Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Robust Advanced Materials for metal Supported SOFC (RAMSES)

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,Italy,Sweden,France,Norway,Spain,Canada
Call:  (FCH-JU-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4712209.45
EU funding (EUR): 2140333.81
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The RAMSES project aims at developing an innovative high performance, robust, durable and cost-effective Solid Oxide Fuel Cell based on the Metal Supported Cell concept i.e. the deposition of thin ceramic electrodes and electrolyte on a porous metallic substrate. Both planar and tubular cells will be developed. By considering advanced materials tailored for this cell design, such cells will be able to operate at 600°C on methane steam reforming, with an ASR of 0.8 Ohm.cm² for planar cells and 1.0 Ohm.cm² for tubular cells and a degradation rate of 30 mOhm.cm²/khr. In addition it will be able of withstanding thermal/redox combined cycles. The achievement of such performance needs several key-developments to be addressed: first the manufacturing of a durable metallic substrate; second the deposition of the ceramic layers without affecting the substrate microstructure, with a special emphasis on the dense electrolyte deposition; third the proof-of-concept via the integration of the cells into a short stack, supported by inspection techniques to evaluate the good quality of components at each step of the process; and finally testing activities to determine the performance and durability of cells and stacks, and to investigate specific identified failure mechanisms. A cross multidisciplinary consortium has been defined to obtain each competence needed for the project, gathering 9 organisations from 4 member states (France, Italy, Sweden, Spain) and one associated country (Norway). In addition an IPHE country (Canada) with a significant background in the development of Metal Supported Cells will be associated to this project. The partnership covers all competences necessary to develop the new SOFC, embracing powder suppliers (HÖGANÄS, BAIKOWSKI), experts in materials and cell developments (CNRS-BX, CEA, SINTEF, IKL, NRC), testing (CEA, NRC, IKL), components and stack development and production (SP, IKL, COPRECI, NRC) and inspection techniques (AEA).

Keywords: sofc,metal supported cell,robustness,durability,performance,advanced materials,cost efficiency
Multiscale poro-micromechanics of bone materials, with links to biology and medicine (MICROBONE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: Austria
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1493399.0
EU funding (EUR): 1493399.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Modern computational engineering science allows for reliable design of the most breathtaking high-rise buildings, but it has hardly entered the fracture risk assessment of biological structures like bones. Is it only an engineering scientist's dream to decipher mathematically the origins and the evolution of the astonishingly varying mechanical properties of hierarchical biological materials? Not quite: By means of micromechanical theories, we could recently show in a quantitative fashion how "universal" elementary building blocks (being independent of tissue type, species, age, or anatomical location) govern the elastic properties of bone materials across the entire vertebrate kingdom, from the super-molecular to the centimetre scale. Now is the time to drive forward these developments beyond elasticity, striving for scientific breakthroughs in multiscale bone strength. Through novel, experimentally validated micromechanical theories, we will aim at predicting tissue-specific inelastic properties of bone materials, from the "universal" mechanical properties of the nanoscaled elementary components (hydroxyapatite, collagen, water), their tissue-specific dosages, and the "universal" organizational patterns they build up. Moreover, we will extend cell population models of contemporary systems biology, towards biomineralization kinetics,in order to quantify evolutions of bone mass and composition in living organisms. When using these evolutions as input for the aforementioned micromechanics models, the latter will predict the mechanical implications of biological processes. This will open unprecedented avenues in bone disease therapies, including patient-specific bone fracture risk assessment relying on micromechanics-based Finite Element analyses.

Keywords: poro-micromechanics,homogenization,upscaling of inelastic mechanical properties,bone,hierarchically organized composites,collagen,hydroxyapatite,water,mathematical biology,remodeling
Supporting humans in knowledge gathering and question answering w.r.t. marine and environmental monitoring through analysis of multiple video streams (FISH4KNOWLEDGE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Netherlands,Taiwan, Province of China
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2537075.0
EU funding (EUR): 1915000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The study of marine ecosystems is vital for understanding environmental effects, such as climate change and the effects of pollution, but is extremely difficult because of the inaccessibility of data. Undersea video data is usable but is tedious to analyse (for both raw video analysis and abstraction over massive sets of observations), and is mainly done by hand or with hand-crafted computational tools. Fish4Knowledge will allow a major increase in the ability to analyse this data: 1) Video analysis will automatically extract information about the observed marine animals which is recorded in an observation database. 2) Interfaces will be designed to allow researchers to formulate and answer higher level questions over that database. The project will investigate: information abstraction and storage methods for reducing the massive amount of video data (from 10E15 pixels to 10E12 units of information), machine and human vocabularies for describing fish, flexible process architectures to process the data and scientific queries and effective specialised user query interfaces. A combination of computer vision, database storage, workflow and human computer interaction methods will be used to achieve this. The project will use live video feeds from 10 underwater cameras as a testbed for investigating more generally applicable methods for capture, storage, analysis and querying of multiple video streams. We will collate a public database from 2 years containing video summaries of the observed fish and associated descriptors. Expert web-based interfaces will be developed for use by the marine researchers themselves, allowing unprecedented access to live and previously stored videos, or previously extracted information. The marine researcher interface will also allow easy formulation of new queries. Extensive user community evaluations will be carried out to provide information on the accuracy, ease and speed of retrieval of information.

