Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Towards a Clean, Litter-Free European Marine Environment through Scientific Evidence, Innovative Tools and Good Governance (CLEANSEA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable use and management of land and seas
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Belgium,Bulgaria,Sweden,Greece,Norway,Germany,Romania,Greece,Spain,Netherlands,Sweden,United Kingdom,Denmark,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3788527.71
EU funding (EUR): 2986570.99
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

There is an urgent need for an improved knowledge base for the management of marine litter. CLEANSEA aims to generate new information on the impacts (biological, social and economic) of marine litter, develop novel tools needed to collect and monitor litter and protocols needed for monitoring data (litter composition and quantities) and evaluate the impact of mitigation strategies and measures in order to provide options to policy makers in the EU. This will be achieved through 7 work packages. WPs 2 and 3 cover biological impacts and technical aspects of marine monitoring, monitoring tools and applications. WP4 investigates multilevel socio-economic impact and barriers to Good Environmental Status, providing a justification for the development of management measures and policy options in WP5. This WP combines advanced institutional analysis with a participatory approach in order to identify and assess management measures, strategies and policy options in collaboration with stakeholders that reduce marine litter and alleviate diverse ecological and socio-economic impacts as identified in WPs 2-4. WP6 will integrate the outcomes of the project and hosts the CLEANSEA Stakeholder Platform. Management is dealt with under WP1 with a professional dissemination package, including a documentary film, website, publications, etc. covered in WP7. CLEANSEA includes top scientific groups from eleven European countries distributed over all marine regions. It also includes six SMEs, four of them focused on technological innovation of monitoring, mitigation and recycling tools. CLEANSEA will tackle the marine litter problem from a broad interdisciplinary perspective . Advancement is expected in the array of monitoring tools and systems, knowledge about impacts, and management measures and policy options. By searching for new paradigms and integrating knowledge and methods, CLEANSEA intends to contribute concrete elements to the road map towards strong reductions in marine litter.

Keywords: marine litter,microplastics,marine strategy,monitoring,socio-economic barriers,legislation,innovative tools,msfd,policy options
An environmental Standards Information Portal for Europe (SIPE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Sweden,Netherlands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1203689.2
EU funding (EUR): 992746.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of SIPE is to promote and increase the use of research results in support of Standards (related to the compartments air, water, soil and waste) to stakeholders from RTD, Standardisation bodies, policy and enterprises/SMEs. A dedicated www-based Standards Information Portal (SIPE-RTD) will be developed and implemented. Easy transfer of information is facilitated by an input module (SIPIS) and a document repository. An Interfacing Group, consisting of stakeholders’ representatives will be invited to comment on the initial concept and to steer the development of the portal. They shall be instrumental to ensure that SIPE-RTD develops into a fit-for-use and sustainable entity. EC FP-funded research projects in support of Standards and their results, and Standards related to the mentioned sectors will be listed. EC Directives in these areas and their policy tasks will be collated. The same set of keywords will be used to describe all data sets. This pool of (Standards related) keywords will be interlinked by algorithms into a ‘Categorisation scheme of keywords’. This scheme will be the basis for the interactions within and between the stakeholder communities, and be used for gap analyses. Information on RTD projects (and their results), information on Standards and Directives will be entered into SIPE-RTD. Short descriptions in non–scientific language will be entered together with web-links. To maximise dissemination to all stakeholders the target audiences will be defined and their networks/professional organisations will be mapped. Dissemination will be two-way: inform all stakeholders on the activities of the SIPE project and inform all on the benefits of SIPE-RTD as an important tool in communication between different Standards communities. The Interfacing Group and a Stakeholder Network will test and validate SIPE-RTD and support dissemination to their respective audiences.

