Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Collaborative Communication Driven Decision Management in Non Hierarchical Supply Chains of the Electronic Industry (CONVERGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,France,France,Greece,Hungary,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2716724.19
EU funding (EUR): 1868482.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The European electronic industry faces strong competition with far eastern and US manufacturers. European companies have to respond with improved flexibility to changing requirements and collaborate across the supply chain effectively capitalizing on collaborative decision making, shorter distances, high skill levels and shared cultural understanding. To do so in the electronic industry a number of non-hierarchical networks are forming The new collaboration level requires a higher level of coordination on tactical and strategic management level and therefore a new level of data and information sharing with network partners. Managers have to distinguish in a new manner between shareable and non shareable information. As they weren’t obliged to do this in the past tools and methods are missing. The CONVERGE project closes this gap by providing a framework and tools for exchanging tactical and strategic information for decision making in non-hierarchical supply chain networks. CONVERGE delivers a de-centralized decision support system for production planning and resource optimization based on 1) a new reference model for inter-organizational decision taking, 2) deployment methods to adapt the generic reference model to application fields, networks and companies and 3) existing software supporting customer and supplier relations. Besides scientific and technological experts the CONVERGE consortium involves a) four manufacturing companies addressing directly their network problems and b) a supply chain interest group (non funded) representing the companies’ network partners. This ensures a high industrial impact and dissemination level. In about 5 years the expected cost saving is in the order of 180 Mio. € just assuming a diffusion rate of 10% of the 600 European Electronic Manufacturing Service companies.

Keywords: decentralized,non hierarchical,supply-chains,electronic industry,electronic manufacturing service,strategic and tactical planning,purchase,sales
Nanochemistry and self-assembly routes to metamaterials for visible light (METACHEM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Finland,Belgium,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-15
End date: 2013-09-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5437014.85
EU funding (EUR): 3699990.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the METACHEM collaborative project is to use the extreme versatility of nano-chemistry to design and manufacture bulk meta-materials exhibiting non-conventional electromagnetic properties in the range of visible light. This spectral domain requires nano-scale patterns, typically around 50 nm in size or less. Our strategy consists in designing and synthesizing ad-hoc nano particles as optical plasmonic nano-resonators and organising them through self-assembly methods in 2 or 3 dimensional networks in order to produce dense highly ordered structures at a nano-scale level. Several subprojects corresponding to different routes are proposed, all of them based on existing state-of-the-art chemical and self assembly methods. In addition, the important issue of losses inherent to the plasmonic response of the nano-objects is addressed in an original way by the adjunction of loss-compensating active gain media. A special effort is made on the difficult measurement of the non conventional meta-properties as they constitute the first demonstration of the validity of the concept. A technological and an industrial point are added towards the search of efficient, cost-effective and industrially feasible metamaterials. The key point of the METACHEM project joining 9 partners from 7 European states is that it brings together for the first time European experts of three complementary fields namely nanochemistry, self-assembly methods and metamaterials science. The majority of the partners are members of FP7 virtual institutes related to these fields i.e. respectively EMMI, SOFTCOMP and METAMORPHOSE II. Main goals: Design and synthesize optically isotropic meta-materials with exotic and extreme properties realized by simple and cheap chemical methods. Target properties: artificial optical magnetic and dielectric properties, optical left-handed materials, near-zero permittivity/permeability; negative index materials, low-loss plasmonic structures.

