Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Take the energy bill back to the promised building performance (TRIBUTE)

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: Switzerland,France,Ireland,Ireland,Germany,France,Sweden,France,Italy,Spain,Portugal,Netherlands,Czechia,United Kingdom
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): 9917888.61
EU funding (EUR): 6699928.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Today, Building Energy Performance Simulation (BEPS) analysis tends to show a large discrepancy with real energy performance. Most cases are due to gross mistakes rather than fundamental inadequacy of available technology and methods. The reasons are manifold. Highly simplified calculation methods are used far beyond their domain of validity. Assumed boundary conditions such as occupant behaviour are not in accordance with actual usage; gross malfunctions in control and HVAC systems are left undetected in the commissioning process, while thermal bridges and distribution system losses are left without attention. Moreover, metered and sub-metered data are not used efficiently in calculation tools and engineering based simulation models during the Measurement and Verification (M&V) phase. TRIBUTE aims at minimizing the gap between computed and measured energy performances through the improvement of the predictive capability of a state-of-the-art commercial BEPS. TRIBUTE will extend the use of this tool to the commissioning and operation stages of a building. For existing buildings, M&V techniques will be developed and deployed to connect the BEPS model in real time to the pivotal wireless sensing and control systems of a monitored building. This involves modelling building systems to a higher fidelity than done today, developing technology for on-line identification of building key parameters, and automatically adapting the on-line, real time BEPS to the actual building’s state. In addition, BHM and EFM application will compare measured data to the then improved predicted metrics and will enable detecting building deviations. Advanced data mining methods will help evaluate these deviations. Subsequent Energy Efficiency Diagnostic Rules and optimization methods will provide cost effective and corrective retrofit actions accordingly. The methodology and tools will be evaluated in the context of three different building types and locations.

Keywords: building energy performance,simulation,wireless communication,occupant,control systems,monitoring,building health monitoring,energy management system,standardization
Safe Life Extension management of aged infrastructures networks and industrial plants (SAFELIFE-X)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Spain,Netherlands,Finland,Belgium,France,Germany,Austria
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-CSA-7, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1331971.01
EU funding (EUR): 998933.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The importance of aging of infrastructures, networks and industrial plants will continue to increase because of (a) need to continue operation of these infrastructures, networks and plants beyond the design life-time, (b) need to operate under changed conditions and (c) the increased role of existing plants in the optimized (“smart”) supply and utility networks of the future, e.g. as fall-back supply. The effective agreed strategies to address aging issues are yet to be developed and consistently applied. The project, SafeLife-X, will contribute to creating consensus on aging management including potential cascading and/or ripple effects. It will, thus, satisfy the demand within various industrial sectors and help match the EU Grand Challenges and the EU-2020 Strategy, and achieve goals of main stakeholders (e.g. EC, OECD, ECTP, ETPIS…). The project will create a multi-disciplinary / multi-sector community able to answer the key issues related aging at EU & International level. The consortium includes members of the EU Technology Platforms ECTP (construction) and ETPIS (industrial safety) and a group of 25 experts to complement the expertise needed, and will be open to all interested parties. This community will meet, share experience and prepare a common vision for the future and main elements needed to realize it. The project will capitalize on best practices of modeling, asset integrity management, decision making, and cost-benefit analysis. CEN Workshop Agreement(s) will be initiated in the course of the project and the development of one European Standard (EN) on “Risk-Based Inspection Framework” pursued. New projects will propose input for Horizon 2020 within the Strategic Research Agenda & Roadmap. SafeLife-X will explore the issue of aging as an opportunity for new technologies, services and businesses primarily in service and construction sectors, the latter being the largest EU industrial employer representing 9.9% of the GDP and 14.9 million operatives.

