Partner Search: PS-SME-ES-179
PS ID: / PS-SME-ES-179Status: / open
Date of last Modification: / 2009-07-02 10:10
Date of Publication: / 2009-07-02 10:10
Call Identifier: / Research for SME Call 2010 (FP7-SME-2010-1)
Activity Area: / Research for the benefit of SMEs
Funding Schemes: / Research for the benefit of specific groups (SME)
Evaluation Scheme: / Complete Proposal
Closure Date: / 03/12/2009
Sub Area 1: / Information and Communication Technologies
Sub Area 2: / No sector clearly identified
Proposal name:
Accessible Audiovisual Solutions for All
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Proposal Outline:
Idea and reference framework
Between 10 and 20 % of the population have some kind of disability. The accessibility of audiovisual resources is not only an increasing demand from numerous users but a legal requirement that aims to include this group of people in the information society.
Sectors like education, leisure and tourism are attractive potential markets of the result of this project because nowadays they hardly use audiovisual resources. For example, educational institutions of languages would find it very useful to use audiovisual resources because they open a wide range of opportunities that enrich the educational process and it saves human and material resources. Therefore, the accessibility of audiovisual resources is not only an important social benefit but also an economic benefit for those companies that commercialize audiovisual productions that will be able to reach a new potential market of users.
Existing subtitling tools (ST) have very expensive licensing schemas for small and medium-size enterprises, apart from that they include a limited view of the whole group of potential users because they are not oriented to hearing impaired people, they are mainly designed to subtitle to a second language.
According to audio description (AD), it is a recent process and there is not a great variety of tools available. The process is usually made without making the most of existing technological improvements. None of existing commercial tools offer the possibility to integrate both ST and AD, neither dubbing. Another lack of this tools is the impossibility of authoring audiovisual “packaged” material like DVDs, videos for the Internet, for mobile devices, etc. and the accessibility of the material itself (navigation menu, control elements, etc.)
PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT
Already existing consortium:
The proposal is led by Gizer.net a Spanish company that pursues the so-called social technology, in order to develop new information and communication technologies that are of interest to the society.
The consortium is already formed by an RTD Centre focused on technological research, educational and training activities in favour of social technology development.
Partners sought and role in the project:
SME:
-Enterprises dedicated to the development of solutions for audiovisual accessibility and/or translation.
-Audiovisual production and information companies: newspapers, mass media, information agencies, film, TV, DVD production…
-Enterprises that facilitate a great amount of audiovisual material through the Web
SME-AG:
-Associations of people with disabilities and elderly people
RTD Performers:
-RTD Centres interested in social technolgy
Others:
-Any kind of educational centres, including those dedicated to the education of subtitling and audio description professionals.
PROPOSER CONTACT DETAILS
Title: / Ms.First name: / María / Last name: / Quintans
Address: / Avda Los Castos s/n CDTUC (Escuela Ing. Caminos) Planta 3 Módulo 3 / Postal Code: / 39005
City: / Santander / Country: / Spain
Phone Number: / 34942277887 / Fax Number: / 34942277880
Email: / / Web Address: / www.bantec.es
Organisation: / Bantec / Type of Organisation: / Consultancy
Department:
How did you find out about us?: / European Commission
Partner Search: PS-SME-ES-217
PS ID: / PS-SME-ES-217Status: / open
Date of last Modification: / 2009-06-26 09:35
Date of Publication: / 2009-06-26 09:35
Call Identifier: / Research for SME Call 2010 (FP7-SME-2010-1)
Activity Area: / Research for the benefit of SMEs
Funding Schemes: / Research for the benefit of specific groups (SME)
Evaluation Scheme: / Complete Proposal
Closure Date: / 03/12/2009
Sub Area 1: / Agriculture / Forestry
Sub Area 2: / Machinery / Instruments / Sensors
Proposal name:
Integrated e-system for fast growing trees’ value chain management_WOODGROW
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Proposal Outline:
General objectives will be defined as following:
· Optimizing wood rotation times and improving availability by using fast growing species, monitoring services and forestry decision supporting software.
· Improving the assessment of wood quality at stand level through the development of soil moisture monitoring tools. The on-line information of the availability of water of trees will permit to detect future problems in the wood quality (abiotic stress – biotic stress).
