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Integrated inter-sector framework to increase the thermal resilience of European workers in the context of global warming (HEAT-SHIELD)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2020,
Environmental heating is a growing challenge for our community and problems are already experienced by millions of Europeans during the summertime and aggravated during heat waves or occupational settings. In addition to the well-known health risks related to severe heat stress, a number of studies have confirmed significant loss of productivity due to hyperthermia. Even if countries adopt the EU ...
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Soot Processes and Radiation in Aeronautical inNOvative combustors (SOPRANO)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2020,
For decades, most of the aviation research activities have been focused on the reduction of noise and NOx and CO2 emissions. However, emissions from aircraft gas turbine engines of non-volatile PM, consisting primarily of soot particles, are of international concern today. Despite the lack of knowledge toward soot formation processes and characterization in terms of mass and size, engine manufactu ...
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Adult Education as a Means for Active Participatory Citizenship (EduMAP)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2016, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2019,
The existing research and policy reports show that adult education policies and practices are designed and carried out in ways and using means which are not always appropriate to vulnerable minority groups. In the EduMAP Project the diversity of societal participation and the wide range of cultural contexts and communicative practices among learners will be acknowledged. In particular, the educati ...
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Production harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery (PERFoRM)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2015, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2018,
PERFoRM - Production harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery aims to the conceptual transformation of existing Production Systems towards plug&produce production systems in order to achieve a flexible manufacturing environments based on rapid and seamless reconfiguration of machinery and robots as response to operational or business events.These objectives require research acti ...
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Innovative Intelligent Rail (IN2RAIL)
Date du début: 1 mai 2015, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2018,
IN2RAIL is to set the foundations for a resilient, consistent, cost-efficient, high capacity European network by delivering important building blocks that unlock the innovation potential that exists in SHIFT2RAIL: innovative technologies will be explored and resulting concepts embedded in a systems framework where infrastructure, information management, maintenance techniques, energy, and engineer ...
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Cost-reduction through material optimisation and Higher EnErgy outpuT of solAr pHotovoltaic modules - joining Europe’s Research and Development efforts in support of its PV industry (CHEETAH)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,
Europe has invoked the SET-Plan to design and implement an energy technology policy for Europe to accelerate the development and deployment of cost-effective renewable energy systems, including photovoltaics. With lower cost of solar electricity, PV could significantly contribute to the achievements of the 20-20-20 objectives.The Joint Program on PV of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA-P ...
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Health Monitoring and Life-Long Capability Management for SELf-SUStaining Manufacturing Systems (SelSus)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2013, Date de fin: 31 août 2017,
The vision of SelSus is to create a new paradigm for highly effective, self-healing production resources and systems to maximise their performance over longer life times through highly targeted and timely repair, renovation and up-grading. These next generation machines, fixtures and tools will embed extended sensory capabilities and smart materials combined with advanced ICT for self-diagnosis en ...
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eUropean naturalistic Driving and Riding for Infrastructure & Vehicle safety and Environment (UDRIVE)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2012, Date de fin: 30 juin 2017,
Road transport is indispensable for the exchange of goods and persons, but at the same time has severe negative consequences, among others related to road safety and environment. In order to meet EU targets, both the number of road crashes and vehicle emission levels need to be reduced substantially. For identifying the next generation of measures that will enable us to actually reach these target ...
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Enabling the drying process to save energy and water, realising process efficiency in the dairy chain (ENTHALPY)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,
Saving energy and water in the Dairy industry, by introducing innovations in the processing plant. Namely RF heating, solar thermal energy, mono-disperse atomising, dryer modelling, inline monitoring, cleaning with enzymes and membrane technology. With these technologies energy and water loops are closed instead of lost in the plant. These technologies will be demonstrated in pilot facilities.The ...