Keywords: data intensive computing,video workflow analysis,marine biology,intelligent query interfaces
Advanced Autonomous Model-Based Operation of Industrial Process Systems (AUTOPROFIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Sweden,Sweden,Sweden,South Africa
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2446877.0
EU funding (EUR): 1750000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at improving the operational efficiency of large-scale dynamic plants as found in petrochemical, chemical and other process industries. Costs related with industrial implementation of current model-based operation support systems, like Model Predictive Control, Real-Time Optimization and soft-sensors for these complex processes are currently very high. Moreover it is widely recognized that life-time performance of these systems is rather limited, particularly due to the fact that the underlying dynamic models need to be adapted/calibrated regularly, requiring expensive dedicated measurement campaigns. Given the importance of increasing demands on economic and sustainable process operation, there is a strong need to reduce the costs and increase the performance of model-based operation support systems. Therefore it is proposed to develop model-based operation support technology that enables control and model calibration at a considerable higher level of autonomy than currently possible. The technology enables autonomous maintenance by automated surveillance, continuously monitoring the process’ and operation support system performance. If performance degradation is anticipated then proactive adaptation of the model-based operation support system is initiated. The technology will operate on the basis of the least costly principle. The influence of the invasive testing on process’ operation and economics will be minimised, to the extent possible given the necessary accuracy of the resulting identified model. Moreover all decisions are based on an economic trade-off between process operation costs and benefits. This system should be able to optimise plant performance under varying operational conditions and adapting to changing circumstances. The consortium is well suited for this task. Industry is specifically involved to guide research in an industrial relevant direction and to ensure industrial validation of the technology to be developed.

Keywords: performance monitoring,identification,mpc,rto,model-based operation support,least costly test-signal design,process control,hybrid modeling
Exchangeable and Customizable Scanning Probe Tips (NANOBITS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Denmark,Switzerland,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3239926.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499998.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The atomic force microscope (AFM) has become a standard and wide spread instrument for characterizing nanoscale devices and can be found in most of today's research and development areas. The NanoBits project provides exchangeable and customizable scanning probe tips that can be attached to standard AFM cantilevers offering an unprecedented freedom in adapting the shape and size of the tips to the surface topology of the specific application. NanoBits themselves are 2-4 μm long and 120-150 nm thin flakes of heterogeneous materials fabricated in different approaches. These novel tips will allow for characterizing three dimensional high-aspect ratio and sidewall structures of critical dimensions such as nanooptical photonic components and semiconductor architectures which is a bottle-neck in reaching more efficient manufacturing techniques. It is thus an enabling approach for almost all future nanoscale applications. A miniaturized robotic microsystem combining innovative nanosensors and actuators will be used to explore new strategies of micro-nano-integration in order to realize a quick exchange of NanoBits. For the fabrication of the NanoBits, two different techniques are proposed. On the one hand, a standard silicon processing technique enables batch fabrication of various NanoBits designs defined by electron beam lithography. On the other hand, focused ion beam milling can be used to structure a blank of heterogeneous materials, the socalled nembranes. Novel scanning modes in atomic force microscopy will be developed to take full advantage of the different NanoBits geometries and to realize AFM imaging of critical dimension structures. The innovative nanoimaging capabilities will be applied to characterize and develop novel nanooptical photonic structures in the wavelength or even sub-wavelength range and TERS applications in the nanomaterial and biomedical sector. Especially the involved SMEs will exploit and disseminate the results to potential users to realize a more efficient micro-and nanomanufacturing.

Keywords: micro and nano systems,nanotechnology,3d afm,nanooptics,photonics,nanorobotics,ters
REsearch into implementation STrategies to support patients of different ORigins and language background in a variety of European primary care settings (RESTORE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Optimising the delivery of healthcare to European citizens
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Netherlands,Greece,Ireland,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-two-stage, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3726447.19
EU funding (EUR): 2990590.2
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

