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A new cockpit concept has been developed by EU-funded researchers, designed to help pilots select the perfect level of automation for specific flying conditions.

Is Europe funding the type of safety research that will successfully bring it closer to achieving its Flightpath 2050 goals? This is the question that researchers from the EU-funded OPTICS project aimed to answer.

Flightpath 2050, Europe’s vision for aviation, believes that passengers and freight should enjoy efficient, seamless and global travel services based on a resilient air transport system thoroughly integrated with other transport modes. Such an integrated system is needed to meet the growing demand for travel and to cope with unforeseeable events.

EU-funded researchers have developed a new class of artificial materials with unprecedented properties making them suitable for myriad applications, ranging from telecommunications to quantum optics.

Plasmonic materials that combine light confinement at the nanoscale with high-speed processing of signals have the potential to enable the next generation of information-processing devices. New plasmonics – other than metals – and optical materials with metal-like behaviour, have recently attracted a lot of attention due to the promise they hold.

People who complain that strawberries no longer taste like what they used to can take comfort from an EU project that has investigated how Europe’s favourite soft fruit can get their flavour back.

Intensive breeding to improve the firmness, size, yield, and disease resistance of strawberries has resulted in the fruit losing its flavour. Worse still, the complexities of volatile compounds (which provide aroma and taste) and strawberry genetics have discouraged breeders from improving the genetics responsible for their delicious taste.

EU-funded researchers have attempted to provide more comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms underpinning the voltage-sensing regions in cell membranes.

EU-funded innovation hubs have accelerated the take-up of FIWARE as an open source platform for new internet services and applications

EU-funded scientists have developed a set of tools to investigate the physics of magnetic fields in neutron stars and understand the role of fields under strong gravity conditions.

Strong magnetic fields are believed to power many high-energy phenomena, like gamma-ray bursts, jets from active galactic nuclei and other compact objects. Without these fields being hundreds of trillion times stronger that the Earth’s magnetic field, neutron stars would not have been detected in the 1960s.

In recent years, there has been considerable effort to bring ultracold atoms into the realm of nanophotonics. EU-funded researchers have pioneered the experimental realisation of systems capable of coupling single atoms to photonic crystal waveguides.

The ATOMNANO (Quantum interface between atomic and nano-photonic systems) project was inspired by the prospect of controlling both type and range of atom-photon interactions. Moreover, by engineering the optical dispersion of photonic crystals, it is possible to achieve strong interactions between individual photons.

EU scientists investigated how tiny fragments of plastic impact biological membranes.

Each year millions of tonnes of waste plastic pollute the natural environment, which breaks down into micro and nanoscale particles before entering the food chain. It is well known that these plastic particles can transport toxic substances but their impact on living organisms is not yet clearly understood.

EU-funded researchers have developed an intelligent motor drive system that can monitor its own operation and tell whether it is running smoothly.

Simply using data collected from the self-monitoring motor while it is operating, researchers can calculate quantities that in other systems need to be measured by bulky sensors. Moreover, they have ‘taught’ the drive how to make use of this knowledge to make its operational processes more efficient and reliable.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disorder often associated with fatal bacterial infections. A pioneering intervention therapy based on chicken antibodies is about to change that.

CF, caused by a mutation in the CFTR gene, leads to mucous accumulation in the lungs, predisposing individuals to infections, and ultimately, fatal pulmonary obstruction. More than 1 700 mutations have been identified with an overall prevalence of one in every 2 500 people.

Never before has so much information concerning the global atmosphere, oceans and land surface been available but large gaps in the data still exist. These gaps, together with imperfect forecasting models and complexity of climate processes, prevent an accurate understanding of both the current and future state of the atmosphere and climate system.

Across the globe, local communities are increasingly starting to implement small-scale grids, showing how smart technologies can revolutionise future energy use. EU-funded scientists successfully developed an innovative technology system to cover electricity requirements on demand, enabling fluctuating solar energy to be partially balanced out and providing more self-sufficiency.

Ultra-realistic 3D technology is a step closer thanks to the EU-funded PROLIGHT-IAPP, benefitting everyone from architects to physicians.

Fully exploiting the business and social opportunities from smart technologies requires a new approach to Big Data processing, which the EU-funded FERARI project set out to deliver.

EU-funded computer scientists have developed an IT infrastructure to monitor risky financial market activity in real time and detect early signals for market failure.

Another global financial crisis could be difficult to prevent without the means to swiftly analyse risks, respond to events and minimise the effect on global markets. Now EU-funded researchers and computer scientists have developed an innovative IT infrastructure to help market analysts, traders and financial regulators to react quickly to potentially risky and unusual market behaviours.

The EU-funded PRISM project has explored how we perceive light and shape, unearthing findings that will have implications on the way computer graphics are designed and how paints are produced.

Sight is a highly complex process. Now, one EU-funded project has advanced knowledge on our visual perceptions of shape, material properties and illumination, and uncovered results that can be used by a wide range of industries from computer graphics to car paints.

An EU-funded project has tested cutting-edge medical software in clinical trials, helping to prove its efficacy and improve its user-friendliness.

State-of-the-art software that can model and predict how diseases behave in an individual patient may be part of the future of medicine, but implementing it in hospitals remains a challenge.