Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Business Model Innovation in Living Labs (BUMILLA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark,United Kingdom,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 740139.67
EU funding (EUR): 740139.67
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The principle aim of the BUMILLA research programme is to create a long term strategic partnership between the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Aston University (AU), the University of Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law (UG) and Insero E-Mobility (IEM) an entrepreneurial SME dedicated to changing the international EV landscape through the innovative use of living labs. The partners enter the project aspiring to strengthen their knowledge and expertise through a cross-disciplinary collaboration aiming at enabling a wider scale take up of EV technologies. This will be achieved through an exchange of personnel between the two universities and the SME and the temporary recruitment of an experienced researcher. The project contains a state-of-the-art research programme, systematic knowledge transfer and an impact scheme that collectively has the potential to strengthen the competitiveness of the European Union in the field of EV technology uptake in relation to international competitors. The research programme contains three overall S&T objectives within the general aim of enabling a wider scale take up of EV technologies: S&T O1: To conduct multidisciplinary research on product user profiles in living lab product testing (the role of technology architecture) S&T O2: To develop a framework for business model innovation in living lab settings (the role of business models) S&T O3: To experiment with public-private partnership (PPP) models supporting a combined technology and business model approach (the role of the coherent framework).

Keywords: business model innovation,living labs,product development,user driven innovation,electric vehicles,technology archicteture,technology development
Four Dimensional Cultural Heritage World (4D-CH-WORLD)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Germany,Cyprus,France,Greece,United Kingdom,Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1360092.79
EU funding (EUR): 1360092.79
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

This project4D-CH-World aims to analyze, design, research, develop and validate an innovative system integrating the latest advances in computer vision and learning, as well as, 3D modeling and virtual reality for the rapid and cost-effective 4D maps reconstruction in the wild for personal use, and support the aim of our European Commons and the digital libraries EUROPEANA and UNESCO Memory of the World (MoW) to build a sense of a shared European cultural history and identity. The main goal of the 4D-CH-World is to enable historians, architects, archaeologists, urban planners, or any other affiliated scientists to reconstruct from available data on repositories, study, understand, preserve or document urban environments, as well as, organizing collections of thousands of images (spatially and temporally) in generating novel views of historical scenes by interacting with the time-varying model itself. The evolving steps depiction helps understanding the cultural trends, performing behavioral analysis, exploiting the impact of the available raw resources in building development, further analyzing the urban economy factors, and simulating a future urban growth in order to understand the future demands, and satisfy in time the people’s concrete needs. Education system will have the opportunity to exploit this innovative system to motivate students and help them better understand many things in an amusing way. Finally, pupils, university students, tourists, communes, future mechanics and economists, will observe urban environment changes through time, not just read it, and therefore understand it, so as, future plans of action, regarding urban renewal or sustainable development would be less likely to fail.

Keywords: cultural heritage preservation,3d modeling,spatio-temporal reconstruction,simulation,metadata ontologies,media production,visualization
Silica-based Nanobiomedical Approaches for Treatment of Bone Diseases: Proof-of-Concept (SI-BONE-POC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2012-PoC, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161560.0
EU funding (EUR): 149366.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Silicatein is a unique enzyme from siliceous sponges that is able to catalyze the formation of an inorganic material, silica or “biosilica” which forms the inorganic skeleton of these sponges. Another exceptional property of this protein is its dual function, as we discovered for the first time in the ERC Advanced Grant “BIOSILICA” (Grant no. 268476): silicatein both (i) acts as an enzyme (biosilica formation) and (ii) exhibits structure-forming/guiding activity. Even more important with regard to the biomedical application of silicatein: the product of the enzymatic reaction, biosilica, is osteogenic and biocompatible and allows the formation of a moldable material – the ideal basis for the potential application in bone healing, as we found. Moreover, we demonstrated that biosilica not only increases the expression of bone morphogenic protein 2 (BMP-2), but also modulates the ratio of expression of two proteins, osteoprotegerin (OPG) and RANKL, that are crucial in pathogenesis of osteoporosis. Hence, biosilica has potential in prophylaxis and therapy of osteoporosis, a major health threat worldwide. Measures to prevent the development of osteoporosis have become increasingly important due to the demographic development in many industrialized countries. Our idea arising from the ERC-funded project is to apply the silica-enzymes fused to a hydroxyapatite-binding protein tag for the formation of bioactive biosilica-based scaffold / nanocomposite materials for bone regeneration and repair in osteoporotic patients and patients with related bone diseases. The proposed project aims at bringing this idea to a pre-demonstration stage by conducting a proof of concept and verifying its innovation potential. The potential commercialization opportunities and the IPR position of this idea will be clarified.

