Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
INTElligent FIXtures for the manufacturing of low rigidity components (INTEFIX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for the Enterprise and Manufacturing
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Czechia,Belgium,Germany,Germany,France,Spain,Italy,Greece,Spain,Spain,Czechia,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Czechia,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF, 2013)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10253513.0
EU funding (EUR): 7499998.0
Participants: 33
Project status: CLOSED

In the manufacturing industry, the machining of medium and big size parts with the required and suitable precision is a challenge, especially in high added value products manufactured in small or single-unit batches made of high performance materials like in aeronautic, space or energy sectors, where conventional process engineering and test/error methods are not completely efficient. INTEFIX aims to increase the performance of the machining processes by the use of intelligent fixture systems, allowing the monitoring, control and adaptation of the process to obtain suitable results according to precision, quality and cost requirements. The main outcome of INTEFIX project will be the integration of new and state of the art technologies (sensors, actuators, control algorithms, simulation tools...) applied to the workpiece handling systems to develop intelligent and modular fixtures capable of modify the behaviour and interactions between the process and systems in machining operations; reducing time and costs with improved performance and capabilities. The proposed intelligent-modular fixture is a step forward to the smart manufacturing, providing new features of automation, flexibility, versatility, cost-efficiency and accuracy to the current, state of the art, manufacturing systems and equipment. The intelligent fixture will provide sensors and active drives to obtain a suitable fix of the component modifying the force and position of active locators and clamps, in order to select the suitable static and dynamic behavior of the machine-fixture system for improving the process (setup, deformations, vibrations…). This implies a fast-reliable connection and data transfer between the different ICT systems (CNC, PLC, sensors, actuators, CAD-CAM...) using ad-hoc methodologies and software. Furthermore, the use of modular elements eases disassembling and reuse of the advanced components improving the flexibility and sustainability of the manufacturing process.

Keywords: fixture,intelligent,control,sensor,actuator,mechatronic,adaptronic,simulation,monitoring,machining,vibration,deformation,set-up
Multifunctional facades of reduced thickness for fast and cost-effective retrofitting (MF-RETROFIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Spain,Germany,Italy,Poland,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ENV-EeB, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5038666.56
EU funding (EUR): 3599998.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to deal with the numerous requirements of facade panel retrofitting by developing a light-weight, durable, cost effective and high performance panel. Its layered structure allows for separate but also synergistic function regarding high thermal and acoustic insulation, excellent mechanical properties, up to standards flame retardancy and photocatalytic activity. Employing nanofillers such as CNTs, TiO2 and perlite nanoparticles and cellular nanofibers, will lead to reduction of facade panel weight and thickness by at least 40%. Furthermore, individual components have a definite environmental orientation, taking advantage of recycled materials and biomass foams, low energy and low toxicity processes. Finally, project viability and sustainability will be ensured by performing a Life Cycle Analysis in order to optimize individual processes. Hygrothermal behaviour and thermodynamics will also be simulated and modelled to ensure the high performance of the panel. The project’s advancements will be 1. Customization possibilities: Apart from panel thickness which can be easily tuned, integrated encapsulated nano-PCMs will be tailored along the customer needs regarding temperature of phase change. 2. Easy and fast to install: It is calculated that 10m2 can be installed in less than 3 hours by 2 workers 3. High acoustic and thermal insulation: The three internal layers offer varying degrees of insulation, with an ultra-light aerogel middle layer boasting thermal coefficients lower than 0.012 W/mK, thus allowing insulating layers 3 to 4 times thinner than conventional ones. 4. Photocatalytic activity offering self cleaning and antimicrobial behaviour, virtue of the surface coating. In addition, the surface coating will also contribute to flame retardancy due to nanofillers. 5. Reduction in weight and volume by 40%, as a result of applying polymeric and light-weight materials reinforced by nanofillers, therefore improving the panel mechanical properties

