Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
ECO-design and manufacturing of thermoplastic structural fairings for helicopters (ECO-FAIRS)

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-2010-05, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 194126.0
EU funding (EUR): 141513.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to design and manufacture three structural fairings for helicopters using thermoplastic composite materials, namely: - Upper Panel Rear Fuselage Demonstrator; - Sponson Fairing Demonstrator; - Radome Demonstrator. Materials and processes selection and technology guidelines will support the design phase in which tooling and process parameters will be designed and set-up. The three physical demonstrators will be produced and tested according to technical specifications, with a low environmental impact and with a TRL6 Technology Readiness Level. Resistance, induction and ultrasonic welding techniques will be studied in depth in the project for the manufacturing of the joinings required for the demonstrators assembling, and their use will be preferred to mechanical and bonded joinings, in order to decrease the extensive use of adhesives and mechanical fasteners and to make easier the recyclability at components end-life. In order to achieve the most economic design and manufacturing technologies, and in order to evaluate the mechanical performances and to achieve the eco-quotation of the demonstrators, a sound methodology will be used, together with reliable theoretical, numerical and technological instruments. The performances of the three demonstrators will be evaluated trough an extensive experimental campaign, starting from tests on coupons at different conditions up to the final tests on the demonstrators. Moreover the NDI plans for the demonstrators will be developed and executed, and the performances will be evaluated also through the eco-quotation of the components. At last all the actions required for the definition of the certification roadmap will be investigated and outlined.

Keywords: technology readiness level (trl),tpc thermoplastic composite (tpc),non destructive inspection (ndi),green rotorcraft consortium (grc)
Development of a Secure, Modular, Cash Checking Machine (EUROTHENTIC)

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: Spain,Germany,Estonia,Norway,Italy,United Kingdom,Italy,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1507830.1
EU funding (EUR): 1143085.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The euro represents the largest currency in circulation in the world and therefore an attractive target for counterfeiters with both the number and sophistication of counterfeits increasing since the euro’s introduction in 2002. To fight counterfeiting, the European Central Bank has implemented strict requirements under the Banknote Recycling Framework which require that no counterfeit notes are re-circulated by cash handling devices. In Northern Europe, today approx 15 000 point of sales systems are already equipped with both coin and note recycler systems and market in Europe is at a tipping point where self-service and self-checkout systems are gradually gaining in acceptance as a mainstream retail technology. These systems, integrated with the proposed EUROTHENTIC Cash Checking Machine system, will enable efficient and secure recycling of money. The advantages for the stores are secure and lower cost for cash handling due to amount of cash in store is reduced and also back-office work and CIT will be minimized. This will also enable cash back function - consumers to be able to withdraw cash directly at checkouts. While automated systems for validating bank notes are currently available, they have yet to find wide acceptance in the retail sector due to high capital costs and in particular performance considered slow by the sectors standards. The EUROTHENTIC project aims to overcome the current technical barriers to wide scale adoption of cash authentication technology by creating a low-cost, retrofitable cash validating module. The module will have the capability for high performance note processing and image recording, intelligent image analysis utilising a neural network approach and secure networking to provide remote system updates and a database facility for the secure tracking of bank note serial numbers and other characteristics such as location and time.

Keywords: euro authentication counterfeit note detection bank note characteristics database
Development of bio-oil dewatering and fractionation processes and testing of upgraded bio-oil as engine fuel and feedstock for the production of lubricants (GREEN-OIL)

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: Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,Poland,Denmark,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2442334.2
EU funding (EUR): 1907249.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