Keywords: nanochemistry,self assembly,nano-structured materials,electromagnetic theories,numerical models of materials,sub-wavelength optics
A Hungarian Night for Researchers 2008 (HUNICITIES 2008)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-NIGHT-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2008-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187138.56
EU funding (EUR): 120000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The 2008 edition of the Researchers’ Night is an expanded and updated version of the 2007 event. Tempus Public Foundation together with 13 prestigious institutions of the Hungarian higher education and research community - University of Technology and Economics; Corvinus University of Budapest; Eszterházy Károly University; Eötvös Loránd University; Pázmány Péter Catholic University; Szent István University; Széchenyi István University; University of Debrecen; University of Miskolc; University of Pécs; University of Szeged; University of West Hungary, and the Agricultural Research Institute of the HAS - undertake the organisation of the event in 2008. The consortium consists of last year’s RN partners strengthened by two other universities. Our event fits well in the Europe-wide festival series with the entertaining and serious, but “user-friendly” scientific programmes focusing on science and researchers, and on researchers and society. We wish to involve the public in a wide range of various activities including hands-on experiments, laboratory and cave visits, creative contests, University CSI, music and theatre performances, exhibition of research results, investigating order and disorder in nature, an obstacle race in a Botanical Garden, a library night, games on wildlife, programmes linked to Renaissance Year, The Year of the Bible, and to the International Year of Languages initiatives and innumerable other exciting programmes. Visitors will meet and play with many researchers and get more acquainted with the world of science. The events will take place in 15 towns; most of Hungary will be covered ensuring that the RN will reach a large audience. The professional background and organizational experience of the participants ensure that the activities will be efficiently co-ordinated and both the serious and the entertaining programmes will display a high standard of quality.

Keywords: researchers' night
RESEARCHERS' NIGHT 2008 IN NORWAY (RES-NIGHT-NOR-2008)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Norway
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-NIGHT-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2008-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 148079.75
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

As in the successful RN projects 2005, 2006 and 2007 in Norway, the “Researchers’ Night 2008 in Norway” is planned as a nation-wide promotion effort in line with the objectives of the EU FP7 “People” Work Programme and the call FP7-PEOPLE-NIGHT-2008, organised as add-on to the “Forskningsdagene” (Norway’s National Science Week 19.-28. Sept 2008), which has 1000 events arranged by 200 local representatives all over Norway, coordinated by the Research Council of Norway (RCN). The local organisers have agreed in this coordinated RCN proposal from Norway, which includes 15 proposed subcontracted local events selected after national competition. Local and RCN co-financing are substantial. Targeting the large public (kids, teenagers, adults and parents, teachers, entrepreneurs), media and politicians we will promote the contribution of research and researchers to the society at large – what the researchers do, and can do for you; how researchers contribute to creation of new knowledge, innovation and the establishing of knowledge-based jobs and enterprises, thus improving competitiveness and economic growth of the society - showing the researchers’ passion for research, how interesting a researcher career may be, and that “researchers are among us” as ordinary people. Settings include ”hands-on” experiments, science cafés, and examples from ”real science”. Some projects aim at mass participation - and all seek mass communication of the RN ideas. We will copy the “RN 2007” marketing and press coverage which reached some 3.35 mill and 8 million people, respectively. A photograph competition and a European Corner stand will be prepared at Oslo Central Station. Industrial partners are engaged in several of the subcontracted events. A newspaper inlets in nation-wide newspapers (~325.000 copies), advertisements, brochures, emails, and web-site information on www.rcn.no, www.forskning.no, www.forskningsdagene.no , www.nysgjerriper.no and www.eracareers.no will be prepared.

Keywords: researchers,the public,communication
Scale-Up Nanoparticles in Modern Papermaking (SUNPAP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Germany,France,Italy,Portugal,Sweden,Germany,Finland,Sweden,Germany,Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9809162.48
EU funding (EUR): 6765000.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

Past years have made the radical change of the European paper industry evident to everyone. To accelerate growth, the industry has to beat the product commoditization and renew its product base with value-added products. Energy saving is not just part of the environmental agenda, it has become the most crucial topic for the competitiveness of European paper industry. In order to maintain the advantage, the development of technologically advanced manufacturing processes is a must, along with reduced specific energy consumption. Nanocellulose is the most promising nano-material for wide-variety applications in papermaking, today only prepared and applied in lab-scale. SUNPAP addresses the enhancement of European paper industry competitiveness by means of nanofibrillouscellulose (NFC) based processes. SUNPAP proposes a program based on an integrated and complementary approach for: a) scaling up efficient and innovative production routes to deliver nanofibrillous cellulose (NFC) as functional additive for industrial processes and innovative added value products; b) innovating the papermaking processes by the introduction of NFC additive; c) assessing impacts of nanotechnologies on consumer and occupational safety, public health in general and environment, and enhancing the related European foreground d) demonstrating the economic, environment and social sustainability of the innovative papermaking processes and products and therefore, e) successfully transferring the nanotechnology innovation to the paper value chain. Through demonstrations of the processes, the project will deliver new extremely light-weight and multifunctional products for a wide range of end-uses in the graphical and packaging paper industries. Economical and sustainability assessments in the project cover the whole value chain. However, the targeted advantages are not possible without dramatically changing the total value chain, encompassing it from the pulp to the end of life-cycle of the product