Keywords: multilayer,multifunctional,facades,lightweight,phase change materials,high energy ball milling,photocatalysis,aerogel,biomass foam,intumescent,fiber reinforced polymers,geopolymers
ADvanced Digital technologies and virtual engineering for mini-Factories (ADDFACTOR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Spain,Italy,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany,Belgium,Denmark,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Italy,Spain,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF(RTD), 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8919730.87
EU funding (EUR): 5499959.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

In today globalized world, companies are trying to remain competitive through the adoption of a strategy where high quantity production of goods is the leverage to reduce costs. By negating this approach, ADDFactor proposes the “Mini-factories” concept, which is conceived to be an innovative solution for most of the actors involved in the whole supply chain: the relationship between retailers and the manufacturing technologies will be considered and characterized by a new production framework concept, founded on central knowledge-based design and local distributed manufacturing. This high-level concept will be applied focusing on need-driven products, and ADDFactor will manage the complexity of their design phase thanks to a direct connection with the retailer, that will provide “biometric data” of the customers as tacit requirements and “aesthetics tests” as explicit demands, being both fundamental for an effective individual personalization. ADDFactor achievements will be focused on two different levels of manufacturing solutions, which will be placed: • at retail environment, to consider products simple and/or reduced in terms of assembled components (i.e. orthotics or modular fashion heels and plateau); • and at district level when the products are complex and the manufacturing procedures cannot be scaled at local level (i.e. sport shoes or complete customized fashion shoes). Within this overall project concept, ADDFactor will structure its activities towards the achievement of different objectives, from diagnostic devices to advanced design tools in order to convert personal data in individual product specifications. The manufacturing is then guaranteed by a local manufacturing through novel ultra-fast and auto-configurable machines. Thanks to the concurrent impact of these project results, ADDFactor will spark off an innovation virtuous cycle towards a future European industry.

Keywords: mini-factory,digital manufacturing,additive manufacturing,footwear product customization,consumer driven product functionalisation
Technology Transfer in Computing Systems (TETRACOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium,France,Italy,Netherlands,Finland,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Netherlands,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-10, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2306715.0
EU funding (EUR): 1995983.0
Participants: 33
Project status: CLOSED

The mission of the TETRACOM Coordination Action is to boost European academia-to-industry technology transfer (TT) in all domains of Computing Systems. While many other European and national initiatives focus on training of entrepreneurs and support for start-up companies, the key differentiator of TETRACOM is a novel instrument called Technology Transfer Project (TTP). TTPs help to lower the barrier for researchers to make the first steps towards commercialisation of their research results. TTPs are designed to provide incentives for TT at small to medium scale via partial funding of dedicated, well-defined, and short term academia-industry collaborations that bring concrete R&D results into industrial use. This will be implemented via competitive Expressions-of-Interest (EoI) calls for TTPs, whose coordination, prioritization, evaluation, and management are the major actions of TETRACOM. It is expected to fund up to 50 TTPs. The TTP activities will be complemented by Technology Transfer Infrastructures (TTIs) that provide training, service, and dissemination actions. These are designed to encourage a larger fraction of the R&D community to engage in TTPs, possibly even for the first time. Altogether, TETRACOM is conceived as the major pilot project of its kind in the area of Computing Systems, acting as a TT catalyst for the mutual benefit of academia and industry. The project´s primary success metrics are the number and value of coordinated TTPs as well as the amount of newly introduced European TT actors. It is expected to acquire around more than 20 new contractors over the project duration. TETRACOM complements and actually precedes the use of existing financial instruments such as venture capital or business angels based funding.

