Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Impact test campaign (IMPTEST)

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: Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-04, 2010)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 399998.72
EU funding (EUR): 299999.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

IMPTEST involves a campaign for gas gun impact testing of shielding materials for protection of aircraft against small fragments generated by failure of rotating engine components. The test campaign includes three phases, where Phase 1 involves normal impact to find the ballistic limit velocity of metallic shields and three different composite shield concepts, using three different impactors at velocities below 600 m/s. Phase 2 involves studies of the influence of impact angle and higher velocities etc for the two selected design concepts, while Phase 3 will study the influence of material aging for the selected shield concepts. Furthermore, fibre bundle tests will be performed at -40C and +120C, and the results will be used in impact simulations to study the influence of temperature. High speed photography will be used to record the impact response history of all specimens. In addition strain and load histories will be recorded for selected specimens. The damage in all specimens will be characterised quantitatively and qualitatively using various fractographic methods, e.g. C-scan.

Keywords: high velocity impact,gas gun,composite material,impact resistance
Suite of integrated models for electrical aircraft drives (SIMEAD)

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-2010-04, 2010)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 16.0
Total project cost (EUR): 348602.4
EU funding (EUR): 261451.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

To enable technology selection, system architecture design and energy-optimised control of the electrical motor drives and distribution systems on board a future regional aircraft, a suite of SABER models will be developed and validated. These models will contain sufficient fidelity to enable investigations to be undertaken into the behaviour and energy efficiency of alternative electrical drive solutions and technologies over a range of electrical system architectures and operating scenarios. The primary function of the models will be to assess power and energy usage. To meet these objectives, a consortium of the Universities of Manchester and Bristol will create a suite of inter-connectable SABER models, comprising dynamic models of the machine, power converter and controller that include copper, iron and harmonic losses in the machines, and conduction and switching losses in the converter. The models will be scalable over the expected operating ranges of voltage, power and speed in a future small aircraft, and, through the use of average-value modelling techniques, will provide rapid simulation times. The dynamic motor control strategy will be used to inject representative disturbance effects to the models, to account for parameter uncertainties. The models will be used to identify / devise optimum control and operating strategies to minimise energy use. Both partners draw on extensive experience of working with airframe manufacturers and equipment suppliers. Accurate parameterisation is identified as key to accurate loss modelling. Thermal modelling will be incorporated into the component models, validated by calorimetric tests and supported by other experimental work. The generated models will be validated against test data taken from existing prototype drive systems, representative of the state-of-the-art aircraft developments. Suitable test-based methods for obtaining the electromagnetic and thermal model parameters will be defined and demonstrated.

Keywords: saber,motor loss modelling,parameter identification,calorimeter measurement,converter losses,optimal power control,sensorless control,pm machine
Contribution to optimisation of heavy helicopter engine installation design (HEAVYCOPTER)

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: Italy
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-04, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 439200.0
EU funding (EUR): 329400.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Goals. The proposal describes the methodology to be used for engine installation design optimization in heavy helicopters. Specific objectives of such activity are the following: i) to set up of a comprehensive and fully automatic optimal design tool, integrating the software suitable for engine intallation analysis and in-house multi-objective optimization algorithms already developed by the applicant; ii) to apply such tool for the efficiency improvement of engine installation components based on the boundary conditions given by the manufacturer, in order to achieve a significant reduction in the engine installation losses. Methodology. Objectives will be achieved by means of a dedicated programming and simulation activity, where the software tools available at the consortium premises for the design and analysis of engine installation performance will be interfaced together and with the optimization tool proposed by the applicant. The result will be a robust procedure where only the initial geometry importation and paremetrization will be carried out off-line, while meshing, geometrical/grid manipulation, as well as CFD analyses will form an automatic loop. Expected results. a) Final optimized geometries of engine installation components will be provided according to the design objectives and constraints defined by the Topic Manager. Benefits of the final optimized geometries will be determined. b) A quantification of overall margins of improvement with respect to the baseline configuration will be provided. c) Recommendations for the ultimate design and manufacturing of practical engine installation systems will be provided.

Keywords: heavy helicopters,optimization,engine installation,intakes and exhausts
Higly Innovative Isothermal Forging of Gamma TIAL Alloy for LPT blades (HI-POTENTIAL)

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: France
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-04, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 568816.8
EU funding (EUR): 284408.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal consists in developing an alternative solution to the existing LPT blade on the Geared Turbo Fan made of cast nickel based alloy by transcending the work fundamentally performed on the TNM Gamma TiAl alloy. This proposal is beyond the state of the art and is based on innovative isothermal forging process , advanced tooling devices, specific heat treatments and an optimized near net shape geometry. Bringing together these conditions is mandatory to meet the engine manufacturer requirements in terms of microstructure and associated mechanical properties but also to target the cost challenge in the scope of a mass production activity. Following RTD and Demonstration activities are to be performed through the project : -development of isothermal forging process parameters -development of innovative toolings for the isothermal forging process -development of optimized billet and blade designs for the isothermal forging process -test hardware manufacturing

