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Embedded Intelligent Controls for Buildings with Renewable Generation and Storage (ENCOURAGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Embedded Computing Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ARTEMIS (Art-185)
Countries involved: Denmark,Spain,Portugal,Italy,Spain,Ireland
Call:  (ARTEMIS-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6368621.6
EU funding (EUR): 1063559.78
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The ENCOURAGE project aims to develop embedded intelligence and integration technologies that will directly optimize energy use in buildings and enable active participation in the future smart grid environment. The desired energy savings will be achieved in three complementary ways. Firstly, by developing supervisory control strategies that will be able to coordinate larger subsystems (HVAC, lighting, renewable energy generation, thermal storage, etc) and orchestrate operation of the numerous devices in such systems. The energy use will be optimized as a trade-off between occupants comfort, energy costs and environmental impact while considering people’s habits, weather conditions, characteristics of appliances, local generation and storage capacities and market conditions. Secondly, through an intelligent gateway with embedded logic supporting inter-building energy exchange. This brokerage agent will communicate directly with other buildings and local producers to negotiate possible use of the electricity produced locally in their premises. And thirdly, by developing novel virtual sub-metering technologies and event-based middleware applications that will support advanced monitoring and diagnostics concepts. Systematic performance monitoring will ensure the achieved savings are sustained over long period of time without being degraded by deteriorated performance of both mechanical equipment and the monitoring and control system itself. The primary application domains are non-residential buildings and campuses, but the project has relevancy also to residential buildings and neighbourhoods. This will be expressed through several demonstrators comprising public and private office buildings, campus buildings, and private homes. ENCOURAGE aims to achieve 20% of energy savings through the improved interoperability between various types of energy generation, consumption and storage devices; inter-building energy exchange; and systematic performance monitoring.

Keywords: enerfy efficient buildings,supervisory control,diagnostics,wireless networks,virtual sub-metering,event-based middleware,smart grid
Education as a Lifelong Process – Comparing Educational Trajectories in Modern Societies (EDULIFE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Italy,Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2488360.0
EU funding (EUR): 2488360.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last decades, modern societies have evolved into knowledge-based economies in which the role of education and the organisation of educational institutions have become important in all phases of the life course. More than in the past, today, education is a lifelong process where the individual acquires skills and competences in formal and non-formal learning settings throughout the entire life-span. Most empirical research on education is still based on cross-sectional studies and does not analyse education as a highly time-dependent, stepwise, and cumulative process. The aim of the project is therefore to study how individuals’ educational careers and competence trajectories unfold over the life course in relation to family background, educational institutions, workplaces, and private life events. The project takes an explicit life course perspective and utilises innovative data from the new German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). The NEPS data will be compared with longitudinal data from five carefully selected additional countries. Based on its cross-national comparisons the project will do both, (a) establish the generality of findings and (b) study the specific impact of variations in educational institutional settings across countries. In substantive terms, the project is structured along four themes: (1) the quality of pre-school education and its short- and longer-term effects on individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds; (2) consequences of different models of differentiation in secondary school and their consequences on competence development and educational opportunities; (3) different vocational training trajectories and their impact on entry into the labour market; and (4) the interaction of lifelong learning and job careers.

Keywords: educational trajectories,longitudinal analysis,international comparison
Dynamic Landscapes, Coastal Environments and Human Dispersals (DISPERSE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2550000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2550000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

We aim to understand the relationship between dynamic changes in physical landscapes and patterns of human dispersal and development in prehistory, paying particular attention to the impact of active tectonics and sea-level change. We will: • Introduce and develop concepts and techniques of tectonic geomorphology and mapping to analyse the relationship between geological instability, complex topographies, and archaeological remains at a variety of geographical scales • Focus on the western Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea coast, a key, but little known, intermediary region between Africa and Eurasia, and draw on a wider comparative sample of key site-regions throughout the main axes of early dispersal in Africa, SW Asia and S Europe. • Develop strategies to explore the submerged landscapes and archaeology of the continental shelf, now recognised as a major gap in our understanding of the human story • Analyse the shell mounds of recent millennia to develop a detailed benchmark for what constitutes the archaeological signature of a coastal economy, and a guide to the interpretation of more vestigial data from earlier periods and the search for material on submerged coastlines when sea levels were lower • Synthesise the results with existing palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental data • Tackle the fundamental but hitherto unresolved technical challenge of how to distinguish in distributions of archaeological sites between genuine patterns of human habitat preference and geological effects of differential visibility • Produce a case study that demonstrates how long-term human engagement with the material world of a changing physical landscape and the cumulative palimpsests of archaeological deposits can give rise to new adaptations and new strategies of social action

Keywords: arabia,geomorphology,geophysics,palaeoeconomy,sea-levels,submerged landscapes,red sea
Strategy for Allied Radioecology (STAR)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radiation protection
Destination: Radiation Protection
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: France,Finland,Belgium,United Kingdom,Spain,Sweden,Germany,Norway,United States,Japan
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8042738.8
EU funding (EUR): 3999756.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

