Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
STAble and low cost Manufactured bipolar plates for PEM Fuel Cells (STAMPEM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Norway,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Austria
Call:  (FCH-JU-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5223807.6
EU funding (EUR): 2576505.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

One key component in the PEMFC which contributes significantly to cost, weight, volume of the stacks and still needs to be improved to ensure cell lifetime is the BiPolar Plate (BPP). Metal based bipolar plates are very attractive, but a protective coating is needed to avoid corrosion and keep the interfacial contact resistance low. The STAMPEM-consortium has been established acknowledging that further development of BPPs require Europe’s best available resources, with respect to both human competence and infrastructure (laboratories). The objective in STAMPEM is to develop a new generation coating for low cost metallic bipolar plates for PEMFCs, with robust and durable properties for assembly and manufacturing, showing high performance after more than 10000 hours of operation. The concept of STAMPEM is to combine world leading industrial actors capable of volume manufacturing with research institutions with the required generic competence capable of providing breakthrough solutions with respect to a new generation coating for low cost metallic BPPs. By involving an end user of the BPPs developed in the STAMPEM project, the results will be thoroughly verified under realistic operating conditions in a PEMFC stack. The initial phase of the project will be used to establish a testing protocol for BPP materials. In order to screen materials basic corrosion experiments will be performed with contact resistance measurements before and after the testing. Promising materials will further be tested in fuel cells and even further in stacks. The BPP materials go through a real mass production cycle, and also the real production cost will be analyzed. Also the possible detrimental contamination of the membrane will carefully be investigated. The most promising materials will in the end be fully integrated into a system. and that also can be produced in series to provide the building blocks in other fuel cell vehicles.

Keywords: bipolar plates,metal plates,coating,deposition,hydrogen,fuel cells,pemfc,processing,manufacturing,transport,materials handling
Durable Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Tri-generation System for Low Carbon Buildings (TRISOFC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,United Kingdom,Portugal,Poland,Sweden,Türkiye
Call:  (FCH-JU-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2727219.06
EU funding (EUR): 1481391.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The project (TriSOFC) aims to develop and evaluate the performance of the first-of-its-kind LT-SOFC tri-generation system for low carbon buildings. The system is based on the integration of LT-SOFC stack and a novel liquid desiccant unit. A 1.5kW low-cost durable LT-SOFC tri-generation prototype system will be designed optimised, constructed and tested. The tri-generation system incorporates additional components including a fuel processor, to generate reformate gas if natural-gas used as fuel, and equipment for the electrical, mechanical and control balance of plant (BoP). With high efficiency, low-cost and long–term duration in mind, all these components will be first tested in the laboratory for further optimisation and miniaturisation. The performance of the tri-generation system will be tested using the Creative Energy Homes (low/zero carbon homes) at the University of Nottingham, UK. The tri-generation system will be used primarily in the low carbon homes/buildings. The system will be tested using natural-gas but it could be modified for use with other clean/renewable energy fuels (e.g. alcohol, biomass liquid fuel and biodiesel). The system has the potential to reduce CO2 emission by 70% compared to a traditional energy production system comprising of separate condensate power plant, boiler and compressor-driven cooling units. The successful development of the proposed project will promote LT-SOFC applications for provision of power, heat and cooling. The commercialisation of the system will bring economic and environmental benefits to the EU.

Keywords: fuel cell,solid oxide fuel cell,tri-generation,low carbon building,desiccant evaporative cooling.
Fuel cell systems and Hydrogen supply for Early markets (LIQUIDPOWER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Sweden,Denmark,Denmark,Germany
Call:  (FCH-JU-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3822390.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999872.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The LiquidPower project addresses the topic “SP1-JTI-FCH.2011.4.3 aiming on developing a new generation fuel cell systems for the early markets of back-up-power/telecom (BT) and material handling vehicles (MH) as well as a new innovative hydrogen supply method based on onsite methanol reforming. The LiquidPower project objectives are: R&D of a fuel cell system for Back-up-power and Telecom applications (BT), reaching full commercial market targets by 2015. R&D of a fuel cell system for material handling vehicles (MH), reaching full commercial market targets by 2015. R&D of a methanol reformer for onsite Hydrogen supply, enabling supply of low cost hydrogen for the early markets of BT and MH. Focus on reduced system cost and improved efficiency and outlet pressure. For each of the developed technologies, laboratory tests are to be conducted in order to validate reaching of the technical and market targets Continued R&D efforts are to be planned and secured initiated as well as securing patents on the developed technologies. The participating companies are to plan and secure initiation of following commercialisation & product maturation in order to ensure a commercial exploitation of the developed technologies. Project results and experiences are to be disseminated throughout Europe to the hydrogen and fuel cell industry as well as the BT and MH industries, in order to identify further collaboration partners up- and downstream the value chain.

