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Air Pollution Policies foR Assesement of Integrated Strategies At regional and Local scales (APPRAISAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,European organisations area,Belgium,Finland,France,Greece,Portugal,France,Poland,Spain,Belgium,Spain,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1077888.15
EU funding (EUR): 999990.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Air quality in Europe is still facing a continued wide-spread of exceedances, particularly regarding PM, NOx and O3. The 2008 Air Quality Directive requests Member States (MS) to design local and regional plans and assess their impacts on air quality and human health. MS have therefore developed and applied a wide range of modeling methods to cope with these obligations. Today, with the revision of the EU air quality policy pending, there is the need to consolidate and assess the research results in the field and to make them accessible to policy makers. This is the main aim of APPRAISAL project, split in the following objectives: -Undertake on overall review of the methodologies used in different countries, from the simple (scenario analysis) to the more comprehensive (cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness analysis). This would include evaluating top-down and bottom-up approaches to systematically analyze their strengths and weaknesses and to identify key areas to be addressed by further research. The result would be captured in a readily updatable, user friendly relational data base. -Design an integrated assessment (IA) modeling framework where existing components are efficiently inter-connected, produce guidelines describing the key components of best practices. A number of test cases will be explored to confirm the robustness of the guidelines in practice. -Communicate with key stake-holders and in particular to policy-makers the state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on emission abatement assessment. APPRAISAL includes 15 highly experienced groups working on both air quality and health impacts assessment. Partners come from all over Europe to guarantee the review process representativeness. A group of stakeholders will closely be connected to the Consortium to ensure a direct line of communication with key policy makers. APPRAISAL will contribute to improved knowledge on regional and local IA methodologies and will support the revision of EU air quality policies.

Keywords: integrated assessment models,air quality guidance,policy support,member state co-ordination,emission abatement assessment,health impacts,eu air quality policy
The FUture of FUlly integrated human exposure assessment of chemicals: Ensuring the long-term viability and technology transfer of the EU-FUNded 2-FUN tools as standardised solution (4FUN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,France,France,Belgium,Spain,United Kingdom,Austria,Switzerland,France,Sweden,Belgium,Serbia
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3256254.99
EU funding (EUR): 2278101.54
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The assessment of risks to human health from chemicals is of major concern for policy and industry and ultimately benefits all citizens. In this process, exposure assessment is generally considered to be the weakest point, as currently available tools show major flaws: (a) lack of integrated approach for assessment of combined stressors (i.e. a number of potential pollutants); (b) widespread use of ‘worst-case’ scenarios leading to over-conservative results; (c) lack of uncertainty/sensitivity tools that allow identifying the important exposure drivers. To overcome these drawbacks, the FP6 project 2-FUN produced prototype software containing a library of models for exposure assessment, coupling environmental multimedia and pharmacokinetic models. The objective of the 4FUN project is to further improve and standardise the 2-FUN tool and guarantee its long term technical and economic viability. Stakeholder requirements will be identified and an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of existing exposure assessment tools (including 2-FUN) will be conducted. The 2-FUN tool will be subject to a rigorous standardisation which includes verification, benchmarking, documentation and demonstration. To demonstrate the reliability of modelling estimations and the feasibility of building complex realistic scenarios, case studies based on actual datasets will be performed. Improved and standardised 2-FUN software will be delivered, together with supporting documentation and training courses. Finally, based on detailed market research a sustainable business model will be developed. Improved exposure assessment due to the project will (a) reinforce competitiveness by avoiding overregulation; (b) prevent excessive adverse human health effects due to underregulation; (c) contribute to the promotion of sustainable products/technologies; (d) lead to homogeneous integration of exposure health concerns across the policy spectrum at the Community level.

