Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Implementation of Virtual Testing in Safety Regulations (IMVITER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,Greece,Germany,France,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,France,Hungary,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4767332.0
EU funding (EUR): 3199630.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Computer aided engineering is a routinely used technology for the design and testing of road vehicles, including the simulation of their response to an impact and the prediction of the risk of injuries sustained by the potential victims. But, so far, the release of a vehicle on the market still depends on the verification of the product compliance with safety standards through a series of type approval physical tests. To increase car industry competitiveness by reducing the burden of this type approval test system and to improve road safety by raising the quality level of protection measures, recent initiatives have been taken by both industry and public authorities, to promote the use of alternative ways (e.g. virtual test through numerical simulation) to check vehicle compliance with safety standards. The main objective of this project is the implementation of virtual (VT) procedures in existing safety standards by consolidation of advanced VT technologies, analyzing the ensuing costs and benefits and looking for the improvement of homologation procedures as well as setting the base for improvement of integrative safety. The achievement of this objective implies among others, that the accuracy of the simulation models and procedures can be assured and rated independently of the modelling process, software tools, computing platform and the performing organization (end user). Procedures that consider uncertainties due to different real tests results (depending on the lab performing), input parameters dispersion, etc. will be taken into account in these processes. In this project, the future potential of Virtual Testing will be investigated not only to fully substitute real testing (RT) in regulations but also to define procedures for fully virtual testing including biomechanics validation of real and virtual test devices and to evaluate transferring the process of VT to new advanced safety systems (active and pre-crash safety systems).

Keywords: virtual testing regulations predictability
Space Transportation Assets Valorisation in Europe (STAVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2010-05-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 843836.21
EU funding (EUR): 679970.91
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

STAVE (Space Transportation Assets Valorisation in Europe) is a 24-month Support Action aiming at identifying, evaluating and valorising the skills (research laboratories, universities, research institutes, SMEs, industry) of the New Member States (NMS) of the European Union, in the domain of Space Transportation (ST). This will contribute to the overall objective of maintaining an independent access to Space for Europe. The consortium is composed of 3 partner countries representing 90% of the European effort in ST: France, Germany and Italy. This team will gather European ST scientific and technological needs for preparation of the future, in accordance with the existing National and European space agencies roadmaps. These needs will be presented to the NMS through a set of workshops in each interested country. The systematic use of the existing networks of NCPs, embassies, agencies and institutional representatives, combined with website information, will enable identifying and contacting as many entities as possible in the 12 NMS. A multidisciplinary team of senior experts covering the whole ST domain, chosen among institutional organisations of the three partner countries, will then visit and thoroughly evaluate candidate entities with the aim of obtaining a qualified mapping of NMS technical skills applicable to ST. A particular focus will be put on novel techniques and methodologies potentially applicable to heliothermic propulsion, new generation of solid, electric and cryogenic propulsions… Overall results and conclusions will be documented as technical guidelines enabling NMS entities to answer more easily to calls or projects from EC, ESA and/or multilateral approaches in the ST domain.. A website will be developed in order to promote the project, inform widely about its action, provide information and reach all entities willing to participate in Space Transportation.

Keywords: space transportation,skills,new member states,access to space,launchers,propulsion,structures,system,sme,university,research institute,industry
geoland2 - towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (GEOLAND2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Austria,Greece,France,Italy,United Kingdom,Finland,Spain,Belgium,Germany,France,Austria,Czechia,Poland,Portugal,Spain,France,United Kingdom,Austria,European organisations area,Netherlands,France,Sweden,Hungary,Bulgaria,Sweden,Belgium,Romania,Belgium,Germany,Belgium,Finland,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,Lithuania,France,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 32558056.01
EU funding (EUR): 22399424.0
Participants: 54
Project status: CLOSED

