Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Applied simulations and Integrated modeling for the understanding of toxic and harmful algal blooms (ASIMUTH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Ireland,France,Spain,United Kingdom,Portugal,France,Spain,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3237137.7
EU funding (EUR): 2485244.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Harmful algal blooms are known to periodically produce toxicity in shellfish and to kill farmed fish throughout Europe. The Atlantic coast of Europe is often affected by such blooms causing devastation to aquaculture industries due to closures of farms and large scale fish kills. The management of shellfish toxicity is well developed along the Atlantic margin in response to EU Directives, and the caged fish culture has also developed protocols to react to harmful blooms. Identification of the origins of HAB events are essential to policy makers and industry since the only mitigation action possible lies in their prediction as these are naturally occurring. Having the ability to forecast when such events might occur to give advanced warning of the impending problem to the aquaculture industry could be a very valuable tool. Many studies have elucidated the ocean circulation patterns along Europe’s Atlantic coast and today, mathematical models produce acceptable hindcasts of previously observed circulation patterns and short term prognostic forecasts. Satellite remotely sensed images of chlorophyll and temperature are also extremely valuable in detecting high biomass surface blooms of plankton and the oceanic features that often delimit their extent. Using a combination of both modeling and satellite image analysis the ASIMUTH project will produce short-term forecasts of harmful algal events along the European Atlantic coasts and deliver these data using mobile phone and internet technology. Aquaculturalists will be able to use these forecasts to plan harvesting operations or to alter husbandry practices at finfish sites temporarily while a harmful algal bloom passes through a particular area.

Keywords: harmful algal blooms,hab-tac,aquaculture,shellfish toxins,hydrodynamic modelling
European Infrastructure of Open Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology (EU-OPENSCREEN)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Norway,Spain,Sweden,Czechia,Germany,Finland,Austria,Denmark,Poland,Netherlands,France,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Greece,Hungary,Romania
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5048506.03
EU funding (EUR): 3700000.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

The EU-OPENSCREEN Preparatory Phase forms the basis for the construction and operation of a pan-European infrastructure of open screening platforms for Chemical Biology. EU-OPENSCREEN will bring together leading laboratories from 14 European countries covering all aspects of Chemical Biology from high-throughput screening with a dedicated compound library to assay development, chemical synthesis for hit-optimisation, bio-profiling and in vivo studies, as well as a central database, training for scientists and platform staff and dissemination activities. The infrastructure will be used by researchers from universities, research institutes and SMEs across Europe, who either have only limited in-house facilities or no access at all to such resources and expertise. The EU-OPENSCREEN infrastructure will keep Europe at the forefront of the biological and medical sciences and will stimulate industrial research and commercial exploitation. In order to prepare the creation of an efficient network of centres which provide users with optimal resources, the EU-OPENSCREEN Preparatory Phase will address the following issues: - A user-focused access strategy. - The physical infrastructure requirements. - Suitable data standards and the framework for a database to archive and make the results available to the scientific community. - A financial management plan for the construction and sustainable operation of the infrastructure in co-operation with national funding bodies. - The legal approach regarding intellectual property issues. - An appropriate legal and governance structure. - The development of a Chemical Biology education package to ensure adequate training of scientists and platform staff. - A central Chemical Biology information gateway in form of a website. - The dissemination of the business plan to stakeholders and decision makers and co-ordination with national funding strategies.

