Potential Impact. (a) Demonstrate the extent to which Europe has an existing need to strengthen or reinforce S&T on the topic
(b) How the network will achieve this restructuring and shaping
(c) Achievements of the objectives by EuroFIR
(d) Plan for spreading excellence beyond the network, disseminating knowledge and exploiting results
(e) How will the network have a durable structuring impact on European research after the ending of Commission Funding?
1). The EU funding of the XXX will facilitate building up the necessary infrastructure for integration activities and will provide Europe with a competitive edge in this area. • The membership within the XXX of EBI, a non-profit academic organisation with expertise in bioinformatics and the management of biological databases; WU, a leading European university with an enduring record in training and education, and BNF & CESNID,SMEs with enduring records of dissemination, guarantees some level of durability: All these institutions have already made commitments to continue with the XXX’x activities beyond the period of EU funding by agreeing to the Consortium Agreement. The early introduction of an IT and enhanced educational, training and dissemination programmes relevant to the XXX will demonstrate this commitment; • EuroFIR will strive to link and anchor to other integrated projects and networks: links have already been made to QualityLowInputFood, SAFEFOODS, and SEAFOODPLUS with the co-ordinator and other core partners being invited to advisory roles within the management of these new FP projects. Several core partners are already involved in these consortia and EuroFIR will actively seek to collaborate in technology platform sharing, research and training. One of the tasks of the co-ordinator and research platform leaders is to actively facilitate collaboration and teaming to these other consortia in order that firm foundations are built with other research networks and teams. • EuroFIR will create the basis for long-term joint research initiatives to be sustained after the ending of Community funding: The Commercialisation and Durability workpackage (WP 3.3) will hold regular open-forum meetings with various national and international funding bodies, and other interested parties, to review progress and identify opportunities for future funding opportunities. In particular, the technology transfer experts in EuroFIR will draw on existing EU entrepreneurial networks to develop a viable market research strategy to generate lo...
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Potential Impact. Please provide a description of the potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far) and the main dissemination activities and the exploitation of results. The length of this part cannot exceed 10 pages
5.1. 1IFEN Concerning exploitation, IFEN is focusing on the following fields of exploitation:
(1) The exploitation towards the ‘Scientific Market’ is an interesting niche market, as this market segment requires highly flexible receiver with customizable signal and navigation processing, combined with signal quality. Through the support of the Galileo E5ab wide- band signal, the currently best signal available in space can be made available for this user group. Here the return of investment is driven by special user customizations.
(2) The core market to be addressed with ART-X is the high-end ‘Professional OEM Mar- ket’. With the support of all GPS, all Galileo (including the ‘Commercial Service’ as far as defined) and also the GLONASS G1 frequency, the professional infrastructure and applica- tion market is the primary exploitation focus. Especially the reference receiver stations (CORS for IGS, GTRF, SAPOS…), but also the mobile user terminal market (e.g. in construc- tion, agriculture, high precision positioning …), taking full advantage of the ART-X inte- grated user terminal capabilities can be fully addressed by ART-X. Furthermore the unique capabilities of the ART-X OEM board with its integrated ‘terminal interfaces’ (external memory, data interfaces, LCD driver, support for 2D/3D graphics) will enable many vertical integrators to provide solutions for the end user market with low cost of integration, less external components and only limited delta developments. This will be attractive espe- cially for new players or small players in the vertical professional application market.
(3) Based on ART-X, the exploitation towards PRS receiver capability is manly driven by the integration of a security module, the related key handling capabilities and appropriate extension of the ART-X board for tamper-resistance. Galileo E1 and E6 signal capability is just a matter of configuration of the ART-X board with the proper discrete RF-Front-End components, with optimized signal rejection filters (against out-of-band interference) and the extension of the navigation processing with integrity capability.
(4) Targeting the ‘Safety-of-Life’ market, with a discrete RF-Front-End with optimized out- of-band ...
Potential Impact. The project contributes considerably to the advancement of algorithmic research and also to the application of such research to real-world problems that have a high social and economic significance. We will endeavour to develop a thorough understanding of the fundamental issues that make robust and online railway optimization problems hard and to develop subsequently new algorithmic and complexity principles to deal with hardness through an integrated, interdisciplinary approach drawn from algorithmic, operations research, and constraint programming techniques. Such research will be suitable for addressing a family of optimization problems of which railway optimization is only an instance. The broader context within which our research is pertinent is that of dynamic norm-governed systems, that is, of systems that exhibit non-deterministic, evolving, behaviour and are subject to prescriptions that determine what their ideal behaviour should be and what ought to happen when their actual behaviour does not coincide with the ideal. Such systems abound in domains other than that of the railway world and transport, for instance in industry where automated processes (workflow systems) operate for the production of tangible goods or intangible services, in electronic commerce where inter-organizational networks of information and service exchange are in place, in large collections of inter-dependent software systems that collaboratively compute in data-intensive applications (information/computation grids), as well as in the seemingly dissimilar area of healthcare planning systems. As an example of the latter, consider the situation where chronic disease patients are monitored by a system, which must plan what doses of individual drugs, in what order, and how these should change if the condition of a patient suddenly alters. Typically, in such a situation the effect of drugs and their doses are not independent, and the situation may be further complicated when a patient suffers from more than one diseases. In all these domains robust planning is important because it determines the fault tolerance of the system (how well it is pre-planned to respond to various contingencies), and online planning is important because it determines the recoverability of the system when some unexpected contingency actually arises. Although some proposals exist for the analysis and representation of such problems mainly in the context of logic-based approaches, efficient computational ...
