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Exchange of Experience on the Preservation of Historic and Old Water Masonry Structures (OLDMASONRYREPAIR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 501600.0
EU funding (EUR): 501600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In Egypt, other African, Arabic countries and some European countries there are hundreds of old water masonry structures that are in bad need of preservation and maintenance. These structures are suffering from several problems, salinity attack, cracks and other difficulties. It is very important to preserve these structures because millions of people depend on them to regulate and distribute water for agricultural, industrial and drinking purposes. The replacement of these structures is very expensive. Also, the historical and artistic values of some of these structures are invaluable. Currently, some repair works are being done by Egyptian institutes and universities mainly focused on treatment of cracks and other mechanical properties. However the physical properties have not been investigated because of lack of knowledge and experience. Meanwhile some EU institutes have considerable experience in building climatology but limited experience regarding semi arid areas. The integration of the different experiences between Egypt and EU countries could lead to innovative methodologies and strategies necessary to preserve those facilities. This would lead to more saving of cost and time. Organizing seminars, workshops and conferences among the participants in the project will be an effective way to exchange skills and ideas. Through the project, Egyptian research and field staff will be trained on the methods used in Europe, whereas European researchers will learn about the local conditions and required strategies in Egypt. The main objective of this project is to exchange and promote the experience in preservation of water masonry structures and pave the way to spread this type of experience to African and Arabic Countries. The project will establish and reinforce the long-term research cooperation through exchange of researchers for short periods.

Keywords: civil engineering,environmental design,hydraulic engineering,construction technology
Development of a new generation of CIGS-based solar cells (NANOCIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,Spain,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 430500.0
EU funding (EUR): 430500.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of NanoCIS is the establishment of a cooperative partnership between research organizations through a joint program of exchange of researchers for developing a new generation of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. This new generation of PV solar cells will be based in approaches involving the use of new materials with high conversion efficiencies and low-cost fabrication techniques. The broad aim is the theoretical and experimental design, synthesis and characterization of new advanced materials, based on chalcopyrites absorbers, allowing the manufacture of an intermediate band solar cell. New concepts such as Intermediate band and luminescent materials for further development of CIGS solar cells are going to be investigated. This new class of materials has been predicted theoretically as potential candidates for providing very high efficiency (63%) in solar energy conversion. According to present knowledge, this compounds based on chalcogenide-type semiconductors are quite novel as general materials, especially in their application to solar energy. Electrodeposition (ED) is the technique chosen for developing such approaches. ED is essentially a non-vacuum approach to fabricate high quality thin-film materials for PV modules that could lower the manufacturing costs by over 50% and increase the PV module efficiencies. The ED technique offers the most attractive range of benefits leading to the low cost fabrication of PV cells, such as high rate of deposition, high resolution, high shape fidelity, self purification, scalability and good compatibility with existing processes. ED adds another cost effective step in low-cost solar cell because the transparent conducting oxide layers (TCO) can be deposited by the same method. The use of inline processing through an exclusively non-vacuum technique will further contribute to the improvement of device performance.

Keywords: physical sciences,condensed matter properties
Electrokinetics across disciplines and continents: an integrated approach to finding new strategies to sustainable development (ELECTROACROSS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Portugal,Portugal,Spain,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 398200.0
EU funding (EUR): 370900.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The socio-economic activities due to world development are promoting increasing pressures on land, creating competition and conflicts, resulting in suboptimal use of resources. Integrated planning and management of land resources is a top subject of Agenda 21 (managed by FAO), which deals with the cross-sectoral aspects of decision-making for the sustainable use and development of natural resources. This is essential for life-support systems and its productive capacity. In this context, there is a need to find new strategies for sustainable development that links social and economic progress with environmental protection and enhancement. Electrokinetic transport processes (EK) uses a low-level direct current as the “cleaning agent”. EK has been applied to the remediation of polluted soils and other contaminated matrices. It also shows a great potential to be used in different fields, as in saline soil restoration, nutrients recovery from wastes or repair and maintenance of building structures. EK may be an integrated approach for new strategies aiming at sustainable development and to support waste strategies, with worldwide interest. EK can also be coupled with phytoremediation and integrated with nanotechnology, enlarging the scope of its application. The conciliation of the EK in the recovery of secondary resources, remediation and conservation is a multidisciplinary novel approach that opens new technical possibilities for waste minimization, through upgrading of particulate waste products and the recover of secondary resources for industrial, agricultural or social use. This objective is achieved through knowledge transfer activities, among a network of European and other continents centres of excellence, consolidating an European School of Electrokinetics. Joint new research on fundamentals and applied EK and its optimization will develop new strategies for sustainable development and the solutions achieved will result in a social-economic impact.

