Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Researchers' Night 2010: The Greek Events (REN2010)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-NIGHT, 2010)
Start date: 2010-06-15
End date: 2011-01-14
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 108701.12
EU funding (EUR): 62000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

In 2010, five partners will organise four events in respective major Greek cities: Thessaloniki, Volos, Patras, Heraklion. The events have been carefully designed in such a way so as to target audience from all ages and backgrounds. The selected venues are spacious and can host with comfort, both outdoors and indoors, the thousands of participants that are expected. Dozens of researchers (both male and female) have already been contacted and agreed to get actively involved in all interactive activities (games, puzzles, experiments etc.) planned for the night of the events. Researchers will also be present in the European corner of each event and will help the audience learn in an entertaining manner more about the European Union and research through the EU site “EUROPA-GO” and the quizzes that are offered in the European website of “Researchers’ Night”. The awareness campaign that will lead to the events is divided in two sections: a) local awareness activities carried out by each partner taking into consideration the local particularities and local key stakeholders that will be mobilized and b) national promotional activities, such as TV spots and inserts in national media, circulation of stamp dedicated to researchers’ night and on-line tools that will promote the European initiative and direct public for more information to the ReN2010 website. The impact of the events will be measured using quantitative data from questionnaires, number of participants and qualitative data such as references in media during the post-event days. The consortium will analyze how the events affected public’s perception of researchers’ image, researcher’s and other specific objectives that will be posed during the early phase of the project.

Keywords: researchers night,research,greece,events,profession
Ecoefficient Biodegradable Composite Advanced Packaging (ECOBIOCAP)

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: France,Germany,Portugal,Italy,Portugal,Ireland,Spain,Hungary,France,Italy,France,France,Sweden,Spain
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2010-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4235859.6
EU funding (EUR): 2999780.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

EcoBioCAP will provide the EU food industry with customizable, ecoefficient, biodegradable packaging solutions with direct benefits both for the environment and EU consumers in terms of food quality and safety. This next-generation packaging will be developed using advanced composite structures based on constituents (biopolyesters, fibres, proteins, polyphenolic compounds, bioadhesives and high performance bio-additives) derived from food (oil, dairy, cereal and beer) industry by-products only and by applying innovative processing strategies to enable customisation of the packaging’s properties to fit the functional, cost, safety and environmental impact requirements of the targeted fresh perishable foods (fruit and vegetable, cheese and ready to eat meal). Demonstration activities with SMEs and industrial partners will enable the EcoBioCAP technology to be optimised in terms stability, safety, environmental impact and cost-effectiveness before full exploitation. The development of a decision support system for use by the whole packaging chain will make the EcoBioCAP technology is accessible to all stakeholders. Extensive outreach activities will not only disseminate the project results to the scientific community but also ensure that consumers and end-users are informed of the usage conditions and benefits of such bio-degradable packaging and how it should be disposed of.

Keywords: biodegradable,food packaging,by-products,composite,sustainable,safety,quality,pha
Capacity-Linked water supply and sanitation improvement for Africa's peri-urban and Rural Areas (CLARA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Tunisia,Kenya,South Africa,Morocco,Ethiopia,Austria,Burkina Faso
Call:  (FP7-AFRICA-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2475083.2
EU funding (EUR): 1989826.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

There are a large number of small communities and towns in Africa that suffer from severe problems with water supply and sanitation. Small communities in rural areas and peri-urban areas of small towns have comparable settlement structures in which reuse of water and use of sanitation products can be utilized. However, there is only limited local capacity to adopt, implement and operate integrated water supply and sanitation. CLARA's overall objective is to strengthen the local capacity in the water supply and sanitation sector. From a technological point of view, existing low cost technologies for decentralized water supply and sanitation systems shall be assessed and adapted for African conditions with the focus on reducing risks in use and reuse of water and sanitation products, and providing demand oriented water quality. Based on these technological improvements and the experiences from the FP6 projects ROSA and NETSSAF, a simplified planning tool for integrated water supply and sanitation systems for small communities and peri-urban areas shall be developed that incorporates the key factors for success, i.e. operation and maintenance issues and reuse potential, form the beginning of the planning process, and that can be tailored to available local capacities. This simplified integrated CLARA planning tool shall then be tested and evaluated in different geographical African regions to incorporate different economic, cultural and social boundary conditions. For the communities participating in the planning process, application documents will be prepared as a final output that serve as basis to ask for funding of their implementation plans for integrated water supply and sanitation.

Keywords: water supply,sanitation,local capacity,integrated planning,resources-oriented systems,reuse,operation and maintenance
Researchers on Stage in 2010 (ROS2010)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-NIGHT, 2010)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 501589.6
EU funding (EUR): 192000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Researchers' night calls to meet and exchange across Europe. For the third time in France, 13 partners spread throughout the country came together to establish this event in over 20 cities in the country. Inviting well over 400 researchers to speak to citizens to show the reality of their job. The consortium is working to set up evening can be shared with family, in particular environments, surprising and exciting to engage in discussions. For 2010, work will be undertaken ahead of the event by highlighting the website and a forum for discussion forum.

