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Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (RADIONET3)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,France,Italy,United Kingdom,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,Korea, Republic of,France,France,Finland,Poland,Germany,Latvia,South Africa,Australia,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11577384.32
EU funding (EUR): 9500000.0
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

RadioNet is an I3 that coordinates all of Europe’s leading radio astronomy facilities in an integrated cooperation to achieve transformational improvement in the quality and quantity of the scientific research of European astronomers. RadioNet3 includes 27 partners operating world-class radio telescopes and/or performing cutting-edge R&D in a wide range of technology fields important for radio astronomy. RadioNet3 proposes a work plan that is structured into 6 NAs, 7 TNAs and 4 JRAs with the aim to integrate and optimise the use and development of European radio astronomy infrastructures. The general goals of RadioNet3 are to: - facilitate, for a growing community of European researchers, access to the complete range of Europe’s world-leading radio-astronomical facilities, including the ALMA telescope; - secure a long-term perspective on scientific and technical developments in radio astronomy, pooling resources and expertise that exist among the partners; - stimulate new R&D activities for the existing radio infrastructures in synergy with ALMA and the SKA; - contribute to the implementation of the vision of the ASTRONET Strategic Plan for European Astronomy by building a sustainable and world leading radio astronomical research community. RadioNet3 builds on the success of two preceeding I3s under FP6 and FP7, but it also takes a leap forward as it includes facilitation of research with ALMA via a dedicated NA, and 4 pathfinders for the SKA in its TNA Program. It has a transparent and efficient management structure designed to optimally support the implementation of the project. RadioNet is now recognized by funding agencies and international project consortia as the European entity representing radio astronomy and facilitating the access to and exploitation of excellent facilities in this field. This is of paramount importance, as a dedicated, formal European radio astronomy organisation to coordinate and serve the needs of this community does not yet exist.

Keywords: radio astronomy,physics,radio physics,astrophysics
Financial Imperfections and Macroeconomic Implications (FINIMPMACRO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 778800.0
EU funding (EUR): 778800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We plan to study the implications of financial market imperfections for four main questions. First, how do financial imperfections affect the optimal conduct of monetary and exchange rate policy in open economies? A key insight is that we characterize financial frictions as endogenous and only occasionally binding. This can have important implications for the optimal conduct of stabilization policy. Second, how do financial and labor market imperfections interact? We extend the standard search-and-matching model to allow firms to issue debt. This feature affects the wage bargaining process endogenously, since firms, by leveraging, can pay lower wages. We study the ability of such a model to replicate the volatility and persistence of unemployment in the data, and the role of financial imperfections in affecting the transmission of productivity and financial shocks. Third, does the effectiveness of tax policy depend on its redistributive content, and how is this affected by financial imperfections? We characterize the distributional feature of several Tax Acts in the US, and investigate empirically whether tax changes that “favor the poor” are more expansionary than cuts that “favor the rich”. We then build a theoretical framework with heterogeneous agents and financial frictions to rationalize our evidence. Fourth, how do financial intermediaries affect the transmission channel of monetary policy? We extend the current New Keynesian framework for monetary policy analysis to study the role of financial intermediaries. We emphasize the role of three features: (i) asymmetric information in interbank markets; (ii) maturity mismatch in the banks’ balance sheets; (iii) the “paradox of securitization”, thereby a deeper diversification of idiosyncratic risk leads to a simultaneous increase in the sensitivity of banks’ balance sheets to aggregate risk.

