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Roll to Module processed Crystalline Silicon Thin-Films for higher than 20% efficient modules (R2M-SI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Norway,Russian Federation,Germany,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-FET, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3899118.6
EU funding (EUR): 2834925.2
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The current technologies to produce photovoltaic modules exhibit features, which prevent cost-reduction to below 0,5€/Wp: - Sawing/Wafering and Module assembly is costly and material intensive for wafer solar cells - Efficiency is comparatively low for classical thin-film solar cells (CdTe, CIS, a-Si/µc-Si, dye, organic). One approach to avoid both disadvantages is the so-called crystalline Si thin-film lift-off approach, where thin c-Si layers are stripped from a silicon wafer. This approach has the potential to reach > 20% efficient solar cells, however handling issues stop quick progress so far. The basic idea of the current project is to enable the use of lift-off films in a nearly handling-free approach, to avoid limitations by handling issues. The technological realization has the following key features and steps: - Continuous separation of a very thin (< 10 µm) c-Si foil from the circumference of a monocrystalline silicon ingot - Attachment to a high-temperature stable substrate of large area (e.g. graphite, Sintered Silicon, or ceramics), which can also serve as module back side. - High-temperature re-organisation of the silicon foil followed by in-situ epitaxial thickening (~40 µm base thickness) in an in-line chemical vapour deposition reactor, including pn-junction formation - Processing of high-efficiency solar cells and formation of integrated interconnected high-voltage modules - Encapsulating into a module (glass / encapsulant only if needed) The resulting module to be demonstrated in R2M-Si has a cost potential around 0.55 €/Wp, at 18% module efficiency and thus low Balance-of-System cost. Future enhanced R2M-Si modules can exceed even 20% efficiency, at costs below 0.5 €/Wp. The project shall demonstrate the feasibility of the most critical process steps like continuous layer detachment, bonding to a carrier substrate, high-quality epitaxy, handling-free solar cell processing and module integration. As a deliverable, a mini module of higher than 18% efficiency shall be prepared.

Keywords: crystalline silicon,porous silicon,lift-off,thin-film,roll-to-roll
ASsessment of SOFC CHP systems build on the TEchnology of htceRamIX 3 (ASTERIX3)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Switzerland,Italy
Call:  (FCH-JU-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3096890.8
EU funding (EUR): 1361894.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The Asterix project consortium was initiated as a privately financed initiative in 2005 between EIFER/EDF, Dantherm, Danfoss and HTceramix. The objective of the collaboration was to evaluate HTceramix’s SOFC technology in perspective of development of a residential micro-CHP application with a strong and well defined market focus. The project has achieved its goals in providing a serious evaluation of the feasibility of fuel cell based micro CHP. The viability of the technology has been validated and a proof of concept, for most aspects of the system, has been developed and tested. The CHP market segment we are targeting, as well as the next steps towards a full Proof of Concept system has been clearly defined: The main objectives of this project are: • Improving lifetime, reliability and robustness of the overall system • Improve component quality • Increase robustness and tolerance to thermal cycling • Develop and integrate fully automated control of the system • Reduce cost and volume of the system • Increase thermal and electrical efficiency Achieving these objectives will enable us to demonstrate a residential CHP concept fulfilling market requirements, and we can start working on the next step towards commercialization; validation of fuel cell system readiness, field trials and preparation for scale production. The Asterix consortium cover the entire value chain from R&D over stack core technology (HTceramics), systems integration (Dantherm) and heat management (Danfoss) to market access (via Eifer). Each partner brings a high level of expertise and specific competencies to the project. With the recent involvement of CNR-ITAE in the consortium, we have now added the complementary competences to our consortium, which we are sure, can bring us successfully through the next phases towards market introduction. All the partners in the project have extensive experience in working in nationally or EU funded consortia projects.

