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Non-Invasive high power ultrasound (HPU) processing method for meat tenderization (ULTRATENDER)

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,Portugal,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1392335.84
EU funding (EUR): 1070030.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Meat tenderness has long being recognized as the most important attribute of meat, greatly influencing consumer acceptability. After meat slaughtering, shortening of the muscle protein fibers causes the meat to become tough (“rigor mortis”). For meat to become enough tender to be sold to the final consumer, it has to be under chilling storage for a period ,between 7-90 days, resulting in high meat processing costs, along with high energy consumption. A variety of chemical, physical and mechanical methods are currently available for tenderizing meat, although they have not fulfilled meat processors requirements in terms of production costs and modification of the meat or organoleptic properties. The most promising technique for meat tenderization is High Power Ultrasound. It significantly reduces the aging period, being a low-cost non-invasive technique, avoiding changes in the organoleptic properties of meat. However, commercially application of HPU for tenderization is not available since current studies have not taken into consideration the natural variation on muscle size, animal type, meat cuts and geometry. UltraTender intends to develop an optimized process for beef meat tenderization by high power ultrasounds, covering a wide range of meat cuts with different tenderness grades, geometries and sizes. Our main objectives will be: - To develop the most appropriate high power ultrasound protocol for each meat sample in order to provide a uniform tenderizing effect. - To create a Prediction software tool with 80% reliability using Matlab to define the parameters for the selection of the ultrasound protocols for each meat cut. Our optimized tenderization process will lead to a time reduction up to 80% of the whole tenderization process for a wide range of meat cuts and animal types. This will lead to 60% production costs reduction increasing profit margins of fresh meat products by 4.5€/Kg.

Keywords: meat tenderness ultrasounds
Cobalt and lanthanide recovery from batteries (COLABATS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,France,United Kingdom,France,Austria,Sweden,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-two-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4605586.96
EU funding (EUR): 3588506.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The COLABATS project will provide new industrial processes for the recycling of the critical metals Cobalt and Lanthanides and key economic metals Nickel and Lithium, from waste batteries, significantly improving recycling efficiencies and metal purity from existing recovery routes. Primarily Li-ion and NiMH will be targeted using novel task specific ionic liquids (TSILs) to selectively extract the metals. These batteries are found in everyday consumer products such as mobile phones, portable media players, etc., as well as other industrial equipment, and are prevalent in hybrid and electric vehicles, which are becoming increasingly widespread on our roads. TSILs are molecules covalently tethered to a functional group. Targeted species will be low-cost, non-toxic, environmentally benign, and will require minimal or no processing to reuse them. The battery recycling processes will be up-scaled to a pilot system using standard hydrometallurgical equipment and will include other novel concepts to further improve the process. The pilots will be operated in an industrial setting at battery recycling plants and demonstrated to the wider recycling and battery communities. The technology will result in: • Substantially reducing landfill waste by recovering recyclable metals of high purity • Reducing critical metal consumption by increasing recycling efficiencies of spent battery waste. Hence, high purity recovered metals can be recycled into new batteries rather than landfilling or in the case of nickel, processed into lower value stainless steel. • Substantially reducing environmental impact by introducing more sustainable hydrometallurgical processing to replace current standard pyrometallurgical processes. This will reduce energy consumption and emissions of CO2 and other pollutants. • Increasing the capability of the SME community to carry out the complete recycling process, thereby taking advantage of the potential value chain of critical and high value metals markets.

