Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Novel catalytic function in a TIM-barrel scaffold (TIMCAT)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174240.8
EU funding (EUR): 174240.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The TIM-barrel fold is the most widely found in nature, making up about 6% of the structures in the Protein Data Bank, and has been found in nature to catalyse reactions from five of the six EC classes. These facts all indicate the extraordinary capacity of the TIM-barrel as a reaction container, and suggest that it may be a versatile starting scaffold into which new catalytic capability can be engineered. In this research programme we will use directed evolution approaches, including state-of-the-art gene shuffling techniques developed in the Hollfelder lab at the University of Cambridge to tengineer novel catalytic function into a TIM-barrel scaffold.

Keywords: natural sciences,biological engineering
Requirements-aware systems (REQUIREMENTS@RUNTIME)

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: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF, 2009)
Start date: 2011-05-16
End date: 2013-05-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 222547.2
EU funding (EUR): 222547.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Increasingly software systems are required to survive fluctuations in their execution environment without or with only little human intervention. These systems, sometimes known as eternal systems, need to fluidly reconfigure and adapt to the ongoing circumstances and find the way to continue accomplishing their functionalities and requirements. Different international research initiatives have already started producing good results in the development of technologies to support such systems. However, building these eternal systems is risky. Designers must ensure that any critical requirements of the system continue to be satisfied before, during and after a dynamic change. In current software engineering (SE) paradigms, systems are not aware of their requirements. This proposal uses the novel notion of requirements reflection, that is, the ability of a system to dynamically observe and reason about its requirements. The project aims to address the need of having systems requirements-aware by reifying requirements as run-time objects. Dr. Nelly Bencomo, who is currently a senior researcher at Lancaster University (UK) and has experience in the development of reflective adaptive applications and requirement specification, will implement the 18-months-project. Dr. Valérie Issarny from INRIA (France) who is an expert in pervasive and adaptive middleware applications is the scientist in charge.

Keywords: software requirements,runtime models,eternal systems,dynamically adaptive systems,computational reflection.
Pluralism and Religious Freedom in Orthodox Countries in Europe (PLUREL)

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: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202318.8
EU funding (EUR): 202318.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A snapshot of European societies today reveals the importance of religious minority treatment and the grave potential that the latter can carry for instability and even social unrest in a situation of rapidly increasing religious diversity. Most conspicuous are the reactions of Muslim groups against what they perceive to be intolerant majorities, but other (less attended by the mass media) religious minority reactions are no less compelling in localities across Europe. A lack of spaces for worship (and especially of mosques), and other such limitations of religious freedoms form a fundamental aspect of religious minority experiences in Europe. Such limitations of religious freedoms are particularly prominent in Orthodox majority countries in Europe, where poor track records in terms of religious freedoms violations are evident in the disproportionately high number of religious freedoms convictions against Orthodox majority states in the European Court of Human Rights. What is the reason behind this state of affairs? Is there something intrinsic to Orthodoxy as a religious and social institution that makes it intolerant towards minorities? Or are there historical and political particularities in individual Orthodox majority countries that underlie the barriers to religious freedoms in each case? The proposed project seeks to understand and explain limitations of religious freedoms for minority faith groups in majority Orthodox countries in Europe. It will entail systematic, comparative, empirical and interdisciplinary research on the instances and nature of religious rights violations in Orthodox contexts, and on the factors and mechanisms influencing the latter. As such, in policy terms it will contribute to our understanding of the healthy balance point between the principle of subsidiarity, on the one hand and of pluralism, on the other. Further, this study of Orthodox context offers important insights for theories of secularisation and of multiple modernities.

Keywords: sociology of religion,european studies,european law
Analysing Social Interactions at a Distance (ANASID)

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-2009-IEF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-08-01
End date: 2013-01-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161248.8
EU funding (EUR): 161248.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this research is to begin more concrete attempts to automatically analyse social behaviour from a distance as a tool for surveillance monitoring and also the understanding of the use of public spaces. The work brings together the disciplines of social psychology and computational modelling with future work leading towards possible collaborations with architectural design and sociological research. To the applicant's knowledge, there have been no studies of social interactive behaviour during conversations from distant sensors from a plan view perspective (at least 10 metres above those being observed). This study would concentrate in particular on modelling rapport and interest within social groups from both a static and dynamic perspective, testing with video-only data while training on audio-visual data. Concretely, the following studies would be carried out: * Identifying self-arranged social groups . * Who is speaking and when? * Measuring dominance and interest in self-arranged social groups.

