Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Nano-structured High-efficiency Thermo-Electric Converters (NANOHITEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,France,Germany,Austria,Germany,Liechtenstein
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5287381.2
EU funding (EUR): 3750000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The NanoHiTEC project is focused on planar thermo-electric converters based on super-lattice quantum wells, which have shown on laboratory scale already a figure of merit ZT > 4 for a wide temperature range. The optimization of BiTe based layer systems as well as Si/SiGe and B4C/B9C lattices will be combined with the development of low cost/high throughput industrial deposition processes for multilayers. Direct p-n-junctions at the hot side of the converter promise further increase in performance and long term stability of the devices, but also simplified fabrication. As technologies for improved material performance multilayered nanowires and sintered nanopowders will be investigated. A central point of NanoHiTEC is the optimization of the passive components (thermal and electrical contacts, substrates) and of new geometries for the layout of planar converters to maximize the system efficiency. In this field particular emphasis is given to the heat flow into the hot and out of the cold side of the active elements where actual devices show the most efficiency loss. The developments in the project are backed by partners experienced in the qualification of thermo-electric materials and devices. Besides the parameters defining the thermoelectric performance - measured in a wide range of temperatures, pressures and magnetic fields - the microstructure, dopant distribution and the inner potentials will be investigated by scanning microscopy and TEM (holography). A major part of the project is the simulation of electronic and phononic properties based on the material microstructure. Intense interaction of theoretical work and characterization results of fabricated systems will pave the way for further enhanced material efficiency and better producibility. A main target is the integration in automotive applications where the high efficiency of superlattice systems over a broad temperature range promises good adaptation to the varying conditions in vehicles.

Keywords: thermo-electric converters,energy harvesting,nano technology,quantum well structures,multi-layers
SPACE-DATA ROUTERS For Exploiting Space DATA (SPACE-DATA ROUTERS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2268592.2
EU funding (EUR): 1686477.7
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

"Space-Data Routers" is a project that has the potential to allow Space Agencies, Academic Institutes and Research Centers to share space-data generated by a single or multiple missions, in a natural, flexible, secure and automated manner. We develop a communication overlay modeled according to thematic context of missions, Ground Segment topological distribution, Agency policies and Application restrictions and requirements. We realize our model through the development of Space-Data Routers: a (Delay-Tolerant Networking) DTN-enabled device that: (i) incorporates the Space Agency administrative instructions and policies for data dissemination and resource utilization and (ii) integrates the DTN protocol stack with application, network and link layer protocols. We pay particular attention to ESA roadmap for Interplanetary Communications and implement a communication scheme that scales natively with future deployments in Space. In essence, we promote the ultimate objective of most missions, which is to return space data, which, in turn, will be disseminated and exploited for the benefit of human scientific knowledge. Space-Data Routers form an overlay suitable for exploiting space data efficiently, which is, by definition, a major objective of all space missions and probably the most significant failure today.

Keywords: space data routers dtn
Operational Pan-European River Runoff (OPERR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Norway,Spain,Ukraine
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 591653.26
EU funding (EUR): 396031.55
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the project is twofold, first to turn a pan-European river discharge model into operational use and thereby acting as a downstream service based on earlier developed GMES core services and at the same time stimulating the development and improvement of new downstream services. This objective will be achieved by extending an already running operational river discharge model (HYPE) for the Baltic Sea drainage basin to cover all European rivers. A sustainable operational system will be built up to respond to GMES downstream services like coastal ocean models, regional environmental commissions like HELCOM and OSPAR, regional and national operational institutes, environmental protection agencies, fishery boards, water regulation bodies and SME’s working in this area. The second objective is the validation of observed river discharge and the river discharge estimates produced by the project in applications of shelf sea ocean.

Keywords: hydrology operational river runoff pan-european
Reliable Integrated On-Line Characterisation Tool for Thermoplastic Compound (NANOONSPECT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,France,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SME-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4703754.1
EU funding (EUR): 3399554.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The SME-driven NanoOnSpect project aims to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative polymer nanocomposites (PNCs), combining developments in online sensor technology, artificial intelligence-based signal analysis and real-time process optimisation to create a comprehensive solution to quality problems. NanoOnSpect has 3 development aims: 1) Newly-developed online characterisation techniques will be combined in a "one-box" characterisation unit. This will be able to determine dispersion, particle size, particle network formation and resulting composite properties online under demanding industrial conditions, with a (factor 2 to 10) higher resolution than conventional online characterisation tools. 2) An Artificial Neural Network and Expert System (ES) module will be developed to analyse sensor signals, predict the complex quality of the PNC and calculate new input parameters for the compounding line. 3) A breakthrough concept will be developed to adapt the mixing process during composite production, based on feedback from the ES. The characterisation tool and process control technique will allow precise adjustment of the composite properties (e.g. dispersion-dependent properties) during production. This will improve product quality, allow the reliable production of PNCs with tailored functions and reduce waste production. The technology will be validated in existing production lines for two particle types. NanoOnSpect will also deliver in depth understanding of materials and processing, shortening material development cycles and formulation changeovers. The NanoOnSpect consortium, consisting of 8 SMEs, 2 RTD performers and 2 associations, combines competences in measurement technology/automation, polymer processing technology, end use and demonstration, standardisation, dissemination and training. The project results will dramatically increase competitiveness and strengthen the market position of the mainly SME-based European PNC compounding industry.

