Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Solar Facilities for the European Research Area - Third Phase (SFERA-III)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Cyprus,Belgium,Switzerland,Türkiye,France,France,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Integrating Activities for Advanced Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9102630.66
EU funding (EUR): 9102630.66
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The overall objective of this project is to carry on with the work done during the past 8 years for the sustainability of the activities of the European advance solar laboratories involved in SFERA and SFERA 2nd phase, and extend these activities to the new solar laboratories which will bring added value to this European Research Infrastructure for Concentrating Solar Power. The specific goal is to contribute to ensure the long-term sustainability of these European advance solar laboratories, supporting Europe as a global leader in solar research infrastructures. Those activities will include (i) networking activities to further develop the cooperation between the research infrastructures, the scientific community, industries and other stakeholders; (ii) transnational access activities aiming at providing access to all European researchers from both academia and industry to singular scientific and technological solar research infrastructures; and (iii) joint research activities whose sole purpose is to improve the integrated services provided by the infrastructure. All this would contribute to achieve the scientific excellence of these research infrastructures (RIs), strength the interaction between the Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) industry and these RIs, strength innovation further, develop new activities, and also drive the productivity and competitiveness of the European economy contributing to the creation of new jobs in the CST sector. Furthermore, these activities will contribute to the development of new common standards that will support the CST industry in the development of new components and systems and in the building of new commercial installations. At the same time, these standards will also support the European Commission in the development of the European policy for the CST sector.

Keywords: concentrated solar power,thermal energy storage,solar fuel,solar desalination,solar water treatment,european solar research infrastructure,linear concentrator,central receiver,materials
Composite fan Aerodynamic, Aeroelastic, and Aeroacoustic VAlidation Rig (CA3ViAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany,Greece
Call: Advanced High Bypass Ratio Low-Speed Composite Fan Design and Validation (H2020-CS2-CFP09-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2296875.0
EU funding (EUR): 2296875.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The main aim of the CA3ViAR project is the design of an Open-Test-Case Fan geometry that will develop instability mechanisms which are representative for UHBR fans of civil aircrafts and perform a comprehensive experimental investigation to measure aerodynamic, aeroelastic and aero-acoustic performance in a wide range of operational conditions. Experimental tests will be performed in the Propulsion-Test-Facility (PTF) of the Institut für Flugantriebe und Strömungsmachinen (IFAS) of Braunschweig, Germany. The proposal CA3ViAR will target several objectives. Initially a literature review of the main issues affecting composite UHBR engine fans will be performed by the Technische Universität Braunschweig (TUBS). The design of the Low-Transonic Fan (LTF) will be led by TUBS with support from DREAM (an Italian SME) in terms of aerodynamic shaping as well as from Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) and IBK in terms of aeroelasticity and aeroacoustics. The LTF test article, to be mechanically designed by IBK, will be conceived in a way to experience aerodynamic and aeroelastic instabilities in an expected way during wind-tunnel operations. Manufacturing-related activities will be performed by ADC, a well-recognized manufacturer specialized in aerospace parts and components made of composite and metallic materials, while requirements for the test article integration will be provided by TUBS, responsible of WT instrumentation and operations. The execution of the experimental tests aimed at measuring fan instabilities (e.g. stall, flutter, etc.) will be performed by TUBS with support from LUH. The last technical phase of the project will be the calibration and the eventual validation of aerodynamic, aeroelastic and aeroacoustic models according to WT test data acquired in the PTF. This last technical phase will be led by LUH, with a strong support from all the other partners.

Keywords: aeronautics,turbofan,aeroelasticity,rotor,aeroacoustics,aerodynamics,test rig,wind tunnel
Lupinus mutabilis for Increased Biomass from marginal lands and value for BIOrefineries (LIBBIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Iceland,Austria,Germany,Spain,Iceland,Greece,Romania,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Increasing productivity of industrial multi-purpose agricultural crops (H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-2-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4923750.0
EU funding (EUR): 4923750.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The Andes Lupin (Lupinus mutabilis, tarwi) grows excellently in marginal lands due to it´s excellent foraging characteristics having the ability to fix nitrogen, mobilise soil phosphate and have low nutritional requirements for cultivation. For the increased biomass needed in Europe in coming years and decades we cannot rely on the most fertile lands, which is currently allocated to food production, we need to increase the yield from marginal lands. There the lupin varieties are preponderant, the one providing highest yield (up to 80 ton/ha) is Lupinus mutabilis. Varieties can be chosen for giving this high yield of green silage or high yield of seeds contain more than 20% oil, more than 40% protein and the remainder carbohydrates are mainly oligosaccharides characterized as “prebiotics”. Andes lupin can be grown as a summer crop in N-central Europe conditions and as winter crop in Mediterranean conditions. Breeding and cropping research is performed in the LIBBIO project for maximizing the yield and value of lupin agriculture in different European marginal lands conditions, with respect to both the farmers and biorefineries. Pre-industrial processing is developed and optimized for the lupin, properties of the different fractions analysed, their advantage for different industrial use evaluated, and a few products developed as an example. With respect to environmental impact the lupin is expected to be superior. It does not need much fertilizer, it enriches the soil with nitrogen and phosphate and is therefore expected to be excellent for crop rotation and soil regeneration. These properties will be evaluated further in the project along with techno-economic and agricultural viability and effect on farm and biorefinery income.

