Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sensitizer Activated Nanostructured Solar Cells (SANS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Switzerland,Greece,United Kingdom,Czechia,Italy,Sweden,Israel,Czechia,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-SMALL-3, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5273917.0
EU funding (EUR): 3991060.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Widespread uptake of inorganic semiconductor solar cells has been limited, with current solar cell arrays only producing arround 10 GW of the 15 TW (~0.06%) global energy demand, despite the terrestrial solar resource being 120,000 TW. The industry is growing at a cumulative rate of over 40% per annum, even with effects of the financial crisis. However, to contribute to global power this century, growth of around 100% pa is required. The challenge facing the photovoltaic industry is cost effectiveness through much lower embodied energy. Plastic electronics and solution-processable inorganic semiconductors can revolutionise this industry due to their relatively easy and low cost processability (low embodied energy). The efficiency of solar cells fabricated from these “cheap” materials, is approaching competitive values, with comparison tests showing better performance for sensitizer activated solar cells with reference to amorphous silicon and CIS in Northern European conditions. A 50% increase of the output will make these new solar cells commercially dominant in all markets since they are superior in capturing photons in non-ideal conditions (angled sun, cloud, haze) having a stable maximum power point over the full range of light intensity. To enable this jump in performance in a timely manner, a paradigm shift is required. The revolutionary approach to these solar cells we are undertaking in the SANS project is exactly that and matches the desires of the IEA for mitigation of climate change. Our objectives are to create: highly efficient panchromatic sensitizers, ideally structured semiconducting metal oxide materials and composites; optimized non-volatile and quasi solid-state electrolyte compositions and solid-state organic hole-transporters; achieve full comprehension of the physical processes occurring during solar cell operation; and realization of a 40,000 hrs out door lifetime, being the springboard for commercialization.

Keywords: photovolatics nanostructured dye-sensitized hybrid materials heterojunction
Intelligent and Customized Tooling (IC2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Finland,Sweden,Denmark,Denmark,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Denmark,Denmark,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-SME-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4605138.52
EU funding (EUR): 3199995.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Intelligent and Customized Tooling (IC2) addresses the need for new technology and organizational models for the tooling industry. By developing a technological foundation and organizational models for intelligent tooling systems customized for user’s needs, the European tooling industry can increase competitiveness trough knowledge intensive tooling and increased customer value. IC2 will be a multidisciplinary research with hybrid manufacturing, coatings and tribology control, surface embedded sensors and new organizational models. IC2 will combine state-of-the-art additive and subtractive processes into a hybrid manufacturing cell. Such a cell will typically integrate the precision and performance of high-speed milling, grinding and/or polishing with the geometrical freedom of Additive Manufacturing Technology for the production of tooling inserts, cores, channels and cavities. Advanced coating technologies will be used to create intelligent surfaces featuring embedded sensors, high wear resistance and excellent friction properties control. These new technologies utilized trough new organizational models will allow the tool-ing industry to be more versatile and demand driven with symbiotic relations to the tool users. IC2 will have a large SME participation and substantial demonstrator activates in addition to cutting edge RTD activities. The results of IC2 is expected to be a new concept for Knowledge Intensive Tooling for the benefit of European manufacturing competiveness. The impact of IC2 knowledge intensive tooling will be substantial reduced time-to-marked, process tact times and tooling/manufacturing costs. The new technology enables new business models with full tool life cycle service and enhanced high value tools for the manufacturing industry. The Hybrid manufacturing enables rapid and high quality tool maintenance, while the sensors enables remote tool and process condition monitoring.

Keywords: hybrid manufacturing,additive manufacturing,surface embedded sensors,tribological coatings,organisational and bussines models
Intelligent sensing and manipulation for sustainable production and harvesting of high value crops, clever robots for crops (CROPS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,Israel,Slovenia,Sweden,Italy,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Chile,France,Germany,Sweden,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-LARGE-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10233819.4
EU funding (EUR): 7639008.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

CROPS will develop scientific know-how for a highly configurable, modular and clever carrier platform that includes modular parallel manipulators and “intelligent tools” (sensors, algorithms, sprayers, grippers) that can be easily installed onto the carrier and are capable of adapting to new tasks and conditions. Several technological demonstrators will be developed for high value crops like greenhouse vegetables, fruits in orchards, and grapes for premium wines. The CROPS robotic platform will be capable of site-specific spraying (targets spray only towards foliage and selective targets) and selective harvesting of fruit (detects the fruit, determines its ripeness, moves towards the fruit, grasps it and softly detaches it). Another objective of CROPS is to develop techniques for reliable detection and classification of obstacles and other objects to enable successful autonomous navigation and operation in plantations and forests. The agricultural and forestry applications share many research areas, primarily regarding sensing and learning capabilities.