There is globally a large and growing market for biofuels, mainly due to environmental and safety of energy supply concerns, which is only limited by production capacity and competitive prices. Currently, the market is almost totally based on 1st generation biofuels, which have negative implications to global food resources. Therefore the rising pressure towards shifting to biomass residues and waste feedstock, is only hampered by the strong scientific and technological barriers still hindering the economic sustainability of so-called second generation biofuels production. The lead SME in the GREEN-OIL project holds a promising innovative process, based on microwave enhanced catalytic depolymerisation for the production of second generation bio-oil from feedstock materials like agricultural, industrial or municipal organic waste. However, currently the process generates bio-oil with high water content and consequently low sales price. The group of SMEs behind the GREEN-OIL project aims at developing new technology to upgrade this bio-oil for utilization in transportation (engine fuels) and for the production of lubricants. Specifically, the consortium wants to develop (1) an innovative dewatering process to reduce bio-oil water content below 2% and (2) a new fractionation process and conversion schemes for refining the dewatered bio-oil. Furthermore, the refined bio-oil will be tested as engine fuel, and the heavier fractions will be assessed as fossil crude replacement for manufacturing lubricants. Consequently, the GREEN-OIL project will strongly increase the competitiveness and economy of the participating SMEs by providing them with state-of-the-art technology for bio-oil upgrading, therefore widening the applicability of this product to new added-value markets.

Keywords: dewatering,demulsification,fractionation technologies,combustion,computer modelling
Development of new technology for aluminium dross complete recovery (ALUCYC)

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: Estonia,Spain,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1363861.2
EU funding (EUR): 1057600.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the Alucyc project is to develop a new process to recover metallic aluminium from aluminium dross. Comparing with available state-of-the art technologies, the yield of metallic aluminium will be increased from 95% to 99% using the new technology developed in Alucuc. Alucyc technology is waste-free, cryolite and the remaining aluminium oxcide could be used in melting of primary aluminium as additives. To develop the Alucyc technology, a phase model, novel electro slag furnace with non-consumable electrodes and process and power control systems will be designed and integrated. By consultations of primary aluminium smelters, Alucyc technology will interest potential end users in industry and will be therefore easily exploitable.

Keywords: electro slag furnace,aluminium dross recovery,salt cake,aluminium
AN OPEN LINKED DATA PLATFORM FOR SEMANTICALLY-INTERCONNECTING ONLINE, SOCIAL MEDIA LEVERAGING THE CORPORATE BRAND AND MARKET SECTOR REPUTATION ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE OPTIMIZATION SERVICES (LINKED2MEDIA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Bulgaria,Ireland,Italy,Greece,Türkiye,Spain,Romania,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3240969.66
EU funding (EUR): 2216500.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The vision of the proposed Linked2Media project is to tap into the vast user-generated content and interpret information posted on blogs, social networks and social media in Europe and beyond, ensuring that the European Commercial and Industrial SMEs will have homogenized access to the globally available online, social media information and data resources needed to perform, on their own, corporate brand reputation management and market sector repute analysis. In this way, the Linked2Media initiative facilitates European SMEs to listen to customers, prospects and social media, but, more importantly, to identify trends and gain insights to improve their overall marketing strategy and return of investment. The 36-month Linked2Media project will result, through its deliverables (both reports and prototypes), in: R1. the open, generic Linked2Media Framework and Conceptual Architecture (WP2); R2. the innovative Linked2Media Platform (WP7). R3. highly sophisticated Brand Reputation Management and Marketing Strategy (WP3); R4. the Linked2Media Semantic Model (WP2); P5. the Linked2Media Business Demonstrator (WP8); R6. the Linked2Media Roadmap and Handbook; R7. Wide‐scale dissemination and exploitation of the project results to the European commercial, retail and industrial SMEs through the formulation of a multinational consortium with direct and indirect presence in the Enlarged Europe. Led by the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TURSAB), the Linked2Media consortium comprises of SMEs Associations, SMEs and RTD performers from seven (7) EU member states and associated countries, i.e. Turkey, Spain, Italy, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Ireland.