Keywords: lupin,biomass sustainability
Proving the IBC Robotics container cleaning system as an economic, climate- and environmentally-friendly and safe contribution to the EU transport system in order to disrupt the global market (EcoContainerCleaner)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is a feasibility study of the opportunities to prove the IBC-Robotics container cleaning solution, the IBA system, in an operational environment. The proposal is to the Work Programme Topic: Small business innovation research for Transport IT-1-2015-1. It also contributes to the solution of a diversity of H2020 Challenges. The business opportunity is to introduce the IBA system on a global level wherever container cleaning shall be performed. 30 miljon containerwashes are performed annually in the world. The need for Container cleaning increases rapidly. More than 200 larger ports targeted around the world need several IBA system solutions. Thousands of companies are involved in the container service industry which are potential customers to IBC Robotics. The IBA solution will represent 50 % of the World market for container cleaning by 20205. The innovation provides customers with a mostly cheaper and more environment friendly way to wash containers and to improve the working conditions for the personnel. It also offers a dry and automated cleaning process based on specifically designed industrial robot, vacuum cleaning and ice blasting technology. The objective of the feasibility assessment is to create an elaborated business-plan. It includes i) a verification of the technological/practical as well as economic viability of the IBA solution ; ii) a market study ; iii) a review Intellectual Property (IP) management issues; and iv) a risk assessment. It will serve to identify bottlenecks and to revise the IBC Robotics innovation strategy prior to proving the disruptive innovation in an operational environment. The identified main market barrier is the raising of capital to set up and create demonstration experiences under a diversity of market conditions. The targeted users are both owners of containers and entrepreneurs cleaning containers in each harbor as well as transport operators and their contractors.

Keywords: proving a container cleaning system as an economic,climate and environmentally friendly and safe contribution to smart,green and integrated transport in eu in order to disrupt the global market
HIGH PERFORMANCE NANOSTRUCTURED THERMOELECTRIC OXIDE MATERIALS VIA VACANCY ENGINEERING (HYPERTHERMOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The increasing demand for clean energy has renewed the interest in the development of efficient thermoelectric materials (heat to electricity and vice versa). This project is focused on eco-friendly and inexpensive oxide based thermoelectric nanostructured materials, suitable to harvest energy in the medium to high temperature range, such as in automotive engines. The current challenge is to improve the conversion efficiency and this depends on three competing material parameters; the Seebeck coefficient, the electrical and the thermal conductivity. In principle the electrical conductivity and the Seebeck coefficient can be optimized by cation and/or anion substitutions. The main issue with oxides is the high thermal conductivity. Our recent discovery of phonon glass behaviour in A-site deficient Perovskite oxides and silicon nano films demonstrates that high performance thermoelectric materials can be designed using a cation vacancy engineering. In this project I will adopt an integrated approach to decrease the thermal conductivity in Perovskite titanates, manganites, and cobaltites based on the synergistic exploitation of nanostructurization, vacancy engineering, mass contrast phonon scattering and interfaces in nanocomposites to obtain large conversion efficiencies. The nanostructured oxides will be synthesized by cost effective and scalable top-down and bottom-up approaches and will be densified by using spark plasma sintering. By utilizing a wide range of characterization techniques such as powder X-ray/neutron diffractions, spectroscopic thermoelectric and magnetic measurements, thermoelectric properties will be analysed. The long-term thermal and chemical stability of these nanostructured materials will be studied. The successful completion of this project is expected to identify the key nanostructure and vacancy engineering approaches to create phonon glass – electron crystals to improve the energy conversion efficiency of oxide thermoelectric materials.

Keywords: thermoelectric oxides,nanostructured materials,vacancy engineering,waste heat recovery,perovskites,phonon glass electron crystal
Fluorene and dihydroindenofluorene Rings for Optoelectronic Devices Outcomes (FRODO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-10-20
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Based on the fantastic recent developments of cyclo-para-phenylenes (CPP), the present proposal aims to synthesize and study a new and unique class of cyclic organic semi-conductors based on bridged oligophenylenes building blocks, namely the cyclo-oligo-fluorene and cyclo-oligo-dihydroindenofluorene, for Organic Electronic (OE) applications. After synthesis, the main goal of this proposal is to define a precise structure properties relationship study on cyclo bridged oligophenylenes. Defining these general rules through such structure-properties relationship studies will allow in the future a perfect control of the properties of cyclic bridged oligophenylenes, which is the foundation of the materials design for OE. This is an innovative and multidisciplinary project at the interface of organic chemistry, physical chemistry and electronics. Through this proposal, the applicant will learn many new skills and knowledges in cyclic OSCs, physico-chemistry and in electronic devices fabrication and characterization. This will provide the applicant a rare and multidisciplinary scientific profile, which is a key feature for her future academic career. Indeed, the applicant wish to become a permanent CNRS researcher at the University of Rennes 1 in the host group and this fellowship is a unique chance to reach this objective.

