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Sustainable Zero Carbon ECO-Town Developments Improving Quality of Life across EU - ECO-Life (ECO-LIFE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy efficiency and savings
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Lithuania,Lithuania,Belgium,Denmark,Denmark,Sweden,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-29
End date: 2016-06-28
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 22052704.85
EU funding (EUR): 12255646.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of ECO-Life project is to establish a replicable planning &amp; implementation approach and to demonstrate innovative and integrated energy concepts in supply and demand side in municipalities in LT, BE and DK to reach the goal of zero CO2. The local ECO-life projects are integrated in large climate action initiatives in the municipalities. The project will aim to use 100% RES. Concerning RUE, LT is representing huge refurbishment potential in East Europe, BE focuses on social housing and DK represents the next level of energy efficiency. A Whole Town Design Approach is used in all three communities with focus on achieving goals at affordable costs and on developing new financing tools. The approach includes end-user involvement and dissemination. The DK Concerto experiences from Concerto III will be transferred to first Concerto projects in BE and LT. The project will directly impact 14,100 inhabitants. Community household impact 2600 DK, 1500 BE, 2500 LT. Zero Carbon Vision area, DK: >3000 m² solar field dedicated to ECO-Life;-1.2 MW wind / large central PV, >320 m² distributed PV; passive dwellings 49 kWhtpe/m2 (tot. prim. energy); 2 experimental houses 49 kWhtpe/m²; A+dwel. 74 kWhtpe/m²;102 dwel. refurbished 100 kWhtpe/m²; School/Inst, office 70 kWhtpe/m²;polygeneration heat/cool with pos. ground energy storage;ICT and Smart-grid solutions; Whole District Refurbishment, LT originally: 2 MW bioboiler -local wood waste;200 kWel/240th CHP;500 m² solar thermal;Minor use PV;360 typical East Europe dwel. refurbished - from 250 kWhtpe/m² to 125 kWhtpe/m²;4200 m² refurbished tertiary build;Experimental Social Housing area, BE;75 kWp BIPV;dwel. refurbished to 32 kWhtpe/m²; new zero energy buildings, 21 kWhtpe/m²;Biofuel mini-CHP units in buildings Key innovations: Whole town design approach, including end-user involvement and dissemination;Smart metering &amp; CEMS;New ESCO scheme;Training

Keywords: community development,renewable energy,energy efficiency in buildings,eco-buildings,integration
Metamorphosis of Power Distribution: System Services from Photovoltaics (METAPV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Germany,Slovenia,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9238142.37
EU funding (EUR): 5520793.52
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

MetaPV is the first project world-wide that will demonstrate the provision of electrical benefits from photovoltaics (PV) on a large scale. Additional benefits for active grid support from PV will be demonstrated at two sites: a residential/urban area of 128 households with 4 kWp each, and an industrial zone of 31 PV systems with 200 kWp each. The enhanced control capacities to be implemented into PV inverters and demonstrated are active voltage control, fault ride-through capability, autonomous grid operation, and interaction of distribution system control with PV systems. A detailed technical and economic assessment of the additional services from PV is carried out. The role of PV in an area fully supplied by renewable sources is to be assessed. The work covers 3 phases. In the first phase, the demonstration is prepared for the specific demonstration zones. The PV side (inverter) and the network side will be both addressed. Small and large PV inverters for residential and industrial applications, which both can provide additional benefits for electrical network operation, will be developed. On the network side, adapted concepts for grid planning and operation of distribution networks with large amounts of PV generation will be developed. In the second phase, based on the development and suggestions of phase one, two pilot demonstrations will be carried out and evaluated. The first one will demonstrate the active contribution of PV for increasing power quality and security of the system operation in a residential area. In the second one, security of power supply and autonomous operation will be demonstrated in an industrial zone. The third phase covers communication with stakeholders that will take place from the beginning of the demonstration phase. The project results will be disseminated and communicated to the stakeholders, the scientific community and to the local public. The demonstration will allow for successful replication in other grids in Europe.

Keywords: photovoltaics,demonstration,power quality,network security,autonomous,active operation,inverter,storage,planning,residential,industrial,distribution system
Geothermal Communities – demonstrating the cascading use of geothermal energy for district heating with small scale RES integration and retrofitting measures (GEOCOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy efficiency and savings
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Hungary,Slovakia,Poland,Hungary,Italy,Slovakia,North Macedonia,Italy,Romania,Serbia,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14276124.0
EU funding (EUR): 3513703.8
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Central-Eastern European countries have exceptional geothermal resources. These resources are either unexploited due to the lack of technological know-how or their utilisation is carried out in an unsustainable way; geothermal district heating projects lack the energy efficiency component and the used thermal water is not reinjected but instead released to surface waters. Geothermal Communities will demonstrate best available technologies in the use of geothermal energy combined with innovative energy-efficiency measures in three different pilot sites (Hungary, Slovakia and Italy). Furthermore the project will integrate a large number of cities as project partners (from Serbia, Romania, Poland and Italy) that either already have ongoing geothermal systems that needs the adoption of new technologies (e.g. Sacueni, Romania) or they would like to implement new systems from scratch with the help of the project partners (e.g. Subotica, Serbia). In addition to the demonstration component through the parallel implementation of three ambitious development works there is also a strong complementary component of research focusing on making geothermal projects more cost efficient and technologically sound. Results of the project activities will be disseminated via straightforward dissemination actions combined with a training programme organised for municipal-level decision makers. Finally, the Mayors’ Geothermal Club will be set up and will continue operating even after the EC-funded period as a permanent network of city mayors and municipal-level decision makers who are interested in the sustainable utilisation of geothermal energy.

