Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Materials for Robust Gallium Nitride (MORGAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Czechia,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,Slovakia,France,Sweden,France,Hungary,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,United Kingdom,France,Sweden,Poland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13862596.42
EU funding (EUR): 9200000.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

The MORGaN project addresses the need for a new materials for electronic devices and sensors that operate in extreme conditions, especially high temperature, high electric field and highly corrosive environment. It will take advantage of the excellent physical properties of diamond and gallium nitride heterostructures. The association of the two materials will give rise to the best materials and devices for ultimate performance in extreme environments. Both materials possess durability and robustness to high temperature, radiation and electric field. Diamond material exhibits the best mechanical robustness and thermal conductivity, while GaN presents also high electron mobility, giving high power handling and efficiency. III-N systems have other desirable properties for sensor applications in extreme environments. It is the only highly polar semiconductor matrix that has ceramic-like stability and can form heterostructures. It has the highest spontaneous polarisation with a Curie temperature above 1000°C for AlN: a lattice matched III-N heterostructure with a built-in polarisation discontinuity is expected to enable transistor action above 1000°C. The packaging and metallisation of an electronic device or sensor are important elements in extreme conditions. Metal contacts must be stable and the package must be thermally compatible with the device requirements and chemically stable. MORGaN proposes a novel technological solution to electron device and sensor modules. Advanced 3D ceramic packaging and new metallisation techniques based on the emerging technology of MN+1AXN alloys will also be explored. As such, the vision of MORGaN for materials for extreme conditions is holistic, involving 2 large industrial partners, 2 industrial labs, 6 SMEs and 13 public research partners. The project includes research, demonstration, management, training and dissemination activities.

Keywords: electronics,diamond,wide gap semiconductors,extreme environment,thermal management,sensors
OPTImisation of Multimedia over wireless Ip links via X-layer design (OPTIMIX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,Finland,Italy,United Kingdom,Hungary,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5679231.0
EU funding (EUR): 3707026.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The OPTIMIX project will focus on studying innovative solutions enabling enhanced video streaming in an IP based wireless heterogeneous system, based on cross layer adaptation of the whole transmission chain. To achieve this goal, it is proposed to develop a scheme including all elements of major importance in a point to multi point video streaming chain, in particular video coding, networking modules, MAC layer and physical layer, efficiently communicating together through the use of joint controllers (at the server side) and mobile unit observers (at the client side). Innovative techniques will be considered to improve the efficiency of scalable video codecs when used in a wireless multi user environment with respect to robustness, efficient dynamic compression and intelligent use of scalability schemes. The design of novel controlling strategies will be of main interest in the scope of point to multi-point scenarios, taking in consideration the aggregation of multiple feedbacks and the overall optimisation criteria in a multi user context Cross-layer mechanisms will be investigated, enabling the communication between application world and transmission world through the use of enhanced transport and network protocols. The network architecture of the system will be designed with respect to joint optimisation principles, bandwidth efficiency and real time constraints. Finally, the overall system will be validated with respect to end to end quality optimization, and innovative techniques developed in all the fields of interest of the project will be evaluated. Efficient bandwidth use, real time constraints, robustness and video quality will be amongst the major evaluation criteria .

Keywords: wireless communications,qos,video transmission,multicast,networking,joint source channel coding,iterative schemes,cross layer design,unequal error protection,header compression,mobility
Small Scale Solar Cooling Device (ALONE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewables for heating and cooling
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,Türkiye,Portugal,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3730044.6
EU funding (EUR): 2298988.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Solar cooling technologies use solar thermal energy provided through solar collectors to power thermally driven cooling machines. Cooling demand is rapidly increasing in many parts of the world: the combination of solar thermal and cooling has a high potential to replace conventional cooling machines based on electricity and depleting refrigerants. However, while larger solar cooling systems have been successfully demonstrated, smaller systems have not yet entered the market due to various technical and economical reasons. Until today, there is a lack of small scale units, fully automated and autonomous package-solutions for residential and small commercial or industrial applications, low temperature cooling systems: ALONE aims at overcoming these barriers. The main aim of ALONE proposal is to improve solar cooling technologies based on systems able to cope with low temperature cooling applications. Effort will be concentrated on absorption chiller optimisation for providing both heating and cooling in solar systems: in fact, components’ adaptation and control logic optimisation is a necessary step towards higher conversion performances and reduced costs. This objective will be achieved through the development and improvement of new components of small capacity cooling systems, collectors and control systems, as well as a plant characterised by pre-engineered solutions. Advanced modelling and simulation will also support the design. The whole system will work in a fully automated way throughout the year. In order to foster the market penetration and widespread use of sustainable technology, major attention is paid to the simplification of installation effort and the minimisation of the need maintenance, what is of utmost importance for such kind of plants which in any case will run without operator. The project will demonstrate this innovative system at four selected end-user sites, collecting real data and assessing performances under full plant operation.

