Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Collaborating Smart Solar-powered Micro-grids (COSSMIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Italy,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4267061.0
EU funding (EUR): 3299404.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

When considering renewable energy sources, like solar electricity, people often do not directly see the benefit of their investment. While the sun is shining and might be producing electricity in their homes, they are at their work and cannot use that energy directly, while when they need the energy at night (for laundry, lighting, computers) the solar panel is no longer producing. Indeed, research has shown that while in theory houses can be self-reliant on solar panels by the amount of electricity they produce, it would require considerable (and expensive) storage capacity to realize this. With smart management and control systems, different types of buildings (for instance a mix of houses, companies and schools) could be connected in such a way that this neighbourhood would use more, or even most, of its renewable energy within the community. For example, if one neighbour does not use her electric car one day, its battery can be used to store excess energy produced from the solar panels on another neighbour's roof. The CoSSMic project aims to develop the ICT tools needed to facilitate this sharing of renewable energy within a neighbourhood, and will show the feasibility of its concept in two different areas: Konstanz in Germany and the Province of Caserta in Italy. At these trial locations, which are rather different in terms of population, sun, and available equipment, CoSSMic will investigate how to motivate people to participate in acquiring (more) renewable energy and the sharing of renewable energy in the neighbourhood, and test methods for making money with these schemes.

Keywords: micro-grids,solar power,co2 reduction,smart grids,user agent,control agent,stakeholder involvement,peer-to-peer collaboration
Dahlem Research School Fellowship for International Postdocs (DRS POINT)

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: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND, 2013)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8709800.0
EU funding (EUR): 3483920.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Freie Universitaet Berlin is a university with a most vibrant and diverse research spectrum. It is embedded in a dense research landscape of the Berlin Area, in which four universities and 60 extra-university research institutions provide unique possibilities for collaboration. In the German Excellence Initiatives of 2007 and 2012, Freie Universität was successful with its institutional strategy of the International Network University and thus attained the status of a German Excellence University. An inherent component of the institutional strategy is the promotion of researchers at all stages of their academic careers. The university’s commitment to support early stage researchers finds its expression in the establishment of the Dahlem Research School (DRS), as well as in the Career-Path-Model which forms the core of the renewal proposal of 2012. Freie Universitaet has implemented the Postdoc International Fellowship (POINT) scheme targeted at experienced researchers from all over the world. The new fellowship scheme will allow researchers to carry out cutting edge research projects in the outstanding environment of one of Focus Areas of Freie Universitaet. The programme will integrate a network of leading researchers in the respective field for cooperation projects. In addition, fellows will benefit from the training support, mentoring and career development schemes jointly offered by the Focus Areas and Dahlem Research School, which will also coordinate the programme. A highly elaborated selection ensures that only the best and brightest candidates will be admitted and that gender and inter-sectoral aspects will be attentively considered. The uniqueness of the research fields, the extraordinary conditions for research in a dense network of regional research partners and the support by training and mentoring will enable top level young researchers to raise the quality of their research and to contribute considerably towards their career progression.

Keywords: incoming fellowship,international experienced researchers,integration,career development,humanities,area studies,plant sciences,biodiversity,nanoscale research,biomedicine,life sciences
Advanced Manufacturing of Multi-Material Multi-Functional Products Towards 2020 and Beyond (4M2020)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,France,Finland,France
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-CSA-7, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 928843.69
EU funding (EUR): 898000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

4M2020 is focused on building upon the durable integration mechanisms/structures and innovation chains created within three levels of project clusters in the field of multifunctional miniaturised products and their applications in energy, medical, optoelectronics and microoptics, printed electronics and ultra precision engineering industrial sectors that led to the creation of long term R&D+I partnerships. 4M2020 will facilitate cross fertilisation of product centred advanced manufacturing platforms along five R&D+I streams and thus create alliances based on interrelated technological research and product demonstration activities and add value to its stakeholders by establishing R&D+I environment for combining KETs heterogeneously in the context of specific technology and product requirements. The four main objectives of 4M2020 are the: • Cross fertilisation of product centred advanced manufacturing platforms • Formation and development of new networks and alliances • Advancement of innovation chains • Assessment of the maturity of application/product focused advanced manufacturing

Keywords: nanotechnology,advanced manufacturing,multi-functional,multi-material,micromanufacturing,metals,plastics,ceramics,open innovation,roadmapping,medical,energy,optoelectronics,microoptics
Integrated decision support tool for retrofit and renewal towards sustainable districts (ECODISTR-ICT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Sweden,France,Netherlands,France,Netherlands,Sweden,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ENV-EeB, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4013842.0
EU funding (EUR): 2977383.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The ECODISTR-ICT project aims at developing an integrated decision support tool that facilitates decision making on the retrofitting and renewal of existing districts and its composing buildings. It connects the main decision makers in urban district transformation programs, acting from different perspectives, with different time scales, to reach a coordinated approach that joins building retrofitting with district renovation. This coordinated approach adds the benefits of the economies of scale on a district level and allows for optimization and prioritization of decision-making. The tool provides trustworthy insights on retrofitting and renewal projects, the associated costs and benefits during the life cycle of the buildings and the impacts of these on resource efficiency, social aspects, indoor and outdoor quality of buildings and districts, and environmental concerns.

