Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
INNOVATIVE DESIGN OF HUBS AND PROPELLERS (IDOHAP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180000.0
EU funding (EUR): 135000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The IDOHAP proposal is for the detailed design of two CROR models to be installed on an existing wind tunnel test rig. Each model to comprise a pair of hubs and associated propeller blades. This work will be achieved using design engineers experienced in the design of complex wind tunnel models and associated test rigs, using the Catia V5 (V16) software package. These model designs are required for CROR tests planned in the coming years using an existing CROR powered wind tunnel test rig. The IDOHAP proposal is fully compliant with the topic Call Text.

Keywords: hubs propellers cror design contra-rotating
Electric Motor And Sensor design and manufacture (EMAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189600.0
EU funding (EUR): 138900.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

EMAS proposes a technological research program enabling to develop, validate and manufacture eight actuators presenting high performance and high reliability for high speed applications under high temperature environment. Such actuators will be capable of producing 5 N.m torque under 10.000 rpm for an environmental temperature of 100 C involving low short circuit current and will be supplied by sine wave power converters. They will present high power density and low mass by conveniently exploiting high energy - high temperature Neodymium alloy permanent magnet materials in conjunction with optimized motor topologies and high speed sensor technologies. The proposed methodology involves three stages devoted to the preliminary actuator design, to the critical actuator design and to the actuator manufacturing and testing activities, respectively. Several technologies will be evaluated at a high temperature level and, then, the best of these technologies will be improved before its integration in the final prototype. The research for motor concept will involve a comparison of permanent magnet machine topologies: internal and surface permanent magnet machine topologies are going to be compared, by means of classical motor analysis and design procedures coupled with numerical magnetic field analysis and simulation software, for their ability to provide low short circuit current and produce sinusoidal flux distribution. Moreover, optical and magnetic position sensors will be compared both on their ability to provide sufficient details on motor position and speed in very low and high speed ranges and their capacity to withstand the required temperature conditions. The criteria analyzed for each candidate architecture are: the integration density level (mass volume), the simplification of interfaces between subassembly, the thermal management performances, the ability for the technologies selected to fulfill any reliability objectives.

Keywords: motor,low short circuit current,high precision resolver,nacalle actuator,permanent magnet
Computational Geometric Learning (CG LEARNING)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,France,Germany,Israel,Switzerland,Netherlands,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3159561.0
EU funding (EUR): 2444728.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

High dimensional geometric data are ubiquitous in science and engineering, and thus processing and analyzing them is a core task in these disciplines. The Computational Geometric Learning project (CG Learning) aims at extending the success story of geometric algorithms with guarantees, as achieved in the CGAL library and the related EU funded research projects, to spaces of high dimensions. This is not a straightforward task. For many problems, no efficient algorithms exist that compute the exact solution in high dimensions. This behavior is commonly called the curse of dimensionality. We plan to address the curse of dimensionality by focusing on inherent structure in the data like sparsity or low intrinsic dimension, and by resorting to fast approximation algorithms. The following two kinds of approximation guarantee are particularly desirable: first, the solution approximates an objective better if more time and memory resources are employed (algorithmic guarantee), and second, the approximation gets better when the data become more dense and/or more accurate (learning theoretic guarantee). To lay the foundation of a new field---computational geometric learning---we will follow an approach integrating both theoretical and practical developments, the latter in the form of the construction of a high quality software library and application software.

Keywords: algorithms and data structures,computational geometry,data analysis,high dimensions,software
AERODESIGN - Preliminary Design Methodologies (AERODESIGN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Portugal,Netherlands
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 193268.2
EU funding (EUR): 115629.5
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

To study the future configuration of commercial aircrafts, it is important to have the most efficient method of preliminary design supported by the most complete database with information on existing assets and validated results. Such combination will set CleanSKY GRA with the right starting point for a preliminary design process that will yield a future advanced technology aircraft. The AERODESIGN project will generate a multi-segment and multi-level technical framework, aimed at creating an entire preliminary design methodology solution providing a realistic preliminary aircraft model based in a data base with existing aircraft data. The main objective of the AERODESIGN project is to find an integrated process of optimization for the design. AERODESIGN divides the preliminary design methodology scope into eight different modules: geometrical, aerodynamic, engine data, weight and balance, mission and low speed performance, costs analysis, engine emissions and noise analysis, each of them being integrated by various technologies that are fused together. The integration will include the use several technologies that will result in a cost effective solution.

