Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced Surface Protection for Improved Reliability PCB Systems (ASPIS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands,Lithuania,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3011558.86
EU funding (EUR): 2044167.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

To investigate the scope, extent and factors causing black pad and related problems on printed circuit boards with an electroless nickel / immersion gold (ENIG) solderable finish . To develop a non-destructive test method to show the presence of black pad. To develop and test lower cost, less aggressive surface protection chemistries as replacements for conventional ENIG using both aqueous and ionic liquid based electrolytes. To introdude these to the European PCB industry and to support the introductiuon of new standards around their use.

Keywords: black pad,electroless nickel - immersion gold,printed circuit boards,ionic liquids
MULTILAYERED WOOD-BASED EXTERIOR DOORS WITH ENHANCED ACOUSTIC INSULATING PROPERTIES FOR DWELLINGS, SANITATION AND EDUCATIVE CENTRES (SILENTWOOD)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Sweden,Slovenia,Spain,Poland,Italy,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493357.64
EU funding (EUR): 1976760.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the SILENTWOOD project is to develop and validate a novel, price-competitive, certificable exterior wooden-based door with enhanced acoustic performance to attend the growing demand and comply with increasingly stringent building legislations for residential, educational and sanitary premises. It will also cope with the broadest range of aesthetic and architectonic variables and applicable world-wide standards (i.e. in relation to thermal insulation, fire-proofing and mechanical properties). It will be based on an innovative multilayered structure containing new noise reduction materials and attenuating internal geometrical design. The purpose of SILENTWOOD is to allow the impacted sectors to comply with existing building regulations at European level and, at the same time, opening them the door to new market opportunities to help them face their current critical situation. This aim can be divided into two general objectives: 1.Develop the sound-insulating sandwich or multilayered structure, containing new noise reduction materials and designing an innovative attenuating internal geometrical design. 2.Test, validate and certify the door full system, firstly using computer models for optimization and rapid prototyping purposes and, secondly, carrying out standardised tests. The participant SME-AGs have recognised the need to find a technological solution to its associated SMEs and the appropriateness of the solution presented in Silentboard. However, they do not consider themselves, nor the SMEs they represent, to have the technical capabilities to drive the necessary R&D activities at the level of excellence required for such development, as this would require the combination of expertises in fields such as materials, engineering, computer sciences, acoustic and physics. For this reason, the associations of this consortium agree on the need to contract R&D services with a range of specific expertise.

Keywords: wood,composite,material,acoustic
Development and Validation of an Automated Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) Approach for Testing Welded Joints in Plastic Pipes (TESTPEP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium,France,France,United Kingdom,Lithuania,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3358389.55
EU funding (EUR): 2555000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Plastics pipes offer significant advantages over other materials such as cast iron, steel, copper and concrete, for the transportation of fluids such as natural gas, water, effluent and corrosive liquids. They do not corrode; have a longer predicted service life, leading to less frequent replacement; they are less expensive to install due to their light weight and flexibility; and have significantly lower leakage rates due to having an all-welded system. However, their more widespread use is being restricted by the lack of a reliable non-destructive evaluation (NDE) method for the welded joints. Pipeline leakage does not only cause high repair costs but can also result in disastrous environmental consequences and even in loss of life. This project will develop phased array ultrasonic NDE procedures for butt fusion and electrofusion joints in PE pipes of diameters up to 1m and also for pipes in other plastics materials, including PVC, ABS, PP and PVDF. In addition, the project will also develop an automated inspection system that will be able to inspect pipe-to-pipe and pipe-to-fitting (elbows, bends, reducers, tees, etc) butt and socket joints in various plastic pipe materials and diameters between 90 and 1000mm. The development will be made by manufacturing welded joints containing known flaws. The NDE data will be analysed to determine the limits of flaw detection for each technique. In parallel, the significance of flaw size and quantity will be established in relation to service requirements. This will be achieved by long-term mechanical testing of joints containing known flaws, and comparison with results for welds containing no flaws. The prototype equipment, designed and built as part of this project will be assessed under both laboratory and field conditions.