Keywords: sofc systems,residential chp system,fuel cell technology,cogeneration,combined heat and power systems
BELGRADE INITIATIVE FOR SPACE SCIENCE, INSTRUMENTATION AND MODELLING IN ASTROPHYSICS (BELISSIMA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: International Co-operation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Serbia
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2010-5, 2010)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1483488.0
EU funding (EUR): 1298427.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Project BELISSIMA will exploit existing research capacities and EU links to establish the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade (AOB) as the Balkans’ most dynamic and competitive centre for astronomical and space sciences. AOB has been the center of astronomical sciences for more than a century, now with 8 national research projects and 15 principal scientists with wide range of expertise in astrophysics, astrodynamics, space sciences and related fields. BELISSIMA will help achieving improved research capacity through A) recruiting 2 incoming experienced researchers from USA/Australia (negotiations in progress); B) purchase of 1.5m-class telescope to be installed on the existing Vidojevica observing site to ensure future cutting-edge research and training; C) 14 months of training visits by AOB staff to EU observatories (members of OPTICON as priority) and institutes to get skills with using new equipment and forge new research associations, as well as contribute to the dissemination of AOB results and improve presentational skills; D) organizing 1 international conference which will discuss the possibilities of the new telescope, and 2 regional meetings/workshops; E) expansion of its existing publishing and other promotional activities. Prospective AOB collaboration in both regional associations and European networks can achieve high degree of synergy for the future research proposals dealing with specific sub-fields, such as long-term and monitoring observational projects or large-scale numerical simulations of astrophysical and planetary processes. It will enormously benefit regional cooperation through partnership with Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Observatory at Rozhen and the analogous institutions in Hungary and Greece. This Action Plan will ensure AOB can deliver sustainable innovative science and expansive future research interactions at both regional and European levels.

Keywords: space science,instrumentation,astrophysics,geosciences,balkans' cooperation,data mining
European demonstration of hydrogen powered fuel cell materials handling vehicles (HYLIFT-DEMO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Germany,Germany,European organisations area,Norway,Italy,Denmark,Denmark
Call:  (FCH-JU-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7306561.6
EU funding (EUR): 2877294.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The overall purpose and ambition of HyLIFT-DEMO is to conduct a large scale demonstration of hydrogen powered fuel cell materials handling vehicles, which enables a following deployment and market introduction starting no later than 2015. The HyLIFT-DEMO project objectives are: to conduct the demonstration of at least 11 units of fuel cell forklifts and fuel cell tow tractors with an integrated 3rd generation fuel cell system, to conduct the demonstration of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure at end-user sites throughout Europe where the fuel cell material handling vehicles are to be demonstrated, to conduct accelerated laboratory durability tests on fuel cell systems to validate life time and sensitivity to vibration exposure, reaching 4,000 hours in laboratory, to validate value proposition & reaching of commercial and environmental targets by conducting data acquisition from the demonstration operation and validating reaching of performance targets on durability, efficiency and costs for 3rd generation technology, to plan and secure initiation of R&D of 4th generation commercial products by ensuring that R&D of 4th generation fuel cell and hydrogen refuelling technology is initiated onwards reaching full commercial targets, to plan and ensure initiation of a commercial market deployment by end of 2015 of hydrogen powered fuel cell forklifts and develop suggestions for deployment support mechanisms, to secure RCS for enabling commercialisation by identifying future Regulation, Codes & Standard needs in order to enable commercial high volume certification & use of hydrogen powered fuel cell material handling vehicles and to disseminate project results throughout Europe to the hydrogen and fuel cell industry as well as the material handling industry, motivating national and regional actors to also initiate development and commercialisation activities within the area.