Keywords: preliminary design methodologies cfd fem software
Theories and Numerical code for prediction of near and far field noise generated by new generation propellers and Open Rotor blades (CAA-NLH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The inherently high propulsive efficiency of advanced propellers and Counter-Rotating Open Rotors (CROR) have a great potential for fuel savings, but the level of noise emitted by the open blades represent a major obstacle to their environmental acceptance. Consequently, the design of a low noise, fuel efficient open rotor powerplant is one of the major objectives of the CleanSky JTI. Within the virtual prototype design environment, the availability of highly efficient calculation procedures of noise sources and their propagation are essential to achieve these objectives. While the CAA approach for the acoustic far-field noise propagation is well established, the critical issue remains the delivery of fast and accurate unsteady CFD-solutions for prediction of the noise sources. The present CAA-NLH proposal responds to this objective, through an advanced new approach for the CFD determination of the noise sources. The CAA-NLH project will rely on the nonlinear harmonic method (NLH) which allows a gain in CPU performance for CROR’s compared to current CFD sliding grid or Chimera methodologies, of two to three orders of magnitude. This method, defined in the frequency domain, has been largely validated and successfully applied on multistage turbines and compressors at many companies. Its extension to propeller and CROR configurations has recently been initiated. The present project proposes the further extension of this approach, including a dedicated post-processing of the pressure fluctuations to determine the near-field tone noise, and an integration of the proposer’s FW-H module with the NLH code for reliable far-field noise predictions, including automatic CFD/FW-H coupling (with automatic CFD grid generation), optimized generation of permeable surfaces and experimental validation, with a turnaround time for a complete simulation of a few hours on a low number of processors. A professional, user friendly and quality assured software environment will be pursued.

Keywords: nonlinear harmonic method,cfd,caa
Fiber Optic Sensors Application for Structural Health Monitoring (FOSAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159900.0
EU funding (EUR): 119925.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal is addressed to the exploitation of fiber optic based sensor for structural health monitoring of aeronautic structures and materials. The activity plan is organized in three tasks, according to the call description. The first activity will be focused on preliminary research on the use of Fiber Optic Bragg Grating (FOBG) sensors for the strain evaluation during a fatigue test on metallic samples in corrosive environment, with the aim to define and characterize a new experimental methodology capable to provide an innovative tool for the prediction of corrosion initiation. The second activity is addressed to the demonstration of a new approach for the realization and test of an apparatus for FOBG sensors interrogation. The task is motivated by the need to identify a robust and reliable instrumentation for flight test campaign. Starting from results of previous experimental campaign carried out together with Alenia, the actions to develop are devoted to the identification of a new class of commercial devices and/or systems for the integration of a novel instrumentation which should be qualified for flight test campaign and, at the same time, must provide higher performances than conventional equipments. The third research activity will be aimed to the development of a distributed strain and temperature sensing system based on standard optical fibers employment. The scattering effects (Raman, Brillouin, Rayleigh…) on the basis of this new technique will be analyzed and prototypal and commercial solution, already certified for laboratory application, will be evaluated. The distributed technique will be tested during ground test campaign, with the aim to reach performances comparable to these typical of FOBG based discrete sensing systems. In conclusion, the proposal is aimed to provide theoretical and experimental support for the exploitation of new technologies for the realization of smart materials and structures.

Keywords: fiber optic sensors,structural health monitoring,corrosion,distributed optical sensors
Quantum Computer Science (QCS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Latvia,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,Israel,Belgium,Spain,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2212227.0
EU funding (EUR): 1679870.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum Information Science (QIS) is a young, highly interdisciplinary field touching on the foundations of both computer science and quantum physics It provides a new model of computation that is both physically feasible and more powerful than conventional computing. If a quantum computer is built, we will be able to solve computational problems that are hard for ordinary computers. Quantum information also enables communication and cryptography protocols that are impossible in the classical world. These facts have created enormous interest in QIS. We propose research on computer science aspects of QIS, with a strong interdisciplinary collaboration between computer scientists and physicists that makes our consortium unique in Europe. We will apply ideas from computer science to solve problems in quantum information science and the ideas from quantum information and physics to solve problems in classical computer science. Our goals include new methods for building quantum algorithms (e.g., by harnessing quantum walks) and understanding the general structure of quantum algorithms (e.g., the interplay between their quantum and classical components). In quantum communication, we will integrate the computer science and physics perspectives, with implications for a variety of models: quantum games, communication complexity, interactive proofs and cryptographic protocols. We will also study the mathematical structures that are common to classical and quantum computing, with applications to both fields. We believe that our approach is the most timely answer to: A) the challenges presently facing the theory of QIS which needs both a strengthening of its foundations and the development of new applications; and B) the exciting but as yet barely explored opportunity of applying the new tools developped within QIS to classical computer science.

