Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Monoblock Acetabular cup with Trabecular-like Coating (MATCH)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Spain,Iceland,United Kingdom,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1447615.0
EU funding (EUR): 1108900.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The project aim is to enhance the research and innovation of three SMEs working in different sectors namely glass production, coatings fabrication and software on demand. These SMEs will commercially exploit the project findings on osteoinductive coatings and scaffolds. Without this project the 3 SMEs would not be in a position to provide into this market area. One person out of 150 people reading this proposal will likely need a hip prosthesis in the following 30 years. Therefore, to meet this ever increasing demand MATCh aims to deliver a MONOBLOCK ceramic acetabular cup prototype during the project period. At present, non-cemented acetabular elements are characterized by a configuration comprising a cup housed in a metal back for the implant osteointegration. This configuration has drawbacks of high risk of relative mobility, wear of the cup and potential damage to the pelvis bone.To overcome these drawbacks, the prototyping of an innovative MONOBLOCK ceramic cup will be developed based on WO2008/146322A2, which describes a cup anchored to the bone through a bioactive trabecular coating, glazed on its surface and able to promote both primary and long term osteointegration. In the monoblock cup, there is no metal back and it allows a ceramic-on-ceramic coupling with very low wear rate. In addition, this configuration allows a wider range of prostheses sizes and less trauma during surgical implantation. MATCh will develop prototypes able to accelerate osteointegration and to avoid aseptic loosening due to wear, relative mobility and bone damage and that could be used for a wider range of patients. These goals are achievable within the project duration as RTD partners (AIMEN, FCIM, ICI, POLITO) have developed technologies for glazing glasses on ceramic substrates and for the production of scaffolds and have wide expertise in the field of ceramics. The SMEs partners will work on the production of coatings, industrial glass synthesis and biomechanical modeling.

Keywords: coatings,trabecular structure,modeling,bioactivity,ceramic acetabular cup
Methodology and supporting toolset advancing embedded systems quality (MODUS)

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: Greece,Serbia,France,Denmark,United Kingdom,Croatia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1814132.0
EU funding (EUR): 1318500.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Software quality is of primary importance in the development of embedded systems that are often used in safety-critical applications. Moreover, as the life cycle of embedded products becomes increasingly tighter, productivity and quality are simultaneously required and closely interrelated towards delivering competitive products. Incorporating Formal Description Techniques (FDTs) into the SW development process remains the most widely-used approach for improving software quality. Further to this, the use of CASE tools for the transformation of FDT specifications/models into software quality implementations is widely used in order to improve productivity. Despite the extensive use of FDTs and CASE tools, industrial experience has shown that software quality for embedded systems still remains a significant challenge. This situation has proven to favour large embedded system development companies against SMEs, as the former have the resources and know-how to apply expensive Total Quality Management (TQM) methods and iterative quality/design/development cycles. MODUS will develop and validate a set of technical methodologies, as well an open and customisable toolset, advancing embedded systems quality, by enabling: - Model verification by guiding the selection of existing open-source model verification engines and producing inputs to be fed into them. - Interfacing with standard platforms for HW/SW co-simulation. - Software performance-tuning optimisation through automated design transformation. - Customisable source-code generation towards respecting coding standards and conventions. The project will provide methodologies and open interfaces for customising and extending the MODUS toolset for use with different (domain-specific) FDTs, modelling practises, programming languages, target platforms, etc. MODUS will also define appropriate business models, centred on the role of SME Associations, towards the effective exploitation of the project results.

Keywords: embedded systems,software quality,formal methods,simulation,automatic code generation,performance optimization
Tool platform for intelligent Patent Analysis and Summarization (TOPAS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1386772.0
EU funding (EUR): 999300.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Patents are the treasury of knowledge that drives the modern economies. The support of targeted search in this treasury has increasingly been topic of research. But search is just the first stage that provides the “raw” material that is to be analyzed, digested, assessed and summarized, depending on the concrete task of the user. Due to the wide-reaching consequences when a relevant patent remains undiscovered during search, patent search traditionally aims at high recall at the cost of lower precision, such that this raw material tends to contain many more irrelevant hits than in a general discourse search – with patent specialists reviewing mainly manually large quantities of patents in each phase of the search procedure. This is time consuming, expensive and often with a less than optimal outcome. TOPAS aims to bring to the market of IPR protection and management a new product that will provide high quality automatic means for content analysis and summarization of patent material, which will support the patent specialists in their daily work, leading to a much cheaper and better performance of the tasks. It will significantly contribute to the competitiveness of the work faced by any innovation-oriented company with an IPR agenda, and in particular, by the clients of the SME’s products: patent departments within companies, patent lawyers and innovators. The preparatory work for the development of the TOPAS technologies has been carried out in the FP6 project PATExpert, with the participation of three partners of the Consortium. The benefits will originate from the integration of functionality requested by clients for targeted and efficient IPR protection into the existing product lines SME’s, allowing for direct commercialization by SME’s together with their products already established at the market. The benefits will be fully passed on to the clients of the SMEs, who will be able to considerably reduce the time and costs they allocate to IPR protection.