Keywords: technology transfer
Science, Technology and Innovation International Cooperation Network between EU and the Arab Gulf Countries aiming at the bi-regional coordination towards HORIZON2020 (INCONET-GCC2)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bi-regional coordination of S&T cooperation including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Italy,Türkiye,Sweden,Greece,France,United Kingdom,United Arab Emirates,Italy,Qatar,Egypt,Yemen,Switzerland,Morocco,Oman,Kuwait,Bahrain
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2351778.15
EU funding (EUR): 1999250.14
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

INCONET-GCC2's overall goal is to support the institutional bi-regional policy dialogue in Science, Technology and Innovation, to strengthen the bi-regional cooperation between research and innovation actors, especially in the context of the upcoming Horizon 2020 programme and finally to monitor progress in the bi-regional STI cooperation. INCONET-GCC2 builds on the results of previous cooperation activities with the Arab Gulf Countries (INCONET-GCC 1st phase, www.icnonet-gcc.eu) while it focuses on selected societal challenges of mutual interest as identified during the previous collaboration. INCONET-GCC2 explores now to achieve win-win across national, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches can be spurred in response to these issues while also realising and underpinning new pathbreaking kinds of capacity-building and organising clustering activities around the selected research priorities. Specifically: (1) Implement a series of analyses feeding the policy dialogue and increasing its efficiency, monitoring INCONET-GCC2’s own activities, with particular emphasis on their sustainability, and implementing coherent dissemination activities in order to increase its visibility and impact; (2) Built of best practices towards the future in order to promote joint research though clustering activities within the selected societal challenges and organise thematic workshops in Health, Energy, Innovation and Security and ICT, Food towards EU-GCC Joint Call for proposals; (3) Enhance capacity building through the delivery of the facilitation of researcher mobility, summer schools, the support of the NCPs and their expansion in order to cover the selected societal challenges and the organisation of information days and brokerage events in all Arab Gulf countries; (4) Roadmap future research activities and provide recommendations to the EC and the national regulatory and funding authorities; (5)Raise awareness and disseminate information.

Keywords: arab gulf countries,policy dialogue,clustering activities,capacity building,mobility,summer schools,coordinated/join calls,societal challenges,health,energy,water,food,innovation,ict
Mediterranean Network of Forestry Research and Innovation (MENFRI) (MENFRI)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Reinforcing cooperation with European Neighbourhood Policy countries on bridging the gap between research and innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Italy,Tunisia,Morocco,Spain
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2013-9, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 834226.8
EU funding (EUR): 745958.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The Mediterranean region will become one of the most vulnerable areas in Europe to global change. While in European Mediterranean countries the combination of climate change and land abandonment is promoting new unmanaged forest cover, increasing fire and pest risks, in the south of the basin forest intensification results in desertification as the principal threat. Forest management strategies must be directed to promoting mitigation of the effects of global change, and to guaranteeing the sustainable use of ecosystem goods and services in order to achieve a resource efficient, low-carbon economy. In fact, the defense of regional natural resources should be part of the aims in the agenda to escape from financial dependency to sustainable development. We posit that spatial analysis tools from the north could help stopping deforestation while obtaining economical benefits of landscape management in the south, and traditional knowledge from the south may help decreasing land abandonment in the north by developing eco-innovative business. In such context, the knowledge of the main technologies and techniques available and the interconnection between forestry research and business in both sides of the Mediterranean are two of the best ways to increase efficiency under the available budget. The Mediterranean Network of Forestry Research and Innovation (MENFRI) would like to become a dialogue and action platform in forestry, encouraging scientific and technological collaboration within the Mediterranean. The main goal of the project is therefore to create a favourable environment for the development of an innovative and job creating business sector in this region while facing climate change. The project will help bridging the gap between research and innovation by improving performance in managing, transferring and using the knowledge resulting from ecological research and forest management and by better aligning both research and economic objectives to societal needs.