Keywords: geothermal energy,geothermal district heating,geothermal cascade system,reinjection,retrofitting,res integration,rue measures,socio-economic research
An Experimental Study on the Economics of Self-Confidence, Motivation, Gender and Incentives (ECON. OF MOTIVATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-31
End date: 2012-05-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 75000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Inducing high effort and performance is an important goal in organizational economics as well as in education. With the recognition that imperfect self-knowledge is prevalent in such contexts, factors such as self-confidence and attitudes toward information have been increasingly incorporated into economic models of incentives in the recent years. This project proposes to study the link between self-confidence, motivation and institutions using experiments. Important self-selection decisions (e.g. type of occupation, career path) and effort decisions are fundamentally based on perceived ability. In addition, factors previously ignored in the incentive literature such as personality traits, gender, and biological factors can be instrumental in the way that individuals respond to incentives. This project proposes to conduct a set of laboratory experiments to analyze the dynamics of self-confidence and the motivation to exert effort under different institutional settings. In conjunction with the data on behavior, the study will also collect data on gender, educational background, risk-aversion, and personality traits, and will employ the recent methodology of neural measurements. Understanding the determinants of motivation, and studying its interactions with the institutional structure as well as factors such as gender are expected to generate important policy recommendations for the workplace as well as for educational settings.

Keywords: microeconomics,experimental economics,economics of organizations,gender and economic decision-making
Full scale demonstration prototype tidal stream generator (PULSE STREAM 1200)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-TREN-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13937029.41
EU funding (EUR): 8008935.75
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

This proposed collaborative project aims to demonstrate an innovative tidal energy converter at full scale in UK waters where there is an abundant resource and clear incentives for early commercial development; the selected site has potential for further commercial development. The main project objective is to test a certified, high performance, tidal flow technology ready for commercial deployment. The collaborative nature of this project has allowed a very strong team of partners to be assembled that has the necessary expertise to design, build, test and optimise the full scale demonstrator. The pre-production prototype to be demonstrated uses oscillating hydrofoils; this technology is currently being tested by Pulse Tidal in a scaled marine trial in the UK. Oscillating hydrofoils have been proposed previously for exploiting tidal currents. Pulse Tidal, the holder of the IPR, has an improved technical approach and a refined strategy, which exploits the benefits of oscillating foils over wind turbine style axial flow rotors. Modelling has shown that high efficiencies can be achieved from a hydrofoil oscillating at certain frequencies. Scaled model testing by Pulse Tidal has confirmed that a phased pair of hydrofoils sweeping the same cross section of flow improves power capture efficiency to a level comparable with axial flow systems. The hydrofoil approach allows power to be captured with a wide, shallow swept area. In a given depth oscillating foil systems can be up to four times more powerful than single axial flow rotors. In reality almost all sites are too shallow for multi-megawatt axial flow rotors. By offering much larger unit capacities Pulse will have a unique strategic and economic advantage over other technologies. Pulse Tidal’s clear commercial focus is therefore to develop early systems specifically for tidal flows too shallow for others to compete. This will be followed by the development of larger systems for deeper water.

Keywords: development,test and demonstration of large scale high efficiency shallow tidal flow device
Ab-initio computational modelling of photovoltaic interfaces (ALIGN)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the ALIGN project is to understand, predict, and optimize the photovoltaic energy conversion in third-generation solar cells, starting from an atomic-scale quantum-mechanical modelling of the photovoltaic interface. The quest for photovoltaic materials suitable for low-cost synthesis, large-area production, and functional architecture has driven substantial research efforts towards third-generation photovoltaic devices such as plastic solar cells, organic-inorganic cells, and photo-electrochemical cells. The physical and chemical processes involved in the harvesting of sunlight, the transport of electrical charge, and the build-up of the photo-voltage in these devices are fundamentally different from those encountered in traditional semiconductor heterojunction solar cells. A detailed atomic-scale quantum-mechanical description of such processes will lay down the basis for a rational approach to the modelling, optimization, and design of new photovoltaic materials. The short name of the proposal hints at one of the key materials parameters in the area of photovoltaic interfaces: the alignment of the quantum energy levels between the light-absorbing material and the electron acceptor. The level alignment drives the separation of the electron-hole pairs formed upon absorption of sunlight, and determines the open circuit voltage of the solar cell. The energy level alignment not only represents a key parameter for the design of photovoltaic devices, but also constitutes one of the grand challenges of modern computational materials science. Within this project we will develop and apply new ground-breaking computational methods to understand, predict, and optimize the energy level alignment and other design parameters of third-generation photovoltaic devices.

