Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Integrating civil, scientific and stakeholder knowledge towards African sustainable energy policy (SUSTAINERGYNET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,France,Germany,Egypt,Kenya
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2010-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 615512.4
EU funding (EUR): 548831.89
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Sustainable development is closely linked to the issues of Environment and Energy and their interdependencies. Sustainable economic growth and social development are only possible if secure, constant and equal access to energy sources is guaranteed. However, intensive energy use is likely to present serious implications for the environment and the climate. Especially in developing countries, promotion of sustainable energy options is necessary to tackle these challenges. In Africa, Civil Society Organisations (CSO) have been particularly active in addressing sustainable development and energy management within the last 15 years. While presenting important representatives for social needs and concerns, their effective impact on research policy agenda setting has however been considerably low yet. In line with the EU’s commitments to strengthening civil participation and to promoting a global approach to the issue of sustainable development, SustainergyNet aims at promoting the engagement of CSOs in Africa in the field of research policy agenda setting concerning sustainable and efficient energy management. In this perspective, the project will elaborate and suggest ways on how to encourage and facilitate the cooperation between CSOs and RTD performers. This will be based on the assessment of current settings and frameworks that already exist, the formulation of recommendations and best practices and the presentation of a specific facility (“CSO Involvement Net”) that shall support CSOs towards actively contributing to research and policy processes.

Keywords: civil society organisations,cso,sustainable development,environment,energy,renewable energies,international cooperation
Flavours, additives and food contact material exposure task (FACET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium,France,Italy,Germany,Finland,Sweden,Hungary,Spain,Romania,European organisations area,Portugal,United Kingdom,Poland
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8889961.4
EU funding (EUR): 5886105.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Flavouring, Additive and Food Contact Material Exposure Task: FACET FACET will deliver to the European Community a sustainable surveillance system, to estimate target food chemical intake. The project will consist of three main groupings of its 20 partners. The “Chemicals” group will prioritise the flavourings, additives and food contact materials for investigation and the food categories applicable to them. The “Food” group will take those food categories and will establish food ingredient occurrence data through the primary collection of food packaging material and the recording of all food ingredients in purchased foods. It will also create tired food consumption databases linked to the target food categories. In addition, where intake data is limited, models of regional diets will be developed. A group on chemical concentration will provide data on the concentration of target chemicals in target food groups. Databases on food intake, food chemical occurrence and food chemical concentration will be linked in algorithms which will be converted into computer code for the estimation of probabilistic exposure to target food chemical intake.

Keywords: food chemical exposure,additives,flavouring,packaging,food chemical occurrence,probabilistic modeling
Innovative and Practical Breeding Tools for Improved Dairy Products from More Robust Dairy Cattle (ROBUSTMILK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Ireland,Belgium,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3875385.4
EU funding (EUR): 2970036.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of ROBUSTMILK is to develop new practical technologies to allow breeders to re-focus their selection to include milk quality and dairy cow robustness and to evaluate the consequences of selection for these traits taking cognisance of various milk production systems. Six research organisations, all with a strong network in the animal breeding industry, have agreed to share knowledge and resources to develop a strong research program to achieve this objective. Each partner has its own specialised expertise (phenotypic recording, statistics, genomics) and unique data available, in the form of milk quality and dairy cattle robustness. The overall objective is achieved by five integrated workpackages, each having their own objective: 1) Creation of a common data-base that includes unique and scarcely recorded phenotypic measurements for traits underlying robustness and milk quality, together with productivity records and fertility; 2) to develop phenotypic measurement tools for robustness (energy balance) and milk quality (lactoferrin and fatty acid composition) using mid-infrared spectrometry; 3) to develop statistical tools to select for robustness and milk quality (udder health and SCC) taking into account complex biological backgrounds; 4) to develop genomic tools for selection for productivity, robustness (fertility, energy balance and udder health) and milk quality traits (lactoferrin and fatty acid composition); and 5) integrating and disseminating knowledge on the consequences of selection practises on robustness and milk quality. ROBUSTMILK has the potential to enhance the competitiveness of European agriculture through the production of higher quality dairy products and more sustainable dairy production systems. ROBUSTMILK will contribute significantly towards the Knowledge Based Bio Economy objective of the EU, through a greater understanding of factors contributing to genetic variation and exploiting this variation in a sustainable manner in genetic improvement programmes.