Keywords: isothermal forging,gamma tial forging,innovative tools for innovative engines
Exploring electron vortex beams (VORTEX)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101014, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1458300.0
EU funding (EUR): 1458300.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project I will exploit new possibilities opened up by the recent succesful demonstration of our ability to create electron vortex beams in a transmission electron microscope. Electron vortex beams carry a helical phase and angular momentum around their propagation axis. They form the counterpart of optical vortex beams that were invented almost 20 years ago and have lead to many exciting new applications in optics. In preliminary experiments with electron vortices I have demonstrated (Verbeeck et al. Nature, 467,301 (2010)) their usefulness for magnetic state mapping. This property makes them very desirable for solid state physics and materials science since no other tool exists that can map the local magnetisation inside materials with atomic scale resolution. We aim to develop atomic resolution magnetic state mapping and apply it to gain insight in spintronics devices as well as in topological insulators. We will follow two routes to this end, one using the combination of electron vortex beams and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and another making use of the Aharanov Bohm effect in elastic scattering. Preliminary experiments proof that both routes are feasible and a wealth of interesting physics is ready to be explored. We will also explore the potential of electron vortex beams to manipulate nanoparticles and transfer angular momentum from the electron beam to these particles. This would open up the road to assemble and create nanoscale devices and to study the fundamental laws that govern the interaction between vortex beams and particles with different physical properties. I believe that this highly creative and innovative idea, combined with access to a state of the art transmission electron microscope and a young PI with a proven track record is combined into a project proposal entirely in the spirit of the ERC starting grants.

Keywords: transmission electron microscopy,electron energy loss spectroscopy,topological charge
Pre-normative research on safe indoor use of fuel cells and hydrogen systems (HYINDOOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,European organisations area
Call:  (FCH-JU-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2012-01-02
End date: 2015-01-01
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3657760.4
EU funding (EUR): 1528974.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

This project addresses the issue of safe indoor use of hydrogen and fuel cells systems (priority 4.6 of the call FCH-JU-2010-1) for early markets (forklift refuelling and operation, back-up power supply, portable power generation, etc.): It aims to provide scientific and engineering knowledge for the specification of cost-effective means to control hazards specific to the use of hydrogen indoors or in confined space and developing state-of-the-art guidelines for European stakeholders. Specific knowledge gaps need to be closed in the areas of indoor hydrogen accumulations, vented deflagrations, and under-ventilated jet fires. A focus on foreseeable release conditions for fuel cell systems in the prescribed power range and enclosure characteristics related to early markets will feed the precise formulation of analytical, numerical and experimental studies to be performed in the project. The generated knowledge will be described in the state-of-the-art safety guidelines including contemporary engineering tools and recommendations to provide safe introduction of fuel cells and hydrogen in early markets. The recommendations will be formulated for integration into ongoing or new Regulations Codes and Standards activities to be implemented at national and international levels. The consortium includes key players in the field comprising industry (Air Liquide, HFCS), research organisations (CEA, KIT-G, HSL, JRC, NCSRD), academia (UU), and an actor in RCS development (CCS Global Group). The outputs of the project will be disseminated to the hydrogen safety community through different channels including international and national associations (IA-HySafe, EHA, EIGA, etc.), standard development organisation (ISO, CEN, etc.), national regulators (e.g. HSE/HSL in the UK) and educational/training programs (e.g. MSc course in Hydrogen Safety Engineering and International short course and advanced research workshop series “Progress in Hydrogen Safety“ at Ulster).

Keywords: early markets,safety,hydrogen,fuel cells,indoor,enclosure,leak,release,vented deflagration,fire,openings,ventilation,vents sizing,risk,guideline,code,standard
Microtubular Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Power System developement and integration into a Mini-UAV (SUAV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Netherlands,Sweden,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Poland,France,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FCH-JU-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3796031.02
EU funding (EUR): 2109518.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

SUAV aims to design, optimise and build a 100-200W mSOFC stack, and to integrate it into a hybrid power system comprising the mSOFC stack and a battery. Additional components of the system are a fuel processor to generate reformate gas from propane and other electrical, mechanical and control balance of plant (BoP). All these components will be constituents of an entire fuel cell power generator which will first be tested in the lab and, after further optimisation and miniaturisation, in a mini UAV platform. SUAV is primarily aiming at platforms like the CopterCity UAV platform from Survey Copter (France) but will consider other options (in particular fixed wing vehicles) too. Propane was chosen as the fuel due to its superior energy density compared to hydrogen, whichever storage technique is used. The SOFC was chosen since it can convert reformate (i.e. CO/H2-mixtures) to electricity, as compared to other types of fuel cell that require very pure hydrogen, which significantly reduces fuel processing. The design of the mSOFC power generator will be primarily driven by the weight and volume available in the mini-UAV. The project intends to optimise mission duration, while efficiency is of less concern. It will open opportunities for exploitation in other light-weight man-portable applications.

