Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Joint Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme (BONUS) undertaken by several Member States with the participation of the Union (BONUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable management of resources
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 23.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1988551.6
EU funding (EUR): 949180.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This Grant Agreement covers the Strategic Phase of the BONUS Joint Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme. The strategic phase of BONUS shall last up to 23 months . It shall prepare the implementation phase. During the strategic phase, BONUS EEIG shall carry out the following tasks: (a) Preparation of the Strategic Research Agenda defining the part on scientific content of the programme focussing on calls for proposals, in conformity with the objectives set in the Seventh Framework Programme; (b) Setting up of the Stakeholder Consultation Platforms with the aim of strengthening and institutionalising the involvement of stakeholders from all relevant sectors; (c) Preparation of the implementation modalities including legal and financial rules and procedures, provisions governing the intellectual property rights arising from the BONUS activities, human resources and communication aspects.
The Innovation Society, Sustainability, and ICT (INSITE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Sweden,France,Austria,Spain,Switzerland,Ireland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1075607.0
EU funding (EUR): 963172.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Our society is organized around a positive feedback dynamic that produces innovation cascades. In these cascades, new artifacts are inextricably linked with transformations in social organization and the generation of new “needs” for individual and society. Besides desired effects, these cascades produce disruptive changes in the environment and in society itself, ultimately leading to sustainability crises. The usual, but inadequate, response to these is more innovation, unleashing new cascades, and new crises. The core challenge in improving our responses is to link current, reductionist, models of past causalities with novel approaches to increase the number of dimensions in which phenomena are perceived, so that we may get better at anticipating the unanticipated consequences of innovation cascades. INSITE will pave the way for novel ICT approaches that will do so, since only through ICT can complex dynamics be “grasped” in sufficient detail to allow us to do the reverse of customary science: anticipate and complexify, rather than reduce and simplify. To further INSITE’s main objective to build a community dedicated to meeting the challenge described above, we will recruit people from a variety of fields to join us in working groups to (1) prepare case studies that illuminate the dynamics of innovation cascades involving ICT, from printing to the internet, (2) develop a roadmap indicating the kinds and uses of models to understand and guide these dynamics in the direction of sustainability, (3) devise experiments to elucidate innovation dynamics, in the context of multiplayer online computer games, (4) envision practices and technologies to enable networks of innovators to engage in experiments in “participatory policy”, and (5) explore the implications in theory and practice of reconceptualizing technology to include its social dimensions, leading to a notion of “generalized ICT” that includes such diverse things as cities, urban systems and museums.

Keywords: innovation society,sustainability,innovation cascades,participatory policy,generalised ict,model pragmatics,artifacts,agents,attributions
Breaking the riddle of amylin’s role in nociception: a comprehensive study on the action of amylin in multiple pain models (AMYLIN_ROLE_PAIN)

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: Portugal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 153047.2
EU funding (EUR): 153047.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Pain is more than a symptom, it can develop into a disabling disease. Amylin is a hormone with several metabolic effects that has shown to also influence the nociceptive system. The literature is however contradicting as some authors claim to find analgesic effects under amylin treatment, while others suggest no action or a pronociceptive role for this hormone. As chronic pain involves pathophysiological mechanisms diverse from the physiological ones occurring in acute pain, it is possible that amylin plays a different role in either condition. Therefore, in this project we aim at determining potential antinociceptive or pronociceptive effects of amylin in multiple pain models in rats (acute, sustained, chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain). Also, we will evaluate whether the reduction on amylin levels observed in streptozotocin-induced diabetes plays a role on the development of diabetic neuropathy and if these rats show alterations in the dorsal root ganglion amylinergic system. Finally, we will assess whether nociception is altered in animals lacking amylin (KO mice). Standard thermal and mechanical acute pain tests will be employed, as well as the monoarthritis and the spared nerve injury models of chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain, respectively. To clarify if the effects are really amylin-receptor mediated, we will use a specific amylin receptor antagonist. Amylin’s effect on the nociceptive-responsive spinal cord neurons will be analysed by c-Fos protein expression. Colocalization of amylin and opioid receptors in spinal cord dorsal horn neurons will assess if this is the site of amylin synergy with morphine in visceral pain. Amylin is a physiological hormone and its commercial analogue (pramlintide) has proven to be safe in diabetic patients, implying that it may be suitable for treating patients with pain. Therefore we hope to discover analgesic properties in amylin with the current study in the search for new therapeutic alternatives for pain.

