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Item Challenges in the implementation of responsible research and innovation across Horizon 2020(2022-07-13) Tabarés, Raúl; Loeber, Anne; Nieminen, Mika; Bernstein, Michael J.; Griessler, Erich; Blok, Vincent; Cohen, Joshua; Hönigmayer, Helmut; Wunderle, Ulrike; Frankus, Elisabeth; BIGDATAIn the last decade, the European Commission (EC) developed an ambitious strategy to promote RRI across the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020). This effort resulted in a significant number of European-funded projects that substantially expanded the available knowledge of the theory, methods and implementation of RRI. However, various evaluations and studies revealed a limited and diffuse implementation of the concept. In this article, we aim to shed some light on this matter with a study covering eight programme lines of H2020 (ERC, MSCA, LEIT, FOOD, ENV, SEC, WIDENING and EURATOM). We employ an extensive policy document analysis and 112 semi-structured interviews carried out with various stakeholders. We argue that the limited implementation of RRI in H2020 is the result of conflicts with existing values, science cultures, economic objectives, restricted resources for its implementation and a lack of clarification around what RRI means.Item Ergonomics Evaluation in Designed Maintainability: Case Study Using 3 DSSPP: Case Study Using 3 DSSPP(2021-12-01) Teymourian, Kiumars; Tretten, Phillip; Seneviratne, Dammika; Galar, Diego; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; INDUSTRY_THINGSMaintainability is one of the design parameters (reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS)) and maintenance is needed to keep the respective design in sustainable use. At the same time, the human is involved in the form of interface and interaction in an engineered product/system designed. Ergonomics is a multi-discipli nary science that considers human capabilities and limitations in a broader sense. The objective of this paper is to integrate ergonomics into the maintainability design process in order to facilitate maintenance operation in lesser; time, cost, easier operation as well as the well-being of human who is involved. In other words, good er gonomics lead to good economics and in a broader sense, sustainability. This investigation shows that designing comfortable workplaces and lesser workload for maintenance operators will be beneficial for the maintainability design process and also improve the meantime to repair MTTR. In order to evaluate the effect of designed work place and workload on maintainers 3 D Static Strength Prediction Program (3D SSPP) that is commonly used as an ergonomics evaluation tool in scientific studies was applied.Item Investigation of Thermal-Related Effects in Hot SPIF of Ti–6Al–4V Alloy(2019) Ortiz, Mikel; Penalva, Mariluz; Iriondo, Edurne; López de Lacalle, Luis Norberto; FABRIC_INTELThe present work focuses on a new approach to hot form hard-to-work materials by Single Point Incremental Forming (SPIF) technology using a global heating of the sheet. A set of trials was carried out in order to identify the optimum temperature cycles to minimize geometric distortions associated to each process stage on the fabrication of parts made of Ti–6Al–4V. On the one hand, heating trials allowed defining the optimal procedure to improve the temperature distribution homogeneity along the sheet and consequently to minimize its thermal distortion previous to the forming stage. On the other hand, the influence of both working temperature and the applied cooling on the geometric accuracy was evaluated by means of SPIF trials. For this purpose, a generic asymmetric design with typical aeronautical features was used. These trials pointed out that high forming temperatures allow reducing significantly the material springback whereas a controlled cooling (with an intermediate stress relief treatment) minimizes both the distortion of the part during the cooling and the mechanical stresses accumulated on the clamping system. Furthermore, the work includes a post-forming material evaluation to determinate the influence of the employed processing conditions on microcracks, alpha-case layer, microstructure and hardness.Item A method for defining a regional software ecosystem strategy: Colombia as a case study: Colombia as a case study(2016-03-01) Larrucea, Xabier; Nanclares, Felix; Santamaria, Izaskun; Tecnalia Research & Innovation; SWTSoftware ecosystems (SECO) have been related to products or to a community of developers around a product. The SECO concept can also be applied to describe regional software ecosystems in which different software companies collaborate in a specific market based on a set of concrete technologies and using a set of capabilities. This paper details a regional SECO concept and a method based on regional endogenous capabilities and country needs to define a SECO strategy. Traditional strategy definition approaches are top-down, whereas this approach is a blended approach that merges bottom-up based on current regional capabilities and top-down based on market and technology trends. This paper presents a large case study performed in 6 regions of Colombia. We conducted 49 interviews and 16 workshops in which 654 attendees participated, and we developed the Colombian ICT national strategic plan based on this approach.Item Smart Grid Challenges Through the Lens of the European General Data Protection Regulation(Springer, 2020) Martinez, Jabier; Ruiz, Alejandra; Puelles, Javier; Arechalde, Ibon; Miadzvetskaya, Yuliya; Siarheyeva, Alena; Barry, Chris; Lang, Michael; Linger, Henry; Schneider, Christoph; SWT; Quantum; DIG_LIF_SKI; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was conceived to remove the obstacles to the free movement of personal data while ensuring the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of such data. The Smart Grid has similar features as any privacy-critical system but, in comparison to the engineering of other architectures, has the peculiarity of being the source of energy consumption data. Electricity consumption constitutes an indirect means to infer personal information. This work looks at the Smart Grid from the perspective of the GDPR, which is especially relevant now given the current growth and diversification of the Smart Grid ecosystem. We provide a review of existing works highlighting the importance of energy consumption as valuable personal data as well as an analysis of the established Smart Grid Architecture Model and its main challenges from a legal viewpoint, in particular the challenge of sharing data with third parties.