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Intelligent Design Methodologies for Low Pollutant Combustors for Aero-Engines (IMPACT-AE)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2011, Date de fin: 31 mai 2016,
The environmental benefits of low emissions lean burn technology in reducing NOx emissions up to 80% will only be effective when these are deployed to a large range of new aero-engine applications. While integrating and developing low emission combustion design rules, IMPACT-AE will deliver novel combustor design methodologies for advanced engine architectures and thermodynamic cycles. It will sup ...
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Creating an Agenda for Research ON Transportation sEcuity (CARONTE)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2016,
Easy, efficient, safe and secure transportation is a core factor for European growth, collaboration and employment and therefor an item in the Europe 2020 strategy. Land transportation has two main challenges concerning security: avoiding interrupts of transport itself to assure the flow of freight and passengers to guarantee supply of the population and avoiding that transportation modes themselv ...
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Component Performance-driven Solutions for Long-Term Efficiency Increase in Ultra Supercritical Power Plants - MACPLUS (MACPLUS)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2011, Date de fin: 30 juin 2015,
The intelligent and cost effective use of CCS technologies requires new strategies to increase the net efficiency of coal fired power plants. Among them, the most promising are summarised as below:- Increase working steam temperature and pressure in new USC power plants (350-370 bar, 700/720°C minimum), and hence increase the severity of fireside operating conditions,- Promote clean coal technolog ...
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Designing for Adaptability and evolutioN in System of systems Engineering (DANSE)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2011, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2015,
Systems of Systems consist of collections of (possibly independent, pre-existing, geographically distributed and following their own goals) constituent systems whose behaviours are coordinated to provide services and additional value with respect to their original intended operations. This kind of entities offer severe technical, management, and political challenges as witnessed by energy blackout ...
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PhotoVoltaic European Research Infrastructure (SOPHIA)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2011, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2015,
The objective of the SOPHIA project is to strenghten and optimise research capabilities, mainly by coordinating efforts on important but precompetitive issues. Large research infrastructures working together will avoid the useless replication of a large number of small efforts. The SOPHIA project aims at pulling together the main European photovoltaic research infrastructures in order to provide t ...
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Fuel Injector Research for Sustainable Transport (FIRST)
Date du début: 1 déc. 2010, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2014,
FIRST will deliver key enabling technologies for combustion emission reduction by developing improved design tools and techniques for modelling and controlling fuel sprays and soot.Aviation’s environmental impact must be reduced to allow sustainable growth to benefit European industry and society. This is captured in ACARE’s 2020 goals of reducing CO2 by 50%, NOx by 80% and in SRA1/2 proposed redu ...
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ADaptive Virtual ENterprise ManufacTURing Environment (ADVENTURE)
Date du début: 1 sept. 2011, Date de fin: 31 août 2014,
Virtual factories are a well-established concept although existing solutions have limits: Scoped at the business level Provide an isolated view on certain virtual factory aspects Restricted to simple tasks Simple extensions to classic ERP and SCM systems Limited integration from other information sources Lack of distinction between -internal and cross-company processes Limited interoperabil ...
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Innovation for Digital Fabrication (Diginova)
Date du début: 1 mars 2012, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2014,
Most products are produced by means of the established mass production infrastructure. Traditionally, this involves large stocks, high manual labor, large capital investments, high energy use, long distance transportation. Although many advanced new materials have unique functional properties that hold a great promise for innovation, they often need to meet the criteria and characteristics of this ...
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Adaptive seat to reduce neck injuries for female and male occupants (ADSEAT)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2009, Date de fin: 31 mars 2013,
"The development of adaptive safety systems addressing vehicle occupant protection requires the use of in depth knowledge of various occupant features, specifically those related to the risk of injury. All occupants in passenger vehicles are at risk of sustaining whiplash injuries in a low severity crash. Whiplash associated disorders (WAD), so called whiplash injuries, resulting from car crashes, ...
