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MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS UNDER WATER SCARCITY (GLOBAQUA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable use and management of land and seas
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,France,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Greece,Slovenia,Spain,Sweden,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands,European organisations area,Morocco,Canada,Serbia
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-two-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9985396.08
EU funding (EUR): 7590585.6
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

Water and water-related services are major components of the human wellbeing, and as such are major factors of socio-economic development in Europe; yet freshwater systems are under threat by a variety of stressors (organic and inorganic pollution, geomorphological alterations, land cover change, water abstraction, invasive species and pathogens. Some stressors, such as water scarcity, can be a stressor on its own because of its structural character, and drive the effects of other stressors. The relevance of water scarcity as a stressor is more important in semi-arid regions, such as the Mediterranean basin, which are characterized by highly variable river flows and the occurrence of low flows. This has resulted in increases in frequency and magnitude of extreme flow events. Furthermore, in other European regions such as eastern Germany, western Poland and England, water demand exceeds water availability and water scarcity has become an important management issue. Water scarcity is most commonly associated with inappropriate water management, with resulting river flow reductions. It has become one of the most important drivers of change in freshwater ecosystems. Conjoint occurrence of a myriad of stressors (chemical, geomorphological, biological) under water scarcity will produce novel and unfamiliar synergies and most likely very pronounced effects. Within this context, GLOBAQUA has assembled a multidisciplinary team of leading scientists in the fields of hydrology, chemistry, ecology, ecotoxicology, economy, sociology, engineering and modeling in order to study the interaction of multiple stressors within the frame of strong pressure on water resources. The aim is to achieve a better understanding how current management practices and policies could be improved by identifying the main drawbacks and alternatives.

Keywords: water scarcity,water quality and quantity,ecosystem functioning,relationship between multiple stressors,improved water management practice
Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable use and management of land and seas
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Türkiye,Sweden,Austria,Germany,Netherlands,Hungary
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): 3705221.38
EU funding (EUR): 2996826.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of ARTS is to benefit policy, practice and theory related to accelerating sustainability transitions and to create opportunities for innovation (including social innovation) by coupling, rescaling and accelerating sustainability initiatives in European city-regions. ARTS will create interfaces between policy, practice and theory that are spaces for co-creation, theory building, policy experimentation, social innovation and learning. ARTS will have an aggregated impact on transition regions, on national and European policy related to facilitating transitions, and on theory and governance of sustainability transitions. The focal unit of analysis will be innovative activities and related actor-networks that are fundamentally changing energy, food, shelter and mobility provisioning patterns at the scale of a city or region, situated within a wider European context. ARTS will explore how lessons from these initiatives can be drawn for broader transitions to sustainable low-carbon European societies. We seek to identify the values, conditions and mechanisms for accelerating sustainability transitions, develop strategies to assist and stimulate their acceleration and assess them with dynamic modelling approaches. We will explore these conditions based on a diverse set of transition initiatives in five regions across Europe in an inter- and transdisciplinary way: Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Flanders, and Stockholm. The developed acceleration governance approach and modelling platform, support decision making, and social learning processes to speed-up the implementation of EU’s Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Strategies. They deliver to the energy targets (20/20/20 targets, the EU Energy Strategy), and the targets addressed in the Roadmaps (2050-Competitive Low-carbon Economy, Resource Efficient Europe), while supporting transitions to innovative (Innovation Union Flagship Initiative) socially sustainable (2020 Growth Strategy) low-carbon societies.

Keywords: regions,acceleration,rescaling,sustainability,transitions,transition initiatives,transdisciplinarity,governance,policy instruments,empowerment,low carbon society
Preparing for Extreme And Rare events in coastaL regions (PEARL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Protecting citizens from environmental hazards
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Denmark,Greece,Norway,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,Japan,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Switzerland,Netherlands,Thailand,Taiwan, Province of China,Germany,Japan
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-two-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6526013.92
EU funding (EUR): 4998851.04
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

Coastal floods are one of the most dangerous and harmful natural hazards affecting urban areas adjacent to shorelines. Rapid urbanisation combined with climate change and poor governance means a significant increase in the risk of local surface flooding coinciding with high water levels in rivers and high tide or storm surges from the sea, posing a greater risk of devastation to coastal communities. The threats posed need to be addressed not just in terms of flood prediction and control, but taking into account governance and socio-economic issues. PEARL brings together world leading expertise in both the domain of hydro-engineering and risk reduction and management services to pool knowledge and practical experience in order to develop more sustainable risk management solutions for coastal communities focusing on present and projected extreme hydro-meteorological events. The project will examine 7 case studies from across the EU to develop a holistic risk reduction framework that can identify multi-stressor risk assessment, risk cascading processes and strengthen risk governance by enabling an active role for key actors. The research programme links risk and root cause assessment through enhanced FORIN methodology, event prediction, forecast and warning, development of adaptive structural and non-structural strategies and active stakeholder participation. The project aims to develop novel technologies and methods that can improve the early warning process and its components; it builds a pan-European knowledge base gathering real case studies and demonstrations of best practice across the EU to support capacity development for the delivery of cost-effective risk-reduction plans. Additionally, the project provides an interface to relevant ongoing tsunami work: it plugs into global databases, early warning systems and processes at WMO, and contributes to community building, development of guidelines and communication avenues at the global level through IWA.

