Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
MEMS and Liquid Crystal based, Agile Reflectarray Antennas for Security and COMunication (ARASCOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,France,Spain,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-15
End date: 2012-11-14
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3918447.0
EU funding (EUR): 2600000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

ARASCOM OBJECTIVES Our project is focused on Research & Development for efficient use of micro-nano devices as basis of agile antennas with moderate cost, that are more and more required in advanced systems for Communication, Safety and Security. We will assess this until representative prototypes at a very large and innovative level: · very large because the developed agile "reflectarray" antennas for Communication (to be implemented in base-stations and satellites) will comprise thousands of RF-MEMS switches integrated in the radiating board for phase-controlling the reflected waves · innovative: first because such quantities will require both accurate & safe design, and setting-up industrial processes including on-wafer packaging and automatic assembling, to reach higher reproducibility in top-level performances (improving reliability) than previous European projects on RF-MEMS · innovative especially because to operate at the very high frequencies suited to security imaging, safe-landing & anti-collision radar (typically around 77 GHz), will be developed new phase-shifters combining MEMS with nematic Liquid Crystals ; the latter provide variable permittivity by adjusting molecules orientation, so may be called "nano-scale control devices". So both Micro (MEMS) & Nano (nematic LC) technologies will be deeply investigated, for their best properties in agile antennas. PROJECT TEAM To reach the presented objectives, we gathered 9 complementary partners from 4 large member-states: - 3 among the best European academies for MEMS & LC design (U. Perugia, T.U.Darmstadt), as for reflectarray antennas (U.P.Madrid & Perugia) - 2 public Research institutes, leaders for RF-MEMS development over a large range of frequencies (LETI, FBK) - 4 industrial end-users among the main players in Communication, Security & Safety: SELEX-SI for concealed weapon detection, EADS-Innovation Works for helicopters landing radar, Thales Alenia Space for satellites and S.R.F.Moyano for base-stations.

Keywords: micro-nano-technologies,reflectarray antennas,rf-mems,nematic liquid crystals,communication,security,safety,agile antennas,reconfigurable beams.
Novel Polysaccharide Modifying Enzymes to Optimise the Potential of Hydrocolloids for Food and Medical Applications (POLYMODE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Netherlands,Sweden,Bulgaria,Denmark,France,France,Germany,France,Germany,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-2A, 2007)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8226733.87
EU funding (EUR): 5999948.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The PolyModE project convenes an international, interdisciplinary, and intersectorial consortium to identify, characterise, and optimise novel polysaccharide modifying enzymes, and to develop robust fermentation strategies for their large-scale production, to exploit the potential of biopolymers for food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and technical applications. We have selected the six complex carbohydrates with the highest current market share or expected future market potential, namely alginate, carrageenan, chitosan, glycosaminoglycan, pectin, and xanthan gum. For each of these, the industrial partners have identified those enzymes which will answer to the most pressing needs or offer the most promising potential for improved production of polysaccharides with novel physico-chemical properties and biological functionalities. Primary targets will be alginate epimerases, carrageenan sulfatases, chitosan de-acetylases, glycosaminoglycan sulfatases, pectin de-acetylases, and xanthan gum de-acetylases. These enzymes together with secondary target enzymes, e.g. sequence specific lyases and hydrolases, will allow the generation and analysis of polymers and oligomers with novel, non-random patterns of modification. Two parallel approaches will be followed for each type of polysaccharide modifying enzyme, namely a knowledge-based genomic approach and a broad, un-biased metagenomic approach, e.g. using soil or sludge samples with a history of contact with the polysaccharide in question. A pipeline of three levels of fermentation systems will be established, ranging from lab-scale innovative expression systems with features shaped according to the specific characteristics of our target enzymes, through medium-scale, novel and unusual fermentation systems provided by a number of SME with highly specialised knowledge and expertise in developing and using such systems, to the established large-scale fermentation systems and facilities of market leaders in White Biotechnology.