Keywords: infrastructure,ageing,life extension,risk-based inspection,industrial plant,transport
ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2 (ETHFELLOWS 2)

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-2013-COFUND, 2013)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18718000.0
EU funding (EUR): 7487200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ETH Zurich applies for a continuation of the COFUND support for its “ETH-Fellows” programme that received funding within the 2009 COFUND call. The programme supports incoming fellowships for postdoctoral researchers on a competitive basis. “ETH Fellows 2” 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 two years and will be entitled to an annual individual travel and consumable budget. Fellows are offered career development support and courses to develop their non-scientific skills. They are expected to take part in teaching activities of their host group and are encouraged to apply for additional competitive funding. The programme is open for all applicants who have obtained a doctorate from an institution other than ETH Zurich or the University of Zurich within 2 years of the date of application. The two-year rule can be waived in case of a 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 all research topics of interest to ETH Zurich are eligible for funding. Proposals will be judged on the basis of scientific merit and the applicant’s track record by the ETH Research Commission and external reviewers. “ETH Fellows 2” offers an excellent opportunity for young 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 significantly enhance the incoming mobility of advanced researchers from the EU States, Associated or Third countries to Switzerland.

Keywords: natural sciences,engineering,physical sciences
Healthier Life with Eco-innovative Components for Housing Constructions (H-HOUSE)

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: Sweden,Germany,Poland,France,Poland,Germany,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ENV-EeB, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6550894.0
EU funding (EUR): 4749762.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

H-House is aiming at the development of a number of building components for modern society where awareness for environmental aspects and living comfort are not compromised but complementing each other. The concept of H-House aims at components for the building envelope and components for the interior applied to both new buildings and for renovation. The purpose of an adequate building envelope is protection against moisture ingress, heat loss in winter, excessive heating in summer and noise. Components for the interior should be able to buffer heat and humidity peaks and prevent pollutants and noise. Solutions for both components for building envelope and components for the interior have to be durable, energy-efficient and affordable. Therefore, H-House will propose innovative sustainable façade and partition walls based on earthen materials, optimised cementitious materials with modified surfaces and wooden/cellulose materials. An innovative modification of the listed materials with additions of energy-saving and air purifying aerogel granulates will create optimal conditions for living. The concept of H-House covers chemical and physical ‘activity’ of the developed building materials, their embodied energy, suitability in different environments, durability, cost-efficiency and long-term improvement of energy efficiency of buildings. The complementary consortium has a strong industrial dominance (9 partners) and 3 research institutes.

Keywords: earthen materials,wood,cellulose,clays,eco-concrete,textile reinforced concrete,light weight elements,buffering,humidity control,voc,cost and energy effective,light elements,insulation
BATTERIES2020: TOWARDS REALISTIC EUROPEAN COMPETITIVE AUTOMOTIVE BATTERIES (BATTERIES2020)

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,Belgium,Germany,Spain,Italy,Denmark,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-2013-GC-Materials, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8398727.98
EU funding (EUR): 5866847.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

A lifetime of 4000 cycles at 80 % DOD and an energy density of 250 Wh/kg is a target for automotive batteries. The Batteries2020 project takes several steps to increase lifetime and energy density of large format lithium ion batteries towards these goals. Our approach is based on three parallel strategies: 1) highly focused materials development; 2) understanding ageing and degradation phenomena; and, 3) routes to reduce battery cost. We will improve cathode materials based on nickel/manganese/cobalt (NMC) oxides. Such materials have a high chance to be up-scaled and commercialized near-term. Only then, cell development efforts can be translated from pilot to mass production, a prerequisite for qualification in the automotive industry. We will start with state of the art cells and will develop two improved generations of NMC materials and cells towards high performance, high stability and cycleability. A deep understanding of ageing phenomena and degradation mechanisms can help to identify critical parameters that affect lifetime battery performance. This identification helps effectively improving materials, system and the development of materials selection criteria. However, ageing and degradation mechanisms have multiple reasons and are complex. We propose a realistic approach with a combined and well organised Consortium effort towards the development of robust testing methodology which will be improved in several steps. Combined accelerated, real tests, real field data, post-mortem, modelling and validation will provide a thorough understanding of ageing and degradation processes. Battery cost is a major barrier to EV market. Second life uses can reduce battery costs. We will analyse the potentiality of reusing and recycling batteries for providing economic viable project outputs. Our consortium combines a wide range of expertise from materials development and battery production to lifetime characterisation and viability and sustainability of the chosen appro