Keywords: fuel cell system,hydrogen refuelling station,forklifts,material handling vehicles,demonstration
Computer Graphics of the Real World - Realistic Rendering, Modelling, and Editing of Dynamic, Complex Natural Scenes (REALITY CG)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494730.8
EU funding (EUR): 1494730.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Scope of this project is to pioneer a novel concept for rendering, modelling, and editing in computer graphics. Instead of relying on manually created models of virtual worlds, I propose to investigate an alternative approach based on real-world models acquired using synchronized, calibrated multi-view video recordings. Challenges of this real world-based approach concern rendering quality, model quality, and editing capabilities. As its first goal, the project will complement existing model reconstruction approaches with advanced error-concealed rendering algorithms to obtain visually realistic rendering results from only approximate models. The second goal consists of improving visual quality of reconstructed models by perception-aware modelling methods. The third goal is to endow real world-based modelling with the degree of flexibility required for digital content creation by pioneering intuitive 2D image editing as a new, intuitive 3D digital content creation concept. The project s comprehensive scope, unprecedented approach, and innovative methodology make it frontier research. Key innovations of the project include EEG-based methods to assess rendering quality in computer graphics, error-concealed rendering algorithms to mask visual artefacts, introduction of perceptual constraints into model reconstruction, and the notion of using 2D image retouching and editing methods for 3D digital content creation. The proposed research will provide enabling technology to open up the real world to computer graphics methodology and applications. By extending the scope of computer graphics beyond virtual scenes, the project aims at making a profound impact on the field of visual computing, pioneering new research directions as well as break ground for novel applications areas.

Keywords: computer graphics,rendering,visual realism,image-based modelling and rendering,multi-view video,model reconstruction
Integrating chemical approaches to treat pancreatic cancer: making new leads for a cure (PANACREAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,Spain,Italy,Sweden,Spain
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-two-stage, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3899823.25
EU funding (EUR): 2965207.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) causes 34000 deaths in the EU every year. Conventional cancer treatments have close to no impact on this disease. As a result, almost all patients diagnosed with PDAC develop metastases and eventually die. Given this poor outlook, the search for new therapeutics is mandatory. These will have to target relevant cancer pathways and be designed based on the available knowledge on the genetic alterations that characterize this malignancy. We propose to build a team composed of clinicians, translational cancer researchers, chemists, and two pharmaceutical enterprises, to synthesize and implement new drugs for PDAC. The focus of the participants in this project will be on pathways and cellular functions broadly involved in PDAC metastasis and immune escape. These drugs are meant to work through diverse and novel modes of action and will be validated using genetically engineered PDAC mouse models that we have established at the Center for Integrated Oncology in Bonn. By creating and exploring diverse classes of compounds capable of arresting tumor growth and of interfering with its metastatic spread, this project will deliver a high number of new molecules with potential as anticancer therapeutics. In particular, our consortium will produce new indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-2 (IDO2) inhibitors, galectin-3 inhibitors, edelfosine analogues, inhibitors of the Hippo signaling pathway, alpha-mannosidase inhibitors, SIRT6 inhibitors, and therapeutics acting by synthetic lethality. For compounds with strong proof-of-concept activity, our consortium will perform the Investigational New Drug (IND)-Enabling Studies, with the goal of delivering a new drug ready to be tested clinically by the end of the project. The PANACREAS project is meant to help find better treatments for PDAC, boost research on this form of cancer in the EU, and open new avenues for scientific and technological innovation.

Keywords: pancreatic cancer,translational research,drug discovery,mouse models of pancreatic cancer
CONVERGENCE (CONVERGENCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,France,Greece,Portugal,Germany,Germany,Italy,Romania
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4428836.0
EU funding (EUR): 2989140.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Designed to route information between computers, the Internet is evolving into an Internet of services, media and "things" (devices and other "Real World Objects" connected to or tracked via the Internet). In this new Internet, the main interest is no longer on machines but on items of "content". Today, users locate and access content via servers (e.g. search engines) that connect them to the machines where it is physically stored. CONVERGENCE aims at enhancing the Internet with a content-centric, publish-subscribe service model, based on a common container for any kind of digital data, including representations of people and Real World Objects. This common container, named Versatile Digital Item (VDI), is a "package" of digital information with a unique identifier, independent of the machine where the VDI is hosted. VDIs will be designed to handle all possible kinds of digital information, from media to information about services, people and physical objects, independently of the structure or geographical location of the content. The CONVERGENCE architecture will provide scalable mechanisms allowing professional providers and individual users to publish and subscribe to VDIs, maintain access to VDIs when they move from one host to another; search for VDIs, as well as updating and deleting VDIs which have already been published. CONVERGENCE will allow both professional providers and consumers to define their own policies for authenticating and protecting VDIs and supporting "digital forgetting" (ensuring that VDIs are deleted when they pass a user-defined expiry date). CONVERGENCE will test its proposal in two "tracks" dedicated respectively to real-life business scenarios and to network experimentation using large scale facilities. The framework proposed by CONVERGENCE will be proposed to relevant standardization bodies. Software developed in the project (including middleware and applications) will be made available to the Open Source community.

