Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
MEmbrane DIstillation in Remote AreaS (MEDIRAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewables for heating and cooling
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Spain,Germany,Tunisia,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3433956.55
EU funding (EUR): 2118196.35
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the MEDIRAS project is the development and demonstration of cost effective and very reliable solar driven desalination systems for water scarcity affected regions with high insolation. The modular system set up is based on the highly innovative Membrane Distillation (MD) technology. MD is favorably applicable for small distributed desalination systems in the capacity range between 0.1-20m³/day. MD is very robust against different raw water conditions and operable with alternating energy supply like solar energy. With respect to demonstration and market penetration of MD systems, the project will be focused on cost reduction and quality improvement for life time extension of MD modules and MD systems, on the development of components such as brine cooler and brine disposal units for ground water desalination at inland locations with limited raw water resources, and on the development of scalable system configurations in order to adapt them to different customer demands. Solar energy driven units for potable water disinfection will be integrated into the desalination units for health protection. The emphasize of the MEDIRAS project is on the design, set up and operation of different demonstration systems. Three compact systems of different sizes (150l/day and 300l/day) and two multi module two loop systems (3m³/day and 5m³/day) for full solar energy supply and for combined solar and waste heat energy supply will be installed in different European potential user sites in , Gran Canaria (Spain), Tenerife (Spain) and Pantelleria (Italy), as well as in Tunesia as an example for an North-African country. Comprehensive performance evaluation and water quality analyses will be conducted. With respect to market penetration in addition to the technological goals, focus will also be on the identification of suitable markets and target user-groups for the technology and the preparation of the conditions for the system to enter the identified markets.

Keywords: desalination solar autonomous cost-effective renewables decentralized membrane-distillation watertreatment
Achieving Real Change with Innovative Transport Measures Demonstrating Energy Savings (ARCHIMEDES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Romania,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,Italy,Denmark,Spain,United Kingdom,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-TREN-1_28June, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-15
End date: 2012-12-14
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 26234683.6
EU funding (EUR): 15982442.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

ARCHIMEDES is an integrating project, bringing together 6 European cities to address problems and opportunities for creating environmentally sustainable, safe and energy efficient transport systems in medium sized urban areas. The objective of ARCHIMEDES is to introduce innovative, integrated and ambitious strategies for clean, energy-efficient, sustainable urban transport to achieve significant impacts in the policy fields of energy, transport, and environmental sustainability. An ambitious blend of policy tools and measures will increase energy-efficiency in transport, provide safer and more convenient travel for all, using a higher share of clean engine technology and fuels, resulting in an enhanced urban environment (including reduced noise and air pollution). Visible and measurable impacts will result from significantly sized measures in specific innovation areas. Demonstrations of innovative transport technologies, policy measures and partnership working, combined with targeted research, will verify the best frameworks, processes and packaging required to successfully transfer the strategies to other cities. Two learning cities will participate fully in the decision making and organisational structure. New member state representation is assured with one Lead City and one Learning City. A strong educational objective will be realised with training and learning actions within the consortium, and via promotion, training events and educational exchanges between students, citizens and stakeholders in the project innovation areas. Dissemination of results and the focus on exploitation activities will impact well beyond the innovation area itself, providing lessons for citizens, practitioners and policy makers. The result will be a greater acceptance for new tools, services and technologies and the objectives that lie behind them.