Keywords: electric vehicles,nmc,cathode materials,ageing and degradation phenomena,batteries modelling,li-ion batteries,business model
Safe Adaptive Software for Fully Electric Vehicles (SAFEADAPT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Spain,France,Italy,Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-2013-ICT-GC, 2013)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9241121.0
EU funding (EUR): 5525551.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The promising advent of fully electric vehicles also means a shift towards fully electrical control of the existing and new vehicle functions. In particular, critical X-by-wire functions require sophisticated redundancy solutions. As a result, the overall Electric/Electronic (E/E) architecture of a vehicle is becoming even more complex and costly. The main idea of SafeAdapt is to develop novel architecture concepts based on adaptation to address the needs of a new F/E architecture for FEVs regarding safety, reliability and cost-efficiency. This will reduce the complexity of the system and the interactions by generic, system-wide fault and adaptation handling. It also enables extended reliability despite failures, improvements of active safety, and optimized resources. This is especially important for increasing reliability and efficiency regarding energy consumption, costs and design simplicity. SafeAdapt follows a holistic approach for building adaptable systems in safety-critical environments that comprises methods, tools, and building blocks for safe adaptation. This also includes certification support of safety-critical systems in the e-vehicle domain. The technical approach builds on a SafeAdapt Platform Core, encapsulating the basic adaptation mechanisms for re-allocating and updating functionalities in the networked, automotive control systems. This will be the basis for an interoperable and standardized solution for adaptation and fault handling in AUTOSAR. The SafeAdapt approach also considers functional safety with respect to the ISO 26262 standard. SafeAdapt provides an integrated approach for engineering such adaptive, complex and safe systems, ranging from tool chain support, reference architectures, modelling of system design and networking, up to early validation and verification. For realistic validation of the adaptation and redundancy concepts, an actual vehicle prototype with different and partly redundant applications is developed.

Keywords: networked embedded systems,failure handling,adaptation,reconfiguration,safety-critical,functional safety,reliability,availability,fail-safe,energy-efficiency,certification
CRG International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in Life Sciences (IMPULSE)

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: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-COFUND, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2455255.08
EU funding (EUR): 982102.03
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed “CRG International Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in Life Sciences” (ImPuLSe) builds on the existing Fellowship Programme “International Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Programme (InterPod) running from 2010 to 2014, co-funded by the FP7 COFUND scheme. ImPuLSe aims at enabling outstanding junior scientists of all nationalities to develop a competitive research project in life sciences at the CRG, thus promoting the transnational mobility and career perspectives of young scientists in Europe. The CRG is an international biomedical research institute of excellence with strengths in Systems Biology, Cell Biology, Stem Cells and Cancer, Epigenetics, Reprogramming, Genetic Diseases and Bioinformatics. As a unique international research institute (76% of non-Spanish research staff), it draws on the organisational model similar to European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and holds a strategic partnership with them. The proposed 5-year Programme offers a total of 12 fellowships to be announced in 2 competitive calls. The Programme fellows will benefit from an exciting international scientific environment and an integrated training programme, including access to state of the art infrastructure, mentoring, lectures and seminars, specialised scientific and technological courses, complementary skills training and career development activities, postdoctoral symposia and retreats, as well as social activities. In comparison to the previous Programme, the ImPuLSe Programme offers improved features (e.g. higher number of fellowships and participation of Sanofi as an industrial partner); while keeping the emphasis on interdisciplinarity, peer-review, as an added value. ImPuLSe will contribute to providing the highest quality scientific training, and improving the mobility of young scientists in Europe for a successful career in science, offering interdisciplinary, integrated training and attractive employment conditions.

