Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
MATerials TEsting and Rules (MATTER)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Hungary,Australia,France,United Kingdom,France,France,Spain,Germany,France,Romania,European organisations area,Korea, Republic of,Germany,Lithuania,Netherlands,Belgium,Switzerland,Czechia,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Finland
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12180253.2
EU funding (EUR): 5993919.0
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

The 2010-2012 implementation plan of the European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative (ESNII), in the frame of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNE TP), establishes a very tight time schedule for the start of construction of the European Gen IV prototypes; namely the construction of the LFR ETPP (European Technology Pilot Plant) Myrrha will start in 2014 and that of the SFR Prototype ASTRID will start in 2017. The GEN IV reactors pose new challenges to the designers and scientists in terms of higher operating temperature and higher irradiation damage of materials with respect to the present technologies. In this frame, the MATTER (MATerials TEsting and Rules) Project intends to start well targeted researches to perform careful studies of materials behaviors in GEN IV operational conditions and to find out criteria for the correct use of these materials in relevant reactor applications. Aim of the present Project is to complement the materials researches, in the frame of the EERA guidelines, with the implementation of pre-normative rules. The Project comprehends: - Mature materials research focused on testing procedures for the new reactors conditions - Supporting experiments of mature materials aimed to liquid metals characterization and to pre-normative qualification, - Pre-normative activities, comprehensive of experiments, to revise and update the design rules, - Preparation and starting of the EERA Joint Program by harmonization of the structure and finalization of the preliminary program in accordance with the deployment strategy of the SNETP. A relevant advantage of this approach consists in the possibility to achieve a correct aiming for the expensive materials testing operations. Other advantages are the comparability of the experimental data, being produced by consensual procedures, and the immediate availability of the experimental results (at least for some properties) in view of their pre-normative deployment.

Keywords: materials testing materials characterization testing procedures design rules pre-normative qualification eera esnii characterization in liquid metals
European Regulatory Private Law (ERPL)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2097840.0
EU funding (EUR): 2097840.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The focus of the socio-legal project lies in the search for a normative model which could shape a self sufficient European private legal order in its interaction with national private law systems. The project (1) aims at a new–orientation of the structures and methods of European private law based on its transformation from autonomy to functionalism in competition and regulation; (2) suggests the emergence of a self sufficient European private law, composed of three different layers (a) the sectorial substance of ERPL, (b) the general principles – provisionally termed competitive contract law – and (d) common principles of civil law; (3) elaborates on the interaction between ERPL and national private law systems around four normative models: (a) intrusion and substitution, (b) conflict and resistance, (c) hybridisation and (d) convergence; (4) analyses the new order of values, enshrined in the concept of access justice (Zugangsgerechtigkeit).
Rethinking Comparative Syntax (RECOS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2477105.6
EU funding (EUR): 2477105.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to break new ground by reconceptualising the principles-and-parameters approach to comparative syntax, retaining its strengths and attempting to deal with its perceived weaknesses. The central idea is to organise the parameters of Universal Grammar into hierarchies, which define the ways in which properties of individually variant categories may act in concert; this creates macroparametric effects from the combined action of many microparameters. The highest position in a hierarchy defines a macroparameter, a major typological property, lower positions define successively more local properties. Parameter-setting in language acquisition starts at the highest position as this is the simplest choice; acquirers will "move down the hierarchy" when confronted with primary linguistic data incompatible with a high setting. Hence the hierarchies simultaneously define learning paths and typological properties. The main task of the project, and most of the time of the research team working on it, will be devoted to attempting to work out on the basis of cross-linguistic data the precise form of major parts of the hierarchies, thus subjecting the theoretical predictions to rigorous empirical testing. This will be done on the basis of secondary data from grammars, from on-line databases (The World Atlas of Languages Structures, WALS, and the Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages, SSWL), and, where feasible, from native-speaker consultants. The form of the hierarchies makes predictions concerning acquisition, markedness and language change. The project aims to investigate five hierarchies: those determining word-order, null arguments, word structure, discourse-configurationality and case/agreement alignment. These five hierarchies, although not exhaustive, combine to give a typological footprint of many languages, as well as providing the basis for the study of the interaction of micro- and macroparametric interactions.