Keywords: extreme hydro-meteorological events,holistic risk governance,multi-hazard risk assessment,automatic-chaining of models,early warning,active stakeholder participation
Towards European Societal Sustainability (TESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable use and management of land and seas
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Romania,Finland,United Kingdom
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): 3614377.4
EU funding (EUR): 2841563.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Transitions to low-carbon societies take place at multiple and complementary scales. Transition processes are highly dependent on the innovative potential of community-based initiatives and their articulation with appropriate institutional architecture. Community-based initiatives are potentially more adaptable and less constrained by current structural circumstances than top-down policies and can give impetus to large-scale and technology driven changes. TESS will provide an understanding on the upscaling possibilities of such high-potential community-based initiatives by addressing two main questions: What is the impact of community-based initiatives in terms of carbon reduction potential and economic effect? What institutional structures (values, policies and mechanisms) support these initiatives in persisting beyond the initial phase and moving into an acceleration phase, spreading desired impacts? Answers will be provided through (1) a novel measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) framework for benchmarking community-based initiatives. This will enable quantifiable, comparable and standardised evaluation, and (2) the identification of success factors for the emergence, persistence and diffusion of promising initiatives, including online initiatives. We will identify these initiatives through case studies across regions and sectors and produce a systemic understanding of their impact on societal transitions towards sustainability. Our research will be integrated and transdisciplinary, with the unique opportunity to bring together social and natural scientists to foster a transition towards European societal sustainability. Our work will feed into and extend the Climate Adapt database to facilitate reconciliation of mitigation and adaptation and connect to Europe wide evaluation approaches such as the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) of the Rural Development Programmes.

Keywords: community-based initiatives,grassroots initiatives,measuring,reporting,verification (mrv),carbon reduction potential,persistence of initiatives,social innovation.
Resource Conservative Manufacturing- transforming waste into high value resource through closed-loop product systems (RESCOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Slovenia,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-two-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5991952.61
EU funding (EUR): 4367380.96
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the EU has no choice but to go for the transition to a resource-efficient and ultimately regenerative circular economy. The main objective of the ResCoM project is to develop an innovative framework and a collaborative software platform for the industrial implementation of closed-loop manufacturing systems. In ResCoM, four manufacturers who are active in B2B and B2C markets (Gorenje, tedrive, Bugaboo and Loewe) will pilot a closed loop product system in their businesses. These pilots will demonstrate how the collecting, remanufacturing and upcycling of discarded products into new added-value products will be cost-effective, resource-efficient and more sustainable than the current linear manufacturing systems. To support the pilot development, the ResCoM consortium will develop a framework based on methodologies and tools that take in account the complex, dynamic interation between product design (design for multiple product lifecycles), supply chain management (integrated supply chains), business model development (closed-loop business models) and remanufacturing processes . To support the pilot operations, the ResCoM consortium will develop a software platform consisting of a closed-loop product lifecycle management module coupled with a materials information module. The platform will help guide design decisions by illustrating the benefits of closed loop product design in terms of resource efficiency, CO2 production and energy use, and will provide business metrics such as lifecycle cost estimates, rapid identification of critical materials, product specific and remanufacturing considerations and legislative requirements. The platform will be tested and evaluated by the manufacturers. The ResCoM project results will be useful within a wide range of businesses and will equip industries and policy-makers with the tools required to support the transition to a closed-loop model.

Keywords: resource efficiency,resource conservation,closed-loop product systems,remanufacturing,waste minimisation,closed-loop supply chains
Socio-economic implications for individual responses to Air Pollution Policies in EU +27 (SEFIRA)

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: Italy,Austria,Belgium,Poland,Sweden,United Kingdom,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2013-one-stage, 2013)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1196467.88
EU funding (EUR): 998000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

SEFIRA has the objective of creating a European coordination of transdisciplinary scientific and socio-economic resources in order to support the review and implementation of air quality legislation by the European Commission (EC) led by DG Environment. The EC has now given increased attention to the socio-economic dimension of air quality policies in order to improve their effectiveness and acceptability. SEFIRA will coordinate some of the best scientific and socio-economic resources and will review air quality policies and legislation at the interface between environmental, economic and social sciences in order to achieve a deeper understanding of these complex issues. Individual behaviours and choices will be analysed in a socio-economic context ranging from the local to the European level. The main fields involved in the action will be atmospheric sciences, environmental and legal sociology, anthropology, geography and economics. The integration of disciplines, the relationship with the most relevant stakeholders and an effective coordination between the SEFIRA consortium and other European projects in the same field will be a priority. The project strategy will support the development of a new European appraisal of problems and resources in the field, will deploy a pilot survey and a test of policy implementation by innovative models of individual choices analysis and ecosystem services valuation. Stakeholders will be involved from the beginning of the project in a process of dialogue and cooperative problem solving in order to ensure relevance and robustness as the work progresses from local to European level.

