Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Fiber Optic System for Deflection and Damage Detection (FOS3D)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-03, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 598226.0
EU funding (EUR): 448669.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Within the EC Clean Sky - Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft initiative concepts for actuating morphing wing structures are under development. In order for developing a complete integrated system including the actuation, the structure to be actuated and the closed loop control unit a hybrid deflection and damage monitoring system is required. The aim of the proposed project "FOS3D" is to develop and validate a fiber optic sensing system based on low-coherence interferometry for simultaneous deflection and damage monitoring. The proposed system uses several distributed and multiplexed fiber optic Michelson interferometers to monitor the strain distribution over the actuated part. In addition the same sensor principle will be used to acquire and locate the acoustic emission signals originated from the onset and growth of defects like impact damages, cracks and delaminations.

Keywords: fiber optic sensor,structual health monitoring,acoustic emission,strain
Robust Silicon-Carbide Technology for Aerospace DC-DC Conversion (ROSIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-03, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-18
End date: 2013-10-17
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 479309.0
EU funding (EUR): 300729.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The main aim of this project is to develop a silicon-carbide power module for application within a +/-270Vdc DC/DC conversion network on-board aircraft. This project will investigate the exact requirements and fix the specifications; it will generate the knowledge and understanding required to design and manufacture efficient and reliable power modules; it will deliver fully qualified modules compliant with the aircraft operational environment. Moreover, the project will assess the potential and the risks associated with silicon-carbide technology for the specific case of avionic applications and will provide a thorough and in-depth analysis of future development needs in order to ensure that the stringent requirements of high reliability applications can be met in a cost effective and competitive way. An important aspect of this project will be the investigation of the capability offered by silicon-carbide for the modularisation of power conversion equipment, a key aspect of exploitation for increased industrial competitiveness. The work involved covers design, manufacturing and qualification. To ensure compliance with the applicable reliability requirements, the design will base on a built-in reliability approach during all stages of the workflow. The outcomes of this project will benefit European competitiveness in the field of power conversion system development for avionic applications and will have significant spin offs to other application domains. It is a 24 month project involving two partners, 3 investigators, 4 researchers and 2 technicians. The total value is €479,309 and the requested total contribution is €303,426.

Keywords: dc-dc converter,silicon-carbide (sic),reliability,aerospace
Coupled multi-scale modelling of mechanical degradation and transport phenomena in damaging multi-phase geomaterials for environmental applications (MULTIROCK)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Outgoing Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-12
End date: 2013-10-11
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 211490.62
EU funding (EUR): 211490.62
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to develop and apply multi-scale modelling techniques for multi-physical processes in multi-phase geomaterials for the identification of evolving macroscopic properties due to their mechanical degradation (rocks, geomaterials). Multi-scale modelling of mechanical damage is the field of expertise of the applicant. The proposed work will focus on fluid transport through porous materials with evolving damage and damage-induced permeability evolution. Geomechanics problems require the use of computational tools to guide engineers in developing solutions, resulting in models that have produced more realistic solutions. However, various issues hinder their use, including the experimental identification of the complex material parameters needed to utilize them. Geomaterials are subjected to various stimuli corresponding to different, yet coupled, physical phenomena, such as mechanical degradation, fluid transport, thermal or chemical effects. This requires identifying behavioural parameters and laws for all these processes as well as their interactions. The expertise in coupled phenomena available at McGill University (Prof. Selvadurai) will be used in conjunction with multi-scale computational modelling tools to examine damage evolution relevant to large scale problems in environmental geomechanics and structural materials. By combining different physical phenomena using tools capable of modelling complex geomechanical problems with environmental impacts, the project will be multidisciplinary. The long term developments targeted by the project are firmly founded on advances in computational modelling, with long term applications to environmental geosciences issues relevant, for instance, to deep geological storage of nuclear waste, CO2 sequestration, or groundwater-borne reactive pollutant dispersion in the geosphere being of immediate interest. The corresponding developments will allow to feed long term research efforts upon return at ULB

Keywords: geomaterials,porous materials,multi-scale computational modelling,coupled processes,mechanical degradation,fluid transport,environmental geosciences
Test bench for endurance test and reliability prediction of avionics power electronic modules (AERTECVTI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-03, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 753200.0
EU funding (EUR): 564900.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the project is design and manufacture a specific test bench dedicated to give more confidence of the design in term of reliability at components level and help the user to expertise and to validate the minimum life expectation of future aircraft power electronics converters. Endurance Tests and Reliability Prediction of avionics is a critical part of the development of on-board electronics. For this purpose Test systems must be implemented that can deliver realistic functional and environmental conditions that allow to test and age components in use and in extreme environmental flight conditions. Traditionally this has been done by means of ATE systems for the functionality tests and with electrodynamic shaker systems and dynamic or thermal shock climatic chambers. In advanced test systems, all three elements are combined into one system, being able to test the functionality of the onboard electronics under extreme environmental conditions. This proposal describes a state of the art test system that will allow onboard electronic designer validate their prototypes or series hardware by means of using a test rig that ages the hardware in extreme environmental conditions. The innovative character of the proposal comes from relevant aspects of all three main components and their also from their integration.

