Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Enhancing Printed Electronics Applications by SMEs (CLIP)

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: United Kingdom,Belgium,Sweden,Spain,France,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3628748.8
EU funding (EUR): 2691790.45
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The project will focus on three development aims: 1) development, formulation and feasibility assessment of several lower-cost alternatives for Silver nanoparticle based conductive inks 2) for these lower-cost inks finding alternatives for conventional screen printing, which allow digital printing combined with high resolution printing and enable contactless printing, which improves quality and reliability of circuits 3) demonstration of system concepts for Printed Electronics in two different application domains: a. Printing of smart packaging tags and labels, specifically for pharmaceutical applications b. High speed low cost antennas for contactless cards and RFID tags Main impact on SMEs will be: • Allow SMEs to access extensive new markets and customers with large potential for revenue generation • Allow SMEs to surplus their current products or product offering with remarkable, new, high-valued features that will increase (perceived) product value • Provide SMEs with the information, (partnering) contacts and tools to make the transition • Identify the costs/impacts involved to allow SMEs to make an informed decision.

Keywords: nano-engineering,conductivity
Development of Novel Exhaust Air Decontamination Process and Equipment for Food Processing Industry’s Applications, based on Non-Thermal Plasma Discharge (EXAIRDEC)

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: Netherlands,Estonia,United Kingdom,Austria,Sweden,Spain,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1932224.0
EU funding (EUR): 1504471.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Exairdec project will develop an innovative contaminated air purification solution for food preparing industry´s applicatios. It will effectively deconatminate the waste air emitted during the different food preparing processes that contains a variety of organic gaseous and aerosol contaminants, volatile organic compounds and particulate matter among others. This will result in the elimination of a number of problems currently present in the everyday procatice of food preparing industry. Our research and development undertaken within this project will provide our SME-AG members as well as the wider European community with the routes for overcoming the current existing technical barriers in the course of enabling the utilisation of latest auspicious scientific affordances and implementing teh scientific achievemebts in parctical situations.

Keywords: organics removal,waste air purification,electric discharge
Development of innovative and cost-effective design support tools for the European childcare products industry promoting the enhancement of children’s comfort and extending products’ lifespan. (DESIGN4CHILDREN)

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,Bulgaria,Italy,Spain,Portugal,Israel,Finland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2055261.46
EU funding (EUR): 1577074.79
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Over last years, childcare products industry (dominated by SMEs) has implemented new technologies into their products and processes to face pressure from low-labour countries. But focus on cost has not given us sustainable protectable advantage so we need to support our sector by focusing on the needs of end-users. Children’s comfort needs and products’ lifespan significantly differ from adults’, presenting also important differences along their development (e.g. growing, body proportions, movements, temperature or wear). However, this industry does not have the appropriate scientific knowledge to understand how to make children’s products better match their needs. Thus, our project is aimed at generating the specific design criteria for enhancing children’s comfort and extending products’ lifespan, taking advantage of ICTs to provide our SME community with a set of innovative and cost-effective tools permitting them to develop and offer high added-value products based on improved comfort and performance. Three major technological developments beyond the state-of-the-art are expected: (R1) a Knowledge-based Design Support Application that will help design teams to introduce enhanced functionalities to products and assure children’s comfort and wellbeing; (R2) a Virtual Functional Performance Test Bed capable of predicting children’s comfort and products’ lifespan according to functional performance properties from virtual prototypes; and (R3) a Web-based Interactive Shopping Adviser that will be accessible via the Internet and at points of sale, that will help customers and retailers to select the products that better match their children’s needs. These tools will help the childcare products SME community to optimize their product development process, to develop premium products and to better convey them to their customers. In addition they will help customers to take better informed decisions and to acquire childcare products improving their quality of life.

Keywords: children,childcare product,design,comfort,product lifespan,virtual test,product development
An Universal Flexible Low-cost Plumbing and Heating pipe system fully Environment-compatible by using innovative Nanoparticle technology (NANOFLEX)

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,Iceland,United Kingdom,Norway,United Kingdom,Belgium,Sweden,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3178115.92
EU funding (EUR): 2529667.45
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The building and construction community in Europe includes about 150000 plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning contractor SMEs with 1.2 million employees generating a total turnover of €130Bn. Our community faces the challenges of meeting the growing demand for plastic pipes and the EU Landfill Directive and the revised EU Waste Framework Directive. The polluter-pays principle says that the costs of waste management are to be borne partly or wholly by the producer of the product from which the waste came and the distributors of such products, who are our SME members. Under floor heating, radiator heating and plumbing systems accounting in total 1.7 million kilometres of new piping in Europe, of which 56%, namely 0.96 million km are plastic pipes. 46% of these plastic pipes are made of PEX, which due to its cross-linked nature is not recyclable. Recycling of multilayer pipes with encapsulated aluminium results in highly toxic by-products. About 3500 tonnes of scrap plastic pipes is disposed of in land fill due to the use of non-recyclable plastics. Our idea is the development of a universal flexible plastic pipe system suitable for under floor heating, radiator heating and drinking water distribution. We propose to develop a pipe without PEX, and without an integral aluminium layer to allow 100% of the pipe scrap to be recycled. We will achieve this by replacing aluminium or expensive EVOH oxygen barrier materials with innovative nanocomposites in combination with a redefined wrapping technology. The plumbing and heating contractors will benefit from selling a new innovative fully environment-compatible universal pipe system providing: savings in costs for storage, transportation, and logistics; improved work facilities (easy to install and bend); waste cost savings and CO2 emission savings. The project is expected to generate over €98 million in Europe within 5-year post-project time, including exports up to €300 million and creating an estimated 2000 jobs

