Projects

RESEARCH PROJECTS of IASA

Project Title	Programme Type	Principal Investigator
ACROPOLIS	Network of Excellence, EU-FP7-ICT	Prof. Andreas Polydoros
AIDA	FP7 Networking, Joint Research and Transnational Access	Prof. Evangelos Gazis
ANEMOS PLUS	STREP, EU-FP6	Prof. George Kallos
CMS Trigger Upgrade	Research	Prof. Paris Sphicas Dr. Sotiris Sotiropoulos
DICOM	CIP-EIP-Eco-Innovation-2010	Prof. Matthaios Santamouris
DISCOVER THE COSMOS	INFRASTRUCTURES, EU-FP7	Prof. Christine Kourkoumelis
EDUSAFE	FP7-INT	Prof. Evangelos Gazis
EGI-InSPIRE	FP7- INFRASTRUCTURES (CP-CSA)	Prof. Paris Sphicas Mr. Marios Chatziangelou
EPN2020-RI	H2020 Research Infrastructures	Prof. Ioannis A. Daglis
ERACOBUILD	ERANET	Prof. Margarita Niki Assimakopoulos
EUROCONTROL	Phd Research Studentship	Prof. George Kallos
FARAMIR	STREP, EU-FP7-ICT	Prof. Andreas Polydoros
FASTViD	Industrial research	Prof. Paris Sphicas Dr. Sotiris Sotiropoulos
Go-Lab	FP7 Collaborative project	Prof. Christine Kourkoumelis
INTELLIBOX	Industrial research	Prof. Paris Sphicas Dr. Sotiris Sotiropoulos
ISE (Inspiring Science Education)	FP7-CIP (Competitiveness & innovation framework program 2011-2013)	Prof. Christine Kourkoumelis
JET-CME	Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF	Prof. Kanaris Tsinganos
MAIN	MED Programme, European Regional Development Fund	Prof. Matthaios Santamouris
MARIE	MED Programme, European Regional Development Fund	Prof. Matthaios Santamouris
MEDESS4MS	MED Programme, European Regional Development Fund	Prof. Sarantis Sofianos
MedEX	EU-FP6	Prof. Sarantis Sofianos
MyOcean	EU-FP7	Prof. Sarantis Sofianos
NEWCOM#	Network of Excellence, EU-FP7-ICT	Prof. Andreas Polydoros
PARALLEL	EU-FP7	Prof. Sarantis Sofianos
PATHWAY	SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY, EU-FP7	Prof. Christine Kourkoumelis
PRACE-2IP	FP7- INFRASTRUCTURES	Prof. Paris Sphicas Mr. Marios Chatziangelou
SEPCalib	ESA Contract	Prof. Ioannis Daglis
STS-MED	MED CBC	Prof. Matthaios Santamouris
TOSCA	MED Programme, European Regional Development Fund	Prof. Sarantis Sofianos

ACROPOLIS

"Advanced Coexistence Technologies for Radio Optimisation in Licenced and Unlicenced Spectrum"

Project website: http://www.ict-acropolis.eu/

Project Details: In order to maximize the potential of wireless communications systems and cater for the demands of the future, cognitive and cooperative communications paradigms are being considered that support advanced coexistence technologies for radio resource usage optimization. The ACROPOLIS NoE is specifically designed towards these directions with an extensive joint research agenda. ACROPOLIS also aims to educate researchers and to arrange events that serve the general success and benefits of coexistence technologies including cognitive radio and spectrum sharing.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: EU, FP7-ICT, Network of Excellence

AIDA

"Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators"

Project website: http://aida.web.cern.ch/aida/index.html

Project Details: The AIDA project addresses infrastructures required for detector development for future particle physics experiments. The particle detectors developed in the AIDA project will be used in a planned upgrade to the LHC, and the proposed International Linear Collider machine, which will study with higher precision the Standard Model of Physics and beyond, Neutrino facilities to probe the mysteries of elusive neutrino particles and Super-B factories to understand the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: EU-FP7 Networking, Joint Research and Transnational Access

ANEMOS PLUS

"Advanced Tools for the Management of Electricity Grids with Large-Scale Wind Generation"

Project website: http://www.anemos-plus.eu/

Project Details:

IASA contribution: Sub-contractor

Funding Agency: European Commision

CMS Trigger Upgrade

"Beyond the standard model at the LHC-DTTF upgrade"

Project website: https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=109&sessionId=4&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=153564

Project Details: Development of firmware for the new DTTF processors architecture. The new architecture is expected to achieve fast processing of incoming data from various sources, to accommodate new algorithms for candidate muons and deliver results to the GMT reliably and with the minimum latency

IASA contribution: Development of firmware, testing and evaluation of the HW architecture.