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Road safety Data Collection, Transfer and Analysis (DACOTA)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,
Evidenced based approaches lie at the heart of the most successful road safety polices and accident and other road safety data is a key component. No single set of data can support all road safety questions and the European Road Safety Observatory has been developed as a focus for a range of data and information types. One part of the Observatory includes a series of data protocols and collection ...
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MULTI-SCALE COMPLEX FLUID FLOWS and INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA (MULTIFLOW)
Date du début: 1 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2012,
"Understanding and controlling of interfacial phenomena in multiphase fluid dynamics remains one of the main challenges at the crossroad of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. Examples include film flows, spreading and dewetting of (complex) liquids including suspensions, polymer solutions, liquid crystals, colloids and biofluids. Such systems are central for technological advances in ...
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Field Operational Tests of Aftermarket and Nomadic Devices in Vehicles (TELEFOT)
Date du début: 1 juin 2008, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2012,
Description
TeleFOT project will assess the impacts of functions provided by aftermarket and nomadic devices in vehicles and raise wide awareness of their traffic safety potential.
The objectives of the TeleFOT project are to assess the impacts of functions provided by aftermarket and nomadic devi ...
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Child Advanced Safety Project for European Roads (CASPER)
Date du début: 1 avr. 2009, Date de fin: 31 mai 2012,
"The objectives of CASPER are to reduce fatalities and injuries of children in traffic accidents. A badly injured child or a dead child is everything nobody can tolerate. Children are more and more often involved in all modes of transportations; they have no choice; they are bind to the adult careers, taking for granted that the adults will take good care of them. CASPER will address two main as ...
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Promoting real life Observations for Gaining Understanding of road behaviour in Europe (PROLOGUE)
Date du début: 1 août 2009, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2011,
"The number of road fatalities in Member States is decreasing too slowly to meet the EU-targets. A new generation of measures is needed, underpinned by a new generation of research methods. Recent technology developments allow for this: naturalistic observations. This means that road user behaviour is observed unobtrusively in a natural setting for a longer period of time. This technique allows fo ...
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Supporting Highly Adaptive Network Enterprise Collaboration Through semantically enabled knowledge services (SYNERGY)
Date du début: 1 févr. 2008, Date de fin: 31 mai 2011,
The next phase of enterprise interoperability is the sharing of knowledge within a Virtual Organisation (VO) to the mutual benefit of all VO partners. Such knowledge will be a driver for new enhanced collaborative enterprises, able to achieve the global visions of enterprise interoperability. The SYNERGY project envisages the delivery of Collaboration Knowledge services through trusted third parti ...
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Field opErational teSts supporT Action (FESTA)
Date du début: 5 nov. 2007, Date de fin: 4 juin 2008,
The FESTA Support Action is a vital step in the realisation of scientifically robust and efficiently run Field Operational Tests which aim to evaluate key ICT functions. A consortium of European experts with a wide range of skills has been formed to allow the development of a "best-practise" handbook which will guide the design and implementation of an FOT. The consortium involves the participatio ...
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DEsing for Vulnerable generatIons: Children and Elderly
Date du début: 1 oct. 2011,
The DEVICE-DEsing for Vulnerable generatIons: Children and Elderly project aspires to bridge traditional industrial design programs with ergonomics, usability concepts and user experience approaches with a specific focus on vulnerable generations. It intends to address the need to modernize and develop educational programs with a specific focus on vulnerable generations and ultimately being a mile ...
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In past years persons with disabilities have experienced improvements in many areas of their lives (e.g. access to public services, inclusion into mainstream education, social attitudes of mainstream society). However, the area inclusive physical activities for people with disabilities, called ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES (APA), has stayed on boundaries of inclusive approaches. The quality and avai ...
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Workshops and curricula for dissemination of Open Dynamic Design (ODD) findings. : The project will entail the integration of ODD recommendations into training for engineers so that training programmes will become more flexible and better suit the needs of industry. This project started in 2001 and lasted 24 months.
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