Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Aerodays 2015 - Aviation for Growth and Sustainability (AERODAYSUK2015)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1412000.0
EU funding (EUR): 600000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project covers the provision of the Aerodays event in 2015, which the participants propose shall take place in London, UK. Aerodays2015 will be a four-day event attracting some 800 visitors from across the European, and beyond, aviation and aeronautics sector . It will comprise of technical reviews via conferences and poster sessions, high-level policy briefings and debate, and a technological showcase of EC-sponsored research outcomes in the form of a large exhibition and technology demonstrators. The Event will disseminate results and demonstrations from flagship programmes in the sector such as SESAR and CleanSky, and will also encompass social and networking activities to stimulate future collaborations within Horizon2020. Aerodays2015 will make provision for the inclusion of young researchers to ensure the ‘next generation’ are engaged with future programmes and recent developments. The proposal is led the UK’s Trade Association in the sector with support from the Aerospace Knowledge Transfer Network , with whom ADS Group Ltd has a contractual relationship. The proposal is supported by UK Government, in the form of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, including Ministerial support, time in kind and financial sponsorship. There is also substantial Industry support coalesced around the proposal in the form of in-kind contributions in support of various aspect of the event, as well as direct monetary support in the form of sponsorship. The Royal Aeronautical Society has pledged its support to the successful delivery of this event and will coordinate efforts across the Council of European Aeronautical Societies. The proposal team will work with transport, hotel and other providers to ensure a cost-effective Aerodays2015 that proves affordable to participants and excellent value for money for all stakeholders. The project team will work closely in collaboration with the EC to ensure high-value, current and relevant content for the event.

Keywords: europe aviation high-level technical political conference exhibition dissemination networking outreach
Global in flight health monitoring platform for composite aerostructures based on advanced VIBRATION based methods (VIBRATION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Spain,Greece,Israel,Greece,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1962206.33
EU funding (EUR): 1479170.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In order to reduce the sensor number, one has to be based on signals carrying information about the “global” structure state. The structure’s vibrational behavior is definitely a global characteristic. The idea is thus the development of a vibration based, in flight, SHM platform, which can be applied in aircraft structures in practice. The main practical problem for the application of vibration based SHM methods in real world aircraft parts, is the large number of “training experiments” that are normally required for a successful fault detection, identification and localization. In the present project the real world training experiments will be replaced by simulated experiments using a proper analytic model, which will be fine tuned (updated) based a limited number of real world experiments. Furthermore, the existing vibration based methods will be adapted in order to be efficiently coupled with the new “training” procedure.

Keywords: structural health monitoring,composite structures,in-flight detection,system identification,fault detection,natural frequencies,global ndi
Immersive Semantics-based Virtual Environments for the Design and Validation of Human-centred Aircraft Cockpits (I-VISION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,France,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2869256.0
EU funding (EUR): 1994213.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

New tools are needed for the design and evaluation of aircraft cockpits with a high level of flexibility and low-cost. Virtual prototyping has been widely used. A great challenge today is though to provide methods and tools that seamlessly integrate low-level 3D geometries with domain-specific knowledge and intelligence. i-VISION will combine methods and technologies from 3 distinct areas of research, namely Human Factors, Semantics and Virtual Reality, into advanced design and validation tools. It’s S&T objectives are: •Analysis of Human-Cockpit Operations. Advanced human factors methods will be used for recording and analysing human procedures and tasks within a virtual cockpit. Semantic Web technologies will facilitate the simultaneous access to and processing of both geometric information and human factors related domain-knowledge. •Definition and implementation of a Semantic Virtual Cockpit. Semantic Web technologies will be used to enrich a pure geometric data set with semantic annotations. Intelligence and knowledge about procedures and cockpit concepts will be added to the VR-based simulation. •Development of a Virtual Cockpit Design Environment. An advanced VR-based environment will be delivered, which will serve as a reusable and low-cost simulation testbed for experimenting with various configurations and set-ups of virtual cockpits. i-VISION developments will support human factors design and validation activities in aircraft cockpits during the early phases of the product life-cycle. They will help integrate domain knowledge and intelligence in the virtual cockpits, thus turning them into more cohesive, comprehensive and reliable design tools. Thus, they will help reducing significantly the development costs and time-to-market. i-VISION Consortium includes representatives from all major R&D stakeholders, including end users, research partners and IT vendors. i-VISION has been endorsed by the European Aeronautics Science Network.