Keywords: hydrocolloids,polysaccharides,alginate,carrageenan,chitosan glycosaminoglycan,pectin,xanthan gum,pattern of modification,fermentation pipeline
Facilitating Research Co-operation between Europe and New Zealand (FRENZ)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bilateral coordination for the enhancement and development of S&T Partnerships
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: New Zealand
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 734472.8
EU funding (EUR): 472577.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The FRENZ platform supports the EU-NZ S&T partnership with initiatives to highlight existing S&T co-operation between the EU and New Zealand (NZ); and improve this co-operation by enhancing the quality, quantity, visibility and effectiveness of future actions. Developing a DG RELEX preparatory activity, FRENZ proposes to deliver information and assistance to researchers; and facilitate EU-NZ policy dialogue in jointly defined areas of strategic EU-NZ research importance. A suite of seven highly integrated and interdependent Workpackages is proposed to remove impediments to the integration of the NZ research community in FP7 activities of mutual interest, and achieve the specific objectives of: * Increasing EU-NZ researcher links * Better identifying and demonstrating EU-NZ co-operation * Improving the process of providing information on S&T systems, programmes and funding to promote EU-NZ co-operation, and * Exchanging best practices and exploring prospects for future co-operation Deliverables from each workpackage will impact on the others in a circular process whereby tools and fora determine the basis for policy dialogue; policy dialogue influences those fields of common interest; and fields of common interest require tools and fora to facilitate co-operation. Thus the workpackages seek will deliver: * An integrated ‘one stop shop’ web portal on EU-NZ S&T co-operation - Web site - Email updates * A central ‘Helpdesk’ facility, underpinned by activities on-site in key research organizations across NZ * A series of themed extended workshops (‘sandpits’), allowing interested stakeholders to develop innovative research solutions to key issues of mutual EU-NZ interest * A database of EU-NZ collaborations and mobility, plus indicators of success, to develop a toolkit for collaboration and future bi-lateral EU-NZ activities * A gateway for Europe into the NZ research sector, to facilitate new bi- and multi-lateral engagement.

Keywords: europe,new zealand,support,collaboration,diaspora,policy,best practice,facilitation
Strengthen Chilean European Science and Technology Partnerships (CHIEP-II)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bilateral coordination for the enhancement and development of S&T Partnerships
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Chile
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 761324.12
EU funding (EUR): 499519.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Association Agreement and the Scientific and Technological Co-operation Agreement, signed by the parties during 2002, represents a concrete major step to support collaborative activities and to stimulate new S&T bilateral cooperation activities. Since then, an important increase of this co-operation has been developed, mainly, through the implementation of the first FP6 CHIEP project, and the activities of the S&T EU promotion Liaison Office at CONICYT. The CHIEP II project is a natural step forward of the first CHIEP project. Its overall aim is to strengthen the Chilean/EU S&T Partnerships based on bilateral policy dialogues and coordination policy initiatives, which will improve the existent collaboration schemes and identify new activities. The Project envisages to enhance bilateral S&T partnerships, and to develop new information facilities and services to better identify and promote the formation of research partnerships. It is thought to strengthen mutual interest and benefit bi-lateral S&T co-operation, through the organisation of scientific oriented missions and thematic workshops according to FP7 initiatives and will contribute to collaboration schemes elaboration and new activities encouraging the co-ordination of policy initiatives through the organisation of bi-lateral policy dialogues in Chile. CHIEP II is expected to contribute with the elaboration of an strategic collaboration scheme strongly related to the new Chilean Innovation Strategy at national and international levels, with the EULARINET FP7 Project at regional level, with the international S&T cooperation policies at EU level and at Member States level. Additionally, CHIEP II shall reinforce the existent S&T Liaison Office Capacities organizing staff training missions improving the Chilean participation in the FP7 and other related EU programmes.

