Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
G-TRAIN: Supporting Education and Training in GNSS (G-TRAIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-18
End date: 2013-01-17
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 558587.67
EU funding (EUR): 543736.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The scope of the G-TRAIN project is the creation of a framework at European level for higher education in the field of Satellite Navigation. The proposed activities are directed towards different educational levels: for the II cycle of the Bologna process, the project will focus on the Master of Science, while for the III cycle of the Bologna process, Specializing Masters and Ph.D will be addressed. The improvement and transnational coordination of existing initiatives will start from 3 areas of excellence in GNSS as identified by the ERIG project (Munich in Germany, Turin in Italy, Toulouse in France), represented by the G-TRAIN partners. The aim of the actions put in place by the project is to ease students and researchers exchange is order to create a favourable environment for a new generation of GNSS experts who will contribute to technological development and creation of innovation in the future, so filling the gaps of Europe with respect to US in education and research processes. Starting from existing initiatives, the project addresses: - the creation of a collaborative MSc - the strengthening of a Specializing Master for long term professional education - the support to Ph.D training and networking Besides, in order to implement longer term and wider initiatives, the project supports the creation of a Satellite University Network, starting from the networking of the academia of the centres of excellence, but open to other universities working in GNSS field. Through working groups and activities, the network will investigate the necessary actions for GNSS education promotion and coordination in order to put in place a global European strategy in GNSS education with impacts on Research and Innovation. The project has been designed to be open to cooperation with similar actions undertaken by other institutions in Europe (e.g. ESA), thus maximizing the impact of the activities in the European environment of education and research in GNSS.

Keywords: satellite navigation,higher education,professional training
Galileo Advanced Innovation Services (GAINS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1200880.0
EU funding (EUR): 968020.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the Galileo Advanced Innovation Services (GAINS) project is to implement effective Galileo Downstream Application Innovation Services and to coordinate them by implementing “innovation highway” as a seamless process on European scale. The project can build on validated prototypes of the modular services from within the existing, outstanding initiatives represented in the consortium: “European Satellite Navigation Competition” (ESNC) also known as “Galileo Masters” for the identification of promising business ideas, the open innovation environments provided by the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), the business acceleration services of entrepreneurship activity centres and the 90 company strong EuroTeleServ Association for scale-up and ENCADRE, the network of SatNav regions. The focused new contribution of the GAINS project is the implementation of “innovation highway” as a seamless process of coordinated Galileo Advanced Innovation Services, in the three main phases: idea recognition, product and services development, and new ventures creation.

Keywords: gains network,idea generation contest,product & business development support
The role and functioning of the PTOX in stress tolerance in extremophile Thellungiella halophila (FUNCPTOXTHELL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Climate is the great factor that mankind has not yet managed to control. Drought, flood, high temperature, salinity and air pollution are among the major factors limiting crop productivity. The effects of various environmental stresses in plants are known to be mediated, at least partially, by an enhanced generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The main site of ROS production in stressed plant is chloroplast, exposed to excessive energy absorbed. ROS are highly reactive and can cause widespread damage to membranes, proteins and DNA. To prevent such damages there are a number of enzymatic processes in chloroplast to scavenge ROS. Unfortunately they are highly energetically demanding, requiring the synthesis of high concentrations of the low-molecular weight antioxidants and antioxidative enzymes. Therefore, to place less of a metabolic burden on plants, the effective regulation of the photosynthetic electron transport is crucial to avoid enhanced ROS formation under stress conditions. In Researcher recent studies the effects of short-term salt stress on the regulation of photosynthetic electron transport in Arabidopsis thaliana and its salt-tolerant close relative Thellungiella halophila has been examined. Results obtained provide the evidence for the plastid terminal oxidase (PTOX) to act as a significant electron sink from photosystem II (PSII). In salt-stressed Thellungiella, PTOX-dependent electron transport accounts for up to 30% of total linear electron flow, suggesting a major role for this pathway in protecting plants from photodamage. The aim of present project is to investigate the role and functioning of PTOX in Thellungiella halophila with the focus on the regulatory mechanism and factors that allow it to act as a sink for electron transport from PSII. Additionally, we will investigate whether Thellungiella PTOX activity can be transferred into another species and whether this has the potential to increase stress tolerance.

Keywords: photosynthesis,abiotic stress,reactive oxygen species,thellungiella halophila,plastide terminal oxidase
Open Architecture for Secondary Nodes of the Electricity SmartGrid (OPENNODE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Portugal,France,Germany,Netherlands,Spain,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-ENERGY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5264394.0
EU funding (EUR): 2789970.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