Keywords: cockpit,semantic-based virtual environments,virtual reality,human factors
CreAting NonconventionAl Laminates (CANAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,France,Belgium,Germany,Netherlands,Czechia,Israel
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3983403.0
EU funding (EUR): 2665575.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of the CANAL project is to develop new Non-Conventional Laminate (NCL) configurations using Dry Fibre Placement (DFP) and the establishment of engineering tools to ensure implementation of the technology in the aerospace industry and other industries, such as automotive that can benefit from rapid and cost effective production of complex shaped and high-performance composite parts. Whereas up to now composite laminates usually consist of only 90, 0 and +/-45 degree layers, the development of Automated Fibre Placement technology has opened possibilities to divert from this limiting step in design and manufacturing. Currently, no non-conventional laminates are known to be implemented in the industry, though research has shown promising results in virtual analysis and coupon testing. Variable stiffness laminates with curved fibre paths show an increase in buckling loads, as well as tailoring of natural frequencies for both panels and cylinders. Straight-fibre laminates with dispersed fibre angles show a promise for improved damage tolerance. A so-called AP-PLY multidirectional weave pattern can improve damage tolerance for any stacking sequence. Whereas for large aircraft manufacturers like Airbus and Boeing it almost seems default to use composites and a high level of automated fabrication with e.g. AFP, it is also lucrative for the small aircraft industry and the transport industry in general. Both weight and cost reduction can be achieved using automated composite manufacturing like AFP. Further material cost reduction are achieved through use of dry fibres instead of more costly prepregs, in combination with Liquid Composite Moulding instead of costly autoclave curing. The reduction in weight and cost supported by novel non-conventional design and dry fibre placement and LCM manufacturing technique will further facilitate and speed up the introduction of composite lightweight structures in aerospace and other transport industries.

Keywords: composites,design,materials and processes,non-conventional laminates,fibre steering,variable stiffness,automated dry fibre placement,liquid composite moulding,rtm,vartm
Demonstration of soil remediation technique for in situ cleaning of soils contaminated with heavy hydrocarbon mixtures (SORBENT-DEMO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Lithuania,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1901726.4
EU funding (EUR): 1072000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

There is an increasing understanding that the natural resources should be kept unspoiled, which makes polluted soil and groundwater unacceptable. Therefore, soil contamination is an increasing worldwide problem, which poses severe threats to ecosystem and human health. Through the EU, thousands of sites have been contaminated by previous industrial use, former military sites and other sources of pollution. Despite of different cleaning measures applied, area of contaminated land is constantly increasing as a result of almost all sort of human activities as well as inadequate practices and accidents. The European Commission has acknowledged that soil pollution in the EU is a major issue and currently soil remediation is one of the top priorities of EU environment policy. The successfully implemented SORBENT project (Soil remediation technique for in situ cleaning of soils contaminated with heavy hydrocarbon mixtures, GA No 232533 financed from FP7-SME-2008-1 call) had led to the development of SORBENT integrated technique consisting of 3 individual components (SORBENT system, SORBENT bacterial preparation and phyto-remediation) each based on different remediation solution which has already proved it’s applicability to all types of oil in different soil profiles and convenient use. It is significantly faster, more efficient and up to 25% reduces the overall soil remediation costs. Despite the many advantages the wide market application is hampered by two main market barriers: insufficient demonstration and verification of the application of novel technique in real life projects and limitations of current polices: the demonstration is needed to ensure documentations and to gin regulatory acceptance of the novel technique. Thus the SORBENT-DEMO project is proposed with the overall objective to carry out the targeted full-scale demonstration of the novel SORBENT technique and to develop the framework to get regulatory acceptance for its use.

Keywords: soil treatment,bio-washing,enhanced bioremediation,phyto-remediation,heavy hydrocarbons,microbial strains,bacterial preparation,oil migration fraction separation
Fully recyclable 100% PET package for food contact with O2 barrier, improved transparency and low CO2 footprint. (GREEN PACK)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Italy,Norway,United Kingdom,Hungary
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2158392.63
EU funding (EUR): 1651362.31
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The main scientific and technological objective of the current project is: producing prototypes of fully recyclable PET trays for food preservation by using recycled PET (RPET). The proposed idea will be able to give a solution to this problem by providing a mono-material tray in virgin PET (for food contact) and RPET for the rest of the tray. The necessary barrier properties will be guaranteed by an active oxygen barrier. The second objective of this project is: the study, designing and dissemination of a dedicated recycling model, inspired to replication and spreading of the recycling model of the 100% PET soft drink bottles, in the post-consumer phase, adapting its characteristics to the specific food package features. The recycling model will focus on the management of a "cradle to cradle" loop, from and to the starting manufacturing process, promoting the reduction of manufacturing costs and the carbon foot print of PET packaging for food. Although PET packaging solutions currently on the market fully satisfy the required performances, with respect to each single application, there is still a lack of these performances to be bridged respect to the basic need of the PET trays recycling. The main drawbacks of the current solutions for the PET trays manufacturing are due essentially to the presence of different plastic materials in the packages. In other terms they are manufactured by sticking different layers of different plastic materials, PET included. The multi-material feature poses severe limitations, and sometimes the impossibility, to the effective recycling of manufacturing scraps and of the trays at the end of their life. The major outputs and results of the project will be exploited by the participant SME-AGs on the following markets: 1) PET additives; 2) PET film production; 3) PET packaging production; 4) PET recycling.