Keywords: high value crops,agriculture,forestry,intelligent robots
New Designs of Ecological Furnaces (EDEFU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,France,France,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Spain,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Poland,Lithuania,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-LARGE-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13118250.71
EU funding (EUR): 8400000.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The general objective of the EDEFU project consists in developing new technologies of heating, new refractory materials to improve heat insulations and new designs for innovating recovery systems for residues for industrial furnaces in Non ferrous metals, glass, ceramics and cement industries. The evaluation of the success of the project will be realised through the validation of real scale demonstrators and prototypes integrating the new above mentioned technologies. Thanks to the project the following improvements are expected: 20% reduction in energy consumption is expected compared with current systems, zero particle emission in the atmosphere and the transformation of heat in usable energies, the reduction of at least 50% in the generation of residues through innovating recovery system of residues and reusability of the 100% of the generated CO. These developments, will allow to the generation of new furnaces with greater energetic efficiency and a minimal environmental footprint. In addition these new technologies will allow reaching efficient operating conditions: reduction of times of fusion, minor power consumption in zones of maintenance and energy storage. On th emonger term, the project will grealty contribute to increase the competitiveness of the Foundry, Glass, Cement and Ceramic industries often economically unfavoured by new environmental regulations on the European Industry. The obtained results will be of direct applications in the mentioned industries and can be indirectly applied to other sectors like automotive, aeronautics, railway industries. The four mentioned target industries actually contirbute to produce components for vehicles (engine aluminium block), construction (cement for buildings), ceramic bricks, floor tiles, porcelain, urban furnitures,, food industry (cabbage-cutters, beaters) and electronics: housing, connectors, electrical sector, cables, subjections of electrical laying.

Keywords: industrial furnaces
Cost-driven Adaptive Factory based on Modular Self-Contained Factory Units (COSMOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Portugal,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-SMALL-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5135697.19
EU funding (EUR): 3449889.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Wind turbines and aeronautic are sectors where Europe is leading the world class competition. To guarantee this competitiveness, their productivity has to be improved. The adoption of an automation strategy is a key factor to increase productivity. In the wind turbine manufacturing, the assembly is one of the core processes. Most of these assembly operations are manual which has the quality of being the most flexible way to do the work. The main objective for COSMOS is the design/development/implementation of a control system for factory management with a flexible, modular and evolvable automation approach which will permit to increase the assembly factory productivity by 20% without losing flexibility, focused on wind turbine assembly process although the solution will be suitable for other sectors. Cost models will be defined to assist in establishing the economically optimum factory’s configuration and automation level. The achievement of the main objective will be obtained by fulfilling the following technical objectives: -Create a factory organisation conception based on intelligent factory units for facilitating the self-adaptation to production changes under a flexible and modular automation configuration basis. -Develop the distributed control system architecture according to such factory organisation. -Develop the service layer infrastructure between control system and equipment involved in production. COSMOS system features: -Autonomous behaviour of the factory units. -Multilayer decentralised control. The control will work in three interconnected levels. -Interoperable connectivity with factory units’ equipment/devices. -Local intelligence (self-adaptation to different parts conditions without human intervention). -Collaboration among equipment/devices to complete specific tasks. COSMOS will be implemented as a pilot installation for the assembly of wind turbines nacelles (most critical and added value part).

Keywords: distributed factory control,assembly automation,wind turbine
COMPOSITE PHENOTYPIC TRIGGERS FOR BONE AND CARTILAGE REPAIR (OPHIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-SMALL-3, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5413927.0
EU funding (EUR): 3939708.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Osteoarthritis (OA) and osteoporosis (OP) are disabling, degenerative bone diseases with significant economic and societal impacts. The incidence of these conditions increases with age but in recent years the number of younger patients has increased, due mainly to factors related to modern life-styles. The efficiency of current pharmacologic and implant-based solutions are limited and often poorly tolerated. OPHIS aims to develop new, engineered biomaterials for the regeneration of both the osteo-chondral region and the vertebral body degenerated by OA and OP. These devices will be based on the unique combination of biological triggers in the form of (i) nanostructured biomaterials able to mimic the extracellular matrices of either bone or cartilage (ii) chemical and biochemical cues able to direct, control and preserve the phenotypes of the relevant cells in their respective histological compartments. OPHIS will explore the frontiers of knowledge of the effect of nano-structures on tissue regeneration and lead to the de-novo design of active structures able to trigger this process. User friendly and highly performing tissue substitutes will be developed as both acellular and cellular matrices for the regeneration of specific anatomical regions compromised by OA and OP. Focus will also be given to the study of the interactions occurring at nano-scale level between the implanted materials and the natural tissues. This information will complement the body of data obtained through clinically reflective in vitro and in vivo models. Dissemination will be integrated step-wise with the strategy for intellectual property protection and exploitation.

