Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Hybrid Nanosystems in phospholipid membranes (HYMEM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2368320.0
EU funding (EUR): 2368320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The cell membrane is the biological platform for many vital processes such as photosynthesis, cell-cell contact, biomolecular recognition, endocytosis and ion transport. Artificial phospholipid membranes play an important role in unravelling the physical and chemical characteristics of membranes and their microscopic role in membrane function. On the other hand a manifold of novel hybrid nanosystems consisting of different nano-objects and exhibiting specific physical and chemical functions have been developed. This proposal aims at incorporating hybrid nanoparticle systems with specific optical functions into artificial and cell membranes in order to build up a nanophotonic toolbox for nanoscopic optical manipulators, local spectroscopic studies and the combination of both. This nanophotonic toolbox for membranes will open up novel strategies for the optical control of membrane function, the controlled optothermal release and lateral guiding as well as the local spectroscopy and analysis of biomolecules. The planned toolbox also contains new optical concepts for transfection and drug delivery.

Keywords: dna transfection drug delivery
Computers Arguing with People (CAP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2334057.0
EU funding (EUR): 2334057.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

An important form of negotiation is argumentation. This is the ability to argue and to persuade the other party to accept a desired agreement, to acquire or give information, to coordinate goals and actions, and to find and verify evidence. This is a key capability in negotiating with humans. While automated negotiations between software agents can often exchange offers and counteroffers, humans require persuasion. This challenges the design of agents arguing with people, with the objective that the outcome of the negotiation will meet the preferences of the arguer agent. CAP’s objective is to enable automated agents to argue and persuade humans. To achieve this, we intend to develop the following key components: 1) The extension of current game theory models of persuasion and bargaining to more realistic settings, 2) Algorithms and heuristics for generation and evaluation of arguments during negotiation with people, 3) Algorithms and heuristics for managing inconsistent views of the negotiation environment, and decision procedures for revelation, signalling, and requesting information, 4) The revision and update of the agent’s mental state and incorporation of social context, 5) Identifying strategies for expressing emotions in negotiations, 6) Technology for general opponent modelling from sparse and noisy data. To demonstrate the developed methods, we will implement two training systems for people to improve their interviewing capabilities, and for training negotiators in inter-culture negotiations. CAP will revolutionise the state of the art of automated systems negotiating with people. It will also create breakthroughs in the research of multi-agent systems in general, and will change paradigms by providing new directions for the way computers interact with people.

Keywords: multiagent systems,arguer agent
Towards Cost-Efficient Flexible Heterogeneous Integration for Micro- and Nanosystem Fabrication (XMEMS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2279800.0
EU funding (EUR): 2279800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal targets the development of flexible heterogeneous integration schemes for combining best-of-class materials, components and manufacturing methods into economically viable micro- and nanosystem (MEMS) solutions. Today, the IC industry drives the development of most micro- and nanofabrication technologies, which are characterized by standardized processes, very large production volumes of >10.000 wafers/month and enormous capital investments. In contrast, the vast majority of MEMS demand production volumes of <100 wafers/month and different manufacturing and integration processes for each type of device. The a-priori acceptance of IC manufacturing technologies for MEMS therefore leads to missed market opportunities for many moderate volume MEMS-based products and to sub-optimal material choices. Instead, we aim for a new MEMS-specific integration and manufacturing paradigm, in which the technologies and tools are adapted to the production volumes and design variations of MEMS devices. Specifically, we will develop novel and enabling micro/nano fabrication and integration techniques with a focus on flexibility and cost-efficiency in the following areas: " Heterogeneous Material Integration, where we incorporate high-performance materials into MEMS using unconventional and innovative technologies and tools, including serial integration, wafer-level integration and free-form fabrication of MEMS; " Heterogeneous System Integration, where we develop new wafer level schemes to combine, process and interconnect components fabricated with different technologies such as MEMS, NEMS, ICs or photonics; " Lab-on-Chip Integration, in which transducers, mass transport solutions, surface biochemistry and liquids are combined at the wafer level into high-performance systems.

Keywords: mems material system fluidic heterogeneous integration
Development and provision of a numerical model to solve laminar-turbulent boundary-layer transition and boundary-layer velocity profiles for unsteady flow conditions (LAMBLADE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-02, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 123240.0
EU funding (EUR): 92400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Clean Sky Green Rotorcraft ITD focuses on innovative rotor blades and engine installation for noise reduction, lower airframe drag, diesel engine and electrical systems for fuel consumption reduction and environmentally friendly flight paths. In this framework the research consortium is aiming at the development of laminar blades (producing lower drag) to provide the greatest possible reduction in fuel consumption. This requires the capability to model the underlying physics such as the unsteady laminar boundary layer and, further, transition from laminar to turbulent flow. In this respect, the present proposal answers topic JTI-CS-2009-2-GRC-01-002, dedicated to the development of the necessary numerical models to predict transition and compute the unsteady laminar base flow. More specifically it is proposed, as required by the GRC Consortium, to develop numerical tools able to: 1) Compute the main boundary layer quantities for unsteady flow conditions 2) Perform stability analysis using the multiple-scale technique and the ray theory for the evaluation of the laminar flow region on the blade. 3) Take as input the three components of the velocity distribution on the blade surface provided by an external inviscid flow solver. The Fluid Dynamics Group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Salerno is especially suited for this task since it possesses the expertise and long experience in the field of transition prediction, especially involving ray theory.