Keywords: environment,technological sciences,recovering,remediation,conservation of cultural heritage,advanced comprehensive analytical techniques
International Tax Coordination (ITC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 65100.0
EU funding (EUR): 56700.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

As a result of globalization and the increasing interdependence of national economies, new possibilities and risks related to cross-border taxation arise for investors and governments. To minimize the risks and to support the possibilities, alternatives to national fiscal sovereignty, i.e. various forms of tax coordination on a bilateral or supra-national level, may be required. Within the joint exchange programme we want to provide answers to specific issues raised in the scientific and political debate on international tax coordination within an area where countries are striving for economic integration. The partners of the joint exchange programme have already done research on the topic of international tax coordination but there has always been a limited regional focus. The joint exchange programme should help to extend the scope of research activities and include so-called “third country” aspects. The overall topic of international tax coordination will be explored in four work packages: (1) Assignment of Taxing Rights and Taxing Powers, (2) Corporate Tax Consolidation Regimes for Multijurisdictional Companies in a Single Market, (3) EU Tax Coordination and Third Countries, and (4) Consumption Taxes and Double (Non-)Taxation - Issues, Consequences, and Possible Solutions. The transfer of knowledge between the EU (Austria, Sweden) and third countries (Australia, Chile) will be achieved by several instruments. During, before and after the research exchange, the seconded staff will be optimally supported: there will be activities organized by the home institution (e.g. round tables, presentations...) and the researchers will also be integrated to the activities at the host institution during their research stay (e.g. discussions, preparation of joint publications...). The project will therefore intensively contribute to coordination and cooperation of high quality research in the area of international tax law.

Keywords: fiscal law
Turbulent phenomena in space plasmas: boosting observations, data analysis and numerical simulations (TURBOPLASMAS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 486900.0
EU funding (EUR): 291900.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The complex dynamics of turbulent plasmas is a challenging subject for the scientific community. The solar system is the most accessible environment for its study. Space plasmas are in a strongly turbulent regime, rich in instabilities and interesting nonlinear phenomena (excitation of waves, structures formation, wave-particle interaction, reconnection), and in a wide range of conditions (e.g. magnetization or energy input). Due to the large availability of experimental measurements provided by instruments onboard space missions, the study of solar system plasmas is of great interest for the understanding of fundamental plasma processes. The development of high resolution numerical simulations plays a key role to understand the phenomena and interpret the observations. Phenomena occurring in plasma turbulence are among the main problems for the confinement of plasma (e.g. in fusion devices), and are thus of great strategic interest for energetic and industrial purposes. The aim of this project is to provide concrete advances in the understanding of a very complex phenomenon, namely the turbulent behaviour of collisionless plasmas. We propose to address a number of questions such as the properties of the turbulent cascade in plasmas, including the role of Hall-MHD in the development of dispersive range; the formation and properties of coherent structures; the nature of dissipative processes, such as reconnection. The research groups involved in the project represent excellence in the field, with complementary approaches. These include next generation of space missions, advanced analysis of data, massive numerical simulations, theory and models. We plan to address the problems form different points of view, through a comprehensive exchange of knowledge and resources. This will ensure a complete vision of the processes under study, offering the possibility to answer some of the open questions in the framework of plasma turbulence.

Keywords: physical sciences,space science,physics of plasmas,space exploration,turbulence,nonlinear systems,numerical simulations,data analysis,magnetic reconnection,intermittency
Improving therapy and intervention through imaging (TAHITI)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES, 2010)
Start date: 2012-04-16
End date: 2016-04-15
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184800.0
EU funding (EUR): 134400.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The scientific objective of the programme is to design, develop, and validate new imaging technologies to improve the performance and safety of therapeutic and interventional procedures. Improving therapy and surgery planning will be approached using multimodal imaging strategies, lesion and dysfunctional tissue characterization, efficient segmentation and image fusion techniques. Image guided therapy and intervention improvements will be pursued by designing the integration of new imaging modalities in the surgical workflow, providing new techniques to compensate for undesired motions as well as innovative methods and instruments to integrate new intraoperative imaging devices. Follow-up and therapy outcome is a major concern and will be approached using innovative methodologies to quantitatively assess and predict recovery and prognosis after therapy or surgery. Furthermore, concrete scenarios will be considered within the frameworks of interventional cardiac therapy and surgery and soft tissue organs therapy. New workflows will be proposed incorporating the new technologies in these concrete scenarios. The objectives to add value to the ERA will be: • To develop new techniques and methodologies to assist in the development of new therapy surgical procedures. This will clearly improve the position of the European partners towards technology transfer to the healthcare technology industry. • To improve the healthcare of European citizens by providing new and safer means of therapy and surgery. • To increase the skills and knowledge of the EU partners in order to better perform clinical translational research implying new technologies. This project is a multidisciplinary initiative allowing the exchange of scientists among four research institutes with international recognition in medical imaging and biomedical engineering.