Keywords: battery recycling waste recovery key metals critical raw materials nickel cobalt lithium lanthanides rare earth metals task specific ionic liquids tf2n sme
COntributing to Building of Awareness, Learning and Transfer of knowledge on sustainable use of raw materials (COBALT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,France,Sweden,Spain,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-one-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1082174.8
EU funding (EUR): 999780.79
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The COBALT project will contribute to addressing several key challenges on the route towards more sustainable use of raw materials and resource efficiency. It will focus particularly on extraction, substitution, replacement and recycling of critical and scarce raw materials as well as raw materials with high environmental and social impacts. Through exchange and dialogue, COBALT will contribute to dealing with relevant raw-material related challenges and raising societal awareness on raw materials. Furthermore, it will identify research needs, build research partnerships and networks, and disseminate research results. Thus it will contribute to the implementation of the objectives of the EIP on Raw Materials. The challenges addressed by COBALT are linked to the dispositions of various societal stakeholders and therefore developing networks is a strong component of the project. First, the project will mobilise public awareness on raw material issues and promote raw material substitution, replacement and recycling through two multi-stakeholder European conferences as well as an internet platform designed for networking and sharing of views, research results and other knowledge. Second, the project will facilitate European and regional dialogues on raw materials between civil society and industry in order to ensure mutual learning, awareness and partnership building and an overall improvement in the framework conditions for sustainable use of raw materials and resource efficiency. Third, the project will identify shortages of skills that would enable more sustainable use of raw materials and develop strategies for addressing these shortages utilising multiplication effects for three groups of stakeholders: industry, primarily SMEs; polytechnic and higher education; and national geological surveys.

Keywords: raising awareness,raw materials,raw material mining,raw material processing,raw material recycling,raw material exploration,skill shortages
Enhancing prediction of tropical Atlantic climate and its impacts (PREFACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Coping with climate change
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Denmark,France,France,France,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Angola,Namibia,South Africa,Morocco,Senegal,Benin,Côte d'Ivoire,Nigeria,Belgium,Cabo Verde
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-two-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12170344.87
EU funding (EUR): 8999433.0
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

Tropical Atlantic climate recently experienced pronounced shifts of great socio-economic importance. The oceanic changes were largest in the eastern boundary upwelling systems. African countries bordering the Atlantic strongly depend upon their ocean - societal development, fisheries, and tourism. They were strongly affected by these climatic changes and will face important adaptation challenges associated with global warming. Furthermore, these upwelling regions are also of great climatic importance, playing a key role in regulating global climate. Paradoxically, the Tropical Atlantic is a region of key uncertainty in earth-climate system: state-of-the-art climate models exhibit large systematic error, climate change projections are highly uncertain, and it is largely unknown how climate change will impact marine ecosystems. PREFACE aims to address these interconnected issues, and has the following goals: • To reduce uncertainties in our knowledge of the functioning of Tropical Atlantic climate. • To improve climate prediction and the quantification of climate change impacts in the region. • To improve understanding of the cumulative effects of the multiple stressors of climate variability, greenhouse induced climate change, and fisheries on marine ecosystems, and ecosystem services (e.g., fisheries, coastal vulnerability). • To assess the socio-economic vulnerabilities and evaluate the resilience of Atlantic African fishing communities to climate-driven ecosystem shifts and global markets. To meet these goals we bring together European and African expertise to combine regional and global scale modelling capabilities, field experiments and observation systems. Our target region includes areas more affected by climate change and by its consequences, European outermost regions, and African countries bordering the Atlantic.

Keywords: climate prediction,tropical atlantic,climate change,marine ecosystems,climate impacts,fisheries,tropical atlantic bias,model systematic error,climate models,tropical climate
Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from magnetic waste in the WEEE recycling industry and tailings from the iron ore industry (REECOVER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Sweden,Netherlands,Spain,France,Spain,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-two-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7902037.92
EU funding (EUR): 5995741.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

