Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Autonomous Printed Paper products for functional Labels and Electronics (APPLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Finland,Germany,France,France,Netherlands,Portugal,France,France,Italy,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SME-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5031699.8
EU funding (EUR): 3600000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

A new generation of sustainable paper products with specific autonomous functionalities aiming at interacting with their users and/or reporting changes in their environment is developed. The project focuses on the development of new functional materials (paper, fibres, inks), new functional components (battery, sensors, display, memory) and innovative, flexible and cost-effective manufacturing processes based on printing and embedding techniques for the integration of all these functional components on the smart paper substrate. The new APPLE products make extended use of the specific properties of both fibre based products and (nano)fibres individually: the paper is not only used as substrate providing the required mechanical, surface and barrier properties for the printing and integration of the functional components but also the fibres including the incorporation of nanofibres are used as active elements, namely the display and the memory. The new cost-effective manufacturing process based on printing and embedding techniques with a new quality-controlled, flexible concept developed, will open new opportunities for the paper and printing industries (132 000 printers in Europe, among which 85% are SMEs) in the growing market of low-cost and high value added printed electronics. The aim is to demonstrate the new products for target applications: 1) Environment & safety labels, 2) Environment & advertising posters and 3) Smart packaging labels. The project also aims at paving the way for further development of flexible low-cost manufacturing processes of other new high value added products through the integration of latest sensor, energy sources and ICT technology in order to meet societal needs.

Keywords: paper - electronics - printing - labels - display - memory - sensor - battery
Downstream Observatory organised by Regions active In Space - Network (DORIS_NET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,France,France,France,French Guiana,Poland,Germany,Portugal,Italy,Spain,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1120237.23
EU funding (EUR): 999744.87
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

DORIS_Net proposes a Downstream Observatory organised by Regions who are all members of NEREUS (Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies) and potentially users of GMES downstream services. The Downstream Observatory will facilitate links between both regional and European level GMES stakeholders. The regional users and service providers will be supported by dedicated interfaces as well as a network of Regional GMES Contact Offices (RCOs) to create the European GMES Downstream Service Platform - the heart of DORIS_Net. This Platform will allow more effective coordination of individual activities both within and between the regions of Europe and European GMES governance which is vital for growth in the downstream service sector. The Platform shall be tested and verified by a nucleus of European pilot regions already involved in GMES services. This scalable and robust concept results in a good geographic representation of European regions and reflects the depth of the GMES service portfolio. Six Core Partners: Bremen, Midi-Pyrenees/Aquitaine, Azores, East Midlands, Lombardia and seven Fast Track Partners: Basilicata, French Guyana, Bretagne, Mazovia, Castilla Y Leon, Madrid, Baden-Wuerttemberg make up the DORIS_Net consortium. In addition, DORIS_Net will expand to initially seven Outreach Regions (Latvia, Estonia, Ireland, Hungary, Finland, Madeira/ Portugal and Provence Cote d' Azur) which will be “tutored” in implementing the DORIS_Net methodology by Core Partners. This concept will enable the Platform to continuously expand allowing more and more European regions to implement the GMES service portfolio in a systematic and coordinated way. Furthermore, full support from NEREUS, as the NEREUS Flagship project, as well as the involvement of all major European networks ERRIN, AER, EARSC, EURISY and the CoR in the Advisory Board and dissemination activities will strengthen the impact of DORIS_Net on the GMES downstream service sector.

Keywords: european gmes downstream service platform,nereus network,regional gmes contact offices
DSP for Space Applications (DSPACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1605224.56
EU funding (EUR): 1177067.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

New Earth observation, atmospheric sounding, planetary exploration and generally scientific missions require the capability to handle large amount of data and to process them on-board applying both first level trigger procedure and compression algorithm. The always bigger data flow requests an high on-board numerical calculation capability in order to elaborate the acquired information before sending them to the Earth. Available DSP based modules offer a typical computing power of 20 MIPS and more noticeably 20 to 60 MFLOPS. Although it was considered sufficient a few years ago, future applications will require much higher computing power. This requirement, together with the strong need to reduce the dependence on critical technologies from outside Europe, makes mandatory the development of next generation of European general-purpose high performance DSPs with a linked efficient and reliable SW application development environment. DSPACE project aims to develop a high performance DSP for space application up to 1 GFLOPS that, meeting the scalability, multi-purpose and usability features, is conceived to be used both as stand-alone signal processor into embedded systems and as building component for increasing the computational capability. A new DSP Core will be designed taking into account requirement and limitation due to European actual space technology. A complete front/back-end software environment, including a low level code optimiser layer, is expected to be developed together with benchmarks representative of common space scenarios. The DSPACE core will be housed on FPGA demonstrator board and made available with complete SW Development Environment.

