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High Voltage Connector for PWM Application (HVCPA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,Italy
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181678.8
EU funding (EUR): 90838.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last years has started the need on commercial aircrafts to replace hydraulic systems with electrical ones. This approach has led to the development of materials able to carry high powers towards motors, actuators, and other equipments. Moreover, the introduction of new signals (PWM) has imposed the development of new connectors suitable to withstand to the high voltages into the commercial aircraft environment. The aim of the topic is the design of a connector that implements the connection to and from a 540V PWM, which complies with the main aviation regulations keeping in consideration constraints such as dimensions and weight aspects without downgrading mechanical and electrical performances. The skill of Glenair with high voltage applications, together with proper knowledge in manufacturing standard and innovative connectors and accessories for Mil-Aero applications (i.e. from harsh environment connectors and conduit for landing gear assembly in the wheel well, to electrical-optical media converters for in-flight entertainment systems) will be used for the definition of the proper design and manufacturing. At the end of the project, with resulting literature and related samples, Glenair will act to disseminate the achievements through different ways (dedicated meetings, specialized magazines, Glenair official website and so on).

Keywords: connector for pwm application electrical inverter connector high voltage connector for pwm application
Demonstrate Ecosystem Services Enabling Innovation in the Water Sector (DESSIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Greece,Norway,Denmark,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9048052.45
EU funding (EUR): 5980942.31
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

The main objectives of DESSIN are - To demonstrate and promote innovative solutions to water-related challenges with a focus on: (i) water quality issues related to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and (ii) water scarcity. - To demonstrate a methodology for the valuation of ecosystem services (ESS) as catalyser for innovation in water management. DESSIN will launch demonstration projects of innovative solutions for the two challenges mentioned above, with special focus on urban areas. Solutions will integrate technological, monitoring, modeling and management approaches for a more resource-efficient and competitive water sector in Europe. As a second key feature, an Evaluation Framework to account for changes in the value of ecosystem services (ESS) of water bodies that result from implementation of the solutions will be developed and applied. By adopting this twofold approach, we will be able to demonstrate how innovative solutions integrated in the water cycle can increase the value of the services provided by freshwater ecosystems, thus generating additional incentives and arguments for their market uptake and practical implementation. This will support innovation and competitiveness in water management by enabling a more informed selection of the most promising solutions, as regards their impact on the water body and their economic implications. The whole project is centered around the following suite of carefully selected sites across Europe, representative of global major water challenges, where we bring together public and private water management organisations and end-users, technology providers (SMEs), supporting RTD experts and relevant public authorities to demonstrate this approach: Emscher (Germany), Hoffselva (Oslo area, Norway), Westland (The Netherlands), Athens (Greece) and Llobregat (Barcelona Area, Spain).

Keywords: water quality,water scarcity,wfd,ecosystem services,innovation,demonstration sites,cso,local treatment,high-rate filtraton,rtc of large-scale systems,asr,mar,sewer mining
Innovation Demonstration for a Competitive and Innovative European Water Reuse Sector (DEMOWARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,United Kingdom,Italy,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,France,Czechia,United Kingdom,France,European organisations area,Belgium,France,Israel,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10439840.01
EU funding (EUR): 5999666.26
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

The ability of Europe’s communities to respond to increasing water stress by taking advantage of water reuse opportunities is restricted by low public confidence in solutions, inconsistent approaches to evaluating costs and benefits of reuse schemes, and poor coordination of the professionals and organisations who design, implement and manage them. The DEMOWARE initiative will rectify these shortcomings by executing a highly collaborative programme of demonstration and exploitation, using nine existing and one greenfield site to stimulate innovation and improve cohesion within the evolving European water reuse sector. The project is guided by SME & industry priorities and has two central ambitions; to enhance the availability and reliability of innovative water reuse solutions, and to create a unified professional identity for the European Water Reuse sector. By deepening the evidence base around treatment processes and reuse scheme operation (WP1), process monitoring and performance control (WP2), and risk management and environmental benefit analysis (WP3) DEMOWARE will improve both operator and public confidence in reuse schemes. It will also advance the quality and usefulness of business models and pricing strategies (WP4) and generate culturally and regulatory regime specific guidance on appropriate governance and stakeholder collaboration processes (WP5). Project outcomes will guide the development of a live in-development water reuse scheme in the Vendée (WP6). Dissemination (WP7) and exploitation (WP8) activities, including the establishment of a European Water Reuse Association, ensure that DEMOWARE will shape market opportunities for European solution providers and provide an environment for the validation and benchmarking of technologies and tools. Ultimately the DEMOWARE outcomes will increase Europe’s ability to profit from the resource security and economic benefits of water reuse schemes without compromising human health and environmental integrity.