Potential Impact. The European interactive media have grown to become a large multi billion € industry. But as the technology has become more sophisticated and the content has become larger the cost of developing new content has raised dramatically, some thing that has hampered innovation. Also all hardware and operating system platforms are controlled by US or Japanese interests. Having a European software platform would enable European interests to collaborate and prevaile as a new dominant force in the field of interactive media by shifting focus to a software platform that can run on any hardware or operating system. Although Virtual reality methods are today used successfully in many industries in Europe to replace real prototype testing in the design process such as in the car and aircraft industry, most industries, especially small companies (SMEs) can not afford the investments, which up to now have been required for using the more advanced form of VR This is now changing rapidly with the decreasing prices on personal computers and workstations. What in the past required expensive supercomputers is now possible to run on a PC. This means that VR and mixed reality environments in different forms will be more frequently used both in industry, in cultural contexts and at home. Today’s areas of VR (in manufacturing and design) will grow dramatically but new collaborative areas like e-commerce, games and entertainment, virtual communities and e-learning, art and cultural events will be even more important. The reason is of course that VR and mixed reality environments offers a very natural human- computer interface, as we are so familiar with the real 3-dimensional world. Soon the lack of software platforms, both easy to use and of high quality performance will be a larger obstacle to wide adoption of VR. An open source high quality digital media platform for immersive environments would be a major break-through in the field. The availability of such a platform will have a major impact on the research and development in this field and new areas yet unexplored will begin to explore the possibilities of VR and mixed reality. New types of applications based on this technology will reach the market and the cultural stage as a result of this research. In order to make Uni-verse successful we believe that it has to be open source. This means that anyone can use the Verse protocol and libraries to network enable his or her applications. Verse does not require the applications...
Potential Impact. Screening studies for coeliac disease (CD) in Europe have revealed prevalence as high as 1.0% and in first-degree relatives of CD patients the frequency of the disease is as common as 10%. Thus, CD has emerged as a new European public health problem. A conservative prevalence of 0.5% corresponds to about 2.5 million CD cases in Europe, out of which about 85% are unrecognised and thus also untreated. In a life perspective the negative health consequences of untreated CD are extensive and considerably reducing the quality of life. The necessary gluten free diet gives an extra cost of € 1,200-1,300 per patient a year, according to an estimate by the Dutch Association of Coeliac Patients (NCV). This corresponds to a total European financial burden of €3.0-3.3 billion, when considering all 2.5 million CD cases. Thus, the negative economical consequences are substantial, with additional expenditure due also to lost working-time and misspent healthcare cost. CD has, until recently, been considered as unavoidable. However, this view was recently challenged by an epidemic of CD among children in the genetically stable Swedish population. Such an epidemic curve of CD incidence indicates an abrupt change in causal factors. Further studies suggest that half of the epidemic might have been prevented if all infants had been introduced to gluten-containing foods gradually and preferably while still breast-fed. If so, it might be that CD could be prevented in millions of Europeans by changes in infant diet practices. Thus, primary prevention might be an option for CD, and this is highly preferable for both humanitarian and economical reasons.
Potential Impact. The potential impact of the project, including its approach, design, implementation, and similar elements, to influence the rate and scale of smart grid and variable renewable energy deployments and integration as well as the magnitude of realized benefits.
Potential Impact. EXPReS will realise the first operational e-VLBI network dedicated to astronomy. This will be a unique facility in Europe and will be competitive with similar projects now being planned in Australia and Japan. The creation of a real-time e-VLBI network will represent an important step forward for European astronomy and will be a technological pathfinder for future, next generation instruments, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA is included in the ESFRI “list of opportunities” – as one of the large global projects that might be developed within FP7. In particular, the technology (both software and hardware) developed for EXPReS will address various issues that are relevant to SKA, including distributed data processing (both data correlation and data analysis) and station-to-station communication over distances of up to 4000 km. Elements of EXPReS may have a much wider impact. e-VLBI data transfers are already exercising high-speed networks such as GEANT2, and discovering new and more efficient ways of transferring data using new or modified communication protocols. Specifically, EXPReS will also pioneer the use of lambda switching with the first e-VLBI tests between the UK and Dwingeloo already underway. These innovations should have widespread application, not only in the research community but also the wider-society – improving everyday Internet connectivity (in particular high bandwidth video and high fidelity audio applications). Scientific and related engineering results from EXPReS will appear in refereed journals and conference proceedings. All astronomy related results will also appear on the astro-ph preprint server. For results that are of public interest, we will generate and distribute special press-releases to national and international press agencies. This will be part of the activities supported by Networking Activity NA4 “Public Outreach, Dissemination & Communication”. Other activities of NA4 will include the production of brochures, promotional folders and a transportable EXPReS display board – all these will be aimed at informing the xxxxxx of the activities supported by
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