Keywords: dsp space fpga
Laser Ignition Technology for Rocket Engines (LIROC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Cross-cutting activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 827654.0
EU funding (EUR): 481827.5
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Lasers ignition of propellants offers a number of advantages as compared to existing ignition systems. The maturity and miniaturization of laser ignition devices have paved the way from laboratory experiments demonstrating the basic principle to component/subsystem validation at subscale conditions. In the frame of the proposed work the technology of laser ignition of liquid rocket engines is addressed in four major aspects: 1. System Aspects of Laser Ignition: The requirements for lasers and laser ignition will be defined for a baseline application in a cryogenic upper stage operated with LOX/H2. Two concepts will be considered. In the first concept ignition is achieved by focusing the laser inside the main combustion chamber to initiate combustion. The second concept is to use a laser to ignite a torch igniter. 2. Technologies for Igniter and Laser Systems: Small-size laser systems for ignition applications will be selected and adapted for the application in rocket combustion chambers. Design solutions to harden the optical setup against acoustical, vibrational, and thermal loads will be investigated. 3. Phenomenology of the Ignition Transient under Conditions Representative for In-Chamber Ignition with a Multi-Injector Head: The ignition and flame stabilization transient will be investigated in a research combustor with optical access. High-speed visualization techniques will contribute to a detailed understanding how the location and time of ignition affects the ignition reliability and the ignition pressure peak. 4. Demonstration of Laser Ignition: A subscale chamber together and a laser ignition system will be designed and manufactured. The technology of laser ignition will be proven by validating and demonstrating the re-ignition capability and performing pulsed operation of the subscale combustor. The robustness of the laser igniter system against vibrational and thermal loads typical for the application will be shown.

Keywords: rocket propulsion,ignition,laser
Propellantless deorbiting of space debris by bare electrodynamic tethers (BETS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,France,United States,Germany,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2337317.4
EU funding (EUR): 1772801.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Concern about the growth of space debris, aggravated by the increase in the number of countries with direct access to space, made the SPA.2010.2.3-02 Call Topic suggest "preventing generation of new debris and de-orbiting upper stages and spacecraft after mission completion". The Project proposed involves Research and Technology Development of an efficient deorbit system, to be carried in the future by every launched spacecraft. A dedicated system is needed because satellites naturally orbit at ionospheric altitudes where air drag is very weak. The system considered involves magnetic drag on a current-carrying conductive tether, uses no propellant and no power supply, and generates power on board. It beats alternative systems (enhanced air drag, and rocket and electrical thrust) in simplicity and in the combined basic metrics: Frontal Area x Deorbit Time and System-to-Spacecraft Mass Ratio. Like air drag, magnetic drag is a dissipative mechanism arising from the orbital tether motion relative to the corotating magnetized plasma, which induces the current in the tether. The Work Programme includes studies of plasma-tether interaction under ambient-plasma variations along orbit, performance dependence on orbital altitude/inclination, and trade-off against alternative systems; numerical simulations of current to a bare tether; and studies of orbit/tether dynamics, and of both tether survival and the tether itself as debris. Deorbiting a satellite representative in both orbit and mass in Low Earth Orbit is considered. Tasks involve i) Design and manufacturing the tether as a tape with possible materials-structure both lengthwise and in its cross section, and a study of materials; ii) deployment strategy, and design / manufacturing of subsystems: tether-deployment mechanism, end mass, electric control and driving module, electron-ejecting plasma contactor, and interface elements; and iii) microgravity, and hypervelocity-impact and tether-current laboratory tests.

