce sleep onset latency. Within the global comfort improvement, physical and thermal parameters will be investigated, establishing quantitative and qualitative evaluation of comfort and sleep quality system. To achieve it, use of biomaterials and research of new ones, eco-friendly technologies and processes in fabrics destined to rest will allow the development of new products focused on obtaining an improved rest system.

Keywords: hotmelts,natural fibres,microencapsulation,monitoring,digital printing,functionalised inks
Discovery 2010 Young scientists, new science, inspiring art, surprising performances, experiments, film, games and top DJ's at a unique location. An Amsterdam night with broad national appeal. (DISCOVERY 2010)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-NIGHT, 2010)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170750.0
EU funding (EUR): 80000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Discovery 2010 is the 5th "science/party night" in Amsterdam organized by the Very Disco Foundation. On 24 September 2010 from 22:00pm-04:00am, a surprising scientific location will be filled with over 1500 young people who enjoy fascinating science, new music, the latest technologies, stimulating art and bright ideas. This is specifically brought to them by members of their own generation in a fresh trendsetting party atmosphere. To celebrate our 5th birthday, Discovery 2010 will organize a two day festival starting at Thursday evening September 23rd, followed by a sneak preview and scientist meet and greet for high school students on Friday afternoon and culminating in the European Researchers Night, the main focus of the festival, on the night of September 24th. In this night, visitors will encounter over 30 program activities, hosted by over 100 young scientists, artists and the like. Discovery 2010 as a festival will focus on expanding and strengthening our network, deepening collaborations with Dutch scientific institutions and implementing Discovery and the European Researchers Night in the cultural field of the Netherlands. Very Disco aims to improve the image of the scientist by repeatedly showing young, fresh scientists to the audience. Discovery 2010 will showcase these scientists and their work, in a fresh mix with young artists, new art, film, games, music and new ideas, in a party atmosphere at a unique location. The visitors of the Researchers' Night and the festival itself are our first, but not our only target audience. Next to them, we will aim our communication campaign at a broad audience through national media attention and communication activities. While 1500 people will be present at the Researcher's Night itself, a multiple of that number will see, hear or read about young scientists organising a trendy and unique party night.

Keywords: science,party,new media,live experiments,arts,performance,presentations,demonstrations,new music,new ideas,games,cocktail,night,film
RADIATION SHIELDING OF COMPOSITE SPACE ENCLOSURES (SIDER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Finland,Ukraine,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1440726.2
EU funding (EUR): 1067329.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Space electronics systems employ enclosures to shield sensitive components from space radiation. The purpose of shielding is to attenuate the energy of charged particles as they pass through the shield material, such that the energy per unit mass (or dose) absorbed in silicon is sufficiently below the maximum dose ratings of electronic components. The standard practice in space hardware is the use of aluminium as both a radiation shield and structural enclosure. Depending on mission altitude and inclination, and the dose rating of electronics, the thickness of aluminium necessary for shielding can substantially exceed that required for structural strength, resulting in significant weight penalties. Satellite designers use composite materials which have higher strength-to-weight ratios than aluminium. However, conventional graphite epoxy composites are not as efficient shielding materials as aluminium because of their lower density, that is, for the same mass, composites provide 30 to 40% less radiation attenuation than aluminium. Conversely, for the same radiation attenuation, the composites tend to be 30 to 40% thicker than aluminium. The main objective of this project is the development of the technologies and tools required to obtain lightweight, safe, robust and reliable composite structures. The proposal aims to review and develop radiation shielding of composite enclosures to high energy radiation in space. The radiation strategies, modelling and test for space equipment demonstrators will be performed. Countermeasures as tungsten layers, sprayed metallic coating and nano-conductive materials will be evaluated at simple samples to assess its shielding capabilities for the composites boxes. The activity will also adapt to enhance analytical tools and the capabilities, procedures and quality for the radiation facilities directed to composite testing, specially related to deep missions.

