Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced X-ray source based on field emitting Carbon Nanotubes cold cathode (AXIS)

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: Italy,Czechia,France,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Czechia,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1434239.8
EU funding (EUR): 1105255.8
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The project develops an innovative x-ray source based on the emerging technology of field emitting carbon nanotubes (CNT). This kind of source has several advantages with respect to traditional sources: higher intrinsic brilliance; possibility to work in pulsed and continuous mode; higher peak power; minor power consumption; modularity of beam size; good stability and longer life time. These sources are also more compact and robust, therefore suitable to be portable. The R&D activity is based on four major blocks: i) development of the cathode made of a well aligned CNT array, capable of delivering high current electron density in continuous and pulsed mode; ii) fabrication of a CNT-based electron gun which combines the CNT cathode with electron focusing optics; iii) integration of the e-gun in x-ray sources, and fabrication of an x-ray microfocusing source with characteristics of high brilliance, continuous and pulsed operation modes, easy control of beam size and power; iv) integration of the microfocusing source in two x-ray systems devoted to specific applications: a tomographic system for biomedical applications and an advanced system for material metrology applications. The implementation of phase contrast imaging methodology with this innovative source will be studied. The project will strongly enhance the competitiveness of the SME’s involved in the project. The potential exploitation goes far beyond the examples addressed in the project: X-ray sources are routinely used in medical radiography, in security, in industrial quality control, in advanced research, in environmental issues and in cultural heritage. The availability of innovative sources with improved features with respect to the standard ones will have a great impact not only on Europe competitiveness in this field but also on societal aspects such as health, security, product quality, sustainability.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes,microfabrication,electron optics,high brilliance x-ray sources,phase contrast x-ray imaging,x-ray tomography,x-ray materials metrology
Closed Loop Control of the Laser Welding Process through the Measurement of Plasma (CLET)

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,Italy,Netherlands,Czechia,Germany,Spain,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1418057.8
EU funding (EUR): 1023218.9
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Laser welding is a widely used technique in automotive, aeronautical and shipbuilding industries. New developments are being investigated and it is expected that in the near future it will replace traditional welding techniques in many applications. During laser welding a free electron plasma is generated. The radiation emitted by that plasma and the plasma itself can be characterised by means of several specific measurements, among which specific wavelength radiation intensity, plasma electronic temperature and plasma electronic density are featured. Laser welding process is parameterised according to the characteristics of the specimens to be welded. Each type of specimen has its own parameter set, found during a design stage prior to fabrication. But due to laser facility degradation, ageing or unknown parameters that can influence the welding results the initial parameter set can loose its suitability, which induce human operators to tuning themselves the facility according to their knowledge. Moreover, manufacturing new things may require the calculation of a new parameter set, which is a time-consuming, waste-producer and cost ineffective process. Besides this, the problem of defective welded seams is always present. Defects cause product quality degradation and cost increase. Sometimes faults are originated by an inappropriate specimen preparation, but often an inadequate laser process tuning causes them. The objective of this project is to provide laser-welding facilities with an adaptronic module that, using knowledge-based intelligent algorithms founded on on-line self-optimisation and learning, gives the facilities self-adaptive capabilities for coping with changing production environments, allowing rapid reconfiguration and providing defect avoidance capabilities. This will be achieved by means of multi-layer control, plasma and radiation related sensing and actuator structures.

Keywords: laser welding
Hydraulic Actuator for Valves in Brewery, Dairy and Pharmaceutical Industries (HYDRACT)

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: Denmark,Germany,Portugal,United Kingdom,Denmark,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1707077.33
EU funding (EUR): 1260443.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The overall project objective is the development of an innovative hydraulic actuator based on sterile water to operate sanitary valves with a primary application in the brewery, dairy, and pharmaceutical industries. The final product will have clear advantages to current pneumatic process machinery in these industries, both in terms of performance, food safety, and in particular with regard to energy savings. Technical barriers in the project are primarily linked to the use of water hydraulics to fulfill the requirements of hygienic systems as regards ease of cleaning, being crevice free, and not providing a source of biological or chemical contamination for the processed product; the assessment and development of materials and seal designs aimed at maximising hydrodynamic effects and minimising wear; and exploitation of the direct flow/time relation of hydraulics - as opposed to compressed air - for efficient control and surveillance of the actuator/valve system. Accordingly, project development activities are structured around tasks related to fluid engineering and the mechanical design of the actuator; sealing and coating; and sensoring and wireless RFID technology for the actuator control system.