Keywords: climate change,land use change,mediterranean region,research to innovation,forestry,eco-innovation,north and south initiatives,network,policy guide.
Further linking Russia to the ERA: Coordination of MS/ AC S&T programmes towards and with Russia (ERA.NET RUS PLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Supporting the coordination of national and regional policies and activities of Member States and Associated States on international S&T cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,France,Russian Federation,Austria,Finland,Germany,Israel,Latvia,Poland,Romania,Slovakia,Switzerland,Türkiye,Greece,Estonia,France,Belgium,Germany,Moldova, Republic of
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2013-3, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 31154999.98
EU funding (EUR): 3500000.01
Participants: 34
Project status: CLOSED

The Partnership for Modernisation between the European Union and Russia states as one of the priority areas to enhance cooperation in innovation, research and development. In this context the 24 consortium members of ERA.Net RUS Plus propose to implement a Single Joint Call for transnational and scientifically excellent research projects in the fields of Nanotechnologies/Materials/Production Technologies, Health, Environment/ Climate Change, Social Sciences/Humanities and Innovation. The national financial contributions of the partners to the Single Joint Call will sum up to approximately EUR 22.2 millions. The action will engage programme owners from various EU-Member States (MS), countries associated (AC) to the EU RTD Framework Programme and Russia. ERA.Net RUS Plus is a follow-up to the current ERA.Net RUS action that was set-up from 2009 to 2013 to link Russia to the European Research Area by a coordination of S&T programmes in EU MS/AC and Russia. ERA.Net RUS was the first joint call activity in which prominent Russian Funding Parties (RAS, RFBR, RFH and FASIE) were jointly participating in a multilateral funding scheme. The major objective of ERA.Net RUS Plus is to deepen the transnational collaboration between EU MS/AC and Russia and to reduce the fragmentation of research programmes along national funding lines. This joint undertaking will create synergies and strengthen the cooperation among the consortium members. Other principal goals of ERA.Net RUS Plus are to further develop the instrumental setting for joint funding activities and thus to provide a solid basis for a joint programmatic approach to be pursued in the near future. This programmatic approach will assure the desired and necessary sustainability of the cooperation between EU MS/AC and Russia and a lasting impact. ERA.Net RUS Plus will therefore be the next important step in further linking Russia and its key research communities to the European Research Area.

Keywords: era.net rus plus russia single joint call nanotechnologies/materials/production technologies health environment/climate change social sciences and humanities innovation multilateral funding scheme
Collaborative Action towards Societal Challenges through Awareness, Development, and Education (CASCADE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Bi-regional coordination of S&T cooperation including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Estonia,Lithuania,Italy,France,Afghanistan,Bangladesh,Nepal,Pakistan,Sri Lanka,Thailand,Bhutan,Maldives
Call:  (FP7-INCO-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 335550.3
EU funding (EUR): 299199.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

CASCADE aims to provide the foundation for a future INCONET programme targeting South Asian Countries, which will promote bi-regional coordination of Science &Technology (S&T) cooperation, including priority setting and definition of S&T cooperation policies. The objectives of CASCADE, as an 18-month supporting action, are to: compile a regional position paper that identifies global challenges and research priorities; map and develop an inventory of national and regional stakeholders related to global challenges; and, raise awareness on research & innovation priorities for fostering cooperation and towards building mutual understanding on how to address common global societal challenges. CASCADE targets & has the participation of all South Asian countries specified in the Call: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The project comprises five work packages (WP). WP1 will, coordinate the delivery of project outputs, ensure achievement of anticipated outcomes, and develop and manage project infrastructure. WP2 will produce national (Afghanistan, Bangladesh,Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and regional (Southern Asia) position papers providing a consensus on the key societal challenges in the region linked to Horizon2020. These papers will be used as the basis for WP3: the identification and mapping of key national and regional stakeholders that can influence and address these societal challenges. WP4 will engage these key stakeholders, raise awareness of the potential for EU-Southern Asia cooperation, and stimulate their participation in Horizon 2020. WP5 will use the position papers from WP2 and stakeholder maps from WP3 to compile a policy brief with recommendations to the European Commission on how to promote bi-lateral cooperation with Southern Asia with a view to tackling key societal challenges of mutual interest. WP5 will also promote Southern Asian contacts among major European stakeholders.

Keywords: global societal challenges,stakeholder mapping,cooperation,networks,common priority areas,sustainable networking,future collaborative framework,south asian priorities,awareness raising.