Keywords: radiation shielding,composites
MOnitoring Crops in Continental Climates through Assimilation of Satellite INformation (MOCCCASIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Cross-cutting activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Russian Federation,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 685410.25
EU funding (EUR): 495659.21
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Information on the outlook of yield and production of crops over large regions is essential for government services, food relief agencies, and international organizations monitoring the world food production and trade. In 2007, unbalances in the global production of agricultural commodities caused the marked prices of agricultural commodities to peak. Given this background the need for a global monitoring system for agricultural production is undisputed and included in the priority themes for GEO. In Europe, agricultural monitoring has been implemented through the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS) operated by JRC and also embedded in the European Union’s GMES initiative. Recently, the MCYFS was extended and now includes the monitoring of crops in all of Russia, Central-Asia and China. These regions are characterized by harsh winter conditions and warm and dry summer conditions. Particularly winter-crops are affected by low temperatures during the winter which determine whether rapid regrowth is possible in spring. However, the effects of winter-kill are poorly described in the crop models used by MCYFS. Earth observation data provide an opportunity to derive such information and can form a basis for real-time updating of wheat growth parameters in the MCYFS. Within the proposed project we plan to combine earth observation capabilities as well as improvements in crop modeling approaches. Data from the Russian RESURS-DK and KMSS sensors complemented with observations from the MERIS and MODIS sensors should allow to obtain: 1) masks of winter-wheat planting; 2) time-series of crop-specific variables and 3) maps of (relative) winter kill damage. Moreover, recent advances in crop modeling allow to take EO data into account through data assimilation techniques. Validation of these principles must be carried out both at local scale with observed field data, as well as on regional scale by evaluating the adapted and default models with regional statistics.

Keywords: earth observation,crop monitoring,crop simulation,russia,data assimilation,winter-kill,winter-wheat
Design and Manufacturing of Catalytic Membrane Reactors by developing new nano-architectured catalytic and selective membrane materials (DEMCAMER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Italy,Netherlands,Spain,Germany,Russian Federation,France,Norway,Netherlands,Spain,Switzerland,Sweden,Belgium,France,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-LARGE-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10834742.24
EU funding (EUR): 7900000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The DEMCAMER project proposes an answer to the paradigm met by the European Chemical Industry: increase the production rate while keeping the same products quality and reducing both production costs and environmental impacts. Through the implementation of a novel process intensification approach consisting on the combination of reaction and separation in a “Catalytic Membrane Reactor” single unit. The aim of DEMCAMER project is to develop innovative multifunctional Catalytic Membrane Reactors (CMR) based on new nano-architectured catalysts and selective membranes materials to improve their performance, cost effectiveness (i.e.; reducing the number of steps) and sustainability (lower environmental impact and use of new raw materials) over four selected chemical processes ((Autothermal Reforming (ATR), Fischer-Tropsch (FTS), Water Gas Shift (WGS), and Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM)) for pure hydrogen, liquid hydrocarbons and ethylene production. The DEMCAMER scheduled workplan will comprise activities related to the whole product chain: i.e. development of materials/components (membranes, supports, seals, catalyst,..) through integration/validation at lab-scale, until development/validation of four pilot scale CMRs prototypes. Additionally, three research lines dealing with: 1) the collection of specifications and requirements, 2) modelling and simulation of the developed materials and processes, and 3) assessment of environmental, health & safety issues -in relation to the new intensified chemical processes- will be carried out.. For a maximum impact on the European industry this research, covering the complete value chain of catalytic membrane reactors, can only be carried out with a multidisciplinary and complementary team having the right expertise, including top level European Research Institutes and Universities (8 RES) working together with representative top industries (4 SME, 5 IND) in different sectors (from raw materials to chemical end-users).

Keywords: multifunctional catalytic membrane reactors,autothermal reforming,fischer tropsch,water gas shift,oxidative coupling of methane