Keywords: nanotechnology,nanocomposite,nanoclay,nanoparticle,hot and cold water pipe,oxygen barrier
Open Source Software Reuse Service for SMEs (OPEN-SME)

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: Sweden,Greece,Netherlands,Serbia,Cyprus,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1504061.4
EU funding (EUR): 1124113.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims to develop a set of methodologies, associated tools, and business models centred on SME Associations, which will enable software SMEs to effectively introduce Open Source Software Reuse practises in their production processes. In this scope, software reuse is regarded as the sharing of software modules across different development teams, organisations, and diverse application domains. The potential benefits from the adoption of Software Reuse practises by software SMEs could provide substantial competitive advantages against large players by improving productivity, increasing competitiveness (offer more competitive prices), and facilitating entrance to new markets. The main reasons prohibiting the adoption of Software Reuse solutions by software SMEs are the following: (1) The large initial investments in technology know-how and tools required for a successful software reuse program are inhibiting reuse for SMEs, since their budget is limited. (2) Effective accumulation of modules requires multiple products in different application domains. Software development SMEs typically develop only a limited number of products or just a single system that evolves in different versions. (3) The market presently lacks services that would allow the effective identification, cataloguing, reshaping and utilisation of open source software components. This significantly prohibits the reuse of code concerning application functionality, which is common to a limited set of domains. The OPEN-SME project aims to provide a viable solution to the aforementioned SME problems, by developing appropriate methodologies and tools, and defining adequate business models that will allow SME Associations to effectively provide Open Source Software Reuse services to their member software SMEs. In this sense, SME Associations will act as the “software reuse departments” of their members.

Keywords: domain engineering processes,application engineering process,component-based software
Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability Expertise (LIAISE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Greece,United Kingdom,Italy,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8354537.3
EU funding (EUR): 6996405.45
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Existing research points out that the full potential of Impact Assessment (IA) for delivering sustainable development is not being realised. Many tools to support IA are not yet being fully employed by policy makers. This is symptomatic of a large and deep gap between the two broad communities of IA researchers and IA practitioners. Practitioners tend to look for tools that are simple and transparent while the researchers are more interested in the sophistication and innovative aspects of assessment tools. The main purpose of LIAISE is to identify and exploit opportunities to bridge between these two communities in a way that leads to an enhanced use of IA tools in policy making. Its centrepiece will be a shared toolbox – simultaneously accessible and useful for policy makers as well as for the research community. The LIAISE consortium will: • Unite the multi-disciplinary competences of a core of large European institutes, that in turn consolidate the expertise from large FP6 projects. • Combine researchers that analyse current policy needs and link them in innovative ways to those who maintain and develop IA tools; • Develop a roadmap towards a virtual centre of excellence on IA, that can operate as the durable hub of existing academic and practitioner networks relevant to the themes of the NoE; • Maintain the flexibility to support ‘real life’ IA processes, informed by a structured dialogue with the IA user community; • Develop a business plan to ensure durable operation, scientific credibility and efficient usability of the shared toolbox, also in the post-project period. Resulting in: • A shared toolbox: a durable and flexible infrastructure to support IA with improved tools; • A continuously updated shared research agenda; • Capacity building and training components to spread the results of research activities to target groups in communities of IA users and IA researchers; • A virtual centre of excellence on IA

Keywords: impact assessment tools policy science interface research agenda shared toolbox improvement
Social platform on research for families and family policies (FAMILYPLATFORM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Major trends in society and their implications
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Finland,Austria,Hungary,Portugal,Italy,Estonia,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2011-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1558889.6
EU funding (EUR): 1398827.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the planned FAMILYPLATFORM is to elaborate a focussed research agenda that will address fundamental research issues and key policy questions for future research and family policies in Europe. Therefore, the platform will match three relevant perspectives: The perspective of the scientific community, the perspective of European families represented by important stakeholders such as family and children`s rights associations, and the perspective of policy makers and social partners. The FAMILYPLATFORM will focus on four areas: 1.Catching up with the current state of family research and elaboration of significant trends, differences between countries, gaps and methodological problems of existing research on families. Therefore a wide range of existential fields of family life and family policy will be taken into consideration. 2. A critical review of existing research from the perspective of a wide range of stakeholder representatives such as family associations, children`s right associations and policy makers and social partners, 3.Generating key policy questions for future European policy and research issues and tools focussed on “well being of families” as key concept in European policy, 4.Working out a research agenda with fundamental research issues, research areas and tasks of long-term studies, methodological tools based on step 1-3. The FAMILYPLATFORM offers a wide variety of forums: Conferences with debates to certain topics, workshops and future scenarios with defined tasks, focus groups for opinion formation, and discussion forums on the internet platform. In order to build a consensus, there will be special techniques of moderation. The FAMILYPLATFORM will involve a wide range of stakeholders from an early state of the project. The consortium covers well known European experts on applied research for families and family policies in Europe and one important confederation of family organisations in Europe.

