Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
EcoWeb a dynamic e-dissemination platform for EU eco-innovation research results (ECOWEB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Germany,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011-ECO-INNOVATION-OneStage, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1075510.0
EU funding (EUR): 975535.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Europe has a leading position in eco-innovation patents and emerging technologies. Although the EU achieves a remarkably high annual growth rate of 16% in eco-innovation, transfer to SMEs is rather low. Technology transfer to SMEs would be important to reduce EU’s industrial pollution. According to OECD and EC reports, awareness for RTD results is low. There is a need to increase technology transfer at the EU level. A common platform at the European level will speed up promotion and transfer of existing technologies. The platform will focus on Framework Programmes results and other EC funding initiatives. In the proposed project, it will be developed a dynamic platform (EcoWeb) for enterprises, especially SMEs, to take up eco-innovation results from EU funded research. This will increase uptake of novel technologies, spur economic growth, and will result in an increase of SME interest in the FP. EcoWeb will bring companies close to relevant eco-innovation EU results through semantic-web-technology and existing eco-innovation networks and multipliers. Based on semantic-web-technology EcoWeb will collect and structure information whilst multipliers will disseminate results through existing channels. In particular EcoWeb will achieve: • collect and structure RTD results on eco-innovation; • match innovations to the technical needs of the SMEs. • bring innovations to SMEs instead of having the SMEs looking for them.

Keywords: eco innovation plattform
DEVELOPING A POOL OF NOVEL AND ECO-EFFICIENT APPLICATIONS OF ZEOLITE FOR THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR (ECO-ZEO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Türkiye,Belgium,Hungary,Netherlands,France,Spain,Serbia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011-ECO-INNOVATION-TwoStage, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2630999.7
EU funding (EUR): 2014772.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The agriculture sector is vital for food, feed and bio-fuel production, but at the same time it is a major cause of environmental pollution and natural resource depletion. Sustainable solutions are demanded that will enable agriculture to “produce more with less”: become more productive and less harmful to the environment and human health. ECO-ZEO aims at the development of a new pool of Green crop protection products delivering a wide range of beneficial effects including reduced water consumption, increased crop yield, lower chemical input, crop protection and tolerance to abiotic stress and healthier conditions to workers in agriculture and agrochemical sectors. The ECO-ZEO products will rely on the innovative application of Zeolite 4A to the surface of leaves and fruits, adapted strategies for sustainable crop protection (such as chromatic masking, behavior interference and biocontrol), novel use of sustainable active ingredients and pigments, andnew configurations of additives for enhanced performance of the coating. The developed crop protection solutions will be lab- and field trialed for four crops: apple, tomato, table grape and orange. The best performing solutions will be validated through demonstration with European farmers. Sustainability, eco-efficiency and Life-cycle analyses will be performed throughout the project. Achieving both environmental and economic sustainability is one of the main added values of ECO-ZEO. ECO-ZEO will be achieved by means of a new innovation process in agricultural green products based on the alliance of Academia, Agro-Biotech SMEs and Industry. Firm plans for the full-scale exploitation of the developed products and technology will ensure this alliance will translate into market presence. The participation of SMEs is further enhanced by the allocation of 40,8% of EC Contribution to SMEs.