Keywords: environmental s&t,standardisation bodies,standards,communication & dissemination,ict,knowledge dissemination,stakeholder networks
OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable use and management of land and seas
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Norway,Belgium,European organisations area,France,Hungary,Romania,Slovakia,Portugal,Spain,Spain,Spain,Denmark,Hungary,Denmark,Brazil,Argentina,Kenya,Netherlands,Romania,Slovakia,Italy,Germany,India,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11488446.4
EU funding (EUR): 8999193.0
Participants: 39
Project status: CLOSED

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where and when the concepts can most effectively be applied to solve problems. To do this, it will work with public and private decision makers and stakeholders to better understand the range of policy and management problems faced in different case study contexts (ranging across locales, sectors, scales and time). OpenNESS will consolidate, refine and develop a range of spatially-explicit methods to identify, quantify and value ecosystem services, and will develop hybrid assessment methods. It will also explore the effectiveness of financial and governance mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services, habitat banking, biodiversity offsetting and land and ecosystem accounting. These types of interventions have potential for sustaining ESS and NC, and for the design of new economic and social investment opportunities. Finally, OpenNESS will assess how current regulatory frameworks and other institutional factors at EU and national levels enable or constrain consideration of ESS and NC, and identify the implications for issues related to well-being, governance and competitiveness. OpenNESS will analyse the knowledge that is needed to define ESS and NC in the legal, administrative and political contexts that are relevant to the EU. The work will deliver a menu of multi-scale solutions to be used in real life situations by stakeholders, practitioners, and decision makers in public and business organizations, by providing new frameworks, data-sets, methods and tools that are fit-for-purpose and sensitive to the plurality of decision-making contexts.

Keywords: sustainable environmental management cross-cutting methodologies policy and scenario analysis a menu of multi-scale solutions place based exploration of es and nc concepts real-world case studies
Energy-efficient, community-based water- and wastewater-treatment systems for deployment in India (ECO-INDIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Horizontal and cross-thematic activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Denmark,Germany,Ireland,United Kingdom,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2259742.04
EU funding (EUR): 1717434.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of ECO-India is to design and develop innovative cost-effective solutions for community- based water- and wastewater- treatment systems. These systems will be deployed at pilot sites in arsenic-affected water-stressed regions in India. The two consortia, Indian (DST) and European (FP7), will establish pilot schemes for • catchment area and reservoir management • surface water supply schemes • arsenic removal (including monitoring using UFZ’s field-tested Arsolux arsenic sensor) • disinfection treatment for potable water based on Trustwater’s EC-certified mixed-oxidant generation systems. • online monitoring of water quality • water distribution network, together with online/offline water quality monitoring programmes • sewerage and wastewater treatment. In addition, prototype energy-efficient modules for water deionisation and heavy metal removal will be developed. A feasibility study will be performed to assess the potential for energy harvesting from sludge.

Keywords: disinfection,mixed oxidant generation,sludge treatment,biogas,energy harvesting,capicitive deionisation,arsenic sensor
Science and Technology Advancing Governance of Good Environmental Status (STAGES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable use and management of land and seas
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,France,France,Ireland,Denmark,European organisations area,Norway
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1119512.0
EU funding (EUR): 999692.04
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive is designed to deliver “Good Environmental Status” (GES) in EU marine waters by 2020. This Directive requires that Member States (MS) with marine territories put in place measures to achieve and maintain GES within a defined timeframe and according to eleven key descriptors of environmental status. However, there is a significant knowledge deficit which may hinder full implementation of the MSFD and the achievement of GES in EU waters.STAGES (Science and Technology Advancing Governance on Good Environmental Status) project is designed to directly address this knowledge deficit. The project has to overarching goals: i) to synthezise per major MSFD themes the information from research projects and ii) to develop a platform to ensure that the knowledge generated through European science and technology can be channeled to a broad range of relevant end users, to inform and facilitate implementation of the MSFD and the achievement of GES. To achieve this, STAGES will target a number of critical gaps in the knowledge transfer process. Firstly, STAGES will identify and synthesize relevant existing EU research results and make them available in a usable format for decision and policy making authorities. Through comprehensive scientific foresight targeted at MSFD knowledge gaps, STAGES will identify needs for futher research. STAGES will also develop innovative solutions to achieve an effective collaboration between the broad range of stakeholders necessary to support MSDF implementation, including policy and governance, science, industry and civil society. Moreover, the role and input of MSFD stakeholders will be central to the activities of the project and to the proposals for a science policy interface which will be delivered by the project. The partnership has been constructed to include a combination of EU/international organizations which can represent a broad constituency of MSFD stakeholders, and national organizations with responsibility to support research and provide advice on MSFD implementation at MS level.

