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Phytoremediation driven energy crops production on heavy metal degraded areas as local energy carrier (PHYTO2ENERGY)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland,Germany,Poland,Romania,Poland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 921622.74
EU funding (EUR): 921622.74
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The scientific and technological (S&T) goal of the project is to develop and validate an innovative approach combining phytoremediation and production of biomass on heavy metal contaminated (HMC) areas which could be used as local energy carrier. The S&T objectives of the project are as follows: Objective1) selection of optimal plant species suitable for phytoremediation driven energy crops production. Experimental plots will be established in Poland (arable land) and Germany (extreme HMC site) to test the pre-selected species Miscanthus gigantheus, Sida hermaphrodita, Spartina pectinata, Panicum virgatum. Guidelines on selection of the most appropriate species will be elaborated using brownfields management tools. The technical feasibility, economic viability and environmental benefits of the approach will be also analysed. Objective 2) is to develop a microbiological method stimulating the biomass yield and phytoremediation effect at HMC sites and. Interactions between plant and microbes will be investigated and tested as they play a crucial role at sites where plant growth is affected by HM contamination. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria, bacterial endophytes and mycorhizal fungi enhancing growth of the selected species will be identified. They will help developing innovative inocula to be applied respectively to the brownfield management target (i.e. cleanup or use for biomass production). Objective 3) is to demonstrate an environmentally safe way of converting the HMC biomass into energy in a small scale local installation with special focus on gasification as a promising technology which may become a competitive niche alternative for handing HMC biomass. Cost effectiveness and environmental benefits of this method will be evaluated together with technology optimization guidelines for this type of fuel. The S&T objectives will be realized by transfer of knowledge: secondments and external recruitment between 6 consortium partners from industry and academia.

Keywords: phytoremediation,inoculum,energy crops,gasification,renewable energy sources,heavy metals contamination,brownfields management
Agile Service Engineering for the Future Internet (CLOUDWAVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,Italy,Spain,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,Ireland,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10410718.0
EU funding (EUR): 6300000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

CloudWave will revolutionise modern cloud infrastructures and tools by enabling agile development and delivery of adaptive cloud services which dynamically adjust to changes in their environment so as to optimise service quality and resource utilization. In doing so, CloudWave will advance the competitiveness of the EU economy by providing a powerful foundation, based on open standards, for creating innovative cloud services, realising the full promise of cloud computing. CloudWave will tangibly deliver (1) an open architecture and standards-based reference implementation of an advanced cloud software stack, with novel capabilities for adaptation across all cloud layers; and (2) tools and methods for agile development of reliable and adaptable cloud services, facilitated by the new stack. Technologically, CloudWave will advance the state-of-art along three dimensions: · Execution Analytics: A new framework where specialised algorithms dynamically analyse cloud infrastructure and application behaviour, seamlessly integrate data pertaining to physical and virtual resources and IoT elements, and provide consolidated feedback to drive service evolution and adaptation · Coordinated Adaptation: A new software technology where cloud services, cloud infrastructure and end-user devices exploit Execution Analytics to collaboratively and automatically undertake complex adaptation actions across the cloud stack, ensuring quality of service and effective utilization of ICT resources · Feedback-Driven Development: A new agile approach for developing cloud applications, where developers exploit Execution Analytics to incrementally determine and evolve application features, extensions and optimizations, based on observed user needs. Using two industry case studies, we will demonstrate how the CloudWave technology supports emerging cloud services and provides high and quantifiable improvements in service delivery quality, productivity, reliability and cost.

Keywords: cloud computing,internet of services,internet of things,future internet,software & service engineering,agile development,quality assurance,adaptive systems,cloud monitoring,openstack
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change (DECARBONET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Austria,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2694905.0
EU funding (EUR): 1965000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

A lack of collective awareness negatively impacts perceived personal efficacy, which hampers efforts to address societal problems. DecarboNet is a multidisciplinary effort to tackle this problem by identifying determinants of collective awareness, translating awareness into behavioural change, and providing novel methods to analyse and visualise the underlying processes. The project's core innovations are built around a context-specific repository of carbon reduction strategies. This "decarbonisation methodology" will increase awareness not only of existing problems, but also of best-practice solutions and the impact of individual actions. To continuously refine this repository, the collective awareness platform of DecarboNet will utilise citizen-generated content in a societal feedback loop that enables an adaptive process of social innovation. Supporting and understanding this process at various levels of granularity requires significant technological advances, including (i) generic tools to co-create knowledge with on-the-fly recommendations of related content from multiple sources; (ii) a cross-platform social media application to provide eco-feedback and engage citizens in games with a purpose; and (iii) methods to measure and predict behavioural change, and to capture collective awareness in a quantitative framework based on diffusion models and resonance patterns in public discourse. To assess engagement strategies, two use cases will contrast the effectiveness of competition-based and cooperative approaches in a grassroots experiment to measure energy consumption (Energy Quest) and a large-scale awareness campaign (Earth Hour). Analysing the results on the individual and collective level will provide actionable knowledge for a wide range of stakeholders. Associate partners including EEA, NOAA and the World Bank will provide a rich stream of input data and amplify the impact by promoting the adoption of project technologies among large user communities.