Keywords: syntax,universal grammar,parameter,word order,null arguments,movement,word structure,case,agreement,alignment.
Analysing and Modelling the Geographical Diversity of Cities and Systems of Cities (GEODIVERCITY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100407, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1801047.0
EU funding (EUR): 1801047.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cities are today the main form of occupation of the Earth’s surface by human societies, and their development, combining design and self-organisation, sets numerous challenges in terms of collective territorial intelligence. On the scale of national and continent-wide territories, or indeed world-wide territories for the largest, cities are interconnected by way of numerous networks, in particular economic networks, that make them increasingly interdependent and associate them one with another in a process of co-evolution within which they have to structure and adapt conjointly. It is also important to underline the existence of path dependence processes, whereby the mark of previous choices is retained over several centuries in urban morphology, and often over several decades in social or economic specialisations. The present project sets out to gather the main stylised facts making up our knowledge about the dynamics of complex urban systems that has been acquired from observation and different analytical modelling processes, and to use them in new simulation models so as to reconstruct the interaction networks making up these systems. These models will be validated using a multi-scale procedure based on temporal geo-referenced data bases. The generic model SIMPOP will be completed and transferred to an open and scalable simulation platform, and specific versions will be developed and tested for the main regions of the world. The ultimate aim is to provide a series of validated models able to provide medium-term forecasts of the way in which the main urban and global territorial balances will evolve, and to explore scenarios whereby these city systems might adapt to the policies enacted aiming to counter the effects of climate change.

Keywords: systems of cities,multi-agents modelling,urban networks,simulation
EU-CHINA Nuclear Education and Training Cooperation (ECNET)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Cooperation with Third Countries
Destination: Cooperation with Third Countries
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,France,France,Germany,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 579300.0
EU funding (EUR): 480000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to coordinate the cooperation between the EU and China in the field of Nuclear Education and Training. The project consists of 6 Work Packages. The first three Work Packages are establishing the strategy for long term cooperation in Education and Training and Knowledge Management in the areas of Nuclear Engineering, Radiation Protection and Waste Management and Disposal. The strategy will be developed on the basis of the exchange of information on courses, curricula and training programmes and by evaluating the needs for academic education and professional training according to the future perspectives for nuclear technologies. The fourth Work Package addresses the implementation of mutual recognition of curricula between European and Chinese academia and the exchange of credits for students. The proposal includes the design and development of pilot courses in the three areas. The fifth Work Package addresses the identification, the technical description and the access modalities and conditions of infrastructures and laboratories accessible for the student and researcher exchange programme. The sixth Work Package covers the project management, the reporting and dissemination of the results and the knowledge management. The project resources cover 40 person-months provided by the European partners under the coordination of the European Nuclear Education Network Association. The European partners include the ENETRAP-II and the PETRUS-II Coordinators and their consortia, currently involved in the development and implementation of European Fission Training schemes in respectively Radiation Protection and Waste Management and Disposal under the 7th Framework Programme. The mirror project financed by the Chinese Atomic Energy Authority runs in parallel with the European project. It has same structure for the work packages and the same resources provided by 7 partners under the coordination of the Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Keywords: nuclear engineering,radiation protection,waste management,waste disposal,nuclear education,nuclear training
Ageing Diagnostics and Prognostics of low-voltage I&C cables (ADVANCE)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Reactor Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Spain,Czechia,Germany,Poland,Belgium,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2010, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3955534.0
EU funding (EUR): 2311788.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The assessment of the condition of low-voltage instrumentation, control, and power cables in nuclear power plants is of increasing importance as plants age and lifetime extensions are envisaged. Furthermore as new reactors are being constructed and many other are planned for the near future, the initial cables choice and the use of effective in-situ condition monitoring (CM) techniques to follow cable condition indicators from the beginning, can result to be very valuable at a later time for an effective cable lifetime management. The overall objective of the proposed project is to adapt, optimise and assess electrical CM techniques for nuclear cables that would allow utilities to assess in-situ the current cable degradation condition and, together with the establishment of appropriate acceptance criteria, to verify its qualified state over its entire length and to estimate its residual lifetime. To this extent, the project will consist in studying with accelerated ageing tests a representative selection of cables already installed in European Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) in order to evaluate the ability of electrical CM techniques to detect local and global cable ageing. The results will be compared and correlated to those obtained with more conventional CM techniques for validation and residual life estimation. These tests will be supported by the study of the impact of cable polymers ageing on the electrical properties. These studies will allow not only to guide the adaptation and the optimisation of existing CM techniques, but also to interpret the results of the electrical measurements, to extend the validity of the results to other similar cables and to adapt the future cable design and formulations to electrical CM techniques. This investigation on innovative cables for future plants could open the way to a new generation of “intelligent” cables with improved diagnostic capability.