Keywords: biomedical engineering,medical technology,multimodality medical imaging,image guided interventions,healhcare workflows
Combined Model-based Analysis and Testing of Embedded Systems (MBAT)

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: Germany,Denmark,Germany,France,Austria,Italy,France,France,Italy,Austria,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Estonia,Sweden,Germany,France,Austria,Sweden,Sweden,Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany
Call:  (ARTEMIS-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 32251897.0
EU funding (EUR): 5386066.78
Participants: 41
Project status: CLOSED

One of the most important strategic sectors in which Europe is developing, integrating and delivering high-quality products is the transportation domain. Here, high-class safety-related products as e.g. airplanes, cars and trains have a huge market impact. More and more of the market value of these vehicles is gained by embedded systems inside these products, and the number and importance of these embedded systems is steadily growing. One of the most important enablers to assure the quality of embedded systems is the application of powerful validation and verification (V&V) technologies accompanying the embedded systems development process. Unfortunately, the V&V technologies already in industrial use are still too expensive while often not effective enough. MBAT will provide European industry with a new leading-edge V&V technology in form of a Reference Technology Platform (MBAT RTP) that will enable the production of high-quality and safe embedded systems at reduced cost in terms of time and money. This will be made possible by a new and very promising approach in which model-based testing technologies will be combined with static analysis techniques. Besides this combination, a further new approach is to use (and re-use) specially designed test & analysis models as basis for model-based V&V. This advanced model-based V&V technology will lead to a more effective and at the same time cost-reducing approach compared to traditional ones. In addition, MBAT RTP will be connected to other ARTEMIS RTPs to extend existing platforms. Developed by industrial key players (large companies and SMEs) in this domain and supported by leading research partners, the MBAT RTP will be of high value for the European industry, providing very effective means to assure utmost quality embedded systems at reduced costs. Version approved by the ARTEMIS JU on 07/12/2011

Keywords: model-based development,analysis,testing
High-throughput Production of FunctIonal 3D images of the brain (HIGH PROFILE)

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: Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Austria,Austria,Finland,Belgium,Italy,Italy,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (ARTEMIS-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 17114160.0
EU funding (EUR): 2858064.73
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

HIGH PROFILE combines industrial and clinical driven R&D activities dealing with image diagnostic platforms for the central nervous system. The project’s approach is to progress state-of-the-art by integrating imaging equipment for diagnostics –including algorithms, equipment and infrastructure for massive image processing and simulation– to support combinations of images from different medical equipment modalities (MRI, MRS, fMRI, NIRS, EIT and EEG) and comparison/fusion of images with physiological models of central nervous systems. HIGH PROFILE aims to develop multi-scale, adaptive algorithms to merge information about the actual behavior of the brain, originating from (f)MRI, MRS, NIRS, EIT and EEG. These algorithms allow a physician to follow the status of the patient during his/her evolution, and be supported by a suitable content management platform and a data infrastructure capable of handling the massive quantities of data produced by these technologies, delivering them to their point of use. Better imaging of the central nervous system and the head/neck area will improve diagnosis treatment of neurological diseases like insomnia, depression, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, as well as brain and head/neck cancer. The approach developed by HIGH PROFILE for these conditions should also be extendable to the whole field of advanced medical imaging. For deployment it is necessary to address the challenge of the increasing complexity of real time image processing. The necessary image processing components will be deployed on standard hardware to perform the necessary processing tasks. Image processing is a performance intensive task and system integrators will deploy it on emerging standard hardware platforms running (configurations of) multi-core processors. As this deployment is not only relevant for healthcare only, and a generic platform improves the possibilities to integrate external software, other domains are involved in the deployment of image processing chains. APPROVED BY ARTEMIS-JU 24/06/2014

Keywords: image diagnostic platforms for the central nervous system medical equipment modalities (mri,mrs,eit,eeg,nirs) multi-scale,adaptive algorithms
STRATIFIED FAMILY DYNAMICS: POLARIZING TRENDS IN COUPLE BEHAVIOUR AND PARENTING (FAMILIY POLARIZATION)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Advanced Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2098860.0
EU funding (EUR): 2098860.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project applies a multiple equilibrium framework to understand ongoing transformations in family demography and their consequences for social inequalities. Associated with the changing economic role of women emerge novel family forms that replace the conventional male breadwinner model. The transition is very much in flux, producing multiple equilibria some of which are unstable and associated with inefficient and inequitable couple specialization. Based on long micro panel data for four countries at different stages of the transition, the study will address three parallel issues. One, identifying equilibrium shifts from the traditional towards more gender symmetric family forms, with particular focus on the endogenously driven dynamics that drive populations towards a gender egalitarian equilibrium. Two, analyzing the potentially polarizing demographic correlates of changing family behaviour in particular in terms of marital choice and couple stability. Three, testing hypotheses regarding family polarization with respect to parental investments in children and how these, in turn, influence children’s life chances.

Keywords: multiple equilibria