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European / International Projects

Engineering and architecture

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Project URL

       
NATO - Science for Peace and Security Program Secure Communication in the Quantum Era Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco https://re-search.info/overview
H2020 - JTI Clean Sky FLANGE: Brillouin Distributed sensor for Aeronautical Structures Joaquin Rams  
"System development for optical fiber sensing technology measurements for industrial
aeronautical contexts: composite manufacturing plants, structural test platforms and airborne
conditions" [+]
H2020 - ICT ElasTest: an elastic platform for testing complex distributed large software systems Francisco Gortazar  
"The demand for larger and more interconnected software systems is constantly increasing, but the ability of developers to satisfy it is not evolving accordingly. The most limiting factor is software validation, which typically requires very costly and complex testing processes. This project aims at significantly improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process and, with it, the overall quality of large software systems.+]

7th PM - SECURITY

ABC gates for Europe

Christina Count

http://abc4eu.com/

"During the last years, many ABC Gates have been deployed in the main European airports, most of them as pilot projects intended to test their capability to improve the border crossing processes in aspects such as speed, security, automation, false rejection reduction, etc. Experience gained from these pilots has been periodically assessed within the Frontex ABC Workshops, where the need for a harmonized approach has been specifically addressed as one of the most urgent issues to be solved.+]

7th PM - ERC StG

Measurement-Based Modeling and Animation of Complex Mechanical Phenomena

Michelangelo Otaduy

http://mslab.es/grants/animetrics/

    "Computer animation has traditionally been associated with applications in virtual-reality-based training, video games or feature films. However, interactive animation is gaining relevance in a more general scope, as a tool for early-stage analysis, design and planning in many applications in science and engineering. The user can get quick and visual feedback of the results, and then proceed by refining the experiments or designs. Potential applications include nanodesign, e-commerce or tactil…" [+]

7th PM - JTI

Developement of CNT doped reinforced aircraft composite parts and associated tooling, using the Liquid Resin Infusion method.

Silvia Gonzalez Prolongo

 
    "BULCANATU project wants to develop feasible techniques for advanced and cost effective composite manufacturing of aviation parts. The development of new epoxy resin Carbon Nanotube doping techniques compatible with Liquid Resin Infusion will open a new era on fabrication of aerospace parts with improved mechanical properties, thanks to nanoparticles.Future aircraft manufactured with doped CNT epoxy resins, would be the increase on electrical conductivity that could lead to the removal of …" [+]

7th PM TRANSPORT

Cold Spray Radical Solutions for Aeronautic Improved Repairs

Peter Poza

http://corsair-project.eu/

    "CORSAIR project is a wide investigation concerning the capabilities of Cold Spray Technology for maintenance and repair of aeronautic frames and components. Today, deep and systematic investigation in Cold Spray is required to better understand the capabilities and fully validate the technology in aeronautics. In this scenario, the activities planned in CORSAIR project are (1) Explore the real capabilities of Cold Spray in several practical examples of aeronautic repair applications; real comp…"[+]

FP7 - ICT

Future Internet - Core

Luis Lopez

http://www.fiware.org/

    "FI-WARE has started to materialize as a powerful foundation for the Future Internet. FI-WARE is an innovative, open cloud-based infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, at a scale not seen before. FI-WARE is now well under way to successfully achieve its goals of boosting the effectiveness of creating new services of high economic and societal value, reinforcing EU competitiveness and bringing opportunities for high-growth entrepreneurs and SME players. Now, foll…"[+]

FP7 - ICT

FI-WARE: Future Internet Core Platform

Luis Lopez

http://www.fiware.org/

   "The goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, eg, healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. FI-WARE unites major European industrial actors. The key deliverables of FI-WARE will be an open arch… "[+]

FP7 - ICT

Human Brain Project

Luis Pastor

https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/

    "The human brain can be seen as an immensely powerful, energy efficient, self-learning, self-repairing computer. If we could understand and mimic the way the brain works, we could revolutionize information technology, medicine and society. But to do so we have to bring together everything we know and everything we can learn about the inner workings of the brain's molecules, cells and circuits.The goal of the Human Brain Project (HBP) is to do this by integrating our knowledge in massive databa…" [+]

