Potential Impact. When dealing with potential impact, there are two complementary issues at stake:
Potential Impact. 5.1. Strategic impact Step by step, taking into account the diversity of marine policies of Partner Nations, ESONET will create an organisation capable of implementing, operating and maintaining a network of multidisciplinary ocean observatories in deep waters around Europe. . ESONET will alert the funding agencies of all Partner Nations to its activities with the intent to allow those who are willing to plan and commit expenditure over a long time period (tens of years) to sustain the observing networks. The mandate of « core partners » in ESONET is to promote European Subsea Observatory policy at national level. The strategic position envisaged is to act at the same level as Canada, Japan and USA in order to be able to establish equilibrated cooperation. . Through the integrating activities of the first year, integrated plans of ESONET for a European Seas Observatory Network will be presented by groups in each field of expertise. . ESONET will demonstrate European capabilities through demonstrations on sites of high scientific interest (second year). . ESONET consortium will present jointly projects of underwater observatory infrastructure. . As early as possible and before the third year ESONET will constitute a formal organisation. At the end of the project (and preferably before): . the construction of infrastructure of underwater observatories will be planned according to the budgets available at local, national or EC level; . the methods and strategies of operation and maintenance will be established from common standards and incorporated in the ESONET LABEL; . the body in charge of ESONET CORE SERVICES and all ESONET REGIONAL LEGAL ENTITIES will have technical and business plans towards permanent operations and are expected to have relevant legal basis ; a number of Partner Nations will participate; . Scientific objectives of European Seas Observatory Network will be updated, promoted by a wider, more multidisciplinary community, in close interaction with stakeholders.
Potential Impact. EXPReS will realise the first operational e-VLBI network dedicated to astronomy. This will be a unique facility in Europe and will be competitive with similar projects now being planned in Australia and Japan. The creation of a real-time e-VLBI network will represent an important step forward for European astronomy and will be a technological pathfinder for future, next generation instruments, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA is included in the ESFRI “list of opportunities” – as one of the large global projects that might be developed within FP7. In particular, the technology (both software and hardware) developed for EXPReS will address various issues that are relevant to SKA, including distributed data processing (both data correlation and data analysis) and station-to-station communication over distances of up to 4000 km. Elements of EXPReS may have a much wider impact. e-VLBI data transfers are already exercising high-speed networks such as GEANT2, and discovering new and more efficient ways of transferring data using new or modified communication protocols. Specifically, EXPReS will also pioneer the use of lambda switching with the first e-VLBI tests between the UK and Dwingeloo already underway. These innovations should have widespread application, not only in the research community but also the wider-society – improving everyday Internet connectivity (in particular high bandwidth video and high fidelity audio applications). Scientific and related engineering results from EXPReS will appear in refereed journals and conference proceedings. All astronomy related results will also appear on the astro-ph preprint server. For results that are of public interest, we will generate and distribute special press-releases to national and international press agencies. This will be part of the activities supported by Networking Activity NA4 “Public Outreach, Dissemination & Communication”. Other activities of NA4 will include the production of brochures, promotional folders and a transportable EXPReS display board – all these will be aimed at informing the xxxxxx of the activities supported by
Potential Impact. “ARTIVASC 3D” DEFINITION OF REQUIREMENTS The overall coordinating work in WP1 lays the cornerstone for future development of artificial implants like blood vessel and soft tissue. The long-term impact lies in the development of artificial organs. Since “ArtiVasc 3D” aimed to develop new kinds of 3D printing technologies the gained knowledge will have impact on future development of material and process development. MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERISATION IN “ARTIVASC 3D” The choice of materials in soft tissue engineering has decisively been broadened. The “ArtiVasc 3D” project has improved the understanding of the technical parameters and feasibility of novel biomaterials that are to be processed with 3D additive manufacturing technologies and electrospinning. The knowledge gained and disseminated through “ArtiVasc 3D” project will not only benefit the fields of material science and production technology, but moreover the entire field of bioartificial tissue engineering.