geoland2 intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS). The three components (Local, Continental and Global) of the LMCS are addressed. The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the LMCS, and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional organisation of the LMCS. The geoland2 deliverables are : (i) the organisation of a production network, (ii) the building of operational processing lines, (iii), the demonstration of services and products, (iv), the set up of a land user platform. geoland2 efforts will rely on the assets of previous or ongoing projects funded under FP6 (geoland, Boss4GMES), by ESA (GSE projects “Land”, “Forest Monitoring”, “GMFS”, “SAGE”, “Urban Services”) and EEA’s ”CLC/FTS 2006” project. The architecture of geoland2 is made of two different layers, the Core Mapping Services (CMS) and the Core Information Services (CIS). The CMS produce ‘basic’ land cover, land cover change, and land state products which are of broad generic use and can be directly used for deriving more elaborated products. The CMS products cover a wide variety of thematic content, spatial scales from local to global, and update frequency, from 1 day to several years. The CIS are a set of thematic elements that start from CMS products and other data sources to produce ‘elaborated’ information products addressing specific European policies. They are in direct contact with institutional end-users in charge of European policies and Member State policies which have a generic pan-European character. geoland2 gathers 51 partners from 21 European countries. The requested EC grant is 25 M€, which corresponds to a total budget of approximately 37 M€. The largest part of the budget allocation goes to the construction of the CMS.

Keywords: gmes,land monitoring core service
Services and Applications For Emergency Response (SAFER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,France,France,Italy,Spain,Spain,European organisations area,France,Spain,Germany,Portugal,United Kingdom,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland,Germany,Czechia,Romania,Austria,Spain,Sweden,Norway,Bulgaria,Greece,Austria,France,France,Slovakia,Switzerland,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 40310282.14
EU funding (EUR): 26912700.0
Participants: 57
Project status: CLOSED

SAFER aims at implementing preoperational versions of the Emergency Response Core Service. SAFER will reinforce European capacity to respond to emergency situations: fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, humanitarian crisis. The main goal is the upgrade of the core service and the validation of its performance with 2 priorities: First priority is the short term improvement of response when crisis occurs, with the rapid mapping capacity after disastrous events, including the relevant preparatory services (reference maps). For validation purposes, the project will deliver as from 2008 services at full scale for real events or during specific exercises. The main performance criterion is the response time. RTD work addresses technical, operational and organisational issues. The content of this first action is consistent with the definition of the preparatory action recently decided. The second priority is the extension to core service components before and after the crisis. It targets the longer term service evolution, through the provision of thematic products, to be added in the portfolio of services. The main performance criterion is the added-value of products with risk-specific information. In SAFER, thematic products will cover mainly the meteorological and geophysical risks. SAFER includes also some transverse RDT actions, with the objective to increase added-value of the overall service chain. Users’ involvement is a key driver and a specific task addresses the federation of the key users, both for interventions in Europe and outside Europe. The emphasis put on quality assurance and validation methodology is reflected in the work plan. The consortium is built around a core team of European service providers, already involved in the former or ongoing projects, in the frame of FP6 or ESA programmes. A wide network of scientific partners and service providers will extend the European dimension, in particular in the new member states.

