Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia (ISSOWAMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands,Spain,India,Bangladesh,China,Thailand,Cambodia,Indonesia,Philippines,Viet Nam,Netherlands,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1234387.28
EU funding (EUR): 989522.67
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The general inadequate, when existing, methods of collection and disposal of solid waste in most Asian cities are causing important environmental and social harms, as human diseases spreading, environmental pollution and ground and water pollution. In order to raise awareness, promote an adequate waste collection and treatment system and the economic growth of this activity sector in a technological efficient and sustainable way, new waste management systems must be established, which also take into account the informal sector. This integrated approach should comprise technical, environmental, legal, socio-economic and financial aspects, involving the key actors at different levels to ensure an effective implementation. The proposed project aims to bring together experts and stakeholders in the field of solid waste management in Asian developing countries and Europe. The project will promote international cooperation between research organisations, universities, and social and governmental stakeholders in a European and Asian context (local waste processors, local municipalities and policy makers, local NGOs representatives, etc). A solid waste management expert and research co-ordination platform, and an expertise network, will be established in order to co-ordinate, assess and guide suitable research and strategic activities with the aim of identifying aspects like cost-effective treatment and sorting technologies, environmental impacts, gaps in technical knowledge and socio-economic and policy barriers to further execution. The network will also propose directions for futures research and for local implementation. The general aim of the proposed network will be to develop a variety of innovative, adaptable and replicable approaches to a more efficient solid waste management, integrating appropriate low-cost and efficient technologies with community-based management and their relevant governance, institutional frameworks and socio-economic constraints.

Keywords: asia integrated solid waste management research coordination methodology assessment sustainability
Upgrading the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe – preparatory phase (SHARE-PREP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Belgium,Czechia,Denmark,France,Greece,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Netherlands,Poland,Slovenia,Spain,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-01-01
End date: 2009-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3743601.6
EU funding (EUR): 2499842.08
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) has been selected by the ESFRI roadmap process as one of the 35 crucial pillars of the European Research Area. This project will prepare a major upgrade of SHARE for all 27 EU members plus associated Switzerland and Israel during the decade 2010-2020. SHARE builds an infrastructure of micro data necessary to understand individual and societal ageing as a process in time that is strongly influenced by pension, health care and labour market regimes and their reforms. It is designed by researchers for researchers and integrates economics, medicine, and social sciences. Research based on this infrastructure will also serve as a feedback mechanism to support fact-based EU policies, such as the open method of coordination and the Lisbon agenda, to help meeting the challenges of population ageing in all countries of the EU. The major upgrade of SHARE will have two dimensions. First, it will prolong SHARE over time and generate a genuine panel that follows individuals as they age and react to the changes in the social and economic environment. From a research viewpoint, the time dimension is crucial since ageing is a process that can only be understood if we observe the same individual at different points in time. Second, SHARE will expand to all EU member states. Ageing in the accession states is a particular challenge as these countries are ageing before their social and health institutions are brought to the same level of maturity as in the EU15 countries. Aim of the preparatory phase is to bring the SHARE prototype to the level of financial, legal, governance and technical maturity required to fill important knowledge gaps in individual and population ageing. It involves all stakeholders necessary for the major upgrade, among them research institutes and universities; national science ministries and foundations; two Directorates General of the European Commission; and the U.S. National Institute on Aging.

Keywords: survey health ageing retirement
Enhancing Poplar Traits for Energy Applications (ENERGYPOPLAR)