Keywords: optimal monetary and exchange rate policy,financial and labor market frictions,tax redistribution.
Accelerated development and prototyping of nano-technology-based high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar modules (FAST TRACK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands,Czechia,Slovenia,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Netherlands,France,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-ENERGY-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12882464.92
EU funding (EUR): 8574755.74
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years, the effort in thin-film silicon (TFSi) was made at solving industrialization issues. In 2010, several companies demonstrated 10% stable modules (> 1 m²). The major “bricks” for efficient production are now in place. Next challenges are linked to the fact that TFSi multi-junction devices, allowing for higher efficiency, are complex devices, in which the substrate geometry and each layer have an impact on the full device. This explains why the first industrializations focused on “single technology” roads (e.g., Jülich-AMAT or EPFL-Oerlikon approaches). This project focuses at bringing the next-generation technology to the market, using newly developed state-of-the art knowledge to solve the complex puzzle of achieving at the same time strong light in-coupling (high current) and good electrical properties (open-circuit voltage and fill factor). In a unique collaborative effort of the leading EU industries and research institutions in the field, the consortium will go beyond the current technology status by • Introducing novel materials, including multi-phase nanomaterials (such as doped nc-SiOx, high crystallinity nc-Si materials), stable top cell materials, nanoimprinted substrates and novel or adapted transparent conductive oxides; • Designing and implementing ideal device structures, taking into account the full interaction of layers in multi-junction devices; • Controlling the growth of active layers on textured materials; • Working at processes that could allow a further extension of the technology such as very high rate nc-Si deposition or multi-step superstrate etching; • Transferring processes, including static and dynamic plasma deposition, from the laboratory to pilot scale, with first trials in production lines. The targets of the project is to achieve solar cells with 14% stable efficiency, leading to the demonstration of reliable production size prototypes module at 12% level. Potential cost below 0.5€/Wp should be demonstrated.

Keywords: thin-film silicon,multi-junction devices,nano-textured substrates,nano-imprint,nanocrystalline silicon,mixed-phase materials,selective reflectors,high-efficiency modules,scalability,prototype
Development of Advanced Shearography System for On-Site Inspection of Wind Turbine Blades (DASHWIN)

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: United Kingdom,Spain,Romania,Belgium,Germany,Greece,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1380130.33
EU funding (EUR): 1085100.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Wind energy is a fast growing (>20% pa) industry worldwide and European companies have two-thirds of the share, according to European Wind Energy Association. Due to the increase in wind farms, new techniques are required to provide maintenance and inspection of the wind installations with reduced cost and enhanced reliability. It is estimated that the business opportunity for wind turbine blade inspection is at least €1bn per annum, and is increasing rapidly. In the DashWin project, a novel non-contact NDT system will be developed. It will consist of an advanced shearography kit and a robotic deployment platform. The system will be able to inspect the composite wind turbine blades (WTB) on-site without dismantling the blades, so that the degradation of WTB due to fatigue or natural incidents can be found before a breakdown or catastrophic failure occurs which is significantly better than existing systems. Objectives: • Develop a novel shearographic system able to inspect WTB on-site without dismantling the blades. This will be the first time that a shearography system is used for inspecting a WTB in-service at a wind energy installation. The proposed concept and system is not limited to NDT of rotating WTBs, and can be extended to inspect other dynamic structures with large rigid body motion. • Develop a wavefront splitter and/or a compact spatial carrier mask to achieve simultaneous spatial phase shifting. • Integrate the shearography system with a robotics platform to carry out on-site inspections. • Develop a comprehensive software package for image processing, automatic phase compensation, result interpretation and information storage. • Validate the reliability of the new system and associated opto-mechanical set-ups through a stringent field trial test. System assembly and potential manufacturing routes will also be established. • Develop and validate a new procedure for conducting regular inspection of WTB using the new robotic shearography system.

