Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Nicola Forgione, Dip. di Ingegneria civile e industriale

The European Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) and the European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative (ESNII) give an important role to the future application of fast reactors for the production of sustainable nuclear energy.

In Europe, three demonstration projects currently have a promising outlook: ASTRID, a Sodium cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) prototype, launched by CEA and gathering European and international public and private partnerships; MYRRHA, a multipurpose fast neutron spectrum irradiation facility proposed to operate as a European large research infrastructure, and to serve as an experimental pilot plant for the lead technology; and ALFRED, a programme targeting the construction of a Lead cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) demonstrator in Central/Eastern Europe. In addition, SEALER is a small lead cooled reactor under development by the Swedish company LeadCold, with the aim to ensure reliable and safe production of power for sites where evacuation is not an option, such as a number of arctic communities in Canada, the US, and Greenland.

SESAME supports the development of these reactors by addressing their pre-normative, fundamental and safety-related challenges through the development and validation of advanced numerical approaches for the design and safety evaluation of advanced reactors; the achievement of a new or extended validation base by creating new reference data; the establishment of best practice guidelines, verification & validation methodologies, and uncertainty quantification methods for liquid metal fast reactor thermal hydraulics.

The fundamental and generic nature of the SESAME project will also provide results of relevance to the safety assessment of contemporary light water reactors. By extending the knowledge base, it will contribute to the development of robust safety policies in EU member states. At the same time, SESAME will maintain and further develop the European experimental facilities and numerical tools.

Coordinator
ENEA, AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE (Italy)

Other participants

• CENTRO DI RICERCA, SVILUPPO E STUDI SUPERIORI IN SARDEGNA S.R.L. (Italy)
• UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA (Italy)
• SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME (Italy)
• LGI CONSULTING SARL (France)
• COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES (France)
• INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE (France)
• NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP (The Netherlands)
• DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (The Netherlands)
• GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ANLAGEN- UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT (GRS) GGMBH (Germany)
• HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF (Germany)
• KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Germany)
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN (Germany)
• JOŽEF STEFAN INSTITUTE (Slovenia)
• ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Sweden)
• PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE (Switzerland)
• ASCOMP GMBH (Switzerland)
• STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE/CENTRE D'ETUDE DE L'ENERGIE NUCLÉAIRE (Belgium)
• CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN (Belgium)
• GHENT UNIVERSITY (Belgium)
• VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS (Belgium)
• CENTRUM VÝZKUMU ŘEŽ S.R.O. / RESEARCH CENTRE REZ (Czech Republic)

Start date 01/05/2015
End date 30/04/2019
Duration 48 months
Project cost 6.643.280 €
Project funding 5.200.000 €
Unipi quota 129.750 €
Call title NFRP-2014-2015
Unipi role Partner

Project website http://sesame-h2020.eu/

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Francesco Frendo, Dip. di Ingegneria civile e industriale

RESOLVE proposal aims at enabling the development of a range of cost-effective, energy efficient and comfortable ELVs (Electric L-category Vehicles) that will primarily attract ICE car drivers to switch to ELVs for daily urban commutes. EU cities are increasingly congested due to the demand and usage of motor vehicles that results in emissions and noise levels increase and scarcer parking, affecting the quality of life and health of city-dwellers. To tackle such issue, European-wide emission targets are becoming stricter and urban mobility plans are being drawn.

Future scenarios for EU urban centers see a modal shift in personal mobility from cars to lighter, smaller, more specialised and environmentally friendly alternatives. ELVs are such alternatives that can cater to the average commuter’s needs because of their smaller size, lighter weight, lower on board energy requirement and thus smaller batteries, which supports lower costs and faster recharge. However this modal shift has not been without challenges: many car drivers do not consider LVs as a viable and comfortable option.