Keywords: exposure assessment,health risks,standard model,technology transfer
Oxygen sensing in macrophages: implications for cancer and ischemia (OXYMO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physiology, Pathophysiology and Endocrinology
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111109, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499305.6
EU funding (EUR): 1499305.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Macrophages exist in distinct differentiation states. Proangiogenic/immunosuppressive (M2-like) macrophages and antitumoral/proinflammatory (M1-like) macrophages represent two extremities of a continuum. Because lineage-defined subsets have not been identified yet, macrophage heterogeneity is likely to reflect the plasticity of these cells in response to microenvironmental signals. The concept that hypoxia can induce inflammation has gained general acceptance. However, little is known on how extravasated monocytes and their macrophage progeny react to a condition of low oxygen. Different macrophage phenotypes have been positively and negatively associated with the clinical outcome of vascular disorders as cancer and ischemia. These pathological conditions are characterized not only by dysfunctional vessels, which impair oxygenation, but also by strong immunoregulatory responses. Recently we have shown that reduced activity of the oxygen sensor PHD2 in macrophages skews their polarization towards a proarteriogenic (M2-like) phenotype, which confers protection against ischemia. Based on these findings, we propose to dissect upstream and downstream signals to the oxygen sensing machinery and hypoxia-response in macrophages. By using a genome-wide transcriptional profiling approach and a high-throughput interactome analysis, combined with mouse genetic tools, we will identify the gene signature of macrophages in hypoxia and unravel the molecular executors of this response. The identification of the effectors responsible for macrophage skewing in relation to oxygen availability will contribute to a better understanding of immunoregulatory cues during disease progression and unveil the multifaceted function of macrophages during vessel formation. With the focus of our research on macrophage manipulation towards a desired phenotype, we will offer new treatment options for cancer and ischemia that might result in optimized therapies and overcome resistance to current drugs.

Keywords: hypoxia,hif,phd,oxygen sensing,inflammation,macrophage,angiogenesis,arteriogenesis,ischemia,cancer,metastasis
Smart, Cost-effective Solutions for Water Treatment and Monitoring in Small Communities in India. Decision Support System Integration. (WATER4INDIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Horizontal and cross-thematic activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Australia,Israel,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3978114.25
EU funding (EUR): 2675373.48
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Fresh water of sufficient quality for human consumption is becoming a scarce resource and its availability is a concerning issue in India whose growing wealth and population create increasing needs leading to higher water consumption while quality standards for drinking water are being enhanced. In this context the overall objective of Water4India consists in studying the different centralized and decentralized options for water treatment at community level in India taking into account resource availability, management, treatment solutions, water quality, economic, environmental and social factors. Water monitoring is of capital importance at each step of the process: different technologies will be considered in the frame of a Water Safety Plan. A Decision Support System (DSS) will be developed based on the previously stated information to assess policy makers take the appropriate decisions to solve the existing problem with drinking water. Water4India will deliver two forms of water availability assessment: the quality and quantity of available water and the resource management with information on current and expected water requirements. The quality of available water will be studied using Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment. The DSS must find the optimal solution considering not only its cost but the overall sustainability of the process, paying particular attention to energy consumption and obtaining for this purpose, the friendliness of the proposed technologies and their adaptation to the social environment. The proposed technologies of the DSS will be applied in two places with different climatic and social situations that will constitute the pilot sites validating the developed work. Finally, a dissemination and best practice step will be carried out in order to define how the results of the project will be communicated to users and guarantee large scale implementation results which can be widely deployed into EU-India water technological business network.

Keywords: water purification,water treatment,india development,community scale,water monitoring,desicion support system,water safety plan.
Development of sensor-based Citizens' Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities (CITI-SENSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Israel,Czechia,Australia,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,Serbia,Slovenia,Spain,Korea, Republic of,United Kingdom,Belgium,Netherlands,Spain,Austria,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12341563.29
EU funding (EUR): 8968282.0
Participants: 31
Project status: CLOSED