Keywords: nanocellulose,nfc,papermaking,efficient processes,added-value products,functional products
Quality and Risk Management in Meat Chains (QUARISMA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IAPP-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2435063.0
EU funding (EUR): 2435063.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The EU meat industry is in the process of adapting itself more strongly than previously to the demands and needs for quality products. From the scientific view there are three parallel innovation challenges: 1. the chain inversion, that means the transition from a supply to a demand driven supply chain and self-regulation, 2. the support of new sustainable technologies in food safety control systems, 3. the establishment of a knowledge infrastructure for the development and implementation of technologies and new structures as an integral part of the transition. QUARISMAs goal is to stimulate more sustainable development in the European meat sector, and simultaneous, to mobilise the scientific knowledge needed to bring this about. This will be achieved mainly by collaborating in interdisciplinary cross-boarder research teams to develop a new knowledge infrastructure to translate knowledge questions from practice projects into research questions and vice versa. Collaborations between two universities and two private organisations in the meat sector supported by a public-private-partnership organisation will be established to come to grips with this complex of problems. The join intersectoral program will synthesize and place into perspective the seemingly wide divergent topics of Chain Management, Quality and Information Management, as well as Food Safety and Risk Management into a cohesive focus to maintain the highest food safety and quality for the consumers benefit. The transfer of knowledge will be further enhanced by the research fellowships of staff members and researchers in five partner institutions from Germany and the Netherlands. This novel interdisciplinary research team will lead this proposal to achieve scientific as well as social goals and will potentially set new trends to establish European research in quality and risk management as having a world-leading role in this field with reference of the meat sector.

Keywords: health sciences,natural sciences,technological sciences,life science,chain management,quality management,information management,food
Folate-based nanobiodevices for integrated diagnosis/therapy targeting chronic inflammatory diseases (NANOFOL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Austria,Netherlands,Portugal,France,Austria,Romania,Germany,France,France,Spain,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6635409.43
EU funding (EUR): 5149874.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

NANOFOL proposes to develop a new diagnostic/therapy approach using folate based nanobiodevices (FBN) able to provide a new type of cost efficient treatment for chronic inflammatory diseases such as Atherosclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis with low side effects that will constitute a more advantageous solution than current therapies. NANOFOL will achieve all that by fulfilling the following objectives: •Design , development and production of nanobiodevices (FBN) targeting directly effector cells •Proof of concept in vitro and in vivo of a folate based nanodevice targeting activated macrophages in chronic inflammation not affecting bystander cells •Proof of concept in vitro and in vivo of a nanodevice containing a bispecific antibody (against folate receptor and another macrophage marker) targeting activated macrophages in chronic inflammation not affecting bystander cells •Proof of concept of FBN delivery therapeutic agents (by small interfering ribonucleic acid molecules (siRNA) or lipophylic molecules) targeting inflammatory signaling pathways •In vitro and in vivo testing of cellular toxicity caused by the novel nanobiodevices in cells other than activated macrophages •Design of models that will enable to minimize animal experimentation. •Development of a strategy to assess potential risks in order to ensure nanobiodevice safe delivery. NANOFOL has adopted a specific risk strategy to attain objectives in a step by step approach allowing improving gradually the concept (specificity, stability, side effects efficacy) from the lower to the higher risky solutions ensuring reduced experimental animal testing and high human safety. The NANOFOL project will combine expertise in nanotechnologies, biology, chemistry, materials science, biotechnology, engineering, risk analysis, medical and pharmaceutical sciences.