Keywords: fuel cells microtubular solid oxide fuel cell msofc uav unmanned aerial vehicle mini-uav propane fuel processing fuel cell battery hybrid system
High-Performance Mass Spectrometry Using a Quantum Sensor (TRAPSENSOR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101014, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499280.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499280.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mass spectrometry is one of the most important, essential and basic techniques in modern science. This is because the mass of a fundamental particle is a fundamental property of the particle itself, or, in a composite quantum mechanical system such as an atom, the mass is the sum of the masses of all its building blocks minus the binding energy between those constituents. The binding energy reflects all physical forces acting in such a quantum system. The most-advanced instrument for high-accuracy mass determinations is the Penning trap using the fundamental techniques of cooling and storing. The most highly developed Penning trap presently at hand needs still a drastic improvement and ground-breaking ideas in order to achieve the two scientific goals of the present grant application: (i), determination of the Q-value of the decay 187Re to 187Os with an accuracy of delta_m/m = 10^(-11) as required for the MARE I campaign aiming at a determination of the mass of the electron antineutrino via a very careful determination and analysis of the beta spectrum; (ii), measurement of the masses of superheavy nuclei (Z less or equal to 118) produced by hot fusion process enabling a clear assignment of the proton number to the different isotopes (and by this also the naming of the elements discovered by hot fusion) and making possible tests of state-of-the-art nuclear theories. A novel method, called quantum sensor, is proposed to measure the mass of a single ion with ultimate accuracy and unprecedented sensitivity while it is stored and cooled in a trap. The new device consists of a single calcium ion as sensor, which is laser-cooled to mK temperatures and stored in a trap connected to the trap for the ion under study by a common endcap. The motion of the ion under investigation is coupled to the sensor ion by the image current induced in the common endcap and observed through its fluorescence light. In this way the detection of phonons is upgraded to a detection of photons.

Keywords: atomic physics techniques,laser cooling
Overcoming clinical relapse in multiple myeloma by understanding and targeting the molecular causes of drug resistance (OVER-MYR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Australia,Italy,France
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2011-two-stage, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3923509.6
EU funding (EUR): 2999498.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a currently incurable rare malignant plasma cell disease, which invariably relapses despite therapy. The objective of OVER-MYR is to understand the causes of drug resistance and relapse, develop novel strategies to overcome these, provide proof of principal for phase I/II trial, and thus impact on MM-patient’s survival.Currently-used drugs target both MM cells (MMC) and cells of the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment or ‘niche’ that are critical for supporting MMC survival, proliferation and growth. Since patients repeatedly relapse after such treatments, the following mechanisms of relapse are considered and need to be investigated: i) drugs have spared specific subclones or subpopulations of MMC ii) drugs induce alterations in cells of the ‘niche’ that promote drug-resistance. OVER-MYR integrates a network of outstanding researchers from 6 EU countries with internationally recognized experience in clinics and human and animal models of MM, who will jointly: WP1: Study the molecular alterations in primary MM and environment cells in samples obtained from a large number of patients at treatment inclusion and relapse, using high throughput techniques. WP2: Implement in vitro and in vivo models of drug resistance to evaluate molecular and cellular mechanisms and compare their characteristics with drug resistant cells isolated from patients. Combined results of WP1 and WP2 will permit the identification of 10 prominent (altered) candidate genes involved in MM relapse. Changes in drug resistance, cell survival and proliferation will be assessed in WP2 by modulating the expression of the selected genes. WP3: Determine how cells from the niche alter their functions in the presence of drugs, and how drug-altered cells impact on MM cells during therapy. WP4: Screen chemical libraries for drugs active on generated sensitive cell lines, develop innovative inhibitors and provide proof of principle for a phase I/II trial

Keywords: multiple myeloma,rare cancer,drug resistance,relapse,targeted treatment,high-throughput techniques,deep sequencing,gene expression profiling,mirna-profiling
Chips for Life (C4L)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Switzerland,France,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2011-two-stage, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4023201.33
EU funding (EUR): 2876300.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are a huge burden in terms of mortality and morbidity worldwide. To improve the management of the bacterial infections of the respiratory tract, the institution of an appropriate antimicrobial therapy as soon as possible has also been shown to be a key element for reducing morbidity and mortality. The aim of our project is to develop a panel of dedicated rapid diagnostic tests to allow the medical staff to link antibiotic prescription on evidence-based diagnosis. In our 3 year project, combining the Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) and microfluidic technologies will allow to address the question of viral or bacterial origin. In the case of a bacteria, a second step will allow to identify which bacteria is of interest with its virulence factors and resistance mechanisms. This new tool will be developed for efficient use in clinical settings in order to allow for a better antibiotic resistance management. Several direct impacts will be observed either on public health (decrease of antibiotic pressure), efficiency of treatment for patients (decrease of infectivity and speed in accurate treatments), for diagnostic laboratories (improve in turn around time), for SMEs (better competitiveness) and more generaly on technological innovations.

Keywords: multiplex,diagnostic,test resistance,pneumonia,rti infections,respiratory,virulence factors,antibiotic,virus,bacteria,microfluidics,molecular