Keywords: debris deorbiting,bare electrodynamic tether,tether drag,plasma conductor interaction
Support EO-driven forest and carbon monitoring in Central Africa for REDD (REDDINESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Cross-cutting activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,France,Congo, The Democratic Republic of the,Congo,Gabon
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 642500.8
EU funding (EUR): 499768.75
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

REDDiness is a development project built on an international partnership between state-of-the-art entities specialized in forest management and earth observation techniques that aims to assist Gabon and the Republic of Congo in establishing their national forest monitoring centres. With its foundations on existing EC, ESA, GMES and other international and regional projects on forest assessment, forest mapping and carbon trend estimation, the project will increase the readiness of these countries to join the carbon trade market and strengthen their capacity to negotiate potential carbon transactions. The partnership assistance will focus on transferring optimal robust spatial methods to enhance the monitoring of forest changes and enable the precise assessment of annual carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation. This will be achieved through a better operational use of existing methodologies and the introduction of innovative techniques to meet UNFCC technical requirements for measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) forest changes and associated carbon emissions. The project’s overarching objective is to assist Gabon and the Republic of Congo to accurately report on the rate of deforestation which they committed to reduce from 0.19 down to 0.10% by 2017.

Keywords: redd,forest and carbon monitoring,capacity building,gabon,republic of the congo,eu-africa partnership
Magnetic-Superconductor Cryogenic Non-contact Harmonic Drive (MAGDRIVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Czechia,Portugal,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2480881.0
EU funding (EUR): 1961965.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to design and build a harmonic drive able to work under cryogenic conditions, with an extremely low friction, long life time and no wear.This harmonic drive will achieve a great reduction ratio, being able to function at cryogenic temperatures and based on a non-contact interaction between magnets, soft magnetic materials and superconductors. The drive will not use any lubrication and will be free of wearing. It is based on magnetic teeth. This project includes significative technological improvements: 1. The use of superconductors as diamagnetic spacers between the teeth. 2. The use of magnetic-superconductor bearings very suitable for cryogenic conditions. 3. The use of the last generation of magnetic and superconducting materials. 4. The use of thin film techniques to make a set of microteeth and to enhance the capability for torque transmission with respect to the total volume and weight of the drive. The consortium has 7 partners from 5 countries, inlcuding Universities, Research Centers and SMEs with a good complementarity and able to make a prototype to test the technology, to validate a Technology Readiness Level TRL5 and to exploit the results. The main goal will be to build a prototype and test a technology that fulfils the critical technology need as it is expressed by the "EC-ESA-EDA LIST OF URGENT ACTIONS FOR 2009, Join Task Force Final Report"

Keywords: cryo mechanism,magnetic mechanisms,non contact drive,harmonic drive
Dry lubricated Harmonic Drives for space applications (HARMLES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1695464.6
EU funding (EUR): 1166833.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

On spacecrafts reduction of mass and power consumption are a major issue. On the other hand, in case of mechanisms for Solar Arrays or antennas big masses have to be moved and kept in position for long times. Harmonic Drives would fulfil the requirements: high gear ratios enable the use of small actuator motors (low mass and power), they provide high stiffness and high precision even at very low speeds. However, the use is presently limited by the need of grease lubrication. This is linked with risk of outgassing, contamination of other parts and limits the usage in temperatures approx. -50°C to +70°C. The use of solid lubricants typically for bearings may extremely widen the usage to at least -170°C to 300°C. First trials to apply these technologies for space use based on commercial available coatings (partially used in space bearings) did not lead to success, due to the strongly differing mechanical and contact situation in the Harmonic Drive. Therefore, project HarmLES will focus on the development of solid lubricant coatings for Harmonic Drives in space. This is seen as an integrated approach between gear design and material adaptation and the application of a suitable coating. It will start with a promising composite coating which has already been tested in space. On the other hand, a huge variety of coatings are available that claim “self-lubricating”, they will be benchmarked for their applicability in space. Besides space related lab-testing, application testing will ensure the proper feedback. The overall, tribosystem will be re-considered on bases of FEM-simulations and alternative material solutions. An end-user group consisting of several industrial end-users from space will be involved to recommend the research path by defining requirements for later applications. The consortium is small, but it covers the major players and reflects existing expertise in this field to perform the project successfully.