Keywords: environmentally sustainable safe energy efficient transport systems medium urban integrated demonstration sutp
Development of regional and Pan-European guidelines for more efficient integration of renewable energy into future infrastructures (SUSPLAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Austria,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Romania,Poland,Serbia,Czechia,Italy,Bulgaria,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4570448.0
EU funding (EUR): 3322549.52
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The overall impact from SUSPLAN is contribution to a substantially increased share of renewable energy sources (RES) in Europe at an acceptable level of cost, thereby increasing security of supply and competitiveness of RES industry. The results will ease PAN-European harmonisation and lead to a more integrated European energy market. The main objective is to develop guidelines for more efficient integration of RES into future infrastructures as a support for decision makers at regional as well as Pan-European level. The guidelines shall consist of strategies, recommendations, criteria and benchmarks for political, infrastructure and network decision makers and power distributors with a time perspective 2030-2050. The guidelines will be established by: (i) Performing comparative scenario analysis in selected representative regions and at a trans-national level based on real data, comprehensive multi-disciplinary knowledge and by using advanced quantitative models. The scenario studies will cover technical, market, socio-economic, legal, policy as well as environmental aspects. (ii) Application of a bottom-up approach by comparing regional and trans-national possibilities, challenges and barriers. (iii) Systematic evaluation and comparison of the future possibilities for development. (iv) Generalisation of the results. Through this process SUSPLAN will contribute to: - Improve and harmonise knowledge and consciousness in the different regions of EU regarding how to achieve more efficient integration of RES into future infrastructures - Make information easily available for all interested actors regarding scenarios for a sustainable development of the European energy system. The results will be disseminated by active participation of relevant actors from the representative regions in the project, by workshops, a web-page with open reports with results and a database with all data, which is possible to make open.

Keywords: regional scenarios trans-national scenarios time perspective 2030-2050 multiple infrastructures bottop up approach
Novel climatic chamber with an Innovative, energy-saving Nano-Aerosol Humidificaction System for the manufacture of high quaity Bakery products (NANOBAK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy efficiency and savings
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Denmark,Germany,Germany,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2242249.39
EU funding (EUR): 1430404.33
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The baking industry includes companies that make value added products including bread, buns, rolls, doughs, desserts, crusts, pastas, cookies, biscuits, crackers etc. that are either baked or frozen. The use of refrigeration technology has made a bakery's location independent of its customers, thereby broadening the geographic market potential and contributing to the growth of this sector. However, this development does have a cost. Bakeries are energy intensive, using large amounts of electricity and natural gas to operate the refrigeration system, compressed air system and ovens. These energy costs are rising and becoming a significant portion of the ingredient costs of baked goods. About 10% of the total electrical and thermal energy consumption of all craft enterprises originates from the bakery sector. Accordingly there are many possibilities for energy reduction and therefore to permanently reduce the costs for the enterprises and thus to make a sustainable contribution to climate protection. Making changes in the energy use patterns of bakeries would be the fastest way to affect the energy profile of bread, because bakery is responsible for 70 and 80% of the total energy consumption in conventional and organic bread production, respectively. Overall aim of the NanoBAK-Collaborative Project is the efficient energy management in the baking industry. Specific aim of this project is the development and demonstration of a novel marketable climatic chamber with an innovative, energy-saving nano-aerosol humidification system. Lab tests have shown that the energy consumption using ultrasonic humidification is significantly lower than for conventional humidification. The innovative ultrasonic humidification of the NanoBAK Project saves up to 50% of energy compared to conventional humidifiers. Furthermore the quality of the bakery goods is of high value, so that the ultrasonic humidifier is profitable both energetically and qualitative.

Keywords: energy saving,baking technology,climatic chamber,humidification
Reference Materials for Biofuel Specifications (BIOREMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Brazil,European organisations area,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-27
End date: 2010-11-26
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 626883.0
EU funding (EUR): 626883.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

With the increased addition of biological products to petrol and diesel, e.g. ethanol and FAME, the quality of these products becomes more important. There is, however, up to now no international consensus on the technical specifications of biofuel. Nor is it clear what measurement standards, reference materials and measurement techniques are needed. The proposed project will deal with the subject of measurement standards (= reference materials). Reference materials with well-characterized reference values are essential for pre-normative research and standardization, i.e., in the development and validation of measurement methods. In the project it will be investigated which reference materials are already available and how the reference values for these materials were established. From this investigation it will become clear for which parameters and for which type of bio-ethanol and FAME reference materials are missing. The next step will be to investigate the feasibility of developing these reference materials for the identified parameters. Finally the project will establish the current quality of measurement practice by means of interlaboratory comparisons using these materials. The information supplied on the applied methodology and the performance characteristics can be used for the development of harmonized standard methods. An additional aim is to provide guidance and material for producing reference materials for the different test methods required by the ultimate global biofuel blend specifications.