Keywords: researchers,night,exchange,meeting,citizens,sciences,festive,diversity
EURAXLES: Minimizing the risk of fatigue failure of railway axles (EURAXLES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Spain,Germany,France,Germany,France,Italy,Italy,France,France,Italy,Czechia,Germany,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4721150.94
EU funding (EUR): 2899998.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

EURAXLES is a 3 year R&D project uniting 23 partners across Europe including 6 axle manufacturers, 4 railway operators/IMs, 2 system integrators, 3 technology suppliers, 5 universities, 2 rail sector associations and 1 consulting firm. The consortium is well-positioned to provide a common R&D approach to axle design, protection, inspection and maintenance which will have an impact on standards, regulations and on the market. EURAXLES aims to develop innovative, safer solutions for railway wheelsets with improved reliability in a cost effective way. The research is summarized below. 1. A design approach will be developed, including a risk analysis method which could offer a simple design route by combining loads with difference occurrences including loading specificity of vehicles and service conditions together with the axles resistances, including new materials and methods in order to predict the ‘failure probability’. 2. New developments will also include (i) improved axle protection against corrosion, including protection of already corroded axles; (ii) improved adhesion of coatings with a study of the roughness influence (adhesion and fatigue behavior); and (iii) new, innovative coating solutions. The new solutions will also aim to fulfill environmental requirements to avoid or limit VOC emissions. 3. New/improved NDT inspection methods will allow the in-service inspection of axles in order to guarantee safe service conditions with a low impact on the vehicle availability. 4. A RAMS/LCC analysis of the solutions will be carried out. The railway transportation system requires a risk analysis of the safety components. Activities will improve design validation and inspection technologies of axles which will optimise costs, safety and environmental compliance to be shown with RAMS/LCC analyses. Results will be disseminated to the different stakeholders and the European standards/regulations for railway axles and wheelsets will be improved across Europe.

Keywords: railway axles,fatigue failure,inspection,maintenance,standardisation,coating,ndt,rams,lcc
Venice Researchers' Night (VENIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-NIGHT, 2010)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 93436.0
EU funding (EUR): 40000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The 2010 Researchers' night VENIGHT aims to bring researchers face-to-face with the public at large, stressing the "human face" of the researchers and their common interests, passions, hobbies problems with the ordinary people In the most beautiful city of Venice, in the historical centre, a broad and varied programme of activities will be offered, addressing all categories of public at large regardless of age and scientific background, and combining in a balanced way fun and researchers-science linked activities. It will notably include: o Treasure hunt; o Guided visits to famous Venetian Museum and Foundation, Spritz of Science; o Two European corners (games, video, music) o Hands on experiments; o Demos and science shows… Researchers will be both the heroes and the actors of the events: performers, guides, animators, singers, always interacting with the citizens (young and older people, families, students, venetians, tourists, policy makers, academics, entrepreneurs, etc.). An intensive awareness campaign will advertise the project, mainly relying on electronic media such as website, Internet, social networks… as well as direct mailing lists of the partners, media, and promotional material. Such promotional material will partially be based the entries of a photographs competition launched before the event (and actually consisting of a pre- advertising event too). Numerous visitors are expected to directly take part in the events.

Keywords: researchers' life,promotion of the research career,entertainment,active participation,venice
Science in Trieste And Researchers (STAR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-NIGHT, 2010)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 181085.0
EU funding (EUR): 60000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

With 3.5 % of the total workforce composed by researchers, Trieste is appropriately known as a “City of Science” and its network of excellence of universities and national and international research organizations is referred to as the “Trieste System”. The STAR project is an offspring of the memorandum signed in 2008 whereby the University of Trieste, the Trieste Municipality and Province, and other members of the Trieste System agreed, among other things, to promote the role of research and researchers for the social and economic progress of the territory. STAR follows the successful PROSIT project which constituted in 2009 the first entry of the Trieste System in the Researchers’ Night event. In the STAR project the University of Trieste coordinates a team of 10 research organizations, integrated by the Trieste Municipality and Province. This strong partnership guarantees that a wide range of top quality scientific know-how and personnel will be available to the project and, ultimately, to the public that will participate in the event. The concept behind the STAR proposal is to bring researchers to the public rather than viceversa, as in open day events. The event will thus take place in “Piazza Unità”, the biggest sea-facing square in Europe, and in the surrounding pedestrian area, the heart of Trieste’s public life. The activities proposed for the Night will form a unique blend of science and fun that will perfectly integrate with popular Friday night’s entertainments and prove to be attractive for a wide range of participants. Special consideration has been given to achieving a high participation by the junior public and a number of activities have been specifically designed in order to make the event attractive to them. In addition, STAR will launch a strong promotion campaign that will engage the partners in cooperative activities with schools, which will continue after the event and will be an important part of the dissemination campaign. Finally, participat