Keywords: natural language processing,patent summarisation,patent analysis
Development of a competitive 0 GWP dry process to reduce the dramatic water consumption in the ever-expanding solar cells manufacturing industry. (SOLNOWAT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,Czechia,Germany,Norway,Germany,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1601430.0
EU funding (EUR): 1189283.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project (SOLNOWAT) aims to develop a dry route alternative for the solar cell industry that will eliminate the very high water consumption and GWP emissions of current process while meeting all production requirements. This project will clearly outline the environmental impact, cost and efficiency of the new process and equipment required, and include dissemination to cell manufacturers. BENEFITS - Dramatic reduction of water usage* - Very low-environmental-impact processing * - Advance process control, real time monitoring* - High-throughput, high-yield, integrated industrial processing (inline)* - Devices with increased efficiency* - Enabling thin wafer processing* and surface decoupling (single sided). - Smaller footprint - Low cost of ownership* - Reviewed by a panel of cell manufacturers Most of these benefits(*) are fundamental criteria outlined by the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform in its Strategic Research Agenda for Photovoltaic Solar Energy Technology, in order to meet the sector’s ambitions for technology implementation and industry competitiveness. The SMEs involved believe that by cooperating together through this R&D program, they will be able to achieve significant results. The consortium is composed of 5 SMEs and 3 RTD performers located in 5 different EU countries. The R&D work will propose and develop a novel process replacing wet chemical steps by 0 GWP dry process steps. The successful development will lead to a cleaner, highly controllable, and potentially cheaper process that will deliver more efficient solar cell products with far less environmental impact. The process will meet the current high throughput demand from the industry and show its potential to meet the PV market growth demand.

Keywords: photovoltaic solar manufacturing texturing atmospheric etching dry in line zero global warming potential
Process and material research for ultra-stable antireflective coatings on glass (NOSCRATCH)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 994872.0
EU funding (EUR): 754600.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Broad band anti-reflective coatings need a low-index material at the top position. Normally SiO2 is used. This layer is in direct contact to the environment. While a number of high- and medium-index layers with a high hardness (up to 30 GPa) have been developed in the past, the hardness of the low-index layer on the top is limited to about 10 GPa. Under hard conditions this layer is then the weak point of the total layer stack. This excludes a number of possible applications. The goal of the project is to develope a new, ultra-stable AR-coating and the relevant deposition processes. Therefore a new optical material based on a Al-Six-Oy-Fz composite will be developed. The hardness of this material should exceed 20 GPa and must have a refractive index of lower than 1.60 (at 550 nm). The deposition process shall be based on magnetron sputtering with a special focus on highly ionized sputtering. This ensures that the process can be upscaled and can be used for high deposition rates. The result is a broad band antireflective coating which shows a significant higher scratch resistance (from about 10 to 1000 cycles Taber-abraser test) and a doubled hardness (> 20 GPa). In addition, the coating must be stable against hydrothermal corrosion (1000 cycles autoklave). The project focusses not only on precision optical products but potentially on all flat glas products such as glasses for instruments, photovoltaic modules, automotive, sensors, displays.

Keywords: highly ionized plasma,magnetron sputtering
Device for prophylaxis and treatment of diabetic foot ulcers for hospital and home use (PREVENTDFU)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1245221.94
EU funding (EUR): 957783.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

In PreventDFU, we propose to develop an advanced prototype for prophylaxis and treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). This condition contributes to morbidity and loss of Quality of Life (QoL) of Diabetes Mellitus sufferers, most especially the elderly. We propose to develop a unit prototype, based on our proprietary pulsating negative pressure technology that can be used at home or nursing homes, for treatment of DFUs, and their prevention. Over 55Mn Europeans between 20 and 79 years of age are currently suffering from diabetes; 55% above 60 years old. The incidence of diabetes is expected to grow as the population ages. Diabetes sufferers have a 12 to 25% lifetime risk of developing a DFU. Over 8Mn Europeans coudl be suffering from DFU in their lifetime. A morbid display of DFU is the lower limb amputation; 85% of the amputations in diabetes sufferers are reported after unsuccessful DFU treatment this means between 290,000 and 450,000 amputations per year, an annual cost in the order of €2 – 2.5Bn. We believe that introducing PreventDFU technology for home and nursing home use for the primary purpose of DFU prophylaxis during sleeping hours and for the secondary purpose of assistive therapy of mild DFUs may reduce DFU incidence in the elderly and prevent a significant number of DFU-related toe, foot and leg amputations. If Prevent DFU technology can only help 5% of the DFU sufferers, this would mean substantial QoL improvement for over 400,000 Europeans and over 2 Mn sufferers worldwide, substantially reduce associated healthcare costs and give a considerable boost to the European Medical Device Manufacturing, Nursing and Assisted Living sectors. PreventDFU technology could benefit elderly pressure ulcer (PU) suffers by providing timely prophylaxis by increasing the blood flow in the legs; it has been reported that 95% of all pressure ulcers occur in the lower part of the body while 70% of those occur in persons over 65 years of age.