Keywords: collective awareness platform,citizen-generated content,social media,knowledge extraction,eco-feedback technology,games with a purpose,behavioural change,energy consumption,carbon footprint
Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,France,Ireland,Australia,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2413870.0
EU funding (EUR): 1699913.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a project proposal bringing the FIRE and eLearning worlds together. FORGE will align FIRE with the ongoing education revolution for mutual benefit. In particular, this project is concerned with specifying development methodologies and best practices for offering FIRE experimentation facilities to learners and to the learning community in general, related both to communications and IT but also to other disciplines including the sciences and social sciences, leading to a strong connection between the learning community and existing FIRE platforms and supporting tools. The learning community will benefit from the use of the very high performance facilities. FIRE will benefit through the addition of an ever-growing set of FIRE-specific learning materials for an increasing number of FIRE-based students, leading to increased awareness and use. Within the FORGE project we will: • Study and develop new processes and approaches to online learning based on the integration of FIRE facilities and eLearning technologies. • Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE portfolio of facilities and tools. • Introduce the learning community to the concepts of Experimentally Driven Research. • Increase the overall accessibility and usability of FIRE facilities through the layering of how-to-use resources over the FIRE platforms. The FORGE project believes that it is the right time for students, especially those at higher education institutes, to become familiar with FIRE’s portfolio. Most FIRE platforms and tools are already sufficiently mature to be used by end-users and thus can be introduced seamlessly to current student curricula. Moreover, by targeting students we are aiming at the next-generation future-internet facilities users who having learnt through FIRE facilities will be enthusiastic future FIRE users. By investing in students, FORGE is creating a path for FIRE’s long-term sustainability.

Keywords: fire,moocs,elearning,higher education,online learning,online courses,learning management systems
Addressing Fundamental Challenges in the Design of new generation fuels. (GENFUEL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1502213.34
EU funding (EUR): 1502213.34
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

There is a pressing need at the European and global levels to address challenges in the design of a new generation of fuels in order to achieve significant efficiency and emissions benefits in modern downsized boosted engines employing gasoline and ethanol blends. Abnormal combustion phenomena are a severe constraint to the use of much higher boosting pressures which are needed for significant gains in efficiency and reduction in emissions. These phenomena have to be better understood within the context of the different thermodynamic regimes that exist in these engines and addressed to enable the full benefit of modern downsized boosted engines to be realised. The area is vitally important for the reduction of GHG emissions and the resulting climate change impact of transportation. GENFUEL is an intersectoral collaboration that tackles fundamental challenges in understanding combustion mechanisms under highly boosted conditions that will be key to unlocking improvements in the design of a new generation of fuels. The project adopts a holistic approach with project components which study fuel engine behaviour along with safe handling technologies and life cycle analysis accounting for water use in fuel pathways. Long-term collaborative relationships will be established between Shell, the coordinator, and six partner universities. This will link their collective combustion, lifecycle and fuel handling expertise directly with Shell’s longstanding R&D fuel design capability. In the first two years, university researchers will participate via secondments to interdisciplinary R&D projects. Industry approaches to R&D will be conveyed to each university via the short term secondments of Shell researchers. To demonstrate commitment to a durable collaboration, Shell will pay for the cost of the researchers' reintegration year and the universities and Shell will jointly initiate follow-on or new projects. A lasting intersectoral collaboration will therefore be established.

Keywords: design of road transport fuels,mid-level ethanol blends,safe handling of fuels,deflagration,water footprinting,chemical kinetics,pre-ignition,knock,life cycle analysis
Accelerating Cross- border Engagement (ACE): Accelerating the early Engagement of highly innovative ICT start-ups, SMEs and entrepreneurs in Cross-Border cooperation and venturing (ACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal Actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Portugal,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Czechia,France,Finland,Sweden,Italy,Germany,Ireland,Ireland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2799424.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998996.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Building on a mapping analysis of existing/emerging good practices in internationalization and cross border venturing in Europe, a group of ICT clusters, incubators and accelerators will collaborate in the development and pilot testing of the new Accelerate Cross- border Engagement (ACE) operational programme. The overall aim is to deliver targeted cross border services to highly innovative entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs in the ICT sector in order to accelerate their growth. The ACE programme is supported by cross border finance experts and European innovation support networks EBN and ENOLL. To test the ACE concept, a pilot programme will be implemented involving highly innovative companies from each partner region. The emphasis will be on achieving tangible outcomes for companies in terms of investment and new clients. To achieve these outcomes, ACE will put in place operational schemes to connect companies with international networks of investors and to establish a network of potential clients (in both the public and private sector). Central to the ACE programme will be the establishment of a collaborative platform supporting open innovation between participating companies and the ACE support network. ACE does not propose a ‘one stop shop’ approach to internationalisation. Companies will be assigned an experienced mentor in their own country who will analyse their internationalisation strengths and weaknesses and in response put together a customised programme of support measures drawing on the facilities, services and local expertise and knowledge of partners in other countries. Support measures may include for example; Living Lab validation in another country, hands on technical/ market assistance, preparing companies for pitches for cross border investment. Virtual international support teams for each company will be formed and a competitive element will be introduced with an award for the most successful companies at the end of the programme.