Keywords: tissue substitutes,semi-dendrimer,biomimetic hydrogel,3d biohybrid composite,biocompetent functionalisation,oxygen regulating polymers,bone cement,ostearthritis,osteporosis
Intelligent Mold for Productivity Enhancement (MOLD4PRODE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Italy,Germany,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2009-SME-3, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3950908.65
EU funding (EUR): 2699922.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

The constant demand for diversified/personalised consumers&apos; goods leads to decrease time-to-market, and to plastic injection molds with smaller batch production, with no stock acceptable for cost and quality reasons. This generates huge productivity losses in the molding industry: - Tool Tuning is too long for tool makers before delivery of a turn key mold. - New production run set-up time is too long and generate too much scraps, due to different “operator and machine” parameters. Many approaches are currently adopted to reduce mold design and production time, but none of them addresses directly the parts productivity enhancement, where “trial &amp; error” is still the most employed engineering approach. The innovative approach of Mold4ProdE is to develop and assess a methodology to tool makers, for them to propose and deliver quicker turn key intelligent molds, to clients with a reasonable extra cost, and offering them significant productivity enhancement. Technically, it aims at applying modern data mining techniques for modelling polymer injection molding process, based on virtual data coming from virtual sensors implemented in a CAD model of the mold. The purpose is to: - optimize the number and position of sensors in the mold - implement and assess the concept “Virtual Mold Signature” by using the data driven models, built from experimental data collected during production runs with sensors embedded in process equipments. Mold4ProdE shall also provide dedicated and optimised components for tool instrumentation, data collection and treatment. The project results will deliver the basis to efficiently use the intelligent moulds. This will move the European mold makers to the knowledge based service industry, identified as the key factor to increase their competitiveness. Project duration is 3 years and involves 12 mold makers, 4 end users, 7 RTD and 2 equipment suppliers, spanning the whole supply chain in more than 5 different application areas with 14 SMEs

Keywords: plastic injection molding,added-value turn key mold,time-to-consumer reduction,instrumention,sensors simulation,virtual injection process,european tool makers injection molding process control
Incoming and returning fellowships from the Belgian Science Policy Office (MOBEL GRANTS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-COFUND-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12499710.0
EU funding (EUR): 4999884.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

BELSPO supports activities which are of overall importance on the national and international level, including the stimulation of international mobility of researchers. The following 2 mobility schemes have been developed over the years, in concordance with political changes and the implementation of the European Research Area (ERA): A. Post-doc fellowships to non-EU researchers: initiated in 1991, with the objective to provide opportunities for highly-qualified foreign scientists to have a stay in Belgian research, in order to have access to &quot;european&quot; infrastructure capacities and to build lasting cooperation links. So far 673 fellowships were granted for a total of about 10.5 million EUR (budget 2009 :750.000 EUR), distributed over 41 countries of origin. B. Return grants: initiated in 2002, in the frame of the ERA, the scheme aims to reintegrate talented Belgian researchers performing a post-doc stay in a foreign country with the prospect to valorise their expertise gained abroad and to continue their carreer in a Belgian environment. Annual budget : 1.240.000 EUR, up to now 100 mandates have been granted for a total of about 8.7 million EUR. The present project would allow BELSPO not only to increase the number of fellowships and return grants but also to ameliorate some modalities: - for the non-EU postdoc fellowships the targeted countries would be enlarged by adding f.i. Asian countries such as China; also it appears that a post-doc stay of maximum 1 year, as currently offered, is becoming less attractive (effective) as well for the fellow as for the host unit so that the period would be prolongated to maximum 2 years; - for the return grants the criterion of “Belgian nationality” would be omitted and replaced by &quot;having spent a certain period (minimum 3 years) in Belgium for higher education or research purposes&quot; allowing to attract a broader category of excellent scientists willing to pursue their carreer in Belgium.

Keywords: mobility of researchers incoming returning grants fellowships post-doc belgium
ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (ETHFELLOWS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-COFUND-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12427200.0
EU funding (EUR): 4970880.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ETH Zurich applies for co-funding of its newly established ETH Fellowship program after it has been financed exclusively by ETH’s internal resources in a pilot phase. The program supports incoming fellowships for postdoctoral researchers on a competitive basis. The ETH Fellowship program aims at high-potential individuals primarily interested in following an academic career. Awardees will be offered an ETH employment contract with a standard postdoctoral salary for a maximum of two years. ETH Fellows will be also entitled to an annual individual travel and consumable budget and are expected to take part in the teaching activities of their host group. Furthermore, fellows are encouraged to apply for additional competitive funding. The program is open for all applicants who have obtained an earned doctorate from an institution other than ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich within 2 years of the date of application. The two-year rule can be waived in case of a demonstrated career break. Applications are to be made jointly by the candidate and their host, who must be an ETH Professor and who will act as a supporter and mentor of the fellow. No thematic restrictions apply and, therefore, all research topics of interest to ETH Zurich are eligible for funding. Proposals will be judged primarily on the basis of scientific merit and the applicant’s track record by the ETH Research Commission and external reviewers. The ETH Fellowship program offers an excellent opportunity for experienced researchers to acquire new skills and competencies boosting their careers and helping to attain an independent senior position. Support by COFUND together with an increase of ETH’s own contribution will enable to double the number of trans-national fellowships. This will significantly enhance the incoming mobility of advanced researchers from the EU States, Associated or Third countries to Switzerland.

Keywords: natural sciences,technological sciences,physical sciences