Keywords: quantum computing,quantum algorithms,quantum communication,quantum information theory
An in-vivo Screen for the Identification of Leukemia-Promoting Factors (LEUKEMOGENESISAPL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research aims to identify and characterize factors conferring leukemic properties to hematopoietic cells. This screen will be based upon a murine leukemia model I have developed in my time at the Salk Institute (La Jolla, CA) these mice express a fusion of RARalpha with three FKBP12 Rapamycin-regulated dimerization domains” FKBP12 F36M (F3-RARa). These F3-RARa TG mice, though healthy, exhibit a “preleukemic” state that is more accessible to transformation by cellular factors, such as activated cytokine receptors. (Sternsdorf et al, 2006). At low frequency, these mice spontaneously develop myeloid leukemia with APL features. From these leukemias I want to identify leukemogenic factors. Freshly expanded Leukemia cells will be used to generate a retroviral cDNA library. Initially, I will use this library to transduce non-transplantable murine cell lines and test, which factors convey transplantability. In the following, I will transduce /transplant pre-leukemic bone marrow from younger F3-RARa mice. This should lead to leukemias, which will be tested, isolated by cell sorting, according to presence of viral integrate (GFP). Leukemias will be FACS-isolated by phenotype (GFP, Surface markers). The integrated retroviral vectors will be isolated by PCR. The goal of this analysis is to identify and characterize novel cellular factors, involved in the process of leukemia development. This will enable me to identify novel potential targets for therapy. I am an experienced scientist in the earlier part of my career: after spending nine years in the US, I am returning to the European Union. A Heisenberg Fellowship (Germany) made this possible. This fellowship, though prestigious, covers only a small amount of funding besides my salary. Therefore I consider the IRG a critical component of funding in this critical time of my career and the successful transfer of my knowledge to the hosting lab in Hamburg.

Keywords: acute myeloid promyelocytic leukemia retrovirus functional genetic screen,health sciences
Structural Studies of the Human Cytomegalovirus Glycoprotein B Activation Mechanism of PDGFR alpha (PDGFR – HCMV GB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

HCMV infection is life-threatening for immuno-compromised patients, and is the most frequent cause of congenital abnormalities in Europe and the USA. HCMV infection can also lead to cardiovascular and chronic bowel inflammatory diseases and several types of cancer (the latter is still a matter of controversy). Effective treatment for HCMV disease is available, but the rapid emergence of drug resistant strains pose an urgent need to find new targets and to develop new inhibitors against HCMV. For cell invasion, and in order to carry out different parts of its life cycle, the HCMV directly manipulates normal cell signaling pathways. The HCMV envelope glycoprotein B (gB) has a versatile role in this process: first, it attaches to the host extracellular matrix - thus participating in viral absorption. Next, gB specifically binds to and activates a cell surface receptor – the Platelet Derived Growth Factor Receptor  (PDGFR) which initiates a cell-survival response, followed by a gB-mediated membrane fusion. Anti-gB neutralizing antibodies are developed, aiming to prevent HCMV infection and disease. The ultimate goal of this research is to understand the structural basis of PDGFR activation by HCMV gB. Using X-ray Crystallography and Electron Microscopy, two of the most powerful techniques in current structural biology, we specifically aim to: 1. Understand how the binding of HCMV gB results with PDGFR activation and cell signaling events. 2. Chart the gB-PDGFR interacting surfaces and define the most critical determinants in this interaction. Taken together, the expected results will shed light on a vital element in HCMV invasion and will set the ground for the design of specific inhibitors to treat HCMV infection and disease.

Keywords: structural biology,receptor tyrosine kinase,pdgfr,hcmv,glycoprotein b,x-ray crystallography,single particle electron-microscopy
Time-Domain Measurements of Phase Change Memory Switching Characteristics and Investigation of the Drift Mechanisms for the Threshold Voltage and Reset Resistance Values (PCM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In phase change memory devices based on amorphous semiconductor GeSbTe compounds, the switching is achieved through application of current pulses with various pulse widths and trailing edges. When the device is in the low resistance polycrystalline state (set-state) the application of a high amplitude current pulse can increase the local temperature above the melting point and if the trailing edge is short enough the molten state is quenched into an amorphous phase (high resistance-reset state) after the pulse is turned off. Above a threshold dc voltage the amorphous state becomes more conductive, allowing high enough currents to flow and induce spontaneous crystallization due to joule heating. This way the device switches back to its low resistance-set state. In this project the stability of the switching parameters (threshold voltage and reset resistance) in time will be studied using radio frequency (RF) probes and a time domain sampling oscilloscope. Performed measurements on the already fabricated samples of Ge2Sb2Te5 nanopillars with circular or rectangular cross-sections down to 50 nm in diameter will elucidate the role of nano-scale current distribution in the overall drift characteristics. Further measurements at elevated temperatures will reveal the relative contributions from thermally accelerated structural relaxations and electronic relaxation mechanisms. In our study, we will gain a much better understanding of the nature of the drift properties of the switching parameters and therefore we will contribute to the solution and control of one of the most important problems in the practical applications of phase change memory, one of the most important memory devices that nanotechnology has produced as of today.

Keywords: experimental physics,nanodevices,electron-based nano-devices,solid state physics,physics of semiconductors,electronic,magnetic and superconductive properties,relaxation