This project is concerned with optimising the delivery of primary healthcare to European citizens who are migrants who experience language and cultural barriers in host countries. We focus on the implementation of evidence-based health information (e.g. guidelines to enhance communication in cross-cultural consultations) and interventions (e.g. training initiatives on interculturalism and the use of paid interpreters) designed to address language and cultural barriers in primary care settings. We explore how these are translated (or not) into routine practice in primary care settings. We will investigate and support implementation processes for these using a unique combination of contemporary social theory, the Normalisation Process Theory and a participatory research methodology. Our five study objectives are to determine: What guidelines and/or training initiatives are currently available in our partner countries that have been generated by primary care research in a way that was inclusive of all key stakeholders? How are the guidelines and/or training initiatives translated into practice by primary care staff? What are the processes of implementation, ‘on the ground’ in routine practice? What is the capacity of primary care settings in different countries (and, therefore, different organisational contexts) to incorporate implementation processes within their current organisational arrangement? Is the implementation work for guidelines and/or training initiatives sustainable - leading to normalised use of these technologies in routine practice? What are the benefits (if any) of using NPT and PLA to investigate and support implementation processes? There will be co-operation between an inter-disciplinary team of experienced researchers, across 6 European health care settings with different organizational contexts and capacities to respond to this implementation work.

Keywords: implementation science,normalisation process theory,participatory research strategies,migrant health
Steep subthreshold slope switches for energy efficient electronics (STEEPER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,France,Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6111900.0
EU funding (EUR): 4099999.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

STEEPER addresses the development of Beyond CMOS energy-efficient steep subthreshold slope transistors based on quantum mechanical band-to-band tunnelling (tunnel FETs), with the aim of reducing the operation voltage of nanoelectronic circuits to sub-0.5V, and their power consumption by one order of magnitude. STEEPER focuses on two technology tracks, united by same device principle, shared performance boosters, and compatibility with silicon CMOS. These are (i) Ultra-Thin-Body Silicon-On-Insulator technology for planar, tri-gate and nanowire tunnel FETs featuring ultra-low standby power and smartly exploiting additive boosters: high-k dielectrics, SiGe source, strain, and improved electrostatic design, and (ii) a III-V nanowire platform on silicon, as unique material to control staggered or broken bandgap boosters and devise a high performance (high-Ion, steep slope) implementation of tunnel FETs. Platform (i) will enable a hybrid platform combining high performance (HP) CMOS and low standby power (LSTP), low voltage tunnel FETs, supporting energy efficient hybrid CMOS/Tunnel-FET digital and analog/RF circuit design. In line with ITRS, STEEPER will evaluate in platform (ii) the physical and practical limits of boosting the performance of tunnel FETs with III-V nanowires on silicon, and resulting advantages for HP digital circuits. The development of the two technology platforms are interactive and collaborative in terms of performance boosters, and will benefit from simulation and modelling support by the academic partners, and from investigation of the potentially critical variability and sensitivity of tunnel FETs. Industrial benchmarking is proposed at device and circuit levels by the key involved industries, and the figures of merit of hybrid CMOS/tunnel FET digital and analog circuit design will be investigated. The project targets energy efficient nanoelectronic technology for high volume markets covering digital, analog/RF and mixed mode applications.

Keywords: nanoelectronics,steep slope transistors,energy efficiency,greener electronics,tunnel fet,iii-v semiconductors
Service Offering for the Future Internet (SOFI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-5, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 545152.0
EU funding (EUR): 444268.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of SOFI is to complement R&D projects in the area of Internet of Services, Software and Virtualization (Objective 1.2) through specific support activities. SOFI aims to ensure the position of European research as a leader in the definition and realization of the theoretical and technological foundations of the Future Internet of Services, as well as European industrys competitive advantage in the creation of value and new opportunities from the use of Future Internet. SOFI will build upon existing work related to the Service related working groups, most specifically the Future Internet Service Offer WG (FISO), within the Future Internet. The specific objectives of the SOFI proposal are: • Support the organisation of the Future Internet Assembly, and in particular to pursue the activities of and further develop the Future Internet Service Offer. SOFI will lead the work of producing an annual book with results from the Future Internet Assemblies. This approach will be complemented by a world-wide effort to coordinate European Future Internet efforts with corresponding programs in the USA, Japan, and elsewhere, ensuring EU Future Internet initiatives related to software and services are relevant and that European industry and society can be at the helm of the Future Internet. • Support dissemination of the Internet of Services community results as a crucial instrument to strengthen and extend the impact of supported collaborative research projects through the provision of specific dissemination channels, in particular the conference series Future Internet Symposium (FIS) and ServiceWave. SOFI will also help raise awareness among European businesses and public stakeholders of technological solutions enabled through the Internet of Services, and facilitate the steady and systematic adoption of these technologies by participating in relevant events, conferences, tutorials, and information days. • Implement the Future Internet portal and collaboration measures to ensure cohesion and alignment of strategies, objectives and results of projects and initiatives within the Future Internet initiative. In particular, SOFI will collaborate on an improved and regularly updated Future Internet portal, communicating results from the services community and publicizing technical solutions to the research and industry. Also, SOFI will participate in collaboration measures such as a European Vision on the Future Internet Architecture and roadmapping for FP8 research.

Keywords: internet of services,future internet,services,soa