Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Enhancement of natural water systems and treatment methods for safe and sustainable water supply in India (SAPH PANI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,India,Germany,France,Austria,Germany,France,Sri Lanka,Australia
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4781225.4
EU funding (EUR): 3499620.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Saph Pani addresses the improvement of natural water treatment systems such as river bank filtration (RBF), managed aquifer recharge (MAR) and wetlands in India building on a combination of local and international expertise. The project aims at enhancing water resources and water supply particularly in water stressed urban and peri-urban areas in different parts of the sub-continent. The objective is to strengthen the scientific understanding of the performance-determining processes occurring in the root, soil and aquifer zones of the relevant processes considering the removal and fate of important water quality parameters such as pathogenic microorganisms and respective indicators, organic substances and metals. Moreover the hydrologic characteristics (infiltration and storage capacity) and the eco-system function will be investigated along with the integral importance in the local or regional water resources management concept (e.g. by providing underground buffering of seasonal variations in supply and demand). The socio-economic value of the enhanced utilisation of the attenuation and storage capacity will be evaluated taking into account long-term sustainability issues and a comprehensive risk management. The project focuses on a set of case study areas in India covering various regional, climatic, and hydrogeological conditions as well as different treatment technologies. The site investigations will include hydrological and geochemical characterisation and, depending on the degree of site development, water quality monitoring or pre-feasibility studies for new treatment schemes. Besides the actual natural treatment component the investigation may encompass also appropriate pre- and post treatment steps to potabilise the water or avoid clogging of the sub-surface structures. The experimental and conceptual studies will be complemented by modelling activities which help to support the transferability of results.

Keywords: managed aquifer recharge,river bank filtration,wetlands,water reuse
High reliability electronics assembly and encapsulation for extreme service environments using micro friction stir welding (MICROSTIR)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Greece,Finland,Norway,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1452797.22
EU funding (EUR): 1111400.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The integrity and reliability of electronic assemblies is critical to our every day lives whether they are used in domestic, transport, communications, industrial or security applications. The European electronics assembly industry faces many issues with achieving high quality joints at the time of manufacture and also once the assemblies are in service. Even if a high quality joint is manufactured it may degrade through a number of mechanisms over time; these negative mechanisms are accelerated by extreme service environments such as elevated and sub-zero temperatures and vibration. An estimated 1014 soldered joints are made in Europe each year; the cost of electronic assembly failure to the European Community can be severe resulting in loss of productivity, facilities or even lives. The MicroStir project will develop small scale friction stir welding (FSW) for use in electronic connections and encapsulations seeing harsh service environments. FSW has proven to be a high integrity joining technology at a macro scale and has already been scaled down for sub-millimetre joining, termed micro friction stir welding (µFSW). The MicroStir project will develop tooling, procedures and prototype production assembly equipment in order that industry may take advantage of µFSW to produce high integrity, stable joints. Using the MicroStir project developments European manufacturers and consumer will be able to guarantee electronics assembly performance and avoid the occurrence of defects such as tin whiskers which can disable safety critical equipment without warning.