Keywords: trieste,research,trieste system,university of trieste,science and entertainment,edutainment,researcher's night 2010,science in the square
Night of the Brains (BRAINNIGHT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-NIGHT, 2010)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2010-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 58180.0
EU funding (EUR): 30000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Night of the Brains will be organized on September 24 2010 at LUX Theatre Nijmegen. Aimed at enhancing public recognition of researchers and their work, the activities will be dedicated to a specific theme: "Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI)". The programme, based on a combination of researcher-science linked and recreational activities, addresses the public at large regardless of age or scientific background. It will offer an interactive insight in how researchers, in particular within the Donders Institute, can detect and influence brain activity, providing detailed and accessible information on potential applications such as computer games operated via thought, mental prostheses and treatment of diseases which were thought untreatable. Particular attention will be paid to aspects linked to control and communication for interaction, BCI applications for healthy users like entertainment, such as computer games, neuro stimulation and neuro feedback, which, although with a high scientific content, are likely to be of interest for all the categories of the public at large.. A broad range of diversified activities will be offered, including: o Lectures o Debates in an informal and user friendly way between researchers and public at large; o Interactive games o Demos conducted by specialised scientists; o Musical intermezzos; o Connection with both Amsterdam and German EU funded Researchers' nights.

Keywords: brain,multidisciplinary research on brain,radboud university,european dimension of research,young future scientists,school pupil involvement in science,awareness building on science
Fantastic Actors in a Night of Science (FANS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-NIGHT, 2010)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 41400.0
EU funding (EUR): 35000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The European Commission has called for a new edition of the Researchers’ Night to be performed in September 2010. In this context, the cultural Association Agora, in collaboration with the University of Salerno, the Municipality of Vietri Sul Mare and the Media Association Unisound have planned to join the event with a project aiming to use the cinema a powerful communication mean for the promotion of scientific progress embodied by the figure of the Researchers. Moving beyond the plot of the most famous world-wide known movies, the main features will be used to make straight reference to the scientific reality: researchers and experts from the communication sector will drive the public through the scene explaining the situation in a more meaningful and more scientific based approach. The core point of the project is to shoot with the help of the public and of the committed researchers short movies based on most famous ones in which scientific aspects are represented. During the Researchers’ Night, those catch phrases and scenes played by researchers/actors will be used to start a professional tutoring activity or a scientific and recreational demonstration open to the wide public related to the technological and scientific status of knowledge of nowadays life. The idea of this project is supported by a network of knowledge and of institutional links, like the Campania regional government that dedicated funding to promote tourism in UNESCO elicited areas such as Vietri sul Mare. This small town is a “pearl” of Amalfi Coast. In 1997 it was included in the list of Unesco and it has already been the backdrop (with its landscape and natural beauty) for famous and well-known to the general public movie scenes.

Keywords: researchers' night,researchers,edutainement
Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions (RIVAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Spain,Sweden,Germany,France,Switzerland,France,Sweden,France,United Kingdom,Belgium,France,France,Sweden,Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8163798.4
EU funding (EUR): 5199995.0
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

Ground vibration, effected by rail services, is an important environmental concern, affecting European citizens nearby any rail infrastructure. Surveys show that many Europeans are subjected to annoying levels of feelable vibration and vibration-induced noise. Although solutions are available for track in tunnels, tracks at grade are a much more extensive problem even for vibration-induced noise. However, solutions for tracks at grade are lacking: for some problems currently no feasible solutions at reasonable cost are available. A group of railway operators, infrastructure managers, infrastructure and rolling stock manufacturers, and construction companies, end users of vibration mitigation technology, have gathered, to propose a major project for Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions (RIVAS). They aim at providing tools and methods to reduce vibration below the threshold of annoynace and induced noise below background levels by 2013. The group includes the expertise of research organisations and universities with specialist laboratory and theoretical modelling facilities. The issues are treated in a holistic way with the focus on reducing the annoyance to lineside residents. The project examines all vibration effects and aspects of the system: vehicle, track, propagation, freight and high-speed rail services. WP1 establishes the test procedures to monitor and control the performance of vibration mitigation measures under realistic conditions WP2 develops and evaluates mitigation measures based on reducing the excitation of vibration at the vehicle–track interface by improved maintenance WP3 develops and evaluates mitigation measures for ballasted and slab tracks WP4 will develop and evaluate mitigation measures based on sub-grade improvement and ground barriers within the railway infrastructure WP5 addresses the impact of the vehicle Each of the solutions is to be validated with field tests on the major European rail networks represented in RIVAS

Keywords: ground vibration,railway,induced noise,track,train,mitigation