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Surface ionization and novel concepts in nano-MOX gas sensors with increased Selectivity, Sensitivity and Stability for detection of low concentrations of toxic and explosive agents. (S3)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-EU-Russia, 2009)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2144359.8
EU funding (EUR): 1548529.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of S3 is developing breakthrough technologies in gas sensing that will provide higher sensitivity and selectivity at reduced cost. This objective will be pursued by bringing together excellence and complementary skills of ropean Union and Russian groups. Enhanced sensitivity and selectivity will enable toxic and explosive gases to be detected against a background of air constituents and ubiquitous air contaminants. This task will be pursued by studying sensors and sensing principles based on semiconductor nanowires (NWs) molecularly engineered, in terms of doping level, the used additives and /or functionalization processes and heterostructures and deposited onto SiO2/Si and/or alumina MEMS heater platforms. These platforms will be configured in innovative ways to obtain multiple signals from one and the same sensitive layer. Signals recovered will include resistive, field-effect, ion emission and catalytic/thermal conductivity response of the NW materials. Low power operation and additional enhancements in selectivity will be obtained through pulsed-temperature operation and combined self-heated operation mode using dynamic and steady state responses and modulated optical excitation. Furthermore, the increased stability of NW-based sensing materials will positively affect the reliability of the developed sensors. In order to meet application demands, S3 will further explore novel concepts of sampling, filtering and preconcentration of target substances based on nanostructured filter and enrichment materials. The development and the modelling of this new generation of nanostructured gas-sensing and ion emitting materials will be supported by a wide range of morphological and physico-chemical characterisation techniques. The cooperation between EU Union and Russian groups will be improved and strengthened by short and long term exchanges of researchers, the organization of common workshops and tutorials and the establishment of joint doctoral degrees

Keywords: quasi monodimensional metal oxide nanowires,resistive chemical sensors,ion emission chemical sensors,toxic gases sensing,explosive detection
Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living (SRS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Austria,Spain,United Kingdom,Austria,Czechia,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5136039.0
EU funding (EUR): 3650000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The project focuses on the development and prototyping of remotely-controlled, semi-autonomous robotic solutions in domestic environments to support elderly people. In particular, the SRS project will demonstrate an innovative, practical and efficient system called “shadow robot” for personalised home care. Most elderly people want to live in the familiar environment of their own residence for as long as possible. However, not many can live with their adult children and therefore, at some stage, often late in life, have to live alone. Studies show that some forms of home care are usually required as they advance in years. SRS solutions are designed to enable a robot to act as a shadow of its controller. For example, elderly parents can have a robot as a shadow of their children or carers. In this case, adult children or carers can help them remotely and physically with tasks such as getting up or going to bed, doing the laundry and setting up ICT equipment etc. as if the children or carers were resident in the house. This objective will be realised through the following SRS innovations: 1) A new intent-based remote control mechanism to enable the robots to be tele-operated over a real-world communication network robustly. 2) An adaptive automation mechanism to enable a highly efficient task execution for remotely controlled service robots. 3) A new robotic self-learning mechanism to enable the robots to learn from their experience. 4) A safety-oriented framework derived through extensive usability and user acceptance studies that enable service robots to be effectively deployed into home care applications. The shadow robot prototypes created with EU support in the SRS project will be tested at the “S.Maria Nascente” Centre in Milano and the IZA Care Center in San Sebastián. The final solution will be further developed by Hewlett-Packard and other industrial partners of the consortium for a worldwide market with significant potential and volume.

Keywords: assistive technology,senior care,robotics,human-robot interaction,usability,safety
Personalised monitoring SYstems for Care in mental HEalth (PSYCHE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,Ireland,Spain,France,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3903007.0
EU funding (EUR): 2909969.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

PSYCHE project will develop a personal, cost-effective, multi-parametric monitoring system based on textile and portable sensing platform for the long and short term acquisition of data.The patient diagnosed with bipolar disorder will be placed at the epicentre of its management, for treatment and prevention of depressive and manic episodes.The system will use wearable and portable devices for acquiring, monitoring and communicating physiological parameters, behavioural and mood correlated indexes (i.e. vital body signs, biochemical markers and voice analysis).The acquired data will be processed and analyzed in the established platform that takes into consideration the Electronic Health Records (EHR) of the patient, the parameters set up in the first stage between bipolar and non-bipolar individuals, as well as medical analysis in order to verify the diagnosis and help in prognosis of the illness.Finally communication and feedback to the patient will be performed through a direct contact with the patient and device, or by communication between physician and patient.Constant feedback and monitoring will be used to manage illness, to give patients support, to facilitate interaction between patient and physician as well as to alert professionals in case of patients relapse and depressive or manic episodes income.PSYCHE project will focus on the following objectives: i) Implementation of a sensing platform physiological and behavioural monitoring for patients with bipolar disorders ii) Development of novel portable devices for the monitoring of biochemical markers, voice analysis and a behavioural index correlated to mental illness iii) Brain functionality: in order to correlate central measures o with clinical assessment and the parameters measured by Psyche platform iv) Data mining and managing: The ultimate goal is to identify signal trends indicating detection and prediction of critical events v) The system will contain a patient and professional close loop