Keywords: chemical biology,high-throughput screening,bioprofiling,drugs,biochemicals,bioactive compounds,database,chemical libraries,screening assays,compound storage,cheminformatics,bioinformatics
Advanced Gratting for Thin Films Solar Cell (AGATHA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Germany,Italy,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2010-INDIA, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2114719.22
EU funding (EUR): 1539747.86
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The minority carrier diffusion lengths are small in polycrystalline or amorphous materials used in thin film solar cells, requiring thin layers to maximize charge collection. This is contradictory for the requirement to maximize solar energy absorption. The optical design consisting in increasing solar cell’s light-trapping capability is of prime importance. In order to provide total internal reflection, both randomly textured surfaces and regularly patterned surfaces have been investigated. No one of these approaches provides optimal light trapping because no one is suitable for the broad solar spectrum. Recent approaches involving new TCO layers show that double textures provide improved scattering. The AGATHA project aims to realize an advanced light trapping design by combining micro-texturing of glass by hot embossing and nano-texturing of the top TCO layer by etching. The parameters of this “modulated surface texture” can be adjusted to maximize the light scattering in all the solar spectrum to provide a significant increase in both short-circuit current and EQE. Suitable for high production throughput, the new texturation process chain developed in AGATHA fits with the intrinsic low cost nature of thin film solar cells To demonstrate the efficiency of this optical trapping design, the modulated texture concept will be implemented in a-Si:H based, µ-c-Si:H based and CIGS based thin films technologies. The objective is to reduce the active material thickness, from 250 nm up to 150 nm for the a-Si:H, from 1.5 µm up to 1 µm for µc-Si:H and from 2.5 µm up to 800 nm for the CIGS, when increasing the short circuit current of 15 % The choice of these technologies aims to maximize the impact by addressing 70% of the thin film market. According to typical solar cells cost structure, a 15 % reduction of the cost/m2 is achievable. Combined with the Jsc improvement, the implementation of modulated surface texture should result in a 20 % decrease of the €/W indicator. AGATHA is an EU coordinated project in the framework of call FP7-ENERGY-2010-INDIA, foreseeing a simultaneous start with the Indian coordinated project. Accordingly, the Indian project should start at the latest within 3 months of the signature of the EU grant agreement.

Keywords: optical trapping,texturation,modelling,hot embossing,amorphous silicon,micro-crystalline silicon,cigs,glass,thin film solar cells
Test Infrastructure and Accelerator Research Area (TIARA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to new research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,Switzerland,Spain,Germany,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Sweden,Poland
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9590968.0
EU funding (EUR): 3900000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of TIARA (Test Infrastructure and Accelerator Research Area) is the integration of national and international accelerator R&D infrastructures into a single distributed European accelerator R&D facility. This will include the implementation of organisational structures to enable the integration of existing individual infrastructures, their efficient operation and upgrades, and the construction of new infrastructures as part of TIARA. TIARA will enable full exploitation of the complementary features and expertise of the individual member infrastructures, maximizing the benefits for both the owners of these infrastructures and their users. This unique distributed facility will also support the development of an integrated R&D programme embracing the needs of many different fields, as well as medical and industrial sectors, both on technical and human resource aspects. Besides a world-level state-of-the-art distributed R&D facility, TIARA will develop means for establishing and supporting joint accelerator R&D programming, joint education and training programmes and strengthened collaboration with industry. TIARA-PP will deliver a sustainable coordinated European framework for the benefit of - the different fields of science, which need state-of-the-art and/or cost effective accelerators to carry out their research programme - the implementation of the accelerator-based infrastructures identified in the ESFRI roadmap - the different partners (national laboratories, universities, industry) to develop joint projects and exchange expertise on state-of-the-art technologies - European countries to invest and develop their own infrastructures and research centres as parts of TIARA, within an established Europe-wide coordination framework. - Europe as a whole to ensure world-level leadership in the field of accelerator science and to enable coordinated and efficient means for its regionally balanced scientific and technological development.

Keywords: accelerator,physics
International Congress on Nanotechnology and Research Infrastructures (GENNESYS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Portugal,Spain
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-04-26
End date: 2011-07-25
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 474886.6
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

This Project builds on the GENNESYS European-wide study, which extensively analized the needs and opportunities for coordinating future research and development in nanomaterials science and technology. The mission of the International GENNESYS Congress on Nanotechnology and Research Infrastructures is to establish a strategic partnership between nanomaterials research laboratories, universities, industry and the European research infrastructures. A well coordinated nanomaterials science and technology program needs to be integrated into research infrastructures in the whole of Europe and in close regional, national and international collaboration to the welfare of the society and of the economy. The GENNESYS International Congress is focused on future visions and actions to achieve breakthroughs in nanomaterials science and technologies. At this prestigious conference various R&D&T roadmaps as worked out by worldwide experts as well as major conclusions and recommendations from the GENNESYS study will be presented to an international audience of major stakeholders in science, politics and industry, stimulating the development of European research policies. The congress will take place in Barcelona during the Spanish EU presidency, the Coordinator ICMAB (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona from CSIC) will work closely with its partners DESY (Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron), PRUAB (Parc de Recerca Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory), ensuring that the outcomes have the authority and support of leading organisations in this field.