Keywords: curved pi material,organic synthesis,fluorene,dihydroindenofluorene isomer,cyclic organic semi conductor,organic electronic,organic semi conductors,structure properties relationship study,oled
PANTROPOCENE: Finding a Pre-industrial, Pan-tropical ‘Anthropocene’ (PANTROPOCENE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Australia,Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1362331.25
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Tropical forests are globally recognised as biodiversity hotspots and environments that are crucial for climate regulation, landscape stability, and the carbon cycle. Local deforestation can have regional and global feedbacks and 20th-21st century human actions in tropical forests are seen as a key part of the ‘Anthropocene’ – or the anthropogenic domination of earth systems. It remains an open question, however, as to whether pre-industrial human impacts on these environments had similar earth systems effects. 15th to 18th century European colonial empires drew together long-separated Old and New World ecologies, with implications for species distributions, demography, and land management in the tropics. This followed millennia of indigenous activities with possible regional and global cumulative results. Yet, we have no concrete understanding of how pre-industrial impacts varied spatially and temporally, what they meant for local sustainability, and how they compare to modern human impacts. The PANTROPOCENE Project addresses these questions by taking the Spanish Empire as a frame of reference for using archaeological, historical, and palaeoenvironmental data to build ‘pan-tropical’ spatial characterisations of pre-colonial, colonial, and industrial land-use. Undertaking novel palaeoecological and landscape survey fieldwork in the Philippine Archipelago, the often-neglected centre of the Spanish East Indies, the project will bring new data together with existing records, notably from the Neotropics, to ensure full tropical coverage of the Spanish Empire. The results will be factored into climate, geomorphological, and atmospheric models to determine how changing pre-industrial technology, subsistence, and administration had regional and global feedbacks on occupied human environments, informing understandings of the pace and threat of contemporary land-use changes in the context of endemic Island Southeast Asian biodiversity and the tropics more broadly.

Keywords: anthropocene,tropical forest prehistory and history,archaeology,spanish empire,columbian exchange,pre industrial land use
Open Access Platform for Zero-Energy Buildings (0E-BUILDINGS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-02
End date: 2023-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174806.4
EU funding (EUR): 174806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The European Union (EU) has proposed themselves ambitious goals to considerably reduce greenhouse emissions and move to an energy-neutral built environment in 2050. To achieve this, it is planned to ensure that new buildings have to be nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB) as well as the gradual retrofitting of the existing ones to be nZEB. Passive strategies like the use of phase change materials (PCMs) included in the building structure is a promising technology to achieve nZEB designs. However, its effectiveness is difficult to guarantee because of the complex thermal behavior of buildings. Within this context, building performance simulation (BPS) is vital to evaluate building physics in an integrated manner, including all the heat and mass transfer phenomena because of the local climate as well as their relation to users’ behavior and the operation of equipment installed in the building. The 0E-BUILDINGS (Open-Access Platform for Zero-Energy Buildings) project proposes a new multi-objective computational platform to evaluate and optimize PCM-based building components aiming to design new nZEB or to retrofit the existing ones to be nZEB. Through its simulation-based optimization approach, this platform offers a reliable optimal design of PCMs, in terms of thermo-physical properties, quantities, and locations, in order to guarantee their effectiveness.

Keywords: phase change material,nearly zero energy building,building performance simulation,building multi objective optimization,open access platform,architectural passive strategies
An analyzer for preterm EEG (APE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-11-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191325.6
EU funding (EUR): 191325.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Compromised early brain development leads to lifelong disabilities, which have a heavy impact on the child, families, as well as society as a whole. Advances in clinical care have led to an increasing number of babies surviving extreme prematurity. The global challenge is to avoid early brain injuries by optimizing neurological care during the early days of neonatal intensive care. This aim necessitates the use of constant, cot-side brain monitoring using the electroencephalograph (EEG), which faces formidable logistic challenges due to the need for large scale data analysis by EEG experts. The only imaginable solution for dealing with the vast amount of EEG information is to automate EEG analysis. This action proposes the development of an original, automated, cot-side Analyser for Preterm EEG (APE). This algorithm will be based on the combination of state of the art biomedical signal processing techniques and recent advances in basic developmental neuroscience. An accurate cot side EEG analyser has strong clinical potential for improving early brain care, leading to lifelong improvements in affected individuals as well as unprecedented opportunities to benchmark new brain interventions. The project will significantly develop the applicant’s career by adding new domains of human neurophysiology and basic neuroscience, bio-signal analysis, as well as conduct of international research projects to his skillset. His secondment to a well-established Finnish SME in the field, MegaEMG, will provide insight into the development of medical devices, commercialization, and regularity environment. The technology developed in this project is translatable into medical devices, providing an opportunity to enhance Europe’s status as a market leader in brain monitoring devices, as well as University of Helsinki’s standing as a centre of excellence for neonatal neurophysiology.