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: France,Sweden,Germany,Belgium,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4140925.4
EU funding (EUR): 2987778.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Green plants application is being promoted through different European directives, which aim to achieve 5.75% of liquid fuel supply by 2010 and 20% by 2020. Liquid fuels derived from cellulosic biomass offer an important alternative to conventional energy sources to reduce Europe’s dependence on fossil fuels. Trees are attractive dedicated energy crops because they display a wide range of growth habits and can be grown on marginal lands unsuited to other agricultural crops including energy grasses, with reduced input costs and optimised land management. ENERGYPOPLAR is designed to develop domesticated energy poplars having both desirable cell-wall traits and high biomass yield under sustainable low-input conditions to be used as a source of lignocellulosic feedstock for bioethanol. ENERGYPOPLAR will (i) Provide a better understanding of fundamental mechanisms determining optimised yield in Populus (ii) Understand mechanisms that regulate the synthesis of cell wall polysaccharides (iii) Provide a better understanding of lignocellulosic quality and in a particular the genetic and genomic basis of ‘high cellulose’ trees linked to alterations in the quality and quantity of lignin (iv) Develop high thoughput assays for lignocellulosic quality and lignocellulose saccharification potential (v) Establish a platform for rapid genes discovery and testing using systems biology approaches to identify novel transcripts for traits of interest (vi) Develop a delivery pipeline for improved genotypes for ENERGYPOPLAR trees, with traits of interest and begin the process of commercialisation (vii) Establish a tool for environmental sustainability assessments of SRC Populus growing systems (viii) Disseminate the results and transfer technology to the energy industry, land-based sector and to appropriate policy makers

Keywords: biofuel,cell wall polysaccharides,energy cropping,environmental sustainability,lignocellulosic feedstock,poplar,qtl,molecular breeding,wood quality and quantity
EXTreme ICing Environement (EXTICE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,France,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Spain,France,Italy,Netherlands,France,France
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4258311.0
EU funding (EUR): 3000000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

More recent aircraft incidents and accidents have highlighted the existence of icing cloud characteristics beyond the actual certification envelope defined by the JAR/FAR Appendix C, which accounts for an icing envelope characterized by water droplet diameters up to 50 μm (so-called cloud droplet). The main concern is the presence of super-cooled large droplets (SLD) such as freezing drizzle, in the range of 40-400 μm, or freezing rain, with droplet diameter beyond 400 μm. International airworthiness authorities, namely are intending to jointly develop and issue updated regulations for certification in SLD: “Appendix X”. If implemented, the proposed new rules will require aircraft manufacturers to demonstrate that their product can safely operate in SLD environments. To do so, they will be requested to demonstrate that specific capabilities comply with the new regulation. Compliance has typically involved actual flight into natural icing conditions. Since SLD icing conditions occur less frequently than the current Appendix C icing specifications, it will be difficult and expensive to demonstrate compliance by the use of natural icing flights alone. Therefore, it is expected that a greater reliance will be placed on the use of so-called engineering tools (icing tunnels, tankers & computer codes). The objectives of this proposal are twofold. One objective is to reduce aircraft development cost by improving tools and methods for aircraft design and certification in an icing environment. On the other hand, since the proposal will address the development and validation of Means of Compliance and tools for aircraft icing certification, this research activity will also have a direct impact on aircraft safety, allowing future aircraft to be designed safer with respect to the icing and the SLD environment.

Keywords: icing safety sld
Infrastructure Funding in the Life Sciences (ERA-INSTRUMENTS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Italy,Netherlands,Spain,Iceland,Greece,Czechia,Belgium,United Kingdom,Austria,United Kingdom,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497196.85
EU funding (EUR): 1199911.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

It has become increasingly obvious that concepts and strategies for research infrastructure (RI) funding should be harmonised and coordinated within the EU. ESFRI has determined requirements for European RI funding and has presented a roadmap. Growing attention is paid to life sciences that rely on RIs of a less centralised, but more networked dimension. There is a clear need for action in the interdisciplinary area between physics, chemistry, biology and medical sciences as cutting edge instrumentation becomes increasingly expensive and, yet, indispensable for world-class research. However, promotion of research policies, apart from the ESFRI projects, has been restricted so far to national efforts without managing these actions with a European view. Funding and research organisations can not afford to remain at the national stage with world-wide competition for the best scientists and the most promising projects. Frontier research is international since long and funding organisations have to follow scientists to the European level. ERA-Instruments aims at initiating coordination and a sustainable network of ministries, charities, funding agencies and research councils active in funding of life science RI. This European platform of relevant stake-holders will set up comprehensive tools for adequate treatment of instrumentation related topics enabling conclusions for research policies on both a national and European level. The ERA-NET will focus on bioanalytical instrumentation (incl. post-genomic high-throughput techniques) such as NMR, mass spectrometry, microscopy, microarray platforms etc. These mid-size equipments have become an essential and strategic strength for European countries. The ERA-NET can build on the broad experience with RI funding of its partners. Contacts to the scientists will thus remain close and continuous. Promotion of RI funding in FP-7 and support for new member states will also strengthen the position of European research.