Keywords: european research infrastructures. nanomaterials research and industrial innovations. international cooperation platform and policy development in nanomaterials science and technology.
Development of Higly Eficient and Environmentally Friendly Grinding Technology Through a Minimum coolant approach (CAMEL-MCG)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Portugal,Germany,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-11-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1879459.25
EU funding (EUR): 1363328.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Among metal machining processes, grinding is one of the most inefficient applications. But their finishing capabilities are not attainable by other methods. The main characteristic of grinding processes is the extremely high temperature in the contact zone, which makes necessary to use a cooling system to ensure a proper heat evacuation and to avoid piece damages. Cooling systems are based on applying a large quantity of liquid to the contact zone. Their cost, space utilisation and power consumption are the responsible of the “inefficiency” of grinding applications. The MQL (Minimum Quantity Lubrication) techniques used with a remarkable success in the cutting processes are based on a spray or mist application of cooling fluid to the cutting edge in operations like drilling, turning or milling, providing (when tools have well-defined edges). In grinding, a large number of trials have been executed in order to obtain some benefit in this extent, but the results have not been very promising, because the grinding wheel (the tool in grinding applications) is composed by an agglomeration of abrasive grains that act as micro-cutting tools in contact with the workpiece and their porosity difficult a good lubrication (some contact-grains working in dry condition, damaging tool and piece). Consortium partners have joined their efforts to develop a new approach, the MCG: Minimum Coolant for Grinding. MCG technique would provide to all cutting grains the required cooling fluid, in a minimal quantity but without loosing effectiveness. The technique is based on the use of two nozzles, not necessarily placed very close to the grinding wheel. The first nozzle will launch an oil spray which will enter through the wheel pores. The second nozzle will launch a gas that will freeze the oil. The frozen or adhered oil is liquefied progressively by the heat generated in the process contributing to the cooling effect.

Keywords: grinding process,environmental processing
Clinical Application for Metabolic Profiling (EU-CLAMP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,Czechia,Italy,Austria,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1186320.8
EU funding (EUR): 759837.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Europe faces a diabetes epidemic. More than 55 million people in Europe are currently diagnosed with diabetes and with an estimated 20% increase by 2030, the disease is certain to stay one of the most challenging health problems this century. Especially as diabetes no longer is a disease exclusively for adults, but affects children, young people and adults of all ages. Despite the high prevalence of diabetes, the choice of anti-diabetic drugs is still limited and two thirds of patients with diabetes do not achieve the recommended glycaemic target levels. For each new anti-diabetic drug, it is essential to investigate the metabolic effect over time. The glucose clamp technique is regarded as the gold standard to evaluate the effectiveness of new anti-diabetic drugs. There are however only a few centers with limited research capacities that have experience in using the clamp technique, because automated clamp devices are no longer commercially available and the existing techniques are confounded by a number of limitations. Increased clamp capacities are urgently needed for the development of new, more efficacious anti-diabetic drugs. Through the integration of newly emerging technologies proposed in part by the 4 participating SME organisations and with the outsourced research capacity of 3 of Europe’s leading RTD performers, the EU-CLAMP project aims to develop a new generation automated clamp device that will overcome the limitations of the existing devices by incorporating microdialysis technique for reliable continuous glucose monitoring without blood loss. The EU-CLAMP project will facilitate clamp testing in a more efficient and cost effective manner. In addition to the significant contribution that will be made to development of improved treatment options for diabetes, the project will provide a platform from which the competitiveness of the participating SMEs can be improved offering alignment to the needs of their long term business strategies.

