Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Open Platform for EvolutioNary Certification Of Safety-critical Systems (OPENCOSS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,Italy,France,Netherlands,Norway,Germany,France,United Kingdom,Italy,Italy,France,Poland,United Kingdom,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-7, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11653051.0
EU funding (EUR): 8439914.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Safety assurance and certification are amongst the most expensive and time-consuming tasks in the development of safety-critical embedded systems. European innovation and productivity in this market is curtailed by the lack of affordable (re)certification approaches. Major problems arise when evolutions to a system entail reconstruction of the entire body of certification arguments and evidence. Further, market trends strongly suggest that many future embedded systems will be comprised of heterogeneous, dynamic coalitions of systems of systems. As such, they will have to be built and assessed according to numerous standards and regulations. Current certification practices will be prohibitively costly to apply to this kind of embedded systems. OPENCOSS will devise a common certification framework that spans different vertical markets for railway, avionics and automotive industries, and establish an open-source safety certification infrastructure. The strategy is to focus on a compositional and evolutionary certification approach with the capability to reuse safety arguments, safety evidence, and contextual information about system components, in a way that makes certification more cost-effective, precise, and scalable. OPENCOSS will define a common certification language by unifying the requirements and terminology of different industries and building a common approach to certification activities. A fully-fledged tool infrastructure will be developed for managing certification information and performing safety assurance activities. The infrastructure will be realised as a tightly integrated solution, supporting interoperability with existing development and assurance tools. Within this infrastructure, systematic and auditable processes will be developed to reduce uncertainty and (re)certification costs. To have long-lasting industrial impact, we will pursue standardisation of the conceptual framework and the open-source tool infrastructure resulting from the project.

Keywords: safety critical systems,certification and re-certification,open-source platform,evolutionary approaches,avionics,railway,automotive
Multi-scale, Multi-physics MOdelling and COmputation of magneto-sensitive POLYmeric materials (MOCOPOLY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2011-ADG_20110209, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MOCOPOLY is a careful revision of an AdG2010-proposal that was evaluated above the quality threshold in steps1&2. In the meantime the applicant has made further considerable progress related to the topics of MOCOPOLY. Magneto-sensitive polymers (elastomers) are novel smart materials composed of a rubber-like matrix filled with magneto-active particles. The non-linear elastic characteristics of the matrix combined with the magnetic properties of the particles allow these compounds to deform dramatically in response to relatively low external magnetic fields. The rapid response, the high level of deformations achievable, and the possibility to control these deformations by adjusting the external magnetic field, make these materials of special interest for the novel design of actuators for a fascinating variety of technological applications. It is the overall objective of this proposal to uncover the process-microstructure-properties relations of the emerging novel multi-scale, multi-physics material class of magneto-sensitive polymers with the aim to better exploit its promising potential for future, currently unimagined technological applications. This objective will only be achieved by performing integrated multi-disciplinary research in fabrication, characterisation, modelling, simulation, testing and parameter identification. This proposal therefore sets up a work programme consisting of nine strongly interconnected work packages that are devoted to 1) fabrication of magneto-sensitive polymers, 2) microstructure characterisation by modelling and simulation, 3) microstructure characterisation by CT-scanning, 4) continuum physics modelling at the micro-scale, 5) computational multi-physics homogenisation, 6) continuum physics modelling at the macro-scale, 7) testing at the macro-scale, 8) multi-scale parameter identification and 9) macro-scale parameter identification. The work programme is therefore characterised by various feedback loops between the work packages.

Keywords: continuum magneto-mechanics computational magneto-mechanics experimental magneto-mechanics
Structural Transformation to Achieve Gender Equality in Science (STAGES)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Denmark,Romania,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4646640.25
EU funding (EUR): 2789759.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

STAGES has the general aim of making the most of the unprecedented opportunity, provided for by the EC, to leave the logic of pilot projects behind and launch structural change strategies addressing the many and interconnected layers of the problem of gender inequality in science from an integrated perspective, deeply involving human resources management in research institutions, modifying and gendering its basic tenets. Under the coordination of a national Government, and assisted by a research centre specialised in gender and science, 5 research institutes/universities from Italy, Germany, Denmark, Romania and the Netherlands will each implement a self tailored action plan including activities such as, among others: awareness-raising initiatives in high level institutional bodies; training modules on gender equality for internal decision makers; mentoring programmes for young women scientists; actions to enhance the visibility of women scientists; updated management and research assessment standards; course content development; leadership development; work-life balance measures; gender quotas in committees; promotion and retention policies. Negotiation with all relevant actors will play a key role in order to assure the effectiveness of the action plans and the future sustainability of the actions after the project lifespan. Sharing know how and experience will enhance the planned activities in a real time basis, giving the implementation a more participative and flexible approach. A set of central activities, including technical assistance, evaluation, accompanying research and drafting guidelines has been devised to facilitate the implementation of the action plans. International meetings on Gender and Science will be held and a special attention will be paid to dissemination activities, both at national and European level, also through the creation of national committees in the countries of each consortium member.