Keywords: solar cooling,parabolic through,absorption chiller,small devices,cost reduction,demonstration
Development of a bionic solar collector with aluminium roll-bond absorber (BIONICOL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewables for heating and cooling
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Italy,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1719348.0
EU funding (EUR): 1059202.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is to develop solar collectors with absorbers which feature bionic channel structures ("FracTherm®" structures), which are multiply branched in a fractal way in order to obtain a uniform flow distribution, a low pressure drop as well as a high thermal efficiency. The absorbers will be built of aluminium using the so-called roll-bond process. Small solar absorbers have already successfully been built in a previous research work. It is now necessary to develop collectors with typical dimensions needed for the market up to a prototype stage and demonstrate their efficiency and functionality as a basis for a following series production. It is expected that high-efficiency collectors at low costs can be obtained as a result of the project. The collectors are to be investigated for a wide temperature range in order to cover various applications. To reach the mentioned aims, the FracTherm® algorithm is to be developed further and the obtained designs have to be produced, evaluated and optimized. Moreover, the possibilities and constraints of the roll-bond production process have to be investigated in order to find out the best possibilities to produce a solar absorber with maximum efficiency and minimum costs. One of the very important tasks of the project will be the coating of the absorber after its channels are produced. Finally, the absorber has to be mounted into a collector casing and thus also has to fulfil a number of requirements. The target of a prototype and small-series production is to demonstrate the possibilities of manufacturing FracTherm® solar collectors with variations of the absorber. In order to prevent corrosion, it is necessary to work on appropriate heat transfer fluids. It is intended to build demonstration systems in various sites in Europe which are operated for more than one year within the project. The final objective is to evaluate the competitiveness of the developed solar collectors with state-of-the-art products.

Keywords: solar,collector,absorber,aluminium,roll-bond,fractherm,bionic,bionics
A Whole-Genome Screen for Novel Imprinted Loci (WGIMPRINT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2010-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 259642.64
EU funding (EUR): 259642.64
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

First, I propose to identify all imprinted loci in humans. I will perform a whole-genome screen using high-density oligonucleotide microarrays coupled with immunoprecipitation of methylated DNA to compare the methylation patterns in rare uniparental tissues. I have obtained samples from complete hydatidiform moles, which have an exclusively paternal genetic contribution, and ovarian teratomas, which have an exclusively maternal genetic contribution. I demonstrate that the study of genomic methylation in these two tissues enables the direct comparison of a maternally methylated genome versus a paternally methylated genome, representing an optimized system for the detection of novel imprinted loci. Second, I will use this imprinting map to perform a preliminary investigation of the role of epigenetic defects in disorders of human development. I hypothesise that the study of genomic methylation patterns in connection with human disease represents a rich and largely untapped area of genetic research. I will investigate methylation patterns in a cohort of monozygotic twins who show discordant developmental phenotypes. As monozygotic twins are genetically identical, the study of twin pairs who present with phenotypic differences represents a highly sensitized population for the identification of epigenetic errors associated with human disease. This proposal harnesses a new generation of high-density oligonucleotide arrays which allow for the first time the entire human genome to be investigated at the necessary resolution to systematically uncover novel imprinted genes. The proposal will give ample opportunity to acquire new experimental, theoretical and computational knowledge, and also to develop the novel research area of ‘Methylomics’ in human genetics.

Keywords: genome,methylation,epigenetics,imprinting,microarray
Flow and Harmonicity of Geometric Structures (FHOGS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 154344.74
EU funding (EUR): 154344.74
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The use of variational principles to distinguish geometric objects is a fundamental theme of modern differential geometry: geodesics, minimal surfaces, Willmore surfaces, Einstein metrics, Yang-Mills fields. More generally, harmonic mappings have been introduced by Eells and Sampson and harmonic section theory applies this variational problem to sections of submersions. Especially interesting are bundles with homogeneous fibre G/H, where H is the reduced structure group corresponding to some additional geometric structure, since sections then parametrize H-structures. The theme of this project is to explore harmonic sections of geometric structures and adapt the powerful analytical technique of geometric flows. For example, the harmonic section equations are satisfied for nearly cosymplectic structures, if the characteristic field is parallel, or a hypersurface in a Kähler manifold. The general case has yet to be decided. One question is whether nearly Sasakian (or CR or warped product) structures are parametrized by harmonic sections. The 1-1 correspondence between f-structures (a generalisation of almost complex and contact structures) and sections of a homogeneous bundle leads to looking for f-structures for which the section is harmonic. The homogeneous fibre is neither irreducible nor symmetric, making the geometric analysis more intricate. The starting point of the theory of harmonic maps was the associated flow which inspired Hamilton's work on the Ricci flow, culminating with Perelman's proof of the Poincaré Conjecture. The variational nature of harmonic geometric structures naturally leads to considering the associated flow. This represents ground-breaking research as geometric flows have only been used for maps and curvatures. Viewing geometric structures as maps enables to extend this powerful tool to very geometrical objects.