Keywords: photovoltaic interfaces,plastic solar cells,computational materials science,first-principles electronic structure methods
PHOtonic-based full DIgital Radar (PHODIR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1600000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1600000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

PHODIR project aims to study, design and realize a full digital transceiver radar demonstrator based on photonic technology both for signal generation and for RF received signal processing. Hybrid technologies merging second generation optical systems and conventional radar architecture could be the answer to issues deriving from electronic devices poor performances such high SFDR (Spurious Free Dynamic Range) and high phase noise level that are nowadays impeding the construction of a fully digital radar transceiver. Starting from a conventional radar architecture, the generation of high frequency signals in the optical domain at the transmitter section and the use of ultra-high bit rate and short width optical pulse train for RF received signal sampling are the main solutions we are going to investigate in the project to overcome problems related to electronic devices. The innovative research aspects of the proposal are: -Definition of a new full digital radar transceiver architecture based on photonic technology -Development and realization of new electro-optic second generation devices -New parallel signal processing algorithms. The most important benefits arising from the project are: -Electro-optic system integration -New technological development in the design of advanced photonic devices -New technological/scientific development in the design of high performance radar CNIT can provide an high level of experience in the field of photonic devices design and implementation and radar system analysis and design. Theoretical support and experimental test-bed thanks to instrumentations and competences in very high-bit rate Gb/s Optical Time Division Multiplexing Systems and techniques for ultra-fast optical sampling are also provided by CNIT.

Keywords: ultra-fast optical sampling,nonlinear optics,high-frequency low-noise digital radar system
The Dynamic Composition of Protein Complexes: A New Perspective in Structural Biology (LARGEMS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

80% of the proteome exists in complexes or large macromolecular assemblies. It is accepted that revealing the structure of these protein complexes is a key towards mechanistic understanding of cellular processes. Yet, this might not be sufficient; a higher level of complexity probably exists and protein complexes may not be static and uniform in form and function as thought. A protein complex may actually represent an ensemble of compositionally distinct entities with functional versatility. My main aim is to provide evidence for this conceptual change and to reveal the dynamic architecture of a protein assembly. As a model system, I will investigate the COP9 signalosome (CSN), an evolutionary conserved multisubunit complex, which is involved in a variety of essential functions ranging from cell-cycle progression, DNA-repair and apoptosis. My strategy is based on a comprehensive approach, made up of four main steps; i) Revealing the structural organization of the native complex. ii) Establishing whether the complex has co-existing independent modules that function separately of, or coordinately with the holocomplex. iii) Monitoring in real-time the biogenesis and activation pathway of the complex and developing an approach for shifting its oligomerization equilibrium. iv) Determining the correlation between modularity of the complex and cell cycle progression and comparing its composition in healthy versus cancerous cells. I will integrate genetic, biochemical and structural biology approaches. In particular, I will apply a state of the art mass spectrometry technique, that will enable us to define the stoichiometry, subunit composition, dynamic interactions and structural organization of protein complexes isolated directly from the cellular environment.

Keywords: non-covalent interactions,macromolecular complexes,protein-protein interactions,mass spectrometry
Collective phenomena in quantum and classical many body systems (COMBOS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2009-StG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 650000.0
EU funding (EUR): 650000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The collective behavior of quantum and classical many body systems such as ultracold atomic gases, nanowires, cuprates and micromagnets are currently subject of an intense experimental and theoretical research worldwide. Understanding the fascinating phenomena of Bose-Einstein condensation, Luttinger liquid vs non-Luttinger liquid behavior, high temperature superconductivity, and spontaneous formation of periodic patterns in magnetic systems, is an exciting challenge for theoreticians. Most of these phenomena are still far from being fully understood, even from a heuristic point of view. Unveiling the exotic properties of such systems by rigorous mathematical analysis is an important and difficult challenge for mathematical physics. In the last two decades, substantial progress has been made on various aspects of many-body theory, including Fermi liquids, Luttinger liquids, perturbed Ising models at criticality, bosonization, trapped Bose gases and spontaneous formation of periodic patterns. The techniques successfully employed in this field are diverse, and range from constructive renormalization group to functional variational estimates. In this research project we propose to investigate a number of statistical mechanics models by a combination of different mathematical methods. The objective is, on the one hand, to understand crossover phenomena, phase transitions and low-temperature states with broken symmetry, which are of interest in the theory of condensed matter and that we believe to be accessible to the currently available methods; on the other, to develop new techiques combining different and complementary methods, such as multiscale analysis and localization bounds, or reflection positivity and cluster expansion, which may be useful to further progress on important open problems, such as Bose-Einstein condensation, conformal invariance in non-integrable models, existence of magnetic or superconducting long range order.

Keywords: interacting fermi systems,fermi liquid,ising models,bose gas,critical exponents,stripes formation,renormalization group,reflection positivity,variational estimates