Keywords: information management,digital items,physical objects representation,dynamic content,digital forgetting,user generated info,web 2.0,security,privacy,middleware,m3w,mxm,real applications
Active and low loss nano photonics (ActiveNP) (ACTIVENP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494756.0
EU funding (EUR): 1494756.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at designing novel hybrid nanophotonic devices comprising metallic nanostructures and active elements such as dye molecules or colloidal quantum dots. Three core objectives, each going far beyond the state of the art, shall be tackled: (i) Metamaterials containing gain materials: Metamaterials introduce magnetism to the optical frequency range and hold promise to create entirely novel devices for light manipulation. Since present day metamaterials are extremely absorptive, it is of utmost importance to fight losses. The ground-breaking approach of this proposal is to incorporate fluorescing species into the nanoscale metallic metastructures in order to compensate losses by stimulated emission. (ii) The second objective exceeds the ansatz of compensating losses and will reach out for lasing action. Individual metallic nanostructures such as pairs of nanoparticles will form novel and unusual nanometre sized resonators for laser action. State of the art microresonators still have a volume of at least half of the wavelength cubed. Noble metal nanoparticle resonators scale down this volume by a factor of thousand allowing for truly nanoscale coherent light sources. (iii) A third objective concerns a substantial improvement of nonlinear effects. This will be accomplished by drastically sharpened resonances of nanoplasmonic devices surrounded by active gain materials. An interdisciplinary team of PhD students and a PostDoc will be assembled, each scientist being uniquely qualified to cover one of the expertise fields: Design, spectroscopy, and simulation. The project s outcome is twofold: A substantial expansion of fundamental understanding of nanophotonics and practical devices such as nanoscopic lasers and low loss metamaterials.

Keywords: nanophotonics,spaser,metamaterials
Magneto Caloritronics (MACALO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,France,Sweden,France,Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4135677.0
EU funding (EUR): 3174116.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

MACALO has two main deliverables, one in software and one in hardware which form the core business of the two European high-tech companies in the consortium. The MACALO consortium consists of pioneers of MAgnetoCALOritronics who cover the complete chain from SME start-up company innovation in hardware and software, device simulation and fabrication, benchmark measurements, computational materials science, and basic science, who are committed to employ their expertise to realize the main objectives. The primary goals of MACALO are 1) to produce a working prototype of a computer simulation tool to help optimise integrated magnetoelectronic device design parameters at the nanoscale and 2) design and prototype nano-scale magnetoelectronic RF oscillators with different combinations of desirable properties, optimisable subsequently (through further company research) for specific applications in wireless communication devices. Achieving these goals assists replacing the current systems of YIG oscillators, MRAM, and transistors with next generation magnetoelectronic Spin Torque Oscillators, ST-RAM, and transistors by finding material combinations, currently based on suboptimal experimental trial and error systems, using a set of theories, principles, tools and methods that accelerate the development of new devices with improved/optimised properties. Managing the increased heat and noise in the next generation of electronics is a great challenge. MAgneto CALOitronics (MACALO) addresses the modelling and control of the generation and flow of heat in beyond-CMOS magnetoelectronics circuits and devices. The results are relevant for thermal management of conventional CMOS and novel architectures beyond-CMOS such as low power, low-noise devices, thermally assisted memory devices, and interconnects.

Keywords: simulation software,high-frequency oscillators,heat dissipation,energy consumption,spintronics,magnetoelectronics,giant magnetoresistance