Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Development of a Rapid Cooling technology for commercial refrigeration applications (RAPIDCOOL)

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,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1190368.0
EU funding (EUR): 903276.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Commercial refrigerators and freezers are ubiquitous and are used in diverse environments such as supermarkets, grocery stores, service stations, restaurants, hotels, pubs, and cafés. The most visible are vending machines and open or closed refrigerated cabinets such as open display cabinets. Combined commercial refrigerator/freezers are estimated to consume 85TWh of electricity per annum. Although incremental advancements in refrigeration technology have been made these do not nearly offset increasing use. These trends thus pose a significant risk to the EC’s overall commitment to reduce energy use by 20% to 2020; improve overall energy security of European and reduce green house gas emissions. Beverage cooling accounts for a large proportion of commercial refrigeration covering products such as vending machines and display coolers. Compared to chilled or frozen food products, the majority of beverages have a relatively long shelf life and it is therefore not required to keep them at drinking temperature prior to consumption. However, this is currently the norm as it is often necessary to provide a chilled drink immediately upon purchase. As a result a wide range and number of beverages are kept chilled for eventual purchase. The logical consequence of cooling a drinks container efficiently and rapidly on-demand is a reduced need for chillers to run continuously. RapidCool aims to develop such a flexible, modular cooling apparatus that can accommodate drinks cans and bottles and chill them rapidly from ambient to around 6°C. The cooling chamber will be designed to be directly operated by the consumer and meet with usage demands associated with vending machines and open cabinet fridge, with both a standalone unit and multi-can variant providing a faster vending solution. The proposed system can save up to 75% of the energy currently consumed by a conventional vending machine or display cabinet, which equates to cost savings of around €250 per machine per year.

Keywords: rapid cooling
Creation of a distributed European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6455342.73
EU funding (EUR): 4000000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The Radboud University Nijmegen, operating the High Field Magnet laboratory (HFML, for continuous magnetic fields), the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, operating the Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden (HLD, for pulsed magnetic fields), and the Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique, operating the Laboratoire National de Champs Magnétiques Intenses in Grenoble and Toulouse (LNCMI-G for continuous and LNCMI-T for pulsed magnetic fields), undertake a study how to organize and operate, under one umbrella, the European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL). This study will investigate all legal, financial, organisatorial and employment related issues, and formulate a document for the founding agreement of the EMFL of the 3 partners, or any other stakeholders that may be identified. Different work packages will provide studies of the feasibility and cost of all the proposed investments in the new EMFL, and develop the in-house knowledge base for the investments, and harmonize experimental capabilities at the infrastructures. A web page and material will be developed for communication with the user community and the public. The coupling of high magnetic fields with advanced light sources will be investigated and how joint operation of different infrastructures can be organised, and a future roadmap for EMFL established.

Keywords: magnetic fields
The Role of Preferences and Institutions in Economic Transitions (TRANSITIONS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1398900.0
EU funding (EUR): 1398900.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Periods of economic transitions are often unsettling due to the breathtaking speed of changes in economic conditions. Then again, transitions also bear major chances to establish new orders. This project analyzes how dramatic changes in institutions during transition periods shape not only the economic behavior, but also the preferences of people. It focuses on two specific transition episodes, namely the transition from state-centered and autocratic to market-based and democratic systems in East Germany, as well as in many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Methodologically, this project exploits two distinct reasons why economic transitions offer unique research opportunities. First, economic transitions deal with large shifts, and the size of these changes in itself makes it easier to detect behavioral adjustments in noisy micro data sets. Second, initial conditions coming from institutional features or decisions taken before the start of the transition can often be taken as exogenous, enabling the researcher to establish causality and to rule out reverse causality. The project consists of two subprojects. The first subproject investigates whether there is a causal effect of public child care supply on fertility and female labor market participation. The second subproject is dedicated to the question whether there exists a positive feedback process from the economic and political system on individual preferences.

Keywords: female labor supply,fertility,labor market integration,endogenous preferences
Development of a wrist orthotic device for tremor suppression through biomechanical loading by means of a novel rotary actuator (TREM-END)

