Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Aerodynamic Design Optimisation of a Helicopter Fuselage including a Rotating Rotor Head (ADHERO)

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-2010-01, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 825000.0
EU funding (EUR): 618750.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project is aimed on reducing the aerodynamic drag of light weight class helicopters by shape optimization of components which typically produce a large amount of aerodynamic drag. Both experimental and numerical simulations are conducted on a helicopter fuselage configuration with rotating rotor head. The main effort is on three wind tunnel campaigns analyzing the aerodynamic characteristics of the baseline configuration and of three modified configurations. The design modifications concentrate on the landing skids and on the rotor head to reduce the aerodynamic drag associated with these components. Effects of spoilers, strakes and vortex generators are addressed as well to influence the fuselage wake for further drag reduction. In order to create a detailed data base, the wind tunnel experiments include force measurements to obtain aerodynamic forces and moments, pressure measurements to capture steady and unsteady surface pressure distributions and field measurements of mean and fluctuating velocity components for wake analysis. A new wind tunnel model consisting of fuselage, tailboom segment and rotating rotor head will be designed, manufactured and instrumented to conduct the wind tunnel tests. The model will provide high modularity of its components to exchange them easily for shape modification with respect to drag reduction. The experimental tasks are supplemented by computational fluid dynamics work to numerically cross-check the wind tunnel data for selected cases.

Keywords: drag reduction,aerodynamic shape optimization,wind tunnel testing,cfd
A Microfabricated Actuator for Active Flow Control on Aircraft (MEMFAC)

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
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-01, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-06
End date: 2012-11-05
Duration (months): 23.0
Total project cost (EUR): 189976.0
EU funding (EUR): 94988.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This is a proposal for the design, manufacture and testing of an innovative prototype microfabricated pulsed flow control actuator for implementation at aircraft scale. The innovative actuator concept is one that was originally developed under previous EU RTD projects (AEROMEMS and AEROMEMSII) and demonstrated to achieve exit velocities in excess of 300 m/s at frequencies ranging between 0 and 1kHz through a 45 degree pitched orifice having a diameter of 0.4mm. This proposal extends the design of the actuator to demonstrating the required performance through a 1mm diameter orifice (as requested by CfP) and to the improvement of the fabrication processes to reduce costs and to increase production yield to levels in excess of 80%. The proposal involves demonstration of innovative manufacturing techniques to improve the accuracy of rapid grinding methods for brittle ceramics, demonstrate the use of pico- and femto-second pulsed lasers for low-damage cutting of ceramic/metallic sandwich structures and to improvement of electrical connections within the actuator. The work entails the design, fabrication and testing of the actuator and will build on significant experience and past investment. The maturity of the current actuator design concept, particularly with respect to the consideration of aircraft integration and a large range of environmental testing that has been undertaken will provide a low-risk route to realising a concept that will be close to practical implementation. During the design process advanced computational analysis tools will be used to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the actuator and build upon the already considerable results and experience already gained. The multi-disciplinary team that will deliver this project has many years experience in the development of micro-fabricated sensors and actuators for flow control applications on aircraft and has the skills, tools and facilities necessary for a successful project.

Keywords: mems,aerodynamics,flow control,actuator,separation control
Reliability Oriented Optimisation of Structural Replacement Strategies for Aircraft Structures (ROSA)

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-2010-01, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149817.0
EU funding (EUR): 112360.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Smart structures, which incorporate structural health monitoring (SHM) systems into mechanical components to enable online damage detection, have a strong potential to reduce inspection and maintenance cost of aircraft structures, while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the level of safety. At present, these technologies are still in the R&D phase and significant efforts are required before smart structures will become the industry norm. One of the research needs concerns planning of inspection and maintenance for such structures. To be able to fully exploit the capabilities of novel monitoring technologies, it is indispensable that tools are developed to plan maintenance strategies for given safety philosophies (fail-safe, safe-life, damage tolerance) taking into account information obtained from SHM. The goal of this project proposal is to develop a methodology and corresponding software algorithms for this task. Taking basis in the renewal theory as part of the general Bayesian decision analysis framework, tools for the life cycle optimisation of inspection/maintenance activities will be developed. Based on the commercial Strurel software code for reliability analysis developed and owned by the consortium leader the software tool shall be able to assess the effect of different strategies on safety and cost and thus enable the identification of optimal maintenance strategies subject to constraints on safety. The methodology will be applied to a stiffened panel provided by the ITD.