Keywords: water reuse,innovation,demonstration,urban side,barriers to implementation,technology,monitoring,environmental and human health risk,access to financing,public and political engagement.
WATER AND ENERGY ADVANCED MANAGEMENT FOR IRRIGATION (WEAM4I)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,France,Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Portugal,Spain,Portugal,Germany,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7643237.34
EU funding (EUR): 5166916.9
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

Agriculture sector is accountable for 30% of the total water consumption in Europe, but reaches up to 70% of total water consumption in several European southern countries. In recent years, most of the efforts have been focused on water efficiency, without taking care of energy aspects, resulting in some cases on a significant increase in energy consumption, both per irrigated surface and per volume unit of water. The WEAM4i project will mainly address 2 of the priorities of the EIP on Water: “Water-Energy nexus” and “Decision support systems (DSS) and monitoring”. The WEAM4i proposal is based on two innovative management concepts: 1. A water&energy smart grid for irrigation: allowing interactive energy use decisions, by introducing demand-side management and matching the consumption to the available energy offer, due to existing water storage capability (in reservoirs or in the soil) that enables an ”near-almost elastic” demand. 2. An innovative, cloud based, integration approach: an ICT platform based on a Service Oriented Architecture, for hosting the DSS applications, while, at field level, the existing local irrigation systems will remain. Techniques for resource efficiency at local level will be demonstrated on the irrigation systems aforementioned: for saving water, for improving the m3/kwh ratio and for the minimisation of the operational cost of water supply infrastructures. Full-scale demonstration activities will be performed in 3 EU countries (PT, ES and DE), covering a wide range of landscapes and crop types, from southern to central EU. Companies and SMEs will benefit from the future commercialization of the outcomes while the users will reduce the operational costs of their irrigation systems. To Sum up: once important water savings have been achieved, the new challenge for the irrigation sector is to minimise the energy costs. The WEAM4i project aims to provide innovative solutions for this challenge.

Keywords: smart irrigation grid,ict platform,demand management.
Demonstrating integrated innovative technologies for an optimal and safe closed water cycle in Mediterranean tourist facilities (DEMEAUMED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Austria,Italy,France,France,European organisations area,Austria,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5856892.48
EU funding (EUR): 4016469.95
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of demEAUmed project is the involvement of industry representatives, stakeholders, policy-makers and diverse technical and scientific experts in demonstrating and promoting innovative technologies, for an optimal and safe closed water cycle in Euro-Mediterranean tourist facilities, leading to their eventual market uptake. A representative resort placed in Catalonia, Spain, is considered as a DEMO site, where a representative part of all inlet and outlet waters will be characterised, treated with proper innovative technologies, and reused to reduce the carbon footprint of water management in an integrated approach at demonstration level. Reduction of fresh water consumption in hotel installations, green and recreational areas, etc. will be achieved by using alternative water sources, such as treated groundwater, treated rainwater or the reuse of treated grey waters and/or wastewaters within the resort. All possibilities will be considered for the resort as a whole, taking into account the specific quality/quantity requirements of water at the different areas of the DEMO site, as well as current/future compliance with water regulations. The incorporation of advanced monitoring and control systems and a decision support tool will ultimately define the best water management solutions by means of considered technological solutions. An exhaustive environmental and socio-economic assessment will also be conducted. demEAUmed will face two key challenges: the importance of the tourism economy and water scarcity characteristic of the area. demEAUmed will be a critical platform for promoting the use of sustainable and innovative technologies in other Euro-Mediterranean tourist facilities in light of also the global tourism market. The project will design a dissemination plan analysing critical stakeholders/customers to adequately transfer demEAUmed results. Creation of new market opportunities to European industry and SMEs will also be addressed.

Keywords: tourist sector,euro-mediterranean resort,demo site,water management,closed water cycle,innovative technologies,monitoring and control,dss,market uptake
SmArt water management with Integrated Decision support systems (SAID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Portugal,Germany,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3235095.85
EU funding (EUR): 2179076.2
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The need for providing high quality water to citizens and to reduce damages produce by floods and droughts has motivated research and development of many software-based decision support systems (DSSs). However, despite the notable technical advances DSSs, most of the water infrastructures in Europe are still managed by expert operators based on traditional best practices but with little support from these new smart tools. The objective of SAID project is to involve the final users and the SMEs in order improve the production and deployment of more smart water management systems in Europe. The project will focus in the deployment and evaluation of a complex demonstrator, composed by several heterogeneous and innovative DSSs in the same river basin. This demonstrator, in the south of Spain, represents many similar basins in Europe, and will be based on cutting-edge DSS technologies in four areas: flood control (including the optimization of dam management), quality of water, energy production and energy consumption. The feedback from the final users will drive the improvement of the DSSs and the development and validation of a software platform that facilitate the integration of existing and future DSSs. SAID project will be carry out by water management authorities, companies operating water infrastructures, SMEs that produce DSS and research centers with proved knowledge in techniques and technologies for real-time data monitoring, environmental modeling, simulation and optimization of the water related elements. SAID will contribute to the initial action 1 (Smart water management systems) identified in the priority 4.7 Decision support systems and monitoring in the Strategic Implementation Plan of the EIP on Water.