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,United Kingdom,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1458416.1
EU funding (EUR): 1124433.84
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In the EU more than 4.25M people aged 40 and over are affected by Essential Tremor (ET), a progressive neurological disorder whose most recognizable feature is a tremor of the arms that is apparent during voluntary movements. ET affects the hand in 90% of the cases and, consequently, everyday tasks and those requiring fine motor skills (such as eating and writing) become very difficult for the patients, and this drastically decreases their quality of life (QoL). Medication and surgical interventions are currently employed to reduce tremor in patients suffering from ET. However, both present poor outcomes and, besides being very expensive, both can result in side effects, the major part of which are very debilitating for the patient (e.g. drowsiness, toxic reactions, permanent complications, etc.). As a result of the current poor outcomes, treating patients with ET is still an unsolved problem that drastically affects the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and the QoL of approximately 2M European people. During the last years, scientific publications have shown that ET responds to biomechanical loading. It has been clinically proven that the increase of dumping and/or inertia in the upper limb leads to a reduction of the tremorous motion, and this led to the development of experimental wearable devices for tremor suppression (orthoses). However, existing concept solutions still present reduced performance and several limitations such as obtrusiveness, weight, and low acceptance among users that have prevented their development as a commercial product. The aim of the Trem-End project is to develop an innovative commercial orthesis for tremor suppression at wrist of patients resistant to conventional treatments, and which will be cost effective compared with current solutions. The device will implement an innovative mechanism (rotary damping technology) that will not only reduce obtrusiveness, but also increase tremor suppression efficacy compared with current solution

Keywords: orthosis,tremor,biomechanical loading,biomechanical modeling,user acceptance
Mapping of European Research Infrastructure Landscape (MERIL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 885282.8
EU funding (EUR): 799506.33
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The MERIL project aims to complete an in-depth analysis of the current European Portal on Research Infrastructures’ Services, leading to the redesign and implementation of a comprehensive database of pan-European Research Infrastructures (RIs) and their mapping as a useful tool for scientists and policy makers. In the long run impacts are expected such as increased visibility of the services and collaborations offered by the RIs as well as joint foresight with gap and needs analysis. Funding is requested from the European Commission for the first two years of the project. If approved the EC would thereby play its role of catalyst. MERIL governance will consist of: - a Steering Committee (SC) comprising representatives from the major European stakeholders e.g. ESF, EUROHORCs, ESFRI, ERF and EIROforum etc. each reporting to their General Assemblies; - a Science Advisory Board responsible for providing expert scientific and political advice at important milestones of the project. The ESF Member Organisation (MO) Forum made up of delegates representing ESF organisations willing to explore the future of RIs in Europe will be central in contributing to the project and its Chair will be a member of the SC. ESF will coordinate the project and assemble a project management team. A series of meetings will be held: i) to reach consensus on definitions (RIs, Categories of RIs, Science Domains, Scope etc.), to make a state of the art analysis on the European context, and to identify the needs of data users and providers; ii) to discuss data acquisition, including incentives and access rules; iii) to agree on a common set of criteria for ensuring quality of the data. The combined reports of these meetings will lead to an up-graded and up-dated pan-European database. Through the combined efforts of determined and highly committed stakeholders it is expected that the MERIL database will contain high-quality data and have flexible, customer-oriented interfaces.

Keywords: mapping,europe,research infrastructures,database
Long range inspection and condition monitoring of rails using guided waves (MONITORAIL)

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,France,France,Greece,Cyprus,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1177000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of MONITORAIL is to develop a cost effective long range ultrasonic inspection and also a wireless condition monitoring system in order to improve and better maintain the European railway system for better efficiency and safety. This will be carried out through the development of the Long Range Ultrasonic technology which has a certain number of advantages: sufficient inspection time, cost compared to the conventional ultrasonic testing, 100% inspection coverage (rail’s head, web and the foot). This project will develop a guided wave LRUT system not only for rail inspection but also for real time monitoring of the rail and to create an intelligent railway infrastructure. Flexible sensors will be embedded in the railways and a collection data system will be developed and integrated on the existent systems. This will also extend the life of the materials through early repair of rail tracks. The rail track is a natural wave guide where waves could easily propagate for long distance and detect defects in different area such as the web the head and the foot. Moreover long lengths of rail track could be detected at once making this a cost efficient technique for continuous monitoring. The system will offers 100% coverage up to 50m from one single location. Multiple sensors will be used to cover long distance inspection. Significant technical issues need to be addressed and solved before this technology can be considered a viable and industrial solution. The prototype demonstrations to date have shown promising results but have been limited to static testing. Any loss of signal or momentary surface interference results in a signal that is similar to that of a defect, thus the potential of false positive indications is high, which could severely impact the efficiency of overall inspection. Furthermore the potential of permanently mounted sensors will be investigated for critical areas of the rail network.