Keywords: aircraft,reliability,optimisation,maintenance,structural health monitoring,renewal theory
100 Gb/s Optical RAM on-chip: Silicon-based, integrated Optical RAM enabling High-Speed Applications in Computing and Communications (RAMPLAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Finland,Netherlands,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2011-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2609557.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998166.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

For over two decades ICT witnesses the steadily increasing gap between processor and memory speed. RAM is too slow to keep up with processor speeds, creating a bottleneck in system performance. To address this, RAMPLAS will revisit RAM fundamentals and will lay the foundations for optical RAM technology and for optical RAM-enabled green and ultra-fast computing architectures. RAMPLAS will develop the first 100GHz optical RAM chips and will foster a new framework of disciplines for its effective application in ICT. RAMPLAS cross-disciplinary workplan blends innovation in computer science, optical design, photonic integration and semicondictor physics. It aims to provide the theoretical foundations of optical RAM and to introduce novel optical RAM circuit designs. A building block approach will associate circuit design with physical layer parameters. Novel epitaxial methods will be employed for the fabrication of ultrafast dilute-nitride-antimonide gain regions on GaAs (InGaAsNSb/GaAs) towards the deployment of active elements for 100GHz optical RAM. Heterointegration techniques will increase integration density on established SOI technology. Multi-bit RAM chips with up to 64-bit capacity are envisaged to pave the way to densely integrated optical RAMs and kByte capacities. RAMPLAS holistic approach addresses the entire framework for optical RAM-enabled computing. Fundamental connections between Content Distributed Networks and CMP architectures will be established to introduce the concepts of distributed optical cache. New 3D cache mapping algorithms will be researched, exploiting the wavelength dimension in memory addressing for Reconfigurable Set-Associative cache mapping towards maximizing cache hit ratio. The research outcomes of RAMPLAS will be evaluated in a solid proof-of-concept validation plan based both on simulations and experiments, intending to set the scene for new paradigms in Computing, Communications and Test & Measurement.

Keywords: optical ram,optical interconnects,computing,communications,optical routing,optical signal processing
MEMS gyrometer for wing behaviour measurement (CS-GYRO)

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: Norway
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2010-02, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-07-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 800000.0
EU funding (EUR): 600000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The subject of this proposal is the design of a MEMS gyroscope for SFWA purposes. This is a high-end application, stemming from its noise and stability requirements. We will not develop a completely novel device, i.e. with entirely new design principles, fabrication processes, etc. On the contrary, the performance of Sensonor’s existing, qualified high-end product STIM202 is very close to the targeted specification. Thus, the improvement of a rather limited number of technical issues is required to satisfy the specification. STIM202 is a 1, 2 or 3 axes gyroscope. It meets this Call’s specification in noise and short term stability. Long term stability is also very good, while an effort remains to establish those design and technology improvements that are needed to explicitly make the sensor fulfill the SFWA specification. The route to attain this goal is the focus of this proposal. Sensonor’s long track record in MEMS places the company in a unique position in extreme reliability silicon MEMS. More than 2 million MEMS gyros, 250 million MEMS accelerometers, and 250 million MEMS pressure sensors designed and manufactured by Sensonor have been shipped, with an impressive field failure rate of less than 0.1ppm. This is ultimate proof of the extreme reliability achievable in silicon MEMS by Sensonor. In the project, we will identify and ascertain a list of improvements, to limit and focus the efforts. This approach translates to best project efficiency, short time-to-market and low technical risks. At the end of this project, the required improvements will have been attained, and the corresponding new and improved gyro specification arrived at. It will positively have been proven that the SFWA specification is met with these improvements and production can start immediately.

Keywords: mems,gyroscope
The NBIPI Career Enhancement Mobility Programme (CEMP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-3-COFUND, 2007)
Start date: 2009-03-02
End date: 2012-06-01
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2422260.0
EU funding (EUR): 968904.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the NBIPI Career Enhancement and Mobility Programme (CEMP) is to support experienced fellows at various stages of their career in attaining and strengthening their career prospects to become independent investigators or senior scientists in education or industry. Within the remit of the National Biophotonics Imaging Platform Ireland (NBIPI), the CEMP will fund and support research fellows wishing to undertake interdisciplinary research and training programmes in biophotonics and imaging. The CEMP will offer a combination of incoming and outgoing fellowships. The fellowship duration will range from 6-24 months and outgoing fellowships will include a mandatory reintegration phase. A 24 month incoming fellowship can include a re-integration phase of max 12 months in the Institution of origin. Training activities will include not only training-through-research under supervision by means of an individual personalized project but also in the following skill areas: • Hands-on training activities for developing scientific and complementary skills (to include proposal preparation for grant funding, patent applications, project management, tasks coordination, technical staff supervision) • Management of the transfer of knowledge and intellectual property • Capacity to build collaborations • Scientific and financial management of the research project The programme will also address the training requirement in team leadership and management. The NBIPI context of the proposed fellowship programme will offer research fellows the opportunity to carry out the research project of their choice in state of the art research facilities and to enhance their scientific and technical skills through a broad selection of training modules.