Keywords: plastic pipelines,phased array,joins,defects,cracks,butt welds
FIRE-SMART. FOREST AND LAND MANAGEMENT OPTIONS TO PREVENT UNWANTED FOREST FIRES (FIRESMART)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable management of resources
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,European organisations area,Belgium,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1093895.18
EU funding (EUR): 920000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Forest fire prevention involves a complex implementation. Because of the broad spectrum of activities included, prevention can be designed and performed at different scales, involving a great variety of institutions. Still, hardly ever legislation regulates the inclusion of fire prevention activities as part of forest management plans. Nevertheless, prevention is actually performed, although the lack of planning and coordination reduces the efficiency of prevention measures. Furthermore, it is suspected that often those practices lack solid foundations, and that are not site and species or stand type specific. FireSmart objective is to make a significant contribution to the prevention of unwanted forest fires. To this purpose the Consortium will retrieve, from institutions operating at several scales, the fire prevention theories and practices currently in use in the Mediterranean Europe. This information will be analysed meticulously in order to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses involved in fire prevention taking into account socio-economic, institutional and legislative aspects. The analysis will lead to the assessment of the existing different options to overcome the actual difficulties and to the subsequent elaboration recommendations and practical guidelines for stakeholders involved in the entire sustainable management chain of silviculture. Finally, using findings obtained in along the project, the Consortium will elaborate the strategic roadmap that will point the path to follow in the future. The present project makes particular emphasis in the dissemination which will be organised around a project Web Page, two workshops and a final Seminar. The Consortium forsees the need to maintain the Web page alive after the project and proposes a feasible solution for the future of this Web page, which will play a crucial role for the connection and exchange of information between stakeholders.

Keywords: forest fire,prevention,obstacles,recommendations,dissemination,multiscale approach
Semiconductor Nanodevices for Room temperature THz Emission and Detection (ROOTHZ)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,France,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2100578.0
EU funding (EUR): 1567109.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

ROOTHz project addresses the bottleneck of Terahertz Science and Technology, where the fabrica-tion of room temperature, continuous wave, compact, tunable and powerful sources (at low cost, if possible) is the prime challenge. THz radiation (also called T-rays), whose frequency range lies between microwaves and infrared light in the electromagnetic spectrum, opens the possibility for a new imaging and spectroscopic technology with a broad range of applications, from medical diagnostic (without the damage pro-duced by ionizing radiation such as X-rays), industrial quality control or security-screening tools. T rays sources must be obtained at the limits of electronics from one side and optical systems from the other, resulting in a lack of efficient and practical radiation sources. In ROOTHz we propose to exploit THz Gunn oscillations in novel (narrow and wide bandgap) semiconductor nanodevices, which have been predicted by simulations but not experimentally confirmed yet. We aim at the fabrication not only of solid state emitters but also detectors at THz frequencies by exploiting the properties of both wide and narrow bandgap semiconductors and the advantages pro-vided by the use of novel device architectures such as slot-diodes and rectifying nano diodes (nano-channels with broken symmetry so called self-switching diodes, SSDs). The simplicity of the tech-nological process used for the fabrication of these diodes is remarkable, since it only involves the etching of insulating trenches or recess lines on a semiconductor surface (a single step of high reso-lution lithography). Furthermore, their particular geometry allows providing Gunn oscillations overcoming the classical frequency limit (around 300GHz). The fabrication of THz detectors with the same technology will complement this objective and allow the demonstration of a simple THz detection/emission subsystem at the conclusion of the project.

Keywords: gunn oscillations,gan and sb-based heterostructures,nanodevices,terahertz emission and detection
Formalisation of Mathematics (FORMATH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,France,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2391473.0
EU funding (EUR): 1811426.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to developed libraries of formalized mathematics concerning linear algebra, real number computation, and algebraic topology. The main originality of this work will be to structure these libraries as a software development, relying on a basis that has already shown its power in the formal proof of the four color theorem, and to address topics that were mostly left untouched by previous research in formal proof or formal methods. The main milestones of this work will concern formally proved algorithms for solving problems in real arithmetics, solving problems in ordinary differential equations, or solving problems in algebraic topology. The success of this proposal will bring about a revolution in the way mathematicians can exploit computer-based calculations to advance their results. This research will also have an impact in all areas of software development where software is interacting with the real physical world. As a result, there should be a visible positive impact in the competitiveness of European industry. We have entered an era of mathematical proofs of extraordinary complexity that indicates a change in our understanding of mathematical reasoning. An example of such complex proofs is the four-color theorem. It involves computers in a crucial way. Can we trust such proofs? To address this problem, mathematicians and computer scientists have started research on formal proofs, and with interactive computer-based proof systems, researchers can verify algorithms whenever a complete mathematical specification is feasible. The goal of this project is to make formal proof verification available to domains that were hitherto beyond the reach of proof systems. Mathematics is already playing a crucial role in the design of sophisticated systems that are used daily, in geometrical modeling, robotics, ...This use of mathematics will increase, and correctness and reliable specification of these systems will become more and more important.