To achieve that, the project will develop components and systems that meet the very low cost requirements for the segment, particularly modular and scalable LV-specific electric powertrains and battery architectures. At the same time the project will deliver an exciting and attractive ELV driving experience by proposing new concepts (tilting & narrow track), while keeping the vehicle energy consumption at very low level. All the advances will be demonstrated in two tilting four wheelers demonstrator ELVs (L2e and L6e category), though a large number of such advances will also be applicable to the complete range of ELVs (including powered-two wheelers).
The RESOLVE consortium is optimally positioned to drive such innovations: PIAGGIO and KTM are the 2 largest LV manufacturers in the EU and the whole ELV value chain is represented, complemented by top component suppliers and universities.

Coordinator
PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A. (Italy)

Other participants

• AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Austria)
• KISKA GMBH (Austria)
• KTM AG (Austria)
• ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Germany)
• RICARDO DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Germany)
• CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE (Czech Republich)
• IDIADA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY SA (Spain)
• MAGNETI MARELLI S.P.A. (Italy)
• RE:LAB - HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE (Italy)
• UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE (Italy)
• WAMTECHNIK SP. Z O.O. (Poland)
• UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (United Kingdom)

Start date 01/05/2015
End date 30/04/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 6.920.277 €
Project funding 6.844.027 €
Unipi quota 284.188 €
Call title Green Vehicles GV5-2014
Unipi role Partner

Project website: http://www.resolve-project.eu/

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Marco Danelutto, Dip. di Informatica

The focus of the RePhrase project is on producing new software engineering tools, techniques and methodologies for developing data-intensive applications in C++, targeting heterogeneous multicore/manycore systems that combine CPUs and GPUs into a coherent parallel platform.

Data-intensive applications are one of the most important and commonly encountered classes of industrial application. Such applications are often potentially highly parallel and are a clear match to emerging heterogeneous parallel architectures. However, exploiting this potential effectively can be difficult: it is even harder to obtain good performance for parallel data-intensive applications than for compute- intensive applications, since many additional issues related to data management need to be taken into account. These including structuring the data to make it efficient to access and to process, placement/migration/replication of the data to allow fast parallel access, ensuring data consistency etc. The RePhrase project tackles these issues directly.

Coordinator
UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS (United Kingdom)

Other participants

• IBM ISRAEL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Israel)
• SOFTWARE COMPETENCE CENTRE HAGENBERG (Austria)
• UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID (Spain)
• CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL (Spain)
• UNIVERSITY OF TORINO (Italy)
• EVOPRO INNOVATION (Hungary)
• PROGRAMMING RESEARCH (United Kingdom)

Start date 01/04/2015
End date 31/03/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 3.574.027 €
Project funding 3.574.027 €
Unipi quota 401.875 €
Call title H2020-ICT-2014-1
Unipi role Partner

Project website https://rephrase-eu.weebly.com/

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Giuseppe Barillaro, Dip. di Ingegneria dell’informazione

R2POWER300 is committed to challenge the following objectives: development and manufacturing of a multi-KET pilot line (i.e. nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing); energy efficiency and CO2 reduction megatrends.

The project aims to set the stage for the future extension to 300mm of the R2 Fab facility located in Agrate Brianza (Italy) - i.e. line’s specification, tools’ evaluation and screening, new process’s optimization and characterization, ecc.

R2POWER300 will also evaluate, characterize and optimize the equipments and process necessary to achieve the new BCD10 technology, featuring 90nm lithography, at 300mm wafer size. BCD (i.e. Bipolar + CMOS + DMOS) is a unique smart power technology invented by ST in the mid ‘80s. As of today BCD is one of the key technology assets of ST and the indefatigable evolution and challenging roadmap makes ST a world-class leader on smart power ICs.

Finally, the project aims to achieve advanced system in packages: some SiP activity will be performed, with specific reference to Sintering based die-attach, thermal analysis and dedicated packaging solution for high density ALD capacitors.