Keywords: ageing,prognostics,low-voltage,instrumentation and control,cables,nuclear power plants,condition monitoring,non-descructive diagnostics methods
V-Charge - Autonomous Valet Parking and Charging for e-Mobility (V-CHARGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8694872.0
EU funding (EUR): 5630000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The project V-Charge is based on the vision that, due to required drastic decrease of CO2 production and energy consumption, mobility will undergo important changes in the years to come. This includes new concept for an optimal combination of public and individual transportation as well as the introduction of electrical cars that need coordinated recharging. A typical scenario of such a concept might be automatic drop-off and recovery of a car in front of a train station without taking care of parking or re-charging. Such new mobility concepts require among other technologies autonomous driving in designated areas. The objective of this project is to develop a smart car system that allows for autonomous driving in designated areas (e.g. valet parking, park and ride) and can offer advanced driver support in urban environments. The final goal in four years is the demonstration and implementation of a fully operational future car system including autonomous local transportation, valet parking and battery charging on the campus of ETH Zurich and TU Braunschweig. The envisioned key contribution is the development safe and fully autonomous driving in city-like environments using only low-cost GPS, camera images, ultrasonic sensors and radar. Within the proposed project, the focus will therefore be set on the following main topics: Development of machine vision systems based upon close-to-market sensor systems (such as stereo vision, radar, ultrasonic etc.) as well as the integration and fusion of each sensors data into a detailed world model describing static and dynamic world contents by means of online mapping and obstacle detection and tracking. Computer-base situation assessment within the world model as well as describing dependencies and interactions between separate model components (e.g. separate dynamic objects). For this purpose, the integration of market-ready map-material (i.e. originating from navigation systems) as well as the use of vehicle-to-infrastructure communication shall be explored. Precise low-cost localization in urban environments through the integration of standard satellite-based technologies with visual map-matching approaches combining both the onboard-perception system and available map material. Highly adaptive global and local planning considering dynamic obstacles (cars, pedestrians) and their potential trajectory.

Keywords: autonomous driving
A quantitative model of thrombosis in intracranial aneurysms (THROMBUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Belgium,France,Netherlands,France,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3720723.0
EU funding (EUR): 2813000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Rupture risk of intracranial aneurysms (IA) has been studied at length. However, very little is known about the healing mechanism, namely the formation of a clot inside the cavity after insertion of a stent. The multiscale interaction between biological and hemodynamic processes is the central ingredient of this proposal. The core of the project is to develop and validate a biological model of spontaneous or stent-induced thrombosis in IA. From this model we will compute quantitative stent efficiency score by its capability to induce clotting in aneurysms. In medical practice the choice of which stent to deploy is left to the medical doctor and remains intuitive to date. It is common to use one or several full-course stents into each other, in order to induce thrombosis formation. Recent Pipieline stents allowing simple or multiple devices constructs with variable flow disruption will be investigated. Our project will study through numerical simulation the effect of stent configuration in patient specific geometry and will help explain why some stents produce good thrombus while others don't. The project will develop a multiscale computational modelling and simulation framework based on the triptych In Vitro - In Vivo - In Silico - rule of three for the thrombosis. The associated technological aim of the project is to deliver software with an interactive end-user interface, providing a virtual simulation of the thrombosis leading to the optimal stent for a specific patient’s aneurysm. This goal will be achieved by integrating some of the leading open source software and VPH toolkit software in the area of computational bioengineering. Also a collaborative online system will be adapted allowing partners of THROMBUS to correlate any type of data in case simultaneous multidisciplinary analysis by distant partners is required. This platform will remain operational after the end of the project.

Keywords: thrombosis,aneurysm,stent,multiscale numerical simulation,hybrid level set method,segmentation.
Dextrous Assembler Robot Working with embodied INtelligence (DARWIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Greece,United Kingdom,Italy,Czechia,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-6, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4042119.0
EU funding (EUR): 3090000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Targeting both assembly and service industry the DARWIN project aims to develop an ‘acting, learning and reasoning’ assembler robot that will ultimately be capable of assembling complex objects from its constituent parts. First steps will also be taken to explore the general reparation problem (seen as a sequence of assembly-disassembly actions). Functionally the robotic artefact will operate in three modes: a) slave, where the necessary sequence of operations will be provided by a CAD-CAM system; b) semi-autonomous, where the sequence will be provided either through demonstration by a teacher performing the same task or by describing it in a higher level ‘language’, suitable for a human operator. In this mode the system’s perception will provide closure of the perception-action loop, so eliminating the need for detailed spatial information as in (a); c) fully autonomous mode, where an executive process will generate the necessary sequence by reasoning and mental simulation of consequences of actions on objects. Effort will be put to keep the resulting cognitive architecture domain agnostic. This directly implies that the robot should be able to effectively generalize and transfer previously gained knowledge to new tasks (or performing the same task in a slightly modified world). The objects in its world will not be known apriori. Rather, their knowledge will be built by interacting with them. Thus categorization, object affordances, accurate manipulation and discovery of the naive physics will be acquired gradually by the robot. In addition, it will also learn the solution steps for an assembly problem by observing snapshots of the assembled object during various construction phases. The reasoning system will exploit all these experiences in order to allow the robot to go beyond experience when confronted with novel situations. A series of demonstrators of increasing complexity will be developed in correlation with the maturation of the cognitive architecture.

Keywords: concepts,reasoning,goals,value maps,neural networks,industrial assembly,computational vision,observational learning,forward-inverse models,service robotics,sub-symbolic