Keywords: technological sciences
Structural and functional studies on Plasmodium formins (FORMIN)

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: Finland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF, 2009)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-03-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174588.0
EU funding (EUR): 174588.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Funding is applied to carry out research on formin-mediated regulation and dynamics of actin-based motility of apicomplexan parasites, such as Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria. Formins are large multi-domain proteins, which regulate microfilament formation by triggering actin monomer addition from actin-profilin complexes at the barbed end. Formins bear two formin homology (FH) domains. Plasmodium FH2 domains are conserved with higher eukaryotes and are responsible for actin binding, while Plasmodium formins contain only putative short FH1 domains with a small number of prolines that could be recognized by proline-rich motif binding proteins, such as profilin. The aim of this study is to find out if these short proline-rich regions in apicomplexan formins are enough for recruiting profilin–actin complexes and to perform structural and biochemical/biophysical characterization of the formins and their binding partners. In addition, crystal and solution structures of the ternary complex actin-profilin-formin will be pursued. These data are expected to provide us with a structural basis for understanding the mechanism of actin-based motility in apicomplexan parasites. The host laboratory has excellent facilities for molecular biology, protein production as well as X-ray crystallography. I myself as the applicant have spacious knowledge in these methods. The planned visit will be the first post-doctoral period for me and will serve as an important step to develop my scientific career.

Keywords: structural biology,cell biology,molecular biology,biochemistry
Hybrid WIPS Design code (HETEMS)

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
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-04
End date: 2015-01-03
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1194776.4
EU funding (EUR): 896082.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this propsal we will develop a hyrbid low power ice proection modellisation tool. This will consist of combining our existing knwoledge on separate electrothermal and electromechancial ice proections systems into a single, integrated, computer code. We will also test (but not manufacture, which is a separate CfP) a hybrid Wing Ice Protection System (WIPS) in an icing wind tunnel. The data gathered during the icing wind tunnel test will be used to validate the new design code

Keywords: icing modellisation code electrothermal electromechanical ice protection system aircraft icing wing slat
Advanced turbofan engine gaseous emissions model. (TURBOGAS)

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,United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 297360.0
EU funding (EUR): 218751.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This document presents the technical solution proposed by a consortium formed by ENVISA (a French R&amp;amp;D SME) and Brunel University (UK) in reply to the call for proposals for the Clean Sky topic “Advanced Turbofan Engine Emissions Model” (short name: TURBOGAS). The ENVISA team has worked in the field of aviation environmental impact modelling for over ten years, including developing and validating emission models with experimental flight data, and participates in international expert working groups (such as the ICAO Committee for Aviation Environmental Protection). The Brunel team will be composed of highly skilled software developers with experience in aviation environmental modelling. The TURBOGAS project will develop a model to compute fuel burn and emissions based on discrete aircraft trajectories and meteorological parameters. The model will be structured around four principal modules. One will be in charge of the thrust to fuel flow conversion, considering both operational and procedural parameters (aircraft speed, flaps configuration, corrected net thrust, etc), as well as the ambient conditions along a flight trajectory. A second module will adjust the emission indices. Fuel flow and emission indices for various discrete points along an entire trajectory will then be aggregated in another module to calculate the total fuel burnt and the emissions of CO2, NOX, H2O, particulates, etc. The thrust to fuel flow conversion and the emission indices adjustment algorithms will be based on the latest methods developed by the ICAO working groups or from the SAE standards, in order to ensure a robust validation of the model. Finally, the fourth module will couple the water emissions with operational and meteorological parameters to estimate the occurrence and lifetime of contrails. One of the many advantages of a modular approach is that a single module can be updated with the latest methodological advances without modifying the rest of the software.

Keywords: fuel,co2,nox,h2o,contrails,aircraft emissions,fuel,engine performance,turbofan engine
Colaborative Meteorological Concept Validation (COMET) (COMET)

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,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2010-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 99853.0
EU funding (EUR): 74889.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The Meteorological Concept Validation study aims to validate the &quot;Buy-In&quot; of the future AIRBUS on-board meteorological measurement system by the Users Community. The Users include the International Meteorological Community, but also Airlines, Airports, and Air Navigation Service providers. The study shall answer the call requirements which are : 1. to elaborate a state-of-the art definition of the data usage chain, and the corresponding market for civil aviation use, 2. to validate with the Users Community the technical characteristics of the future AIRBUS system, and the global benefits it will provide. To answer these objectives, the COMET study team will benefit from complementary competences to develop the different case views (technical, environmental, business) required to properly validate the AIRBUS Meteorological Concept. Through SMHI, strong liaison with Meteorological Community, and also with Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay Technical Advisory Group will be available (e-AMDAR TAG). A useful link to get a thorough vision of the state-of-the-art and the current market status, users expectations, and feedback on the acceptance of the future AIRBUS system. In addition, ATMOSPHERE and TRIAGNOSYS will provide methodology expertise for Concept Validation and Cost Benefit Analysis.

