Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
PEM with Innovative low cost Core for Automotive applicatioN (PEMICAN)

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: France,Germany,Italy,Spain,Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FCH-JU-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3955219.0
EU funding (EUR): 1861352.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Up to now, much work has been performed on the catalyst but much on the active layers’ structure and on the two other major components (carbon and electrolyte) whereas they do have a major impact on the MEA’s performance and on Pt utilization. Based on this analysis, PEMICAN proposes to reduce the Pt loading for automotive application down to 0.15 gram of Pt per kW, by a twofold approach: 1.to increase Pt utilization and power density by improving effective transport properties of ALs by tuning some properties of the electrolyte and by adding special carbon blacks in order to improve catalyst, electrolyte distribution and water management; 2.to reduce Pt loading by controlling its distribution: very thin layer on the anode side and gradients of Pt on the cathode side. These structured layers will be defined in order to optimise the utilization of the Pt. The combination of these two approaches will allow reducing the total mass of Pt for a given power density. Whereas the main objective of PEMICAN is to develop and manufacture MEAs with reduced quantity of Pt, it is supported by numerical modelling to help defining the best Pt distribution. Special structural and electrochemical characterizations will be done to improve the existing models and to analyse the performance of our MEAs as a function of manufacturing processes and properties of components. Performance and durability tests under automotive conditions will be performed and analysed. PEMICAN will demonstrate gains in terms of Pt cost (g Pt/kW) obtained by improving the design and properties of the ALs. Its results will be useful also In the future when non pure Pt is available. The Consortium is built-up on the expertises of 6 European organisations with complementary skills: 2 Research Institutes (CEA and INASMET), 1 University (IMPERIAL COLLEGE), 2 industrial suppliers (SOLEXIS, TIMCAL) and 1 automotive OEM (OPEL). Among these partners, 4 of them are active members of the FCH JTI.

Keywords: active layer,pemfc,low pt loaded mea,controlled pt distribution,pt gradient,performance models
Evaluating the Performance of Fuel Cells in European Energy Supply Grids (FC-EUROGRID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Finland,Italy,Poland,Germany,Germany,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FCH-JU-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 805931.0
EU funding (EUR): 588982.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

It has become apparent in the development of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) Multi Annual Implementation Plan (MAIP) and Annual Implementation Plans (API) that it is difficult to formulate precise targets and requirements for stationary fuel cell applications due to the complicated interaction of FC system operation with grid specifics and the differing goals of FC implementation in the Member States. Neither for efficiency and emission levels, for example, nor for more technical specifications like cycling ability and turn-down ratio can clear targets be set and benchmarks applied that are independent from the energy supply grid environment the FC system is operating in. Therefore it was decided to omit such targets from the JU programme, which on the other hand constitutes an unsatisfactory situation due to the lack of clear technical guidelines. The project will contribute to solving this situation by collecting and reviewing information on stationary FC operations in various grid environments and application strategies. From this analysis and using information on competing technologies and their future development, benchmarks and targets for stationary fuel cell applications in Europe will be developed and coordinated with the relevant European stakeholders, as well as with the FCH JU and the Commission. These benchmarks will be essential in assessing the progress of the JU programme in improving fuel cell technology and the advantages fuel cells can offer over conventional technologies in the context of different energy supply grids.

Keywords: electricity grids,co2 abatement,technology assessment,gap analysis,fuel cells,power generation
Identification, Preparation and Dissemination of Hydrogen Safety Facts to Regulators and Public Safety Officials (HYFACTS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,France,United Kingdom,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FCH-JU-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1400631.0
EU funding (EUR): 1044409.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

HyFacts aims to develop training material for Regulators and Public Safety Officials, which are responsible persons and work for entities, having to position themselves in the increasing number of upcoming installation of hydrogen-related technologies. The training material will focus on the fundamental aspects of hydrogen safety and on the safety approaches and criteria developed in standards and according to which hydrogen systems are engineered for the safe use of hydrogen under all circumstances. Hydrogen (H2) and its related technologies are relatively new to institutions which are dealing with issues like building regulations, local regulations, public safety and permission of technical installations. Most of the staff of these institutions does not have the necessary knowledge to judge on safety aspects based on real facts but tend to take decisions on the basis of either obsolete or incomplete knowledge or refuse to take any decision at all. This situation leads to heavy delay of decisions or to technically unreasonable, costly and sometimes also very ineffective safety measures to obtain the approval for a hydrogen installation or the allowance to install or operate hydrogen related technologies. Significant efforts will be devoted to identifying and prioritizing the audiences that would need to be trained to facilitate the commercialization of hydrogen and its related technologies. A vision and road-map for the establishment of permanent training activities for the targeted audiences by recognized institutions, along with the proposal specific initiatives will be an important outcome of the project. A large amount of new data on the behaviour of hydrogen has been developed during the last years (e.g. HySafe). These are now being applied for the design of new products and applications. It is therefore very important that the persons in charge of ensuring public safety be trained on these new safety approaches.