· Improving the assessment of wood quality at stand level through the development or improvement of non destructive techniques (i.e. assess in a fast, cheap and accurate way the quality of pruning operations inducing the reduction of dimensions of knots, predict the formation of tension wood and heartwood, and its causes).
· Create a new management e-system for owners and costumers of poplar wood, with access to forest mapping and wood inventory. This will represent for potential customers, an attractive way to buy poplar wood with the desired quality.
The main working areas are the following ones:
1. A more precise understanding of the variables that affect the wood production and quality of poplar will be obtained, and a first orientation of the optimized management procedure will be reached. From this work, fix variables (i.e. type of clone, wood properties demanded by the industry according to the final wood products desired) will be defined (acting as inputs of the software tool).
2. Parallel work will be conducted in order to develop monitoring tools, consisting in on-line wireless tree growth devices and soil moisture meters at different depths, which will give other inputs for the management software system, and have to be obtained continually (i.e. on-line) since they are considered as depending input variables to obtain the forest management needs and information.
3. At the same time, non destructive tools for pruning assessment, wood density and presence of heartwood in standing trees will be developed, in order to act also as inputs of the system. While, non destructive devices will be validated in real trees (with destroying tests), monitoring devices will have to be validated in accelerated laboratory tests.
4. Finally, resulting system will be validated and tested in real cases (poplar forests) around all Europe.
PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT
Already existing consortium:
Industrias Monzon S.L. is located in Zaragoza (Spain). Its activity is focussed in the wood sector. Its product range has increased and has been dedicated to manufacture plywood panels made of poplar wood, for floor components, DiY, crafts and for both the furniture and industrial sectors.
Partners sought and role in the project:
SME:
It is requested:
- Non-destructive technology for wood quality and quantity measurement.
- Quantity and quality wood related to equipment developer.
The partner must have exploitation real interest. SME will be participated in the project as IPR owner and RTD will be subcontracted.
Both partners could come from any country other than Spain
RTD Performers:
It is requested :
- Non-destructive technology for wood quality and quantity measurement.
- Remote sensing technologies.
Both partners could come from any country other than Spain
PROPOSER CONTACT DETAILS
Title: / Mr.First name: / Alejandro / Last name: / Miranda
Address: / Donostia / Postal Code:
City: / Donostia / Country: / Spain
Phone Number: / +34943314990 +34943314990 / Fax Number:
Email: / / Web Address:
Organisation: / Industrias Monzon / Type of Organisation: / Industry - SME
Department:
How did you find out about us?: / TransCoSME Partner / SME National Contact Point
Partner Search: PS-SME-ES-212
PS ID: / PS-SME-ES-212Status: / closed - The proposer decided not to go ahead
Date of last Modification: / 2009-07-06 11:43
Date of Publication: / 2009-07-06 11:43
Call Identifier: / Research for SME Call 2010 (FP7-SME-2010-1)
Activity Area: / Research for the benefit of SMEs
Funding Schemes: / Research for the benefit of specific groups (SME)
Evaluation Scheme: / Complete Proposal
Closure Date: / 03/12/2009
Sub Area 1: / Food
Sub Area 2: / Machinery / Instruments / Sensors
Proposal name:
Vth range vegetable dishes development using HPP technology _ VEGET-EVOL
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Proposal Outline:
It is proposed as general objectives:
· Final product (dish) should have really good organoleptic characteristics: colour, homogeneity, texture.
· Good, healthy and competitive nutrition characteristics: nutrient preservation, use of the correct ingredients/additives to improve the nutritional profile, etc.
· Long product life. Dish should be useful taking into account the distribution time, storage, and end-user’s not-immediate product consume. A really interesting possibility would be to keep it in ambient temperature, and to develop monodose formats. (packaging must be flexible and vacuum).
This project’s R&D is basically to develop vegetal dishes and needed HPP technology to assure general objectives related to vegetable dishes are achieved using existing HPP technology. Thus, to reach the needed quality (both vegetable dish quality and HPP technology quality), it is necessary to specify the following technical objectives:
· Review and exchanges: revision and compilation of documentation. Interchange of technical knowledge in scientific-techcnological consultant's office and gastronomical technology.
· Study of conditions of treatment for different vegetal stuffs: Definition of the critical factors for the process and that allow to discriminate groups (ej. solid/liquid, pH,water activity, etc.). Division of vegetables in homogenous groups and election of a member of each group like representative model of the same one. Study of conditions of treatment (only or in combination with other treatments) for each model: study of microbial inactivación and effect on organoleptical and nutritious quality. Definition of basic conditions.
