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Development of an automated process to extract fibres from the waste of banana food production for exploitation as a sustainable reinforcement in injection- and rotomoulded products (BADANA)

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,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Netherlands,Bulgaria,Hungary,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1002216.0
EU funding (EUR): 770409.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

18% of the European consumption of bananas is produced in Canary Islands. Around 10 million banana plants are grown annually in Gran Canaria. The fibre obtained from the superposed layers of the pseudo-stem is called badana. In the past, the banana plant waste was used as a support element for tomato plants, and, for some decades, it was used in handicrafts such as basket-making and artificial flowers. The plant waste was used as fodder for cattle and goats, but factory farming has replaced it by pre-digested fodder. Today, however, these vegetable wastes are deposited in ravines where they become decomposition material. An estimated 25,000 tonnes per annum of natural fibre is found in this waste. The BADANA project will develop a process to extract high-quality natural fibre from this waste and to exploit the fibres’ properties in polymer composites to be used in rotational- and injection-moulded products. This will be for the benefit of SMEs involved in the production of bananas and SMEs that supply OEMs and end-users with sustainable moulded composite products in the automotive, packaging, and consumer goods industries. This will provide the SMEs new market opportunities through satisfying the rapidly-growing demand of product manufacturers for ecoaesthetic (green) materials. The fibre production will be integrated in a food production cycle where a fish culture in dams provides water to banana cultivation. The fish will be fed with flour made from banana wastes. This provides a truly sustainable process of materials production that is complementary to existing food production practices and will not displace food production.

Keywords: sustainable production,natural fibre,resource efficiency,agricultural development
Towards a European Competence Centre for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) on Actinides (EU-NMR-AN)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,Sweden,France,European organisations area
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172635.67
EU funding (EUR): 125300.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to initiate building up NMR competence to support establishment of a “European Competence Centre for NMR on Actinides”. Building competence and identification of future trends and promising application fields in NMR actinide research will serve as the basis for specifying required NMR instrumentation and infrastructure in the “European Competence Centre for NMR on Actinides” to meet these experimental needs. The establishment of a the Centre for NMR on Actinides itself is a joint effort of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung and the European Joint Research Centre Institute for Transuranium Elements, both located on the same site. It will provide access to NMR techniques, which are otherwise not available in Europe for working with radionuclides; there are no solid sate NMR instruments at all in Europe and only a few for investigations of liquid samples (e.g., in Marcoule, France; ATALANTE). Building up NMR actinide competence will be met via two basic activities: 1) formation of a NMR expert roundtable and 2) organization of a European Workshop for NMR on Nuclear Materials. Only through dialogue with the actinide research community in the planned workshop and with recognized experts in the round table can we establish the “European Competence Centre for NMR on Actinides”, which can successfully plan facilities needed for later access by European nuclear institutes and universities. This support action will also make the new NMR nuclear facilities to be available at the “European Competence Centre for NMR on Actinides” known to a broad base of potential European users. These NMR facilities available to the European actinide community will strengthen basic scientific understanding in a wide field of applications, e.g., coordination chemistry of f-elements, separation chemistry, irradiated fuels, actinide materials, waste management issues, etc.

Keywords: nmr competence,european faciltiy with transnational access
Development of a cost-effective, durable coating system with low fungicide content for wood surfaces using Plasma Discharge (DURAWOOD)

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: Spain,Slovakia,Germany,Slovakia,Türkiye,Spain,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1293195.13
EU funding (EUR): 1001990.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

For wood to compete with other materials and be attractive to customers, a durability of treated wood facades of at least 5-8 years renovation-free should be guaranteed. New EC legislation (2004/42/EC) requires the replacement of solvent-borne coating systems with water-borne coatings for outdoor wood preservation purposes. Wooden facades treated with water-borne coatings are more susceptible to discolouring and damage by mould and blue stain fungi. Mould fungi grow mainly on the surface of the paint film and harm the appearance of wood surfaces via their pigmented spores. Blue-stain fungi are capable of colonising the surface as well as the wood and wood-coating interface. They can penetrate the coating film enzymatically and mechanically, thereby damaging its protective functioning against the elements, leading to costly repair work after only a few years of service life. In order to sustain the use of wood in the face of growing competition from other materials, a need exists for cost-effective wood protection methods free from toxic preservatives, but which are capable of offering comparing durability. This project will develop a cost-effective, ecological, high performance wood coating system, offering low fungicide content. It is long known that the interaction of wood with water can lead to dimensional instability and accelerated bio, and weathering degradation. A variety of techniques have been investigated to achieve water repellent characteristics of wood surfaces, from liquid reagents, to thermal and chemical applications. A very promising technique to hydrophobize wood surfaces is the use of electrical gas discharges (plasma). This project will build on past research in this area to arrive at a DURAWOOD system that meets market needs in terms of price, durability and environmental protection. The RTD results will contribute to the continued growth of the EU wood industry, especially in light of global competition and new material alternatives.