Keywords: transition prediction,unsteady boundary layer
Contribution to Analysis of Rotor Hub Drag Reduction (CARD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Czechia
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-02, 2009)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 499998.2
EU funding (EUR): 374997.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

A major source of helicopter drag, about 30% of the total, is from the rotor hub. It is important that the drag generated by a helicopter, and hence emissions, is reduced. This research programme is to be undertaken to investigate this subject and investigate potential techniques to achieve reductions in hub drag. A wind tunnel test programme is to be carried out to provide a large, high-quality experimental data set. A 5 bladed scale helicopter model is to be designed and manufactured. The model will be designed to enable the effect of model geometry to be examined by using a range of 5 rotor caps and 5 hub fairings. The overall model aerodynamic loads will be measured and the loads generated by the rotor hub and rotor cap will be independently obtained using internal load cell balances. Two Particle Image Velocimetry systems, 3D and time resolved, will be employed in parallel to acquire flow field data in regions of interest around the model. A range of representative flight conditions will be simulated. These acquired data will be processed to allow the significant features of the helicopters model’s aerodynamic characteristics to be obtained. This will expose the salient sources of rotor hub drag and so identify techniques that may be employed to reduce the magnitude of this force. The data will also be available for the development and validation of CFD codes.

Keywords: helicopter rotor hub drag reduction,rotor hub fairing,particle image velocimetry
Computational models for the discovery of the world's music (COMPMUSIC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: ERC Advanced Grant Interdisciplinary Panel
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2443200.0
EU funding (EUR): 2443200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Current IT research does not respond to the world's multi-cultural reality. It could be argued that we are imposing the paradigms of our market-driven western culture also on IT and that current IT research results will only facilitate the access of a small part of the world’s information to a small part of the world's population. Most IT research is being carried out with a western centred approach and as a result, our data models, cognition models, user models, interaction models, ontologies, … are all culturally biased. This fact is quite evident in music information research, since, despite the world's richness in musical cultures, most of the research is centred on CDs and metadata of our western commercial music. CompMusic wants to break this huge research bias. By approaching musical information modelling from a multicultural perspective it aims at advancing our state of the art while facilitating the discovery and reuse of the music produced outside the western commercial context. But the development of computational models to address the world’s music information richness cannot be done from the West looking out; we have to involve researchers and musical experts immersed in the different cultures. Their contribution is fundamental to develop the appropriate multicultural musicological and cognitive frameworks from which we should then carry our research on finding appropriate musical features, ontologies, data representations, user interfaces and user centred approaches. CompMusic will investigate some of the most consolidated non-western classical music traditions, Indian (hindustani, carnatic), Turkish-Arab (ottoman, andalusian), and Chinese (han), developing the needed computational models to bring their music into the current globalized information framework. Using these music cultures as case studies, cultures that are alive and have a strong influence in current society, we can develop rich information models that can take advantage of the existing information coming from musicological and cultural studies, from mature performance practice traditions and from active social contexts. With this approach we aim at challenging the current western centred information paradigms, advance our IT research, and contribute to our rich multicultural society.

Keywords: sound and music computing,computational musicology,cognitive musicology,music information processing,music interaction
Saber Model Automatic tRanslation Tool, a software for Saber models conversion to multi-systems simulation platforms (SMART)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-02, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 199080.0
EU funding (EUR): 149310.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal main objective is the development of a software tool able to perform the conversion of a SABER model, describing an electrical network architecture for an all-electric aircraft, to an EASY5 or MODELICA based model readable from a multi-physics simulative environment (e.g. AMESIM). The SMART tool will accept as input a netlist of an electrical network equipment model, defined in the Hardware Description Language of Synopsys SABER, and will produce as output an equivalent object readable from EASY5 environment or conform to MODELICA language. The Starting date of SMART project has been fixed for 01/09/2010, according specific need of the ITD about the availability of SABER models supplied.

Keywords: simulation,saber,easy5,modelica,language migration
theRmal Energy reCoverY eleCtricaL systEms (RECYCLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-02, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 250000.0
EU funding (EUR): 187500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Present proposal is a systematic study of thermal heat recovery for rotorcrafts which aim at generating electrical power from heat losses. These systems decrease the electrical load input required from the engine and achieve an overall increase in thermal efficiency of the rotorcraft propulsion system. A second aim is to study how such systems contribute to the cooling of main drive trains by pumping out heat. More specifically the following project work tasks will be carried out; 1) Exploitable thermal loss sources of rotocraft systems will be identified and quantified, 2) Worldwide study of potential innovative and novel solutions will be reviewed. The specific power, specific power density outputs, specific volume and specific cost of such systems will be thouroughy evaluated. Risk assessments with regards to rotorcraft performance, magnetic and electrical interferences, flight safety and structural integrity will be carried out, 3) Heat and power balance flow diagrams and exergy analysis of most promising candidates heat recovery electrical systems will be carried out. An energy flow behavioural model of each of the systems which take into account a representative helicopter power and thermal networks will be established, 4) A detailed simulation and design of a robust rotorcraft power networks will be developed in SABER. High level behavioural model of the most promising heat recovery electrical generators will be included, 5) The mockup of the most representative heat recovery electrical generation device will be manufactured and the performance capability verified. A nominal power production around 1 KW will be chosen. 6) The mockup potential verification will first be carried out with a main heat input from a ground/laboratory based 200kW size helicopter turboshaft engine test bed. The mockup will then be tested in a second aircraft installation application environment that will be determined later.