Keywords: geometry,mathematical physics
Mobility of Health Professionals (MOHPROF)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Optimising the delivery of healthcare to European citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Bulgaria,Poland,Philippines,Germany,United States
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2007-B, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2989454.0
EU funding (EUR): 2340347.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

In the medium-scale collaborative project with partners inside and outside the EU, scientific institutes with the capacities to conduct sound investigations will cooperate with worldwide active international health service organisations which have information and global links for research on international mobility. General objective is to research on current trends of mobility of health professionals to, from and within the EU. Research will also be conducted in Non-European sending and receiving countries, but the focus lies on the EU: comparative studies in a selected range of representative states will determine the impact of different types of migration on national health systems. An innovative approach will generate more comparable, specified and qualified data gathered by mainly qualitative research and aims for quantities of migration flows as well as detailed qualities like professions, motives, circumstances and the social context, i.e. push and pull factors. Crucial for the approach are key stakeholders which represent the relevant categories in national health systems to collect existing data and statistics, but first of all to generate new, qualitative data. In-depth interviews based on thematic guidelines with representatives of key stakeholders enable a triangulation of data, i.e. the expertise on health professionals´ mobility and its impact on structures and processes of health systems will qualify the quantitative findings and explore what mobility means for the health system and the persons and organisations involved. The project’s policy dimension comprises recommendations on human resource policies in European and third countries for policy and decision makers on the basis of sound empirical research with conceptual frameworks for monitoring systems concerning the mobility of health workers as a key part. Consultation meetings and roundtables with policymakers will be essential in the project.

Keywords: migration,european union,health professionals,health system,qualitative research,human resources policy
Preventing community and nosocomial spread and infection with MRSA ST 398 - instruments for accelerated control and integrated risk management of antimicrobial resistance (PILGRIM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Denmark,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,Czechia,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2007-B, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3727953.0
EU funding (EUR): 2993824.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are of increasing concern both as community- and hospital-acquired pathogens. Since 2005, a specific clone, MRSA ST398 is spreading both in livestock populations and occupationally-exposed people resulting in human infection and disease in several EU Member States. The key objective of the PILGRIM project is to provide a range of novel control measures for the accelerated identification and control of emerging resistant bacteria. In order to achieve these we will undertake epidemiological and physiological studies of MRSA ST398 and use molecular approaches in well comparable animal models as well as humans in community and healthcare settings to 1) investigate/explore its biology and ecology, 2) identify and characterise factors determining the transmission pathways and risk from animal to human and between humans, 3) establish genetic differences, host-range and virulence of adhesive and non-adhesive strains as well as differences between ST398 and other MRSA, 3) identify specific genes for the development of new rapid tests to identify specific MRSA strains, 4) provide a Technology Testing Platform for developing and assessing decolonisation and environmental sanitation approaches, 5) integrate results in policy and practice guidelines. This project brings together clinical, genetic, microbiological and public health partners from 6 European countries, internationally renowned for their expertise in complementary ecosystems research. The two SME partners ensure the exploitation of results and the knowledge transfer, enabling associated companies to bring validated solutions to the market. The PILGRIM research will facilitate rapid and cost-effective measures to combat emerging resistant strains in order to prevent and eradicate community and nosocomial infections for better protection of citizens and patients in Europe and beyond.

Keywords: mrsa-st398,nosocomial infection control,intervention efficacy testing,host-pathogen interaction,epidemiological studies,transmission studies,decolonisation,environment decontamination,microarr
Gastro-intestinal Peptides in Obesity (GIPIO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,United Kingdom,Germany,Denmark,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2007-B, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5375872.45
EU funding (EUR): 3857407.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Obesity is the fasted growing health problem in the Western World. In the United States, obesity as cause of preventable mortality (365,000 deaths in the year 2000) will soon overtake tobacco (435,000 deaths) and already has overtaken alcohol consumption (85,000 deaths), infectious diseases (75,000) and motor vehicle crashes (43,000). More important, it is also a problem in children and adolescent, and accordingly, one of the major future health problems. We hypothesize that the reduction of hormones/signals, released or blocked after food intake as nutrition signal, significantly contributes to the feed-back in food intake, and subsequently to the onset in obesity. Accordingly, the focus of this project is the understanding of the contribution of gastro-intestinal peptides to the onset of obesity. It is aimed to identify the most relevant hormones or combinations of hormones, and subsequently to develop anti-obesity drugs that are based on endogenous hormone agonists or antagonists. The project will include the following aspects and competences: Production of endogenous hormones by synthetic approaches according to the guidelines of GMP and investigation in human volunteers by fMRT. Most promising candidates will be studied in more detail. This will include ghrelin, orexin, GLP, PP and PYY. Experiments will occur on the molecular, cellular and animal level. Original and optimised hormones will be modified with DOTA and used for labelling, and subsequent analysis in PET studies to allow the follow up of distribution and stability. In a medicinal chemistry concept, non peptidic drugs and peptide mimetics will be further explored for PYY and PP first as well as for ghrelin, orexin and GLP.

Keywords: obesity gut peptide medicinal chemistry imaging