Keywords: district,buildings,retrofit,renewal,demolish,simulation,resource-efficiency,open source,energy,planning,strategic,urban,toolbox,software,scenarios,bim,gis,inhabitants,monitoring
Advanced materials for batteries (MAT4BAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Italy,Germany,Czechia,Germany,Switzerland,Spain,France,France,France,Spain,France,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Italy
Call:  (FP7-2013-GC-Materials, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11443522.09
EU funding (EUR): 8191959.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Li-ion technologies initiated in the 90’ at a fast development pace thanks mainly to emerging ICTs with more than 20 GWh sold in 2010. Soon, it appeared as a credible technology for electrical vehicles as it could provide average energy densities of about 140 Wh/kg. However and since then,major breakthroughs have been expected to reach higher storage levels of 250 Wh/kg on battery system level with an acceptable lifetime of 3000 cycles in order to develop an affordable economical business plan for car batteries. MAT4BAT builds-up its EVs battery strategy on advanced materials and pilot line processes, proposing three novel concepts of cells initiating from a state-of-the art combination of cell materials (NMC/Carbonate liquid electrolyte/Graphite). MAT4BAT will address all critical ageing mechanisms associated to this technology and having direct impacts on product lifetime & safety by implementing two work programs for Battery Assessment (#1) and Battery Technologies (#2). Program #1 will set a framework to define critical charging modalities for a battery system during practical use and associated testing tools & methods for relevant functional performance & lifetime assessment. Within this framework, the program #2 will implement three generations of cells with a focus on electrolytes which will be steadily transformed from Liquid to Gel to All-Solid state electrolytes in order to promote substantial gain in cell lifetime and safety by preventing degradations and hazards and improving energy density with a separator-free cell (all-solid state electrolyte). 100 state-of-the-art commercial cells will be assessed to define normal and critical charge/discharge conditions of testing with appropriate testing protocols. Besides,materials increments will be screened out on coin-cells prior a benchmarking of most promising materials at full cells level. Eventually,(10-40 A.h) prototypes will be produced to validate MAT4BAT best technologies against quantified objectives.

Keywords: li-ion batteries,lifetime assessment,liquid electrolyte,electrode formulation,graphene,gel electrolyte,all solid state electrolyte,packaging,embedded sensors,safety,electrical vehicle
Distribution grid planning and operational principles for EV mass roll-out while enabling DER integration (PLANGRIDEV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Italy,Portugal,Ireland,Switzerland,France,Spain,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7603473.68
EU funding (EUR): 4875289.72
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The anticipated mass roll-out of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe and the continuously increasing number of distributed energy resources (DER) are posing major challenges to Europe’s Distribution System Operators (DSOs) with regard to ensuring a secure and reliable energy supply and network operation. Despite ongoing research and demonstration activities in this field, particularly the development of new and the revision of existing planning rules and operational principles of DSOs still require extensive R&D efforts. The overall objective of PlanGridEV is therefore to develop new network planning tools and methods for European DSOs for an optimized large-scale roll-out of electromobility in Europe whilst at the same time maximizing the potential of DER integration. The project will also identify gaps in current network operation procedures and update tools and methods to address local load and congestion issues, leveraging on the possibilities of managing EV as controllable loads. For the validation activities the project will rely on existing infrastructures of the four involved DSOs. Taking into account improved methods for network operation, regulatory frameworks and business models, PlanGridEV will bring about an evolution of current grid planning rules and investment strategies. The comprehensive approach takes into account requirements and constraints of all relevant stakeholders, particularly through an effective cooperation between Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and DSOs accompanied by leading scientific and technological research partners in the consortium. The project will have considerable impact on the environmental, economic, scientific and societal level by enabling a more cost-effective network planning and increasing the overall hosting capacity of European distribution networks. PlanGridEV will leverage on previous research results, coordinate with on-going initiatives and ensure a successful market uptake of the developed solutions.