Keywords: eco-efficient production systems,low-input agriculture,sustainable production,climate-change adaptation strategies,sustainable water management,agro-biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Advanced Research on Interaction Mechanisms of electroMagnetic exposures with Organisms for Risk Assessment (ARIMMORA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Israel,Germany,Germany,Spain,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4577320.4
EU funding (EUR): 3249970.7
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Based on epidemiological evidence supporting an ssociation between residential exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields (ELF MF) and childhood leukaemia, ELF MF have been classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans. The proposed project aims to scrutinize the underlying biophysical mechanisms and to clarify a possible causal relationship between ELF MF exposure and cancer, especially childhood leukaemia. This will be achieved by 1) developing and applying novel experimental and computational techniques to close knowledge gaps in the exposure assessment to ELF MF and 2) applying advanced biological in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models and techniques under well-defined exposure conditions to test likely interaction mechanisms. The selected experimental approach is based on epidemiological evidence and current knowledge about the molecular processes underlying acute leukaemia in children. It aims to investigate the possible impact of ELF-MF exposure: 1) on the epigenetic dynamics associated with hematopoietic cell lineage commitment and differentiation; epigenetic signatures will be monitored genome-wide, and mechanisms underlying eventual “misprogramming” will be addressed in gene promoter models; 2) on the alteration of signalling processes in cells; 3) on the induction of possible cytotoxic effects on CD8 positive T cells; and 4) on the genesis or evolution of childhood leukaemia by generating genetically modified advanced animal models. Advanced biophysical simulations with efficient numerical solvers combined with the latest tissue and cellular models will be implemented to support the bioexperiments. A risk assessment will be performed at the end based on studies conducted within the project and correlated to recent studies conducted outside the consortium by adapting and applying procedures as outlined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans.

Keywords: leukaemia,elf,dosimetry,cellular signalling,disease models,epigenetic,risk assessment,biophysical modelling
Health and Environmental Risks: Organisation, Integration and Cross-fertilisation of Scientific Knowledge (HEROIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,Italy,France,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Greece,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1310234.83
EU funding (EUR): 980278.56
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Today, human risk assessment and environmental risk assessment are typically separated. Existing risk assessment (RA) experience and regulations are challenged by future RA needs. - There is a lack of mutual understanding between subject matter experts of individual disciplines. - Data from toxicological and ecotoxicological studies is not readily accessible by risk assessors across disciplines. - The need for RA will continue to increase (e.g. REACH or toxicity of mixtures) along with budget restrictions and political and public pressure to reduce the number of animal tests. Therefore, more cost effective, predictive and rapid tests for high quality sustainable RA are needed including a better exploitation of existing data. - More transparency in RA is needed to allow better risk communication to regain consumer/public trust and to give unambiguous guidance for improved risk management. - Scientific RA plays an increasing role internationally for global risk governance and as a tool to support sustainable trade practices. Divergence often arises on risk policies and measures, sometimes due to different RA approaches. Therefore, stronger international co-operation in this area is needed. Against this background, the overall objective of the proposed coordination action HEROIC is to establish and co-ordinate a global network of European and international experts and stakeholders from different disciplines to establish stronger interfaces between human and environmental RA, between RA and risk management, between the various agencies and countries within the EU and between agencies and industry. To this end, the HEROIC consortium members will make full use of their own extensive networks to involve stakeholders and experts in workshops, roundtables and outreach activities. These coordinating activities will result in enhanced sharing of knowledge, building consensus and development of clear, easily understood, transparent and unambiguous integrated RA procedures.

Keywords: human toxicology,environmental toxicology,risk assessment
Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems (ECLAIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Denmark,Netherlands,Austria,Norway,Germany,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,European organisations area,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands,Switzerland,Sweden,Hungary,Finland,Ukraine,Austria,Spain,Sweden,Croatia,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Russian Federation,Denmark,Belgium,Bulgaria,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10931972.24
EU funding (EUR): 6997001.0
Participants: 40
Project status: CLOSED