Keywords: 268476
Medical Applications of IF nanoparticles (MEDIF-2)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2012-PoC, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168224.4
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Back in 1992 we have found that nanoparticles of inorganic compounds with layered (2D) structure, including MoS2, NiBr2, Cs2O and many others, form hollow closed nanostructures- i.e. fullerene-like nanoparticles (IF) and nanotubes (INT). These nanoparticles serve as very good solid lubricants and are now exploited commercially. Using the leverage of the ERC project we have recently made major progress with the synthesis of new IF and INT, including SnS2 nanotubes and MoS2 nanooctahedra. We also found that Re doping of the these nanoparticles leads to remarkable changes in their physio-chemical behavior, including making them superlubricants (friction coefficient approaching 0.01). Based on these advancements, in both the materials synthesis and bio-medical studies, we propose to develop a number of new medical technologies which will be licensed to a start-up company at the end of this project. In order to achieve this goal we will employ a multifaceted technological approach. 1. Develop new self-lubricating coatings based the IF nanoparticles; 2. Explore a number of promising new medical applications which are associated with the low friction and surface energy of the IF NP, and 3. Embark on extensive bio-toxicity-bio-compatebility studies.

Keywords: 226639
Fully integratable lasers and optical amplifiers in silicon (FILOS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: ERC other
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-PoC, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149181.0
EU funding (EUR): 149181.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal aims to develop an optimum pre-commercialisation strategy for silicon based light emission and detection technologies developed under the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant SILAMPS (Silicon Lasers and Optical Amplifiers). The university spin-out company Si-Light will be used as the commercialisation vehicle. The company plans to sell licenses to manufacturers in several major market sectors: fully integrated fibre to the home transceivers for passive optical networks, infrared sensors for gas detection, medical products for surgical applications and inter and intra chip communications. We will research the major customers and performance expectations for products in each sector and establish market size and growth expectations. Visits to the most likely licensees will be scheduled to demonstrate the technology.

Keywords: 226470
Endoscopic Multi-Spectral Optoacoustic Tomography (EMSOT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2012-PoC, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165310.0
EU funding (EUR): 149459.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ERC-MSOT (233161) proposal developed a new imaging modality, termed Multi-Spectral Opto-acoustic Tomography, applied to mesoscopic biological imaging of small animals. MSOT breaks through the penetration limit of optical microscopy and can image several millimeters of tissues in-vivo at high resolution. This performance has recently attracted the interest of clinicians, in particular for the clinical application of the technology to address limitations of current endoscopic methods imaging the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. With millions of gastrointestinal endoscopies performed each year and a rising number of procedures due to colon screening programs established worldwide, advanced methods for endoscopic imaging appear preliminary as a viable commercialization opportunity. This ERC PoC proposal will therefore establish a proof of concept for the development and application strategy of endoscopic MSOT (EMSOT).

