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Low-cost, Green, Large Scale Manufacturing of new age conducting nanowires displays (NANODIGREE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Greece,Austria,Spain,Spain,Cyprus,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1403712.9
EU funding (EUR): 1067000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Currently, display industries, LCD and OLED displays manufacturing is based on Indium-Tin Oxide (ITO) Transparent Conducting Films (TCF). Nevertheless, Indium metal is a very scarce material and its worldwide resources are becoming increasingly limited. Thus, the prices of produced displays based on ITO will inevitably rise day by day if no alternative material is developed to replace it. Moreover, ITO films have limitations in flexibility and this fact excludes them from application in the production of new-generation displays, such as electronic books and flexible displays. The guiding principle of NanoDiGree is to manufacture, through economical viable production methods, competitive high quality transparent conducting films in order to replace ITO. This projected solution will be based on the production of conductive/transparent inks containing Cu nanowires which will be fabricated via advanced pulse electrodeposition (PED) methods. The Cu nanowires will be electro deposited into anodised aluminium oxide (AAO) nanoporous-templates by utilizing pulse current electrodeposition. The produced nanowires will be dispersed in “green” solvent mixture in order to develop the printing inks for the afterwards production of the films. Finally, Roll-to-Roll printing will be used in order to apply thin flexible conductive-transparent films on suitable polymer substrates that will be used as the flexible devices. The goal of the NanoDiGree proposal is to intercept the trend of integration of all supply chain manufacturer of displays in Asia by producing high added value component in Europe. The successful outcome of this project will have a significant impact in European competitiveness within the market of TCF. Indeed, the impact is intended to be significant, considering that the alternative TCFs address the need of constantly growing market sectors, which nowadays widely use ITO. These are the electronic displays as well as the solar panels manufacturers.

Keywords: anodized aluminum oxide (aao) nanotemplates,pulse electrodeposition,cu nanowires,inks dispersion,inkjet printing,polymer substrates
Demonstration of a non-thermal process to replace use of sulphites and other chemical preservatives in European wines to meet new European Directive (PRESERVEWINE-DEMO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Norway,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2056828.0
EU funding (EUR): 1225000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The PreserveWine project (Grant Agreement Number: 262507) funded by the R4SME programme (call identifier: FP7-SME-2010-1) delivered high quality science and technology development. PreserveWine involved the RTD of a novel non-thermal process known as “Pressure Change Technology” (PCT) to extend the shelf life of wine; reducing the need to use chemical preservatives and ensuring high wine quality. This is an attractive alternative in alignment with current EC regulations that are demanding a significant reduction in the use of sulphur dioxide in wines. A novel continuous pressure change technology system to stabilize wine and wine must with high- pressure (500 bar), was successfully developed and validated at a 120L/h scale. This process provides a “cold pasteurization” process, with the advantage that heat-labile components, colour and taste remain unchanged. The novel PreserveWine system significantly reduced the amount of oxygen in wine, thus providing protection against oxidation directly after treatment and during long-term storage in barrels or bottles. Further positive effects including the protection of wine from colour changes and the maintenance of physicochemical and sensory quality of red and white wine and must be more extensively validated. The effects of various parameters such as gas type and retention time have been determined. An industrial scale unit has been designed and specified. Further demonstration at industrial sites to confirm long-term performance, operational costs and economic viability must be undertaken. These include industrialisation of manufacturing processes to enable economies of scale to be achieved. The consortium has identified a number of market opportunities and is keen to bring this development into an industrial stage.