FP7 - ICT

Juxtapositioned reflective performance enabling science and technology learning

Stephanie Martin

http://juxtalearn.eu/

    "School and University students studying science and technology often encounter barriers to their understanding of complex concepts. However, unlike in the arts, students are frequently poorly motivated to overcome these barriers. Focusing on 'performance' JuxtaLearn will provoke student curiosity in science and technology through creative film making and editing activities. Computational identification of students' barriers to conceptual understanding will be overcome by scaffolded creative…" [+]

FP7 - ICT

Ultra-Scalable and Ultra-Efficient Integrated and Visual Big Data Analytics

Francis Ballesteros

http://leanbigdata.eu/

    "LeanBigData aims at addressing three open challenges in big data analytics: 1) The cost, in terms of resources, of scaling big data analytics for streaming and static data sources; 2) The lack of integration of existing big data management technologies and their high response time; 3) The insufficient end-user support leading to extremely lengthy big data analysis cycles. LeanBigData will address these challenges by:•Architecting and developing three resource-efficient Big Data management syst…" [+]

FP7 - JPI

MOTREM

Javier Marugan

 
    "The project aims to provide new technologies for water treatment and/or improving the existing ones through the development of integrated processes for monitoring and treatment of ECs in the current waterline of municipal wastewater treatment plants, especially focusing on the aspect of water reuse. For this goal, the project combines cross- and multi-disciplinary expertise on water treatment processes design and engineering, analytical chemistry and ecotoxicology applied to ECs that guarantee the generation not only on new scientific knowledge but also of innovative commercial solutions to the market." [+]

FP7 - ICT

NUBOMEDIA: an elastic Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud for interactive social multimedia

Luis Lopez

http://www.nubomedia.eu/

    "The most remarkable problem developer's face when creating real-time multimedia services is complexity. NUBOMEDIA proposition is to minimize complexity by creating a specific purpose cloud platform bringing all the cloud advantages to the arena of real-time interactive multimedia. NUBOMEDIA will be capable of abstracting all the low level details of service deployment, management, and mass-scale exploitation.In addition, all the capabilities shall be exposed through a simple API.
Thanks to NUBOMEDIA users shall be able to interact through the media but also to interact with the media. As a result, we shall support traditional conversational person-to-person and group communications usage scenarios, but also person-to-machine (eg non-linear interactive media browsing), person-to-media (eg recognizing a face by touching onto it on a smartphone screen) and machine-to-machine (eg starting/stopping recording when a specific event occurs) interactions."[+]

7th PM - NMP

Photocatalytic Materials for the Destruction of Recalcitrant Organic Industrial Waste

Javier Marugan

http://www.pcatdes.eu/

    "The project brings together a consortium of EU and ASEAN researchers with the aim of developing a solar powered photocatalytic waste-water treatment system capable of mineralizing the recalcitrant organic matter that is not removed by current biological methods. With an emphasis on generating novel materials and new understandings of photocatalytic materials and processes, the interdisciplinary team aims to develop cost effective prototype photocatalytic reactors capable of deployment in remo…"[+]

FP7 - ICT

Wireless technologies for isolated rural communities in developing countries based on cellular 3G femtocell deployments

Andrés Martínez

https://ict-tucan3g.upc.edu/

    "TUCAN3G is built upon the basic premise that considers information and communications as a key factor of human development. The diffusion of ICT in developing countries has been very asymmetric between densely populated urban areas and isolated rural areas. Geographical conditions have often conditioned solutions for Internet connectivity in rural areas, often based on wireless 2G cellular technologies. From a technological and socio-economical), this project proposes to study the introduction…"[+]

FP7 - ICT

WEARable HAPtics for Humans and Robots

Michelangelo Otaduy

http://www.wearhap.eu/

    "The complexity of the world around us is creating a demand for cognition-enabled interfaces that will simplify and enhance the way we interact with the environment. WEARHAP aims at laying the scientific and technological foundations for wearable haptics, a novel concept for the systematic exploration of haptics in advanced cognitive systems and robotics that will redefine the way humans will cooperate with robots.Wearable haptics will enable robots to observe humans during natural interaction with their shared environment.Applications cover robotics, health and social scenarios, stretching from human-robot interaction and cooperation for search and rescue, to human-human communication and interaction with virtual worlds through interactive games." [+]

H2020 MSC

Software Engineering in Enterprise Cloud Applications systems

jesus gonzalez

http://senecaproject.github.io/

    "The growth of cloud computing is phenomenal, with vendors experiencing yearly growth over 90%. This reflects the rate at which organizations and individuals are leaving the comfort of tried and tested solutions to move into promising but uncharted territory. The aim of SENECA is no less than to address key issues in the software engineering of cloud-based systems, including a disciplined approach to their development and operation. The project partners have pooled their considerable knowledge …" [+]

intl.