Keywords: social media,linked data,opinion analysis and modeling,brand reputation management,market sector repute management,advanced visualization
Outer Wing Metrology (WIMO)

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-2010-05, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1452982.4
EU funding (EUR): 1061546.7
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The demand for reduction of the fuel consumption of aircraft leads to new technologies. One of them is reduction of turbulences on wings by manufacturing the surface with high quality. This means with a low waviness and without gaps and steps. During manufacturing of this surfaces an adequate quality control is mandatory. At present no measurement system exists which is capable of measuring large areas with high lateral and depth resolution. The WiMo-project aims at the strategy to combine different measurement systems to a single one which allows for measuring large areas with the necessary resolution. In addition new strategies for handling the huge amount of data and evaluate them will be developed. The project result can therefore fulfill the requirements of a quality control in a production line for the natural laminar flow wing.

Keywords: fringe projection,combined measurement,high resolution measurement,large scale measurement,high resolution data stitching
Open Source FPGA Accelerator & Hardware Software Codesign Toolset for CUDA Kernels (FASTCUDA)

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: Italy,Spain,Greece,Estonia,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1603596.0
EU funding (EUR): 1195755.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Europe has a strong leadership in the domains of intelligent telecommunications, multimedia, and automotive systems. However, the exponential increase in complexity of intelligent systems threatens the European competitiveness. In order to solve today’s challenges of high-complex design for embedded electronic systems, a number of approaches have been tried. Hardware-software codesign is the first big step and an essential enabling technology towards this end. Electronic System Level (ESL) design methodologies is the next big step which addresses the complexity problem by elevating design to a higher level of abstraction, resulting in a more predictable and productive design process. Finally, parallel hardware platforms such as Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are becoming very popular within PC-based heterogeneous systems for speeding up numerous compute-intensive applications. FASTCUDA is a platform that provides the necessary software tools, hardware architecture, and design methodology to efficiently adapt CUDA (a parallel-computing architecture and API which is driven by the GPU industry, with wide adoption in many diverse fields ranging from molecular dynamics, to computational chemistry, to image or video processing, etc.) into a new FPGA design flow. With FASTCUDA, the CUDA kernels of a CUDA-based application are automatically partitioned into two groups: some are compiled and executed in parallel software, while the remaining are synthesized and implemented in hardware. A modern low power FPGA provides the processing power (via hundreds of embedded micro-CPUs) and the logic capacity for the implementation of all the software and the hardware components. In particular, we plan to join the numerous on-going efforts in industry and academia to create a unified best-practice, industrial-quality, open-source framework that will enable an easier transition from research results to industrial exploitation.

Keywords: parallel systems,hardware synthesis,parallel programming,cuda,many-cores,systems-on-a-chip,high performance computing (hpc)
Development of high EFFiciency Stirling HEAT pump (EFFIHEAT)

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: Spain,Lithuania,Lithuania,Bulgaria,Italy,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1560423.4
EU funding (EUR): 868100.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Buildings account for 40% of total energy consumption in the European Union and the sector is expanding. Therefore, reduction of its energy consumption (by 20% by 2020) and the use of energy from renewable sources constitute important measures needed to reduce EU energy dependency and greenhouse gas emissions. A significant number of buildings must become energy positive integrating renewable energy sources. One of the main energy saving measure is the improvement of energy conversion in buildings by substitution of the less efficient technologies (EE) with more efficient ones: the most prominent growth of market share occurs for solar heating and heat pumps. However, high initial costs and long return on investment time caused by insufficient efficiency of heat pumps are limiting the penetration of market for this EE technology. The efficiency of heat pumps is mainly determined by the background technology – thermodynamic cycle realisation – employed. The proposed project focuses on development of ground source heat pump technology (GHP) enabling up to 75% energy savings and reduced costs for heating energy consumption. To achieve this goal EFFiHEAT will develop, prototype, test and validate cost-efficient Stirling cycle based GHP with 25% higher COP comparing to technologies in operation. This and 30% of initial cost savings achieved due to innovative Stirling engine design concept will increases consortium competitiveness in high growth GHP market. Application of the EFFiHEAT GHP has potential savings of over 0.03 billion EUR annually. Such savings will contribute to EU targets on reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The consortium combines know how on electro-mechanical design, process control and material research. Contract research will be performed by a Lithuanian, Spanish and Bulgarian research institutions which provide a unique integration of know how on high efficiency Stirling engine based GHP development