Keywords: emergency response,civil protection,humanitarian aid,crisis management,risk,rapid mapping,inscrit,ercs,floods,fires,volcanoes,landslides,earthquakes,reference maps,assessment maps
SOlar-TERrestrial Investigations and Archives (SOTERIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Austria,Switzerland,Hungary,France,Belgium,Poland,Hungary,Denmark,Finland,Germany,Croatia,France,Russian Federation,France
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5161288.0
EU funding (EUR): 3922966.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project realizes a wide synergy in the fields of solar- space- and geophysics to achieve a higher level of processed data and better understanding of solar and space events having terrestrial impact. The study of these events has an increasing importance with the increasing amount of technical equipment (e.g. power lines and telecommunication satellites) that can be damaged during these events. The project mobilizes more than 50 experts and significant resources from EU (including new EU member states) for the process, analysis, and interpretation of a large set of relevant data of more than 20 satellites (including 5 ESA missions) and the complementing ground-based data. It aims at providing better data bases and new methods to access and analyze them. The new databases go beyond the present state-of-the-art in details, and their on-line publication facilitates fast access to the open data acquired during these missions. The data will be further connected with new theoretical and simulation models and their usage will provide the expected impact of improvement of the scientific results that can be obtained from collected space data. The outputs will provide a long-term dissemination contributing to a higher level space monitoring system, and more reliable space weather forecast ability. In the proposal all the aspects are related to the effective exploitation of scientific data from space missions. The project fulfills the expectations of Work Program on space science by “developing tools to archive, access and process the data”, and realizing research as “downstream R&D activities complementing space missions”, in such a field where “a strong need for further scientific analysis of data can be demonstrated”. The set of deliverables “enhances the effectiveness and productivity of the European scientific community in terms of usage of this data”. The research work will be accompanied with educational and SME-related activities as well as public events.

Keywords: space weather,data gathering,data distribution,database management
Advanced GaN packaging (AGAPAC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Austria,Germany,Spain,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2848830.25
EU funding (EUR): 1764628.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

On the very last months, the Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology has made a remarked breakthrough in the world of the microwave electronics with the announcement of commercially available transistors from 5W to 180W at microwave frequencies. Coming from major transistor industrial vendors from Japon but also from US, it let equipment manufacturers and especially the one from space think that time has come now for a rapid insertion into their systems. Outside the reliability and the European source concerns, these GaN power transistors will roughly increase power density by more than an order of magnitude for large devices (from 0.5 W/mm to 5 W/mm for space applications including deratings). The consequence will then directly impact the packaging technology for which the thermal resistance needs to be importantly reduced if the advantages obtained at die level want to remain at its highest at module and equipment level. To address this critical item for space satellite applications is the aim of the proposed project which is in the ESA roadmap [Ref. ESTEC/AC/418-20, ESA-IPC 2006] for GaN component strategy but not funded by ESA. The ESA funding is being mainly dedicated toward GaN transistor process optimization, reliability and industrialization. In this project, AGAPAC, which stands for “Advanced GaN Packaging”, we want to establish a space compatible European supply chain for packaging solution of GaN HEMTs and GaN MMICs by 2010. To realize this project objective, we have defined sub-objectives which directly relate to 7 workpackages targeting: This project will extend beyond state of the art for high thermal dissipation composite (up to 600 W/mK) either based onto diamond or carbon nano-fiber compatible with hybride micropackage manufacturing technologies. The challenge remains in developing a space compatible power micropackage able to withstand up to 100 W of dissipated power when standard same size micropackage are around 25 W.

Keywords: high power packaging,thermal management,high power amplifier,solid state power amplifier,diamond composites,carbon nanofiber composites
Transnational Cooperation of the European Network of NCP SME (TRANSCOSME)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Cyprus,Türkiye,United Kingdom,Spain,Austria,Hungary,Bulgaria,Iceland,Poland,Israel,Luxembourg,France,Norway,Czechia,Finland,Croatia,Romania,Ireland,Sweden,Denmark,Malta,Switzerland,Slovenia,Portugal,Netherlands,Slovakia,Belgium,Lithuania,Estonia,Latvia,Belgium,Greece
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2008-02-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 59.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2622051.9
EU funding (EUR): 2367397.0
Participants: 41
Project status: CLOSED

The TranCoSME project intends to support the European network of National Contact Points for the SME-specific measures of the 7th Framework Programme (NCP SME) in their support to proposers in their respective countries. Objectives are to deliver a better quality of service, to increase the efficiency of the work and to enhance networking between the NCPs in Europe. These goals will be achieved by training measures and by setting up tools which help NCP SME during all steps of their daily work from identifying innovative SMEs over partner search to proposal writing. The tools and trainings will be provided by a core group of experienced and well-motivated NCP SME. The trainings, the communication platform and the partner search tool will form a stable and sustainable support to NCP SME enhancing the cooperation between organisations from all over Europe through. The background objective of the project is to raise the quality of proposals submitted in the SME-specific measures of FP7 and to increase the quality of consortia. The countries all partners in the consortium are coming from covers the whole EU and all Associated states to FP7 with 36 partners. It is foreseen to have a project duration of 36 months (3 years).