Keywords: research agenda "family life and family policies in future europe": state of the art,critical review of existing research,future scenarios,perspectives on family well being in europe
Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe. Access, coping and relevance of education for young people in European knowledge societies in comparative perspective (GOETE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
Destination: Growth, employment and competitiveness in a knowledge society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Slovenia,Netherlands,Finland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Poland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SSH-2009-A, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3524965.04
EU funding (EUR): 2699810.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The GOETE project will analyse the role of school in re-conceptualising education in terms of lifelong learning by combining a life course and a governance perspective. In European knowledge societies adequacy of education means a balance of individual, social and economic aspects. This is operationalised by exploring how educational institutions conceptualise and organise individual educational trajectories. The study covers the period from transition into lower secondary education to transition into upper secondary education/vocational education and training, i.e. the age group between 10 and 16 years. Comparative analysis will focus on the regulation of access to education, of support measures for coping with education and of securing the relevance of education for social integration and the labour market. In 8 EU countries the mixed-method study involves surveys with students, parents and school principals; comparison of teacher training; case studies of local school spaces; discourse analysis; expert interviews with policy makers and stakeholders. On a scientific level, the comparison of the regulation of educational trajectories involves re-conceptualising the social aspects of learning and education under conditions of late modern knowledge societies. It reflects the need for formal education to be embedded in social life worlds, enabled by social support, and complemented by informal and non-formal learning. On a practice and policy level, it will provide information about alternative means of providing children and young people with access to education; of supporting them in coping with education and ensuring the relevance of education by communication and cooperation between school, labour market, other educational actors, students and parents. The communication of findings will include a dialogic model of educational policy planning at local level, training workshops with teachers, youth workers and policy makers, and a European policy seminar.

Keywords: education,trajectories,biography,life course,school,social integration,social support,governance,teacher training,educational policy planing
Understanding and combating desertification to mitigate its impact on ecosystem services (UNDESERT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable management of resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Niger,Senegal,Germany,Burkina Faso,Benin,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4527735.2
EU funding (EUR): 3499378.7
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

UNDESERT aims at combatting desertification and land degradation in order to mitigate their impacts on ecosystem services, and following on human livelihoods. The West African region is central for understanding desertification and degradation processes, which are already severe and widespread as a consequence of climate change and human impact. An improved understanding of the effects of desertification and degradation processes is obtained on a local to regional scale by integrating remote sensing information with sound field data on biodiversity and soil as well as socioeconomic and climate data. On this basis decision support models and tools will be developed and introduced to natural resource managers. UNDESERT also includes two very practical aspects, 1) restoration through tree plantations, which will be certified for CO2 marketing as the first restoration site in West Africa, 2) ecosystem management based on scientific data and best practices developed in close collaboration between scientists and local communities. As a demand driven project, UNDESERT activities will be implemented by employing 17 young PhD students, who will receive training to enhance future capacities to manage risks and uncertainties in the frame of future demographic and climatic changes. The scientific results will be used to combat desertification and degradation directly and will be transferred to international programs in order to contribute to the implementation of relevant international strategies, initiatives and commitments of the EU and African countries.

Keywords: biodiverstity,co2,decision support,degradation,desertification,ecosystem management,restoration,soil
Quantum Integrated Photonics (QUANTIP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,France,Australia,United States
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3459663.0
EU funding (EUR): 2328674.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum information science (QIS) is a pioneering field of research at the interface of physics and information science. By harnessing the unique properties of quantum mechanics to encode, transmit and process information, QIS offers significant opportunities to revolutionise information and communication technologies. Of the various physical systems currently investigated, single particles of light (photons) are destined to take a central role due to their inherent low noise, ease of manipulation at the single photon level and light-speed transmission. However, most proof-of-principle demonstrations have relied on bulky optical components, and are limited in terms of stability, size, scalability and complexity. Here, we propose a paradigm shift in the approach to optical QIS, which would overcome these limitations by developing a novel ‘integrated quantum photonic technology platform’. Fully integrated quantum photonic devices for advanced QIS experiments, will allow unprecedented complexity and stability and enable new scientific development in the field of quantum optics, The main aim of this project is to develop the tools, components and concepts that will enable progress towards large-scale, integrated quantum photonic circuits for the development of advanced quantum systems for the purposes of quantum communications, information processing and metrology. A range of discrete integrated quantum photonic components will be developed and then integrated to form proof-of-principle demonstrators of fully-integrated prototypes, where all major components are integrated onto a single chip. To ensure the success of this project the consortium has gathered the complementary expertise of world experts in integrated linear and non-linear optics, solid-state single-photon sources, single-photon detectors and photonic QIS. This project will establish a new major research direction in Europe for the development of QIS using the integrated quantum photonic platform.

Keywords: quantum,quantum information science,optics,photonics,integration