REEcover aims to: A) Improve European supply of the critical Rare Earth Elements Y, Nd, Tb and Dy B) Strengthen SME positions in REE production and recovery value chain C) Innovate and research two different routes for hydro/pyro metallurgical recovery of REEs: as Rare Earth Oxides (REO) or Rare Earth Oxy-Carbides (REOC) in electrolytic reduction D) Demonstrate and compare viability and potential for these routes on two different types of deposited industrial wastes: 1. tailings from the iron ore industry (high volume but low concentration of REE) 2. magnetic waste material from the WEEE recycling industry (low volume but high concentration REE) REE’s in WEEE-products end up in magnetic waste and subsequently in slag or dust from steelmaking or base metal smelters. During iron ore production of magnetite concentrates tailings are removed and deposited. Both waste streams have potential of becoming valuable feedstock. In WP1, LKAB, WEEE-Recyling & Indumetal, providing input streams, will collaborate with LTU& NTNU to increase the REE concentration by physical separation, leading to low-grade REE-bearing input streams for WP2&3. In WP2, Bredox & Deka supported by TUD &TECNALIA aim to hydrometallurgically extract REEs from WP1-input as individual REOs or their mixtures. This is input for LCM in WP4, that with SINTEF &TUD will optimise an industrial fluoride based electrolytic process for production of RE metals and alloys. Metsol will, supported by TECNALIA, SINTEF &NTNU develop, demonstrate and test a pyro-metallurgical approach for up-concentration of REO and/or conversion to REOC for suitability for electrochemical reduction in WP5, where NTiT, Simtec, SINTEF and NTNU will develop RE metals production based on electrolysis from a molten salt using a consumable RE oxycarbide anode. WP6 will characterise and analyse REE containing materials – from ores to alloys. WP7 will assess and develop the integral value chain, WP8 carries out dissemination and exploitation.

Keywords: recycle,ree,reo,iron ore,tailings,weee waste,recover,yttrium (y) neodymium (nd),terbium (tb),dysprosium (dy),hydrometallurgical,oxyflouride electrolysis,pyrometallurgical,oxycarbide
Global Earth Observation for integrated water resource assessment (EARTH2OBSERVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,Italy,France,United Kingdom,European organisations area,France,Austria,United Kingdom,Czechia,Spain,Germany,Netherlands,Estonia,Ethiopia,Colombia,Bangladesh,Syrian Arab Republic,Greece,United Kingdom,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-two-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11344199.01
EU funding (EUR): 8869787.0
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

The project eartH2Observe brings together the findings from European FP projects DEWFORA, GLOWASIS, WATCH, GEOWOW and others. It will integrate available global earth observations (EO), in-situ datasets and models and will construct a global water resources re-analysis dataset of significant length (several decades). The resulting data will allow for improved insights on the full extent of available water and existing pressures on global water resources in all parts of the water cycle. The project will support efficient and globally consistent water management and decision making by providing comprehensive multi-scale (regional, continental and global) water resources observations. It will test new EO data sources, extend existing processing algorithms and combine data from multiple satellite missions in order to improve the overall resolution and reliability of EO data included in the re-analysis dataset. The usability and operational value of the developed data will be verified and demonstrated in a number of case-studies across the world that aim to improve the efficiency of regional water distribution. The case-studies will be conducted together with local end-users and stakeholders. Regions of interest cover multiple continents, a variety of hydrological, climatological and governance conditions and differ in degree of data richness (e.g. the Mediterranean and Baltic region, Ethiopia, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh). The data will be disseminated though an open data Water Cycle Integrator portal to ensure increased availability of global water resources information on both regional and global scale. The data portal will be the European contributor to the existing GEOSS water cycle platforms and communities. Project results will be actively disseminated using a combination of traditional methods (workshops, papers, website and conferences) and novel methods such as E-learning courses and webinars that promote the use of the developed dataset.