Keywords: test bench,electrical,test,power electronics converters,power transistor,climatic chamber,vibration test system,hmi,graphical user interface
Fatigue testing of CFRP materials (FATIMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-03, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199994.0
EU funding (EUR): 149995.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The FATIMA project proposed by the consortium will work on testing and fatigue prediction of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) as required in call JTI-CS-2010-3-ECO-01-007. The challenging objective is to go beyond the state of the art in terms of approaches to account for humidity, multi-ply and multi-axiality effects in organic laminate structures. Intensive work in the field resulted in a number of concepts for accelerated lifetime predictions for carbon fiber reinforced polymers. Within FATIMA, these concepts will be adapted to the material provided by the partners of the Clean Sky consortium. The proposed methodology and integration into the fatigue testing procedure will approach expansions addressing humidity effects, different stack-up structures and combined loading of these composite structures. Appropriate models of a multitude of specific laminate structures will be provided as a tool box for composing desired laminates consisting of plies with known behavior. Failure criteria developed for predicting the damage in composite materials due to multi-axial loads will be evaluated, selected and advanced to meet the objectives of the call.

Keywords: cfrp,fatigue,moisture absorption,time temperature superposition,multi-ply,multi-axial loading
CULTURAL CHANGE AND HUSBANDRY DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE IRON AGE – ROMAN TRANSITION IN IBERIA AND BRITAIN (PICOSHEEP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-10-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 210092.8
EU funding (EUR): 210092.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Livestock has been one of the main productive activities in Europe since the introduction of domestic mammals around 8000BP. The study of animal remains from archaeological sites provides reliable information on eating and husbandry changes resulting from population growth and social complexification processes. The Iron Age to Roman transition represents a very interesting case study, as it is associated with a change from ‘close’ or ‘regional’ economies to a centralized ‘world socio-economic system’. Although the existing evidence for diet and livestock improvement during the Iron Age and Roman transition is intriguing, little comparative research has been possible in Europe due to the lack of detailed published data. This project will provide original work and a survey of the species and products exploited in different European areas, using Iberia as the key case study and Britain as a comparative example. The results will provide a comprehensive picture of the husbandry strategies adopted in Iberia and Britain in the context of a demographic change occurring at a pan-European scale.

Keywords: humanities,archaeology,iron age,husbandry,cultural change,demographic growth,romanization
Biological Function and Evolution of Phenotypic Noise in N2-fixation on the Single-cell Level (PHENOFIX)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178101.6
EU funding (EUR): 178101.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Genetically identical cells that live in a homogeneous environment often show substantial variation in their biological traits; such variation is called phenotypic noise. The level of phenotypic noise has a genetic basis, suggesting that higher levels of phenotypic noise can evolve. In fact, recent theoretical studies suggest that phenotypic noise could be a mechanism for a population of genotypes to respond to uncertain environments in a more efficient way than with conventional signal transduction pathways. However, it is not known if phenotypic noise is relevant for bacterially-driven processes in the environment, because the few studies that experimentally investigated phenotypic noise in bacteria did not consider metabolic activities that contribute to biogeochemical cycles. While it has been observed with novel nanoSIMS (nano-scale secondary ion mass spectrometry) technology that bacteria display phenotypic noise in metabolic activities, direct experimental evidence that phenotypic noise in metabolic activities has a biological function and can provide isogenic bacterial populations with a growth advantage is missing on a single-cell level. Moreover, it has not been experimentally tested if phenotypic noise in metabolic activities adapts over evolutionary timescales in response to fluctuating environmental conditions. The goal of this project is to experimentally investigate how phenotypic noise affects bacterial metabolic activity, growth and evolution under fluctuating environmental conditions. The proposal focuses on phenotypic noise in N2-fixation in the unicellular aquatic bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae. The experiments will combine time-lapse microscopy, nanoSIMS and experimental evolution to understand why bacteria display phenotypic noise in metabolic activities. This will establish a link between the behaviour of single cells and biogeochemical cycles, and reveal how variation at the single-cell level can impact processes at the ecosystem level.

Keywords: microbiology,biogeochemistry,environmental biology,evolutionary biology,microbial ecology,microbial eco-physiology,phenotypic noise,nitrogen fixation,nanosims,environmental fluctuations
Electronic Instabilities in Clean Materials with Strong Correlations (EICMSC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 209092.8
EU funding (EUR): 209092.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to advance our understanding of materials with strong electronic interactions. These are often found to emerge from zero-temperature phase transitions, so called quantum critical points (QCPs). Therefore, both metal-to-insulator transitions and magnetic instabilities in selected pure materials will be investigated via de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) measurements under pressure. Such quantum oscillation studies are one of the most powerful probes of the electronic structure including the capability to reveal strong correlations. The results hoped for wil unravel where the fundamental concept of quasiparticles, as introduced in the Fermi-liquid picture, is holding and where it breaks down. Motivated by theoretical predictions it will be searched for divergences of the quasiparticle mass on the approach of metal-to-insulator transitions indicative of a Fermi-liquid breakdown. Outstanding candidates for this scenario are the Mott insulators BaVS3 and NiS2. Both are metalized under pressure. This project seeks to search for mass divergencies via dHvA measurements. Investigations of magnetic instabilities will be addressed within the studies on NiS2 as this material also features an antiferromagnet-to-paramagnet transition. Moreover, dHvA measurements on the antiferromagnet par excellence, elemental Chromium will be conducted across its QCP. This allows demonstration of the standard behaviour in a spin-density-wave material. The results hoped for will provide insight to the different types of electronic instabilities. Furthermore, the results are expected to be relevant for a large number of correlated materials like for instance the high-temperature superconductors and heavy-fermion systems. The project includes development of a highly integrated anvil pressure cell which will not only provide the high pressures required within this project but also simplifies the setup of pressure measurements and thus could boost future systematic investigations.