Keywords: bioanalytical instrumentation,data processing,life sciences,frontier technology,multidisciplinary,research infrastructure,midsize equipment
Knowledge in a Wiki (KIWI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Denmark,Czechia,Germany,Austria,Czechia,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3801444.0
EU funding (EUR): 2690002.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the project KIWI is to develop an advanced knowledge management system (the “KIWI system”) based on a semantic wiki. This system will support collaborative knowledge creation and sharing, and use semantic descriptions and reasoning as a means to intelligently author, change and deliver content. A particularly salient aspect of combining wikis with advanced semantic technologies is that the wiki still is a generic and flexible tool, but semantic technologies allow to provide specific support for the user based on domain, context, role, and experience. The main outcomes of the project will be (1) an enhanced wiki vision (the “KIWI vision”) describing how the “convention over configuration” paradigm of wikis combined with semantic technologies can lead to flexible and problem-oriented knowledge management, (2) a collaborative, web-based environment (the “KIWI system”) that provides support for knowledge sharing, knowledge creation, and coordination in software and project knowledge management, (3) the evaluation of this system in two concrete, representative use cases at our industry partners, and (4) the “KIWI handbook”, describing the project vision, the KIWI system functionalities, as well as giving recommendations and best practices for using the system in concrete knowledge management scenarios. The KIWI consortium brings together leading research groups (SRFG, AAU, BUT, LMU Munich) in the areas of semantic wikis, reasoning, information extraction, personalisation, and knowledge management for software processes. These are matched by two large international corporations in knowledge intensive areas (Sun Microsystems and WM-data) that offer use cases demonstrating a clear need for the advanced knowledge management we envision in the project, and by a SME specialised in dissemination of semantic technologies to industry.

Keywords: knowledge management,semantic wiki,advanced semantic technologies
Clean buildings along with resource efficiency enhancement using appropriate materials and technology (CLEAR-UP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Denmark,Switzerland,Sweden,Germany,Denmark,Greece,European organisations area,Germany,France,France,Belgium,Hungary,Czechia,Germany,Italy,Germany,Germany,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11900373.68
EU funding (EUR): 8300000.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

Clear-up presents a holistic approach to the reducing operational energy use in buildings. By development and novel use of nano-materials it aims to increase energy performance in heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and lighting systems, and to improve indoor air quality using catalytic purification. Clear-up’s solutions are designed for retro-fitting existing buildings and of course for new constructions. It will achieve this by addressing four key components which control the indoor environment: • Windows. Clear-up will advance the practical use of shutters and electrochromic window foils which reduce the building cooling load and along with light-guide technology, reduce the need for artificial lighting. • Walls. Clear-up will use photocatalytic materials for air purification and nano-porous vacuum insulation in combination with phase change materials to passively control temperature. • Air Conditioning. Clear-up will advance technologies for demand controlled ventilation and improved air quality. • Sensors and control provide an underpinning technology for Clear-up’s approach. New sensors will be developed, and their use optimised for the operation of smart windows; demand controlled ventilation; and catalytic purification. Clear-up will develop, install, measure and evaluate technological solutions in the laboratory, in a large-scale testing facility and in real world applications. Its approach will be demonstrated at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, 2009. The safety of new materials will be considered; it will propose inputs to standards and environmental product declarations for its technologies. Clear-up will also investigate environmental and economic lifecycles for components and systems. The practical issues of exploitation will be addressed in cooperation with industry bodies ECTP, ECCREDI and ENBRI providing access to large firms and SMEs.