Coordinator
STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Italy)

Other participants

• L.P.E. SPA (Italy)
• POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF TURIN (Italy)
• CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LA NANOELETTRONICA (Italy)
• CNR, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (Italy)
• ASM EUROPE B.V. (The Netherlands)
• BESI NETHERLANDS B.V. (The Netherlands)
• NANO DESIGN SRO (Slovakia)
• PICOSUN OY (Finland)

Start date 01/07/2015
End date 01/07/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 8.180.506 €
Project funding 2.060.272 €
Unipi quota 96.160 €
Call title ECSEL-2014-2
Unipi role Partner

Project website https://r2power300.eu/

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Andrea Lazzeri, Dip. di Ingegneria civile e industriale

Cathedrals, distributed throughout Europe, are representative of the diversity of European cultural heritage. Five different cathedrals were selected as they may be considered as representative of both different exposure conditions and different types of stones. In particular, the Cathedral of Pisa, in central Italy, and the Cathedral de Santa María of Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain were selected as representative of south European “Mediterranean” climate in coastal and continental regions, respectively; the Sint-Baafs Cathedral of Ghent, in Belgium, the Cathedral of St. Peter and Mary in Cologne, Germany and the St. Stephen’s Cathedral, in Wien, Austria, were selected as representative of North European climate in coastal and continental regions, respectively. Moreover, the Oslo Opera House, was considered as an example of a contemporary building coated with white Carrara marble. They also represent different lithotypes such as marble, sandstone, limestone.

The objective is providing “key tools” for restoration and conservation: on representative lithotypes; on European representative climatic areas; with a time-scale/environmental approach; with technology validated in relevant environment (industrial plant and monuments); exploiting results also on modern stone made buildings.

A general protocol will be defined for the identification of the petrographic and mineralogical features of the stone materials, the identification of the degradation patterns, the evaluation of the causes and mechanisms of alteration and degradation, including the correlations between the relevant state of decay and the actual microclimatic and air pollution conditions.

The project will contribute to the development of transnational cultural tourism and to the development of common European shared values and heritage, thus stimulating a greater sense of European identity.

Coordinator
INSTM, CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE PER LA SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI MATERIALI (Italy)

Other participants

• OPERA DELLA PRIMAZIALE PISANA (Italy)
• WARRANT GROUP S.R.L. (Italy)
• MINISTERO DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI E DEL TURISMO (Italy)
• COLOROBBIA CONSULTING S.R.L. (Italy)
• CHEM SPEC S.R.L. (Italy)
• METROPOLITANKAPITEL DER HOHEN DOMKIRCHE KÖLN DOMBAUVERWALTUNG (Germany)
• UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG (Germany)
• KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Germany)
• WIEDEMANN GMBH (Germany)
• FUNDACIÓN CATEDRAL SANTA MARÍA (Spain)
• DIPUTACIÓN FORAL DE ÁLAVA (Spain)
• TECNOLOGIA NAVARRA DE NANOPRODUCTOS S.L. (Spain)
• DOMBAUSEKRETARIAT ST. STEPHAN (Austria)
• UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS VIENNA (Austria)
• VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Austria)
• ARCHITECTENBUREAU BRESSERS (Belgium)
• ORGANIC WASTE SYSTEMS (Belgium)
• KOMMUNAL- OG MODERNISERINGSDEPARTEMENTET (Norway)

Start date 01/06/2015
End date 31/05/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 6.965.320 €
Project funding 6.321.335 €
Call title H2020-NMP-2014-two-stage
Unipi role Third part

Project website http://www.nanocathedral.eu/

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Nicola Forgione, Dip. di Ingegneria civile e industriale

The Strategic Research Agenda of the EU Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technical platform requires new large infrastructures for its successful deployment. MYRRHA has been identified as a long term supporting research facility for all ESNII systems and as such put in the high-priority list of ESFRI.

The goal of MYRTE is to perform the necessary research in order to demonstrate the feasibility of transmutation of high-level waste at industrial scale through the development of the MYRRHA research facility. Within MYRRHA as a large research facility, the demonstration of the technological performance of transmutation will be combined with the use for the production of radio-isotopes and as a material testing for nuclear fission and fusion applications. Numerical studies and experimental facilities are foreseen to reach this goal.

