The project summary. Project Number 1 730989 Project Acronym 2 IDEAAL One form per project Project title 3 International Development of gAnil-spirAL2 Starting date 4 01/01/2017 Duration in months 5 36 Call (part) identifier 6 H2020-INFRADEV-2016-1 Topic INFRADEV-03-2016-2017 Individual support to ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures Fixed EC Keywords Knowledge infrastructure Free keywords Nuclear physics, interdisciplinary research, international infrastructure The objectives of the IDEAAL Project are to explore all possibilities to develop GANIL infrastructure, with its new ESFRI SPIRAL2 facility, in order to ensure its long-term sustainability as one of the premiere European research institutes for nuclear physics, interdisciplinary sciences and related applications. The first objective of the IDEAAL Project is to enlarge the present GANIL membership to include academic institutions and private funding partners. This enlargement goes hand-in-hand with a reinforcement of the involvement of the current institutional funders and academic users of GANIL-SPIRAL2 in the decision-making process and management of the facility. The second objective of IDEAAL is to enhance the excellence of access to the infrastructure by optimizing support to the users, access policy, assessment on the cost of access to the facilities and to data, improvement of the performance capabilities as well as exchange and training of personnel with associated partners. Innovation is the third objective of IDEAAL. With the new facility SPIRAL2, it is essential to encourage industrial users of the uniqueness of this new machine for their research and applications and to allow them to develop new experimental tools at the existing GANIL facilities. Access provision dedicated to industrial users will greatly enhance their experience and increase their interest and trust in GANIL-SPIRAL2. In parallel, new ideas and topics for technology transfer will be clearly identified. The increase of innovation potential of GANIL will also be evaluated. These three objectives must be supported by a strong communication and outreach policy towards members and funding partners, users and the xxxxxx. This is the fourth objective of the project. Fulfilling all of these four objectives will allow a well-organized, highly efficient and sustainable development of the current GANIL structure.
The project summary. Project Number 1 654002 Project Acronym 2 ENSAR2 One form per project Project title 3 European Nuclear Science and Application Research 2 Starting date 4 The first day of the month after the signature by the Commission Duration in months 5 48 Call (part) identifier 6 H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015 Topic INFRAIA-1-2014-2015 Integrating and opening existing national and regional research infrastructures of European interest Fixed EC Keywords NATURAL SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Free keywords nuclear structure, nuclear dynamics, nuclear astrophysics, applications, innovation ENSAR2 is the integrating activity for European nuclear scientists who are performing research in three of the major subfields defined by NuPECC: Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Tools and Applications. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking (NAs), Joint Research (JRAs) and Transnational Access Activities (TAs), which will ensure qualitative and quantitative improvement of the access provided by the current ten infrastructures, which are at the core of this proposal. The novel and innovative developments that will be achieved by the RTD activities will also assure state-of-the-art technology needed for the new large-scale projects.Our community of nuclear scientists profits from the diverse range of world-class research infrastructures all over Europe that can supply different ion beams and energies and, with XXX-XX, high-intensity gamma-ray beams up to 20 MeV. We have made great effort to make the most efficient use of these facilities by developing the most advanced and novel equipment needed to pursue their excellent scientific programmes and applying state-of- the-art developments to other fields and to benefit humanity (e.g. archaeology, medical imaging). Together with multidisciplinary and application-oriented research at the facilities, these activities ensure a high-level socio-economic xxxxxx.Xx enhance the access to these facilities, the community has defined a number of JRAs, using as main criterion scientific and technical promise. These activities deal with novel and innovative technologies to improve the operation of the facilities.The NAs of ENSAR2 have been set-up with specific actions to strengthen the communities' coherence around certain resarch topics and to ensure a broad dissemination of results and stimulate multidisciplinary, application-oriented research and innovation at the Research Infrastructures.