Dr SCRATCH

Gregory Robles Martinez

http://drscratch.programamos.es/

intl.

Google Summer of Code 2015

Gregory Robles Martinez

https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2015

H2020 MSC

A framework to synthesize real-time photorealistic cloth animation from video input

Miguel Angel Otaduy

 

H2020 FET Flagships

BPH-SGA1

Luis Pastor Perez

 

Science

 

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H2020 - Sustainable Food Safety FARMERS PRIDE: Networking, partnerships and tools to enhance in situ conservation of European plant genetic resources Jose Maria Iriondo  
 
Austrian Government, Austrian Research Promotion Agency. FFG: Österreichischen Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH

COMPOSTRONICS Biodegradable organic electronics

Ferdinand Baptist

 
   

7th PM - ERC StG

Biotic community attributes and ecosystem functioning: implications for predicting and mitigating global change impacts

Fernando Maestre

http://www.escet.urjc.es/biodiversos/espa/investigacion/biocom/

    "Increases in nutrient availability and temperature, and changes in precipitation patterns and biodiversity are important components of global environmental change. Thus, it is imperative to understand their impacts on the functioning of natural ecosystems. Substantial research efforts are currently being devoted to predict how biodiversity will respond to global change. However, little is known on the relative importance of biodiversity against other attributes of biotic communities, such as …" [+]

FP7 - JPI

Sustainable Provision of Multiple Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes 

Ruben Milla

 
    "Climate change is presenting great challenges to agricultural production. At the same time, society increasingly demands agricultural practices that comply with environmental protection requirements in addition to social and animal protection standards. Paul Mäder and his team are working with research partners from five European countries to examine how resource-efficient production is possible through a modification of agricultural practices even when faced with high variability of drought and rainfall." [+]

7th PM - KBBE

Characterization of biodiversity resources for wild crop relatives to improve crops by breeding

Jose Maria Iriondo

http://www.pgrsecure.org

    "The goal of agrobiodiversity conservation, unlike other forms of conservation, is not only the conservation of species and intra-specific genetic diversity related to agriculture, but also to promote its sustainable use in facilitating agricultural production. Although significant progress has been made in the conservation and management of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) globally and in Europe, there remain two critical areas where progress has been limited: (a) the …"[+]

H2020 CKD CoG

Biological feedbacks and ecosystem resilience under global change: a new perspective on dryland desertification

Master Fernando Gil

 
    "Changes in climate and land use (eg, increased grazing pressure), are two main global change components that also act as major desertification drivers. Understanding how drylands will respond to these drivers is crucial because they occupy 41% of the terrestrial surface and are home to over 38% of the world's human population. Land degradation already affects ~250 million people in the developing world, which rely upon the provision of many ecosystem processes (multifunctionality). This prop…"[+]

H2020 MSC

Linking plant functional diversity to ecosystem functionality in arid systems worldwilde

Master Fernando Gil

 
    "The relationship between plant functional diversity and ecosystem functioning has been hotly debated, and previous research has shown direct feedbacks effects of functional community structure on ecosystem processes. However, previous studies have not considered indirect effects via changes in biotic interactions, and this is an emerging and crucial challenge for community and ecosystem ecologists.The DRYFUN project aims to assess the ultimate effects of biotic interactions on ecosystem proce…" [+]

H2020 MSC

Vulnerability of soil organic carbon to climate change in permafrost and dryland ecosystems

Fernando Master Gil

 
    "Soil organic matter provides essential ecosystem services and is one of the largest C reservoirs on Earth, holding more than three-fold as much C as does the atmosphere. Over 75% of the global soil organic C pool is stored in permafrost and dryland regions , both under high pressure due to climate change. In particular, global warming may accelerate soil organic matter decomposition in these ecosystems, which may dramatically endanger their functioning and worsen climate change by releasing sig…" [+]

H2020 MSC

Climatic and temporal control on microbial diversity-ecosystem functioning: insights from a novel conceptual model

Fernando Master Gil

 

Law and Social Sciences

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ERASMUS+ Capacity Building

Distance Education for Future: best EU practices in response to the requests of modern higher education seekers and labor market