European energy industry is facing three major challenges: a) the increased integration of renewable, fluctuating power resources to achieve the climate goals, b) increased “smartness” especially in the electrical distribution grid to cope with increasing capacity requirements and finally c) the stakeholder diversification separating grid operation, power provisioning, metering services, auxiliary services and others. These challenges have to be considered jointly when developing components for the upcoming Smartgrid. In the recent past the smart grid has often been a synonym for a smart meter infrastructure but which actually often provides only a smart edge of the grid. In the OpenNode project work will especially focus on inner parts of the distribution grid to address the described three major challenges, namely on the research and development of (1) an open secondary substation node (SSN) which is seen as an essential control component of the future smart distribution grid, (2) a Middleware to couple the SSN with the Utilities systems for grid and utility operation and (3) a modular communication architecture based on standardised communication protocols to grant the flexibility required by the stakeholder diversification and to cope with massively distributed embedded systems in the distribution grid. The proposal will differentiate itself from competing consortia primarily through its dedication to have technology developments driven through close cooperation between European ICT leaders, the European Consulting standards leaders and some of the greatest Utilities in Europe. This will allows the consortium to conduct focused research work to identify the user requirements based on upcoming use cases, to specify an open system approach, to evolve accepted industry standards and to deliver near-operational prototypes which will be evaluated by field trials in two European Countries.

Keywords: open,secondary substation nodes (ssn),smartgrid,smart distribution grid
Low-cost Miniature Laserscanner for Environment Perception (MINIFAROS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Greece,Germany,Finland,Sweden,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4827028.0
EU funding (EUR): 3198125.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The wish and determination for considerably fewer accidents have been pronounced by a number of European stakeholders, like the EU programme ‘Halving the number of road accident victims in the European Union by 2010’. This ambitious safety goal will not be met as scheduled. A number of reasons for that can be brought up. One main reason is the slow market introduction of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems (IVSS) and the high cost of safety applications. Today IVSS are limited to a small part of the premium car segment. Future safety systems must be made affordable to penetrate all vehicle segments. Since small and medium size cars are dominating the road traffic and thus most of the accidents. The consortium stresses here that a boost of the market penetration of driver support systems can be realised by generic sensors that are affordable, durable and of compact size to be used in different locations in vehicles or in the infrastructure, providing fully reliable sensor data. All these requirements have not yet met by present day sensors. The MiniFaros consortium will develop totally new low-cost miniature Laserscanner technology that opens up the Advanced Driver Assistance System market for small and medium size cars and broadens the range of possible applications by its • low cost (40 €), • small size (4 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm) for mass production • high performance, like field of view of up to 250 degree The consortium will demonstrate and evaluate • the novel Laserscanner serving various applications in vehicle environment, both on a truck and passenger car. • the generic nature of the novel Laserscanner as a sensor that has use outside the vehicle by providing infrastructure based road user information at an intersection to the vehicle via V2I-communication.

Keywords: intelligent vehicle safety systems,low-cost,miniature,novel laserscanner,omnidirectional lens,mems mirror
Design Support and Tooling for Embedded Control Software (DESTECS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Denmark,Netherlands,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3622195.0
EU funding (EUR): 2739175.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The efficient design of embedded systems is hampered by the separation of engineering disciplines in current state of the art development approaches. A methodology to address system-level design issues across discipline boundaries is lacking and tool support is poor. This “design gap” inhibits iterative and concurrent engineering, leading to sub-optimal designs and long development lead times. Moreover, the design gap is widening because of increasing system complexity and increasing capabilities of the system artifacts used. DESTECS will create a methodology and supporting open tools platform for the collaborative and multidisciplinary development of dependable embedded real-time control systems. We will develop a methodology combining continuous time and formal discrete event modeling with support for iterative design evolution. Model analysis will be based on co-simulation and the framework will support explicit modeling of faults and fault-tolerance mechanisms from the outset. Tool support is crucial: the methodology will be supported by an open, extendible tools platform, populated with plug-ins supporting co-simulation, test and code generation. DESTECS does not replace current industry practice but it will facilitate and support the cross-discipline design dialogue by integration of domain-specific best practices. The methods and tools development is driven by industry-led case studies which also provide evaluation of the emerging technology. The novel aspects of this proposal are the use of a systems-level modeling approach based on co-simulation of formal models, the explicit modeling of faults and fault-tolerance at this level and the support for lightweight trade-off analysis between design alternatives on the basis of extra-functional properties, especially resilience. In particular, the development of an open tools framework for co-simulation will encourage greater industrial uptake.

Keywords: embedded control systems,design tools,co-simulation
Scientific Service Support based on GALILEO E5 Receivers (SX5)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Czechia,United Kingdom,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2008-GSA-1, 2008)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 879944.0
EU funding (EUR): 665486.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

GALILEO will offer one dedicated signal which is superior to all other signals that are or will be available in space, namely the broadband signal E5. This signal as well as its sub-carriers E5a and E5b will feature an ultimately low range noise in the centimetre range as well as the lowest multipath error impact ever observed in the history of satellite navigation which can be in the range of a couple of centimetres in benign environments and is by far smaller than the multipath errors on all other signals in all other environments as well. Up to now, much development efforts are put into dual- and multi-frequency GNSS receivers. The scientitifc community actually focuses on this type of device, because it is commonly believed that more than one frequency is needed to get rid of the ionospheric delay error. This, however, it not true. An E5 single-frequency system can also be used for precise positioning in the future leading the way to new and innovative processing strategies based up receiver which can be cheaper than multi-frequency systems. The main motivation for the SX5 project proposal is: (1) The best-possible use of the E5 broadband signal for scientific applications. (2) The provision of full configuration flexibility of a receiver to scientists. (3) The implementation and validation of an application prototype and its demonstration to the scientific user community.