Keywords: wind turbine blade inspection,non-contact non-destructive testing system,composite wind turbine blades,fatigue,failure,shearographic,wavefront splitter,spatial carrier mask,robotics,dismantle
Photon and Neutron Data - Open Data Infrastructure (PANDATAODI)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,France,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Germany,Italy,France,Spain,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3745301.0
EU funding (EUR): 1950000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The PaN-data collaboration brings together eleven large multidisciplinary Research Infrastructures which operates hundreds of instruments used by over 30,000 scientists each year. They support fields as varied as physics, chemistry, biology, material sciences, energy technology, environmental science, medical technology and cultural heritage. Applications are numerous, for example, crystallography can reveal the structures of viruses and proteins important for the development of new drugs; neutron scattering can identify stresses within engineering components such as turbine blades, and tomography can image microscopic details of the 3D-structure of the brain. Industrial users include the pharmaceutical, petrochemical and microelectronic industries. PaNdata-ODI will develop, deploy and operate an Open Data Infrastructure across the participating facilities with user and data services which support the tracing of provenance of data, preservation, and scalability through parallel access. It will be instantiated through three virtual laboratories supporting powder diffraction, small angle scattering and tomography.

Keywords: photon and neutron facilities. research infrastructures. synchrotron. crystalography. data policy. data standards.
Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate Interim Implementation (MACC II)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Spain,France,Belgium,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Germany,Austria,European organisations area,Finland,Portugal,France,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Norway,France,Germany,Ireland,Sweden,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 27648549.27
EU funding (EUR): 19000000.0
Participants: 39
Project status: CLOSED

MACC II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate – Interim Implementation) is designed to meet the requirements that have been expressed for prototype operational GMES services for the atmospheric domain. From late-2011 MACC II will continue the operation and development of the GMES service lines established by the MACC project and prepare for its transition in 2014 to become the atmospheric monitoring component of GMES Operations. MACC II will prepare for full operations in terms of continuity, sustainability and availability. It will maintain and further develop the efficiency and resilience of its end-to-end processing system, and will refine the quality of the products of the system. It will adapt the system to make use of observations from new satellites, in particular the first of the atmospheric Sentinels, and will interface with FP7 RTD projects that contribute towards long-term service improvement. MACC II will ensure that its service lines best meet both the requirements of downstream-service providers and end users, and the requirements of the global scientific user community. The service lines will cover air quality, climate forcing, stratospheric ozone and solar radiation. MACC II will deliver products and information that support the establishment and implementation of European policy and wider international programmes. It will acquire and assimilate observational data to provide sustained real-time and retrospective global monitoring of greenhouse gases, aerosols and reactive gases such as tropospheric ozone and nitrogen dioxide. It will provide daily global forecasts of atmospheric composition, detailed air-quality forecasts and assessments for Europe, and key information on long range transport of atmospheric pollutants. It will provide comprehensive web-based graphical products and gridded data. Feedback will be given to space agencies and providers of in situ data on the quality of their data and future observational requirements.

Keywords: prototype gmes services in the atmosphere area
Towards safe and productive human multitasking (MULTITASK)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1434574.0
EU funding (EUR): 1434574.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

People show a strong inclination for multitasking: they use multiple devices while driving a car, students do homework while sending text-messages and watching television, and office workers rapidly switch from one task to another. It is crucial to understand the role of multitasking in modern society, whether in terms of set-ting legal limits to multitasking in cases where it leads to unacceptable risks, or designing work situations in which productivity is supported or security is maintained. The goal of this project is to understand what circumstances change a person from an effective multitasker into one overwhelmed by too many demands, and to design countermeasures to keep people in control. A strong interdisciplinary research program in this area is necessary, because improper multitasking can lead to increased risks, loss of productivity and even long-term decrements in cognitive abilities. To investigate these questions we have developed two new groundbreaking methods. The first is the threaded cognition computational model of multitasking. Threaded cognition predicts when and how tasks interfere, by simulating the cognitive processes in the mind. The second is a new method highlighting the areas of interference. This done by using threaded cognition to analyze fMRI neuroimaging data, mapping functional units in the model onto brain areas. The new challenge is to use both methods to understand and predict how people select tasks for multitasking. The unique combination of methods is expected to result in fundamental knowledge on identifying the mechanisms that determine human task decisions, and in under-standing how sequences of such decisions can lead to multitasking situations with dangerous cognitive over-load or productivity dead-ends. Understanding the cognitive mechanisms of task selection in multitasking can be crucially important in designing multitasking environments that improve productivity and safety in-stead of thwarting it.