Keywords: multilateral and bilateral co-operation. scientific and technological cooperation. s&t liaison offices. s&t partnerships. policy dialogues. international cooperation
Selection and improving of fit-for-purpose sampling procedures for specific foods and risks (BASELINE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,Spain,Germany,France,Spain,Germany,Croatia,Spain,Denmark,France,Ireland,Spain,Hungary,Italy
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-2A, 2007)
Start date: 2009-08-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6746649.49
EU funding (EUR): 5154885.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Food Safety Objectives (FSO) and Performance Objectives (PO) are new criteria complementing the existing concepts of microbiological criteria and MRL for many chemical contaminants. However, to achieve these objectives it is critically important a harmonisation of food safety control procedures. BASELINE project intends to obtain the following objectives: 1) To review the sampling schemes currently available for food authorities and food producers to perform food safety quantitative risk assessment in a European level; 2) To assess the relevance and suitable limit values of POs and FSOs for biological and chemical risks; 3) To evaluate the need for new or adapted methods for sampling and testing of the risk factors identified. The selected protocols and methods should be able to produce suitable data for risk analysis; 4) To develop predictive mathematical models for biological risks and investigate and model sources and pathways of chemical contaminants to improve sampling schemes; 5) To validate and harmonise the sampling schemes developed in the project and alternative detection methods; 6) To share and disseminate the scientific knowledge deriving from the project to stakeholders. The BASELINE work plan has been divided in 9 work packages: WP1- management, WP2-WP6 sampling protocols for specific food matrixes, WP7-risk modelling, WP8-validation and harmonisation of sampling protocols, WP9-dissemination and training. The major output of the project is to generate new knowledge on sampling schemes for risk assessment by using a mathematical approach for different groups of food products as seafood, eggs and egg products, fresh meats, milk and dairy products and plant products. The project results will be translated in clear recommendations to the EC and end users and they will have a significant impact on protecting human and veterinary health.

Keywords: microbiological,chemical,risk assessment,foods animal origin vegetables,new sampling schemes,alternative detection methods,harmonisation sampling protocols,international validation
European Union and India Enhanced Cooperation Framework for Improved Bilateral Dialogue in the Fields of Science and Technology (EUINEC)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bilateral coordination for the enhancement and development of S&T Partnerships
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,India,Italy
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2007-2, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 597496.95
EU funding (EUR): 500000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

India and the EU singed an S&T agreement in 2001 and since then several actions have been taken to implement the agreement in practice. Indian organizations have participated in approximately 80 projects under FP6, but this number is expected to increase in FP7 given all new funding opportunities forecasted to be launched. In order to realize increased cooperation, set out in the agreement, in practice, universities, industry, government and civil society must all be empowered with relevant knowledge and provided with the appropriate cooperation facilities in order to enable an increased participation in FP7 and contribute to enhanced cooperation between India and the EU. The overall objective of the EUINEC project is to improve the S&T cooperation between Europe and India by establishing the EU-India Research Co-op based on a multifunctional portal allowing for the exchange of information and partner search, serve as the base for the practical and user-orientated training package and be the frame for policy development and the identification of areas of cooperation.

Keywords: capacity building,enhanced cooperation,training,interaction,new opportunities,policy development
The Microme Project: A Knowledge-Based Bioinformatics Framework for Microbial Pathway Genomics (MICROME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Greece,Spain,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,United Kingdom,Israel,Netherlands,France
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-2A, 2007)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7527543.53
EU funding (EUR): 5263150.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The exponential increase in microbial genome and metagenome sequencing throughput has widened the gap between sequence and functional understanding. A clear picture of metabolic processes across the spectrum of bacterial species is essential to enable the exploitation of microbial genomics for the purposes of environmental biotechnology. The Microme project endeavors to extend the scope of microbial genome annotation from functional assignment at the gene level to the systematic generation of pathway assemblies and genome-scale metabolic models. A few key ideas and design principles will enable the Microme reconstruction pipeline to achieve this ambitious goal.A clear definition of a metabolic pathway as a collection of reaction sets, each of which convert the same defined inputs into the same outputs, will allow species-specific pathway variants to be identified, assembled into networks, compared across species, and used for downstream computations. A unique pathways projection, curation and assembly cycle, feeding directly into the flow of newly sequenced genomes, will allow a qualitative increase in the speed and reliability of the pathway generation process. Pathways and models produced the pipeline will be accessible to the scientific community as an integrated resource via the Microme portal. Finally, taking advantage of the availability of pathway assemblies from a large sample of genomes, methods for comparative and phylogenetic analyses and novel metabolic engineering strategies for environmental biotechnology goals will be developed, applied to proof-of-concept studies, and integrated to the resource as an analytical tool layer. Microme will be supported by a robust bioinformatics infrastructure, developed by integrating a set of established European databases and tools, integrated with reference protein annotation, metabolites and reactions databases, and interfaced with the annotation pipelines of the two main European sequencing centers.