Funding Agency: General Secretariat for Research and Technology

DICOM

"Development of Innovative Composite Cool - Thermal Insulating Materials"

Project website: http://www.dicom.com.gr/index.php/el/

Project Details: Aim of the proposed CCTIM project is the design, development, production, evaluation, certification and introduction to the market of innovative, composite cool - thermal insulating materials based on the new generation of extruded polystyrene (XPS) with improved vapour permeability (lower water vapour diffusion resistance factor μ) as well as with use of special plasters as a final coating with specific features of low emissivity coefficient ε. The products will be shaped in a way that makes them easily and effectively applicable for the energy upgrade of existing buildings, but will also correspond to the construction techniques of new state of the art buildings. These materials can be used for the thermal insulation of horizontal and inclined roofs according to the EN standards for individual materials and composite insulation solutions, but also for the cladding of vertical structural elements of brick wall and concrete, in the logic of External Thermal Insulation Composite Systems (ETICS) according to ETAG 004.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Commission- National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007 -2013

DISCOVER THE COSMOS

"DISCOVER THE COSMOS: e-Infrastructures for an Engaging Science Classroom"

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

Project Details: Actions involving teachers and pupils in e-Science through the use of e-Infrastructures in order to attract the young to scientific careers; as well as actions to promote the involvement of citizens – including decision makers – in e-Science through the use of e-Infrastructures.

IASA contribution: Coordinator

Funding Agency: European Commission

EDUSAFE

"Education in advanced VR/AR Safety Systems for Maintenance in Extreme Environments"

Project website: http://edusafe.web.cern.ch/edusafe/site.php

Project Details: EDUSAFE is a 4-year Marie Curie ITN project that provides training for 10 Early Stage Researchers and 2 Experienced Researchers. The project focuses on research into the use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) during planned and emergency maintenance in extreme environments (nuclear installations, space, deep sea etc).

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: EU-FP7

EGI-InSPIRE

"European Grid Infrastructure - Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe"

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

Project Details: EGI-InSPIRE (EGI-Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Research in Europe) is a four-year project helping to establish a sustainable, reliable e-Infrastructure that can support researchers’ needs for large-scale data analysis. EGI-InSPIRE is a collaborative effort involving 50 partners in over 40 countries.
(Additional details: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/docs/egi-inspire.pdf)

IASA contribution: JRU (GRNET)

Funding Agency: European Commission (Grant agreement number: RI-261323)

EPN2020-RI

"Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure"

Project website: http://www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu/, http://www.europlanet-eu.org/

Project Details: Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastrucre is a €9.95 million project, funded under the Euro-pean Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, to integrate and support planetary science activities across Europe. The project addresses key scientific and technological challenges facing modern planetary science by providing open access to state-of-the-art research data, models and facilities across the European Research Area and a platform to exchange ideas and personnel, define key science goals for the future, and engage stakeholders, policy makers and European Citizens with planetary science. Europlanet is a collegial organisation linked by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with over 70 research institutes and companies. The project is led by the Open University (UK) and has 33 beneficiary institutions from 19 European countries, including the IASA at the University of Athens. The first in a series of Outreach Innovation Days and Training Workshops was held in Athens in July 2016, organized by the Greek partner (http://www.europlanet-eu.org/outreach/best-practice/). Furthermore, the University of Athens Observatory was featured in the ‘Spotlight on Outreach’ series (http://www.europlanet-eu.org/spotlight-on-outreach-university-of-athens-observatory/).

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: Europlanet 2020 RI (http://www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu/) has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654208.