Keywords: cognitive models,multitasking,artificial intelligence,neuroimaging,cognitive control,memory,fmri
THE ORIGIN AND IMPACT OF COLOUR CATEGORIES IN THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE (CATEGORIES)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1480265.0
EU funding (EUR): 1480265.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal outlines a cutting-edge five year project which will push the frontiers of colour category research, and will resonate throughout the cognitive and social sciences. Humans can discriminate millions of colours (Zeki, 1993), yet language refers to colour using a number of discrete categories (e.g., red, green, blue). These colour categories are also present in ‘thought’ (e.g., in colour judgements / memory). There has been considerable multidisciplinary research into the origin of colour categories and how colour categories in thought and language relate. However, major theoretical challenges remain. The ‘CATEGORIES’ project, led by Franklin, will tackle these crucial challenges with the aim of establishing a new theoretical framework for the field. So far, Franklin has made a major contribution to the field by providing converging evidence that infants categorise colour. The ‘CATEGORIES’ project will investigate new ground-breaking questions on the relationship of these ‘pre-linguistic’ colour categories to the world’s colour lexicons, using a diverse range of methods (e.g., infant testing, computational simulations, psychophysics). The project also aims to resolve the long standing debate about the impact of colour terms on perception (e.g., Whorf, 1956), pioneering a ‘Neuro-Whorfian’ approach to the debate. This approach will use neuro-physiological methods to firmly establish the extent to which speakers of different languages ‘see’ colour differently. The new questions, approaches, data and theory provided by the ‘CATEGORIES’ project, will lead to major advances in colour category research. The project will also lead to major advances on issues that are fundamental to understanding the complexity of the human mind (e.g., the interaction of language and thought; how the brain categorises the visual world), having impact across multiple disciplines (e.g., cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, psychology), as well as practical application.

Keywords: categorisation,colour,infant
SeaDataNet II: Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management (SEADATANET II)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Spain,Greece,Italy,Russian Federation,Türkiye,France,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Denmark,Denmark,European organisations area,Ireland,Portugal,Netherlands,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,Poland,Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania,Ukraine,Bulgaria,Romania,Georgia,Croatia,Slovenia,Malta,Cyprus,Israel,Germany,Iceland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7575312.51
EU funding (EUR): 6000000.0
Participants: 44
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the SeaDataNet II project is to upgrade the present SeaDataNet infrastructure into an operationally robust and state-of-the-art Pan-European infrastructure for providing up-to-date and high quality access to ocean and marine metadata, data and data products originating from data acquisition activities by all engaged coastal states, by setting, adopting and promoting common data management standards and by realising technical and semantic interoperability with other relevant data management systems and initiatives on behalf of science, environmental management, policy making, and economy. SeaDataNet is undertaken by the National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs), and marine information services of major research institutes, from 31 coastal states bordering the European seas, and also includes Satellite Data Centres, expert modelling centres and the international organisations IOC, ICES and EU-JRC in its network. Its 40 data centres are highly skilled and have been actively engaged in data management for many years and have the essential capabilities and facilities for data quality control, long term stewardship, retrieval and distribution. SeaDataNet II will undertake activities to achieve data access and data products services that meet requirements of end-users and intermediate user communities, such as GMES Marine Core Services (e.g. MyOcean), establishing SeaDataNet as the core data management component of the EMODNet infrastructure and contributing on behalf of Europe to global portal initiatives, such as the IOC/IODE – Ocean Data Portal (ODP), and GEOSS. Moreover it aims to achieve INSPIRE compliance and to contribute to the INSPIRE process for developing implementing rules for oceanography.

Keywords: marine and ocean data,data management,interoperability,standards,common vocabularies,metadata formats,data formats,data products