Ερευνητικά Αποτελέσματα Ξένων Ερευνητών - Europedirect

An EU-funded initiative brought together researchers and industrialists from across Europe to boost the development of solar technologies, enhancing transnational cooperation and business opportunities for solar power in Europe.

Metal finishing and coating operations in Europe produce over 300 000 tonnes of waste. EU-funded scientists have developed a new way to treat the industry’s wastewater that recovers valuable metals and generates energy and clean water.

The metal and plastic surface processing industry treats the surfaces of metals and plastics to make them stronger and more tolerant of wear. The effluent this processing generates is contaminated with oil and grease, organic materials, salts and heavy metals.

Traditionally, tissue regeneration research uses limited design criteria and a single goal approach. Despite regenerative medicine moving to the forefront of therapeutic strategies, the final product is frequently disappointing, meaning lengthy repetition of costly trials.

Field Operational Tests (FOTs) are one of the lasts steps in the long path taking technology advances in the transport sector from prototype to production. But they cost a lot of money. The FOT-NET initiative aims to support innovation by making existing FOT results accessible to all interested stakeholders.

Spintronics, molecular electronics and graphene have a common trait: they are all considered as key enablers in the future of computing beyond the limitations of Moore’s and Kryder’s laws. The ACMOL project is contributing to their joint advancement with proof-of-concept devices.

Europe today is a hotbed of tech start-ups, innovation hubs and accelerators that are bringing innovation, jobs and positive changes to society across the continent. Behind the scenes, support actions such as the EU-funded CONCORD project have been working hard to help achieve this promising digital vision.

EU-funded researchers examined how compact urban form can promote social sustainability of intermediate neighbourhood areas in cities facing socio-cultural challenges. The results will help enhance policy related to design of neighbourhood spaces.

EU-funded researchers examined how compact urban form can promote social sustainability of intermediate neighbourhood areas in cities facing socio-cultural challenges. The results will help enhance both policy related to and design of neighbourhood spaces.

Microbes could be used to produce sustainable energy in the form of fuel cells due to their protein-based systems enabling efficient electron transport (ET). Taking a page from nature’s book, EU researchers developed protein-based polymers for biomedical applications.

Cardiovascular diseases remain the number one health concern worldwide. A European study attempted to develop a new curative approach for cardiovascular disease based on stem cell technology.

Current pharmacological interventions are unable to provide a long-lasting cure for cardiovascular diseases, making organ transplantation the final option for recovery. Available in vitro models lack the complexity of a living tissue, whereas in vivo animal testing raises ethical concerns and issues about their translatability to humans.

A study examined a vast repository of documents concerned with early modern commercial and colonial expansion. The studied interactions between traders of different faiths suggest a more diverse, flexible and pragmatic world of commerce.

Space debris removal and targeted tumour therapy both use ion beam technology. However, this exciting and diverse field needs highly qualified personnel.

Ion beams have paved the way towards the creation of new materials and materials synthesis. As such, ion beam material modification and analysis have become a cornerstone of progress in areas as diverse as semiconductors, cancer treatment, forensic analysis and cultural heritage. Despite such progress, widespread application in industry is being held back because personnel lack qualifications and experience.

Research looked at how listening in a noisy environment compares for older native and non-native speakers. This led to insight on real-time lexical processing of spoken words and the identification of verbal emotions.

Thanks to an EU initiative, patients suffering from a variety of ailments are slated to benefit from advanced shoes that can send critical feedback to wearers and to those monitoring them.

A revolutionary concept in the form of a high-tech set of shoes is showing much promise for patients who are recuperating from debilitating strokes or sports injuries. The EU-funded WI-SHOE (A novel wireless, wearable shoe-based system for real time monitoring of energy expenditure and gait parameters for sport and medical applications) project made significant headway in the field.

Smart technologies as well as highly trained staff are required to sustain the competitiveness of the European biotech industry and increase productivity.

The biotech industry manufactures enzymes for a plethora of applications from food production to pharmaceutical drugs. However, industrial-scale fermentations pose certain limitations to the commercial exploitation of biotechnology and require improvement in production efficiency.

EU-funded researchers successfully developed a new wood chip handling system that significantly cuts down emissions in industrial heating systems based on wood chips.

Woodchip boilers are now being used in space heating, replacing fossil-fuel-fired boilers. Despite high thermal efficiency and low emissions of particulates, the fuel-feeding systems of small-scale woodchip boilers account for nearly 90 % of unexpected plant shutdowns. This limits power plant availability and results in increased harmful emissions.

An EU-funded project has examined how governments should deal with property rights disputes and/or claims for material compensation following past wrongs.

Mammals control gene expression using various epigenetic mechanisms. EU funded researchers investigated the role of a family of DNA modifying proteins in pluripotency.

EU-funded researchers implemented novel experimental and theoretical methods to study how variations in the engineering tolerance of aircraft gearboxes may affect the transmission performance.

The aeronautic market is gradually moving away from conventional turbofan engines towards geared engines that are much more efficient to reduce fuel consumption. The design of the power transmission system is vital to increasing the power density at high operating speeds, and needs to be tolerant of any variations that may compromise efficiency.

Diamond is a natural choice when it comes to making nanoscale devices but patterning is expensive and time-consuming. An EU-funded project has investigated DNA templates for patterning any shape.

Nanocrystalline diamond thin films are seeded and then grown to produce material for nanoscale devices used in a whole array of fields, from medicine to quantum information processing. However, the precise nanoscale patterning required for these new technologies is a lengthy and costly process.

European researchers worked to identify novel targets and develop inhibitors as drugs for cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.