Keywords: personalised health care,mental disease,secondary prevention,wearable system,e-health,e-textilepersonalised
TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND PATIENT SAFETY IN EUROPE (TRANSFORM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany,United Kingdom,Malta,Netherlands,Ireland,Belgium,Sweden,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Poland,Belgium,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9757571.0
EU funding (EUR): 7540000.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

TRANSFoRm will develop rigorous, generic methods for the integration of Primary Care clinical and research activities, to support patient safety and clinical research via: 1. Rich capture of clinical data, including symptoms and signs rather than just a single diagnosis. A generic, dynamic interface, integrated with electronic health records (EHR), will facilitate both diagnostic decision support and identification of patients eligible for research, thus enhancing patient safety. 2. Distributed interoperability of EHR data and other data sources that maintains provenance, confidentiality and security. This will enable large-scale phenotype-genotype association studies and follow up of trials. 3. Software tools and services to enable use of controlled vocabulary and standardised data elements in clinical research. This will enable integration and reuse of clinical data. Why this is important? Whilst diagnostic error is the commonest cause of litigation in Primary Care, EHR systems do not provide for easy collection of the data required for decision support. At the same time, clinical research is becoming uneconomic due to the costs of recruiting and following study participants, tasks that could be supported by the use of data from EHRs. Who will conduct the work? A multi-disciplinary consortium of ICT and clinical researchers from across Europe. These include experts in ontology, integration, distributed systems, security, data mining, user-facing design, evaluation and clinical research domains. Clinical participants include The European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network (where the systems will be deployed), The European General Practice Research Network, and a major Contract Research Organisation. What is the anticipated impact? Improved patient safety by speeding translational research, quicker and more economic recruitment and follow up of RCTs, and enhanced uptake of eHR systems that offer support for clinical care and research.

Keywords: data standards,controlled vocabulary,software agents and services,randomised controlled trials,genotype-phenotype association,patient safety,diagnostic error,decision support,primary care
The role of adenosine in placental development and function (ADENOSINE)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Altered fetal growth patterns, i.e. reduced growth in utero (intrauterine growth restriction, IUGR) are associated with perinatal morbidity as well as adverse consequences in adult life, e.g. cardiovascular disease. A prevailing hypothesis regarding the pathogenesis of reduced growth in utero is the “ischemic model” where abnormal placental bed vascular pathology with reduced nutrient and oxygen delivery to the intervillus space as a result of diminished placental perfusion contributes to suboptimal fetal growth in the second half of pregnancy. Amino acids are an important nutrient during fetal development and their concentration and placental transport are significantly lower in growth-restricted infants. Recent studies indicate that a variety of signals such as adenosine are produced in response to hypoxia in tissues and are higher in women with preeclampsia and growth-restricted infants. However, to date there is little information about the role of adenosine in pregnancy and the placenta. Therefore, the focus of this proposal is to investigate the effect and mechanism of the hypoxia-inducible signal adenosine on placental development and placental amino acid transport.

Keywords: health sciences,adenosine,placenta,preeclampsia,invasion,nutrient transport,system a amino acid transporter
Safe Port Operations using EGNOS SoL Services (SAFEPORT)

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,Norway,United Kingdom,Italy,Italy,Spain,Ireland,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2897993.6
EU funding (EUR): 1930228.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of SafePort is to assist the move towards safe and efficient control of the transit of all vessels in a port from the port entrance to their berths and out again. In order to realise this aim we need to develop 2 separate but interdependent systems. 1. The first is an Active Vessel Traffic Management and Information System, or A-VTMIS [Stateczny, 2005]. The idea of which is to take the state of the art in VTMIS which is a passive system providing information and advisories and use this as a basis to actively manage the transit of all vessels in the jurisdiction of the VTMIS. The A-VTMIS must plan provably safe paths for multiple vessels as they arrive from the entrance to the harbour to their berths and ensure that the vessels follow these paths safely without conflicting with the paths of other vessels. 2. The second system is a pilot aid (SafePilot) which will ensure that crew or harbour pilot can safely and efficiently navigate the courses provided by the A-VTMIS and execute precision docking manoeuvres for large vessels In order to achieve these objectives the accuracy, reliability and SoL aspects of EGNOS are critical. The combination of the accuracy, the availability of the integrity function, and the availability of a single standardised service offer at all European Ports mean that we will be able to develop an A-VTMIS which will be capable of planning and managing efficient and safe paths for multiple vessels. Additionally, the implementation of authentication mechanisms to support identification and safe recognition of assets in the Maritime operations (e.g. Cargo, ships, vehicles, etc.) as complementary to the SiS authentication provided by SoL services is essential for safety-related operations. SafePilot will exploit the EGNOS Commercial Data Distribution Service (CDDS) and SoL services to achieve the very high accuracy required (<10cm) to safely dock large vessels and again ensure the availability of a fail-safe.