Keywords: energy efficiency,residential and commercial sectors,geothermal,ground source,heat pump,stirling engine,oscillating electrical machine,regenerator,variable speed drive,cop
Novel Processing Technology for Manufacturing Low- fat Mozzarella-type Cheese with Superior Performance in Ready Meals (CHEESECOAT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Sweden,Spain,Türkiye,Spain,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493451.8
EU funding (EUR): 1851000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Our novel concept is to develop a low-fat cheese processing technology to enable the production of low-fat Mozzarella-type ingredient cheese with superior texture, flavour and melting qualities. The newly developed low-fat cheese will be suitable for use in pizzas, ready meals, fast food, sandwiches and salads. Our primary target markets are the industrial cheese sector for chilled and frozen pizzas and ready meals. We will also target the retail and foodservices sectors. We propose to develop a Mozzarella-type cheese with <3% fat which is a significant improvement on the currently available 5% fat cheese. Reduced (12% fat) and lower fat content Mozzarella-type cheese are currently available on the market but with very poor qualities of flavour, texture and melting, widely prevents them from consumer acceptance. Therefore we will introduce new innovative starter cultures for improving the flavour and texture of low-fat Mozzarella-type cheeses and optimize appropriate processing conditions of temperature, pH, milk fat and casein-to-fat ratio in the milk. Furthermore, we will develop an innovative oil coating process for improving the meltdown of the low-fat cheese after it is shredded in the meal in preparation. Based on the scientific findings of the coating process, we will then develop an oil coating device which will successfully coat cheese shreds. We will enhance our knowledge of starter cultures and oil coating of cheese and hence provide the end consumer with a cheese displaying desired texture, flavour and melting profiles. We strongly believe that our technology will help the European cheesemaking industry which is facing the threat of losing a significant proportion of its market as a result of European legislation which calls for limiting saturated and trans fat content both in cheese and cheese-based products.

Keywords: low fat cheese,coating,starter culture,adjunct culture,optimizing coating,lower fat intake,healthier cheese
Development of novel environmentally added-value surfactants and esters by biotechnological processes from fats and oils waste streams. (BIO-SURFEST)

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: Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Greece,Germany,Lithuania
Call:  (FP7-SME-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1242468.8
EU funding (EUR): 901081.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Currently, different origin waste oils have been used mostly as animal feed, raw material for soap makers, and feed stock for fatty acid production. The existent patents and commercial processes to make fatty acids from waste oils always refers to hydrolysis and acidification steps using strong acids such as sulphuric or hydrochloridic acids, producing a mixture of fatty acids, inorganic salts, water, and other small components such as glycerine or phospholipids. Waste technical fats can provide a raw material basis for the production of surfactants. This amount of waste oil will serve as raw material for obtaining bio-surfactant and ester oils by biotechnological processes. This project Bio-SURFEST will develop two biotechnological processes at semi-industrial scale in order to produce two different classes of bio-products, bio-surfactants and ester oils (non useful for biodiesel production). Bio-surfactants will be produced by fermentative process and ester oils will be produced by enzymatic catalysis. Both biotechnological methods will use as raw materials or feedstock fry waste oil or technical fats. The main goal of the project Bio-SURFEST is to obtain high-value compounds such as bio-surfactants and ester oils from waste oils or technical fats, which represent a low value residue from a great variety of industries like hotels, restaurants, vegetable oil industry, biodiesel producers, etc. The aim of the present project is to determine suitable technical and economical production methods in order to obtain biosurfactants and other bio-products of high added value. Bio-SURFEST is focusing on the biotechnological optimisation of bio-products synthesis, using techniques such as fermentation and enzymatic catalysis. Using this approach, tailor-made bio-products will be obtained, purified and finally tested for their use in different applications.

Keywords: bioproduct,fermentation,enzymatic catalysis,fats,oils,waste,valorisation,surfactant,ester,fatty acid