Keywords: health sciences,physical sciences
IARC International Fellowships Programme (IARC FELLOWS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-3-COFUND, 2007)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2098800.0
EU funding (EUR): 839520.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The IARC Fellowship Programme aims to promote international collaboration in those aspects of cancer research related to IARC's own programme by providing training at the Agency in Lyons, France, for postdoctoral scientists from low- to medium-resource countries who wish to pursue a career in cancer research. Fellowships are awarded in the following areas of cancer research: epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental chemical carcinogenesis, cancer etiology and prevention, infection and cancer, molecular cell biology, molecular genetics, molecular pathology and mechanisms of carcinogenesis, with emphasis on interdisciplinary projects. Postdoctoral Fellows are selected from applicants from any country other than those classified as high-income economies by the World Bank. Candidates must have spent less than five years abroad (including doctoral studies) and have finished their doctoral degree within five years of the closing date for application or be in the final phase of completing their doctoral degree (M.D. or Ph.D.). They must provide evidence of their ability to return to their home country and keep working in cancer research. Applicants are expected to contact the Group(s) of their choice at IARC before application in order to interact closely to establish a proposed programme of mutual interest. These fellowships are for a period of 2 years, the extension for a second year being subject to satisfactory appraisal. Upon successful completion, a modest return grant may be awarded to help the candidate start up an independent research programme linked to IARC activities upon return to his/her home country. The selection of postdoctoral Fellows is made by a Selection Committee composed of scientists of international reputation in the field of cancer research who are not members of the IARC staff, together with scientists working in the IARC.

Keywords: health sciences,oncology
Improving science advice for health in Europe, EuSANH (EUSANH-ISA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Poland,Netherlands,Belgium,Sweden,Romania
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1046940.0
EU funding (EUR): 943271.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The general objective of this project is to improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of science advice for health across Europe. Science advice is any recommendation for policy action based on scientific knowledge, considering also expert judgment, ethical and societal values, and experience from relevant stakeholders. Many EU Member States have national science advisory bodies. However, many health issues have transnational dimensions. Moreover, the rapid increase of scientific knowledge and health issues to be addressed exceed what can be dealt with by national bodies. Accordingly, international collaboration between national bodies will lead to more effective and efficient science advice, in support of decision-making at national and EU level. This objective narrowly fits in FP7-SIS-2008-1.3.3.1. The general objective has been translated into the following specific objectives: •Describe the functions and structure of existing national science advisory bodies for health in 12 European countries; and carry out a thematic analysis of reports from each country •Establish a common ‘best practice’ methodology for science advice •Develop a plan for communication and cooperation in the expanding network of science advisory bodies, taking advantage of the SINAPSE system •Illustrate the common methodology and the functioning of the network by developing a pilot case study for a European science advisory report A common methodology with improved transnational cooperation promotes open governance, as more evidence-based policy making in Europe will be more transparent to the public. The recently established European Science Advisory Network for Health coordinates activities among science advisory bodies within the EU, and is eminently suited to provide the infrastructure for these tasks. As improvement of science advice is a long-term goal, the Coordinating Action will also aim at strengthening the network beyond the time frame of the project.

Keywords: science advice,society,open governance,exchange,transparency,accessibility,policy makers,public health,health care,eusanh,methodology,best practice
Exploiting the Potential of Structural Biology through NMR and Associated Technologies - Opportunities for Economic Development of Pharma/Biotech in Tuscany, Berlin-Brandenburg and Beyond (EPISODE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Regions of Knowledge
Destination: Transnational cooperation between regional research-driven clusters
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy
Call:  (FP7-REGIONS-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1084384.52
EU funding (EUR): 896991.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

EPISODE’s goal is to maximize the regional benefits of Structural Biology Research Infrastructures in NMR and associated technologies for the economic development of the pharma/biotech industries in Tuscany, Berlin-Brandenburg and beyond. As traditional Structural Biology research moves towards new horizons, a major goal has become a systemic view of Life, implying a change of focus from single molecules and interactions to an integrated view of networks of interactions at varying levels of biological organization. NMR and associated technologies are an integral part of such research, and their importance has recently been reflected in the ESFRI Roadmap’s INSTRUCT Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure. While this emerging paradigm presents myriad new opportunities for the R&D programs of the pharma/biotech sectors, the technologies and their associated research infrastructures have not yet been fully exploited, a situation that must urgently be understood and rectified. Berlin-Brandenburg and Tuscany are uniquely poised to meet this challenge, in part through the presence of strong research infrastructures. EPISODE will encourage cooperation and collaboration among regional research institutions, business and areas agencies to couple research with revenue, through the following actions: (i) research-driven clusters will be expanded and stimulated interregionally and transnationally; (ii) current regional capabilities in terms of research potential and exploitation will be studied; (iii) a Joint Action Plan will be developed to define how to drive future economic development. Dissemination and outreach efforts, the encouragement of collaborations, support measures for SMEs and spin-offs, and the mentoring of less-developed regions will be given a special place throughout the project. EPISODE will positively impact research potential and economic potential, with corresponding effects on the health and welfare of regional, European and global populations.

Keywords: structural biology,molecular systems biology,chemical biology,instruct,nmr,pharmaceutical,biotechnological