With a renewed interest in nuclear energy and the scientific challenges related to the nuclear fuel cycle, the need for radioecological expertise is increasing world-wide. Concurrently, education related to radioecology has steadily declined, leading experts are approaching retirement, and funding for radioecological research is at a minimum in many European countries. To face this challenge and avoid further fragmentation, nine leading organisations propose to establish a Network of Excellence in radioecology, called STAR. The goal is to efficiently integrate important organisations, infrastructures, and research efforts into a sustainable network that contributes to a European Research Area in radioecology. To achieve this, a Joint Programme of Activities will be implemented covering integration and sharing of infrastructures; training, education and mobility; knowledge management and dissemination; as well as three key research themes (integrating human and non-human radiological risk assessments; radiation protection in a multi-contaminant context; ecologically relevant low-dose effects). The coordinator, IRSN, is one of the largest radioecological research institutes in Europe with an excellent record in large project management. Three STAR partners are members of the High Level Expert Group on Low Dose Risk Research, ensuring that STAR will provide effective links to the wider community of low dose risk research. STAR will interact with other European and international research institutes in radioecology, radiobiology and ecology to produce the best research for addressing the key scientific challenges in radioecology. To address stakeholders’ needs and policy questions, a strong link with end-users will be achieved via dedicated workshops, conferences and advanced dissemination tools. STAR will promote integration, networking and scientific excellence to benefit human and environmental radiation protection.

Keywords: radioecology,low dose,human and environmental risk assessments,radiation protection,modelling,ecological effects,radionuclide behaviour,mixed contaminants,education
Five Centuries of Marriages (5COFM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1847400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1847400.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This long-term research project is based on the data-mining of the Llibres d'Esposalles conserved at the Archives of the Barcelona Cathedral, an extraordinary data source comprising 244 books of marriage licenses records. It covers about 550.000 unions from over 250 parishes of the Diocese between 1451 and 1905. Its impeccable conservation is a miracle in a region where parish archives have undergone massive destruction. The books include data on the tax posed on each couple depending on their social class, on an eight-tiered scale. These data allow for research on multiple aspects of demographic research, especially on the very long run, such as: population estimates, marriage dynamics, cycles, and indirect estimations for fertility, migration and survival, as well as socio-economic studies related to social homogamy, social mobility, and transmission of social and occupational position. Being continuous over five centuries, the source constitutes a unique instrument to study the dynamics of population distribution, the expansion of the city of Barcelona and the constitution of its metropolitan area, as well as the chronology and the geography in the constitution of new social classes. To this end, a digital library and a database, the Barcelona Historical Marriages Database (BHiMaD), are to be created and completed. An ERC-AG will help doing so while undertaking the research analysis of the database in parallel. The research team, at the U. Autònoma de Barcelona, involves researchers from the Center for Demo-graphic Studies and the Computer Vision Center experts in historical databases and computer-aided recognition of ancient manuscripts. 5CofM will serve the preservation of the original “Llibres d’Esposalles” and unlock the full potential embedded in the collection.

Keywords: barcelona,historical marriage,database,social demography,1451-1905,manuscript recognition.
The Legitimacy of Multi-level Human Rights Judiciary (MULTIRIGHTS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Norway
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2430000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2430000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proliferation of human rights treaties at regional and global levels may offer moral foundations for international law. However, many worry that this growth of supervisory organs is illegitimate. Consider, for instance • The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is overburdened. • The human rights organs may disagree e.g. on how to balance freedom of expression against protection from hate speech. Which should be obeyed? • Citizens of well-functioning democracies ask: why should such international organs intervene? The MultiRights team of international lawyers and political theorists will first scrutinize the claims of legitimacy deficits. We then consider reform proposals for global and European human rights organs: We develop four plausible models, ranging from Primacy of National Courts to a World Court of Human Rights. We will assess the models by four Contested Constitutional Principles of legitimacy, revised for our multilevel legal order: Human Rights values, the Rule of Law, Subsidiarity, and Democracy. MultiRights thereby provides reasoned comparative assessment of models for human rights regime reforms, and contributes to better standards of legitimacy for international institutions. The findings also help us understand and assess the alleged ‘Constitutionalisation of International Law” - an urgent topic under globalization, when governance beyond states increases in density and impact. The academic contributions of MultiRights will also benefit several reforms: • the Interlaken Process on how to improve the ECtHR, • the accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights under the Lisbon Treaty, • the UN Secretary General’s calls to reform the Human Rights treaty body system, and • challenges to the democratic credentials of such human rights review.