Keywords: training material,hydrogen,safety,regulators,public safety,rcs,authorities,fuel cells,hydrogen refueling stations,hydrogen cars
Photonics Explorer – Developing a photonics educational kit for Europe’s secondary schools (EXPEKT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 605639.0
EU funding (EUR): 550000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Expekt program aims to develop high quality photonics educational material for European secondary schools, namely the Photonics Explorer kit. This kit will be designed to excite, engage and educate pupils about working with light and showcase prospective photonics careers. The development will be done in close collaboration with experienced teachers and science education professors from ten European countries, as well as specialists in the development of gender-sensitive educational material. This project is actively supported by the wider European photonics community, including the leading photonics associations, companies and universities. The Photonics Explorer will provide science teachers with a modern didactic framework, multimedia material and components for hands-on experiments. By letting pupils conduct experiment with up-to-date industry-sponsored components they are given the opportunity to experience the excitement of working with light first-hand. Furthermore they can discover their own scientific abilities and foster their research skills. The Photonics Explorer kit will be translated into seven languages and thoroughly tested in schools across Europe, to ensure that it can easily be adapted to national school curricula. The educational material developed in the Expekt project will be distributed free-of-charge together with teacher training courses. A self-sustainable non-profit organization will be established to coordinate the manufacturing and distribution of the Photonics Explorer in the following years, serving as a European centre for photonics outreach for primary and secondary schools.

Keywords: photonics outreach,educational material,secondary schools
Entropy formulation of evolutionary phase transitions (ENTROPHASE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Germany,Italy
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 659784.88
EU funding (EUR): 659784.88
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The ground-breaking nature of the project relies on the possibility of opening new horizons with a novel mathematical formulation of physical problems. The project aim is indeed to obtain relevant mathematical results in order to get further insight into new models for phase transitions and the corresponding evolution PDE systems. The new approach presented here turns out to be particularly helpful within the investigation of issues like as existence, uniqueness, control, and long-time behavior of the solutions for such evolutionary PDEs. Moreover, the importance of the opportunity to apply such new theory to phase transitions lies in the fact that such phenomena arise in a variety of applied problems like, e.g., melting and freezing in solid-liquid mixtures, phase changes in solids, crystal growth, soil freezing, damage in elastic materials, plasticity, food conservation, collisions, and so on. From the practical viewpoint, the possibility to describe these phenomena in a quantitative way has deeply influenced the technological development of our society, stimulating the related mathematical interest.

Keywords: phase transitions,existence and uniqueness of solutions,long-time behavior of solutions
Measurement of CP violation in the B_s system at LHCb (ASYMMETRY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1059240.0
EU funding (EUR): 1059240.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Large Hadron collider (LHC) at CERN will be a milestone for the understanding of fundamental interactions and for the future of high energy physics. Four large experiments at the LHC are complementarily addressing the question of the origin of our Universe by searching for so-called New Physics. The world of particles and their interactions is nowadays described by the Standard Model. Up to now there is no single measurement from laboratory experiments which contradicts this theory. However, there are still many open questions, thus physicists are convinced that there is a more fundamental theory, which incorporates New Physics. It is expected that at the LHC either New Physics beyond the Standard Model will be discovered or excluded up to very high energies, which would revolutionize the understanding of particle physics and require completely new experimental and theoretical concepts. The LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment is dedicated to precision measurements of B hadrons (B hadrons are all particles containing a beauty quark). The analysis proposed here is the measurement of asymmetries between B_s particles and anti-B_s particles at the LHCb experiment. Any New Physics model will change the rate of observable processes via additional quantum corrections. Particle antiparticle asymmetries are extremely sensitive to these corrections thus a very powerful tool for indirect searches for New Physics contributions. In the past, most of the ground-breaking findings in particle physics, such as the existence of the charm quark and the existence of a third quark family, have first been observed in indirect searches. First - still statistically limited - measurements of the asymmetry in the B_s system indicate a 2 sigma deviation from the Standard Model prediction. A precision measurement of this asymmetry is potentially the first observation for New Physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC. If no hint for New Physics will be found, this measurement will severely restrict the range of potential New Physics models.