Keywords: micro friction stir welding,reliability,extreme service,high/low temperature
Consolidation, industrial Alignment and Performance verification for Movement to Market of a SCheduling solution featuring Heuristics-enhancED simulation & optimisation. (CAP2M-SCHED)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Ireland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-02
End date: 2013-06-01
Duration (months): 17.0
Total project cost (EUR): 577160.0
EU funding (EUR): 314100.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The CAP2M-SCHED proposal is a direct consequence of the RTD achievements of its pre-cursor project, CAP-SCHED (Research for SMEs, No.222487), in which groundbreaking, industry-guided RTD has been carried out to develop an intelligent scheduling (short-term planning) solution. Improved schedule optimisation has significant economic impacts for companies who must regularly & rapidly solve process scheduling problems. Although software packages are available on the market to assist with scheduling, their usefulness is limited, because they depend on the human operator to simulate scheduling scenarios ‘by trial & error’ so as to find an adequate solution. The innovative approach of CAP-SCHED allows the process (human) operator to interactively set various parameter values based on his/her intimate knowledge of the process, and to be assisted at the same time by automated, algorithmic constraint-solving capabilities which use domain-specific knowledge (heuristics) to optimise the remaining parameters within given operating constraints. A major objective of the project is thus to promote confidence that the CAP-SCHED solution can be perceived by prospective commercial partners & industrial customers to confer highest added-value and return on procurement investment. CAP2M-SCHED therefore aims to allow the partners to move with confidence towards market readiness and subsequent commercial exploitation of the CAP-SCHED results, via actions to : * test & consolidate prototype CAP-SCHED process scheduling solutions; * verify the performance of prototypes on a number of typical industrial exemplar processes; * evaluate & fine-tune the capabilities of CAP-SCHED to cope with diverse process conditions encountered in practice; * refine market analysis, business modelling & associated marketing strategy. The work of CAP2M-SCHED therefore reflects the ambition & commitment of core SME partners to ensure that results can be moved to a position of market-readiness.

Keywords: process,scheduling,heuristics,algorithmic,metaheuristic,simulation,optimisation,batch,semi-continuous
Development of a rapid cellular characterisation technology for use in the biopharmaceutical Industry (PM-CELL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland,Ireland,United Kingdom,Ireland,Denmark,Germany,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497561.0
EU funding (EUR): 1133099.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Biopharmaceuticals have universal importance as effective therapeutics for many human diseases. Biopharmaceutical production employs living cells as ‘production machinery’ with the selection of the producing cell line, a critical step for an efficient industrial process. Current industry practices for cell selection are expensive and time-consuming. The proposed PM-CELL project will result in the development of a rapid cellular characterisation testing technology. The two-year project will result in an innovative 96-well micro-titre plate containing a unique array of analytes, which can be used to accelerate development and reduce manufacturing costs of biopharmaceuticals synthesised by mammalian cell lines. A successful project would result in cost savings for the SMEs’ customers in the bioprocessing industry and a more rapid translation of research to efficient drug production for human healthcare. The project would result in generation of a high value (economic and intellectual property) technology which would result in increased sales and assets to the SMEs. The SMES will then be well placed to take advantage of further development opportunities in the biopharmaceutical industry, which is actively looking for innovative solutions for manufacturing-cell selection in drug production.

Keywords: bioprocessing,cell culture,cho,cell selection,therapeutics,monoclonal antibodies,drug,biopharmaceuticals
Sustainable production of forest regeneration materials for protection against climate change (REGEN-FOREST)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,Greece,Finland,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1424600.0
EU funding (EUR): 1085800.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Forests play a crucial role in regulating the global climate and are also a vital resource for many countries. Forests are an important global resource that human populations depend on for wood, air quality, recreation and many other uses The Regen-Forest project objective is to Introduce a new technology for production of forest regeneration materials built on sustainable production in a cost efficient and environmental friendly mobile unit. The environment in the unit will not be affected by outdoor climate and the light source will be based on specific Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). The results to be achieved to reach the project objective are to: - Identify suitable LED light spectrum regarding several important forest species in Europe by extensive tests in conventional growth chambers. - Develop protocols for optimal growth of respective species. - Develop suitable LED equipment. - Define characteristics of the mobile production unit in regard to technical performance and growing environment. - Construct a mobile production unit based on these characteristics. - Exploit the project results in Europe The new LED-integrated technology will make a drastic change to state-of-the-art in forest nursery production for reforestation purposes: apart from being more cost efficient and improving the sustainable management in the production of forest crops, it will also contribute to the environmental protection through a noticeable energy saving by adopting the LED technology, and consequent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; moreover, since the LED lamps do not produce additional warming, there will be further energy saving by reducing the air conditioning costs. The creation of a mobile production unit that uses the LED lamps is a challenging task; however the RTD performers have all the competence needed to meet this challenge in close cooperation with the SMEs.