Keywords: meteorogical,environment,aviation
Numerical Tool for Aerodynamic Optimization of Laminar Wings (OPTLAM)

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
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 16.0
Total project cost (EUR): 202330.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The classical numerical approach used for Natural Laminar Flow (NLF) design relies on the experience of the engineers in finding pressure distributions that would improve the extent of laminar flow and could reasonably be approximated in an inverse design phase. Recent initiatives improve this approach, eliminating the “man in the loop”, by including a measure of the laminar flow in the shape optimization problem itself. The numerical solution of such problems with many parameters and constraints is challenging. Our method of optimization for NLF design is an implementation of a gradient-based approach enabling us to efficiently solve problems with many design parameters. The use of CFD, followed by boundary-layer stability analysis, enables to directly find geometries that damp growth of disturbances (which cause transition) in order to delay the laminar-turbulent transition. Moreover, the computation of the gradients is efficiently performed thanks to the work carried out in last years at FOI and KTH on adjoints of the flow and stability equations, making the cost for computing gradients independent of the number of optimization parameters. Our method has been successfully tested for optimization of airfoils and has already come in use in several projects with industrial applications. In the scope of the present project the NLF-optimization toolkit (developed by FOI &amp;amp; KTH) will be extended to three-dimensional geometries. Another important improvement is to include the sensitivities with respect to flow separation because the extension of the laminar boundary layer at cruise can severely penalize the performance of the NLF wing at high angles of attack if laminar separation occurs too early. An attempt will be made to include the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations as a replacement for the Euler equation in our optimization loop, which involves the use of the adjoint RANS solver already developed by FOI in Edge.

Keywords: natural laminar flow,optimization,adjoint based methods
Leading Edge Box Design for Swept Flow Control Wing (LEBOX)

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-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 298663.0
EU funding (EUR): 223997.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The subject of the proposed project LEBox will be design of an integrated leading edge (L/E)-Box with pneumatic flow control devices for mid-scale wind tunnel testing on a suitable swept constant chord (2.5D) model. Dynamic vortex generator jets (VGJs) are chosen as the most suitable active device to control turbulent flow separation at the leading edge. The geometry of these devices in particular with respect to a swept integration will be evaluated to find important parameters such as the optimum skew angle, optimum position at the leading edge and optimum size, e.g. relative to the boundary layer. This will be done by means of comprehensive numerical simulations. The actuator geometry will be designed for the proposed (new) L/E-Box as well as for an already existing actuator system on the shroud (if a specific wind tunnel model will be used). A new L/E-Box for a swept mid-scale wind tunnel model will be designed to the point of production drawings, manufacturing (preferably by an external partner from the SFWA /WP114 consortium) will be supported. The device will be integrated with the sensor and actuator systems and tested in a mid-scale facility. For these steps background knowledge will be taken from previous or current projects as well as from the results of the numerical evaluation and from previous wind tunnel tests. The results will be analysed with respect effectiveness, efficiency and to the preparation of large-scale wind tunnel tests.

Keywords: l/e-box design,actuator evaluation,mid-scale swept constant chord wind tunnel testing,analysis
Multilayer Piezocomposites for Active Twist Rotor Blade (MULTICOMPACT)

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,Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 300000.0
EU funding (EUR): 206250.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Novel active twist rotor blades require low profile piezocomposite actuators which are integrated into the blade skin. Operating as solid state actuators they generate a twist deformation of the rotor blade without any friction and wear. To provide sufficient strain it is necessary, that the actuator operates in the piezoelectric d33-mode. State-of-the-art piezocomposites that exploit the d33-effect requires an operation voltage of up to 1500V. This high voltage is not acceptable for the rotor blade application. The project MulticompAct develops a novel concept of d33 piezocomposite actuators based on multilayer stack technology. The electrodes of this actuator type are incorporated in the piezoelectric material during the sintering process. This allows a significant reduction of the electrode distance and therefore a reduction of the driving voltage up to 120V. The project MulticompAct covers the complete process chain for the development of the novel piezocomposite actuator. This includes the definition of requirements, the design, the manufacturing as well as the characterisation and testing of this actuator type.

Keywords: piezocomposite,multilayer,actuator,active twist rotor blade
Acoustic Design Of High-lift Architectures (ADOCHA)

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-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 11.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200001.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Regulation of the sound production of aircraft is becoming stricter, in part due to an increase in the noise generated due to the rising numbers and size of aircraft. As a result identification and reduction of the major sources of sound, particularly in the take-off and landing phases when the aircraft is close to population centres, is paramount. High lift devices, particularly during the landing phase, are a major source of airframe noise. As a result there is a requirement for a tool to allow the acoustic properties of a high-lift configuration to be determined buring the design process. The purpose of this proposal is the development of such a tool.

Keywords: high-lift,boundary element method