ÉCLAIRE investigates the ways in which climate change alters the threat of air pollution on European land ecosystems including soils. Based on field observations, experimental data and models, it establishes new flux, concentration and dose-response relationships, as a basis to inform future European policies. Starting with biosphere-atmosphere exchange measurements, ÉCLAIRE quantifies how global warming and altered precipitation will affect emissions of key European primary pollutants (NOx, NH3, VOCs), including interactions with increasing aerosol and hemispheric O3 background concentrations, modifying atmospheric transport and deposition. An ensemble of chemistry transport models will be applied to assess uncertainty in response to harmonized scenarios for climate, emissions and land-use, while high resolution studies will investigate how climate change alters local patterns of pollutant exposure and threshold exceedance. A network of European experiments for contrasting ecosystems and climates, combined with meta-analysis of unpublished datasets, will quantify how climate change alters ecosystem vulnerability to tropospheric O3 and N deposition, including interaction with increased CO2. Combined with special topics on interactions with N form (wet/dry, NHx/NOy), aerosol-exacerbated drought stress and BVOC self-protection of O3 effects, novel threshold and dose-response approaches will be developed. These will be combined with regional atmospheric and biogeochemical models to estimate interactions and feedbacks on plant/soil carbon stocks, greenhouse gas balance and plant species change. The new risk assessment chain to be developed will be applied at the European scale, quantifying how projected climate change will alter damage estimates. Combined with economic valuation of ecosystem services, improved integrated assessment modelling will allow a cost-benefit analysis to inform future mitigation and adaptation strategies on air pollution and climate change.

Keywords: climate change,air pollution,terrestrial,soils,biosphere-atmosphere,emissions,nox,nh3,vocs,ozone,ecosystem,dose-response
Positive health effects of the natural outdoor environment in typical populations in different regions in Europe (PHENOTYPE) (PHENOTYPE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,Lithuania,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands,United States,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4517113.31
EU funding (EUR): 3499403.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Indications exist that close contact with nature brings benefits to human health and well-being. The proposed work will investigate the interconnections between exposure to natural outdoor environments, in both rural and urban settings, and better human health and well-being in the North West, South and East of Europe. The project will explore the underlying mechanisms at work (stress reduction/restorative function, physical activity, social interaction, exposure to environmental hazards) and examine the health effects (general health and well-being, mental health/neural development, stress, cardiovascular, cancer and respiratory mortality and morbidity, birth outcomes and obesity) for different population groups (pregnant women and/or foetus, different age groups, socio-economic status, ethnic minorities and patients). We will use conventional and new innovative high tech methods to characterize the natural environment in terms of quality and quantity. Preventive as well as therapeutic effects of contact with the natural environment will be covered. We will address implications for land-use planning and green space management. The work will produce more robust evidence base on links between exposure to natural outdoor environment and human health and well-being, and a better integration of human health needs into land use planning and green space management in rural as well as urban areas.

Keywords: epidemiology,exposure assessment,hia,policy,natural environment,gis,remote sensing,health
Visible LIGHT Active PhotoCATalytic Concretes for Air pollution Treatment (LIGHT2CAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain,Denmark,Denmark,Sweden,Sweden,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011-ECO-INNOVATION-TwoStage, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4979563.87
EU funding (EUR): 3574545.6
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of Light2CAT is to develop new, highly efficient visible-light-activated titanium dioxide for inclusion in concretes to be used in structures across the whole of Europe to improve ambient air quality independent, for the first time, of local climate conditions. The need to improve air quality in European Countries has been identified as a major requirement to be achieved within the next decade in the effort to control climate change, a key Europe 2020 strategy, and to improve human health. Despite vigorous efforts to reduce levels of hazardous substances in the air, targets remain a challenge. One of the most valid sustainable technologies explored so far is photocatalytic concrete. This technology is proven to reduce the amount of hazardous air pollutants up to 80 % . It also imparts self-cleaning properties to built structures which has a secondary effect of reducing harsh cleaning chemicals entering the water systems. However, the titanium oxide based photocatalytic building materials are activated by ultraviolet light so, to date, such environmental benefits are limited to countries with a high incidence of sunlight. The concept of this project is to extend the use of photocatalytic concretes to the whole of Europe by developing materials that can also be activated by visible light . The aim is to remove climate and seasonal considerations from the use of the materials and, through higher conversion efficiencies of the catalytic components, to reduce production costs facilitating further take up of the technology within existing markets. The results of the project are initially focused on use within the transport infrastructure where the greatest impact is expected. The consortium is well conceived to achieve the results, comprising research centres leading research in these materials and industry partners including SMEs able to develop, demonstrate and market the new materials in the sector.