Keywords: wine production,non-thermal process,replace use of sulphites & other chemical preservatives,high quality wine,pressure change technology,wine sterilisation,biological stabilisation,clean label
Advanced Testing Methods for Better Real Life Performance of Biomass Room Heating Appliances (BEREAL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Denmark,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,Germany,Slovenia,Netherlands,Belgium,Denmark,Sweden,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2937911.8
EU funding (EUR): 1971046.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Existing test standards for biomass room heating appliances (pellet and firewood stoves, and inset appliances) have supported technology development tremendously in past decades. Due to today’s changing and more demanding requirements, however, there is the obvious need for refined testing procedures in order to differentiate between poor and excellent products. Such differentiation should take into account operating conditions as they are found in real life installations. Offering such information to customers will create substantial competitive advantages to innovative SMEs providing high quality products and may provide a reliable guideline for future standards or regulations. The key objectives of BeReal are - Development of advanced testing methods for room biomass heating appliances to better reflect real life operation - Development of a centralized standard evaluation tool for quality assurance purposes - Validation of methods at an early stage of development - Proof of real life impact of advanced products by field test demonstration - Proof of reliability and reproducibility of testing methods and evaluation tools through a Round Robin test - Development and introduction of a quality label based on the novel testing methods These are accompanied by dissemination activities addressing standardization bodies, SME-members of participating SME-AGs and notified bodies, including training activities for the latter two groups. The introduction of the quality label addresses end users and general public. The consortium consists of 2 national and 1 European SME-AG, 7 OTHER participants (3 SME stove manufacturers, 1 SME component supplier, 1 SME certification supplier, 2 large industry stove manufacturers) and 5 RTDs of high international reputation. SME-AGs will be supported by their members. 3 participants are notified bodies, several participants are involved in leading positions in concerned standardization groups, amongst others in CEN TC295 WG5 and in CEN TC46. Additional stakeholders are involved in an Advisory Committee.

Keywords: biomass,room heating,standards,quality label,reproducibility of testing,real life emissions and efficiency,air quality
Durable biofilm-restraining surfaces and cleaning procedures for the food processing industry (CLEANSURF)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,Denmark,Italy,Germany,Poland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1402420.0
EU funding (EUR): 1053667.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Efficient and safe food production is a prerequisite for building a society capable of feeding the growing population. With the world population growing at extraordinary rates and the consequent repercussions in the dietary and consumption habits, it is estimated that food production has to be increased at least by 70% in the next 30 years, with the looming threat of a proportional surge of food-borne diseases, which will occur predictably. This is particularly true for the most striking cause of these outbreaks, to which the food industry did not seem to have found effective counter-measures so far: biofouling, which is the contamination of surfaces with hygienically relevant microorganisms and their eventual development and implementation into biofilms . There is currently not a thorough, effective and integrated solution to eliminate biofouling completely. This has a negative impact both on the economic performances of the enterprises and on their image, affecting product quality and quantity, forcing preventive overdosing of biocides and cleaners, and causing production downtime for cleaning and disinfection cycles. The food industry needs to improve anti-fouling strategies and to effective implement them into the production process. The CLEANSURF project will attack the biofouling through the development of new durable surface coatings to reduce biofilm build-up and facilitate the removal of biofilm and through fine-tuning of the cleaning process to suit the new surfaces. The CLEANSURF project will develop and test coatings with biofilm restraining properties tailor-made for the food industry in order to: 1)increase effectiveness and productivity by expanding the cleaning intervals and by decreasing the down-time of production equipment enforced by current cleaning procedures; 2)reduce the usage of environmentally harmful chemicals; 3)reduce the energy and water consumption. The coating will be an organic/hybrid silane based coating manufactured by the Sol-Gel approach. The growing of the food production and consumption represents a huge market opportunity for European companies going into global markets with a competitive edge achieved also through the Cleansurf innovation.