Keywords: harmonic drive,gears,dry lubricating coatings,mos2,space applications,tribology,cold welding
Accelerated Metallurgy - the accelerated discovery of alloy formulations using combinatorial principles (ACCMET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,France,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,Belgium,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany,Norway,Denmark,France,United Kingdom,Poland,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Australia,Germany,Estonia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-LARGE-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-15
End date: 2016-06-14
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18295937.2
EU funding (EUR): 12250000.0
Participants: 34
Project status: CLOSED

The core concept of Accelerated Metallurgy is to deliver an integrated pilot-scale facility for the combinatorial synthesis and testing of many thousands of unexplored alloy formulations. This facility would be the first of its kind in the world and would represent a significant advance for metallurgy. The novel technology that enables this HTT facility is based on automated, direct laser deposition (DLD). The key feature of this technology is the way in which a mixture of elemental powders is accurately and directly fed into the laser's focal point, heated by the laser beam, and deposited on a substrate in the form of a melt pool, which finally solidifies to create a unique fully-dense alloy button with precise stoichiometry. This robotic alloy synthesis is 1000 times faster than conventional manual methods. Once produced, these discrete mm-sized samples are submitted to a range of automated, standardised tests that will measure chemical, physical and mechanical properties. The vast amount of information will be recorded in a "Virtual Alloy Library" and coupled with computer codes such as neural network models, in order to extract and map out the key trends linking process, composition, structure and properties. The most promising alloy formulations will be further tested, patented and exploited by the 20 end-users. Industrial interests include: (i) new lightweight fuel-saving alloys (<4.5 g/cm3) for aerospace and automotive applications; (ii) new higher-temperature alloys (stable>1000°C) for rockets, gas turbines, jet-engines, nuclear fusion; (iii) new high-Tc superconductor alloys (>30K) that can be wire-drawn for electrical applications; (iv) new high-ZT thermoelectric alloys for converting waste heat directly into electricity; (v) new magnetic and magnetocaloric alloys for motors and refrigeration; and (vi) new phase-change alloys for high-density memory storage. The accelerated discovery of these alloy formulations will have a very high impact on society.

Keywords: metallurgy,lightweight and energy-saving alloys,alloy synthesis,direct laser desposition,combinatorial studies,high-throughout testing,virtual libraries,neural networks,dft modelling
Nanostructured energy-harvesting thermoelectrics based on Mg2Si (THERMOMAG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Italy,Sweden,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom,France,France,Greece,Cyprus,Germany,Russian Federation,Sweden,United Kingdom,Norway
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6352033.64
EU funding (EUR): 3986980.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The core concept of the ThermoMag project revolves around developing and delivering new energy-harvesting thermoelectric materials and proof-of-concept modules, based on nanostructured bulk Mg2Si solid solutions. This class of TE material would have the following attractive characteristics: (i) ZT value >1.5 for both n-type and p-type doped material, (ii) operational in the temperature range 300-550ºC, (iii) very low density of 2 g/cm3, especially suitable for transportation applications, (iv) high melting point of >1000ºC, and good thermal stability up to 600ºC, (v) good oxidation and corrosion resistance and mechanical strength, (vi) isotropic thermoelectric properties, (vii) non-toxicity of elements, (viii) widely-available pure materials with very large EU supply chains and (ix) low raw material cost <15 Euros/kg, combined with low manufacturing costs. A number of methods will be looked at to achieve 3D bulk nanocrystalline Mg2Si including low-cost combustion synthesis, mechanical alloying and high-temperature solid-state synthesis in inert crucibles. Various ball milling approaches will be used to produce doped Mg2Si nanoparticle constituents that can then be compressed via rapid spark plasma sintering or hot pressing in vacuum. 3D nanocomposite material will also be produced with the addition or in-situ production of inert nanoparticles, as well as thin films using multilayer approaches. Doping using various elements will be predicted by ab-initio density-functional theory modelling. These methods will lead to the safe production of nanostructured n- and p-type legs for further thermoelectric and materials testing. In order to prove the concept works, demonstrator modules will be assembled that integrate the new energy-harvesting nanostructured material. Such modules have widespread applications in automotive, aerospace and manufacturing sectors, where waste heat can be usefully recovered, with clear environmental benefits.

Keywords: thermoelectrics,magnesium silicide,nanostructuring,ab-initio modelling,material characterisation,automotive,aerospace,manufacturing