Keywords: led lamps
Warsaw Plant Health Initiative (WULS PLANT HEALTH)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Potential
Destination: Unlocking and developing the Research Potential of research entities established in the EU�s Convergence regions and Outermost Regions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland
Call:  (FP7-REGPOT-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4453094.4
EU funding (EUR): 3982700.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Warsaw Plant Health Cluster (WPHC), based at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland), consists of over 60 researchers and over 40 PhD students, grouped into several research teams dealing with various aspects of the Plant Health domain. The primary objective of the Project is to enhance research capacity of the WPHC, to enable it to respond to the new challenges posed by evolving EU plant health regulations and to ever increasing social demand for healthy fresh produce of high quality. The enhancement will be achieved through execution of an array of inter-related activities, conducted in Partnership with over 20 European research organisations. In effect, internal WPHC organisation and institutional research policy will be modernised and updated. Pre-identified competence gaps will be filled and international networking and visibility of the WPHC will be improved through extensive staff exchange and secondment (almost 200 exchange visits), organising international mini-symposia (6) and workshops (12), and presentation of current WPHC results on over 70 international conferences. Its research capacity will be improved further through hiring 7 experienced researchers and organising two new laboratories plus upgrade of five others. To ensure sustainable WPHC operations beyond the Project lifetime, several (3-7) collaborative project proposals will be prepared, and submitted with partners to appropriate donors (national, bilateral and international, including EC FP-7 mechanism). The changes in EU and national plant health regulations are expected to create increased long-term demand for bio-intensive IPM tools and thus will add social relevance to the WPHC operations. The Project will remove the major bottlenecks in further development of the WPHC research teams, and will improve their capacity to better respond to this demand. In particular, the project will ensure better integration of the WPHC within the European Research Area through upgrading its research, human and material capacity, which will provide much needed innovation boost and will directly impact on its capacity for increased contribution to regional economic and social development.

Keywords: plant health,entomology,pathology,ipm,genetic,molecular,plant stress,abiotic,biotic,induced resistance
Sensors system for detection and tracking Of dangerous materials in order to increase the airport Security in the indoor landside area (SOS)

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: Italy,Netherlands,Poland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1884205.0
EU funding (EUR): 1884205.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The SOS project aims at establishing a strategic longer term industry-academia partnership to face the research challenges related to the development of non-intrusive and pervasive surveillance systems for indoor public areas, based on an innovative combinations of passive radar technology, novel detection and tracking systems in various electromagnetic frequency range, and sensitive data processing. The scientific objective of the underlying research project is to realize a completely new sensor concept for indoor airport areas, by detecting and identifying the presence of hazardous tools, which can be concealed (under clothes or inside bags) by ill-intentioned people, without interfering neither with the normal passenger flows, nor with the normal airport operations. The project intends to study, design and develop the functional prototypes of an innovative multisensor based system, integrating active and passive radar sensors and highly complex data-fusion. The SOS project involves academic and industrial researchers, who will have the opportunity to share complementary and multidisciplinary knowledge on different radar technologies and data-fusion, in order to foster integration of these technology as well as future joint RTD. Through a dedicated Transfer of Knowledge (ToK) programme they will share their own expertise, will acquire new knowledge in complementary and intersectoral fields and will integrate their new know-how back to their home institutions. The research teams will be complemented by new recruited experienced researchers with advanced competence in the field of detection, sensitive data processing and passive tracking radar systems. The SOS system will foster globally the security level in public spaces such as airports, establish long term industry academic collaboration through a joint 10 year RTD roadmap and reach out to the general public through airport bill-boards on the benefits of RTD in this area for passengers.

