Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Nanotechnology based intelligent multi-SENsor System with selective pre-concentration for Indoor air quality control (SENSINDOOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Germany,Finland,Sweden,Sweden,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-SMALL-7, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4619315.6
EU funding (EUR): 3399995.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

SENSIndoor aims at the development of novel nanotechnology based intelligent sensor systems for selective monitoring of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) for demand controlled ventilation in indoor environments. Greatly reduced energy consumption without adverse health effects caused by the Sick Building Syndrome requires optimized ventilation schemes adapted to specific application scenarios like offices, hospitals, schools, nurseries or private homes. These must be based on selective detection and reliable quantification of relevant VOCs such as formaldehyde or benzene at ppb or even sub-ppb levels in complex environments. Priority scenarios and corresponding target gases and concentrations will be defined together with an advisory board representing health standard experts and major industrial stakeholders. The project addresses two sensor technologies with MEMS-based metal oxide semiconductor gas sensors and SiC-based gas sensitive field effect transistors. Gas sensitive layers for both sensor technologies are realized by Pulsed Laser Deposition for well-defined, stable and highly sensitive nanostructured layers. These are combined with gas pre-concentration to boost the sensitivity of the overall system. Dynamic operation of the gas sensor elements by temperature cycling combined with pattern recognition techniques is employed to further boost sensitivity and selectivity and expanded to optimally use the gas preconcentration. The project thus combines physical and chemical nanotechnologies for extremely sensitive and selective gas sensing, MEMS technologies for low-power operation as well as low-cost manufacture and finally dynamic operating modes together with advanced signal processing for unrivalled system performance. Sensor elements and systems are evaluated under controlled lab conditions derived from priority application scenarios. The final demonstration of the SENSIndoor technology will include field tests with sensor systems integrated into building control systems.

Keywords: indoor air quality,demand controlled ventilation,voc detection,mos and sic-gasfet nanosensors,mip/mof pre-concentrators,dynamic operation,advanced signal processing,integrated sensor system
Nanometrology Standardization Methods for Magnetic Nanoparticles (NANOMAG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Spain,Denmark,Spain,Sweden,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Sweden,Germany,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-LARGE-7, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11559580.38
EU funding (EUR): 8841930.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The NanoMag project is to improve and redefine existing analyzing methods and in some cases, to develop new analyzing methods for magnetic nanostructures. Using improved manufacturing technologies we will synthesize magnetic nanoparticles with specific properties that will be analyzed with a multitude of characterization techniques (focusing on both structural as well as magnetic properties) and bring the experimental results together to obtain a self-consistent picture which describes how structural and magnetic properties are interrelated. This extensive survey will be used to define standard measurements and techniques which are necessary for defining a magnetic nanostructure and quality control. NanoMag brings together Europe’s and internationally leading experts in; manufacturing of magnetic single-core nanoparticles and magnetic multi-core particles, analyzing and characterization of magnetic nanostructures and national metrology institutes. In the consortium we have gathered partners within research institutes, universities and metrology institutes, all carrying out front end research and developing applications in the field of magnetic nanoparticles.

Keywords: magnetic nanoparticles,standardization methods,magnetic analysis,biomedical applications,nanostructures,manufacturing of magnetic nanoparticles
Novel combination of biopolymers and manufacturing technologies for production of a peripheral nerve implant containing an internal aligned channels array (NEURIMP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Czechia,United Kingdom,Ireland,United Kingdom,Spain,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-SME-7, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4356655.0
EU funding (EUR): 3409540.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Peripheral nerves are basic communication structures guiding motor and sensitive information from CNS to effector or receptor units. Severe nerve injuries include axon bundles section and Schawnn cells destruction, which results in loss of motion control and sensorial perception. After the lesion, cells present in damaged nerves activate spontaneously self-regeneration programs that might facilitate further treatment. Nerve autograft is the “gold standard” surgical intervention that demands autologous tissue extraction and corresponding function loss. The goal of the project is the validation of biomaterials structural plasticity and those compatible manufacturing technologies that will enable the generation of a tubular structure containing an intraluminal microstructure based on an array of aligned channels or fibers. The regenerative properties of this prototype will be also validated in vivo in a sciatic nerve section animal model. This project proposal will take advantage of partners’ experience in the design of medical devices composed of natural and synthetic biomaterials and in scaled-up production mechanization technologies for the generation of the most effective peripheral nerve implant.