Potential Impact. Screening studies for coeliac disease (CD) in Europe have revealed prevalence as high as 1.0% and in first-degree relatives of CD patients the frequency of the disease is as common as 10%. Thus, CD has emerged as a new European public health problem. A conservative prevalence of 0.5% corresponds to about 2.5 million CD cases in Europe, out of which about 85% are unrecognised and thus also untreated. In a life perspective the negative health consequences of untreated CD are extensive and considerably reducing the quality of life. The necessary gluten free diet gives an extra cost of € 1,200-1,300 per patient a year, according to an estimate by the Dutch Association of Coeliac Patients (NCV). This corresponds to a total European financial burden of €3.0-3.3 billion, when considering all 2.5 million CD cases. Thus, the negative economical consequences are substantial, with additional expenditure due also to lost working-time and misspent healthcare cost. Solving society problems CD has, until recently, been considered as unavoidable. However, this view was recently challenged by an epidemic of CD among children in the genetically stable Swedish population. Such an epidemic curve of CD incidence indicates an abrupt change in causal factors. Further studies suggest that half of the epidemic might have been prevented if all infants had been introduced to gluten-containing foods gradually and preferably while still breast-fed. If so, it might be that CD could be prevented in millions of Europeans by changes in infant diet practices. Thus, primary prevention might be an option for CD, and this is highly preferable for both humanitarian and economical reasons.
Potential Impact. Commercial Significant commercial potential has been generated by CD-MEDICS both in terms of the primary coeliac disease instrument and disposable microsystem assays as well as other enabling technology that has commercial potential. The coeliac disease diagnostic and monitoring system is being taken into a further development stage to prepare for full commercialisation. Partners are committed to this and an outline commercialisation agreement has been proposed and agreed. It is envisaged that a further 2 years of development are required before a product can be launched on the market. In the first exploitation phase, two product variants are being planned: HLA and Serology This product will be an instrument that will allow both HLA and Serology tests to be run. It will have one analysis slot and will run one test at a time, allowing diagnosis based on a combination of the results from HLA-typing and serology as depicted schematically in Figure 22. The product is designed for use in GP surgeries, local clinics and specialist gastroenterology / coeliac disease clinics.
Potential Impact. The project has the potential to have a huge impact if successful. The impact can be summarised by saying that at present information and communication technologies are in general slaves to the demands of their users; the project will show how autonomous, virtual agents can self-organise to survive in a challenging virtual world, operating in ways that the software designers have not imagined. Perhaps the most dramatic impact of the project will be the change in world-view among the public that such a development could trigger. The idea of autonomous agents capable of virtual ‘life’ in parallel with human activity is one that is recognised as a realistic possibility among the IST community, but so far exists only as science fiction among the public. For example, the press would no doubt relate the outcomes of the project to the disotopias foretold in many science fiction stories. As usual with technological developments, such scare-mongering would fail to acknowledge the benefits that one could also anticipate. We suggest some practical examples of the use of ideas stemming from the project below.
Potential Impact. While all POINT partners have been into contact with politicians and policy-makers, the POINT results had the most direct avenue into society in Finland, due to the close relations between the POINT partner XXXX, and the work in the Ministry of the Environment on sustainability and well- being indicators. This was realised in following texts: o Revision of Finnish sustainable development indicators. Viewpoints and suggestions from national indicator network. [In Finnish] Available from: xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx/xxxxxxxx.xxx?contentid=124784&lan=fi o Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx (2011). Frameworks for the ex-ante impact assessment of sustainable development. Suggestion for the assessment tool. Reports of the Ministry of the Environment, Helsinki. [In print] o Expert group on new dimensions for the measurement of well-being (HYMY- working group). Prime Minister's Office, 2010-2011. (Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx). POINT results have also been introduced to the ‘indicator industry’ at European level through participation and presentations at the OECD workshop, titled ‘Agri-environmental indicators: Lessons learned and future directions’ (Switzerland 2010), The Eurostat workshop on New techniques and Technologies for Statisticians (NTTS 2011, Brussels, February 2011) and the Eurostat conference ‘Statistics for Policy-makers’ (Brussels, March 2011) The European Commission and policy-makers call for evidence based policies (EC, 2008). In support of such a policy-making approach, the European Environmental Agency, EUROSTAT, OECD as well as many other organisations are producing increasing numbers of indicators, notably in the areas of the environment and sustainable development. Moreover, calls for indicators are voiced across several recent EC initiatives. This implies that it is also increasingly important to recognise the broad variety of aims and uses that can be attributed to indicators, and the need to ensure that these aims correspond to the policy situation in question. Generally spoken, it is important that indicator producers better collaborate with indicators users – even the more ‘distant’ users. Moreover, it is also crucial to know what makes indicators influential in different contexts and processes – and not least to clarify what influence implies in a given context – for example in spreading knowledge, in producing ideas, in framing or advancing dialogue or in measuring policy performance. These are some of the issues explored in the POINT project, and a final synthesis proce...
Potential Impact. Implementation of the Project modifications could result in levee disturbance that could affect drainage infrastructure and local surface runoff patterns. This potential impact is discussed in the Draft SEIR at page 3.1-5.
Potential Impact. Implementation of the Project modifications could affect groundwater or surface water quality resulting from contact with the water table. This potential impact is discussed in the Draft SEIR at page 3.2-4.