Keywords: electromobility,vehicle-to-grid renewable energy sources distribution network intelligent charging planning rules network operation distributed energy resources der
Smart Thermal conductive Al MMCs by casting (THERMACO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Israel,Italy,Poland,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Germany,Finland
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF(RTD), 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5024710.88
EU funding (EUR): 3399994.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The ever–growing demand for heat evacuation applications in fields such as power microelectronics, e-mobility or (renewable) energy generation is motivating today's suppliers to come up with better and better heat conductive materials. Most of these products who were recently introduced to the market are carbon based materials aimed for extremely high heat conductivity (up to 2,000 W/mK). While delivering extremely good thermal properties, the carbon products themselves usually do not have a structural vale in terms of mechanical properties, hindering stand-alone applications. However, when enclosed in metal envelopes, they could be used to form MMC (Metal Matrix Composite) parts which are significantly more durable and strong. In THERMACO we intend to develop the best suitable manufacturing technology required to produce a high-strength, selectively reinforced Aluminium MMC with carbon based thermal reinforcements. We will create continuous highly heat conductive routes – consisting of carbon-based Graphene or TPG material – integrated within the structural part, that lead to dispersion/collection areas at surfaces with optimised thermal transfer properties. The structural material of the product will be regular cast Aluminium, thus allowing for an integration of those thermal highways into complex shaped, task-specific parts within a wide range of applications. The ability to cast such product will lead to a technological breakthrough and a change of concept in every heat management application, since the limiting factors of size of the cooling area or the demand for external heat transfer solutions (such as heatpipes) can be overcome. Due to the anisotropy of the carbon based thermal highways, a heat transfer can be realised through the part, without affecting it’s surrounding material, maintaining the mechanical stability of the application and enabling the usage of lighter designs and materials with a lower thermal stability than required before.

Keywords: composites,thermal management,heat evacuation,graphene,production technologies,casting,cutting,ecm,multiphysics simulation,heat highways,surface structuring,aluminium,mmc
Simulation based control for Energy Efficiency building operation and maintenance (ENERGY IN TIME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Portugal,Spain,Ireland,France,France,Spain,Romania,United Kingdom,Italy,Spain,Finland
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ENV-EeB, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7691454.8
EU funding (EUR): 5099973.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Buildings Operational stage represents 80% of building’s life-cycle cost of which 50% is consequence of the energy use. Up to 90% of the buildings’ life cycle carbon emissions occur during their operational phase, mainly as consequence of the HVAC, lighting and appliances’ energy use. Therefore, energy and cost saving strategies addressing this building operation phase will have a major impact in the building life cycle cost. Energy IN TIME (EiT) project goes beyond existing building control techniques, developing an integrated control & operation approach, that will combine state of the art modelling techniques with the development of an innovative simulation-based control technique with the overarching objective of automating the generation of optimal operational plans tailored to the actual building and users requirements. This approach will allow reducing system inefficiencies and contributing to improve building energy efficiency and comfort. The target for Energy IN TIME solution will be existing non-residential buildings, which present the building typologies that guaranties higher impact and room for improvement due to the variety and quantity of facilities and equipment covered and the operational management model used in them. A control tool will be implemented in the building energy management systems to be automatically and remotely operated. The methodology for the enhancing solution implementation will be defined for existing buildings and for its implementation in new buildings since its initial commissioning. The Energy IN TIME project work plan is divided into nine work packages: WP1: Requirements & System Architecture; WP2: Simulation Reference Model; WP3: Whole building Intelligent Control System.; WP4: Diagnosis & Continuous Commissioning; WP5: Energy Decision Support Tool. ; WP6: System Integration & Pilot-Scale Validation.; WP7: Demonstration to implement the designed and developed systems; WP8: Dissemination & exploitation; WP9 Coordination.

Keywords: energy,real-time,simulation based control,optimal operation plan,model based control,predictive maintenance,continuous commissioning
All-in-one manufacturing platform for system in package and micromechatronic systems (NEXTFACTORY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Sweden,France,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF(RTD), 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4758207.2
EU funding (EUR): 3483177.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The mission of the NextFactory project is to develop and validate a new type of all-in-one manufacturing technology combining, for the first time, in a single piece of equipment, 3D freeform printing and ultra-precision 3D assembly. This highly flexible and scalable facility will empower microsystem manufacturers - and in particular SMEs - to effectively produce highly miniaturised Smart Products-in-Package (SPiPs) both in small series and high-throughput production of large parallel batches. The project is driven and led by SME-owned use cases in medical, environmental and food processing, which represent an optimal combination of challenging requirements and high visibility for the new approach, providing a strategic direction to the project and validating the operability for a large variety of products: (i) oral sensors, requiring a one-piece-at a time customisation, (ii) microsensor chips for oxygen monitoring in closed compartments, and (iii) complex solar modules with circuits and capacitors. They will also be used for a proof-of-concept demonstration. The impact expected from this development will be, depending on the use case, a 10 to 100fold reduction of the SPiP production lead time at low cost and with almost zero waste, inducing a paradigm shift in SPiP design & development and thereby freeing an unprecedented innovation potential in manufacturing intensive industries. The NextFactory consortium will bring together a multidisciplinary group of leading edge SMEs and academic partners respectively contributing expertise in the new manufacturing technologies and the different application fields. NextFactory will last 4 years and work through develop-trial-improve iterations, aiming at satisfying increasingly challenging measurable objectives and delivering valuable intermediate results for the involved SMEs.

Keywords: additive manufacturing,3d freeform printing,smart mechatronic micro-systems and components,ultra-precision 3d assembly,flexible and scalable manufacturing,smart and functional materials