CITI-SENSE will develop “citizens’ observatories” to empower citizens to contribute to and participate in environmental governance, to enable them to support and influence community and societal priorities and associated decision making. CITI-SENSE will develop, test, demonstrate and validate a community-based environmental monitoring and information system using innovative and novel Earth Observation applications. To achieve this, the project will: (i) raise environmental awareness in citizens, (ii) raise user participation in societal environmental decisions and (iii) provide feedback on the impact that citizens had in decisions. It will address the call’s request for effective participation by citizens in environmental stewardship, based on broad stakeholder and user involvement in support of both community and policy priorities. The project aims to learn from citizen experience and perception and enable citizenship co-participation in community decision making and co-operative planning. The concept of CITI-SENSE rests on three pillars: technological platforms for distributed monitoring; information and communication technologies; and societal involvement. Three pilot case studies will focus on a range of services related to environmental issues of societal concern: combined environmental exposure and health associated with air quality; noise and development of public spaces, and indoor air at schools. Attention will be given to representativeness of citizen participation. The case studies will be designed in collaboration with citizens’ groups and decision makers. They will be based on distributed data collection using innovative static, portable and personal devices (low-cost reliable microsensor packs) that communicate with a data repositories through mobile phones or other devices. Development of participatory methods, data management strategies, and applications to facilitate exploitation of the data and information for policy, and society, will be done.

Keywords: community based monitoring,empowerment,participatory governance,urban environmental quality,wireless sensor networks,e-collaboration,enhancement of observational networks
DEvelopment of a System of Indicators for a Resource efficient Europe (DESIRE) (DESIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Austria,Netherlands,Norway,Netherlands,Portugal,Austria,Denmark,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3652871.4
EU funding (EUR): 2899519.8
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

DESIRE will develop and apply an optimal set of indicators to monitor European progress towards resource-efficiency. We propose a combination of time series of environmentally extended input output data (EE IO) and the DPSIR framework to construct the indicator set. Only this approach will use a single data set that allows for consistent construction of resource efficiency indicators capturing the EU, country, sector and product group level, and the production and consumption perspective including impacts outside the EU. The project will a) improve data availability, particularly by creating EE IO time series and now-casted data (WP5). b) improve calculation methods for indicators that currently still lack scientific robustness, most notably in the field of biodiversity/ecosystem services (WP7) and critical materials (WP6). We further will develop novel reference indicators for economic success (‘Beyound GDP and Value added’, WP8). c) explicitly address the problem of indicator proliferation and limits in available data that have a ‘statistical stamp’. Via scientific analysis we will select the smallest set of indicators giving mutually independent information, and show which shortcuts in (statistical) data inventory can be made without significant loss of quality (WP8) The project comprises further Interactive policy analysis, indicator concept development via ‘brokerage activities (WP2-4), Management (WP1), and Conclusions and implementation (WP10) including a hand over ofdata and indicators to the EU’s Group of Four of EEA, Eurostat, DG ENV and DG JRC. Our team includes 4 UN Resource Panel members (WI, AAU-SEC, NTNU and LU-CML) and founders of the material flow analysis field (e.g. SERI). We further include TNO (global leader in EE IO via projects like EXIOPOL and CREEA), FFCUL (global top in biodiversity and ecosystem services) and RU (top player in sustainability impact assessment).

Keywords: resources,resource efficiency,impact assessment,critical materials,environmentall extended input output analysis,substance flow analysis,life cycle assessment,biodiversity assessment
Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture (IDREEM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland,Israel,Norway,Italy,Netherlands,Italy,United Kingdom,Cyprus,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5771966.8
EU funding (EUR): 4206435.15
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal IDREEM will create smarter greener growth for one of Europe’s most important industrial sectors: the aquaculture industry. It will achieve this through taking waste streams that are at present lost to the environment (as pollution) and converting them into secondary raw materials for the production of high value organisms such as seaweed and shellfish. To do this IDREEM will develop, demonstrate and benchmark (against existing production techniques) innovative production technology for the European aquaculture industry. Aquaculture is now a major component of global food security and is the fast growing food production sector globally. However the European industry is stagnating. The industry is facing real questions of economic and environmental sustainability. IDREEM will address these questions by working with a range of SME aquaculture producers across Europe to develop deploy and quantitatively assess the new production technology. Using an integrated approach defining the environmental, economic and social impact of the new production technology, life cycle assessment and life cycle costing will be used to quantify and demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits. Along with this process a combined environmental and economic modelling platform will be used to provide an evidence based decision making framework for aquaculture producers, regulators and policy makers. Throughout the project a dedicated impact coordinator will ensure that the project is fully engaged with the wide range of stakeholders, inviting their participation from the beginning and throughout the project (specifically in the form of a project advisory committee) and ensuring that results are fed back into that community. This will ensure that there is a rapid up take of the new production technology across the European sector, creating opportunity and support for a range of new SME producers, processors and up the value chain