Keywords: msfd,good environmental status,descriptor,environmental targets indicator,criteria,measure,pressure,impacts,science/policy platform,msfd stakeholder,knowledge translation,research foresight
Economic iNsTRuments to Achieve Climate Targets in Europe (ENTRACTE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Coping with climate change
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Germany,Norway,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-one-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3742705.59
EU funding (EUR): 2935276.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The ENTRACTE research project assesses the EU’s climate policy portfolio. While the EU ETS is key to promote the transition towards a low-carbon economy, ambitious GHG emissions reductions will be reached only if this scheme is improved and supported by complementary policies. A carefully considered policy design has to take into account existing market failures other than the climate externality, suboptimal outcomes of international agreements, the necessity to secure competitiveness and reduce carbon leakage and the co-existence and interaction with several other political goals. ENTRACTE looks at the EU ETS and additional policy instruments like energy efficiency standards, renewable policies, carbon taxes, innovation policies, and trade measures. ENTRACTE provides a deep understanding of how climate policy instruments interact with each other and with related policy instruments. It takes the “real-world” and its imperfections comprehensively into account and considers practical barriers in the implementation (like information asymmetry, uncertainty, political and legal constraints, behavioural aspects). ENTRACTE integrates empirical findings from ex-post assessments using broad sets of empirical data as well as ex-ante analyses with simulation models and experimental approaches with theoretical findings in order to optimize the policy mix. By adopting a project-wide harmonization of assumptions and scenarios about the current and future policy environment, ENTRACTE allows to pursue an integrated approach and and to arrive at a synthesis of research results which identifies strengths and weaknesses of different instrument mixes. Based on these findings, ENTRACTE makes a major step in providing practically applicable recommendations for policy makers on how to design the environmentally effective, economically efficient and politically and legally feasible climate policy mix needed to achieve medium-term and long-term GHG reduction targets in Europe.

Keywords: climate policy analyses,instrument mix,policy interaction,eu ets,ghg emission reduction targets
Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,Germany,Greece,United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8537586.08
EU funding (EUR): 6549522.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

COBWEB will leverage the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR). Concentrating initially on the Welsh Dyfi Biosphere Reserve, we will develop a citizens’ observatory framework, and then validate the work within the context of the UK National Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and internationally, within the WNBR; specifically, within Greek and German Reserves. The infrastructure we develop will exploit technological developments in ubiquitous mobile devices, crowd-sourcing of geographic information and the operationalising of standards based SDI such as the UK Location Information Infrastructure. It will enable citizens living within Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental information on a range of parameters including species distribution, flooding and land cover/use. A main driver will be the opportunity to participate in environmental governance. Data quality issues will be addressed by using networks of “people as sensors” and by analysing observations and measurements in real-time combination with authoritative models and datasets. The citizen’s observatory framework will integrate with evolving INSPIRE compliant national SDI’s and allow the fusion of citizen sourced data with reference data from public authorities in support of policy objectives. To maximise impact, COBWEB will work within the processes of the standards defining organisations. Specifically, we will aim to improve the usability of Sensor Web Enablement standards with mobile devices, develop widespread acceptance of the data quality measures we develop and maximise the commercial appeal of COBWEB outputs. The end result we are aiming for is a toolkit and a set of models that demonstrably works in different European countries and which is accepted as a core information system component of the WNBR. Implementations of COBWEB will act as models for how technology may be used to empower citizens associations in environmental decision making.

