Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced wood plastic composite material for the production of bath furniture resistant to moisture and free of coatings (LIMOWOOD)

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: Spain,France,Germany,Spain,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1427281.73
EU funding (EUR): 1079997.76
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

LIMOWOOD solution will develop a Wood Plastic Composite (WPC) made of a recycled thermoplastic polymer and natural reinforcing particles derived from wood. The resulting material will represent a number of advantages: •Weight and density comparable to current wood-based pannels (700 kg/m3). This will provide reduction in the cost of transport of furniture items and use of cheaper fasteners and fittings to support weight. •Improved mechanical resistance (modulus of elasticity >4.5 GPa and tensile strength > 55 MPa). •Improved resistance to moisture and fungal decay by 35% making durable bathroom furniture •Cost-competitive material and derived furniture products (190-200 €/m3). •Fully recyclable material •Total avoidance of surface coatings or adhesives releasing no VOCs •Good aesthetic finish resembling natural wood. LIMOWOOD will enter the market by filling the gap between high-standing products made of pure solid wood that have high price (1000-2700 €/m3) and require the use of coatings but have good mechanical resistance and the best finish, and low-standing products with very affordable prices (180 €/m3) but reduced mechanical properties, durability and resistance to moisture. The developments presented in this project will enable the participating SMEs to become more competitive in the bathroom furniture sector and be able to face current economic, technological, environmental and legislative threats. They will be providing a high quality material at a cost-effective value (190-200 €/m3) and achieving forecasted sales of 64 million € in 5 years during future commercial exploitation of the project’s results. At European level, savings of more than 120 million are estimated after project completion through the contribution of LIMOWOOD to the reduction of imports from outside Europe, reduction of VOCs emissions, reduction of wood waste, creation of new jobs in the industry and social security savings from work-related diseases.

Keywords: wood,thermoplastics,composites,furniture,cellulose
Aviation Safety and Certification of new Operations and Systems (ASCOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,France,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,European organisations area,France,Netherlands,Poland,Netherlands,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4618591.4
EU funding (EUR): 3365884.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Fundamental changes in the institutional arrangements for aviation regulation in Europe, the introduction of new technologies and operations, and demands for higher levels of safety performance call for the adaptation of existing certification processes. Therefore, the main objective of ASCOS is to develop novel certification process adaptations and supporting safety driven design methods and tools to ease the certification of safety enhancement systems and operations, thereby increasing safety. The proposed project will follow a total system approach, dealing with all aviation system elements in an integrated way over the complete life-cycle. To investigate how dealing with all safety and certification aspects in an integrated manner may be made possible using a new process, new methods and new tools, ASCOS contains work packages on Certification processes, Continuous Safety Monitoring, and Safety Risk Management. Four case studies will be conducted to validate the processes, methods and tools proposed. The case studies include the certification of aircraft failure management systems, a future ATM/CNS system for improved surveillance, aircraft systems for improved controllability in flight, and aircraft ground handling operations. A very strong already established User Group will keep the project focused and facilitate the uptake of project results. ASCOS will provide efficient and affordable certification process adaptations for new aeronautical systems and operations. ASCOS provides safety based design systems and tools that better account for the human element, already from the early stages of the certification process, thereby reducing consequences of human error and increasing safety.

Keywords: aviation safety,certification
A Novel Decision Support System for Intelligent Maintenance (IMAIN)

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: Germany,Spain,Sweden,Spain,Slovenia,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-2012-NMP-ICT-FoF, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4871256.0
EU funding (EUR): 3433448.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