Keywords: international human rights,international constitutionalism,multi-level governance,judicial review
Advanced High-Temperature Reactors for Cogeneration of Heat and Electricity R&D (ARCHER)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Poland,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Germany,France,United Kingdom,European organisations area,Germany,Switzerland,France,Spain,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Czechia,Germany,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,South Africa
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10121038.14
EU funding (EUR): 5400000.0
Participants: 34
Project status: CLOSED

In line with the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) and Deployment Strategy (DS), the ARCHER project will extend the state-of-the-art European (V)HTR technology basis with generic technical effort in support of nuclear cogeneration demonstration. The partner consortium consists of representatives of conventional and nuclear industry, utilities, Technical Support Organisations, R&D institutes and universities. They jointly propose generic efforts composed of: -System integration assessment of a nuclear cogeneration unit coupled to industrial processes -Critical safety aspects of the primary and coupled system: oPressure boundary integrity oDust oIn-core hot spots oWater and air ingress accident evaluation -Essential HTR fuel and fuel back end R&D oPIE for fuel performance code improvement and validation oBack end research focused on radiolysis -Coupling component development: oIntermediate heat exchanger development oSteam generator assessment -High temperature material R&D: oCompletion of graphite design curves oMaking use of the experience of state of the art metal in conventional industry -Nuclear cogeneration knowledge management, training and communication The activities proposed are imbedded in the international framework via GIF; direct collaboration within the project with international partners from the US, China, Japan, and the republic of Korea; and cooperation with IAEA and ISTC. The proposal is a technical building block supporting nuclear cogeneration as fossil fuel alternative for industry and as such supports a high potential contribution to European energy strategy as defined in the SET-Plan. The results of the proposal will be reported to SNETP, to support the strategic pillar of ‘other uses of nuclear energy’, and the establishment of a Nuclear Cogeneration Industrial Initiative, which shall include effective (international) nuclear cogeneration demonstration.

Keywords: high temperature reactor htr cogeneration heat power generation iv
Supercritical Water Reactor - Fuel Qualification Test (SCWR-FQT)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Cooperation with Third Countries
Destination: Cooperation with Third Countries
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Czechia,Germany,Netherlands,Hungary,Finland,European organisations area,Germany
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2830750.4
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The SCWR-FQT project is related to the HPLWR Phase 2 European project, executed between 2006 and 2010, focused on the design of the European supercritical water cooled reactor, HPLWR. The scope of the SCWR-FQT Euratom-China parallel project is to design an experimental facility for qualification of fuel for the supercritical water-cooled reactor. The facility is destined to be operated in the LVR-15 research reactor in Czech Republic in the future. All necessary documents required for licensing of the FQT facility by the Czech regulator shall be the outcome of this project. Pre-qualification of the FQT facility will be carried out in China. Testing of a limited amount of commercially available nuclear grade materials, which are candidates for fuel cladding, will be carried out within this project as well. The European-Chinese team behind this project has been formed during a meeting held in Rez, Czech Republic, in October 2009; the wider EU-China scientific collaboration, together with its legal aspects, has been discussed during the seminar held in Beijing in March, 2010.

Keywords: supercritical water reactor,fuel qualification,experimental facility,licensing documents
Trans-National Access to Unique European Actinide and Radiological Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facilities (EURACT-NMR)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,European organisations area,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 634415.14
EU funding (EUR): 577517.95
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Substantial investment in advance nuclear magnetic resonance facilities has been made to establish the Actinide NMR Centre of Excellence in Karlsruhe between Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and JRC-Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU). These instruments are in nuclear licensed facilities and are being commissioned for work on highly radioactive samples. This proposal for access to large infrastructure aims to provide European nuclear scientists access to these newly nuclearised modern analytical techniques with 100 days access made available over a two year acccess period. The user programme will be overseen by a Scientific Advisory Committee and an Expert review team that has been asssembled with a previous coordination action. NMR has made several very high profile contributions to actinide science over the last 5 years and this proposal aims to let European scientists use NMR to test their models of the behaviour of nuclear materials from exotic actinide superconductors and oxide nuclear fuels and nuclear waste forms to separations chemistry.

Keywords: european access advanced analytical techniques actinide research
VOIce-based Community-cEntric mobile Services for social development (VOICES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Italy,South Africa,France,Portugal,Switzerland,Senegal,Mali
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2955895.0
EU funding (EUR): 2046000.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

There is widespread agreement that ICT services have the potential to play a major role in furthering social development in developing economies such as those in Africa. However, while there is a great deal of potential and opportunity, the amount and scope of actual mobile ICT services currently in existence in African countries is very limited. The Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap, recently published as a result of the FP7 Digital World Forum project, makes it clear that realizing the potential of mobile ICT services requires addressing two major types of challenges: 1. The leveraging of content that is locally relevant; and 2. The removal of a range of access barriers, notably limitations related to access channels, literacy, and languages. VOICES intends to take a major step forward in realizing the potential of mobile ICT services particularly in the African context and resolve key challenges outlined in the Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap. To this end, the objectives of VOICES are to deliver: • Open and wider access: VOICES will improve voice-based access to content and mobile ICT services by building a toolbox for the development of voice services. • Integration of Local Community Radios and ICT. • Better support of languages: It will deliver tool support and methodology for under researched and under resourced African languages. • Long-term sustainability: To ensure the local adoption and exploitation of the VOICES tools and methods beyond the project, it will provide a sustainable architecture. • Faster uptake: VOICES will furthermore enhance uptake by delivering a mobile training lab that offers capacity building for local partners. VOICES will demonstrate the fitness of its results for adaptation to the African context by extensive local pilots and associated community building, namely through the focus on health services in Senegal, and agricultural and regreening knowledge sharing in the Sahel countries.

Keywords: mobile,ict for development,sustainability,voice-based application,african languages