Keywords: visible light photocatalysis,novel titanium dioxide catalyst,photocatalytic concrete,air pollution mitigation,nox reduction,indoor applications.
Professional promotion of eco-innovative research results through a new media integrated platform for SMEs, research and the public (ECO-PRO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011-ECO-INNOVATION-OneStage, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1066592.0
EU funding (EUR): 998920.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Public funded research needs to fully benefit society. This is especially true for environmental and climate research where successful market uptake is particularly urgent. However, the market uptake for public environmental R&D results remains a challenge. The main barriers have been identified by the partners for DG Research (2006) as fragmentation of information, inward communication of researchers, lack of market knowledge and innovation management skills and public funding gaps. ECO-PRO seeks to remove some of these barriers and to accelerate market take-up by maximising the potential use value of R&D results through an e-dissemination process addressing their usefulness, usability and applicability for an eco innovation community. To achieve this general objective, ECO-PRO will develop three lines of complementary e-dissemniation activities: Gathering, selecting, classifying and packaging in an useable manner the most useful and exploitable results (at least 100) from FP6 and FP7 in a virtual library; Designing and operating an interactive platform including useful, usable and acceptable knowledge modules and tools supporting the market take-up of R&D results: EU funding guide and helpdesk, webinars, VNRs, e-technology brokering tool, etc. (Net-) working throughout the project with eco-innovation actors as well as kick-starting and maintaining a dedicated open community involving more than 2,000 eco-innovation stakeholders in an interactive ECO-PRO platform. The ECO-PRO platform will be useful for potential technology users (good and clear information) as well as for R&D teams (the best way to present the results to the market). Greenovate and youris are 2 European non-for-profit networks with focus on eco-innovation. Their core business is knowledge exploitation, dissemination and audiovisual science communication. Their competences, networks and experience will ensure that ECO-PRO succeeds beyond the end of EC funding.

Keywords: r&d results,promotion,dissemination,exploitation,dynamic e-platform,knowledge modules,functional analysis,webinars,video news releases,brokerage,e-communities,eco-innovation,market take-up
Establishing the basic science and technology for Iron-based superconducting electronics applications (IRON-SEA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Slovakia,Italy,Italy,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2011-EU-Japan, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2169814.0
EU funding (EUR): 1665611.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Recent investigations on iron-based superconductors have revealed a lot of similarities to MgB2 and the cuprates, for instance, a multiband nature, high upper critical fields and a short coherence length. Now immediate interest of a new class of materials would be exploring potential electronics applications such as Josephson devices and SQUIDs. In this project, we will address the feasibility of electronics applications by establishing the fundamentals of the iron-based superconductors. Examining the Josephson effect and SQUIDs, the so-called phase-sensitive experiment, also paves the way to understanding fundamental properties such as order parameters symmetry and energy gap, which is one of the main objective in this project. Investigations by point contact spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy and transport properties are also conducted within the same frame of this work. Such fundamental studies may find unique physical properties, which lead to exploring new kinds of devices and applications. Since the iron-based superconductors are multi-band natures, comparative studies to MgB2 are also carried out. The obtained results are interpreted based on modelling and theory, which will also guide for designing better junctions. We will investigate various kinds of the iron-based superconducting films, involving K-doped SrFe2As2 (Sr-122), Co-doped BaFe2As2 (Ba-122), Te containing FeSe (11), F-doped NdFeAsO (Nd-1111) and LaFeAsO (La-1111). To date, the in-situ growth of both K-doped Sr-122 and F-doped Nd-1111 have been prepared by molecular beam epitaxy, MBE, only in this consortium. High quality, Co-doped Ba-122 and Te containing 11 epitaxial films by pulsed laser deposition are usable for this project, since the deposition condition for both films have been almost optimized by the individual groups within this consortium.

Keywords: iron-based superconducting thin films,josephson junctions,squids,superconducting devices,phase sensitive experiments,point-contact spectroscopy,scanning squid spectroscopy,eliashberg theory