Keywords: egnos. sol,vtmis,portable pilot units,gnss authentication
Surface Acoustic Wave wireless sensors for High Operating Temperature environments (SAWHOT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,France,Denmark,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria,Switzerland,Greece
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-EU-Russia, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2215746.47
EU funding (EUR): 1550000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology has been applied for more than 20 years to develop sensors exhibiting unique capabilities with limited ageing effects resulting in long term stability properties. During the 90s, they have proved their capability to be wirelessly operated without any on-board power supply. In parallel, the long term development of advanced material, particularly in Russia, has yielded a new class of material, namely Langasite and its variant forms, that can be substituted to quartz and lithium niobate particularly when operating at high temperature. Our project will demonstrate wireless SAW sensors operating in an unprecedented temperature range. This sets extreme challenges to all parts of the sensor system since the developed wireless system will be suitable to operate in harsh environments. The great progress brought by the project takes advantage of a consortium involving complementary major academics and industrial actors of SAW-sensor-based systems capable to successfully face the challenges of implementing a whole system allowing for physical metrology in harsh conditions. Substantial improvements will be provided for sensing physical parameters in a wide temperature range (-20°C to +650°C), in monitoring a nano-based production process and other applications. Significant knowledge will be generated in nano-sciences and nano-technologies linked to SAW physical sensors and materials for industrial applications. Demonstration of the system will be achieved at an industrial level for monitoring physical parameters under high pressures and high temperatures. The SAWHOT project consortium is set up on the basis of a bilateral Russian-European partnership generating a unique workforce cooperating within the FP7 framework to address this challenge. Finally, this project will bring on sustainable high-tech socio economic prospects : new markets and standards, improved cooperation between EU and Russian organizations.

Keywords: saw sensors,very high temperature,langasite,nano-manufacturing,monitoring,russia
NEW MOLECULAR MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN VASCULAR MATURATION AND MYOGENESYS IN VERTEBRATE DEVELOPMENT (ANGIOFISH)

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: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The vascular system is the first organ to form and function during embryonic development. Its correct development is essential for the proper formation of vertebrate embryos as well as for adulthood. Although much attention has been focused on the genetic requirements for early vascular development (vasculogenesis), the mechanisms controlling later stages of blood vessel development (angiogenesis and vascular myogenesis) are largely unknown. In the past, we have successfully used the embryological and genetic attributes of the zebrafish model to study endothelial cell (EC) development: we identified regulators of blood vessel integrity and characterized vascular mural cells (MC). Here, we propose to identify new mechanisms involved in angiogenesis (formation of new vessels) and blood vessel myogenesis (maturation of vessels) focusing on the reciprocal relationship between EC and their surrounding microenvironment, including MC. Using a set of new cellular, molecular, and genetic approaches as well as advanced microscopy techniques, I propose to elucidate how endothelial and mural cells cooperate to shape the cardiovascular system and regulate vascular maturation and myogenesis. The long-term goal is to provide additional molecular entry points to further investigate EC maturation and MC development/differentiation in normal and pathological conditions using the zebrafish vertebrate system. To my knowledge this is a new research area in the cardiovascular field never investigate before.

Keywords: developmental biology,molecular genetics,zebrafish,cardiovascular biology
Advanced Receiver Terminal – eXtension to technology and market evolution (ART-X)

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: Germany,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-15
End date: 2012-03-14
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1428916.66
EU funding (EUR): 1100000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

In the frame of ART-X, a professional receiver shall be prototyped, based on the experience form the previous ARTUS FP6 project, but improved towards a commercial competitive receiver in terms of functionality, performance, cost, size and power taking into account the evolving satellite navigation systems, changing markets and user needs. The objective is to have a full flexible, but yet powerful receiver being able to process all Galileo, GPS and GLONASS L1 signals, also for heading/attitude applications on one board (including RF-front-end, signal conditioning and processing and RTK navigation in real-time). The latest developments in advanced technologies (multi-frequency RF-Front-Ends, software receiver) shall be fully taken into account. Also considerable improvement of algorithms for real-time detection and mitigation of the three main measurement errors (multipath, interference and scintillation) being observed today in reference stations is a core topic. It shall also upgrade the AIV signal generator tool from ARTUS with multiple RF-signals for heading(attitude) capability. Functionality and performance validation shall be based on the laboratory signal generator, the GATE test environment and the Galileo GIOVE/IOV signal on E1, E5, E6, but also the GPS L1, L2C and L5 signals and the GLONASS L1 signal. Emphasize will also be put on evaluation on the competitors IP context being a precondition for successful commercialization. But also the setup of convincing product roadmaps to meet the user market demands will be a major focus.

Keywords: professional,receiver,multi-frequency,advanced technologies,signal generator