Keywords: health sciences,neurophysiology,nociception,amylin,iapp,acute and chronic pain,diabetic neuropathy,opioid receptors,c-fos,dorsal root ganglia,spinal cord dorsal horn,calcitonin receptors
Model Design and Manufacturing of the Turbofan Configuration for Low Speed Aerodynamic and Acoustic Testing (LOSPA)

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: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1305005.6
EU funding (EUR): 978753.7
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

A requirement has been produced to design and manufacture an innovative new wind tunnel model to enable the acquisition of aerodynamic and acoustic data. Nacelles and pylons will be included to accommodate two turbofan simulators which are to be supplied by DNW/ONERA. A set of wings will be produced which will have removable leading edges and trailing edge flaps. This will allow a wide range of configurations to be investigated, including clean, take-off, landing and airbrakes on/off. A modular empennage will also be produced. These items will be designed to interface with the remainder of the model which will be provided by a partner independent of this CFP. The resultant model will be tested in a low speed wind tunnel at atmospheric pressure to investigate two topics. Firstly, the effectiveness of the empennage in shielding engine noise, and secondly the assessment of wing aerodynamic efficiency together with low speed take-off and landing performance and handling qualities. A large number of steady and unsteady probes will be installed in the model. Kulites ® will be mounted in the thin nacelle and empennage. These will be supplemented by gauges on the empennage to measure loads. Aircraft Research Association (ARA) proposes to apply its extensive experience in wind tunnel model design and manufacture. ARA will lead the programme of work with manufacturing support provided by Future Advanced Manufacturing Ltd (FAM). ARA and FAM have worked closely on many wind tunnel model programmes, producing high quality models to exacting tolerances and demanding timescales. Over many years, ARA and FAM have established reliable working practices, innovative technical solutions to challenging requirements and effective project control and management processes. ARA and FAM will apply this expertise to the requirements of this new call to ensure that all aspects of the model are achieved in the required timescale and budget. .

Keywords: rapid manufacture,turbine power simulator,tps,acoustic testing,wind tunnel model,empennage,nacelle,unsteady pressure measurement,take off and landing performane,engine noise
Flight-tests with multi-functional coatings (LH-LHT-RFT)

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
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-03, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-28
End date: 2013-10-27
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 75000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The background of the general topic (multi-functional coatings) is to examine the wear behaviour of multi-functional coatings during real flight conditions. Lufthansa Airline and Lufthansa Technik as MRO provider fulfil all prerequisites itemised in the CfP and would be an ideal participant partnership to perform the projected flight test program. Lufthansa is an active driver of general clean sky policy topics and would like to support also relevant technical topics regarding this aspect. Lufthansa Airline operates its fleet world wide amongst others also to Asia and India. Lufthansa Technik as its main MRO provider has access to the aircraft and would cover all technical work packages (i.e. application of the multi-functional coatings supported by the ITD Topic leader, inspection of the coating areas during the test period including documentation of the measurement results, de-application of the coating etc.) most probably at its maintenance facilities in Frankfurt or Munich.