Keywords: action plans,gender equality,structural change,negotiation,vertical segregation,horizontal segregation,gender bias,genderisation,impact sustainability
Network of Science in Society National Contact Points (SIS.NET)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strategic Activities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Iceland,Austria,Sweden,Czechia,Poland,Italy,Türkiye,Egypt,Spain,Estonia,Estonia,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 683858.0
EU funding (EUR): 599989.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The range of the FP7 Science in Society (SiS) programme as well as the range of its stakeholders is extremely diverse. This demands that the SiS National Contact Points (NCPs) are able to orientate in the wide area of policy and policy papers behind the SiS programme, programme topics and research areas as well as in FP7 rules and regulations and in addition, they need to have extensive knowledge of the different groups of stakeholders, in order to be able to fulfil their job. The cooperation network among NCPs in FP7 is one of the most important tools for NCPs to be resourceful in their field. The general objective of the SiS.net project is to continue and build on the work done within the previous SiS NCP network projects EUROSIS and EuroSiS 2.0 (2008-2011), to keep on strengthening the SiS NCP network and through this improve the operation of each SiS NCP in order to provide more effective and better quality services to organisations in the EU, in the associated countries and the International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC).

Keywords: network,cooperation,european dimension,science in society,societal challenges,mobilisation,mutual learning,fp7,national contact points,strategy,research,networking
Creative Cooperation in Cultural Heritage (CREATIVECH)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Portugal,Spain,Romania,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2146880.8
EU funding (EUR): 1745515.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

CreativeCH will promote cooperation and mutual innovation among organisations of Science & Technology (S&T), Cultural Heritage (CH) and Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI), and highlight the contribution of such cooperations and innovations to vital European economic, social and cultural objectives. The goals of the CreativeCH Action Plan are, a) enable cities and regions across Europe to benefit from CH assets through the cooperation of S&T, CH and CCI organisations, b) encourage and involve students in such cooperations. On the European level CreativeCH will promote sharing of knowledge and experiences in S&T – CH - CCI cooperation through an open peer-learning network, a series of workshops at major European events, and a virtual forum for students and practitioners. These activities will include collecting examples of innovative S&T - CH - CCI cooperations, identifying success factors, and providing recommendations on good practice. On the Local level, CreativeCH will realise showcases of S&T - CH - CCI cooperations that demonstrate how such cooperations can help overcome barriers in the access to, and understanding of, cultural heritage. The focus is on issues of “glocal” character, i.e., that are common to cultural heritage worldwide but tackled in an exemplary way in a concrete local setting. The showcases will also have a particular focus on involving and training students.

Keywords: cultural heritage,science & technology,creative industries
Creative Little Scientists: Enabling Creativity through Science and Mathematics in Preschool and First Years of Primary Education (CREATIVELITTLESCIENT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Finland,Belgium,Germany,Portugal,Romania,France,Malta,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1989200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1491900.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Science and mathematics education is important for Europe. Creativity and innovation are equally recognised as important, and their strengthening in and through education as a vital priority. Importantly, also, creativity holds a strong position in early childhood. The Creative Little Scientists project constitutes a timely contribution to a better understanding, at the European level, of the potential available on the common ground that science and mathematics education in pre-school and early primary school can share with creativity. It provides a clear picture of existing and possible practices, as well as their implications and the related opportunities and challenges. Based on this, the project proposes guidelines, curricula and exemplary materials for relevant teacher training in the various European contexts. The research findings and outcomes are carefully disseminated, in easy to use formats, to all stakeholders at the European level. To achieve these, the Creative Little Scientists project brings together a consortium comprising expertise of the highest level and quality in the areas of science and mathematics education in early childhood, creativity in education, cognitive psychology, comparative educational studies, and teacher training. This consortium carries out research in a sample of nine European countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Romania, and the UK) which have been selected to represent a wide spectrum of educational, economic, social and cultural contexts. In this way, the consortium will be able to extrapolate and exploit the findings from the nine sample countries, at the European level.