Keywords: atmospheric plasma diffuse barrier discharge,wettability,waterproofing,microbiological resistance
IT Tool to support SMEs in systematic innovation, based on consolidated methodology and innovation knowledge domain structured trough specific ontologies (TECH-IT-EASY)

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: Austria,Romania,United Kingdom,Italy,Spain,Romania,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1319342.0
EU funding (EUR): 1001880.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The TECH-IT-EASY project will be aimed at creating an innovative IT system targeted to SMEs operating in the electro-mechanical sector, able to support such SMEs in structuring their innovation process, providing them with analytical and knowledge-based tools that will lead to create a systematic innovation process. The overall TECH-IT-EASY solution consists of a software package and an organizational concept: - An innovative Ontology-based Tool-Box, based on an exemplary methodology, focused on the combined application of the QFD market-pull approach with the technology-push potentials of TRIZ. - An information agent that analyses information within the enterprise, at information providers, and on the Web, exploiting ontology as symbolic representation of the overall innovation knowledge domain, and specific of the electromechanical industrial sector - A decision support tool, aimed at combining the structured innovation process defined through the methodological tool box with the information related to market and technology gathered through the information agent In order to increase the TECH-IT-EASY system potentialities , totally new types of Ontologies will be developed: - Market Ontology , symbolic representation of the Market Knowledge Domain. - Technology Ontology, symbolic representation of the Technology Knowledge Domain - Innovation Process Ontology, symbolic representation of the Innovation Process Knowledge Domain, based on the logical TRIZ schema (Object, Action, Tool) for representing products in systems and subsystems The mentioned ontologies aim to support SMEs, on the one hand in performing searches across various sources of information, either specific as Patent Database or generic as Web and Scientific Magazines, on the other hand in structuring information about their technological systems allowing knowledge research outside of the specific sector and technological innovation evaluation in different part of the systems

Keywords: triz,qfd,ontologies
Development of ECOlogical friendly and flexible production processes for textile COATings based on innovative polyolefine polymer formulations (DECOCOAT)

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: Belgium,Belgium,Sweden,Spain,Norway,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1424540.0
EU funding (EUR): 959233.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The European textile industry is confronted with a constant increase of ecological awareness. For instance, soft PVC is coming under ecological pressure. The polymer not only has high halogen content, but also requires the use of plasticisers. Some of these (e.g. specific phthalates) are toxic and can alter the expression of gender characteristics and are leading to a lowered fertility. Some of these chemicals are already banned from selected textile applications (e.g. baby’s clothing) via legislation or eco-labels such as Ökotex. Consumer organisation and ecologists are raising the pressure further to limit the use of these products. As a result voices are raised to ban soft PVC containing textile articles further. This is not only to be considered as a thread but also as an opportunity for the textile industry and the SMEs involved. Indeed, if appropriate eco-friendly alternatives are developed, offering in addition technological advantages, a new route for innovative and high-end textile articles comes available. The present project, Decocoat, is focussing on development of PO based functional polymers for the textiles industry. Recent developments within the PO production generate new sets of polymers, belonging to the most environmental friendly of all synthetic polymers. Thanks to the integrated functionalities and the (block)copolymer composition, a large range of mechanical properties and softnesses can be reached without the use of plasticisers. Within the project implementation of these novel polymers on textiles will be explored; using application routes offering the highest flexibility and requiring minimum new invest. The novel developed textiles will offer an ecologic alternative for the soft PVC coated or printed articles.

Keywords: polyolefine dispersion,yarn coating,fabric coating,environmental friendly,flexible
INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF EUROPEAN WINE INDUSTRY COMPETITIVENESS BY THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATIVE MICROENCAPSULATED WINE YEASTS TO PRODUCE QUALITY WINES (INNOYEAST)

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,Spain,Portugal,Spain,Portugal,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1366994.9
EU funding (EUR): 643152.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Europe is the home of wine and the world´s leading producer. The quality wine producing is the basis of the economy of more than 2,4 millions of winegrowers that work in the vines that cover around 3,6 million hectares in Europe. In fact, the wine production represents the 5% of the value of agricultural output. But the fact is that the European wine SMEs are rapidly losing market share to dynamic and large wineproducers from the New World. Imports are increasing rapidly and exports are growing slowly. Over the centuries, the European oenology has accumulated numerous pragmatic acts, which, in fact, do not correspond to an actual point of view. To be competitive the SMEs participants know that further research is needed to optimize the fermentation variables and therefore to produce a more competitive wine focused on the current consumer taste. Only with this scientific approach done by the RTDs, the SMEs involved will be able to achieve their competitiveness in wine industry applying some of the newer advances in fermentation technology. The use of microencapsulated, autochthonous and selected starter cultures will allow the SMEs to control the whole fermentation process and a uniform production of the highest quality wine through successive processes and seasons. The strains will be isolated in the vineyards of the different European wine regions and selected with the direction of the SMEs who will choose the final strains in function of their influence on the organoleptic characteristics of the final wine and of their ability to conduct and to finish the alcoholic fermentation correctly. The development of this project will confirm the common effort that the European wine SMEs are making to defend the wine quality even over the interest of each wine region industry. This proposal is the perfect framework to defend the European wine common interest: the defence of the European wine diversity and personality against the globalization of the New world Wines.