Keywords: biofuel,biodiesl,bio-ethanol,reference materials,interlaboratory comparison,certification
Nuclear structure studies of neutron-deficient nuclei in light Pb region using radioactive ion beams (HEAVYRIB)

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-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188226.56
EU funding (EUR): 188226.56
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

It is proposed that an IEF Fellow should work at the CERN-ISOLDE laboratory for pioneering nuclear physics experiments utilizing heavy radioactive beam from the REX-ISOLDE post-accelerator. The nuclear structure of heavy neutron-deficient nuclei will be studied via Coulomb excitation employing the novel MINIBALL gamma-ray detector array and the CD particle detector system. The Fellow will be responsible for the upgrade of the REX-ISOLDE facility and organizing work for highly international experiments. To date, the proposed Fellow has worked at leading stable ion beam facility in Jyväskylä, Finland and in the nuclear structure research group in the University of Liverpool. His responsibilities has involved ion-beam and instrument developments and a large international project for in-beam tagging studies of exotic heavy nuclei. Recently, he has put effort for the design and construction of the SAGE spectrometer, which allows simultaneous in-beam electron and gamma-ray cross-coincidence measurements of high efficiency. The proposed project with radioactive ion beams at ISOLDE will represent an ideal step forward in studies of these nuclei and will improve the professional maturity and independence as a physicist. Such researchers are needed in the future RIB facilities in Europe and all over the world.

Keywords: physical sciences,physics,nuclear physics,spectroscopy
Development of a central information platform for ERA NETs under ERAWATCH: Preparatory phase, NETWATCH (NETWATCH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: General Activities
Destination: ERANET
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: NETWATCH (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: European organisations area
Call:  (FP7-ERANET-2007-RTD, 2007)
Start date: 2007-12-15
End date: 2008-12-14
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 362043.74
EU funding (EUR): 328239.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is designed as a preparatory phase to explore and inform interested parties such as the European Commission and the Member States about opportunities to develop a central information platform for ERA NETs under ERAWATCH. The set up of a central information platform was one of the key recommendations of an expert group who evaluated the ERA NET scheme under FP6. The concept of the project includes a three step approach: 1) build a series of scenarios on how to present ERA NETs within ERAWATCH, 2) provide an analytical framework about the role of the ERA NETs and joint initiatives stemming from ERA NETs for further implementation of the ERA, using ERA NETs as indicators of its development, and 3) develop a participatory method by which a core group (advisory board) including ERA NETs coordinators, ERAWATCH Network Members, the EC and other relevant actors is closely attached to the project from its onset until its end, hereby ensuring that the needs of users are integrated and facilitating the implementation of the project from its preparatory to its potential operational phase. The overall strategy of this project has been set up as a preparatory phase over 12 months. It will provide evidence on the necessary information to identify the most appropriate set-up and management scheme for a central information platform on ERA-Nets under ERAWATCH. The strategy of this project is to develop in a transparent and participatory manner potential scenarios for the set-up and management of a central information platform on ERA-Nets within ERAWATCH. The information platform will improve mutual learning among ERA-Net participants and provide R&D policy makers on EU and Member State level with relevant information about efficiency, effectiveness and impact of ERA-Nets and subsequent joint programming activities for the implementation of the ERA.

Keywords: information platform,era net,erawatch
Commercialisation of Invention and the Economy of Knowledge. Britain-France, 18th Century (C.I.T.E.K.)