Keywords: galileo,precise positioning,scientific applications,e5 broadband signal
Fire-induced changes on surface soil microbial communities in Mediterranean forests. Rehabilitation by addition of exogenous organic matter (BURNINGMICROBES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2013-06-19
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Over 40.000 wildfires occur yearly in Mediterranean Europe causing devastating environmental damages: greenhouse gas emission, habitat destruction and accelerated desertification. Burning can sterilize the soil surface within minutes, whereas the recovery of the decomposer system and its ecosystem functions can take decades. Our knowledge on the effects of fire on the decomposer system mostly relies on surveys performed in humid climates. Thus, it is intended in this proposal to survey the fire-induced changes in the soil microbiota in Mediterranean forests. In particular we aim to: i) Analyse the effects of an experimentally controlled wildfire in a Mediterranean shrubland on the soil´s physical and chemical properties, as well as microbial biomass (microbial C content), activity (ATP content and respiration), ability to consume a range of C substrates (MicroResp), and several hydrolases linked to the C, N and P cycles, ii) Investigate fire as an ecological filter selecting for endosporulating bacterial groups. We will analyse the bacterial community structure (denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of 16S rRNA gene amplicons) in pre- and post-fire samples. Based on these results, adequate samples will be selected for generating clone libraries to construct the phylogeny of the regional bacterial community. We expect that endosporulating bacteria, with their higher resistance to heating, will be overrepresented in the post-fire community, what will be analysed using the picante library of R. If demonstrated, this would imply the loss of phylogenetic diversity, which is the key component of biodiversity determining the ecosystem functioning, iii) Evaluate the restoration of soil properties after applying exogenous organic matter. We will investigate in a microcosm experiment whether the addition of composts accelerates the recovery of the pre-fire microbially-mediated ecosystem processes.

Keywords: anthropogenic impact on ecosystems,forest ecosystems (climate change),biodiversity inventory: systematics phylogeny taxonomy,soil ecology,soil protection,waste biotreatment
Effects of permeability and compressibility on liquefaction assessment of silty soils using cone penetration resistance (LIQUEFACTION)

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: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Several countries in Europe have paid a heavy price in terms of life loss and have suffered a serious damage to property and cultural heritage due to earthquakes in recent past. Failure of high hazards dams, earth structures, slopes and foundations have been attributed to the liquefaction of saturated silty soils. Therefore, numerous studies have been conducted to-date to understand the effects of silt on cyclic resistance of silty sands and its effect on liquefaction screening. However, the literature review points out that, there is no clear agreement on how silt content affects the liquefaction resistance and penetration resistances measured to diagnose it. The proposed project aims to revise the current liquefaction screening methods by taking into account the effects of consolidation characteristics on cone penetration resistance and liquefaction resistance. The data that will be obtained from Seismic Piezocone Penetration Tests (SCPTu) already in the database and possible future earthquake silty soil sites in Turkey will provide a perfect opportunity to further improve our understanding on effects of penetration velocity (v), cone diameter (d) and consolidation characteristics (ch) of silty sands on cone penetration resistance for different intergrain contact densities. Moreover, laboratory experiments will provide a clear perspective on effects of intergrain contact density of soils containing non-plastic fines on liquefaction resistance. As a result, the correlation between the liquefaction resistance, cone penetration resistance and normalized penetration rate T(vd/ch) will be presented and compared with the current CPT-based liquefaction screening methods. It is hoped that the majority of the inconsistencies in the literature will be resolved and engineers will have better understanding on the behavior of silty soils under seismic conditions at the end of this proposed project.

Keywords: liquefaction,silty soils,cone penetration test,cone penetration resistance,normalized penetration rate,permeability,compressibility
Citizens Collaboration and Co-Creation in Public Sector Service Provision (COCKPIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Luxembourg,India,Spain,Italy,Greece,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4030546.0
EU funding (EUR): 2540000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The fundamental idea of COCKPIT is that Web 2.0 social media constitute the emerging and de facto mass collaboration and cooperation platform between citizens themselves, and between citizens and public administrations. Therefore, Web 2.0 social media will have very soon establish themselves as a very effective means for creating, sharing and tracking knowledge about citizens’ opinions and wishes on public service delivery. COCKPIT adopts a highly synergetic approach towards the definition of a new governance model for the next-generation public service delivery decision making process by combining the research areas of citizens’ opinion mining in the context of Web 2.0, Service Science Management and Engineering in the context of the public sector, and deliberative engagement of citizens for forming informed judgements on public services’ delivery. COCKPIT supports the notion of open Public Administrations with which citizens have higher confidence and trust among each other and with the Public Administration, resulting in better governance, lower disputes on services’ delivery priority setting, higher degrees of public service adoption, lower public service delivery costs, better service innovation, and citizens loyalty to the public services.

Keywords: web 2.0 social media,citizens' opinion mining,next-generation public service delivery decision making process,service science management and engineering