Keywords: fuel cell system,material handling,back-up-power,telecon,methanol,reforming
Processing of oxidatively induced clustered DNA lesions under a double strand break repair deficiency in human tumor cells (DSBR AND CLUSTERS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Greece
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Although a number of risk factors associated with cancer have been well established for many years, there is an emerging need for delineation of the role of DNA repair factors relative to cancer risk, and especially the discovery and quantification of risks associated with gene mutations in double strand break (DSB) repair factors (e.g. BRCA1, DNA-PK, Lig4, XRCC4). In addition, higher levels of oxidative stress (reactive oxygen species, ROS), DNA damage and/or defective DNA repair have been reported in different malignancies and tumors. The long term objective of this project is to identify the role(s) of BRCA1 (homologous recombination-HR) and DNA-PK (non-homologous end joining-NHEJ) two key double strand break repair (DSBR) proteins in the processing of non-DSB oxidatively induced single and clustered DNA lesions (OCDLs) in human gamma-irradiated tumor cells. In addition, chromosomal instability and apoptosis will be measured in each case. There are very limited and only fragmentary data on this specific field. Based also on preliminary data, our central hypothesis is that a compromised DSB repair pathway will also lead to deficient OCDL repair and accumulation of oxidatively-generated DNA lesions when DSBR deficient cells are challenged by various oxidizing agents like ionizing radiation. These studies are expected to provide meaningful mechanistic insights into DNA repair pathways involved in the processing of non-DSB clusters and therefore advance the field. They will also contribute to cancer etiology associated with complex DNA damage since accumulation of OCDLs is associated with increased mutation rate and chromosomal instability. Fingerprinting the molecular identity of these DNA modifications can be utilized in designing more efficient cancer therapeutic strategies based on the concept of selective apoptotic activation in malignant cells after exposure to therapeutic sources of oxidative stress like radiation and chemotherapy drugs

Keywords: radiation biology,biophysics,dna damage,dna repair,oxidative stress,carcinogenesis
Physical principles of molecular signal integration in early fly development (REGULATING FLIES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The precision and reproducibility of cellular processes poses a challenge to nonequilibrium many-body physics and our understanding of the physical principles that control the emergent properties of biological systems. Despite great experimental and theoretical progress in understanding the molecular nature of particular cellular components, we lack a framework for understanding how the interactions between these stochastic nonlinear elements result in reliable building blocks of life and information transmission. In fruit fly development, proteins sequentially turn on genes, the expression states of which lay out the blueprint for the segments of the insect’s body. A challenge to biophysics and developmental biology is to understand how the correct genes are turned on at the correct location in space and at the correct time during development to precisely produce and coordinate the numerous cell types present in the adult organism. I propose to study the general problem of how the molecular building blocks of the cell (proteins, genes) interact and result in a functional system on the specific example of early gene expression in fruit fly development. Current genetic manipulations in fruit flies will allow for experimental validation of the proposed molecular networks. I will work closely with experimental geneticists and biophysicist to understand the coordinated spatio-temporal expression of genes during development and describe their interactions in a quantitative manner. My broad goal is to extract global physical principles for the complex cellular interactions.

Keywords: molecular biophysics,statistical physics,computational biology
Microbial Ion Channels for Synthetic Neurobiology (MIC-SN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this project is to control signalling in the mammalian nervous system with ‘hi-jacked’ microbial receptor proteins. We will first compile a comprehensive library of microbial ligand-gated ion channels (m-LGICs), and we will then characterize the function of selected m-LGICs in molecular detail. In order to exploit the technological potential of m-LGICs, we will employ them to control signalling in a model of epilepsy. This project provides the first systematic characterization of m-LGIC diversity and the first application thereof for the re-engineering of biological systems. It will develop the orthogonal manipulation of neuronal electrical signals with potential for treating neurological diseases. It will also open the door to new agents that target microbes threatening health and agriculture. The applicant Harald Janovjak from the University of California Berkeley has taken up a five-year post at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. He will receive project support, mentoring and career development to build up an independent research group, supervise students and maintain international collaborations. His background brings new research opportunities to Europe and seamlessly integrates with research at the host institution.

Keywords: neurobiology,cell biology,biophysics,biological engineering,nanobiotechnology,molecular biology
Low-Energy Aspects of Gauge Unifications and their Experimental Implications (LEAGUE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the most striking results of the last decade's particle physics is the proof that at least two of the three neutrinos entering the weak charged and neutral current processes are not massless, at odds with their Weyl nature within the Standard Model of particle interactions. Their unprecedented lightness and the peculiar shape of the leptonic mixing pattern reflected by the neutrino oscillation phenomena make the origin of neutrino mass a central question of the present-day high-energy physics. Moreover, the intriguing option that neutrinos can be Majorana particles reveals an entirely new aspect of reality in which some of the sacrosanct laws of nature, such as the perturbative conservation of lepton number, can be conspicuously broken. With the advent of the new generation of cutting-edge experimental instruments like, e.g., the CERN's Large Hadron Collider, high-precision neutrino facilities, super-large-volume detectors and other tools, these fundamental concepts will be subject to an unparalleled scrutiny in the coming years, with extremely high demands on the cohesion of many different scientific disciplines. The proposed project is carefully balanced at the interface of the theoretical and experimental frontiers of the modern particle physics research. It attempts to address some of its most profound issues such as the problem of the Standard Model flavour structure, the origin of parity violation and, especially, the nature of the neutrino masses in their core, from the perspective of Grand unification, one of the best motivated hypotheses about the shape of the new layer of the physical reality at very short distances. Besides a great multidisciplinary scientific potential, a thorough understanding of the interplay among physics at vastly different energy scales can shed more light on some of the fundamental questions about the origin and destiny of the Universe and the matter, radiation and other constituents within.

