Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Optimized Fuels for sustainable transport in Europe (OPTFUEL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,Greece,Belgium,Germany,India,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12813932.69
EU funding (EUR): 7119956.07
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

OPTFUEL undertakes a first large scale demonstration of the Biomass to Liquid (BtL) production chain from biomass via gasification and fuel synthesis to the final fuel in the consumer car. BtL production will be demonstrated in an industrial size plant environment (15000 t/a). All production chain components from biomass provision up to market introduction of final consumer fuels containing BtL will be optimized and demonstrated including: The preparation of a feedstock supply concept for a large scale BtL plant of 200.000 t/a, 200 ha of perennial crop cultivation, static and dynamic process modelling for upscaling, BtL production, blending and fuel upgrading techniques, testing of BtL diesel and naphtha blends in advanced EU V engines, vehicles and future engine concepts. Commonly agreed fuel specifications will be derived for BtL-blend fuels. Well to Wheel (WTW) analysis of this pathway with different parameter studies, dissemination of biomass supply concepts and the demonstration of BtL blend fuel in show cars are included. VOLKSWAGEN has joined forces with Ford and Renault providing test facilities for the new fuels which are produced by Choren Industries, the leading company in biomass gasification for synthetic transport fuels including adapted feedstock concepts. CONCAWE, the research organisation of the mineral oil industry and research institutes IFP and Certh responsible for blending and upgrading BtL ensure a high quality fulfilling the requirements of a premium diesel fuel. Invensys for modelling the production plant, the Indian Institute of Technology for testing BtL blends in the Indian market and SYNCOM a project management enterprise are complementing the consortium. The results of this project are expected to be the basis for a 200.000 t/a BtL production unit in Europe.

Keywords: biofuels,biomass,biomass_to_liquid,fischer tropsch synthesis,transport
Advancing Sustainable Urban Transport in an Enlarged Europe through CIVITAS (VANGUARD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands,Austria
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-TREN-1_28June, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-15
End date: 2014-11-14
Duration (months): 74.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4627190.4
EU funding (EUR): 3549287.23
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

CIVITAS VANGUARD will assist the EC Directorate for Transport and Energy in coordinating the “CIVITAS-Plus” phase of its “CIVITAS Initiative” for cleaner and sustainable urban transport, as well as to assist in the dissemination of CIVITAS-Plus results. The project will be implemented by a consortium consisting of European city networks as well as transport, energy and policy oriented organizations and a communications company. Activities will commence with a needs assessment conducted among the CIVITAS-Plus demonstration projects and a broader audience. This will be followed by a ‘Service and Support Strategy’, outlining the target groups, approaches and benefits as well as the areas where coordination and support will be given to demonstration projects. Examples include the continuation and enhancement of a Dissemination Liaison Group, the compilation of individual dissemination tools and the facilitation of information flow. Based on the specific needs of the cities, dedicated working groups and training sessions will be organised, along with comprehensive marketing support. CIVITAS VANGUARD will raise the awareness, disseminate and market the results of CIVITAS-Plus demonstration projects to a wide audience of urban transport practitioners, located in all member states of the enlarged European Union. An ‘Awareness-raising, dissemination and marketing strategy’ will be developed, outlining in detail the communications products and services of CIVITAS VANGUARD. As the central information hub, the CIVITAS website will be maintained and further developed. A range of promotional materials will be produced. Direct support to the CIVITAS Initiative beyond the demonstration cities will be provided through the hosting of the CIVITAS Secretariat and that of the CIVITAS Political Advisory Committee, the organisation of the annual CIVITAS Forums and the prestigious Award ceremonies.

Keywords: clean urban transport,sustainable transport,energy efficiency,information dissemination,awareness raising,coordination,support,demonstration projects,civitas-plus,civitas initiative,vanguard
Infrastructure Roadmap for Energy Networks in Europe (IRENE-40)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5551120.0
EU funding (EUR): 3846781.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The IRENE-40 project will identify strategies for investors and regulators to build a more secure, ecologically sustainable and competitive European electricity system. The strategies will be presented in a roadmap, i.e. a timeline with actions and a description of development stages towards future electricity networks over the coming 40 years. It will provide investment strategies for the individual stakeholders. The roadmap will rely on a scenario selected from a set of options, identified during the project and in discussion with the stakeholder community. Its preparation will be supported by a series of robust but flexible tools dedicated to the assessment, forecast and deployment of new technologies, network development strategies and market/regulatory analyses. The roadmap and scenarios will explore options like HVDC, storage integration, synchronisation of national networks, etc. addressed in the topic Call. RTD activities will be organised in four sequential work packages dedicated to fact finding, technologies and component deployment, solutions for more sustainable, secure and competitive networks and the formulation of the roadmap. In advance of submission, the project plan, partnership and dissemination/exploitation actions have received the support of prominent members of the stakeholder community from across the breadth of Europe. The project partners are Europe’s best for the work required and will deliver the necessary outputs. The partners are from nine of the leading organisations/companies from across Europe. The Work Programme contains a robust instrument that catalyses dialogue with all parts of the European stakeholder community and drives dissemination and exploitation of the freely-available outputs. This is supported by a process to guarantee sustainability of action post-project, e.g. to allow alternative scenarios to be investigated by stakeholders. The total budget for this 4-year project is €5.52M with €3.85M contributed by the EC.