Keywords: biopolymers,peripheral nervous system,microfabrication,hydrogels
Enhancing educAtion, traininG and communication processes for informed behaviors and decision-making reLatEd to ionizing radiation risks (EAGLE)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Fission/fusion cross-cutting actions
Destination: Cross-Cutting Actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Slovenia,France,Romania,France,Poland,Romania,Hungary,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-12
End date: 2016-08-11
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1086007.3
EU funding (EUR): 777000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Education, training and information to the general public are key factors in the governance of ionising radiation risks. Communication about ionising radiation with the general public has to to be further improved, as highlighted also by the 2011 accident in Japan. An effort is needed to analyse the state of the art and the existing needs in education, training and information, and to coordinate the information and communication about ionising radiation at European level. This proposal aims specifically at coordinating the information and communication strategies related to ionising radiation for the general public, in order to get a better understanding of the effects of ionising radiation, taking also into consideration the lessons learnt from the 2011 accident in Fukushima (Japan). It addresses the call Fission-2013-6.0.2: Education / training / information towards the public. The proposal, further referred to by the acronym EAGLE (Enhancing educAtion, traininG and communication processes for informed behaviors and decision-making reLatEd to ionizing radiation risks), will help to identify and disseminate good practices in information and communication processes related to ionising radiation. For this purpose, the consortium intends to review national and international data, tools and methods as well as institutional work in order to identify education, information and communication needs and coordination possibilities at European level. The lessons learned from the nuclear accident in Fukushima will also provide a valuable input. The main goal of the project is to enhance public understanding of ionizing radiation and to facilitate a coordinated communication approach. Moreover, EAGLE will foster a move towards the ideal of citizen-centred communication, including a participative component.The project will bring together representatives of nuclear actors, users of ionizing radiation, authorities, mass and social media, and informed civil society.

Keywords: communication,ionizing radiation,enhancement,training,education,citizen-driven communicaiton
Framework to respond to regulatory needs of future nanomaterials and markets (FUTURENANONEEDS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Spain,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,Netherlands,Belgium,France,Czechia,Belgium,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-LARGE-7, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8934731.06
EU funding (EUR): 6799997.0
Participants: 26
Project status: CLOSED

Rapidly developing markets such as green construction, energy harvesting and storage, advanced materials for aerospace, electronics, medical implants and environmental remediation are potential key application targets for nanomaterials. There, nanotechnology has the potential to make qualitative improvements or indeed even to enable the technology. Impacts range from increased efficiency of energy harvesting or storage batteries, to radical improvements in mechanical properties for construction materials. In addition, concerns of these markets such as scarcity of materials, cost, security of supply, and negative environmental impact of older products could also be addressed by new nano-enabled materials (e.g. lighter aircraft use less fuel). FutureNanoNeeds will develop a novel framework to enable naming, classification, hazard and environmental impact assessment of the next generation nanomaterials prior to their widespread industrial use. It will uniquely achieve this by integrating concepts and approaches from several well established contiguous domains, such as phylontology and crystallography to develop a robust, versatile and adaptable naming approach, coupled with a full assessment of all known biological protective responses as the basis for a decision tree for screening potential impacts of nanomaterials at all stages of their lifecycle. Together, these tools will form the basis of a “value chain” regulatory process which allows a each nanomaterial to be assessed for different applications on the basis of available data and the specific exposure and life cycle concerns for that application. Exemplar materials from emerging nano-industry sectors, such as energy, construction and agriculture will be evaluated via this process as demonstrators. The FutureNanoNeeds consortium is uniquely placed to achieve this, on the basis of expertise, positioning, open mindedness and a belief that new approaches are required.

Keywords: nano-objects,regulation,industry sectors,roadmap of future nanomaterials,value chain,hazard,exposure,risk,communication
Pre-standardisation of incremental FIB micro-milling for intrinsic stress evaluation at the sub-micron scale (ISTRESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,Germany,Switzerland,Italy,Germany,Germany,Czechia,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-LARGE-7, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8615106.78
EU funding (EUR): 6135868.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Intrinsic (or residual) stresses, resulting from manufacturing or processing steps, mostly define the performance and limit the lifetime of nanostructured materials, thin films, coatings and MEMS devices. The established techniques for micron-scale measurement of residual stress still have strong limitations, e.g. in terms of spatial resolution, lack of depth sensing, their applicability on non-crystalline materials or accessibility to industry. In this project, a European consortium is established to develop an innovative, highly reproducible and automated measurement protocol for the analysis of residual stress on a sub-micron scale, based on incremental focused ion beam (FIB) milling, along with high-resolution in situ Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) imaging and full field strain analysis by digital image correlation (DIC). The activities will focus on the implementation and pre-standardisation of automated FIB-SEM, DIC and inverse stress calculation procedures, under official project liaisons with both CEN and VAMAS, together with the analysis and modelling of FIB induced artefacts and stress-structure-properties relationship for the selected materials and devices. The final aim of the project will be the development of innovative design rules, implemented into simulation and optimization tools under coordination of industry partners, for the production of residual stress-controlled nanostructured materials, with specific focus on (i) multi-layered nano-coatings, (ii) micro/nano-crystalline and amorphous materials, (iii) MEMS and 3D metal interconnects. The project is expected to realize a breakthrough in measurement, standardization and modelling ability of the residual stress distribution at the sub-micron scale. The measurement techniques and the simulation tools will provide SMEs in particular with enabling technologies for the design and efficient production of innovative micro-devices with improved performance and substantially reduce development costs.