Keywords: high energy physics,collider experiment,flavour physics
Open-Source API and Platform for Multiple Clouds (MOSAIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Romania,France,Italy,Hungary,Spain,Slovenia,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3809518.0
EU funding (EUR): 2915785.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The mOSAIC project (mosaic-project.eu) aims to develop an open-source platform that enables applications to negotiate Cloud services as requested by their users. Using the Cloud ontology, applications will be able to specify their service requirements and communicate them to the platform via the innovative API. The platform will implement a multi-agent brokering mechanism that will search for services matching the applications’ request, and possibly compose the requested service if no direct hit is found. Cloud-application developers and maintainers will be able to postpone their decision on the procurement of Cloud services until runtime, while end-user applications will be able to find best-fitting Cloud services to their actual needs and efficiently outsource computations. The platform will facilitate competition between Cloud providers, who, in return, will be able to reach customers they could not reach before. The platform acceptance by end-users depends on the number of connectors to the existing Cloud providers, standard usage, the number of communities reached during the project time, as well as the scale of the dissemination activities. In this context, the present mOSAIC+ proposal intends to increase the technology stack of the mOSAIC API by implementing Dynamic Semantic Discovery capabilities, as well as by developing connectors (agents, wrappers) to the main-stream commercial Cloud providers. The existing mOSAIC project will benefit from complementary expertise provided by partners from the New Member States. Consequently, this additional effort will lead to an increasing number of facilities provided by the mOSAIC platform, a greater number of the Cloud providers that are connected to the platform, as well as more user-friendly platform deployment, testing and benchmarking into new environments. Moreover, new use cases will demonstrate the generic nature of the proposed technology in other areas, beyond those initially planned as well as its usability for new end-user communities, such as from engineering domains.

Keywords: virtualized infrastructures,clouds,api,platform
Hochschild cohomology, non-commutative deformations and mirror symmetry (HHNCDMIR)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 703080.0
EU funding (EUR): 703080.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our research programme addresses several interesting current issues in non-commutative algebraic geometry, and important links with symplectic geometry and algebraic topology. Non-commutative algebraic geometry is concerned with the study of algebraic objects in geometric ways. One of the basic philosophies is that, in analogy with (derived) categories of (quasi-)coherent sheaves over schemes and (derived) module categories, non-commutative spaces can be represented by suitable abelian or triangulated categories. This point of view has proven extremely useful in non-commutative algebra, algebraic geometry and more recently in string theory thanks to the Homological Mirror Symmetry conjecture. One of our main aims is to set up a deformation framework for non-commutative spaces represented by "enhanced" triangulated categories, encompassing both the non-commutative schemes represented by derived abelian categories and the derived-affine spaces, represented by dg algebras. This framework should clarify and resolve some of the important problems known to exist in the deformation theory of derived-affine spaces. It should moreover be applicable to Fukaya-type categories, and yield a new way of proving and interpreting instances of "deformed mirror symmetry". This theory will be developed in interaction with concrete applications of the abelian deformation theory developed in our earlier work, and with the development of new decomposition and comparison techniques for Hochschild cohomology. By understanding the links between the different theories and fields of application, we aim to achieve an interdisciplinary understanding of non-commutative spaces using abelian and triangulated structures.

Keywords: non-commutative algebraic geometry homological algebra
A European Network of Excellence in Managing Threats and Vulnerabilities in the Future Internet: Europe for the World (SYSSEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Netherlands,France,Bulgaria,Austria,Sweden,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2946029.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499999.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Over the past decade we are witnessing an ever-increasing amount of cyberattacks on the Internet. Prolific, ingenious, and ranging in style from large-scale worms to “below the radar” phishing attempts, cyberattacks have evolved to unprecedented levels of sophistication. To counter these cyberattacks, defenders are (mostly) developing safeguards, after the attack was made. In the meantime, while defenders are busy with mending the fences, attackers had already developed and planned their next strike. What we have realized over this past decade is that we are facing an asymmetrical threat: unless addressed, this asymmetrical threat will have us defenders locked into a vicious cycle: chasing after attackers without ever being able to catch up. We believe that in order to advance the field of cybersecurity, we must act proactively and in synergy to change the rules of the game: instead of being reactive to cyberattacks, we should become proactive. Instead of cleaning after existing (or past) attacks, we should work on predicting threats and vulnerabilities and build our defense before threats materialize. Research combined with effective synergies is critical to realize this game-changing plan and Europe has the expertise and the talent to succeed. SysSec proposes to create a Network of Excellence in the field of Systems Security for Europe to play a leading role in changing the rules of the game. Capitalizing on the results of the currently running FORWARD CSA and building on strong synergies with Industry and Policy makers, SysSec plans: (i) to create a virtual center of excellence, to consolidate the Systems Security research community in Europe, (ii) to promote cybersecurity education, (iii) to engage a think-tank in discovering the threats and vulnerabilities of the Current and Future Internet, (iv) to create an active research roadmap in the area, and (v) to develop a joint working plan to conduct State-of-the-Art collaborative research.

Keywords: network of excellence,threats in the future internet,malware,cyberattacks