Keywords: network infrastructure,40 year roadmap,scenarios,investment methodology,distributed generation
CIVITAS Making Innovation for MObility Sustainable Actions (CIVITAS MIMOSA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Netherlands,Estonia,Portugal,Poland,Ireland,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-TREN-1_28June, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-15
End date: 2013-02-14
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 23051275.52
EU funding (EUR): 15290808.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Since 2002, CIVITAS Initiative has been able to attract a raising interest among local authorities in Europe, becoming a true point of reference, even beyond the boundaries of the European Union. This is because worldwide, massive resources are poured into research and development of new solutions for a better urban environment. However, funds often target individual initiatives, which doubtlessly procure knowledge advancements in the fields of application. What sets CIVITAS apart is the integrative nature of the approach it advocates, based on comprehensive and innovative handling of energy and transport policy. The objectives of competitive, secure, safe, and environmentally friendly mobility must be conjugated and complemented with the involvement of national, regional and local governments, and that of citizens and industry. The partners of CIVITAS MIMOSA see in CIVITAS the ideal instrument to better understand the frameworks, processes and technicalities required to successfully introduce and test innovative, courageous and integrated strategies for a clean, energy-efficient and sustainable urban transport. The possibility to do so with a group of peers makes it all the more stimulating and meaningful, as it supplies local authorities with policies that are both validated by widespread experimentation and legitimised by the concurrent adoption in other cities. The CIVITAS MIMOSA approach is based on a clear set of measures that have been developed by: -Monitoring traffic flows and analysis of mobility demand and supply; -Identifying problems and opportunities; -Planning initiatives that public administrations and citizens can implement to tackle the problems; -Identify the most suitable demonstration actions for CIVITAS (i.e. a mix of tested good practices and bold, innovative actions), pushing citizens towards the desired behavioural shift; -Implement the actions and showcase them for replication or inspiration in other urban contexts.

Keywords: innovative policies,sustainable transport,clean urban mobility
CIVITAS ELAN Mobilising citizens for vital cities Ljubljana - Gent - Zagreb - Brno - Porto (ELAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Slovenia,Hungary,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Portugal,Austria,Croatia,Belgium,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SST-2007-TREN-1_28June, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-15
End date: 2012-10-14
Duration (months): 49.0
Total project cost (EUR): 28594205.47
EU funding (EUR): 17841235.88
Participants: 39
Project status: CLOSED

CIVITAS-ELAN is a large and ambitious project of great strategic importance to its project partners and funding institutions. The mayors of the cities of Ljubljana, Gent, Zagreb, Brno and Porto have agreed to a common mission statement “To ‘mobilise’ our citizens by developing with their support clean mobility solutions for vital cities, ensuring health and access for all. The five cities intend to cooperate on the basis of a clear set of common objectives, based on the principle of “putting the citizen first”. For each of the CIVITAS policy fields a common set of objectives and project goals has been agreed, and the cities have developed a programme of in total sixty-nine measures, which are described in detail, including concrete targets.The focus on citizen participation has been deeply built into the workplan, also several NGOs are part of the project consortium.The ELAN cities are representative of a growing number of dynamic, mainly medium-sized national or regional centres with strong cultural background. The planning of the project is mature with detailed timetable, resources and organisational structures. The project consortium is very experienced, some partners were involved in CIVITAS 1 and 2 from various perspectives. As requested in the call, a city from New Member States (NMS) (Ljubljana) is the project coordinator and a learning city (Brno) is also from a NMS. A further leading city (Zagreb) is from a candidate country thus bringing the CIVITAS initiative in the enlargement prospect. The workplan addresses topics of specific interest to cities in the NMS. Through CIVITAS-ELAN three new countries, Portugal, Croatia and Belgium will be put on the CIVITAS map as ELAN cities are committed to become ambassadors in their countries.As a policy-driven project, CIVITAS-ELAN will make significant contributions to major global, EU and national policy processes.

Keywords: civitas,sustainable urban transport,clean mobility,energy saving,clean fuels,hybrid vehicles,biofuels,citizens participation,safety&security in transport,e-ticketing,telematics in transport
Demonstration of Large Scale Biomass Co-Firing and Supply Chain Integration (DEBCO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Greece,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,Poland,Hungary,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6941512.47
EU funding (EUR): 4166823.05
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The DEBCO project responds to the need for further operational experience in high share biomass co-firing using different type of fuels. The project aim to demonstrate and assess, on a long term basis, the advanced and innovative co-firing techniques that are capable of achieving higher shares of biomass up to 50% more on a thermal basis. These objectives will be achieved through a programme of research activities, large-scale demonstrations and long-term monitoring of the key co-firing concepts. The selection of four representative demonstration sites will allow a long-term monitoring and assessment of the most relevant applications such as: different fuel supply chain scenarios, fuel qualities (agriculture residues, energy crops, wood pellets etc.), and advanced co-firing techniques of different pf-power plants burning lignite and bituminous coals. To evaluate the role of co-firing in a sustainable energy market, social-economical aspects such as impact on local fuel markets are also in the focus of the project. The successful outcome to the DEBCO project will provide the electricity supply industry in Europe with very valuable, and well documented, plant experience on a number of the key technical options available for increasing the share of biomass co-firing in large coal-fired power plants, and for the diversification of the range of biomass feedstock types that can be co-fired. This experience will be relevant for future co-firing projects involving both the retrofit of existing plants and for advanced coal-fired power plants. This will assist the ongoing efforts in most European countries to increase the portion of electricity supplied from renewable sources.