“iMain” is an European level research project aiming to develop a novel decision support system for predictive maintenance. To that end, a multi-layer solution integrating embedded information devices and artificial intelligence techniques for knowledge extraction and novel reliability & maintainability practices will be developed. The resulting solution will provide extended capabilities compared to those achievable with current state-of-the-art maintenance practices, increasing system lifetime of the production equipment at least 30%, energy efficiency at least 20%, maintenance cost at least 40% and availability of whole process at least 30%. As for maximizing project impact, “iMain” project is strongly committed to deployment issues, including innovation and implementation actions focused on value chains and bridging the gap from research to market. To that end, “iMain” emphasizes on the commercialization of results, taking also into account the needs of post-project monitoring of commercialization, which will be conducted after the end of the project in order to assess the achievement of the requested funding and for promoting the project as an effective innovation mechanism. As a step towards the Europe 2020 strategy, “iMain” project will thus make a contribution in terms of R&D investment, employment and resource efficiency, aiming to assist EU manufacturers, particularly SMEs, to adapt to global competitive pressures by increasing the technological base of EU manufacturing through the development and integration of the enabling technologies of the future, specifically engineering technologies for novel predictive maintenance solutions.

Keywords: predictive maintenance,embedded information devices,artificial intelligence,data mining,knowledge extraction,reliability maintainability practices,system lifetime,availability,energy efficienc
Intelligent Reconfigurable Machines for Smart Plug&Produce Production (I-RAMP³)

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: Germany,Germany,France,Germany,Portugal,Germany,Netherlands,Hungary,Germany,Greece
Call:  (FP7-2012-NMP-ICT-FoF, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6724981.0
EU funding (EUR): 4998526.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The vision of I-RAMP³ is to enable the European industry towards smart manufacturing systems in conventional production. The project aims at creating innovative solutions in order to improve the competitiveness for this industry sector. This goal will be reached by a new concept for fast and optimized ramp-up and operation of production lines with heterogeneous devices. By this, significant reduction of time and efforts during the setup and re-configuration of production will be reached. At the same time, production costs will be reduced by increasing the efficiency of manu-facturing. This challenge will be tackled by the introduction of the so called NETDEVs. This new kind of agent-based production devices is equipped with standardized interfaces and standardized communication protocols as well as self-descriptive capabilities. Furthermore, NETDEVs are able to optimize themselves to varying setup of production and production conditions by negotiating with each other. A plug-in concept of different models allow for easy extension of NETDEVs for maintenance and re-use purposes. By revealing hidden features I-RAMP³ technology is able to multiply the usability of conventional devices. The I-RAMP³ concept covers also new approaches for the smart introduction of intelligent sensors and actuators as they play a significant role in future smart factories. Such systems will be equipped with standardized interfaces and advanced communication skills in order to improve plug&work. The holistic concept of I-RAMP³ for enabling future smart factories is completed by the introduction of knowledge-based modules for Manufacturing Execution Systems. The additional features of the I-RAMP³ approach allow for increasing flexibility and fault-tolerance during production. Having I-RAMP³ technology available, a significant step towards plug&produce technology as well as better modularity, maintainability and reusability will be done.

Keywords: zero ramp-up time integration,new production networks,sensors,actuators,plug&produce,self-adaptive,intelligent production equipment,model-based,cognitive workflows
Optimized electric Drivetrain by INtegration (ODIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-2012-ICT-GC, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9389730.0
EU funding (EUR): 5600000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

One of the primary goals in the development of electric vehicles is to reduce the cost while ensuring performance and meeting automotive quality standards to reach market acceptance. System design of the electric power-train is based on existing components currently in different phases of the development process. Integrating these components into an electric power-train using current designs can only result in a suboptimal solution since components are generally not designed for integration, but rather to optimally fulfill the supplier's requirement specification. It is postulated that the most cost effective and reliable design is a highly integrated solution that reduces interfaces, variations of components and uses synergy effects e. g. common housing/casing wherever possible. The large design effort for such integration requires sufficiently large number of produced systems and will thus become attractive when the market enters the strong growth phase. This is expected around 2020 or early as 2018. Optimally integrated solutions are not achieved by simply assembling existing components, but by ensuring that components are designed according to integration aspects of the system requirements and by implementing and testing the complete integration early in the process. This project aims to develop a compact, efficient, highly integrated electromechanical powertrain, production optimized to deliver key cost reduction goals. The partners will focus on optimizing the integrated unit for an entry power level of a typical urban vehicle. In parallel they will assess scalability potential to meet the performance criteria of other platforms. Innovative simulation and optimization software tools will be used early in the concept phase to assess optimal design variations, the output of which will be a key input into determining how difficult they will be to scale between differing vehicle and system sizes. Built up of prototypes and implementation in demo car is planned.