Keywords: air traffic control,air traffic management (aircraft operation),radio engineering,modelling networks,remote sensing,radar,detection sensors,tracking sensors,security,control networks
INEXPENSIVE AND RELIABLE ON-SITE SOLUTION FOR OLIVE PRODUCERS TO CONTAIN VERTICILLIUM WILT (VERTIGEEN)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Greece,Portugal,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1973810.96
EU funding (EUR): 1387889.4
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

VERTIGEEN addresses a need identified by olive sector SME-Associations for the rapid and reliable on-site detection and quantification of the Verticillium dahliae fungus in soil and plant samples. The increasing frequency and severity of this pathogen in most EU olive growing areas has made it the most serious problem of commercial olive plantations. For an estimated commercial price of €1,000/device and €10/test, VERTIGEEN will allow olive producers to reduce losses caused by this pathogen by means of precise and efficient field interventions within an Integrated Pest Management Strategy. The system innovatively integrates in a single platform new but successfully demonstrated technologies: the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method and the original in-solution-DNA electrochemical detection, overcoming the limitations of the state of the art in terms of heterogeneity, portability, price, ease of use and time-to-result. VERTIGEEN will directly benefit the European olive sector by limiting disease spread and reducing its impact. Crop yield and profitability will increase, while production costs related to the systemic use of pesticides and the production of healthy olive trees will be reduced. Other benefits extend to olive nurseries being able to issue quality certificates of planting material, and for authorities monitoring disease occurrence. The SME-AGs who have a direct role in the production and distribution of olive oil will benefit from direct economic benefits of their IPR ownership, while their associated SMEs will increase their profit margins, preserve employment and maintain a competitive edge in the global market. Industrial SMEs, chosen by SME-AGS to guarantee the best exploitation route to the market, will benefit from an innovative portfolio product to generate new income sources and open new markets in Verticillium control.

Keywords: lamp isothermal amplification,dna electrochemical detection,detection,quantification
Optimizing water quality and treatment efficency in recirculating aquaculture systems for salmon smolt production through better adjustment of fish feed and water treatment devices. (FEED&TREAT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,Norway,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1564844.0
EU funding (EUR): 1057061.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The project target, is to improve the system performance of recirculating aquaculture systems for salmon smolt production by improving the treatability of the fish excrements and improving the treatment devices. The idea is to have a better tuning/adjustment between the feed as the only main input into a recirc. system and the water treatment as warrantor for the water quality and for the fish and system performance.

Keywords: recirculating aquaculture system,improving efficiency and water quality,reducing water need
Identification of vernalization-related genes in Easter Lily bulbs for molecular markers production, vernalization control and improved flower production (LILY VERNALIZATION)

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: Israel,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 431312.0
EU funding (EUR): 431312.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The flower bulb industry worldwide and specifically in Holland, and the lily sector in particular, represent an important part of the floriculture market. Lily and most bulb speciesrequire prolonged cooling to meet their obligatory vernalization (acquisition of the ability to flower following exposure to prolonged cold) requirement, which is expensive and energy-costly and hinders the production of multiple flower flushes. Although the physiological aspects of vernalization have been studied and led to flowering manipulation in lily, the molecular regulation of this major mechanism is not understood. The purposes of this study are to (1) Elucidate – for the first time – the molecular mechanism of the vernalization response in a flower bulb, (2) Understand the vernalization mechanism and its molecular relation with flowering in lily, (3) Address fundamental questions on conservation of the vernalization response among higher plants, (4) Obtain a reliable "vernalization marker" that would indicate the optimal amount of cold required by a bulb for optimal flower production, (5) Create a pool of molecular markers for flowering and other traits, and for cultivar typing and breeding. Genes will be isolated using next generation sequencing techniques developed by the Netherlands-based SME Genetwister, specialist in the production of molecular markers, followed by accurate bioinformatic research. Suitable markers will be selected according to gene expression profile during cold exposure and on the basis of their involvement in biological mechanisms, investigated by the BGU team. Elucidation of the biological mechanisms will yield, valuable scientific data on the molecular basis of vernalization in lily, and, it will make the molecular markers much more precise and powerful. This project utilises the synergism of BGU and Genetwister expertise to characterise the lily vernalization mechanism, ultimately to introduce a fundamental change into bulb-based flower production.

Keywords: agricultural sciences,floriculture,flower bulbs,molecular breeding,molecular markers,vernalization