Keywords: large scale co-firing biomass supply chain agriculture residues solid recoverd fuels high biomass share advanced steam conditions
Next generation solar cell and module laser processing systems (SOLASYS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Belgium,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Spain,Bulgaria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2007-2-TREN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5993476.01
EU funding (EUR): 3480283.57
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Laser processes provide manufacturing solutions with minimum mechanical and thermal influence on the processed product due to their selective energy control and deposition and generally high processing speed. With this advantages they are already well established for some processing steps in the current production of solar cells. High speed laser ablation is used for the isolation of the emitter front side from the backside of a solar cell, Laser melting is used to form backside contacts and laser drilling has been proven as a versatile tool for drilling silicon wafers for metal wrap through backside contacts. All these processes are currently performed with standard Q-switch-Nd:YAG-Lasers with pulse durations of up to 100 ns which provide process characteristics and results being far away from the technical and physical limits of possible laser processes. New laser sources such as ultra short pulsed lasers, time domain optimized lasers, wavelength adapted lasers and ultra compact modular laser sources have been recently developed and provide a much better matching of laser parameters to the required processing characteristics. With these new laser sources flexible manufacturing steps can be realized leading to higher productivity and production costs as well as to higher efficiency of solar cells and modules and even new cell concepts. Within a consortium from laser manufacturers, system suppliers, research institutes and end users the technical and physical potential of high quality and process tailored laser sources will be demonstrated throughout the project and evaluated for current and future photovoltaic manufacturing processes.

Keywords: laser,isolation,texturing,soldering,interconnection,welding,doping,manufacturing,solar cells,solar modules,high speed equipment
Role of the chylomicron and HDL pathways in the development of obesity and insulin resistance (METABOLICSYNDROME)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-15
End date: 2012-11-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Apolipoproteins and lipoprotein modifying enzymes are responsible for the maintenance of lipid homeostasis in the circulation. Mutations in these proteins may affect the lipoproteins present in plasma and may result in dyslipidemia. Obesity plays a central role in the development of the metabolic syndrome. Our data indicate that apoE promotes diet-induced obesity. Based on this, we hypothesize that components of the lipoprotein system that promote direct delivery of lipids to the peripheral tissues will contribute to the development of obesity and insulin resistance; in contrast, components that promote reverse lipid transport may prevent these conditions. Thus, we propose to investigate the role of the chylomicron and HDL pathways in the development of obesity and insulin resistance. Our objectives are: 1) To determine how expression or lack of expression of apolipoproteins or lipoprotein modifying enzymes in transgenic and knock-out mice affect diet-induced obesity, and type II diabetes. In this objective, mice deficient or transgenic for proteins of the chylomicron and HDL pathways will be placed on western-type diet and their weight, body composition, and sensitivity to insulin will be determined over time. 2) To identify cellular genes and pathways that are affected by apoE and other components of the lipoprotein transport system and may promote or prevent adopigenesis. In this objective we propose to use microarray analysis, to identify signaling pathways affected by apoE and other proteins of the lipoprotein system. Select target genes that will be identified from this analysis will be expressed in cultured preadipocytes using adenoviral vectors, to validate their functional role in preadipocyte differentiation, lipid deposition, and the development of insulin resistance. This study may provide novel insights in the mechanisms that result to obesity, and may reveal new therapeutic targets for the treatment of the metabolic syndrome.

Keywords: lipids,lipoproteins,apolipoproteins,lipoprotein modifying enzymes,animal models,obesity,dyslipidemia,insulin resistance,glucose intolerance,metabolic syndrome
Preparatory Activities of the Joint Technology Initiative for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen (FCHINSTRUCT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2007-10-01
End date: 2009-02-28
Duration (months): 17.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1368250.0
EU funding (EUR): 684125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project will carry out all the preparatory activities necessary to ensure a successful launch of the Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) as soon as possible once the Council Regulation has been adopted. The main activities are to: - start the build-up of the resources and the support structure necessary to ensure the operational readiness of the Joint Undertaking's Programme office; - prepare the governance process of the JTI and the development of processes for co-ordination with other entities engaged in the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen field; -develop and prepare the strategic work programme and the first annual activity plan; -prepare the project management tools and procedures for reception, treatment, monitoring, reviewing and management of the JTI projects; -prepare for the transfer of knowledge gained and website run from the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Technology Platform.

Keywords: joint technology initiative,hydrogen,fuel cell,energy efficiency,sustainable development,climate change,european competitiveness