Keywords: nanomaterials,retrofitting,automatic dissemination,energy efficient and healthy buildings
Improving Plant Cell Walls for Use as a Renewable Industrial Feedstock (RENEWALL)

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: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,Sweden,France,United Kingdom,Denmark,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium,Germany,Sweden,Denmark,United States
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-08-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7662908.4
EU funding (EUR): 5744122.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

With oil reserves diminishing and the effects of industrial emissions on global climate, there is a need for renewable carbon-neutral industrial feedstocks. First generation biorefineries, producing biofuels and bioplastics by the fermentation of sugar or starch, are seeing a rapid expansion and are adding stress to food supplies. A more sustainable option is to use plant biomass from agricultural by-products, or dedicated biomass crops. Plant biomass is underutilized, abundant and composed mostly of cell wall polysaccharides. Conversion of these polysaccharides to sugars will provide cheap and abundant raw materials for industrial biotechnology. The use of plant biomass in this way is hampered by the high cost of saccharification due to the recalcitrance of cell walls to enzymatic hydrolysis. RENEWALL aims to find ways to overcome this technical bottleneck by identifying and modifying the structural features of plant cell walls that make them difficult to process. Our partnership brings together outstanding biologists, chemists, and enzymologists, as well as industrialists from the plant breeding and biotechnology sectors, from Europe and the USA who can together take an integrated multidisciplinary approach to solving this fundamental problem. Combining genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and systems approaches, we will achieve a step-change in our understanding of the biosynthesis of the major components of plant biomass, namely; lignin, cellulose and matrix polysaccharides. Using state-of-the-art and novel analytical methods we will determine the basis of the recalcitrance of plant biomass to saccharification. Combining these approaches, we will identify new genes that can be manipulated to improve the ease and yield of biomass saccharification and will generate rational approaches for improving the quality of plant biomass as an industrial feedstock

Keywords: biorefineries saccharification biomass plant cell wall biofuels lignins cellulose matrix polysaccharides
Radio Frequency Identification Tags Linked to on Board Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems in a Wireless, Remote and Intelligent Monitoring and Assessment System for Maintenance of CONstructed Facilities (MEMSCON)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Belgium,Netherlands,France,Italy,Germany,Romania,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SME-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4976006.61
EU funding (EUR): 3814802.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Advances in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), in lower-power wireless networking and in computation give hopes for a new generation of tiny, cheap, networked sensors that can be ‘sprayed’ on buildings to provide quantitative information on the structure’s physical state while in service. This can be used to assess the structural condition and aid decision making on retrofit, refurbishment and maintenance so that safety can be attained and material use and costs can be reduced. The objectives of this work are: 1. To integrate MEMS-based sensors and a RFID tag in a single package of small size that will be attached to concrete buildings to measure acceleration and/or strain that will be transmitted to a remote base station using a wireless interface. 2. To develop a Decision-Support-System (DSS) for proactive remedial measures under operating conditions and rehabilitation after an earthquake damage. 3. To evaluate the system in ‘1’ and the DSS in ‘2’ in a structural laboratory. 4. To field test an integrated package of the system in ‘1’ and the DSS in ‘2’ on an actual building. The proposed system will be used in concrete buildings like schools where information will be sent wirelessly, to a central location (e.g. ministry of education), to be processed. It will result in lower maintenance cost, since problems are cheaper to fix when they first appear, and an increase in safety. The impact on safety will be greater after an earthquake where it is essential to have a quick estimate of the building structural condition. Moreover, it will transform the SME dominated building rehabilitation sector into an advanced knowledge sector, enhance the competitiveness of European SMEs, reduce time to assess the structural condition of a building in service and decide on remedial measures, promote sustainability, offer services with a high value added and enable the entrance of MEMS European SMEs to the large building market.

Keywords: mems sensors,rfid tags,seismic damage assessment,preventive maintenance