Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Methods and tools for dual access to the EO databases in the EU and Russia (MEDEO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Cross-cutting activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Russian Federation,Greece
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 619468.0
EU funding (EUR): 499436.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The market of EO services is rapidly growing and becoming one of the main driving forces of innovative development both in Europe and Russia. At the same time, still the exchange of EO data available in both regions is a technical challenge. The consortium composed of the developers of an only Russian civil EO satellite system Resurs-DK and representatives of European EO research community and EO service industry aims at reducing technical barriers for the joint use of EO data available both in the EU and Russia. In particularly, the project will (1) structure and make publically available internal data format used in the Resurs satellite system, (2) develop mathematical methods for data conversion and several software toolboxes enabling independent EO service providers and GIS developers to access to and use both European and Russian EO datasets from a single application, (3) develop the web interface for the collections of the Resurs satellite data, thus enabling access to and efficient search for EO images. The major technical outcomes will be tested and evaluated by integration into the real European and Russian applications and their validation in the context of provisioning real services to potential final users. The consortium will also undertake steps to make the project results available to the prime dissemination audience - SMEs working in the field of EO services and/or GIS software development.

Keywords: eo databases,gis data format,gis image metadata,format convertor,data access modules
Search for Electro-Magnetic Earthquake Precursors combining satellite and ground-based facilities (SEMEP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Cross-cutting activities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 728376.4
EU funding (EUR): 452514.6
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The project is intended to investigate the short-term transient processes in the global lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupled system using synchronous satellite and ground-based observations. The research will be based on analysis of the data obtained from several micro-satellites, including the French spacecraft DEMETER. The main scientific objectives of DEMETER are directly related to study of the ionospheric perturbations due to seismic and man-made activities. Satellite data will be analysed together with those collected from the specialized network of identical VLF receivers distributed in Russia, Europe and Japan. The network operates in conjunction with powerful transmitters deployed all over the world and enables the search for electromagnetic earthquake precursors in highly seismo-active regions such as the Far East and Southern Europe. A unique experimental database of electromagnetic and seismic observations from both satellite and ground-based sources will be created using data covering the Far East and Southern European regions. The combined use of satellite and ground-based datasets enables us to resolve the problem of the separation of spatial and temporal variations, which is insoluble using single satellite measurements. The work plan of the project foresees combined data processing and extensive theoretical modelling of the interaction processes and the signal transfer mechanisms in the lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere system. The method of global diagnostics of seismicity using both DEMETER and ground VLF signal observations has been already tested over Japan. The participants of the project have extensive experience performing investigations of seismicity and related geophysical phenomena as well as in the processing and analysis of satellite and ground based data. Overall, the project will fill several significant gaps in the understanding of the physics of the formation of ionospheric disturbances caused by seismic activity.

Keywords: lthosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupled system,satellite observations,vlf/lf signals,earthquakes
Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing of Ultra-Functional Miniaturised Consumer Electronics Using Hyper-Fine Solder Powders (HYPERSOL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Poland,Poland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1851225.0
EU funding (EUR): 1374975.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The total EU electronics industry employs ≈20.5 million people, sales exceeding €1 trillion and includes 396,000 SMEs. It is a major contributor to EU GDP and its size continues to grow fuelled by demand from consumers to many industries. Despite its many positive impacts, the industry also faces some challenges connected with the enormous quantity of raw materials that it needs for sustainability, the huge quantity of Waste Electrical, Electronics Equipment (WEEE) generated and the threat of competition from Asia. To sustain its growth, to manage the impact of WEEE and to face the competition from Asia, the industry needs innovations in key areas. One such area is the drive for ultra-miniaturisation/ultlra-functionality of equipment. Achievement of these twin drivers can reduce raw material requirements, reduce WEEE and deliver a competitive edge to the European industry, moving it up the value chain to high value added and high margin products. The key current road block/limitation to achieving the goal of ultra-miniaturisation/functionality is how to increase the component density on the printed circuit board (PCB). This is currently limited by the availability of hyper fine pitch solder powder pastes. Hypersol aims to deliver solder pastes with solder spheres &lt;10μ to enable PCB manufacturers to more than double the component density on the PCB. In layman’s terms, this would effectively enable more than a doubling of the functions available on your cell phone, satellite navigation system, MP3 player and of course the ubiquitous lap top computer which could soon become a palm top computer. The successful completion of the HYPERSOL project would lift the ultra-miniaturisation/functionality road block and in the process also enable reduction in raw material usage, reduction in WEE, reduction in pollution and associated health costs and also a major reduction in EU energy demand with all its indirect benefits for environment and society.