Keywords: decision support systems,flood management,quality of water,dss integration,openmi,wireless sensor networks,smart water management systems,energy optimization,modeling tools,reservoir optimization
Design and manufacturing of a business jet model for high and low speed tests (VTAIL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-01, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1883390.4
EU funding (EUR): 1412542.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

VTAIL project is presented by the sisters companies VALLET (coordinator) and CMA. VTAIL is dedicated to the design and the manufacturing of a new fuel efficient business jet of 3meters span. The model will be highly modular and highly instrumented with the following particularity. - A Canard wing configuration. - Triple nacelles engines. - Two sets of wings, one instrumented the other modular. - An instrumented rake nacelle. - A motorized Empennage and Canard. For low and high speed tests, the model might be tested in several and different wind tunnels across Europe. VALLET and CMA are independent SME’s and knows how to customize the model for any wind tunnel operator without any conflict of interests. The project will contribute to push forward the European aircraft industry by manufacturing and testing VTAIL very innovative business jet. The expected increase of efficiency need to limit the environmental impact of the aircraft with regard to less fuel burn, emissions and noise.

Keywords: model wind tunnel motorized kulite pressure probe vtail instrumented vallet cma fuselage wings balance rake nacelle control vespel motor sensor jet low speed high speed canard triple engine
Multinutrient Maize : Multivitamin and multimineral fortified maize for food security (MULTINUTRIENT MAIZE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2013-PoC, 2013)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166630.0
EU funding (EUR): 149791.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Multinutrient Maize aims to develop a prototype product to a stage where it can be taken up efficiently by developing countries. The following activities are planned: (a) Feeding trials in small animals to assess the safety and efficacy of the prototype and to expand its scope to include beneficial health applications thus providing added value; (b) human feeding trials in Spain; (c) further experimental field trials in Spain under Spanish regulations to comply with requirements for plant variety protection and registration, and to collect the agronomic and environmental data needed for experimental field trial applications in developing countries by collaborators; and (d) freedom to operate (FTO) analysis to monitor the intellectual property (IP) landscape prior to the release of the prototype maize to collaborators in developing countries. The latter activity will also identify IP constraints that need to be circumvented in a humanitarian context following the Golden Rice model, which has been widely publicized.

Keywords: 232933
EURAXESS Service Network Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (EURAXESS MK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: MSCA other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: North Macedonia
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224280.0
EU funding (EUR): 199983.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The FYR of Macedonia launched the EURAXESS Network unofficially, on a completely voluntary basis in March 2011. Since then, a lot of feats have been accomplished to close the gap between the FYR of Macedonia and the rest of the EURAXESS member countries in a well-functioning EURAXESS Service Network, as well as to prepare for the official entry of the FYR of Macedonia into the EURAXESS network. The FYR of Macedonia already has built a basic version of the very important EURAXESS portal, which has been active for 2 years now. The portal contains most of the relevant practical information that can be found on a typical EURAXESS portal. At the same time, the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts has been participating fully in all trainings offered by the European Commission and the EURAXESS Network in educating and training its staff on issues related to the EURAXESS Service centres. However, even though these preparatory steps have been taken to start-up the EURAXESS network, there is still a gap on the map of Europe where the FYR of Macedonia lies, in establishing a country-wide EURAXESS Service Network that will aid researchers with the practical information in being mobile in the European Research Area. The objective of this project is to support the start-up phase of the organisation and operation of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia EURAXESS Services Network.

Keywords: euraxess services,jobs,rights,links and cross cutting activities
SmartH2O: an ICT Platform to leverage on Social Computing for the efficient management of Water Consumption (SMARTH2O)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-11, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3573368.0
EU funding (EUR): 2508842.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Urban water use is highly dynamic, variable over time and space, and is expected to constantly increase in the coming years both in Europe and worldwide. Expanding existing infrastructures to access farther or deeper water resources might be one option, but the economic and energy costs could be unsustainably high. There is a need for water demand management strategies (incentives, water pricing, awareness campaigns) to be efficient and sustainable technically, economically, and socially. Yet, individual and collective behavioural response to specific water conservation policies might significantly vary with economic drivers as well as socio-psychological determinants within the same urban context. The SmartH2O project aims at providing water utilities, the municipalities, and citizens, with an ICT enabled platform to design, develop and implement better water demand management policies, which are based on a shared understanding and motivation by the water users, thus leading to a reduction in water consumption, while not compromising the quality of life. SmartH2O builds a bi-directional communication stream between citizens and the water utility: in one direction, user behavioural data are collected through smart meters and an online social participation application (social game); in the other, awareness campaigns and price signals are delivered through the same app to inform the users on how to save water and money. SmartH2O will be tested in two main real world cases: in Spain, in the city of Valencia, and in Switzerland (in Canton Ticino). Moreover, test activities and interaction with the end users will be also performed in the United Kingdom, in the London Area. In these exemplary cases, the SmartH2O project will enable a constructive and continuous interaction between citizens and water utilities in the management of our most precious resource: water.

Keywords: water demand management,dynamic water pricing,social computing,consumer profiling,raising consumer awareness,agent-based simulation of consumer behaviour