Keywords: 233161
ARCAS: Analysis of the Route to Commercialisation of MVA based influenza vaccines (ARCAS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2012-PoC, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 164400.0
EU funding (EUR): 149840.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ARCAS will investigate the commercial potential and commercialization strategy of a platform of continuously updated repository of pandemic influenza vaccine candidates that was developed under the ERC project FLUPLAN. This platform is based on a novel vector technology using recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) to develop pandemic influenza vaccines. There are two major advantages of the platform in comparison to current pandemic influenza vaccine platforms using adjuvanted-inactivated and live-attenuated influenza vaccines: i) the high immunogenicity induced in the absence of adjuvants, even at very low dosages, and ii) higher and faster vaccine production capacity. This addresses today’s key unmet needs of pandemic influenza vaccines: strong and broad immunogenicity as well as virtually unlimited production capacity for large scale vaccination campaigns needed in the face of an emerging influenza pandemic. While FLUPLAN addresses the technical development of the platform, including one of the promising candidate vaccines (MVA-based influenza A/H5N1 vaccine), ARCAS will focus on the commercial potential and the commercialization strategy for the platform. This will be achieved by conducting an extensive market study to determine the potential for the novel vaccine repository platform, by analyzing the IP position to build a solid IP portfolio, and by conducting a technical evaluation on the potential of the platform. This will provide the basis to determine the commercial potential and subsequently the most viable commercialization strategy for the platform, to be detailed in a strategic business plan. Furthermore, as part of the strategic business plan, we aim to develop a sound factsheet that will allow potential commercial partners to invest in the technology, addressing the current influenza market needs, given the competitive advantage offered by the platform.

Keywords: 250136
Solar To Hydrogen Hybrid Cycles (SOL2HY2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy,Finland,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3727404.2
EU funding (EUR): 1991115.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The FCH JU strategy has identified hydrogen production by water decomposition pathways powered by renewables such as solar energy to be a major component for sustainable and carbon-free hydrogen supply. Solar-powered thermo-chemical cycles are capable to directly transfer concentrated sunlight into chemical energy by a series of chemical and electrochemical reactions, and of these cycles, hybrid-sulphur (HyS) cycle was identified as the most promising one. The challenges in HyS remain mostly in dealing with materials (electrolyser, concentrator, acid decomposer/cracker and plant components) and with the whole process flowsheet optimization, tailored to specific solar input and plant site location. With recent technology level at large-scale hydrogen production concepts hydrogen costs are unlikely to go below 3.0-3.5 €/kg. For smaller scale plant, the costs of hydrogen might be substantially higher. The present proposal focuses on applied, bottle-necks solving, materials research and development and demonstration of the relevant-scale key components of the solar-powered, CO2-free hybrid water splitting cycles, complemented by their advanced modeling and process simulation including conditions and site-specific technical-economical assessment optimization, quantification and benchmarking. For the short-term integration of solar-power sources with new Outotec Open Cycle will be performed. Simplified structure, extra revenues from acid sales and highly efficient co-use of the existing plants may drop hydrogen costs by about 50-75% vs. traditional process designs. Besides providing key materials and process solutions, for the first time the whole production chain and flowsheet will be connected with multi-objective design and optimization algorithms ultimately leading to hydrogen plants and technology “green concepts” commercialization. The consortium consists of key materials suppliers and process development SME and industry, RTD performers and a university.

Keywords: hydrogen,solar,sulphuric acid,thermochemical cycle,water splitting
Sofc Apu For Auxiliary Road-truck Installations (SAFARI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Poland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2425214.6
EU funding (EUR): 1522157.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

SAFARI aims to design, optimise and build 5 100We SOFC stacks, and to integrate then into 2 truck cab power systems comprising both rapid heating planar SOFC from ALM and microtubular SOFC from ADE, together with a battery and appliances found in a modern truck manufactured by IVECO. Additional components of the system are a gas processor to clean up the molecules from liquefied natural gas (LNG) plus other equipment for Balance of Plant (BoP) and heater/chiller. All these components will be constituents of a fuel cell unit which will first be tested in the lab and , after further miniaturisation, in a truck platform. SAFARI is primarily focussed on trucks at HAR who run a fleet of LNG trucks, but the project will also consiser other options including buses and delivery vehicles using LNG. Trials will be undertaken in the UK especially to comply with approvals for codes and standards, as well as assessing the economic fleet potential. LNG was selected as the fuel because it is increasing in importance for trucks across the EU, with lower costs and much lower emissions than diesel trucks. Also, LNG is widely available throughout the EU with long-term supplies guaranteed for the next two centuries. The SOFC was chosen because it can operate readily on LNG, while providing low emissions, low noise and good heat/chilling available. In addition it is modular with potential for extending truck applications. The main benefit for the truck maufacturer is reduced emissions fom LNG boil-off.