Keywords: materials,powder metallurgy,hyper-fine lead free solder powders,high energy atomisation of liquid metal,real-time process control,weee reduction
Water Decontamination Technology For The Removal Of Recalcitrant Xenobiotic Compounds Based On Atmospheric Plasma Technology (WATERPLASMA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Germany,Portugal,Romania
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1443801.69
EU funding (EUR): 1069934.19
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Assuring good quality water supply is a major concern in Europe. Wastewater treatment is carried out in order to minimise environmental impact, as well as to provide an alternative source of potable water. Unfortunately, currently available treatments based on physico-chemical or biological processes are limited, since they are unable to efficiently remove recalcitrant xenobiotic substances commonly present in chemical industry wastewaters. As a consequence, EC legislation is becoming more stringent, further reducing dumping limits of hazardous chemicals from effluents, requiring ever increasing investments in decontamination. In this context, SME consortium members have identified the need to develop new cost-efficient water decontamination technology to comply with EU regulations. The WATERPLASMA project aims at developing an innovative decontamination process based on a one atmosphere uniform glow discharge ("OAUGD") plasma reactor that makes possible to eliminate recalcitrant molecules without the need of chemicals or filters or that result in residual materials. The commercial objective of the project is to scale-up a reactor based on discharge technologies to remove toxic organic molecules from water. The system will be applicable to any industry producing water mixed with toxic organic substances in concentrations that cannot be disposed off in effluents. Initial targeted industries are pharmaceutical and personal care SMES using solvents and managing wastewaters with high organic loads, nevertheless the potential market of the system can extend to other contaminants, even AOX, and to water disinfection. The project will focus on up-scaling of atmospheric glow discharge plasma reactor, achieving a continuous treatment module. Reaction chamber, power electronics design, process optimisation, chemical and toxicological analyses, and monitoring will ensure the resulting wastewater decontamination and will broaden knowledge about plasma decontamination.

Keywords: advanced oxidation process,atmospheric plasma technology,one atmosphere uniform glow discharge plasma,dielectric barrier discharge plasma,wastewater decontamination,recalcitrant xenobiotics,rec
Distributed Infrastructure for EXPErimentation in Ecosystem Research (EXPEER)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,Austria,Israel,Norway,Italy,Spain,Denmark,Poland,Switzerland,Germany,Hungary,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Finland,Germany,Belgium,Romania,Germany,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom,Serbia,Netherlands,Slovakia
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9414736.19
EU funding (EUR): 7400000.0
Participants: 39
Project status: CLOSED

EXPEER will bring together, major observational, experimental, analytical and modelling facilities in ecosystem science in Europe. By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, EXPEER will form a key contribution to structuring and improving the European Research Area (ERA) within terrestrial ecosystem research. EXPEER builds on an ambitious plant for networking research groups and facilities. The joint research activities will provide a common framework and roadmap for improving the quality, interaction and individual as well as joint performance of these infrastructures in a durable and sustainable manner. EXPEER will provide a framework for increased use and exploitation of the unique facilities through a strong and coordinated programme for Transnational Access to the infrastructures. Extensive outreach and collaboration with related networks, infrastructures as well as potential funding bodies will ensure that EXPEER will contribute with its key experiences to the shaping and designing of future research networks and infrastructures, and that it has full support from all stakeholders in reaching its long-term objectives. The establishment of the EXPEER Integrated Infrastructure will enable integrated studies of the impacts of climate change, land use change and loss of biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems through two major steps: 1. Bringing together the EXPEER Infrastructures to enable collaboration and integration of observational, experimental and modelling approaches in ecosystem research (in line with the concept developed in ANAEE); 2. Structuring existing network of ecosystem observational, monitoring and experimental sites across Europe (LTER-Europe). Through its integrated partnership, uniting both the experimental, observational, analytical and modelling research communities, EXPEER has the multidisciplinary expertise and critical mass to integrate and structure the European long-term ecosystem research facilities providing improved services and benefits to the whole research community as well as the society in general.