Keywords: unified description of elementary particles and their interactions,theoretical and experimental high-energy physics,quantum field theory,neutrino physics
Mechanisms and functions of receptor-like kinase (RLK) negative regulation in plant development. (RLK NEGREG)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In plants, receptor-like kinases (RLKs) form the largest family of membrane receptors (>400) and they are involved in virtually all aspects of the plant life cycle, including development, immunity and reproduction. Although a few model RLKs, such as the steroid receptor BRI1, have been studied extensively, there are still many with unknown function. Besides, we still know very little on how those receptors are activated. Notably, the functions and mechanisms of RLK negative regulation have virtually not been addressed, while it is established that receptor inhibition play a critical role in signaling and diseases in metazoan. During my postdoctoral work, I characterized a negative regulator of BRI1 called BKI1 (for BRI1 KINASE INHIBITOR) and identified a small family of related proteins of unknown function, called MAKRs for MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED KINASE REGULATORs. Preliminary results suggest that some MAKR proteins regulate BRI1, while others control different developmental pathways, possibly regulated by unknown RLKs. Here we propose to combine biochemistry, genetic and cell biology to address the mechanisms by which BKI1/MAKRs regulate RLK activity and to identify the developmental pathways and receptors targeted by the MAKR proteins. This work should unravel the functions of RLK negative regulation as well as identify new receptor kinase involved in plant development. Altogether, our studies will provide mechanistic insight into receptor kinase signaling pathways in plant and their evolutionary relationship to well-studied mammalian systems.

Keywords: plant cell biology,cell signaling,receptor like kinase,brassinosteroid signaling,phosphatidylinositol phosphate,receptor negative regulation
Magnetoelectric couplings in solids and related phenomena: First-principles theory (MAGNETOORBITAL)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal deals with theoretical and computational studies of megnetoelectric couplings and related phenomena in solds. The first goal is to develop and apply first-principles methods capable to describing the full magnetoelectric response of antiferromagnetic insulators to static fields. Previous work has successfully deal with the response associated with the spin of the electrons, but the orbital contribution to the magnetic interaction was not included. We shall develop a framework where both spin and orbital responses are included. The second goal is to investigate the magnetoelectric coupling at optical frequencies, in an effort to explain the surprisingly large optical response that has been measured in Cr2O3. The methodologies developed for this purpose will also be used to study the natural optical activity (natural circular dichrroism) of trigonal Se and Te, with particular attention to bandstructure effects. The third goal is to develop a computational scheme based on crystalline Wannier functions to calculate accurately the orbital magnetization of metals, both spontaneous (in the case of ferromagnetes), or induced by an external perturbation (in the case of the magnetic shielding tensors of nonmagnetic metals).

Keywords: electronic,magnetic and superconductive properties,optical and dielectric properties,solid state physics,computational physics,magnetoelectric effect,topological insulators
Automorphic Forms and Moduli Spaces of Galois Representations (AF AND MSOGR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-02
End date: 2016-04-01
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

I propose to solve three problems. The first is to prove Serre’s conjecture for real quadratic fields. I will do this by using automorphic induction to transfer the problem to U(4) over the rational numbers, where I will use automorphy lifting theorems and results on the weight part of Serre's conjecture that I established in my earlier work to reduce the problem to improving results in small weight and level. I will prove these base cases via integral p-adic Hodge theory and discriminant bounds. The second problem is to develop a geometric theory of moduli spaces of mod p and p-adic Galois representations, and to use it to establish the Breuil–Mezard conjecture in arbitrary dimension, by reinterpreting the conjecture in geometric terms, independently of any fixed mod p Galois representation. This will transform the subject by building the first connections between the p-adic Langlands program and the geometric Langlands program, providing an entirely new world of techniques for number theorists. As a consequence of the Breuil-Mezard conjecture, I will be able to deduce far stronger automorphy lifting theorems (in arbitrary dimension) than those currently available. The third problem is to prove a strengthened version of the Gouvea–Mazur conjecture, by completely determining the reduction mod p of certain two-dimensional crystalline representations. I will do this by means of explicit computations with the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL_2(Q_p), as well as by improving existing arguments which prove multiplicity one theorems via automorphy lifting theorems. This work will show that the existence of counterexamples to the Gouvea-Mazur conjecture is due to a purely local phenomenon, and that when this local obstruction vanishes, far stronger conjectures of Buzzard on the slopes of the U_p operator hold.

Keywords: number theory,automorphic forms,galois representations,langlands program.