ERACOBUILD

"THE SQUARE MILE RETROFIT PROJECT"

Project website: -

Project Details: In order to deliver large-scale retrofit of Europe’s existing housing stock, a much improved understanding needs to be reached as to how an area-based approach can be used in practice as a means of driving down the per-household cost. Key to the cost-effective implementation of such an approach will be an analytical tool which accurately accounts for the interaction of key parameters such as building type, occupancy, local weather, changing infrastructure, suitable upgrade options, available skills (amongst others); a finance model which accurately quantifies risk thereby offering a lower rate of interest and making intervention affordable; and is therefore an effective means of driving take-up amongst target households . While a number of theoretical and practical studies have been undertaken to consider some of these factors either in isolation or in combination, further work is required to develop and test their assumptions at the community level, and to build a systematic methodology which can be applied to large-scale retrofit programmes across Europe. The Square Mile Retrofit Project seeks to address these issues through developing and testing a methodolog on three sample areas of identical size, but with considerable variation in tenure and building type. The project brings together both academic and practical expertise in retrofit from both Northern and Southern EU countries in order to ensure that outcomes can be used to inform the activities of member states that encompass a range of socio-economic, political and climatic environments.

IASA contribution: Host Institute

Funding Agency: General Secretariat for Research and Technology

EUROCONTROL

Project Details: Phd Research Studentship

IASA contribution: Partial Support

Funding Agency: Eurocontrol

FARAMIR

"Flexible and spectrum-Aware Radio Access through Measurements and modelling In cognitive Radio systems"

Project website: http://www.ict-faramir.eu/

Project Details: FARAMIR is a European FP7 project, developing techniques for increasing the radio environmental and spectral awareness of future wireless systems. The project has a holistic approach, carrying out activities ranging from hardware development to implementation of a reference design for radio environmental map (REM) solutions. Extensive measurement campaigns are also being performed by project partners in an effort to improve our understanding how spectrum is actually used within Europe.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: EU, FP7-ICT, STREP

Go-Lab

"Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School"

Project website: http://www.go-lab-project.eu/

Project Details: The Go-Lab project will open up remote science laboratories, their data archives, and virtual models (“online labs”) for large-scale use in education. Go-Lab enables science inquiry-based learning that promotes acquisition of deep conceptual domain knowledge and inquiry skills and directs students to careers in science.
For students (10 to 18-years old), Go-lab offers the opportunity to perform personalized scientific experiments with online labs in pedagogically structured and scaffolded learning spaces that are extended with social communication facilities.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Commission

JET-CME

"Solar dynamic phenomena as an astrophysical laboratory: Jets and Coronal Mass Ejections"

Project website: http://www.healthcompetence.eu/converis/publicweb/project/3204?show=Person

Project Details: Magnetic fields are produced in differentially rotating and convecting environments, such as in the interior of the sun, other convective stars and also in accretion disks. The produced magnetic fields emerge in the outer atmospheric layers because of magnetic buoyancy producing a plethora of explosive events. This Emergence of Magnetic Flux (EMF) is a fundamental astrophysical phenomenon and the possible driver of the observed, ubiquitous activity in astrophysical plasmas. In the case of the Sun, the Rosette Stone of Astrophysics, EMF is a key process, ultimately linked to the formation of active regions (ARs) at the solar surface (photosphere). Moreover, it is thought that flux emergence contributes considerably to the driving of spectacular phenomena as solar and astrophysical jets, and the Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Therefore, the main aim of this proposal is to understand the coupling between EMF and fundamental aspects of solar/astrophysical dynamic events. Among the related outstanding questions are the nature of jets and the basic physics behind the onset of dynamic eruptions (e.g. CMEs) in regions of EMF. The proposed research will be carried out using state-of-the-art 3D MHD simulations and high-resolution observations with the aim to provide essentially a first-principle investigation of the relevant physics of the phenomena under study.