Keywords: structural validation,multi-functional coatings,surface riblet structures,flight tests,structure durability
ChemCatSusDe: Chemical Catalysis towards a Sustainable Development: Transformation of Bio-Resources and Atom-Efficient Reactions Catalyzed by Bio-Metals (CHEMCATSUSDE)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 147298.0
EU funding (EUR): 147298.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ChemCatSusDe addresses some of the industrial and economical issues of our society: fossil fuel depletion, use of renewable resources derived from the biomass, environmentally friendly chemistry for a sustainable future. At its core lies the versatility of complexes of zinc, magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium (the so-called bio-metals): green catalysts able to perform both the polymerisation of cyclic esters and highly atom-efficient hydroelementation reactions will be designed. The objectives defined by the researcher and the host institution in Rennes are: - Synthesis of well-defined complexes of the large alkaline-earth (Ca, Sr, Ba). The coordination chemistry of these metals in the presence of chelating, mono-anionic ligands will be studied. Owing to the extreme oxophilic nature of these elements, these catalytic precursors are expected to display excellent activities. The same synthetic strategies will also be extended to the preparation of complexes of the smaller zinc and magnesium, which display an excellent compromise between stability and catalytic activity - Use of these complexes for the catalytic immortal ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic monomers derived from renewable bioresources for the production of biocompatible and/or biodegradable polymers. All catalysts will be used for the polymerisation of lactide and monomers such as morpholinediones and b- or g-valerolactones - Hydroelementation of terminal alkenes catalyzed by heteroleptic amido-alkaline-earth complexes. Catalysts for the 100% atom-efficient hydrosilylation, -phophination and -amination of unsaturated substrates will be prepared - Study of the stability and reactivity of the targeted heteroleptic complexes by theoretical calculations: the design of catalytic systems will be elaborated and/or optimized according to preliminary calculations or those based on experimental structural data. - Development of long-term collaborations between the host and return institutions

Keywords: physical sciences,chemical catalysis,sustainability,bio-metals,alkaline-earth catalysts,bio-resources,atom-efficiency,ring-opening polymerisation,green bio-polymers,hydroelementation
Advanced avionics equipment simulation (ADAVES)

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: Portugal
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-03, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 330000.26
EU funding (EUR): 185000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project is to develop a high fidelity and accuracy GPS system simulation, capable of being seemly integrated in Green Regional Aircraft (GRA) flight simulator. The development of a green FMS is an essential factor for integrating green technologies in GRA simulator and for achieving the following Clean Sky environmental goals. • 50% reduction of CO2 emissions • 80% reduction of NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions • 50% reduction of external noise To support the green FMS system development, a GPS simulator shall be developed taking into consideration that navigation scenarios presented by both NextGen (EUA) and SESAR (UE) Master Plans. These Roadmaps present the FMS increasingly relying on GNSS systems, in particular the current SESAR 2020 Navigation roadmap considers the following scenario: • Primary aircraft positioning means will be satellite based for all flight phases; • Positioning is expected to rely on a minimum of two dual frequency satellite constellations (Galileo, GPS L1/L5 and potentially other constellations, assuming interoperability) and augmentation as required: • Aircraft based augmentation (ABAS) such as INS and multiple GNSS processing receiver; • Satellite based augmentation (SBAS) such as EGNOS and WAAS. And Beyond 2020 : • The availability of other constellations enables increased accuracy and availability. Multi constellation receivers are able to exploit available constellations/satellites (e.g. China, Russia), • Ground based augmentation (GBAS) for Cat II/III approach and landing with backup provided by ILS/MLS As part of this project a simulator infrastructure shall be implemented with a modular architecture that can be further extended to cope environment presented above and that shall provide a realistic GPS simulation infrastructure. Being this high level of realism achieved through the use of EGNOS data for the validation and fine tuning of the several GNSS signals errors sources contributions.

Keywords: simulator,gnss,gps,satellite,constellation,arinc 429
Equality without borders? The protection of individuals against EU equality law (EQWIBO)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 176840.8
EU funding (EUR): 176840.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The first new target for the Europe 2020 Strategy is an employment rate of 75%. The focus is on increasing labour market participation of women, young, older workers and legal migrants. This ambitious political objective must be read in conjunction with a very powerful legal instrument: EU equality law. It for example prohibits discrimination between male and female workers. EU equality law is a most useful tool to increase the competitiveness of European labour markets while reducing inequalities. EU equality law is therefore developing very rapidly, too quickly. The prohibition to discriminate prevents decision-makers from freely making strategic choices: for example the prohibition of age discrimination prevents employers from having a recruitment policy focused on "young" applicants. Equality law limits individual (economic) freedoms. These negative effects of EU Equality law have not been sufficiently explored and considered by policy makers. This proposal fills this gap: it will suggest safeguards to ensure that the rapid expansion of EU equality law is complemented with adequate protection of individual freedoms. The research will identify the constitutional checks and balances normally required in the rule of law for intervention by a supra-national entity (such as the EU) in individual freedoms. It will then identify the areas of EU equality law that are most restrictive of individual freedoms. Finally, it will draw conclusions on the exact additional institutional guarantees needed to compensate for the limitations placed on individual freedoms by EU Equality law. This will result in suggestions for legislative reform and coherent judicial policy, they are necessary before any further development of EU equality law. The applicant wishes to become an internationally recognised expert on EU equality and constitutional law and to gain access to Dutch Academia. Maastricht Law Faculty will provide expert supervision and excellent career perspectives.