Keywords: sol gel,food processing,biofilm,cleaning process,food production processes
Modelling space weather events and mitigating their effects on satellites (SPACESTORM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Finland,Belgium,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2544144.52
EU funding (EUR): 1981301.49
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Over the last ten years the number of satellites on orbit has grown significantly to more than 1000. We also depend on satellites more than ever for applications such as TV, internet, mobile phones, navigation, banking and finance. All these satellites must be designed to withstand the harsh radiation in space for up to 15 years or more. Space weather events can increase radiation levels by five orders of magnitude in the Earth’s radiation belts and trigger bursts of high energy particles which can disrupt satellite operations and sometimes cause a complete satellite loss. Europe is investing heavily in space with the Galileo radio-navigation system and developing a competitive space industry. It is therefore important that we assess and mitigate the impact of space weather, particularly extreme events. This proposal brings together scientists and engineers from across Europe with commercial stakeholders to assess the impact of space weather and develop mitigation strategies. We will undertake studies of past space weather events using state-of-the-art computer models and data analysis techniques. We will reconstruct 30 years of the radiation environment for medium Earth orbit for Galileo, and for geostationary orbit. We will use data, models, and plasma theory to define the radiation environment for extreme space weather events, and conduct simulations and experiments to determine the impact on systems and components. We will assess the risk and develop new mitigation guidelines. We will perform experiments on new materials and techniques to reduce surface charging on solar arrays, and develop better physical models to forecast the radiation belts to provide warnings and alerts. We will develop a stakeholder community and deliver the results in a form accessible to the public. The project will deliver data, mitigation guidelines and experimental results that will continue long after the project and which will improve the design of future satellites.

Keywords: space weather,galileo,satellites,radiation belts,charging,extreme events
Complementary Synthetic Strategies toward Heterocyclic Boronates (COSSHNET)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 587133.58
EU funding (EUR): 587133.58
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

COSSHNET is a dual-partner Industrial Doctorate (EID) offering research training in state-of-the-art chemical synthesis, catalysis, bioactive molecule design and high throughput library synthesis. Through integration of the complementary, interdisciplinary and intersectorial expertise of the partners, this network will help to strengthen Europe’s human resources in the fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The researchers will be supervised and mentored by internationally recognised experts and have access to state-of-the-art equipment. Hands-on training will be supplemented by formal training courses in relevant and related fields, and a wide variety of complementary training courses, summer school and seminars. Researchers will benefit from secondments to the industrial partner for a significant period of the project, thereby gaining extensive exposure to a commercially based scientific environment. Overall, it is anticipated that the COSSHNET project will provide both Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) with an outstanding training experience, through extensive technical and complementary skills development.

Keywords: organic chemistry,synthetic chemistry,catalysis,heteroaromatic compounds,heterocyclic compounds,drug discovery,sustainable chemistry,process development,flow chemistry,bioactive molecules
Gaia European Network for Improved data User Services (GENIUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,Belgium,Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Japan
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3214358.62
EU funding (EUR): 2493463.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

GENIUS is designed to boost the impact of the next European breakthrough in astrophysics, the Gaia astrometric mission. Gaia is an ESA Cornerstone mission scheduled for launch in October 2013 and aims at producing the most accurate and complete 3D map of the Milky Way to date. A pan-European consortium named DPAC is working on the implementation of the Gaia data processing, of which the final result will be a catalogue and data archive containing more than one billion objects. The archive system containing the data products will be located at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) and will serve as the basis for the scientific exploitation of the Gaia data. The design, implementation, and operation of this archive are a task that ESA has opened up to participation from the European scientific community. GENIUS is aimed at significantly contributing to this development based on the following principles: an archive design driven by the needs of the user community; provision of exploitation tools to maximize the scientific return; ensuring the quality of the archive contents and the interoperability with existing and future astronomical archives (ESAC, ESO, ...); cooperation with the only other two astrometric missions in the world, nanoJASMINE and JASMINE (Japan); and last but not least, the archive will facilitate outreach and academic activities to foster the public interest in science in general and astronomy in particular. GENIUS fits seamlessly into existing Gaia activities, exploiting the synergies with ongoing developments. Its members actively participate in these ongoing tasks and provide an in-depth knowledge of the mission as well as expertise in key development areas. Furthermore, GENIUS has the support of DPAC, several Gaia national communities in the EU member states, and will establish cooperation with the Japanese astrometric missions already mentioned.