Keywords: microdialysis,continuous glucose monitoring,control algorithm
European Nuclear Science and Applications Research (ENSAR)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: France,Germany,Italy,Finland,Netherlands,Switzerland,France,Austria,Belgium,Belgium,Bulgaria,Croatia,Czechia,Greece,Hungary,Poland,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Spain,Spain,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11026938.02
EU funding (EUR): 8000000.0
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

ENSAR is the Integrating Activity of Nuclear Scientists from almost all European countries performing research in three of the major subfields of Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Astrophysics and Applications of Nuclear Science. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking (NAs), Transnational Access and Joint Research Activities (JRAs), which will ensure qualitative and quantitative improvement of the access provided by the current seven infrastructures, which are at the core of this proposal. The novel and innovative developments that will be achieved by the RTD activities will also assure state-of-the-art technology needed for the new large-scale projects. Our community of nuclear scientists profits from the diverse range of world-class research infrastructures in Europe that can supply different ion beams and energies. We have made great efforts to make the most efficient use of these facilities by developing the most advanced and novel equipment needed to pursue their excellent scientific programmes and applying state-of-the-art developments in nuclear instrumentation to other research fields and to benefit humanity (e.g. archaeology, medical imaging). Together with multidisciplinary and application-oriented research at the facilities these activities ensure a high-level socioeconomic impact. To enhance the access to these facilities, the community has defined a number of JRAs, using as main criterion scientific and technical promise. These activities deal with novel and innovative technologies to improve the operation of the facilities. In addition, a key JRA aims at integrating the laboratories in Central and South-Eastern European countries with those elsewhere in Europe. The NAs of ENSAR have been set-up with specific actions to strengthen the communities’ coherence around certain research topics and to ensure a broad dissemination of results and stimulate multidisciplinary and application-oriented research at the Research Infrastructures.

Keywords: nuclear physics,nuclear structure,nuclear reactions,gamma ray spectroscopy,nuclear astrophysics,applications of nuclear science
An innovative technology platform for the enhanced treatment of industrial wastewaters achieving cost reductions, electricity generation and enabling water reuse for non-potable applications. (AQUACELL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Denmark,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496846.0
EU funding (EUR): 1160430.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Major water using and discharging industries are of significant European economic importance, generating >€1500 billion turnover and employing >7.5 million people in 220,000 companies (90% SMEs). With continued European growth in demand for water, finite reservoirs of readily-treatable water, rising energy costs and increased environmental legislation, EU industry is experiencing significant competitive threats with regard to cost-efficient supply and treatment of water. Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) utilise electrochemically-active microbes to convert the inherent energy of organic chemical bonds to electrical energy. MFCs encompass unique features that offer advantages for the treatment of wastewater, including: efficient electricity generation; minimal sludge formation; operation at low temperature; and modular cell design, enabling operation at small scale and customisation to specific end-user requirements. A core group of SMEs have identified a unique opportunity to advance MFC technology for industrial wastewater treatment, thereby generating sustainable and competitive business growth. Key innovations include MFC integration with photocatalytic advanced oxidation and a membraneless MFC air cathode design; and a scalable cost-efficient MFC and architecture design incorporating innovative process monitoring & control strategies. System features and benefits include: - Capital cost equivalence with existing aerobic treatment solutions - Significant operational cost savings, realised through: - Recovery of organic content as electrical energy & achieving system sustainability (self-powering); - Enhanced treatment efficiency enabling water reuse for on-site non-potable applications; - Significant cost reductions for sludge disposal and treated wastewater discharge to sewer - Flexible design and operation customised to specific end-user (sector) requirements and enabling treatment of wastewaters of varying composition and containing hazardous micropollutants The project will result in a pilot-scale MFC system demonstrated for a target industrial wastewater. AquaCell will generate ~€40 million business growth for its SMEs within a 3-year period creating 94 jobs; and has the potential to benefit >29,700 major water using SMEs within the wider European manufacturing sector.

Keywords: microbial fuel cells,active microbes,photocatalytic advanced oxidation,water re-use,sludge