Keywords: science and mathematics education in preschool and early primary education,creativity in education,teacher training
Total Diet Study Exposure (TDSEXPOSURE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Belgium,Netherlands,Czechia,Italy,Germany,Spain,Ireland,Belgium,Finland,Spain,Portugal,Norway,Iceland,Türkiye,Spain,Belgium,Sweden,Switzerland,Latvia,Croatia,Latvia,Poland
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2011-5, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7583457.21
EU funding (EUR): 5967951.0
Participants: 31
Project status: CLOSED

Total Diet Studies (TDS) allow getting information on real dietary exposure to food contaminants consumption (heavy metals, mycotoxins, POPs...) and estimating chronic exposure to pesticide residues in food and food additives intake. TDS consider total exposure from whole diets and are based on food contamination as consumed rather than contamination from raw commodities, thus ensuring a realistic exposure measure. TDS facilitate risk assessment (RA) and health monitoring (HM). Some EU Member States (MS) and Candidate Countries (CC) have no TDS programme or use various methods to collect data, which were not examined yet to tell whether they are comparable or not. This is of interest for EFSA or WHO-FAO. Similarly it is important to harmonise methods to assess dietary exposure risks in MS, CC and at the European level compared with other world regions. The methods proposed will aim for food sampling, standard analytical procedures, exposure assessment modelling, priority foods and selected chemical contaminants consistency across MS and CC. Various approaches and methods to identify sampling and analyses will be assessed and best practice defined. Contaminants and foods which contribute most to total exposure in European populations will be defined. Priority will be given to training and support in EU MS and CC currently without TDS. It will demonstrate best practice in creating a TDS programme using harmonised methods in regions previously lacking TDS, and ensure consistency of data collected. A database will be set up describing existing EU studies and collating harmonised exposure measures and designed to allow risk assessors and managers handling dietary exposure more accurately and more specifically. TDSEXPOSURE will spread excellence in TDS throughout stakeholders and establish a legacy of harmonised methods for sampling and analysis, and science-based recommendations for future global studies.

Keywords: exposure,risk assessment,monitoring,contaminants,diet,food,intake,surveillance
Optimizing Miscanthus Biomass Production - OPTIMISC (OPTIMISC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Belgium,Türkiye,Russian Federation,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,China,Ukraine
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2011-5, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4003551.8
EU funding (EUR): 2997576.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Miscanthus is a C4 perennial rhizomatous grass that has become a leading candidate crop for production of lignocellulosic feedstocks due to its rapid biomass accumulation in temperate climates. There is currently a single commercial clone, M. x giganteus, which has a number of limitations. Research over the past 20 years has shown that a few key species and their interspecific hybrids have a high yield potential whilst requiring low inputs. The overall objective of this project is to optimize the miscanthus bioenergy and bioproduct chain by: trialling elite germplasm types over a range of sites across Europe, Ukraine and Russia; analysing the key traits that currently limit the potential of miscanthus; identifying high-value bioproducts; and modelling the combined results to provide recommendations to policy makers, growers and industry. The outcomes of the project will include screened germplasm and knowledge which will provide solutions to key existing bottlenecks. The specific topics tackled in the field and controlled environment trials are (1) dissection of the traits underpinning tolerance to the abiotic stresses drought, salinity, cold and freezing, (2) yield and quality in a wide range of environments, taking into consideration traits such as senescence, nutrient recycling and nutrient-use efficiency, (3) process-ability of biomass to convenient fuel formats and added-value products. Data gathered will be integrated through the development of modelling parameters needed to build up life-cycle analysis models and other decision support tools to identify optimum production scenarios in the EU, Ukraine and Russia. Recommendations will be provided to miscanthus developers on appropriate genotype selection, propagation and processing methods to maximize the environmental, economic and social benefits. The development of the full potential of miscanthus through OPTIMISC will contribute to Europe’s transition to a sustainable biobased economy.

Keywords: miscanthus,perennial grasses,bioenergy,bioproducts,biomass product chain,sustainability,biomass potential,carbon sequestration,carbon mitigation
Tailored biodegradable magnesium implant materials (MAGNIM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Czechia,Belgium,Austria,Sweden,Germany,Finland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3129777.98
EU funding (EUR): 3129777.98
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Cost reduction and improvement of the quality of life is a major issue in health care. This challenge can be tackled by intelligent biomaterials and smart implants which are resorbed by the body upon remodelling of the tissue: What is possible for polymer materials should also be realized for biodegradable metallic materials. MagnIM will train 12 ESRs to contribute to this demanding aims by the development of new aluminium free Magnesium implant materials with tailored properties specific for a bone related application especially in children and for sport medicine. To reach this goal carefully selected materials and processing routes will be combined with comprehensive research to elucidate the correlation between microstructure and corrosion processes. This will be monitored in vitro and in vivo. The ultimate goal will be a prototype implant design which is based on the achievements of this network. To do this, the specific combination of the MagnIM research team is necessary. MagnIM brings together world leading scientists from various research fields: Material scientists and engineers who develop new alloys with tailored properties for biomedical applications and medical scientists and biologists researching on macro- and microscopically changes in bones and bone cells with in vitro and in vivo methods. MagnIM collectively covers basically all aspects, instrumental techniques and approaches necessary to tackle successfully the challenge to understand, and ultimately control, interactions at the material – bone interface. The full achievements of this research are gained because the consortium covers the full value chain from fundamental engineering research towards implant production including relevant industry partners and clinics.

Keywords: biomaterial engineering,biodegradable magnesium implants,bone reconstruction