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-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169575.09
EU funding (EUR): 169575.09
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our research project focuses on the social consequences of the diffusion of technical culture from the 18th-century to the beginning of the 19th-century. Considering the rise of audiences for technology, we would like to understand how the dissemination of useful knowledge and invention fostered public support and processes of appropriation and participation, for instance through the rise of mediation combining visual languages (public shows, experiments, exhibitions) and print resources: advertisement, posters, periodicals, how-to leaflets. The question of public and reception is particularly important: On the one hand, the interest for new inventions created markets for a mixed audience which disseminated knowledge. On the other hand, the culture of curiosity and the culture of amateurs transform the conditions of participations. We will in particular try to understand, through a chronological and comparative study of funding models as subscriptions for technical devices, the commercialisation of inventions as interplay between markets and Public Good, charity or interest in improvements. This methodology allows us to identify in a precise manner an active public and to study the social circles that support innovative activity as a resource for men like improvers, inventors, and entrepreneurs who kept on planning technological projects. Our research methodology will cross the fields of cultural and social history with economic history, and also rely on comparative approaches at a European level. Three innovative research topics will be addressed by analysing the emergence of public for technology: Dissemination of technical processes through the link between consumption and appropriation, territorial differentiation at different scales (towns, countries) and transformation of modern world, between Enlightenments and industrialisation.

Keywords: modern history,history of sciences and technology,economic history,material culture,practical knowledge,inventions,consumptions,enlightenments,amateurs,urban history
Multifunctional DNA light-switches: sensors and devices (LIGHTSWITCHES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-20
End date: 2011-04-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169957.94
EU funding (EUR): 169957.94
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Photoactive mono- and oligonuclear transition metal complexes containing DNA intercalative ligands will be synthesized. In the latter case, both homo- and heterometallic complexes will be synthesized. The photophysical properties of the complexes will be exploited to produce a number of outcomes: prototypical sensors for DNA sequences and/or structures that will produce a luminescent output on DNA binding, tools for investigating DNA/substrate binding events and the photophysical/electronic properties of DNA. The synthesis of multi-functional probes will also be investigated; e.g. DNA light-switches that also cleave DNA (directly OR through singlet oxygen sensitizing) and/or display cytotoxicity. To fully understand the properties of the new systems and their interaction with DNA studies will encompass a wide spectrum of techniques from time resolved optical spectroscopy, to calorimetry and in cellulo studies.

Keywords: chemistry,molecular markers and recognition,molecular chemistry,nanodevices,physical sciences
Independence Proofs and Combinatorics (IPAC)

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: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF, 2007)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 13.0
Total project cost (EUR): 226949.28
EU funding (EUR): 226949.28
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research shall advance our knowledge in the field of set theory, a subfield of mathematical logic. Mildenberger proposes to work together with Shelah on some combinatorial questions in an area where independence of the axioms of mathematics, i.e., the Zermelo Fraenkel axiom system with together with the axiom of choice, short ZFC, is very likely. Therefore the main part of the proposed work is to develop forcing techniques. Combinatorial methods in the analysis of existing notions of forcing with respect to new properties would also be emphasised. In the proposed work, cardinal characteristics of the continuum often encapsulate important combinatorial features of the ZFC models in question. A cardinal characteristic of the continuum locates the smallest size of a set with a property that is usually not exhibited by any countable set and that is exhibited by at least one set of size of the continuum. However, sometimes a mathematical statement is derived from some delicate stratification of the set-theoretic universe that cannot (yet) be reduced to cardinal equations or inequalities. This can in particular be the case for set-theoretic universes that we intend to construct with not so conventional forcing constructions, such as non-linear forcing iterations and iterations with partial memory. We also propose to investigate forcings with oracle chain conditions. We want to advance these techniques further and develop new forcing constructions that will be useful for some longstanding open questions. The proposed research has applications to open problems in topology, algebra and in the combinatorics of the powerset of aleph_1. We propose to investigate the possible number of near-coherence classes of ultrafilters, some combinatorial properties of semifilters, and the connection between guessing principles and the existence of Souslin trees.

Keywords: mathematical logic,set theory,independence proofs,forcing techniques,ultrafilters,semifilters,near coherence,cardinal characteristics,guessing principles,souslin trees