IASA contribution: Host Institute – Legal Entity

Funding Agency: EU - Marie Curie (Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF)

ΙSE (Inspiring Science Education)

"Large Scale Experimentation Scenarios to Mainstream eLearning in Science, Mathematics and Technology in Primary and Secondary Schools"

Project website: http://inspiring-science-education.org/

Project Details: Inspiring Science Education (ISE) aims to significantly contribute to the implementation of the “Digital Agenda for Europe” and in particular Action 68 "Mainstream eLearning in national policies for the modernization of education and training, including in curricula, assessment of learning outcomes and the professional development of teachers and trainers”. ISE will design, plan and implement large-scale pilots to evaluate innovative use of existing eLearning tools and resources for scientific disciplines and technology, enhancing science learning in 5,000 primary and secondary schools in 15 European Countries.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Commission

MARIE

"Towards Energy Efficiency Improvement in the Existing Mediterranean Buildings"

Project website: http://www.marie-medstrategic.eu/

Project Details: The strategic vision of MARIE is to achieve the professional, social and economic conditions for Energy Efficiency (EE) improvement in the MED Building Stock in the framework of EU policies, programs and standards, overcoming legal, financial and market barriers. The resultant MED Buildings EE Strategy (MEDBEES) will generate public/private synergies beneficial to sustainable development of the MED region.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Commission

MAIN

“MATÉRIAUX INTELLIGENTS”

Project website: http://www.med-main.com/

Project Details: The MAIN Project, co-financed by the MED Programme of the European Union, aims at promoting knowledge, use and trade of “cool” products, which positively influence people’s health and the environment. It aims at promoting the dissemination of ‘cool’ materials by intervening in any chain cycle for their usage and among all different stakeholders of the building sector: End users, technicians, building firms and local artisans, manufacturers, elected representatives and public officials acting in public, research and education organizations. They all aim at promoting knowledge, marketing, use of MAIN cool materials in the partners’ sites. This is set up by means of platforms, the Territorial Islands, implementing at local level the actions developed by the partners to disseminate intelligent materials and facilitate their access and proper use.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Commission

MEDESS4MS

“Mediterranean Decision Support System for Marine Safety”

Project website: http://oceania.research.um.edu.mt/cms/MEDESS4MS/

Project Details: MEDESS-4MS service is dedicated to the maritime risks prevention and strengthening of maritime safety related to oil spill pollution in the Mediterranean. The main goal of MEDESS-4MS is to deliver an integrated operational multi model oil spill prediction service in the Mediterranean, connected to existing oil spill monitoring platforms (EMSA-CSN, REMPEC and AIS data), using well established oil spill modeling systems, the environmental data from the GMES European Marine Service and the MS national ocean forecasting systems.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Regional Development Fund (co-financed)

MedEX

“Inter-basin exchange in the changing Mediterranean Sea: Impact on the ecosystems in the vicinity of the Straits connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the adjacent Basins.”

Project website: http://www.marinera-medex.eu/

Project Details: MedEx focuses on the changing inter-basin exchange processes impacting the ecosystems. MedEX will complement existing knowledge on local ecosystem dynamics, especially in what concerns the processes that are on direct dependency on the exchange between the Mediterranean and adjacent seas (the north Atlantic and the Black Sea).

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: MarinERA - FP6

MyOcean

"Development and pre-operational validation of upgraded GMES Marine Core Services and capabilities"

Project website: http://www.myocean.eu.org/

Project Details: MyOcean aims at providing a sustainable service for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting validated and commissioned by users. The MyOcean information includes observations, analysis, reanalysis and forecasts describing the physical state of the ocean and its primary biogeochemical parameters. It also contributes to research on climate by providing long time-series of reanalysed parameters.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Commission

NEWCOM#

"Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications"

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

Project Details: NEWCOM# project investigates long-term, interdisciplinary research on the most advanced aspects of wireless communications, including the thematic areas of Ultimate Limits of Communication Networks, Opportunistic and Cooperative Communications, and Energy-andBandwidth-Efficient Communications and Networking. Complementary, NEWCOM# aims to build the so-called EUropean lab of Wireless communications for the future Internet (EuWin), a federation of three sites in three European Countries that will host researchers working on a number of topical areas like Advanced Radio Interfaces, the Internet of Things, and Flexible Communication Terminals.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: EU, FP7-ICT, Network of Excellence

PARALLEL

“Development of the Integrated Parallel Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting System”