Keywords: diabetic foot ulcer,pulsating negative pressure,treatment of foot ulcers,diabetic foot
Remote wireless water meter reading solution based on the EN 13757 standard, providing high autonomy, interoperability and range. (WIMBEX)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Hungary,Ireland,United Kingdom,Ireland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1489888.76
EU funding (EUR): 1123300.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Meter reading is the backbone of the home water billing system. If meters are read incorrectly or not read at all, it will cause a chain reaction of added events that add unnecessary expense and create customer dissatisfaction. Consortium SMEs have identified a clear need to develop a smart wireless water metering system based on the European Standard EN 13757 "Communication systems for meters and remote reading of meters". The system will be suitable for use in a variety of water metering scenarios, will require no maintenance and will provide authenticable and secure data transmission as well as timely and accurate recording of the consumption of water which will help in identifying any leakages through the analysis of the actual quantity supplied and recorded by the meters. The commercial objective is to develop a powerful set of new features to the SME wireless EN 13757 platforms, to enable the products and services of consortium SMEs to keep pace, and even surpass the future needs (high autonomy, interoperability and long radio range) of the emergent Automatic Water Meter Reading (AWMR) market in Europe. The project also aims to exploit aspects of the EN 13757 standard, which are not fully exploited as yet, and in this manner to add value to a European standard

Keywords: sensor network,energy harvesting,mac and network protocols
In-field CFRP surfaces Contamination Assessment by aRtificial Olfaction tool (ICARO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-05, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 237037.0
EU funding (EUR): 177777.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In CFRP bonded repair applications, it is mandatory to ensure surface cleanliness for achieving robustness and reliability of the bonds. Unfortunately, aircrafts surfaces can be affected by several potential contamination sources that may hamper the bond strength; such contaminations have to be detected before a bonded repair takes place. Maintenance and repair operating conditions also requires that any contamination detection technique should be operated on a portable basis and measurement results be readily available to the operator. Artificial olfaction (AO) technologies could represent an optimal framework to develop such a detection tool (i.e. an electronic nose). They are based on the integration of gas sensing devices and pattern recognition (PR) algorithms. Their working principle mimics mammals olfaction systems: a gas sensor array, being exposed to a gas mixture, produces a distinct response pattern that can be interpreted by software components to produce qualitative and quantitative estimation on the mixture composition. Our proposal addresses the investigation of AO technology suitability and the development of an e-nose prototype for surfaces contamination detection to be used in bonded repair of aircraft composite structures. The selection of an ad-hoc sensing array will be carried out, investigating the use of several gas sensors based on different operating principles. Their capability to reliably react to volatiles emitted by potential aeronautics contaminants (e.g. skydrol, fuels, etc.) and to exhibit limited drift behavior will be firstly investigated in controlled environment. Once a response database will be recorded, a PR component will be designed and developed to provide qualitative and quantitative readings. Design and development efforts of a final prototype inspection tool will be focused on portability in order to achieve operative capability.

Keywords: artificial olfaction tool,electronic nose,cfrp surface cleanliness,contamination detection,intelligent sensing,solid state sensors
Enable the powder metallurgy process to expand to new markets with more reliable parts and lower manufacturing costs through the inspection of green parts (DIRA-GREEN)

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: Hungary,Belgium,Italy,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Türkiye,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3096591.2
EU funding (EUR): 2347800.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Powder metallurgy is the major manufacturing route for a wide range of industrial parts which are produced by cold pressing powder in a die and sintering the resulting green body in a furnace. The design of a tool, set for a new product, is made with a trial-and-error procedure that generates surplus costs and delays. The optimization of the process is time consuming, due to the lack of fast and systematic system instruments and procedures for the inspection of the material. A major concern in powder metallurgy relies on the unpredictable formation of defects on the parts. While shrinking, internal defects are hard to detect. When the applied pressure is increased, the powder movement gets restricted and shearing can occur unless the magnitude and the direction of the pressure are properly coordinated. Today there is no reliable method able to inspect parts and detect local defects in green state powder metallurgy parts. Test inspection systems have been demonstrated inaccurate and often expensive for being introduced in the industry. The widespread use of powder metallurgy parts instead of parts produced by other competing technologies is often hindered by the impossibility to ensure the absence of defects in powder metallurgy parts. A new inspection tool based on digital radiography technology will be developed for the improved assessment of green parts and enable the powder metallurgy process to expand to new markets with more reliable parts and lower manufacturing costs, which will prove affordable for SME’s. Such tool will reduce the production costs and will decrease the amount of powder used to generate the same number of parts, owing the fact that the powder of the rejected parts can be re-used. With this technology, it will be possible to detect surface and sub-surface flaws. The whole system will be designed in such a way that it will be suitable for intensive industrial operation.

Keywords: porosity and crack detection,density map,digital radiography