Keywords: electronic,magnetic and superconductive properties,solid state physics
Bit-interleaved Coded Modulation: Fundamental Understandings (B-FUN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-04-26
End date: 2014-04-25
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 192849.6
EU funding (EUR): 192849.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Bandwidth is a limited resource in modern communication systems, and to make the most efficient use of it, one needs to combine coding and modulation. Bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) is the newest design paradigm of bandwidth-efficient communication systems. Despite not being fully understood theoretically, BICM has been rapidly adopted in commercial systems such as wireless and wired broadband access networks, 3G telephony, ultrawideband transceivers, and digital video broadcasting. It will also be the de facto choice for most, if not all, future telecommunications standards. Nowadays, BICM systems are widely used, however, preliminary studies have revealed that they perform far from optimal. The objective of this proposal is to gain fundamental understandings about BICM systems and their building blocks. The rationale behind this proposal is that gaining a fundamental understanding of how the building blocks involved in a BICM system interact with each other will lead to improved designs. More particularly, in this project, we analyze the maximum transmission rates of BICM systems from two points of view. The first one analyzes this limit for an idealized transmission setup where the codewords are assumed to be infinitely long. The second approach analyzes this limit for systems that employ finite-length codewords. While the first case represent the ultimate maximum rate for BICM systems and it is interesting from a theoretical point of view, the second one is more relevant from a practical point of view since practical communication systems use finite-length codewords. The last part of this project deals with the design of BICM systems that approach these fundamental limits while maintaining an affordable complexity.

Keywords: digital communications,information theory,coded modulation,channel capacity,bit-interleaved coded modulation,radio engineering,broadband technology,narrow band tecnology
Iron uptake in Chromera velia and other marine microalgae (IRONALGAE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Recently discovered marine alga Chromera velia represents the closest known free living photosynthetic relative to obligate parasites Apicomplexa. C. velia is easy to cultivate, thus representing a powerful model for studying organisms living in nutritionally poor ocean environment as well as a model to study the evolution of parasitism. For most marine microorganisms the mechanisms of adaptation to extremely low iron levels in surface seawater are unknown. We have recently described in C. velia a novel non-reductive two-step model of iron uptake. In this project we will further study the mechanism of iron uptake system in C. velia and characterize it at the molecular level. Furthermore, we will compare iron requirement, uptake mechanism and storage in various microalgae belonging to different phyla. Our preliminary experiments suggest great diversity in the requirement for iron among different marine microalgae. We will try to elucidate if these differences are related to the diversity of the mechanisms of iron acquisition and storage.

Keywords: algology,biochemistry,iron metabolism
The Invisible Politics of Religion: Catholicism, Third Sector and Territory in Southern Europe (CATSSE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 243575.0
EU funding (EUR): 243575.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research project aims at contributing to the debate over religion and politics in the EU by considering the role played by Catholicism in shaping civil society mobilizations in Southern European regions. The underlying theoretical issues of this project do refer to the classical debates about a) the weberian perspective on the elective affinities between religious ethics, economic and politics; b) the role of culture and social capital in the regional economic development; c) the neo-institutionalist debates about the interaction between the EU, state, substate public authorities and civil society actors. The project will focus on the Catholic third sector. Empirical support will be taken from fieldwork research carried out in three Southern European regions: the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain), Aquitaine (France) and Emilia-Romagna (Italy). Overall hypothesis: despite the institutional and societal decline of Catholicism, religious actors do have not renounced to interfere in public debates. Rather, they have renewed their repertoire of action when becoming civil society actors among others in a pluralistic environment. Far from being confined to the private sphere, religion still plays a significant role in the European public sphere, either as an identity resource, an ethical reference or a ritual provider. As an ethical reference, Catholicism may bias civil society mobilisations towards more caring and community-oriented dynamics and outcomes. As an organization, the Catholic Church defends both general causes and its own interests, and is involved in territorial governance networks associating civil society actors, private bodies and public authorities. This hypothesis will be tested through three case-studies: a) Historical legacy: Catholicism and the emergence of territorial social economies; b) The Catholic third sector and the issue of immigration; c) The Catholic third sector’s mediation in ethnonational conflicts.

Keywords: third sector,religion and politics,southern europe regional poltiics