Keywords: dairy cattle,milk,functional foods,genomics,environmental sensitivity,mid-infrared spectrometry
Methodology for framework programmes’ impact assessment in transport (MEFISTO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES for implementation of the TRANSPORT PROGRAMME
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France,Poland,Netherlands,Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-TPT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2010-02-28
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 395939.0
EU funding (EUR): 395939.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal is responding to the first FP7- AERONAUTICS and AIR TRANSPORT call topics TPT.2007.6 &quot;Development of methodology and evaluation of the impact of FP5 and FP6 projects in the field of Transport&quot;. The consortium is proposing a methodology founded on three basic impact criteria (MEFISTO Methodology): - the leverage effect - the driving effect - the structuring effect to measure the impact of FP5/FP6 on the European Unions Research and Technology development in the area of transport. The first major output of the work will be a description of the process methodology developed for assessing the impact of FP5 and 6 on a variety of issues of importance to each particular sector. The second major output will be a demonstration of this process methodology in use in one sector, the aviation sector. This will include the assessed results generated for that sector. The third major output will be a description of the process(es) necessary to adapt the process for use in another particular transport sector. This will include the ways in which the different conditions applicable should be recognised and the different impact areas identified.

Keywords: impact,assessment,transport,fp5,fp6
Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science (EDGES)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Hungary,Spain,Spain,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,Netherlands,France
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2871477.0
EU funding (EUR): 2450000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Grid systems are currently being used and adopted by a growing number of user groups and diverse application domains. However, there still exist many scientific communities whose applications require much more computing resources than existing Grids like EGEE can provide. The main objective of this project is to support these new communities: a) by providing the necessary extensions for existing Grid infrastructures to address the specific needs in these new scientific communities within a coherent pan-European model, regardless of the location of their research facilities b) with the adaptation of their applications to the enhanced Grid infrastructure c) through the provision of standard APIs and Grid application development tools that facilitate the adaptation of their application to the enhanced Grid infrastructure. In order to support the specific needs of these scientific communities EDGeS will interconnect the existing EGEE Grid infrastructure with existing Desktop Grid (DG) systems in a strong partnership with EGEE. Service Grids (SGs) like EGEE are more flexible than DGs and can accommodate a broader variety of applications, however, they are much more expensive to maintain. Desktop Grids are currently restricted solely to Master/Worker-style compute-intensive applications but can scale very easily and are able to collect 1-2 orders of magnitude more compute power than most SGs are able to, and at a fraction of the cost. The interconnection of these two types of Grid systems will enable more advanced applications and provide extended compute capabilities to more researchers. One other objective of EDGeS is to extend the potential user communities for both Grids and Desktop Grids beyond traditional scientists and current volunteer computing participants to further involve ordinary citizens, secondary school students, and company employees, giving them an opportunity to become involved in science and to apply Grid technology in their every day life.

Keywords: desktop grid,boinc,xtremweb,service grid,egee,almeregrid,sztaki desktop grid,extremadura school grid,grid applications,grid application repository,grid application development environment
European clinical research infrastructures network for clinical trials and biotherapy - preparatory phase for the infrastructure (ECRIN-PPI)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,Germany,Italy,Denmark,Spain,Sweden,Ireland,United Kingdom,Belgium,Austria,Switzerland,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Finland,Poland,Hungary,Finland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8059487.4
EU funding (EUR): 5800000.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

European clinical research needs an integrated and distributed infrastructure able to provide efficient support to multinational clinical trials, taking advantage of the European population and competencies, unlocking latent expertise and patients scattered across the EU member states. ECRIN (European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network) is designed to bridge the fragmentation of clinical research in Europe through the connection of national networks of clinical research centres and clinical trial units. Participants are currently Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the EORTC. It will provide integrated, ‘one-stop shop’ services to investigators and sponsors in multinational studies (patient recruitment and investigation, data management, GMP manufacturing of biotherapy products, quality assurance, monitoring, ethics, regulatory affairs and adverse event reporting). With this objective, the preparation phase will consist of - WP2: selection of a legal status and of the governance structure - WP3: agreement on a financial plan leading to a long-term sustainability during the construction step and the operation phase - WP4: survey on needs in terms of GMP facilities for biopharmaceuticals and biotherapy, and their design. - WP5: education programme for multinational clinical studies - WP6: extension to other EU member states - WP7: capacity building to help national networks fulfil the sponsor’s tasks - WP8: update and upgrade of the quality assurance system - WP9: internal and external communication - WP10: accreditation of data centres - WP11: support to pilot projects Users will be investigators and sponsors in the academic and SME sector. Participants will be the national coordination of clinical research infrastructures, and national ministries and funding agencies in order to reach an agreement ensuring the long-term sustainability of the infrastructure.