Keywords: infrastructure,ecotron,analytical platform,modelling platform,experimentation,observation,biogeochemical cycles,landuse,climate change,ecosystem,biodiversity
Micro ECM for SMEs (ΜECM)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,Ireland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1596104.0
EU funding (EUR): 1205496.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Current ECM process technology is limited in machining accuracy and process stability. The primary reason for this limitation is that the power supply units, which are at the heart of ECM are traditionally designed for the millisecond pulsed current range. Developing a power supply unit that has the capability of pulsing in the microsecond / nanosecond range, will result in more control of the process and better product, leading to improved uptimes on the shop floor and improved product quality. The SME partners in this project consortium have identified a commercial opportunity for a new generation of ECM that can offer: - Improved process stability and control - Increased accuracy (at a micron level) - Better process uptime and increased efficiency / outputs - Consistently better performing and better quality products - Shorter product development lead time This project will undertake the research and development work necessary to ensure that the SMEs in the consortium can realise this commercial opportunity through the development of a power supply unit (SMPS) that can support the next generation of ECM. The project aims to develop an SMPS that will deliver quicker electrical current pulsing rates in the microsecond / nanosecond range, resulting in an ECM with a machining accuracy better than 1 micron. The project will also develop a demonstrator / prototype that will be used for validating and demonstrating the next generation ECM. Based on research undertaken by CDAMC (in conjunction with SMPS manufacturers and suppliers), it is clear that power units in this performance range are currently not commercially available. The availability of a new generation of SMPS could result in a major step change in ECM capability and help sustain Europe’s leading position in ECM technology.

Keywords: current density,electromagnetic fea,switch mode power supply (smps)
High Performance Solid Propellants for In-Space Propulsion (HISP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Sweden,Germany,France,Italy,Netherlands,Sweden,France,Russian Federation,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2823326.0
EU funding (EUR): 1975683.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this project is to significantly reduce the time, cost and mass required for spacecrafts to reach their destinations. This is directly linked to their propulsion systems. The only way to significantly improve the performance of a propulsion system is to develop propellants with higher specific impulse. The objective of the project will be met by developing a high performance solid rocket propellant with performance similar or higher compared to state of the art liquid bi-propellants and about 10% higher compared to the current state of the art solid propellants. The project thus address advanced chemical propulsion technologies and more specifically advanced high energy density fuels, for in-space propulsion, mentioned in the Work Programme. Development of a high performance solid propellant will be achieved by using the new high energy density oxidizer ammonium dinitramide, ADN, an energetic binder based on glycidyl azide polymer, GAP, and high energy density fuels such as aluminium hydride (AlH3), nano-aluminium and activated aluminium. Recent breakthroughs in the area of high energy density materials at several laboratories in Europe have shown that development of such propellants now seems viable. The propellant developed will be fully characterized with respect to stability, hazard properties, mechanical properties and performance. The performance will be determined at the end of the project by firing a test motor containing approximately 7 kg of propellant. Finally system analysis will be performed to determine the overall mission benefits by selecting two reference missions. Currently the high energy density materials to be used in the project are produced in small scale. The methods to produce them will be improved in order to produce the amount needed for the project. These production improvements will also make the materials more available to the space community and thus help to implement them in future missions.