Keywords: hydraulic actuator,fluid engineering,valve systems,sealing,coating,rfid
Computer-aided laser surface treatment and combined nitriding of forging dies with the objective of a lifetime increase (CURARE)

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: Germany,Romania,Italy,Portugal,Portugal,Slovakia,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494917.2
EU funding (EUR): 1082311.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The European forging industry – dominated by SMEs – is steadily forced to reduce production costs and increase production volumes as well as part quality. One opportunity to meet these challenges is the application of innovative surface treatments to increase the forging dies lifetime by 100-200% and thus to reduce the overall die costs by 30%. Therefore in close co-operation a consortium of two well established RTD-performers with specialised knowledge in surface treatment, three forging enterprises and four enterprises operating as job-shops from 5 different countries develop the &quot;computer-aided laser surface treatment (laser alloying/dispersing) and combined nitriding of forging dies with the objective of a lifetime increase - CURARE&quot;. To enable a successful implementation of the project results in industrial application four objectives have to be achieved: - Design and linkage of an industrial applicable machining system for laser surface treatment - Development of geometrical flexible machining strategies for laser alloying/dispersing process - Benchmark of nitriding technologies, analysis of edge layer &amp; design of quality control concept - Development of CAx-module and data base for laser treatment. Following the CURARE process chain for combined surface treatments is verified by the use of selected forging dies. The treated dies are applied under industrial conditions in the enterprises of the co-operating end-users. Both the machining system and the applied forging dies are assessed with respect to technical and economic aspects as well as their relevance for industrial implementation. Finally selected staff of the participating enterprises is qualified/trained by using instruction material which has been prepared before by the RTD-performers. The close and permanent co-operation with the European forging association EUROFORGE and their national member associations ensures a sustainable Europe-wide dissemination and use of the achievements even after the end of the project &quot;CURARE&quot;.

Keywords: maching system and process,laser surface treatment,nitriding
Fire-hose Excellent Manufacturing by means of an Innovative Rubber Compounding-Extrusion-Vulcanization process (FOIRCEV)

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,Spain,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Portugal,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 808299.04
EU funding (EUR): 629403.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Lay flat rubber fire hoses are a specialized product based on technology knowledge. They differentiate from lower cost alternatives in their durability, performance and their maintenance-free lifetime. Competition from low labor cost countries, presently based on lower cost alternatives, has already covered most of the building fire-fighting equipment market. European manufacturers’ technology allow them manufacture higher quality hoses so far, and this gives them the world leadership in production and exports. However, there is an important manufacturing weakness that endangers this leadership. The project will try to overcome the problems on the manufacturing of lay flat fire/industrial rubber hoses. In the manufacturing process, a NBR/PVC rubber compound is extruded through a textile jacket, and the covered (in and out) hose is vulcanized in a discontinuous process with water steam injected into the rubber hose. In the vulcanization step, blisters frequently appear on the surface of the rubber hose, leading to a very important rate of rejection. Impurities on the rubber compound, due to insufficient dispersion of the components or coming with the raw materials, could introduce surface defects on the rubber inner cover leading to the defects on the outer surface. The project will try to study, by using Case Based Reasoning (CBR), the effect of the raw materials and mixing parameters on the rejection rate to identify the cause of the problem, and new formulations will be designed. Some changes on the current discontinuous manufacturing process will also be implemented to lower the rejection rate. Current discontinuous process limits the maximum length of the hoses, and continuous vulcanization systems for this product will be designed and tested.