Keywords: formal proofs,software correctness,interactive proof systems,type theory
Supporting the EU access to South Africa’s research and innovation programmes (SACCESS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Supporting the EU access to third country programmes
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Sweden,South Africa,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 629575.0
EU funding (EUR): 498747.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

This ACCESS4EU project aims at enhancing the access opportunities, and hence the participation, of EU member states and associate countries, private and public research units in the national research and innovation programmes facilitated by South Africa. Essentially, the project focuses on the substantial collection of information regarding national research and innovation capacities and programmes within South Africa. However, the primary objective is to disseminate that information to the widest possible number of researchers and other stakeholders, aiming at the creation of effective collaborations between the EU and the South Africa R&amp;D communities. In addition the project contributes to the works of the Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Committee (JSTCC) with some suggestions to implement the reciprocity of the S&amp;T agreement and by identifying how greater synergies will be achieved between FP7 and South Africa’s national research and innovation programmes. The articulation of information with other relevant projects in the area of international S&amp;T cooperation with South Africa (INCO-NET, BILAT, INCONTACT etc), and the creation of synergies with other ACCESS4EU is targeted with the aim of achieving grater dissemination of the knowledge on the existent participation opportunities at research and innovation programmes managed by South Africa, as well as to magnify the context and effect of the disseminated knowledge.

Keywords: access,participation,internationalisation,funding opportunities
Impact of climate change on the transport, fate and risk management of viral pathogens in water (VIROCLIME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,Greece,Sweden,Brazil,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3127083.2
EU funding (EUR): 2421016.4
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The use of hydrological models to determine the effects of climate change on the variation in viral flux, and therefore in risk associated with viral disease, constitutes a novel approach to the management of water-related disease. Tools developed in previous EU Projects will be used to conduct case studies on five selected sites (in Sweden, Spain, Hungary, Greece and Brazil) vulnerable to climate change (principally rainfall events), and the empirical baseline data accrued will be used in mathematical models constructed to estimate changes in exposure under defined conditions. Exposure levels will then be used to estimate risk of disease associated with such changes. Tools will include novel methods for processing of sewage, effluent and water samples, for quantitative detection of the target viruses, and for the determination of the source (human or animal) of viral pollution. Models will be adapted from existing epidemiological models for viral disease in the community, or will be generated de novo as required. Bacterial faecal indicator analysis will permit the determination of any relationships between virus levels and water quality standards, and also between changes in virus concentration in water and risk to public health activities, such as bathing in polluted water or consumption of shellfish.

Keywords: viruses,water-borne disease,pathogens,methods,risk-assessment,modelling
New Ways to Value and Market Forest Externalities (NEWFOREX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Indonesia,Spain,Finland,France,Finland,Germany,Italy,Poland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2009-3, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3552017.4
EU funding (EUR): 2712501.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Many forest goods and services are not marketed. Methods for assessing these values are incomplete, and so is an understanding of who benefits from them. Forest owners are not rewarded for the value of these externalities and may make decisions providing less externalities than optimal. We can increase welfare, if we develop ways to enhance their provision. The objectives of NEWFOREX are: 1: To provide methods for valuing forest externalities, which handle the jointly produced externalities in an integrated way. Specific attention will be given to the question: Who benefits? This is important as it is among the beneficiaries that likely ‘buyers’ are to be found. 2: To develop a methodology for assessing the cost of provision for externalities. We take into account trans-boundary effects of forest management, and transactions and opportunity costs. 3: To assess several market-based methods for enhancing the provision of forest externalities, including e.g. payment schemes provision, certification or (re-)definition of property rights. A method for choice and design of market-based methods will be provided. Method: We will test methods and tools and undertake analytical, applied research on a set of empirical surveys among beneficiaries (buyers) and forest owners (providers). These will take place in 5 EU case studies and a developing country case study. They will focus on key externalities: Carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, watershed services and recreation. The surveys will be designed to allow for comparative analyses and detailed results supporting the achievement of the objectives. Addressing the demand and supply side simultaneously is a unique and innovative stroke. Results: New and improved methods, comparative analyses and guidelines of great value will result. We communicate the gains in knowledge using seminars, popular articles, guidelines and best practice examples across Europe. An easy-access Guiding tool is compiled.

Keywords: forests functions,environmental services,market-based methods,valuation,costs of provision
Towards an Integrated Marine and Maritime Science Community (MARCOM+)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable management of resources
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Denmark,Belgium,France,Monaco,Belgium,France,Greece,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1097190.0
EU funding (EUR): 998455.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The ‘Aberdeen plus interest group’ joined forces with the ‘Venice Platform group’ to take further steps in integrating the marine, maritime and coastal research sectors in Europe. The goal is to establish a sustainable and long-lasting partnership forum (“European Marine and Maritime Forum”), based on shared interests and shared leadership, and to test it on regional seas and pan-European basis. The process will contribute to developing interactions between partners (the research community, industry, regional authorities, civil society and other stakeholders) starting from regional scales to broader issues shared with EU-neighbouring countries. This, being in line with the European Strategy for Marine and Maritime Research, will underpin the future integrated EU Maritime Policy. The action will be supported by the already established key structures and will constitute a Forum which will be an operationally open structure.

Keywords: partnership,forum,mechanism,dialogue,potential,sustainability,research strategy,matitime policy.