Keywords: cross-border internationalisation accelerator incubator cluster innovative ict start-ups smes entrepreneurs cross border venturing bic enoll living lab investor readiness
Towards a MultiLingual Data and Services infrastructure (MLI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,Latvia,France,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2471926.0
EU funding (EUR): 2098000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal answers EC invitation (Objective 4.1 d) to provide the “foundations of a scalable platform for the joint development/enhancement and hosting of (multi-) language data sets, processing tools and basic services… The aim is to create over time a comprehensive online repository…underpinning research, technology transfer and industrial development efforts.” Language Technology (LT) researchers, vendors and service providers have repeatedly stressed the strategic value of common platforms for their respective work. Broad-based initiatives such as META-NET (mostly research and technology centres) and LT-INNOVATE (LT commercial players) have all highlighted the crucial importance of an open, extensible infrastructure to support research, facilitate sharing and reuse of research results, act as an aggregation point for commercial technology developers and solution vendors, driving down innovation costs and promoting the EU LT ecosystem to higher levels of competitiveness. This Support Action will deliver the strategic vision and operational specifications needed for building the MLi (European MultiLingual data & services Infrastructure), formulate a multiannual plan for its development and deployment, and shape the multi-stakeholders alliances ensuring its long term sustainability. The consortium will deliver: a) the functional, technical and operational Specifications of the MLi, b) a multiannual roll-out Plan of the MLi and its constituent services, with stages of development and cost/effort estimates, c) a sustainable Governance model, as well as terms and conditions for an organisation tasked with the administration, operation and maintenance of the MLi, and d) the statements of Commitment of stakeholders, to actively support deployment of the MLi. Project outputs will be fed into new EU programmes, most notably Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility, and will be offered as inputs to calls for tenders/proposals the EC will launch in due time.

Keywords: multilingual infrastructure,common platforms.
VINEyardROBOT (VINEROBOT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,France,France,Spain,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2714078.0
EU funding (EUR): 2090000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is the design, development, and deployment of a novel use-case agricultural robot under the scope of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV), and equipped with several non-invasive sensing technologies to monitor: 1) of grape yield, 2) vegetative growth, 3) Water stress and 4) Grape composition in order to optimize the vineyard management and improve grape composition and wine quality. The use of UGVs to monitor vineyard physiological parameters and grape composition has several advantages over simple hand-held devices for manual sampling and over UAV. UGVs may provide key information regarding vineyard physiology and water stress, grape composition, and pests and diseases’ incidence much faster than manual solutions and at higher resolution, in a more flexible way, and lower cost than aerial scouting carried out by drones or planes. The scope covers the integral monitoring of vineyards, over the entire season, by placing a ground robot along the vineyards (endowed with artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques). The final users will receive updated in mobile application (app). The proposed use-case agricultural robots (where key proximal sensing technologies will be implemented) will allow revolutionary and conclusive decision making to optimize vineyard management and to drive agronomical fundamental decisions according to grape yield estimation, plant growth monitoring, water status, and berry composition assessment. UGV proposed will incorporate an integrated system that includes machine vision, thermography and fluorescence-based sensors. Canopy images and data acquisition processes will be executed in real time through customized algorithms to compose specific production maps.

Keywords: robot,vineyard,grapevine,sensor,thermography,fluorescence based sensor,spatial variability,proximal sensing,ugv,precision viticulture,app
IRIS: Towards Natural Interaction and Communication (IRIS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1220895.32
EU funding (EUR): 1220895.32
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The overall goal of IRIS is to provide a natural interaction communication platform accessible and adapted for all users, particularly for people with speech impairments and elderly in indoor scenarios. Human-Computer interaction with this platform will adopt the principles of universal design and natural user interfaces such as speech, silent speech, gestures, tactile and haptic devices, pictograms, animated characters and personalized synthetic voices. The platform will provide a set of services that allow easy access to social networks, friends and remote family members, fighting social-exclusion of people with special needs or impairments. Application of these features will be performed in the context of serious games, virtual reality environments and assisted living scenarios. We will also explore the use of personalized avatars (that resemble with the user) in asynchronous human-human and human-machine communications, in situations where the user has lost his/her voice and in scenarios where it is not possible to have a video signal transmission due to low bandwidth or privacy reasons. Biometrics will complement the platform, in the sense that authentication and authorization are fundamental aspects for assuring access security to personal information in a natural way. These goals will be accomplished through multiple Transfer of Knowledge mechanisms between Industry and Academia that include secondments, recruitments, seminars, workshops and short courses given by specialized researchers about a diverse range of topics that target both project objectives and career development. The project consortium composed by 5 partners (2 Industry and 3 Academic partners) will also organize a relevant number of outreach activities directed at the general public and events, paving the way for strong and durable repercussions in the scientific, technological, social and economic domains of our society.

Keywords: human-computer interaction,communication,impairments,social-exclusion,elderly,speech,silent speech,gestures,tactile/haptic devices,assisted living,virtual environments,automatic lip-sync