Besides coordination, international collaboration and dissemination activities, the MYRTE proposal contains 5 technical work packages. The first and largest work-package is devoted to the realisation of the injector part of the MYRRHA accelerator to demonstrate the feasibility and required reliability of this non-semi-conducting part of the accelerator. The second work-package addresses the main outstanding technical issues in thermal hydraulics by numerical simulations and experimental validation. Pool thermal hydraulics and thermal hydraulics of the fuel assembly will be the focus of this WP. In the WP on LBE Chemistry, the evaporation from LBE, capture and deposition of Po and fission products will be studied in detail to complement the safety report. A small dedicated WP on experimental reactor physics is also foreseen to allow carrying out the necessary supplementary experiments at the GUINEVERE-facility to address the questions of the safety authorities. In a last WP, advanced studies on Americium-bearing oxide fuel are carried out to demonstrate the capability of developing minor actinide fuel for transmutation.

Coordinator
STUDIECENTRUM VOOR KERNENERGIE / CENTRE D'ÉTUDE DE L'ÉNERGIE NUCLÉAIRE (Belgium)

Other participants

• ACCELERATORS AND CRYOGENIC SYSTEMS (France)
• CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (France)
• THALES ELECTRON DEVICES SAS (France)
• COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES (France)
• ADAPTIVE PREDICTIVE EXPERT CONTROL ADEX S.L. (Spain)
• CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ENERGÉTICAS, MEDIOAMBIENTALES Y TECNOLÓGICAS (Spain)
• EMPRESARIOS AGRUPADOS INTERNACIONAL SA (Spain)
• CERN, EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (Switzerland)
• PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE (Switzerland)
• CRS4, CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN SARDINIA (Italy)
• ENEA, AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE (Italy)
• NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP (The Netherlands)
• HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF (HZDR) (Germany)
• GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT AM MAIN (Germany)
• KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Germany)
• TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DARMSTADT (Germany)
• NTG NEUE TECHNOLOGIEN GMBH & CO. KG (Germany)
• ION BEAM APPLICATIONS SA (Belgium)
• JOINED RESEARCH CENTRE–EUROPEAN COMMISSION (Belgium)
• CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN (Belgium)
• GHENT UNIVERSITY (Belgium)
• INSTITUT VON KARMAN DE DYNAMIQUE DES FLUIDES (Belgium)
• VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (Belgium)
• COSYLAB, LABORATORIJ ZA KONTROLNE SISTEME, D.D. (Slovenia)
• ASSOCIAÇÃO DO INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO PARA A INVESTIGAÇÃO E DESENVOLVIMENTO (Portugal)

Start date 01/04/2015
End date 31/03/2019
Duration 48 months
Project cost 11.994.609 €
Project funding 8.995.962 €
Unipi quota 139.950 €
Call title NFRP-2014-2015
Unipi role Partner

Project website http://myrte.sckcen.be/

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Marco Carcassi, Dip. di Ingegneria civile e industriale

The aim of the HySEA project is to conduct pre-normative research on vented deflagrations in enclosures and containers for hydrogen energy applications. The ambition is to facilitate the safe and successful introduction of hydrogen energy systems by introducing harmonized standard vent sizing requirements. The partners in the HySEA consortium have extensive experience from experimental and numerical investigations of hydrogen explosions. The experimental program features full-scale vented deflagration experiments in standard ISO containers, and includes the effect of obstacles simulating levels of congestion representative of industrial systems.

The project also entails the development of a hierarchy of predictive models, ranging from empirical engineering models to sophisticated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element (FE) tools. The specific objectives of HySEA are:

• To generate experimental data of high quality for vented deflagrations in real-life enclosures and containers with congestion levels representative of industrial practice;
• To characterize different strategies for explosion venting, including hinged doors, natural vent openings, and commercial vent panels;
• To invite the larger scientific and industrial safety community to submit blind-predictions for the reduced explosion pressure in selected well-defined explosion scenarios;
• To develop, verify and validate engineering models and CFD-based tools for reliable predictions of pressure loads in vented explosions;
• To develop and validate predictive tools for overpressure (P) and impulse (I), and produce P-I diagrams for typical structures with relevance for hydrogen energy applications;
• To use validated CFD codes to explore explosion hazards and mitigating measures in larger enclosures, such as warehouses; and
• To formulate recommendations for improvements to European (EN-14994), American (NFPA 68), and other relevant standards for vented explosions.