Keywords: power electronics,control unit,electric vehicles,gear-train,gear-box,lubrication,numerical simulation,power-train,high-speed electric motors,design optimization
Energy Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Framework for Building Retrofitting in the Mediterranean Area (EE-WISE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Malta,Spain,Türkiye,Spain,Spain,Bulgaria,Greece,Cyprus,Italy
Call:  (FP7-2012-NMP-ENV-ENERGY-ICT-EeB, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1345792.2
EU funding (EUR): 1199984.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Energy Efficiency (EE) in construction sector is nowadays the best chance to boost green economy in Europe, generating new business opportunities that will foster high quality employment creation helping to recover a strategic sector ruined by crisis. There is a fundamental barrier that is preventing this from happening: SMEs presence in the construction sector is remarkable with a fundamental impact on sector’s performance. Continuous progress in technologies and solutions to improve energy efficiency in buildings do not reach companies in order to implement them. For this, the current main problem must be solved: Knowledge Transfer isn’t flowing effectively among agents in the value chain of the EE market (particularly SMEs), thus knowledge sharing is needed to overcome technological and economic barriers. ee-WiSE aims to develop an EE Knowledge Transfer Framework (KTF) in building retrofitting with especial attention to SMEs, applied to a specific geographic area, the Mediterranean. ee-WiSE will be focused on the Mediterranean because its particular weather conditions require EE to be analyzed by considering specific and not generic solutions. In addition, the Mediterranean economies had based much of its economic growth in a very traditional building sector which tremendously affected by the real estate bubble burst. Similarly, the project focuses on retrofitting rather than new building for the greatest potential of EE measures in existing buildings, the high incidence in CO2 emissions of the buildings stock and the large number of SMEs participating in this activity in construction sector. Throughout its WP of conceptualization and definitions, information and best practices gathering and analyzing, design of the KTF and its tools, and finally its validation, EE-wise will provide an useful methodology to imagine, design and validate EE enhancement measures in the Mediterranean environment to develope EE market and related business.

Keywords: knowledge transfer,energy efficiency,smes,building retrofitting,saving energy measures,mediterranean climate,value chain
Co-modal Airport (MODAIR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Belgium,Spain,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 799524.0
EU funding (EUR): 599747.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The ModAir project aims at designing and setting up a mode-overlapping forum, where representatives from the air, rail and urban transport as well as any other relevant actor will contribute to the development and improvement of co-modality and intermodality for passengers in European airports. The interconnectivity at European airports is often still limited to urban transport, with in particular very few high-speed train stations. Some of the existing intermodal links do not fully meet the passengers’ expectations, leading to low usage. ModAir will build on the projects already funded by the European Commission to give a clear view of the current state of intermodality and co-modality in the Euro-pean airports, deliver a roadmap for future research and provide the European Un-ion with a structured group of experts able to help choose the best ways of imple-menting the connectivity of airports with other transport modes. Through cooperation between air and rail stakeholders, as well as intermodality and transport specialists, ModAir will be able to contribute to the preparation of future EU research and technological development policy.

Keywords: airport transport intermodality comodality
nearly Zero energy Neighborhoods (ZENN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy efficiency and savings
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,France,Sweden,Sweden,Norway,Spain,Poland
Call:  (FP7-2012-NMP-ENV-ENERGY-ICT-EeB, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 56.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12946255.0
EU funding (EUR): 8163068.65
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Large scale implementation of building renovation actions is affected by a number of barriers of diverse nature. The need for complex agreements, long returns of investment and the fact that often buildings with the worst performance belong to social low income groups unable to afford comprehensive renovation are amongst the main factors hindering the massive adoption of low or nearly zero energy building renovation (nZEBR) actions. Joint analysis of these barriers clearly show the need for adoption of holistic approaches in such renovation processes in order to achieve successful implementation at a large scale. Medium-low income groups are in the focus of the case studies of this project. Consequently, the main challenges for energy renovation processes at neighbourhood scale addressed by the ZenN project are: • Technical challenges • Financial challenges • Property Structure Taking the definition of these challenges as a starting point, the project focuses on the following objectives: • Demonstrate the feasibility of innovative low energy renovation processes for buildings at the neighbourhood scale • Identify, optimize and disseminate the most promising management and financial schemes to facilitate large scale replication • Layout, improve and launch ambitious replication plans in the local and regional scales