Keywords: wine,microencapsulation,yeast,autochthonous
CLEANSITE: Novel Electrochemical Oxidation for Landfill Leachate Treatment (CLEANSITE)

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: Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1882978.0
EU funding (EUR): 1200000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The CLEANSITE project will develop a novel system and technology for on-site treatment of collected landfill waste water – or leachate – though a novel and intelligent treatment method, which combines highly innovative electrochemical treatment or advanced oxidation methods with smart sensor’s and enabling microelectronic technology for optimised process control and design. Due to significant performance and efficiency gains, the innovation suggested will promote a modal shift of leachate and waste water management practises in the EU and add an important and significant contribution to the current Best Available Technique (BAT). The market opportunity for the SME consortium - group of European suppliers of windows and ventilation systems – lies in the provision a treatment profile with improved environmental profile. The major innovation and point of market differentiation of the CLEANSITE system will elimination current economic and environmental costs though on site-treatment and leachate management optimisation. The reductions in treatment costs alone are sufficient to render the product very attractive to customers. The envisaged solution, however, is likely to result in a paradigm shift towards much needed innovative solutions, with wider associated societal and economic benefits. The R&D work required to achieve project objectives is centred around technical work packages with regard to system design, electrochemical and advanced oxidation, integrated water management and control enabling technology – all of which are integrated in a novel waste water treatment system with wide application potential.

Keywords: wastewater,leachate
Hygienic and Energy Optimized Conveyor Belt for the Slaughtering Industry (HYCON)

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,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,Germany,United Kingdom,Denmark,Denmark,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1716817.27
EU funding (EUR): 1320783.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The HYCON proposal aims at developing a hygienic and energy optimized conveying system with a validated automated cleaning procedure. This wil significantly increase conveyor hygiene in the foodstuff sector and especially so in the meat- and poultry-industry. The hygienic goals will be achived by designing the system based in hygienic design guidelines and by developing a new, superior belt material which combines with an automated cleaning system for significant increases in hygiene and foodsafety. The belt will see improvements to state-of-the-art in impact and cut resistance and at least 50% improved durability and antifouling properties as compared to conventional belts. Furthermore the developed system will focus on decreasing use of energy, water and detergents by innovations in selected conveyor components: optimized drum motor design and an automated transportable cleaning system (CIP system). The market opportunity for the SME consortium - group of European suppliers of conveying solutions and components to the conveying industry - lies in the provision of a new and hygenicaly optimized conveying system and its components making for a product that is significantly better than the state-of-art solutions currently avaliable. The major innovation and point of market differentiation of the HYCON product will be considerably better hygiene and downtime in combination with reductions in use of energy, water and detergents, a combination not seen in current SOA conveying technology or products. For the meat and poultry industry the developed system presents major benefits in terms of lowering the time needed for cleaning by up to 33% and the cost needed for this by 50%. This makes for a more efficient conveying system since the downtime for cleaning is minimized and production time is increased accordingly.

Keywords: hygienic design,ehedg,cip,polymer,conveying,food safety,material development,conveyor belt
IDEA-Foot: Innovative DEsign and mAnufacturing systems for small series production for European FOOTwear companies (IDEA-FOOT)

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: Italy,Spain,Italy,Romania
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1452029.34
EU funding (EUR): 1100254.61
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The reference scenario for the IDEA-foot project is theEuropean SMEs working in the footwear industry and in particular in the market segment of classical and casual shoes. The global competition is asking for the reduction of Time to Market, increase of products diversification also with a small batch production while keeping a high fashion and quality content of the product. The actual design and production processes result to be not suitable for this small batch and variegated production. In particular the actual design and industrialization processes follow a serial model, in which the semifinished shoe model is necessary for the sequential development of the other shoe components to be assembled. Moreover the production process has an handicraft connotation: the operators program and feed manually the semiautomatic machineries for each batch of shoes. The aim of the project IDEA-foot are: • the introduction of a new method for the integrated design and production of the shoe, in which the key elements are the standardization of the shoe components and the transfer of the geometrical information from the design to the production process in a digital standard data format; • the development of a CAD software module to ease the design of components according to the standards; • the development of a CAM software which transfers the production parameters from the CAD models to the production machineries using a standard data format, which is another enabling technology just developed, and is able to integrate the machineries with the manipulation system; • the development of an automated production cell by enhancing the interfaces of existing machineries which are going to be modified in order to work in an integrated/synchronised way. An automatic manipulation system is going to be used for the handling of the semifinished shoes in order to automate while minimising the duration of these operations, which do not add any value to the product

Keywords: automated production,standard,design and production