Keywords: microbial genomics,bioinformatics infrastructure,pathways reconstruction and curation,genome-scale metabolic models,comparative systems biology,metabolic engineering,white and green biotech
Sustainable trade in ethical aquaculture (SEAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,Netherlands,Netherlands,China,Viet Nam,Thailand,Bangladesh,Italy,Norway,Malaysia
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-2A, 2007)
Start date: 2009-08-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7594681.77
EU funding (EUR): 5815578.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Trade in aquatic products is the largest global food sector, by value, and Asia represents the main external source of aquatic products into the EU. Current EU policy supporting international trade between Asia and Europe concentrates on issues of food safety as measures of quality, whilst market-forces drive development of standards and labels that identify social and environmental parameters. This project proposes to establish an evidence-based framework to support current stakeholder dialogues organised by a third party certifier. This will contribute to harmonising standards, helping consumers to make fully informed choices with regards to the sustainability and safety of their seafood. The ‘Ethical Aquatic Food Index’, a qualitative holistic measure of overall sustainability to support consumers’ purchasing decisions, will be based on detailed research centred around a Life Cycle Assessment of current processes involved in ensuring aquatic products reach consumers, aligned with analyses from the sustainable livelihoods approach and systems thinking. SMEs based in the EU will participate in this project, particularly the action research phase, enhancing their relative competitiveness. By strengthening the knowledge base surrounding EU-Asia seafood trade the project will provide the evidence required to support further expansion whilst ensuring a fair deal for producers who are meeting appropriate social and environmental goals and offering a safe and sustainable product for consumers. The sectors covered represent the main aquaculture products reaching EU markets; tilapia, catfish, shrimps and prawns. Known case study stakeholders include SMEs in Bangladesh, China, Thailand and Vietnam where sustainability is essential in the face of rapid growth. The research will secondarily improve understanding of opportunities for European exports to supply the expanding middleclass in Asia. Outputs will be promoted through workshops, websites, journal and press articles.

Keywords: aquaculture asia ethical production and trading lca
Advanced gene therapy tools for treatment of CNS-specific disorders (NEUGENE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Biotechnology, generic tools and medical technologies for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2007-B, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4026267.6
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Curative therapies still do not exist for most CNS diseases but gene therapy is a promising new approach. We propose that it will be possible to modify brain function and pathophysiology by targeted delivery of specific curative factors to selected populations of brain cells that are affected by disease. This opens the door for effective treatment regimes, which can be tailored to individual patients needs. However, currently available gene transfer vectors have limitations regarding safety and efficacy, as they do not allow for targeting of specific populations of neurons or glia or regulation of transgene expression. The NEUGENE consortium has been founded by leading European scientists from academia and industry to overcome these limitations. The consortium will develop Adeno-associated virus (AAV) and Lentivirus (LV)- based tools for targeted and regulated gene transfer into different populations of CNS cells. The consortium will provide a selection of vectors that are optimized for different therapeutic approaches, e.g. regulated expression of neurotrophic factors or manipulation of neurotransmitter synthesis in specific neurons. NEUGENE has three major goals:1) targeting gene transfer vectors to specific populations of neurons and glia, by transcriptional regulation and miRNA-mediated de-targeting and by exploiting the cell-specific tropism of novel types of viral vectors, 2) tight control over expression levels of therapeutic genes by using regulated systems based on different principles, and 3) establishing the safety of the novel vector tools. NEUGENE will verify the functional efficacy of the novel CNS gene transfer tools in a well-established animal model of Parkinson's Disease (PD). This disorder affects over 1.000.000 Europeans and is increasing in prevalence with the aging population. Importantly, principles and mechanisms developed and evaluated within the consortium will also be of direct relevance for gene therapy of many other brain disorder.