Keywords: clinical research,non-commercial trials,biotherapy,distributed infrastructure,services,competence centres,data centres,gmp manufacturing,advanced therapy
Multi-Scale Modeling of Nano-Structured Polymeric Materials: From Chemistry to Materials Performance (NANOMODEL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Greece,Germany,France,Germany,Switzerland,Italy,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SMALL-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5042793.33
EU funding (EUR): 3481149.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The practice of adding micron sized inorganic filler particles to reinforce polymeric materials can be traced back to the early years of the composite industry. With synthetic methods that can produce nanometer sized fillers, resulting in an enormous increase of surface area, polymers reinforced with nanoscale particles should show vastly improved properties. Yet, experimental evidence suggests that a simple extrapolation of the design paradigms of conventional composites cannot be used to predict the be-havior of nanocomposites. The origin of these differences between conventional and nanocomposites is still unknown. This, unfortunately, precludes yet any rational design.Though some property improvements have been achieved in nanocomposites, nanoparticle dispersion is difficult to control, with both thermodynamic and kinetic processes playing significant roles. It has been demonstrated that dispersed spherical nanoparticles can yield a range of multi-functional behavior, including a viscosity decrease, reduction of thermal deg-radation, increased mechanical damping, enriched electrical and/or magnetic performance and control of thermomechanical properties. Especially the decrease in viscosity is advantageous for injection-molding op-erations. Facile tuning of nanocomposite Tg could thus allow us to control the usable temperature range of these materials. Again, the physics under-pinning this behavior remains unresolved, primarily due to the poor understanding of the effects that particle/matrix interactions have on the composite behavior. This project aims at overcoming these deficiencies by a twofold strategy. This project will bring together a critical mass of scientists, from atomistic to finite-element modeling. The goal is to develop, implement and validate multi-scale methods to compute the mechanical, thermochemical and flow behav-iour of nano-filled polymeric materials – based on the chemistry of selected model systems.

Keywords: modelling,materials processing,nano-structured polymeric materials
Data Acquisition, Electronics, and Optoelectronics for LHC Experiments (ACEOLE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3469405.67
EU funding (EUR): 3469405.67
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose a mono-site Initial Training Network (ITN) with CERN as main host institution, and offering research training in the application of advanced microelectronics, optoelectronics, networking and real-time data processing technologies in the world’s state-of-the-art particle detector systems at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and a future upgraded Super-LHC (SLHC). This ITN will help strengthen Europe’s human resources in key technologies for enhancing industry competitiveness in domains where there exist technology gaps with other high-tech economies. The LHC will start operation in 2008. The commissioning, operation and future upgrades of the LHC detectors offer tremendous opportunities for research training in an international, multidisciplinary environment. Training projects will have concrete objectives and deliverables in the domains of precision particle tracking systems, electronics and optoelectronics for their readout, switching fabrics and real time processing systems for data acquisition. CERN contributes to overcoming fragmentation in European Research through its well-established international network of universities, partnerships with technology research centres, technology transfer policy, and history of joint developments with industry. This ITN will complement and reinforce that contribution. The young researchers will be supervised by internationally recognized experts and have access to state-of-the-art equipment. Hands-on project training will be supplemented with formal training courses in relevant and related fields, and a wide variety of complementary training courses, colloquia and seminars. Mobility within the ITN will ensure exposure to complementary research and industry environments. Supervision will follow a model similar to CERN’s established and successful Doctoral Student program, in which projects are defined and monitored by a CERN supervisor in collaboration with a university professor.

Keywords: pixel detectors,materials analysis,microelectronics,mixed-signal design,optoelectronics,telecom technology,computer technology,data acquisition,network technology
EU Fusion for ITER Applications (EUFORIA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,Spain,Germany,Finland,United Kingdom,Spain,France,France,Slovenia,Poland,Italy
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4660379.0
EU funding (EUR): 3650000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

ITER is the next generation of fusion devices and is intended to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion as a sustainable energy source for the future. To exploit the full potential of the device and to guarantee optimal operation for the device a high degree of physics modelling and simulation is needed already in the current construction phase of the ITER project. First principles modelling tools that are needed for an adequate description of the underlying physics cover both a wide range of timescales and spatial orderings and are in general very demanding from a computational point of view. Current modelling activities relies on local or national computational resources and an improved access to computing infrastructures will be instrumental in advancing a pan-European modelling activity for ITER to a very competitive status in relation to the ITER partners. The EUFORIA project will provide a comprehensive framework and infrastructure for core and edge transport and turbulence simulation, linking grid and High Performance Computing (HPC), to the fusion modelling community. The project will enhance the modelling capabilities for ITER and DEMO sized plasmas through the adaptation, optimization and integration of a set of critical applications for edge and core transport modelling targeting different computing paradigms as needed (serial and parallel grid computing and HPC). Deployment of both a grid service and a High Performance computing services are essential to the project. A novel aspect is the dynamic coupling and integration of codes and applications running on a set of heterogeneous platforms into a single coupled framework through a workflow engine a mechanism needed to provide the necessary level integration in the physics applications. This strongly enhances the integrated modelling capabilities of fusion plasmas and will at the same time provide new computing infrastructure and tools to the fusion community in general.

Keywords: iter,fusion,plasma,grid,egee,glite,hpc,high performance computing,resource allocation,visualization,workflows