Keywords: gaia mission. the galaxy. astronomical catalogues. esac. astronomical databases. astronomical surveys. scientific exploitation. information technology. virtual observatory. stellar astrophysics.
Lower the impact of aggravating factors in crisis situations thanks to adaptative foresight and decision-support tools (SNOWBALL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Restoring security and safety in case of crisis
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Italy,Italy,Germany,Belgium,France,Poland,Finland,Bulgaria,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5205926.7
EU funding (EUR): 3882462.7
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

SnowBall is a €5M STREP R&D proposal of 36 months. Its overall objective is to increase preparedness and response capacities of decision-makers, emergency planners and first responders in respect to amplifying hazards in large disasters. SnowBall consists in a deep analysis of cascading effects and development of methods to anticipate them; and in a Decision Support System able to display current crisis monitoring and results of simulated decisions integrating cascading effects, thanks to a data collection system, an Events Log Database, Simulators and a Dashboard. SnowBall innovates in its modular approach to crises, its modelling techniques, its agent-supported coupled grid simulations, its generic Events Log Database and tools to follow public behaviour (Emergency Alert, social networks, mobile application). SnowBall encompasses 8 work packages: 1- Management; 2- Technical supervision; 3- Cascading effects methodology; 4- Event log database; 5- Simulation tool; 6- Crisis Management dashboard; 7– Experimentation; 8- Dissemination and Exploitation. SnowBall comprises 11 partners from 8 countries covering the full competence scope required: 2 industrials (Gedicom - Emergency Alert System; Cofely INEO - Events log database), 2 Research Institutes and 3 Universities focussed on different segments of risks assessment: LUPT-PLINIVS (natural hazards); Fraunhofer EMI (critical infrastructure socio-technical simulation); EMAUG (human behaviour); UCL (public health) and ISMB (cloud, data process, mobile services), 3 end-users (Polish Fire School; Ministry of Interior of Finland represented by ESC; and Hungarian Red Cross) and 1 consultancy (EP). The main expected impacts of SnowBall are a substantial scientific contribution, a fosterer of capacity to face complex crisis situations by better predicting cascading effects and integrating population behaviour in simulations, a contribution to the security of EU citizens; and a commercially viable project contributing to EU competitiveness.

Keywords: crisis management,cascading effects,human behavior,emergency alert system,crisis management dashboard,agent-based simulation,multi-hazard assessment,web 2.0
Innovation Technologies and Applications for Coastal Archaeological sites (ITACA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Cross-cutting activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Denmark,Portugal,Italy,Italy,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2219580.78
EU funding (EUR): 1645279.2
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The ITACA (Innovation Technologies and Applications for Coastal Archaeological sites) project aims to prove a management system for underwater archaeological sites in coastal regions. The discovering and monitoring service uses innovative satellite remote sensing techniques combined with image processing algorithms. The project develops a set of applications integrated in a system that pursue the following objectives: · Search and location of ancient ship wrecks; · Monitoring of ship wrecks, ruins and historical artefacts that are now submerged. · Integration of resulting search and monitoring data with onsite data into a management tool for underwater sites · Demonstration of the system’s suitability for a service High resolution synthetic aperture radar (TerraSAR-X, Cosmo-SkyMed) and multispectral satellite data (WorldView) will be combined to derive the relative bathymetry of the bottom of the sea up to the depth of 70 meters. The resulting data fusion will be processed using shape detection algorithms specific for archaeological items. The availability of the above remote sensing data, combined with innovative processing techniques and optimized for archaeological site, enable the provision of a location and monitoring service for underwater archaeological sites in coastal zones. The new algorithms, the physical modelling and the computational capabilities will be integrated into the Web-GIS, together with data recorded from surface (2D and 3D modelling) and from underwater surveys.. Additional specific archaeological layers will be included into the WebGIS to facilitate the object identification through shape detection techniques and mapping. The system will be verified and validated through an extensive on-ground (sea) campaign carried out with both cutting edge technologies (side-scan sonar, multi beam echo sounder) and traditional means (submarine exploration with professional scuba divers).

Keywords: gmes,coastal archeological sites,remote sensing