Keywords: ncp sme network,qualification,support,increasing efficiency,example proposal,partner search system
Advanced ground source heat pump systems for heating and cooling in Mediterranean climate (GROUND-MED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewables for heating and cooling
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,France,Belgium,Germany,France,Romania,Portugal,Spain,Spain,France,Ireland,Italy,France,Sweden,Slovenia,Austria,Spain,Austria,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7237847.01
EU funding (EUR): 4299695.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

GROUND-MED project will demonstrate geothermal heat pump (GSHP) systems for heating and cooling of measured SPF>5,0 in 8 demonstration sites of South Europe. As the SPF is determined not only by the heat pump unit, but by its operating conditions imposed to the heat pump by the ground heat exchanger and the heating/cooling system of the building as well, integrated systems incorporating the following technological solutions will be demonstrated and evaluated: a) new water source heat pumps of improved seasonal efficiency; key technologies include use of the next generation of compressors, heat exchangers and automation; b) borehole heat exchangers and heating/cooling systems operating with minimum temperature difference between them, which also follows the corresponding heating/cooling demand from the building; design aspects, thermal storage and system controls are important; c) minimum power consumption to system components; key parts are the fan-coil and air-handling units. GROUND-MED has a duration of 5 years and a budget of around 7,3 million euros, comprising 25% research and 75% demonstration and other activities. The GROUND-MED consortium comprises 24 organizations mainly from South Europe, including a wide diversity of GSHP actors, such as research and educational institutes, heat pump manufacturers, national and European industrial associations, energy consultants and works contractors.

Keywords: ground source heat pumps geothermal heating cooling
Polygeneration of energy, fuels and fertilisers from biomass residues and sewage sludge (ENERCOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy efficiency and savings
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Lithuania,Germany,Luxembourg,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-03
End date: 2014-11-02
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5212017.41
EU funding (EUR): 2528833.26
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to demonstrate high-efficient polygeneration of electricity, heat, solid fuels and high-value compost/ fertilisers from sewage sludge and greenery waste mixed to biomass residues, thereby offering a new, safe, environmentally friendly and cost-effective path for the disposal of sewage sludge, maximising energy output, greenhouse gas reduction, cost-effectiveness and new chances for SME. Compared to the existing routes of sewage sludge treatment, the proposed concept allows achieving a very high overall energy efficiency by (1) use of low-temperature environmental heat and heat from the co-composting process for drying sewage sludge thereby replacing high temperature heat from a combustion process, (2) a highly efficient gasification process, (3) saving of transport energy due to a better overall material flow management. Thus, the concept brings down disposal costs of sewage sludge. The polygeneration demonstration plant will be set up on an existing compost production facility. The latter will be able to process larger amounts of sewage sludge than at present, to produce less but higher quality compost as well as pellets and/or briquettes as storable substitute fuel and to deliver electricity to the grid. Heat will be used on site for drying processes and for a district heating grid of a neighbouring industrial park. CO2 emissions are reduced by replacement of fossil fuels and directly in the composting process. Minerals and nutrients will be recovered from the ash and used to enhance the fertilising value of the compost after removal of heavy metals and other harmful fractions. 5 out of the 8 consortium partners are SME. The exploitation plan includes the creation of a two further SME for heat delivery and worldwide planning and marketing of similar plants. Replication of the concept in the 3,000 compost plants in the EU would allow additional generation of at least 56 TWh of electricity, heat and solid fuels.

Keywords: gasification,biomass residues,sewage sludge,compost,pellets,briquettes,use of low-temperature heat