Keywords: sofc,apu,lng,truck
Cost-effective and reliable hydrogen sensors for facilitating the safe use of hydrogen (H2SENSE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,European organisations area,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 785290.0
EU funding (EUR): 380348.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This project is related to the effective deployment and availability of reliable hydrogen sensors, primarily but not exclusively for use in applications using hydrogen as an alternative fuel. The objective is to support and unite stakeholders including sensor manufactures/developers, sensor end-users, certification bodies and independent sensor evaluators having the aim to avoid any hazardous events which could hinder the implementation of hydrogen as an alternative fuel by ensuring the availability and optimum use of low-cost and reliable hydrogen sensors. In doing so a European knowledge hub covering hydrogen sensing technologies, state of the art commercial products, near term applications and correct use of hydrogen sensors will be created. An output from this virtual knowledge hub will be state-of-the-art guidelines on how to select and properly use the best hydrogen sensor for a particular application. In addition the consortium will identify barriers (including those of a market, technical, manufacture-related and regulatory nature) which may hinder the commercialisation and wide spread of hydrogen sensors. Suggestions to overcome these barriers will be formulated in addition to recommendations for integration into ongoing or new RCS activities to be implemented at national and global levels. With the knowledge of these barriers it is expected that sensor manufacturers will be better equipped to design, manufacture and commercialise improved sensors at a lower cost, which are tailored to suit end-user requirements. As a result end-users will benefit from a broader range of effective products to choose from for specific applications. A novel aspect of this project will be co-ordination and joint activities with a US consortium lead by the US Department of Energy (National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory) whereby the output will be leveraged by the interaction and knowledge transfer between the European and US consortia.

Keywords: hydrogen sensors,safety,gas detection,risk minimization,fuel cells
Systematic, Material-oriented Approach using Rational design to develop break-Through Catalysts for commercial automotive PEMFC stacks (SMARTCAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,Norway,Denmark,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4768172.6
EU funding (EUR): 2501998.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The present consortium will build a new concept of electrodes based on new catalyst design (ternary alloyed/core shell clusters) deposited on a new high temperature operation efficient support. In order to enhance the fundamental understanding and determine the optimal composition and geometry of the clusters, advanced computational techniques will be used in direct combination with electrochemical analysis of the prepared catalysts. The use of deposition by plasma sputtering on alternative non-carbon support materials will ensure the reproducible properties of the catalytic layers. Plasma technology is now a well established, robust, clean, and economical process for thin film technologies. Well-defined chemical synthesis methods will also be used prior for quickly defining the best catalytists.MEA preparation and testing, MEA automated fabrication in view of automotive operation will complete the new concepts of catalysts with a considerably lowered Pt content (below 0.01 mgcm-2 and less up to 0.001 mgcm-2) and supports for delivering a competitive and industrially scalable new design of PEMFC suitable for automotive applications. SMARTCat will thus address the following objectives: - Deliver specifications/requirements for reaching the technical goals as a roadmap. - Design an efficient new catalyst architecture - Establish a support selection criteria based on physico-chemical characterization and modelling for defining the most suited electrode support to the defined catalytic system - Assess the robustness regarding operation conditions and fuel cell efficiency - Enable to automate the MEA production using state of the art (< 100°C) and high temperature membranes (120°C) - Build efficient short-stack required for competitive automotive fuel cell operation - Low cost process and low Pt content will dramatically reduce the fuel cell cost, and which will lead to economically suitable fuel cells for automotive application

Keywords: trimetallic catalyst,metal-oxide support,orr,dft simulation,automated mea fabrication,stack test,fuel cell robustness,fuel cell durability