Keywords: aquaculture imta eco-effeciency
Knowledge Based Climate Mitigation Systems for a Low Carbon Economy (COMPLEX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Coping with climate change
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Sweden,Sweden,Italy,France,Norway,Austria,Russian Federation,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6982677.07
EU funding (EUR): 5428606.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The science of complex systems distinguishes linear from non-linear dynamics. Simpler systems can often be satisfactory described by linear models, but complex systems require non-linear models that can capture more of the characteristics of such systems, such as thresholds, feedback loops, avalanche effects, and irreversibility. Linear systems can be validated by aligning models to the past and using the model to predict the future. Non-linear systems, however, are often time-asymmetric - they can be explained with the wisdom of hindsight, but are not always predictable. For example, systems may respond sharply to minor perturbations, and the quality of this response is a measure of the system resilience. In practice, non-linear dynamics are significant both at the micro-scale of small history and at the macro-scale of deep time. The brilliant young scientist, for example, may experience a series of epiphanies that change his/her understanding and behaviour in an unpredictable and irreversible way. The scientific community as a whole may experience an innovation-cascade that has a similar effect on a much larger scale. Current models of climate change and carbon emission assume the immediate past is a reasonable guide to the future. They struggle to represent the complex causal structures and time-asymmetries of many socio-natural systems. COMPLEX will integrate the quasi-classic models of meso-scale processes with our best understanding of fine-grained space-time patterns and the system-flips that are likely to occur in the long interval between now and 2050. We believe the sub-national region is the key point of entry for studying climate change and its cause-effect interrelations. It is small enough to be sensitive to local factors, large enough to interact with supra-national agencies and stable enough to be historically and culturally distinctive. In addition to undertaking case studies in Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain and Italy, We will develop a suite of modelling tools and decision-support systems to inform national and supra-national policy and support communities across Europe working to make the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Keywords: innovation,complexity,metastability,tipping-point,irreversibility,water management,biofuels,sustainable development,russian carbon emissions,scandinavia,italy,spain,france,netherlands
Tool-supported policy-development for regional adaptation (TOPDAD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Coping with climate change
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Norway,United Kingdom,Austria,Belgium,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5905504.4
EU funding (EUR): 4556233.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Adaptation in the face of climate change is currently a major challenge, not only in the EU, but all around the world. Climate change has two distinct characters: the slower trends in climatic variables such as sea water temperatur, and the extreme weather phenomena, such as heavy precipitation. The fundamental driver for regional adaptation are regional climate scenarios. Crucial for local societies is the resilience of critical infrastructures, such as Energy and Transport, against the envisaged climate scenarios. Without proper functioning of such infrastructures, many service sectors, such as Tourism, will be negatively affected. ToPDAd developes state-of-the-art socioeconomic methods&tools for an integrated assessment supporting regional adaptation decision-making. Based on these, conjectures with respect to EU level policies for the considered sectors Energy, Transport, as well as, Tourism are made. Two time frames are specified; 2010-2050 and 2050-2100 for mid-term and long-term strategy formulations. Regional strategies and EU-level policies need to be consistent across the time frames in order to avoid maladaptation. ToPDAd will also develop the European Climate Adaptation Platform (DCLIMATE-ADAPT). The CLIMATE-ADAPT is key for continuous learning, and a repository of data and tools supporting adaptation decision-making.

Keywords: climate change,adaptation,policy-making