Keywords: optimization of fire hose
Integrating Pedagogically-Documented, Value-Added E-Training Add-Ons in Commercial Software Products of European Software SMEs (ELEVATE)

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: Germany,Italy,Greece,Türkiye,Belgium,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2010-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1467370.18
EU funding (EUR): 1083082.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The 24-month ELEVATE project proposes a hybrid training and certification environment, which integrates the application software to be taught in the pedagogical-documented educational process, allowing the software development SMEs to deliver innovative e-training services and to address (more than adequately) the needs of their business partners and customers. Thus, the ELEVATE project addresses the business needs of the software development SMEs participating in the project in the field of application software training through their business partners and customers networks. As the software development SMEs have restricted resources to allocate in research and development (R&amp;D) activities with regard to secondary corporate objectives, including e-training in the produced application software products, the proposed ELEVATE project provides participating SMEs with potentials and financial support to outsource a critical mass of research and technological development (RTD) activities to industrial companies and universities with larger research capacity and proved, successful experience in R&amp;D, European-wide initiatives. The ELEVATE RTD performers will undertake significant research activities on behalf of the participating SMEs and deliver technology know-how in the fields of e-learning, educational content aggregation and material creation, learning management system and application software integration, and pedagogic standards and models. Led by CAS Software AG, the consortium consists of 8 partners from 7 EC member and associated countries (Germany, Belgium, Swiss, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Turkey), including software development SMEs, industrial companies and universities.

Keywords: application software,pedagogically-documented educational environment,personalized e-training
Electronic Chemical Cell (ECCELL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Denmark,Israel,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2617766.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999999.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

ECCell The aim of the project is to establish a novel basis for future embedded information technology by constructing the first electronically programmable chemical cell. This is naturally a high-risk, embryonic research project, but aimed at a breakthrough which will lay the foundation for immersed micro- and nanoscale molecular information processing with a paradigm shift to digitally programmable chemical systems. Chemical cells must combine self-replication, self-containment and self-regulation of resources (metabolism) enabling evolution to qualify as alive. ECCell will employ novel families of fully synthetic hybrid informational polyelectrolyte copolymers (not simply DNA), which simultaneously support all three cell functionalities. Their microscopic multiphase self-assembly under electric field control is the primary information processing mode of this technology. Realtime digital electric field control sequences, regulating the semi-autonomous self-assembly and reactive molecular processing, will both provide an online programming methodology for these complex systems and potentially serve as electronic genomes for the chemical cells. Programming methodologies (beyond optimal control theory) will be explored and evaluated which deal effectively with the remote real time distributed regulation of these novel semi-autonomous combinatorially complex chemical systems. The research will establish an effective IT interface between microelectronic and molecular information processing, by demonstrating its use to achieve a hard chemical synthetic systems objective (an artificial cell) opening a platform for programming a novel chemical living technology at the microscale.

Keywords: embedded,hybrid,electronic,mems,molecular,hydrogel,self-reproduction,self-assembly,evolution
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL, COST EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUE TO OPTIMISE OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION (OLICEMATIC)

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,Malta,Spain,Belgium,Spain,Türkiye,Greece,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-09-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1165166.89
EU funding (EUR): 853958.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

One of the greatest challenges to the olive-oil sector is the optimization of the oil production and extraction process, given the large number of factors that must be integrated and the many variables that can affect production, such as paste fineness, mixing time and temperature. Currently, operational control of extraction equipment is generally carried out manually by an experienced operator, posing inherent problems related to subjectivity of human judgment. The standard method to control oil extraction efficiency is the measurement of oil content and moisture in the by-product using chemical extraction, which is usually performed by a laboratory external to the olive oil mill. Given that laboratory data, essential for the optimization of extraction, is obtained long after sampling, there is no access to real-time information on extraction efficiency. Consequently, the process cannot be instantly optimised. As such, SMEs consortium partners have identified a clear need to develop a real-time measurement and automatic control of critical parameters throughout the entire production process as there are currently no automatic control systems for olive-oil mills in the market. The commercial objective of the project is to develop an automatic control system to optimise the oil extraction process in terms of oil yield and working hours, and reduce the pollution levels of the resulting wastewater. Near Infrared technology and predictive control models will be researched for the improvement and maximisation of olive oil extraction. A new and specific NIR sensor, fulfilling the requirements of the olive oil industry, will be developed for on-line measurement of oil and moisture content and an automatic control system with software based on predictive control models will be developed to process sensor data and automatically optimise the olive oil extraction process.