Keywords: water resources,earth observation,global hydrological models,re-analysis,land surface models,end-user and stakeholder involvement,water quality,water scarcity,coastal zones,floods,drought
Maintaining all Green and Ecoinnovation Results in a Living Portal (GREENXPO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Taiwan, Province of China,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-one-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1280929.5
EU funding (EUR): 999364.5
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The greenXpo consortium comprises a balanced group of policy makers, SMEs, multipliers, technical and innovation experts from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Taiwan that are strongly committed to boosting the green economy through the greenXpo eco-innovation expertise portal. The consortium is best prepared for this action since it comprises organisations that have already led actions to analyse and promote technological and non-technological eco-innovation, eco-innovative policies as well as networks such as ECO-INNOVERA, ECOPOL, ECO-PRO (INNOVATIONSEEDS) and the Eco-Innovation Observatory. Now, the greenXpo partners are pooling their expertise and experience to promote all types of eco-innovation together in a holistic one-stop shop for eco-innovation. The overall objective of greenXpo is to develop a new and innovative web-based tool, to facilitate knowledge transfer, uptake and exploitation of research data, as well as good policy measures related to eco-innovation, and to proactively promote the quality knowledge to policy makers, enterprises and society at large. To ensure synergies and a speedy implementation, greenXpo will build on the state-of-the-art INNOVATIONSEEDS portal that already features 100 European environmental R&D results. The general objective is broken down into six ambitious, specific objectives: 1) to develop a web-based tool for eco-innovation knowledge; 2) to present 190 new eco-innovation cases in a user-friendly manner to market players, policy makers and society; 3) to develop an analytical framework of successful and unsuccessful eco-innovation and to transfer it to policy makers; 4) to promote cross-sectoral information exchange and spill-overs with five traditional industry sectors; 5) to pro-actively promote the eco-innovation knowledge gathered reaching 2,000 policy makers and 120,000 enterprises in Europe and world-wide; and 6) to develop a business model for the continuation of the greenXpo portal.

Keywords: green economy,eco-innovation,knowledge transfer,web-platform,stakeholder,technological and non technological innovation,policy,smes,policy makers,industry,society,eco-innovation community
Strengthening European research cooperation for smart and sustainable management of tropical and subtropical biodiversity in outermost regions and overseas countries and territories (NETBIOME-CSA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,France,Spain,Netherlands,France,Germany,Portugal,Netherlands,Cabo Verde
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-one-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-05-02
End date: 2016-05-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1121076.0
EU funding (EUR): 999615.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

NetBiome-CSA will extend and strengthen research partnerships and cooperation for smart and sustainable management of tropical and subtropical biodiversity in outermost regions (ORs) and overseas countries and territories (OCTs). This will be achieved through a participative process mobilising stakeholders, their knowledge and resources for initiatives such as policy and priority analysis, multi-stakeholder dialogues, exchange of good practices, training and issuing of recommendations. The project builds on the existing biodiversity research partnership created through the ERA-Net project NetBiome and takes on the challenge of mobilizing further stakeholders at all levels of the quadruple helix (knowledge institutions, enterprises, government and civil society) to address perceived priority challenges in conciliating conservation and sustainable management of tropical biodiversity with the sustainable development of Europe’s regions and territories, based on the benefits from high biodiversity. The project’s activities, specifically tailored to the needs and priorities identified by the ORs and OCTs, will contribute to: improved research and innovation governance; alignment of research efforts with policy needs strengthening evidence-based policies; enhanced implementation and impact of the EU Biodiversity Strategy and CBD Strategic Plan; innovative biodiversity management tools (Biodiversity Management Toolbox), increased regional socio-economic and cultural development; enhanced international visibility of ORs and OCTs and the uptake of their good practices, expertise and knowledge; effective international and trans-regional cooperation among European ORs and OCTs and with third countries. NetBiome-CSA fully addresses the topic (ENV.2013.6.5-2) and subtopic (g) of the workprogramme, as its activities will foster research partnerships to sustainably manage biodiversity in EU´s ORs and OCTs, resulting in a continuation and expansion of the NetBiome partnership.

Keywords: biodiversity,preservation,sustainable management,good practices,oct,(sub)tropical,research partnerships,conservation,transregional cooperation,multistakeholder dialogue,challenges