Keywords: realtime on-line characterisation of polymer nanocomposite incorporation production,line support automation
Gambling in Europe (GAMSOC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1200000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1200000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project uses an innovative anthropological approach to study gambling as a social and cultural activity, and uses these findings to establish a new research paradigm that is technologically astute, internationally focused and aggressively future oriented. Gambling in Europe is worth an estimated E89billion and is a rapidly expanding and changing industry. It is also a source of concern to legislators and consumers. Gambling legislation is not harmonised at the European level. National governments are currently moving at varying speeds between containment and revenue generation, driven on by operators who use constantly evolving technology to create new markets and exploit loopholes in existing ad hoc and obsolete legislation. Like legislators, the research community has failed to keep pace with these changes and continues to focus on quantifying and categorising gamblers and gambling activities within national boundaries. This project will craft a more critical and powerful alternative. Highly productive and proven anthropological approaches will be applied to four systematically integrated case studies: the UK remote gambling industry, spread betting among Chinese financial services workers in Europe, land based gaming in Cyprus and gamblers and non-gamblers in the Italo-Slovenian borderlands. The project will establish the value of a systematic ethnographic approach to gambling by conducting research in a number of contrasting settings, across a number of different scales. It will produce high quality and robust data that will form the basis of a new research paradigm that matches the dynamism and internationalism of the European gambling industry today.

Keywords: gambling,europe,sociality
New Service Capabilities for Integrated and Advanced Maritime Surveillance (NEREIDS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,European organisations area,Spain,Slovenia,Portugal,Netherlands,Belgium,France,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Greece
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6026984.5
EU funding (EUR): 3999852.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

NEREIDS will bring innovate capablities based on EO to make a best exploitation of available space technologies. NEREIDS capabilities will bring enhancedEO capabilities by combining different sensors with innovative data fussion tecniques. NEREIDS will bring a toolbox apporach enabling share data an capabilities and support a comon maritime piture. NEREIDS will make an analysis of maritime surveillance in a cross-sectorial approach and will bring best capabilities using best use of available space assets.

Keywords: gmes,maritime surveillance,sar,high resolution optical,data fussion,vessels anomalies,toolbox,interoperable,security,fisheries,maritime transport,integrte,decission support,innovation.
Multi-scale Service for Monitoring NATURA 2000 Habitats of European Community Interest (MS.MONINA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,France,Belgium,Germany,Belgium,Greece,Italy,Germany,Poland,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2528215.7
EU funding (EUR): 1963037.2
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

NATURA 2000, an endeavour in the spirit of the Convention of Biological Diversity (Rio, 1992), is one of the success stories among pan-European initiatives and one of the world‘s most effective legal instruments concerning biodiversity and nature conservation. The EU Habitats Directive (council directive 92/43/ECC) requires a standardised monitoring of the habitat types and a reporting every six years. For this reason, an operational, objective, economically priced and as far as possible automated application is required. The rapidly developing remote sensing sensor technique and also new image processing methods offer new possibilities to apply remote sensing data for NATURA 2000 monitoring. Today, with (i) GMES as an umbrella for utilizing latest EO-based achievements form both space- and in-situ sensors to provide European solutions for global problems of the environment-security-nexus, (ii) INSPIRE as a pan-European endeavor of obeying standards and other prerequisites of interoperable use, and (iii) the vision of a unified and integrated (i.e. single) European Information Space (SEIS), set the stage for a technologically mature, integrated, and user-centric system, more effectively to be used than ever. Users are in need, as imposed by the legally binding character of the directives, and this is what this project will service, from European to local scale. MS.MONINA follows a pan-European, multi-scale approach that on the one hand reflects the specifics and the variety of habitats in the different biogeographical regions, and on the other hand guides the specifications of the service chains and their implementations as service cases and pilots. The multi-scale (MS) concept reflects the fact that on different (administrative) levels there are specific requirements for sensitive sites-related reporting, monitoring, management etc.