Keywords: near infrared,process control,model predictive control.
Bioactive compounds from blackcurrant processing waste for brain health (BRAINHEALTHFOOD)

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: Finland,Germany,Poland,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2010-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1139466.8
EU funding (EUR): 870100.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Alzheimer&amp;apos;s disease (AD) is the most common age-related neurodegerative disorder, and one of the most devastating diagnoses that patients and their families can receive. Currently ~10 % of over 65 year old have AD, and the direct and indirect cost of its care is estimated to be &amp;gt;100 billion $ in the US alone and in the UK ~ €22M, and therefore causing profound medical, social and economic consequences. New findings in recent epidemiological studies suggest that polyphenolics containing foods may offer effective means to delay the onset of Alzheimer&amp;apos;s disease development. This provides great business opportunities for food and nutraceutical companies. The polyphenolic extracts from blackcurrant have recently been demonstrated to provide neuroprotection against oxidative stress induced neuronal damages in human cell cultures, and therefore it may hold a promising natural target for the preparation of bioactive food ingredients for a variety of applications. In this BrainHealthFood European consortium, our aim is to provide research support for SMEs by integrating the different expertise from chemistry, metabolomics and neurology from European countries to identify neuroprotective compounds from blackcurrant processing waste, which helps SMEs to develop novel products in a business area with a high future potential. Neuroprotection activity will be analyzed in neuroblastoma cells and in a mice model of Alzheimer&amp;apos;s disease. Research provide strong scientific basis for SMEs to the development of novel berry juices, dietary supplements and other products for elderly people having a high risk of developing Alzheimer&amp;apos;s disease.

Keywords: profitable smes,brain health,dementia,better life for elderly,environmental,gap benefits,health care costs savings,better employment
Development of a combined sea anchor and connector to be deployed by helicopter in order to prevent sea vessels in drift from grounding or colliding with offshore installations (SHIPARRESTOR)

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,Norway,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2007-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2010-11-30
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1455045.0
EU funding (EUR): 1130535.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The European Union is the largest maritime power in the world with 40% of its fleet. Almost 90% of its external and over 40% of its internal trade is transported by sea. The natural wealth of the ocean has an intrinsic value for the biodiversity of Europe as well as for the support of key functions for adjacent regions and populations. Oil spills have a catastrophic impact on the marine environment and incurs enormous costs and suffering in the aftermath. A large part of the oil spillage comes from drifting ships running aground or breaking up. The project idea is to develop a novel and salvage tool by innovatively combining a light-weight sea anchor and connector. The system will be deployed by helicopter onto a ship in distress, thus reducing drift velocity and through that the chance of grounding or other potential disasters by providing extra time for Emergency Towing Vessels (ETVs). Further functionality is added by including a towing connection to the sea anchor, thereby providing arriving ETV with an easy-to-access pick-up buoy, which relieves them of the hazardous task of connecting to the ship in distress. A major issue in the project is lowering the weight of the system to enable helicopter transport. This calls for studies in material science and will influence the dimensioning of the anchor, which will be based on simulations of multi-body behaviour at sea under the influence of wind and waves. At the ship and tanker traffic increases there is a reduction in ETV preparedness, leading to a potentially unsafe situation. The ShipArrestor will aid in restoring and improving the oil spill prevention and salvage preparedness for ships up to 100,000 tonnes. In addition to the obvious environmental benefits of introducing the ShipArrestor, fisheries and tourist enterprises, of which a vast proportion is SMEs, will not have their livelihood ruined from oil pollution. The benefits for the project members are a valuable new tool in their production.

Keywords: textiles,hydrodynamics,materials