Project webpage: http://www.oceanography.ucy.ac.cy/parallel/

Project Details: The objective of the project is to develop a faster version of the Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting System (CYCOFOS) by parallelizing the existing software, and running it on Linux clusters. The improved software will be used to provide operational ocean forecasts in near real time at the sea area of Cyprus and Eastern Mediterranean Levantine basin at a higher space resolution than before, in order to assist local and sub-regional marine activities, such as search and rescue operations, response to oil spill and hazard pollution, marine safety, maritime operations, coastal and offshore constructions.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation

PATHWAY

"The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching"

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

Project Details: Supporting and coordinating actions on innovative methods in science education: teacher training on inquiry based teaching methods on a large scale in Europe.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Commission

PRACE-2IP

"PaRtnership for Advanced Computing in Europe - A Second Implementation Phase"

Project website: http://www.prace-project.eu/PRACE-2IP

Project Details: The purpose of the PRACE RI is to provide a sustainable high-quality infrastructure for Europe that can meet the most demanding needs of European HPC user communities through the provision of user access to the most powerful HPC systems available worldwide at any given time. In tandem with access to Tier-0 systems, the PRACE-2IP project will foster the coordination between national HPC resources (Tier-1 systems) to best meet the needs of the European HPC user community. To ensure that European scientific and engineering communities have access to leading edge supercomputers in the future, the PRACE-2IP project evaluates novel architectures, technologies, systems, and software. Optimizing and scaling of application for Tier-0 and Tier-1 systems is a core service of PRACE.

IASA contribution: JRU (GRNET)

Funding Agency: European Commission (Grant agreement number: RI-283493)

SEPCalib

"Recalibration and validation of SEPEM dataset"

Project website: -

Project Details: The SEPCalib project develops new methods for calibrating the ESA SEPEM (Solar Energetic Particle Environment Modelling) dataset. The new methods will verify and modify (where necessary) the scaling factors, to provide fluxes that are both easily reproducible and consistent with spectral forms found in literature. The project results will allow more accurate long-term predictions of the SEP environment through statistical models and they will further allow the updating of the present ECSS (European Cooperation for Space Standardization).

IASA contribution: Prime contractor

Funding Agency: European Space Agency (ESA)

STS-MED

"STS-MED Small scale thermal solar district units for Mediterranean communities"

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

Project Details: STS-Med focuses on the development, implementation and diffusion of pioneering technologies to improve energy efficiency in public buildings. The project will deploy 4 demonstrative plants based on Concentrating Solar (CS) power serving the energy demand of 20.000 end users coming from 20 Mediterranean local communities for a total power of 400 kW. More than 1.000 energy professionals will get in touch with the advanced CS systems through technical training sessions in addition to 200 public buildings owners/managers invited to visit the demonstrative plants. Implementation will be supported by economic and policy studies, including recommendations on regulatory issues, fiscal incentives and public innovative procurement. The project also intends to create new business opportunities, notably by supporting the involvement of SMEs in local solar energy supply chains generated by the construction of the 4 pilot plants. STS-Med is carried out by 14 organisations from Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy and Jordan bring together a wide range of technical, institutional and business expertise.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Commission

TOSCA

"Tracking Oil Spills and Coastal Awareness Network"

Project website: http://www.tosca-med.eu/

Project Details: The TOSCA (Tracking Oil Spills & Coastal Awareness network) project aims to improve the quality, speed and effectiveness of decision-making process in case of marine accidents in the Mediterranean concerning oil spill pollution and search and rescue (SAR) operations.

IASA contribution: Partner

Funding Agency: European Regional Development Fund (co-financed)

FASTViD

"Hardware solution for extremely low delay compression/decompression of video stream for reliable transmission in real time"

Project website: http://www.fastvid.eu/abstract/

Project Details: A prototype of integral wireless display microchips (FViD) able to encode and decode video (and audio) streams with extremely low delay (not exceeding 30 ms), will be a new technology-based product with a rapid innovation impact.

IASA contribution: Testing, evaluation and results verification

Funding Agency: Unibrain

INTELLIBOX

"Development of a new mobile communications device used in mobile marketing industry"

Project website: http://www.trademarkia.com/intellibox-85554001.htmlProgram

Project Details: Design of free-standing and miniature kiosks comprised of networking hardware that allows cellular-enabled IT devices to conduct business transactions

IASA contribution: product design, hardware and software development

Funding Agency: UPSTREAM S.A.