The project summary. Project Number 1 646325 Project Acronym 2 PROSAFE One form per project Project title 3 Promoting the Implementation of Safe by Design Starting date 4 01/02/2015 Duration in months 5 24 Call (part) identifier 6 H2020-NMP-CSA-2014 Topic NMP-27-2014 Coordination of EU and international efforts in safety of nanotechnology Fixed EC Keywords Nano-technology Free keywords risk assessment, risk management, toxicity, nano-safety, regulatory, EHS, green engineering, safe-by-design The CSA links different initiatives and facilitates the integration of results from these initiatives, so that a maximum use of these results can benefit the regulatory process. The CSA is designed to facilitate this process and show European leadership on chemical safety, including nano’s. The aim of this activity is to coordinate and support for risk assessment, management and governance by streamlining data acquisition, collection and management on regulatory orientated toxicology testing of nanomaterials, exposure monitoring, LCA, and disposal and treatment of waste nanomaterials. A number of topics were not included in NANoREG, as they fell outside the scope of that call. The principles enshrined in NANoREG will through PROSAFE be transferred to as many other member states and non-EU states as possible. Nano-safety can be considered to improve significantly when Safe by Design is internationally accepted to guarantee safety. But it lacks agreed definitions, guarantees, and therefore confidence for acceptance. PROSAFE will facilitate and promote the acceptance of Safe by Design within the EU-COM, its Member and Associated states. Consideration is given to regulatory developments including challenges raised by the convergence between nano and biotechnologies. To prepare for the future, after decades of playing EHS catch-up on innovations that became major environmental hazards like lead, asbestos, PCB’s, a shift is needed towards a proactive approach of demonstrating safety and sustainability in pre-commercial innovation. Priorities are: •Move from generalized discussions to case specific differences •Improve characterization of nanomaterials and require reporting on their use •Increase funding for research on ecotoxicology and environmental fate and behaviour •Use value chains assessments when considering environmental impacts •Commit to environmentally sustainable and socially robust innovation.
The project summary. Project Number 1 824093 Project Acronym 2 STRONG-2020 One form per project Project title 3 The strong interaction at the frontier of knowledge: fundamental research and applications Starting date 4 01/06/2019 Duration in months 5 48 Call (part) identifier 6 H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1 Topic INFRAIA-01-2018-2019 Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities Fixed EC Keywords Free keywords strong interaction; quantum chromodynamics; hadron structure; novel particle detectors; 3D & polarized xxxxxx densities; quark-gluon plasma; dense quark matter; precision SM tests; new targets&beams;
The project summary. Project Number 1 734959 Project Acronym 2 GASFARM One form per project Project title 3 SMALL-SCALE ANAEROBIC DIGESTION FOR AFFORDABLE, EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FARMS WASTE Starting date 4 01/09/2016 Duration in months 5 4 Call (part) identifier 6 H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017 Topic SMEInst-09-2016-2017 Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system Fixed EC Keywords Free keywords Anaerobic digestion, biogas, small farms, animal waste, waste management, chemical fertilizers, pig slurry, pig manure, anaerobic digester, small and medium farms, SMF Abstract 7 Sereco Biotest S.N.C. is an Italian company leader in the field of advanced environmental services. They are specialised providers of fore-front R&D solutions in the environmental technology and industrial ecology fields. This eagerness to find innovative and efficient industry solutions whilst protecting the environment has resulted in the development of GASFARM, a small-size anaerobic digester based on Anaerobic Baffled Reactor technology. GASFARM will be used by small and medium farms (SMFs) from livestock and agricultural industry, currently unable to manage their residues affordably. This novel anaerobic digester is techno efficient, as it is optimized and adapted to small companies’ performance and cost requirements. It allows on-site waste treatment avoiding transportation costs and civil engineering, while recovering valuable resources like biogas or nutrients (N, P). The small-scale anaerobic digester has several technical advantages which overcome the technique barriers that have prevented anaerobic digestion to be successful among small agricultural enterprises. This solution requires far less reaction volumes compared to ordinary Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactors (CSTR), decreases in 50-70% the use of chemical fertilizers, has higher efficiency performance rates and it is easy to install, transport and handle reducing costs. Therefore, the adoption of this small scale anaerobic baffled reactor will become biogas plants a matter of industrial production rather than customized engineering, making the whole process much more profitable.