Keywords: air quality,social sciences,atmospheric science,policy analysis,policy implementation,discrete choice models (dcms),individual behaviour,trandisciplinarity,ecosystem services (ess)
Industrial innovations based on EU intellectual property assets in the field of atmospheric plasma technology (IP4PLASMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Belgium,Germany,Slovenia,Germany,Italy,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-SME-7, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4811985.8
EU funding (EUR): 3486875.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The IP4Plasma project aims to bridge the gap between IPR protected laboratory-scale innovations in the field of atmospheric pressure plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition (AP-PA-CVD) technology and its industrial implementation for advanced surface treatment and nano-scale coating of materials. This will be done by demonstrating the suitability of the technology for existing and new industrial applications in the medical products and diagnostics sector. A mobile pilot scale plasma treatment system will be designed and built for this purpose based on existing experience and IPR protected know-how, and subsequently validated in end user production facilities. In the project, the manufacturers of atmospheric pressure plasma equipment and the end users of the technology will work together with research organisations and experts in technology innovation to overcome the barriers to commercial application of a unique IPR portfolio.This will create new business opportunities with large market potential for the industrial partners involved (mainly SMEs), and thus strengthen their global competitiveness.

Keywords: atmospheric plasma technology,intellectual property,industrial application
Tissue engineering of the right heart outflow tract by a biofunctionalized bioresorbable polymeric valved tube (TEH-TUBE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,France,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-SME-7, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5831419.32
EU funding (EUR): 4500962.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Approximately 42% of infants’ mortality in the world is related to congenital heart defects (prevalence: 8-12/1000 births). Over 1/3 require the reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) by surgical procedures which currently use inert materials without any growth potential. Consequently, multiple reoperations are often required, with their attendant high risk of mortality and morbidity. The TEH-TUBE project will address these limitations by creating a novel bioabsorbable biomaterial using a polymeric valved tube either seeded with autologous adipose tissue derived stem cells (ADSC) or functionalized by a peptidic sequence triggering homing of the host cells onto the scaffold to make it a living self-populated structure. During the project we will: • Compare a number of polymers, including but not limited to polydioxanone, polyhydroxyalkanoate, and poly-ester-urethane-ureas, processed by electrospinning to generate a competent valved tube • Compare, in the selected polymer, different methods of functionalisation using in vitro mechanical and biological tests as well as in vivo animal experiments (primarily rats) • Validate the ultimate combination (polymer + functionalisation technique) in a clinically relevant large animal model (in this case, the growing lamb to specifically assess the regenerative and growth potential of the composite construct) This stepwise approach will be conducted within a tightly controlled regulatory framework to ensure that the final product meets the current ATMP requirements for phase I/II clinical studies and, if successful, ultimate commercialization. Our TEH-TUBE project aims at developing an innovative biomaterial for the treatment of congenital heart abnormalities in children and young adults. By creating a material whose growth will keep pace with that of the patient, this product, geared to become an ATMP, should decrease the risk of reoperative surgeries, improve the quality of life and ultimately have a positive impact on healthcare costs.

Keywords: congenital cardiac abnormality,bioresorbable polymer,electrospinning mesenchymal stem cell,biomimetic peptides,polymer functionalization,tissue engineering,atmp,medical device
New cost-effective and sustainable polyethylene based carbon fibres for volume market applications (NEWSPEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Greece,Italy,Greece,France,Ukraine,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-LARGE-7, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9872161.27
EU funding (EUR): 7393755.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

NEWSPEC aims at the production of Carbon Fibres (CFs) through very promising low-cost sustainable polyethylene (PE) precursors. PE can be derived from three independent sources: bio-ethanol, synthetic oil and recycled plastics. A main attribute of this project is the use of an available pilot scale facility (HPFC) that allows design and optimization of continuous CF processing and, at a later date, easy scale up to a larger industrial size plant. For PE stabilisation an original dry oxidation method, assisted by Electron Beam Curing (EBC), that introduces heteroatoms at the precursor stage is proposed. The new approach has technical, economic and ecologic advantages thus ensuring very innovative and flexible development of new CFs. Novel strategies for the reduction of the graphitisation temperature via the use of nucleation agents such as cellulose nanowhiskers, CNTs and fine graphite powders are envisaged. The partners will also explore the possibility of surface modification via atmospheric plasma techniques and room-temperature grafting with specific surface-attacking chemicals. Online non-destructive laser Raman probe, that can provide in situ information for the development of the various fibre structures during the processing stages, will be developed and installed at HPFC. Specific carbon composite prototypes will be manufactured and tested by the end-users during the lifetime of the project to ensure the validation of CF functionality for the final components with this ensuring proper exploitation of results. To prove overall environmental and economic sustainability LCA and LCC are implemented within all phases of the project. NEWSPEC brings together the best available expertise in Europe for the development of the PE-CFs up to mature exploitable technology. It consists of RTD performers with well-documented experience in CFs development and industrial end-users who are specialist in the target market segments. Half of the partners are European SMEs.

Keywords: polyethylene precursor,dry stabilisation,electron beam curing,nucleation agents,room-temperature grafting,plasma,raman probe,carbon composites,aerospace,automotive,wind,oil and gas