Keywords: zero energy building renovation,district
Engine Breakthrough Components and Subsystems (E-BREAK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Spain,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Belgium,Sweden,Poland,Sweden,United Kingdom,Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,France,Germany,France,Netherlands,France,Italy,Switzerland,Germany,Belgium,Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,Germany,Poland,United Kingdom,France,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 29941047.2
EU funding (EUR): 18250706.0
Participants: 45
Project status: CLOSED

Future aero engines will need to be more efficient and contribute to the reduction on environmental impact of air transportation. They must reach some standards of performance by reducing emissions and creating some savings on operation costs. EIMG consortium has launched since several years some initiatives to develop future engines in the frame of the European Committee research programmes. Within different project such as DREAM, VITAL, NEWAC or LEMCOTEC, EIMG is ensuring the development of innovative technologies in order to further reduce the fuel burn, emissions and noise. In order to ensure the technological breakthrough, future aero-engines will have higher overall pressure ratios (OPR) to increase thermal efficiency and will have higher bypass ratios (BPR) to increase propulsive efficiency. These lead to smaller and hotter high pressure cores. As core engine technologies have been addressed in the previous project, E-BREAK project will ensure the mandatory evolution of sub-systems. It is indeed required for enabling integration of engine with new core technologies to develop adequate technologies for sub-systems. E-BREAK will aim to adapt sub-systems to new constraints of temperature and pressure. The overall picture of these initiatives bring all technology bricks to a TRL level ensuring the possibility to integrate them in a new aero engines generation before 2020. In its 2020 vision, ACARE aims to reduce by 50% per passenger kilometer CO2 emissions with an engine contribution targeting a decrease by 15 to 20% of the SFC. NOX emissions would have to be reduced by 80 % and efforts need to be made on other emissions. E-BREAK will be an enabler of the future UHOPR integrated engine development, completing efforts done in previous or in on-going Level 2 programs.

Keywords: advanced sealing technologies and oil systems,engine variability and thermomechanical behaviour,health monitoring,high temperature materials and abradables,light weight material
High power Adaptable Laser beams for materials prOcessing (HALO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for the Enterprise and Manufacturing
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-2012-NMP-ICT-FoF, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5712671.0
EU funding (EUR): 3857976.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Materials processing is by far the highest value application of lasers, and Europe is a power-base for this technology. HALO will develop the next generation of materials processing lasers, which will have adaptable beams actively optimised for specific processes. They will produce better processing results exploiting the as yet unused potential of: •Fibre guided high power CW lasers for metal sheet cutting (addressing the largest market share of laser machines) •Pico-second lasers operating at high average powers •Pulsed lasers emitting at new wavelengths for precision cutting of thin metal sheets and brittle materials like glass (addressing products of consumer markets such as high end phones or PC systems). This will require a range of new technologies: HALO will develop the necessary elements to bring about a step change in lasers for materials processing: •Components tailored for adaptable beams and new beam shapes •New approaches to adaptable hollow beam sources at new wavelengths •Techniques for beam shaping and forming •Process optimisation for adaptable beam processing using IT-based meta-models •Adaptable jet-assisted laser cutting. The project addresses these two most important markets of laser processing and will be demonstrated in specific industrial applications by important end users: •Sheet metal cutting (sheet thickness 1 to 25 mm) •Precision cutting of glass and thin metal sheets (<1 mm). The HALO project consortium includes market leading laser component and system manufacturers, world renowned researchers, beta end users of the system manufacturers and one end user representing excellence in EU SMEs.

Keywords: laser,adaptable beam,radial polarisation,sheet metal cutting,glass cutting,precision cutting