Keywords: heat recovery electrical generation,rotary expanders,thermo electric converters,stirling engines
Star clusters as cosmic laboratories for Astrophysics, Dynamics and Fundamental Physics (COSMIC-LAB)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Universe sciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1880000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1880000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) are the most populous, old and dense stellar systems in the Galaxy. Their study addresses fundamental astrophysical questions, ranging from the Galaxy formation, to stellar evolution and dynamics. With Cosmic-Lab we intend to use these natural laboratories to perform three original experiments which will have a major impact on several areas of modern Physics and Astrophysics. To this aim we will adopt as test particles three classes of "exotica" (namely blue stragglers - BSS, millisecond pulsars -MSPs, and intermediate-mass black holes -IMBHs): Exp 1 - "Toward the definition of a dynamical clock for stellar systems". By exploiting our exceptional multi-wavelength database, we propose to use the observed properties of BSS for defining an innovative tool to measure the degree of dynamical evolution of collisional stellar systems. Exp 2 - "Hunting for the most massive neutron stars (NSs): probing the equation of state of matter at nuclear densities" - We propose to search for the companion stars to binary MSPs in a selected sample of GCs thus to exploit the unique opportunity offered by these systems to measure the NS masses. This will finally allow us to determine the upper limit to the NS mass and tightly constrain the equation of state of matter at the nuclear equilibrium density. Exp 3 - "IMBHs: the missing link in the formation of cosmic structures" - We propose to use a set of non-conventional data-analysis procedures developed by our group in order to unveil IMBHs at the center of GCs. Proving the existence of these objects is crucial for understanding the formation of super-massive BHs, which are observed at the centre of all massive galaxies at any redshift, with a major impact on the comprehension of the formation and evolution of cosmic structures.

Keywords: dynamics of stellar systems stellar evolution
Sensor for Convective and Radiative Heat Loss (CORA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-02, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 59400.0
EU funding (EUR): 44550.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the context of the CORA - project the measurement instrumentation and detectability of heat transitions separately for convection and radiation of small surface areas will be examined. In preliminary tests the expected heat flows will be detected in as exactly as possible. On this basis a miniature sensor will be developed. Here the heat transfer will be determined by commercial Peltier modules and additionally the exact ambient temperature by means of a PT100 sensor. The sensor signals are evaluated through control electronics which will be developed in parallel – which are interfacing with the PC besides. Over a PC program necessary calibration procedures and the transfer of measurement data can be accomplished. A small surface sensor, which measures energy transport through a surface element, can be utilized in a variety of possible fields of application. For example, by arranging several sensors in a matrix shape, hotspots can be identified and if necessary, eliminated by making constructional modifications. In this way, it is possible to use larger areas for the cooling of components and to purely passively dissipate the resulting heat. A particular advantage arises from the bi-directional properties of the sensor, not only can the heat dissipation at a particular point be measured, but also the heat absorption from the environment. As starting date we prefer the first of September 2010 as we have reserved (scheduled) personnel resources from then on.

Keywords: sensor,convection,radiation,heat loss
Atmospheric Chemistry-Climate Interactions (ACCI)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Earth system science
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2496926.0
EU funding (EUR): 2496926.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Global change involves a large number of complex interactions between various earth system processes. In the atmosphere, one component of the earth system, there are crucial feedbacks between physical, chemical and biological processes. Thus many of the drivers of climate change depend on chemical processes in the atmosphere including, in addition to ozone and water vapour, methane, nitrous oxide, the halocarbons as well as a range of inorganic and organic aerosols. The link between chemistry and climate is two-way and changes in climate can influence atmospheric chemistry processes in a variety of ways. Previous studies have looked at these interactions in isolation but the time is now right for more comprehensive studies. The crucial contribution that will be made here is in improving our understanding of the processes within this complex system. Process understanding has been the hallmark of my previous work. The earth system scope here will be ambitiously wide but with a similar drive to understand fundamental processes. The ambitious programme of research is built around four interrelated questions using new state-of-the-art modelling tools: How will the composition of the stratosphere change in the future, given changes in the concentrations of ozone depleting substances and greenhouse gases? How will these changes in the stratosphere affect tropospheric composition and climate? How will the composition of the troposphere change in the future, given changes in the emissions of ozone precursors and greenhouse gases? How will these changes in the troposphere affect the troposphere-stratosphere climate system? ACCI will break new ground in bringing all of these questions into a single modelling and diagnostic framework, enabling interrelated questions to be answered which should radically improve our overall projections for global change.