Keywords: nanotechnology-based delivery systems,diagnostic/therapy approach,specificity,sirna,imaging,inflammatory signaling pathways,chronic inflammatory diseases
LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION OF TAILORED NANO-OXIDES BY ADVANCED HIGH-OUTPUT, HIGH-VERSATILITY FLAME SPRAY PYROLISIS (ADVANCE-FSP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,Germany,Greece,United Kingdom,Finland,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4290280.01
EU funding (EUR): 3080926.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project Advance-FSP will be the design and construction of a prototype industrial FSP nanoparticle production line, one order of magnitude higher than whatever is currently available, suitable to achieve at a continuous and trouble-free production level of 5kg/h the same results regarding nature and size (in the range of 10nm) of nanoparticles as obtained in the small FSP laboratory reactors currently used, validating the technology developed by the production in industrial operating conditions of 10 kg of ZrO2, 10kg of CeO2, 20kg of CeO2/ZrO2 in different proportions, 5kg of Pd/CeO2/ZrO2 and 1.5kg of Pt/CeO2/ZrO2. The fundamental problem in up-scaling the FSP technology from laboratory to industrial level is the fact that for larger productions an increase in feed rate and/or precursor concentration are required, both resulting in the formation of nanoparticles with bigger diameters. The production line reactor will be carefully design, followed by the optimisation of operating parameters such as concentration of the precursor, precursor feed rate, dispersion gas flow rate and spray conditions, and the introduction of additional quenching systems and multi-burner strategies. Therefore, the project will take an approach based on subsequent incremental up-scaling processes, first to productions of 100g/h, second to 500 g/h and subsequently to 5 Kg/h, heavily relying on on-line measurements during FSP synthesis of temperature fields (FTIR), concentration of precursor species in the different flame fields (FTIR), evolution along the flame of the particle size and degree of agglomeration (thermophoretic extraction and TEM) and definition of velocity fields within FSP reactor (phase Doppler anemometry) combined with computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations able to predict for FSP reactions the flow, temperature and specification fields, spray conditions, combustion dynamics and particle evolution, including particle formation, growth, etc.

Keywords: flame spray pyrolysis,nanooxides,industrial line
NANO-OPTICAL MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NOMS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Slovakia,Germany,Spain,United Kingdom,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3385218.0
EU funding (EUR): 2549965.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Nano-optical mechanical actuation based on nanotube-enriched polymeric materials is a much sought-after technology. In this scheme, light sources promote mechanical actuation of the polymeric materials producing a variety of nano–optical mechanical systems such as tactile displays, artificial muscles, and nano-grippers among others. The purpose of the NOMS project is to fabricate microsystems capable of light-induced mechanical actuation. In particular, the team proposes to build a visual-aid tablet for the blind or partially-sighted. Accomplishing this ambitious project requires knowledge of basic and integrating research within the field. It also requires the contribution of expert neuropsychologists to study, in cooperation with end-users, the effectiveness of the tablet both as an assistive tool for the visually impaired and as a research tool in the field of neuropsychology. The consortium is formed by experts in the areas of materials, optics, microsystems, neuropsychology, as well as end users, who will fabricate the first visual aid tablet. This well-balanced team possesses a unique combination of talent to guarantee achievement of the project objectives. The NOMS approach ensures that a solution (photo-actuated nanomaterials) will be provided to a particular problem (fast-refreshed portable visual-aid devices). NOMS will provide tactile screens for the visually impaired to read complex visual representations such as mathematical equations and graphical images. Everyday activities of such individuals will be greatly improved by including these devices in ATMs, personal computers, mobile telephones etc. This project is visionary with respect to some of the mainstream R&D directions, offering European industry a competitive advantage in the assistive technology marketplace worldwide. Appropriate industrial partnerships with adequate technology transfer experience have been included in the consortium with the purpose of thorough exploitation of the technology.

Keywords: nano optical mechanical photoactuators,cnt composites / smart materials,integrated optically activated microactuators,cognitive systems,neuropsychology visual aid devices braille