Coordinator
GEXCON AS (Norway)

Other participants

• UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (United Kingdom)
• FIKE EUROPE B.V.B.A. (Belgium)
• IMPETUS ADVANCED FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSES AS (Norway)
• UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA (PRC China)

Start date 01/09/2015
End date 31/05/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 1.511.780 €
Project funding 1.494.780 €
Unipi quota 255.625 €
Call title H2020-JTI-FCH-2014-1
Unipi role Partner

Project website: http://www.hysea.eu/

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Fabio Di Francesco, Dip. di Chimica e Chimica industriale

HEARTEN will design, develop and validate an ICT co-operative environment that will enable the HF patients to achieve sustainable behavior change regarding their adherence and compliance, and the ecosystem actors to be engaged and improve the patients’ HF management.

Key elements of the project:
• develop biosensors that detect and quantify novel breath and saliva HF biomarkers;
• breath biosensor integrated into the smartphone;
• saliva biosensor integrated into the patient’s cup;
• Additional sensors for monitoring the ECG, the blood pressure and the physical activity;
• Input data complemented with nutrition information, weight monitoring through wireless weight scales as well as the patient’s profile;
• Transmission of multiparametric data to the HEARTEN cloud reference architecture;
• Knowledge Management System analysis to deliver critical information, provide alerts, guidelines, trends and predictive models to the patient and the ecosystem actors.

Coordinator
UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD (France)

Other participants

• LYON INGENIERIE PROJETS (France)
• EVERIS SPAIN SL (Spain)
• AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICASAGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (Spain)
• SERVICIO ANDALUZ DE SALUD (Spain)
• APPART SA (Greece)
• FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS (Greece)
• UNIVERSITATSMEDIZIN ROSTOCK (Germany)
• YOUR DATA S.R.L. (Italy)
• SESA NV S.R.L. (Italy)
• CAREDOME PATIENT SUPPORT AND HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS (Portugal)

Start date 01/01/2015
End date 30/12/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 4.589.507 €
Project funding 4.589.507 €
Unipi quota 529.766 €
Call title H2020-PHC-2014-single-stage
Unipi role Partner

Project website: https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20170706092123/http://www.hearten.eu/ 

Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Giovanni Stea, Dip. di Ingegneria dell’informazione

The overall objective of Flex5Gware is to deliver highly reconfigurable hardware (HW) platforms together with HW-agnostic software (SW) platforms targeting both network elements and devices and taking into account increased capacity, reduced energy footprint, as well as scalability and modularity, to enable a smooth transition from 4G mobile wireless systems to 5G.
As it will be argued in the proposal, this approach will be necessary so that 5G HW/SW platforms can meet the requirements imposed by the anticipated exponential growth in mobile data traffic (1000 fold increase) together with the large diversity of applications (from low bit-rate/power power for M2M to interactive and high resolution applications).

Flex5Gware will adopt a holistic approach performing research and implementations on key building blocks of 5G (and cooperations among them) to provide versatile, flexible, reconfigurable, efficient operations for HW/SW platforms. The development of this concept entails many system design challenges that will be solved through disruptive technologies. E.g., analogue components to enable massive MIMO for mmWave, full duplex (simultaneous transmission and reception) for 5G waveforms, or reconfigurable SW architectures with interface abstractions for flexible control and management mechanisms across heterogeneous wireless devices and access networks.