Jorge Latorre Izquierdo https://defep.chmnu.edu.ua/
ERASMUS+ Capacity Building Curriculum innovation in climate-smart urban development based on green and energy efficiency with the non-academic sector (SMARTWB) carmen de pauls https://www.smartwb.ucg.ac.me/
DG COMM Private Corruption Barometer – Drafting a piloting a model for a comparative business victimization survey on private corruption in the EU Jesus Palomo http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/project/role-of-european-mobility-and-its-impacts-in-narratives-debates-and-eu-reforms-reminder/
"The Private Corruption Barometer (PCB) project will develop a pilot - for the first time at an international and supranational level - a standardization business victimization survey module on private corruption at the national level within European (EU) Member States (MS). This sample survey module will allow to measure comparatively objective (Experience) and subjective (perceptions) private corruption within business of MS, via the analysis of victimization experiences, perceptions, costs and countermesures"
H2020 - SC6  REMINDER -Role of European Mobility and its Impacts in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms Berganza Rose http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/project/role-of-european-mobility-and-its-impacts-in-narratives-debates-and-eu-reforms-reminder/
"The overarching goal of the project is to understand the economic, social, institutional and policy factors that have shaped the impacts of free movement and public debates about it. It aims to help European policymakers develop policy responses that inspire public trust, ensure the fairness and sustainability of free movement, and maintain inclusive policies that reduce inequalities across the continent.+]
DG COMM  GLOCAL-RES. Energy Transition for Citizenship Susana Galera  
"GLOCAL-RES Energy Transition addresses the climate change objectives and strategies established at the Global level (GLO) and their projection and execution at the Local level (CAL), with particular attention to the promotion of renewable energies (RES) and community projects. "

7th PM - SSH

(IN)FORMING CONFLICT PREVENTION, RESPONSE AND RESOLUTION: THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN VIOLENT CONFLICT

Berganza Rose

http://www.infocore.eu/

    "INFOCORE focuses on the conditions that bring about different media roles in the cycle of conflict and peace building. It generates knowledge on (1) the social processes underlying the production of conflict news, and (2) the inherent dynamics of conflict news contents, (3) in a systematically comparative fashion. Based on this perspective, we identify the conditions under which media play specific constructive or destructive roles in preventing, managing, and resolving violent conflict, and …" [+]

7th PM - SECURITY

Socio-Economics meets Security

Anthony Alonso

http://www.seconomicsproject.eu/

    "SECONOMICS goal is synthesizing sociological, economic and security science into a usable, concrete, actionable knowledge for policy makers and social planners responsible for citizen's security. The project is driven by industry case studies and will specifically identify security threats in transport (air and urban and super urban metro) and critical infrastructure. The research focus places social science and political science at the heart of the modeling framework. In particular the proj…"[+]

DG COMM

JOBIN HOOD: A graduate in front of Europe

Maria Concepcion Mateos

DG JUST

Multisectoral Academic program to prevent and combat Female Genital Mutilation

Laura Nuno

    

intl.

OCP

Jesus Palomo

 
    

intl.

TIE

Jesus Palomo

 
    

intl.

Vot

Rogelio Alonso

 
       

intl

Who does not become a terrorist and why? Towards an empirically grounded understanding of individual motivation in terrorism

Rogelio Alonso

 
LIFE+ 2016 FORTURE. Force of the Future Fernando Garcia Muina  https://www.linkedin.com/in/life-force-of-future
 "The general objective of the project is to provide European industry with a simple operational tool that integrates sustainability into business strategy. Many companies focus on environmental aspects, others on issues related to social responsibility, others on economic sustainability. Therefore, a unified vision is necessary that integrates the social, environmental and economic aspects of the company's strategy through a single framework, with the aim of proposing a solution to bridge the existing gap between companies with a high and low culture of sustainability. , which is reflected in the economic and financial performance. The tool that will be designed for the ceramics industry, however, it can be applied to other industrial sectors."
       

Health Sciences

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FP7 - ICT

Regional Anesthesia Simulator and Assistant

Marcos García

http://rasimas.imib.rwth-aachen.de/

"A better outlook for those about to undergo surgery or have a child: The RASimAs project is working on a virtual reality simulator for doctors who are performing regional (or spinal) anaesthesia. This tool supports prediction and avoidance of possible complications during regional anaesthesia providing a precise anatomy of every single patient.

The new virtual reality platform would both train medical doctors and assist them while performing regional anaesthesia – including so called spinal anaesthesia or an epidural, which are applied frequently for women giving birth and C-sections."[+]