Keywords: gmes,biodiversity,natura 2000,multi-scale,user validation
Advanced Forecast For Ensuring Communications Through Space (AFFECTS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Ukraine,Germany,Norway,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2550245.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999893.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In this call the EU supports activities strengthening space foundations reducing the vulnerability of space assets from space weather events. Solar activity affects the entire Earth environment from the magnetosphere down to the ionosphere and even to the lower atmosphere climate system. The natural hazards of space weather do not only modify the atmosphere but also can catastrophically disrupt the operations of many technological systems, thus causing disruption to people's lives and jobs. The AFFECTS collaborative project uniquely addresses these key topics through state of the art analysis and modeling of the Sun-Earth Chain of Effects on the Earth's ionosphere and their subsequent impacts on communication systems. Multipoint space observations enable world-leading experts at the highest level of interdisciplinary excellence to forecast the relevant space weather effects on the ionosphere quantitatively. The unique set of measurements from satellites in different orbits is complemented by dedicated ground-based monitoring of auroral electrojet and ionospheric activity. The AFFECTS team consists of key European space weather research teams and the US Space Weather Prediction Center of NOAA. To date no dedicated space weather forecast system for ionospheric applications exists in an operational manner, and thus this project would lead to an entirely new capability in Europe that is not only important for society but also does not exist elsewhere. AFFECTS is an unprecedented project which in time of the expected next solar maximum around 2012 will provide advanced prediction, assessment and early warning capabilities of disruptive space weather events that are expected to be particularly poignant to society and thereby meets the needs of Europe’s community of users. AFFECTS will provide Europe with the first advanced early warning and space weather forecast system to help European citizens mitigating the impact on its communication systems.

Keywords: space weather security of space assets communication systems ionosphere space storms solar activity early warning forecast
Performativity in Business Education, Management Consulting and Entrepreneurial Finance (PERFORMABUSINESS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1094621.0
EU funding (EUR): 1094621.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The world of business is a world of culture: a world of rituals, artefacts and idioms which is fit for anthropological and sociological analysis. The notion of performativity serves as a useful vehicle to analyse the culture that do characterise business schools, consultancy firms, corporations, investment banks, start-up companies and other sites of business life. This notion refers to performance in the sense of efficacy in the achievement of tasks, but also to the institutive capacities of knowledge and to an idea of practice as acting and staging. This research project seeks at providing sound social-scientific knowledge on the performativity of business through a theoretical clarification of the concept and a set of empirical investigations in three relevant areas. The first area is education in business administration. The project analyses the performativity of the case method of instruction and of similar pedagogical techniques that emphasise singularity, exemplarity and realism in the provision of meaningful and effective narratives. The second area is management consulting. The project analyses the performativity of consultancy missions and management devices, with a focus on the practices of presentation and communication used by consultants in order to construct convincing realities. The third area is entrepreneurial finance. The project analyses the performativity of business models, business plans and business cases in the orientation of investment and financing in entrepreneurial settings. Empirical investigation in all three areas is grounded in a qualitative, case-based approach. The research project aims at generating detailed and original factual evidence of the performativity of business in all three areas, and also at providing a coordinated and rigorous assessment of performativity as problematic reality in today s risk-oriented global business culture.

Keywords: economic sociology,performativity,business culture,business education,management consulting,entrepreneurial finance
To each his own reality. The notion of the real in the fine arts of France, West Germany, East Germany and Poland from 1960 to the end of the 1980s. (OWNREALITY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499970.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499970.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The notion of the real is used in a recurrent manner throughout art history concerning the period since the 1960s. It is applied to neo-avant garde practices, the return to the figurative, research on the abolition of borders between art and life, and photography. Nothing is more remarkable than seeing such different art practices side by side under the same banner on both sides of the Iron Curtain, East and West. Next to the notions of freedom, economics and equality, the real is a fundamental term that was used in different ways by each of the Cold War superpowers in order to promote their models of society. This notion within the fine arts and its polymorphic Cold War aspects has yet to be fully researched. Until now, no research has ever taken into account the ideological context of the relations between the West and East's notions of the real. This research project aims to capture the way that the notion of the real was applied to the fine arts in France, West Germany, East Germany, and Poland from the 1960s until the end of the 1980s. The analysis of the application of the very same notion on both sides of the Iron Curtain provides a new reading of the links, connections, and differences between art practices East and West. Applying an innovative method of research will allow for a renewed vision of European art from the second half of the 20th century. This research aims to go beyond the conventional divisions between East and West by presenting new ways of interpreting Cold War art practices.

Keywords: notion of the real,artistic relationships,cold war,france,germany,poland,east & west,philosophy,1960-1989