Flex5Gware will evaluate and demonstrate the developed 5G technologies, in terms of proofs-of-concept, which will be showcased in a demonstration event where all the partners in the consortium will participate. The Flex5Gware consortium includes large industry leaders from infrastructure providers (ALUD, EAB and NEC), semiconductor manufacturers (IMC) and network operators (TI) as well as leading research institutions and academia and is reinforced with the participation of three SMEs. This powerful consortium, together with the measures detailed in the proposal, ensure a huge impact of the Flex5Gware results.

Coordinator
INTEL MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GMBH (Germany)

Other participants

• ALCATEL-LUCENT DEUTSCHLAND AG (Germany)
• FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V. (Germany)
• COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES (France)
• SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS S.A. (France)
• CNIT, CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI (Italy)
• TELECOM ITALIA S.P.A. (Italy)
• CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA (Spain)
• TECNOLOGÍAS, SERVICIOS TELEMÁTICOS Y SISTEMAS S.A. (Spain)
• CHARLES III UNIVERSITY OF MADRID (Spain)
• ERICSSON AB (Sweden)
• IMINDS ILAB (Belgium)
• KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Belgium)
• NEC EUROPE LTD. (United Kingdom)
• TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT (Finland)
• WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES EPE (Greece)

Start date 01/06/2015
End date 31/05/2017
Duration 24 months
Project cost 7.993.586 €
Project funding 7.993.586 €
Unipi quota 111.250 €
Call title H2020-ICT-2014-2
Unipi role Partner

Project website https://flex5gware.eu/

 Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Paolo Vitti, Dip. Di Scienze di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale

Currently Europe has no harmonised approach to ensure iodine intake of European citizens is sufficient to prevent health problems. EUthyroid is an EU-funded research project to evaluate current national efforts aimed at preventing iodine deficiency disorders. We aim to provide evidence for a cost effective harmonised approach to iodine prevention in Europe.

Iodine deficiency is the world’s leading cause of preventable brain damage and for years the World Health Organization has warned that Europeans are increasingly affected by the consequences of iodine deficiency. In fact, iodine deficiency is the most important risk factor for thyroid disease in adults and children. While goitre as a result of iodine deficiency is widely known, it is less acknowledged that thyroid hormones regulate the development of important organs. Therefore, it is advised that pregnant and nursing women should ensure sufficient iodine intake for optimal development of the child. Even a slight iodine deficiency during pregnancy can lead to impaired brain development and thus affect intelligence.

EUthyroid is the first pan-European initiative to take on the challenge of investigating the iodine intake of the European population. This should provide the basis to develop appropriate measures for harmonising and improving the iodine intake in Europe in cooperation with national authorities.

Coordinator
UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD (Germany)

Other participants

• THE QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST (United Kingdom)
• UNIVERSITY OF SURREY (United Kingdom)
• ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTRE (The Netherlands)
• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND SEAFOOD RESEARCH (Norway)
• NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE (Finland)
• Landspitali University Hospital (Iceland)
• UPPSALA UNIVERSITY (Sweden)
• RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PREVENTION AND HEALTH (Denmark)
• ENDOCRINOLOGY CENTRE (Estonia)
• UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA (Latvia)
• UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (Belgium)
• TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (France)
• CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (Spain)
• ARMED FORCE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (Portugal)
• SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF ZURICH (Switzerland)
• RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE (Switzerland)
• BIOLUTION GMBH (Austria)
• UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH, SCIENCES, MEDICAL INFORMATICS AND TECHNOLOGY (Austria)
• UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN (Hungary)
• INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY (Czech Republic)
• JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY (Poland)
• UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CENTER (Croatia)
• UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA (Slovenia)
• SOFIA UNIVERSITY (Bulgaria)
• CENTRE FOR REGIONAL POLICY RESEARCH AND COOPERATION STUDIORUM (Republic of Macedonia)
• UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS (Greece)
• THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (Israel)

Start date 01/06/2015
End date 31/05/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 3.375.330 €
Project funding 2.999.949 €
Unipi quota 11.270 €
Call title H2020-PHC-2014-two-stage
Unipi role Partner

Project website: http://www.euthyroid.eu/