Keywords: intrinsic stress,sub-micron scale,fib-dic,thin film,nanostructured materials
QUANTItative scanning probe microscopy techniques for HEAT transfer management in nanomaterials and nanodevices. (QUANTIHEAT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Finland,France,Czechia,Switzerland,Spain,France,France,Germany,Norway,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-LARGE-7, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12797156.54
EU funding (EUR): 9421539.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The thermal properties of nanostructured materials are of fundamental importance to modern technology, but at present reproducible metrological definitions, tools and methods do not exist. This is because the mechanisms of heat transport at the nanoscale are entirely different to those at the macro scale. The project will place nanothermal metrology on a solid basis by an integrated physics-based experimental and modelling effort to: • Define a common terminology for nanothermal measurement • Realise standard materials and devices for measurement and calibration of nanothermal measurements • Develop new instruments and methods for traceable nanothermal measurement • Develop calibrated and validated thermal models covering the range from atomic to macro-scale • Apply these tools to selected representative industrial problems • Assess the tools for suitability for adoption as potential standards of measurement including their traceability and reproducibility The objectives will be achieved by a team comprising physicists, materials scientists, modellers, instrumentalists, microscopists, industrial partners (including SMEs and OEMs) and National Measurement Institutes. The outputs of QUANTIHEAT will be embodied in highly characterised reference samples, calibration systems, measurement tools, numerical modelling tools, reference measurements and documented procedures. The availability of calibrated numerical modelling tools will facilitate the rapid “digital” thermal design of new nanosystems without the need for extensive prototyping. Their validation against experiment over all length scales will provide a solid basis for the deployment of new nanostructured materials, devices and structures having optimised performance without the need for excessively conservative design. Standardization is a key driver of industrial and scientific progress: QUANTIHEAT is expected to constitute a de-facto standard for a key area of physical measurement at the nanoscale worldwide.

Keywords: design rules for thermal management,scanning thermal microscopy,soi materials,nanoscale thermal metrology,novel sensor,calibration standards,nanoscale thermal terminology
COaching and Mentoring of sMEs for Research CommercIALISation and Exploitation (COMMERCIALISE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Coordination and support action
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Türkiye,Poland,Spain,Finland,United Kingdom,Denmark,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 14.0
Total project cost (EUR): 763164.48
EU funding (EUR): 739282.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The Commercialise project will be to provide knowledge to the European Commission, enabling them to implement an efficient and effective coaching and mentoring scheme to increase the commercialisation of R&D results from the dedicated SME instruments in Horizon 2020. Despite high demand, existing programmes to support SMEs have not delivered the impact on Europe expected. As stated in the 2013 Research for SME Work Programme, “Too many good ideas and research results are not commercially exploited because companies lack the skills, competencies and capabilities to develop and to implement strategic business plans ensuring deployment and commercialisation of innovation.” Growth coaching has been shown across Europe to effectively eliminate the barriers to growing through innovation, and many lessons can be learned and applied to the EC's dedicated SME instrument. Commercialise will take a structured approach to assessing existing coaching and mentoring programmes of relevance, using this knowledge to design best-in-class support, and piloting the support in challenging environments across Europe to ensure the model is robust and ready to be applied. As shown in this proposal, we believe a well-designed coaching and mentoring programme could increase the European GVA generated by the dedicated SME instrument by up to €1.7 billion.

Keywords: coaching mentoring high-growth commercilaisation exploitation pan-european pilot innovation finance
Demonstration of a new biocide dry toilet with improved functionalities for three specific markets (DRY CLOSET)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,France,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-02
End date: 2015-09-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1055536.0
EU funding (EUR): 605916.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The dry toilet developed technologies entail technical limitations regarding efficient performance in long-term operation, massive use, remote locations supply and scale-up production. Therefore, bringing a more effective technology that overcomes such limitations is very demanding. The Consortium partners of the DRYCLOSET Research project (256295-1) have achieved a prototype based on successful development of three results: The biocide polymer and the coating contained in the toilet, which ensures slippery properties, hygiene and parasites removal The anti-struvite precipitation compound for avoiding toilet pipe blockades and clearing of the toilet system pipes The improved biofilter, which eliminates bad odours During the DRYCLOSET Demo we will make those prototype adjustments and develop a more marketable product, which will bring an added value product to fill more market needs and will expand our commercial spectrum. The main goal of the Demo project is to achieve three different DRYCLOSET marketable product models from the already obtained prototype. The models will match with three primary identified market needs: -Kit-assembly dry toilet addressed to long distance shipment in containers and easy assembly installation (DryCloset Kit) -Compact dry toilet integrated in a mobile truck mainly for military, emergency and public events needs (DryCloset Truck) -High-frequentation use dry toilets, spacially demanded in highways (DryCloset Massive) The DRYCLOSET toilet will be a suitable solution for more clients and its market horizon will considerably enlarge in Europe and beyond. In 2011 public toilet sales in Europe accounted for more than 1,2 million units, from which 1% corresponds to dry toilets. The Consortium of the DRYCLOSET Demo will be integrated by four of the SMEs that took part in the research stage: Ecosphere, Umwelttechnik (UGN), and Tecnove. Also, two new SMEs will collaborate as partners in the Demo: Impact Design and Serviformes.

Keywords: dry toilet environmental,vermicomposting,biofilter,waterless toilet,waste diverting