Keywords: incoming mobility,excellence,postdoctoral training,career development
INnovative COst efficient management system for next generation high voltage BATteries (INCOBAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Austria,Germany,Italy,Germany,Italy,Poland
Call:  (FP7-2013-ICT-GC, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5727469.0
EU funding (EUR): 3506095.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years, electric mobility has been promoted as the clean and cost-efficient alternative to combustion engines. Although there are already solutions on the market, mass take-up has not yet taken place. There are different challenges that hinder this process from an end user point of view such as costs of the vehicle, driving range, or infrastructure support. Several of these challenges are directly connected to the battery, the central element of the full electric vehicle (FEV). The costs of the battery sum up to 40% of the total costs of a FEV, and the driving range of a FEV is strongly reduced in comparison to the combustion engine. The aim of INCOBAT is to provide innovative and cost efficient battery management systems for next generation HV-batteries. To that end, INCOBAT will propose a platform concept in order to achieve cost reduction, reduced complexity, increased reliability as well as flexibility and higher energy efficiency. The main outcomes of the project will be: - Very tight control of the cell function leading to an increase of the driving range of the FEV by 30% for current chemistry and by a factor of 10 and more by enabling the use of new cell chemistries such as LiS or even Li-air - Radical cost reduction of battery management system – factor of 10 (at least) with respect to current solutions - Development of modular concepts for system architecture and partitioning, safety, security, reliability as well as verification and validation, thus enabling efficient integration into different vehicle platforms. INCOBAT is in the position to provide a 100% European value chain for the development of next generation HV battery management systems.

Keywords: battery management systems,autosar,multicore platform,smart sensors,system engineering,functional safety,iso26262,security,reliability,soc and soh assessment,balancing,robustness validation
Smart INitiative of cities Fully cOmmitted to iNvest In Advanced large-scaled energy solutions (SINFONIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy efficiency and savings
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Austria,Italy,France,Belgium,Spain,France,France,Germany,Sweden,Austria,Spain,Cyprus,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-06-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 73.0
Total project cost (EUR): 43266063.85
EU funding (EUR): 27451944.3
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

SINFONIA utilizes EU funds to bolster public/private resources and provide European added value to already committed district refurbishment master plans of two middle sized European cities (Bolzano, Italy and Innsbruck, Austria), the targeted performances of which combine three key features thanks to industry involvement: i) unique cooperation between the cities belonging to the same climate zone in Europe, but working under different regulatory regimes (Austria, Italy), ii) single collective ambition in reducing energy needs to meet human activity requirements, and the related CO2 emissions (40 to 50 % primary energy savings per district, 20 % increase of the share of renewable energy uses), iii) several innovations in network infrastructures and technology interfaces that enable smarter use of energy at district level, a stepping stone to guarantee a reliable and progressive transition toward low carbon cities. Moreover, SINFONIA aims at validating a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, refurbished city district model where the potential for scalability and replication by middle-sized European cities is built and validated during demonstration, based on energy technologies deployed by the two pioneer cities. This model emphasizes the role of an innovative integrated energy system approach, linking energy efficiency and CO2 abatement. The model robustness is reinforced by five “early adopter” cities which are full project partners in Cyprus (Pafos), France (La Rochelle), Germany (Rosenheim), Spain (Sevilla) and Sweden (Borås). They use the tested scalability and replication rules to reinforce their impacts on the five future city district refurbishment processes, thus showing that district renovation can be prepared under different sizes, climate and regulatory conditions (Scandinavia, Central Europe, Atlantic, and Mediterranean). A robust exploitation plan with a complete European perspective is then designed involving replication cluster cities and industry.

Keywords: smart,cities,integrated,energy,efficiency,scalability,replication,district heating,district cooling,smart grids,renewable,buildings,exploitation,refurbishment,performance