Keywords: failure of rail tracks,maintenance,condition monitoring,long range ultrasonics,low cost reliable monitoring& maintenance,detect defects,100% cover,permanently mounted sensors,material life
Combining innovative portable VISUAL, ACOUSTIC, MAGNETIC, and NMR methods, with in-situ CHEMICAL diagnostic tools for effective failure assessment and maintenance strategy of RAIL and subway systems (DIAGNO-RAIL)

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,Greece,France,Slovenia,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1242600.0
EU funding (EUR): 938700.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Railways are one of the prime modes of transportation in European Union and as they are closely associated with intensive passenger and cargo transportation, they own high risk in terms of potential loss of human life and damage/destruction of assets. New technologies and stringent safety standards are constantly being introduced, to reduce risks associated with derailments and collisions. A detailed assessment of the defects which emerge both in the rolling stock and the rail infrastructure is essential to apply the correct maintenance strategy. At the same time large span or segmental bridges and tunnels, which are important parts of rail systems are particularly susceptible to deterioration with increasing risk of failure due to often-harsh and aggressive environments, in combination with aging and increasing traffic load. Evidently, efficient maintenance strategies of complex rail systems, which are based on fast and reliable inspection methods, can reduce significantly potential risks and cost. The overall aim of the project is to develop an integrated system of state-of-the-art NDT methodologies to improve risk assessment and failure prediction concerning the integrity and functionality of rail systems, in favour of the participating SMEs. In particular precise Visual and Magnetic ac-Susceptibility methods, for fast and reliable assessment of track failure and damage will be combined with state-of-the-art Acoustic, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) portable devices appropriate for examining the performance of concrete structures, in order to gain critical information concerning the performance, damage risk, and condition monitoring of rail and subway systems. In parallel an innovative chemical tool kit will be developed for in situ chemical analysis measurements, which in combination with modern established analytical techniques will be used to characterize in-situ materials.

Keywords: ndt methodologies
The European Social Survey - Data for a Changing Europe (ESS-DACE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Netherlands,Spain,Belgium,Norway,Slovenia
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6724936.66
EU funding (EUR): 4999987.17
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

ESS-DACE aims to secure the continuation and consolidation of the European Social Survey (ESS) as a key data source for measuring and understanding long-term changes in public attitudes across Europe. This will be achieved by strengthening the links between the 7 institutions responsible for the central design and coordination of the ESS infrastructure, as well as between the ESS and its funders, data users, national teams and a distinguished network of advisers. The objectives of the ESS infrastructure are: to chart and explain changes in Europe’s social, political and moral climate (WP2, WP4); to achieve and spread improved standards of rigour in cross-national social measurement, and simultaneously to raise the threshold standards of national surveys (WP3, WP5, WP7, WP12); to introduce and encourage the use of soundly-based attitudinal indicators of national progress, based on citizens’ judgments of key aspects of their societies (WP6); to undertake and facilitate the training of European researchers in comparative quantitative measurement and analysis (WP9); to provide enhanced access remotely to the users of and participants in the infrastructure (WP8); to improve the visibility and outreach of quantitative data on social change to academics, policy makers and the wider public (WP5, WP10, WP11); to maintain and update a specially-created ‘contextual’ data repository to help isolate the independent effect of background political and social developments on shifts in attitudes and values (WP13) and to refine the financial, operational and organisational arrangements of the ESS infrastructure to suit its longer term perspectives and commitments (WP3). This application is to ensure not just the survival of the ESS time series, but also to consolidate its achievements by creating a transparent, accessible and increasingly valued mechanism for unpicking the relationship between Europe’s changing institutions and the shifting values of its people.

Keywords: social sciences,survey methodology,sociology,political science,comparative methods,attitude measurement
Development of Novel X-ray Inspection System for Fast Automated Detection of Counterfeit PCB Components (CHIPCHECK)

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,Romania,United Kingdom,Greece,Latvia,Denmark,Poland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499852.0
EU funding (EUR): 1171500.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Currently, electronics manufacturers do not check all PCB components at goods inwards. Some manufacturers make random checks on single components from batches of component lots. However, components especially the surface mount type are typically supplied on tape reels to assist with component feed for automatic component placement. The manufacturer cannot check all the components. Typically, a check includes visual inspection and in circuit testing. However, performing these checks is disadvantageous for two main reasons. Firstly, the tests can be time consuming and secondly it requires the component to be removed from the packaging or reel invalidating any guarantee to a claim should a counterfeit component be found. Currently, no automatic methods exist to speedily check each single component. In addition the cost of modern X-ray inspection systems prohibits their use for smaller manufacturing concerns. ChipCheck proposal is for the development of a novel X-ray inspection system for fast automated detection of counterfeit PCB components. The aim of such a development is to address the above issues. The system will be developed so that is capable of inspecting PCB components on tape reels and other component feeding mechanisms. In addition separate PCB components will also be examinable with the developed system. Through the selected combination of SME partners involved in the consortium, a new design uniquely combining lower cost off-the-shelf components used from different industries (Industrial NDT, Medical and dentistry) will be developed to enable production of a prototype of particular suitability for goods inward inspection.

Keywords: pcb components,circuit testing,component placement,production,prototype,surface mount pcb