Keywords: world network biosphere reserves,sensor web enablement,spatial data infrastructure,crowd-sourcing,citizen participation,citizen observatory,location based services,geospatial interoperability
Design, construction and demonstration of solar biofuel production using novel (photo)synthetic cell factories (CYANOFACTORY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Portugal,Germany,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3914852.4
EU funding (EUR): 2997464.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

CyanoFactory brings together ten selected leading, highly complementary European partners with the aim to carry out integrated, fundamental research aiming at applying synthetic biology principles towards a cell factory notion in microbial biotechnology. The vision is to build on recent progress in synthetic biology and develop novel photosynthetic cyanobacteria as chassis to be used as self-sustained cell factories in generating a solar fuel. This will include the development of a toolbox with orthogonal parts and devices for cyanobacterial synthetic biology, improvement of the chassis enabling enhanced growth and robustness in challenging environmental conditions, establishment of a data warehouse facilitating the modelling and optimization of cyanobacterial metabolic pathways, and strong and novel bioinformatics for effective data mining. To reach the goal, a combination of basic and applied R&D is needed; basic research to design and construct the cyanobacterial cells efficiently evolving H2 from the endless resources solar energy and water, and applied research to design and construct the advanced photobioreactors that efficiently produce H2. Biosafety is of highest concern and dedicated efforts will be made to address and control cell survival and death. The aim, to develop a (photo)synthetic cell factory, will have an enormous impact on the future options and possibilities for renewable solar fuel production. The consortium includes academic, research institute and industry participants with the direct involvement of two SMEs in the advanced photobioreactor design, construction and use. Purpose-designed, specifically engineered self-sustained cells utilising solar energy and CO2 from the air, may be the mechanisms and processes by which we generate large scale renewable energy carriers in our future societies. CyanoFactory offers Europe the possibility to take a lead, and not only follow, in these very important future and emerging technologies!

Keywords: synthetic biology,photobiological solar fuels/h2 production,engineered cyanobacteria,molecular toolbox,bioinformatics,systems biology analyses,metabolic modelling,biosafety,photobioreactors
A consumer oriented prototype – forming the nucleus of a novel Ecological Accounting System (MYECOCOST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-15
End date: 2015-10-14
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3781340.14
EU funding (EUR): 2948784.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

myEcoCost is a foundational methodology that defines a global collaborative network of resource accounting nodes. It provides a means of accounting for and expressing usage of natural resources for products, services and technologies, to inform all economic actors including SMEs (Small and Medium size Enterprise) and consumers, on environmentally relevant information. It is a novel, bottom up approach to measure resource efficiency, the results of which are applicable in corporate, industry and society wide contexts. It is an asynchronous, recursive, non-centralised data gathering and dissemination technique for a large scale stakeholder network. myEcoCost aims to support various environmental accounting and assessment practices applicable to various national and international environment policy objectives. It links business added value to a measurement of aggregated resource usage as accepted environmental pressure indicator which goes beyond single issue indicators such as carbon footprint. Using an Internet-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) relevant and timely data is passed from supplier to customer recursively through the whole value chain to produce “ecoCosts” for each product or service. The project will demonstrate how it is technically possible to provide timely and accurate resource efficiency statements. For this to happen a series of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) infrastructure components will be arranged: A resource accounting framework to determine “ecoCosts”, an ICT delivery mechanism to transfer the measurement from supplier to customer, benchmark figures for companies and consumers linking to macro level policy objectives, and interfaces for industry and consumers to interpret the measurement to assist decision making. The project aims at researching and developing all key ICT and software elements to trial and to demonstrate the resource accounting framework and infrastructure in a proof-of-concept prototype, involving various value chain actors, users, environmental data processors and policy makers.

Keywords: ecological accounting,resource efficiency,sustainable limits,micro indicators,aggregated ecological cost,ecocost,asynchronous recursive decentralised data gathering,soa,true cost economics