Keywords: propulsion,space,fuel,propellant,rocket
Improvement of feeds and feeding efficiency for seabass in cage farms in the Mediterranean. (EFISHENT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Norway,Greece,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Israel,Greece
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1299117.2
EU funding (EUR): 1000851.45
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

In 2005 the total world production of sea bass reached 80,000 tons. The estimated amount of feed used to support this production was 150,000 tons valued at about € 100 million. Notwithstanding the increase in production, producer’s profit margins are squeezed by i) the increase in price of feed ingredients, and ii) the decline/instability of fish prices. Feed costs account for up to 60% of total production costs and inappropriate feeding management can therefore be detrimental to farmer&apos;s profits. Optimal feed management includes the use of well balanced feeds covering the species’ nutritional and energy requirements and cost efficient feeding regimes. The large variation amongst generally poor industrial feed conversion ratios (FCR) obtained in European sea bass farming is a clear indication of inappropriate feeding. This project is a joint effort between European aquaculture stakeholders targeting the accurate determination of the basic nutritional requirements of sea bass throughout the production cycle and best practices in feeding regimes and technology in order to achieve a significant reduction in production FCR values. Specifically, the optimum dietary protein and energy levels which are crucial parameters for effective feed formulation will be determined for European sea bass and evaluated on the farm using the latest demand feeding technology. These requirements will be studied in relation to the main influencing biotic and abiotic factors which are fish size, diet composition, feeding level and frequency, water temperature and oxygen levels. The cost efficient use of diets with formulations targeting the specific seasonal and developmental needs of the fish will effectively improve production FCR and have a significant economic benefit for aquaculturists. Optimising feed utilization efficiency, fish growth, health and welfare besides promoting production efficiency and economy will also have a significantly positive environmental impact.

Keywords: optimum dietary protein,optimum energy levels,feeding efficiency,feed formulation
INTEGRATED MULTIMEDIA MIXED REALITY SYSTEM, OF REAL TIME VIRTUAL DIVING, BY WEB TELEOPERATED UNDERWATER DATA COLLECTING ROBOTS, DIFFUSED ONLINE AND THROUGH A NETWORK OF SUBMERSIBLE SIMULATION DEVICES (DIGITAL OCEAN)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,France,Portugal,Finland,France,Italy,Finland,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1415880.0
EU funding (EUR): 1083405.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Discovery of ocean depths concerns every one of us. Recent developments of new technologies, of underwater robotic and of GPS are changing dramatically the way people perceive oceans, not anymore from their surfaces, but through their depths, not in immersion but on-line, not deferred but in real time. This is the objective of Digital Ocean. New technologies are now capable of challenging traditional scuba diving by creating an innovative form of diving, based on science and technology, not on bravery - virtual diving in real time. Navigating freely in the oceanic realm, a dream rooted on man’s origins, is now accessible to all. Smart autonomous robots are used to collect underwater digital data that generate sceneries of undersea in 3D interactive imagery. Then, these preprocessed background productions are merged, through mixed reality, with real time 2D videos taken by other distant underwater remote controlled robots teleoperated via the internet, and diffused on-line. As a result, through the web, anyone, anywhere, at any moment - with minimal costs and no risks, will be able to dive virtually in real time, in the most remarkable and secluded sites around the world, unconcerned by sea depths, and get an unmatched quality of images, discover a variety of details, experience the feelings of diving without its constraints and, above all, keeping undisturbed the environment Thus, virtual divers alone or in groups, will be able in few days to discover more than a real diver during all his lifetime. To further enhance virtual diving experience, are integrated in the system a serious video game, a wiki-editing and e-learning platforms, linked with marine specialists. Divers themselves will build their immersed world, keeping virtual sites mirroring real sites, continuously updated and improving in realism. With Digital Ocean, the discovery of the other two thirds of our planet’s immersed territories will become eventually and irreversibly reachable.

Keywords: virtual diving,underwater robots,web teleoperation,mixed reality,diving simulation,marine science