Keywords: european law,human rights,constitutional law,equal opportunities,comparative law
Evolving Probabilistic Spiking Neural Networks for Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition (EVOSPIKE)

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: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 121352.5
EU funding (EUR): 121352.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Spiking neural networks (SNN), considered the third generation of neural networks, are a promising paradigm for the creation of new intelligent ICT and for the study of the brain. This new generation computational models and systems are potentially capable of modelling complex information processes due to their ability to represent and integrate different information dimensions, such as time, space, frequency, phase, and to deal with large volumes of data in an adaptive, self-organising, self-learning way. The progress in this direction has been slow in the past, but now there are more opportunities for a progress to be made and this is the aim of the proposed project. The host organisation, the Institute of Neuro-Informatics (INI), Zurich, has been developing VLSI technologies for implementing SNNs for many years. As it has mainly focused on the hardware development aspects, it is still lacking a theoretical framework for configuring and applying VLSI SNNs to wider computational problems. The contribution of this project and of the incoming researcher Prof. Kasabov will be crucial for making a breakthrough in this domain. The project proposes to devise a theoretical framework and a methodology for the design of novel SNN, namely evolving probabilistic spiking neural networks (epSNN) and evolving probabilistic computational neuro-genetic models (epCNGM) along with their implementation on existing software and hardware platforms at the host organisation INI. The resulting technologies will offer a new way to efficiently solve a wide range of complex spatio-temporal pattern recognition problems, including: audio-visual pattern recognition; EEG brain data analysis; associative memories; neurogenetic cognitive systems. Further applications of the epCNGM are expected to be developed for modelling brain data related to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Knowledge will be transferred from the visiting researcher Prof. Kasabov to INI and Europe.

Keywords: technological sciences,natural sciences,knowledge engineering
NOVEL METHOD TO REMOVE CHLOROANISOLES PRESENT IN CORK STOPPERS (NEATCORK)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,France,Spain,France,Germany,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1354171.52
EU funding (EUR): 1010600.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Cork taint refers to a common fault in wine, associated with the presence of haloanisole compounds (particularly, 2,4,6-trichloroanisole or TCA) in large enough concentrations - above 3 ng/l, to degrade the sensorial attributes of wine. Cork taint affects as much as 5% of the bottled wine in Europe, and results in annual losses of €700M. Cork stoppers are the main TCA contamination source. Even though cork stoppers are already treated in the cork manufacturing plant to prevent cork taint, recontamination occurs unavoidably as a result of the presence of chlorophenolic and other non-biodegradable chemicals in the environment, which are transformed into anisole compounds by metabolic reactions related to the presence of fungi. Currently, there is not any effective technology in the market to grant the absence of haloanisoles in cork stoppers. This project aims at developing a new TCA decontamination method that will be easily adapted and integrated “in-line” into any existing wine bottling line. The technology has already been tested at the laboratory scale, and has demonstrated its effectiveness to degrade TCA, in spite of the high chemical stability of this chemical. By performing this treatment immediately before sealing the wine bottles, the risk of recontamination will be virtually eliminated. Through a group of SMEs in the consortium, it is foreseen that this technology will be industrialized and commercialized within a short period after the completion of the project. The availability of this technology will benefit thousands of Europan small and medium size wineyards, which will be able to further improve the quality of their products, and avoid costs associated with unsatisfied customers.

Keywords: haloanysoles,chloroanisoles,tca,atmospheric plasma,remote plasma,remote dbd,microwave plasma torch,plasma decontamination.