· Vth range product development: formulation and obtaining of prescriptions more adapted. Development of a concrete product range, according to the concrete necessities of the SME´s of the partnership, optimizing the processes of treatment previously obtained on the models. Accomplishment of studies of shelf life: adjustments of process and definition of the sell- by date.
· Development of specifications of the industrial machinery: elaboration of listing of requirements. Development and test of machinery proves. Validation on industrial scale of V range products developed to pilot scale.
PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT
Already existing consortium:
Project coordinator is Olus. This company is a private initiative of R&D focussed on food industry, whose ultimate goal is the generation of technological patents to create a high value-added processing and packaging of vegetables.Olus develops, patents, industrializes and commercializes technological capabilities for food business.
Partners sought and role in the project:
SME:
The requested for SME:
1.-Vegetable product’s supplier
2.-Foodstuff manufacturer with HPP treatment equipment.
3.-Vth range dishes business interest or approach.
4.- .Fresh food product manufacturer.
The SME must have exploitation real interest. SME will be presented as IPR owner and RTD will be subcontracted.
RTD Performers:
The expertise requested for RTD will be foodstuff manufacturer with HPP treatment equipment.
PROPOSER CONTACT DETAILS
Title: / Mr.First name: / David / Last name: / Puente
Address: / Donostia / Postal Code:
City: / Donostia / Country: / Spain
Phone Number: / +34943314990 +34943314990 / Fax Number:
Email: / / Web Address:
Organisation: / Olus Tecnologia S.L. / Type of Organisation: / Industry - SME
Department:
How did you find out about us?: / TransCoSME Partner / SME National Contact Point
Partner Search: PS-SME-ES-209
PS ID: / PS-SME-ES-209Status: / open
Date of last Modification: / 2009-06-15 11:34
Date of Publication: / 2009-06-15 11:34
Call Identifier: / Research for SME Call 2010 (FP7-SME-2010-1)
Activity Area: / Research for the benefit of SMEs
Funding Schemes: / Research for the benefit of specific groups (SME)
Evaluation Scheme: / Complete Proposal
Closure Date: / 03/12/2009
Sub Area 1: / Materials processing
Sub Area 2: / No sector clearly identified
Proposal name:
Multiobjective OPTIMization of Industrial processes for energy Savings and efficiency iMprovement - OPTIMISM
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Proposal Outline:
A lot of real-life engineering problems can be formulated as multiobjective optimization problems (MOP). This technique has already success cases. However, the trade-off in many specifications (as performance, cost, efficiency, etc) makes difficult the selection of the final solution. In this project MOP will be brought into market with new developments related with algorithms and new techniques in MOP (such us real time optimizers, constraint management, decision support systems) applied to industrial processes are going to be researched. The project will try to develop new solutions to main problems related with industrial processes under four main topics: efficient use of raw materials, energy efficiency, emissions reduction and process operations.
Briefly, the multiobjective methodology can be described as follows: First, a set of valid solutions must be obtained – called Pareto Set. Notice that MOPs do not have a unique solution. This set represented in the objective space is called Pareto Front. The construction of this front is based on the dominance concept – no solution is better than others. After this front is generated the decision making phase is performed. At this stage, designer’s preferences play a key role. Therefore a mechanism for preference’s definition must be established.
By means of a mixing of computational intelligence techniques (multiobjective optimization, evolutionary computation, decision making systems) and engineering control techniques (multivariable control, model based predictive control, process identification, etc) the project will research new methodologies and procedures to define different objectives related to control performance, process economy, energy savings, environmental emissions, etc of industrial processes. These objectives will be taken into consideration in the process control algorithm itself or will be used to search the optimum operating point of the plant. Computational intelligence uses stochastic optimization methods avoiding gradient based methods. This fact will permit us to manage non linear models and non linear constraints to calculate, for example, the optimum plant operating point from a multiobjective optimization point of view.
Another important point is process knowledge. Process knowledge is required to translate the specifications of any industrial process related with its efficiency and operation into multiobjective optimization problems. Objectives can be from simple mathematical expressions to more complicated first principles models. Research and demonstration under this treatment of processes as MOP and how express preferences about process operation, translating them in objectives and constraints will be deeply done in the project too.