Keywords: polyethylene terephthalate pet rpet oxygen scavenger polyester-based additive active barrier evoh oxygen transmission rate otr extrusion thermoforming
A novel, autonomous and REVersible Inflow control VALve to increase oil production and reservoir recovery rate by stopping the production of unwanted water and gas locally in the reservoirs (REVIVAL)

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: Norway,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498683.0
EU funding (EUR): 1158000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

REVIVAL focuses on the problem of maximising recovery of oil from wells and prolonging their productive life; a commercial imperative for the industry and a response to EU policies to secure Europe’s energy supply in respect to oil. Globally only 32% of available oil reserves are extracted from oil fields. A 5% increase in the recovery factor would yield as much oil as is expected from all future exploration efforts. The reason for low recovery rates is the breakthrough of water or gas in the well. The industry has addressed this by developing inflow control devices (ICD & AICD) that choke oil production both at start up and when gas or water incursion occurs; but do not stop these entering the system. Our innovative solution utilises the properties of fluid dynamics to create an Autonomous Inflow Control Valve (AICV) that, whilst remaining simple in concept, eliminates the weaknesses of AICD and ICD products. By comparison, proof of concept tests on our AICV show it will increase recovery, does not choke initial oil production, can stop gas and water completely, is autonomous, reversible, reliable and price competitive. We have established the concept, but still face significant technical challenges which we need to outsource to specialist R&D partners. These involve developing an innovative laminar flow element, filters and seals that can withstand the harsh environments in wells. REVIVAL enables our SME partnership to create a novel, highly differentiated, validated pre-production prototype that can be quickly commercialised post project completion, providing outstanding benefits for our own organisations, our oil company clients, national government exchequers and Europe as a whole. It responds to competitive threats we as SMEs face. The primary market are oil company clients are receptive to a solution. The known market potential is €224 million within 5 years of project completion. Secondary markets exist in environmental protection from oil spillages.

Keywords: fluid dynamics,autonomous inflow control valve,reservoir modelling
Production Flexibility and Efficiency through Simultaneous Three Axis Turning (FLEXISTAT)

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,Spain,Romania,Germany,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Germany,Türkiye,Hungary,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1515100.73
EU funding (EUR): 960000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

In manufacturing of industrial parts, turning is one of the most important manufacturing processes and is applied mainly by SMEs. However, until today, turning processes suffer from inflexible machine characteristics, as to mention an extreme high amount of needed tool holders and frequent tool changes caused by tool lives of > 3 minutes. In order to raise production flexibility and efficiency significantly, the proposed project FlexiSTAT is dedicated to enable the yet idle swivel axis (b-axis) in turn-/mill-centers and to integrate it as a third axis in turning operations. The consortium, assembling 11 partners from 6 EU Member States and Associated countries is well positioned along the entire value chain, including manufacturers of industrial parts, tooling and machine suppliers as well as specialized and thoroughly selected RTD performers. The overall project objective of developing a full technology package for Simultaneous Three Axis Turning will be realized by a threefold approach, combining the development of process planning, tooling-systems and machining strategies. These elements will be integrated modular into a technology package which can be easily adapted by almost all manufacturing SME, using their existing machine park. Especially SMEs will be the beneficiaries of the project results in terms of: - 30% production time and cost, - 80% tool-holders in stock, - 60% tool consumption. The exploitation of results of the project will increase the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry as well as of the technology providers. Due to the facts, that more than 35% of all cutting machines in SME industry are turning machines and that those SMEs are indispensable for e.g. automotive, energy technology, chemical industry, aviation, medical devices markets, the proposers expected to gain a high economic and societal impact by the development of innovative and sustainable manufacturing FlexiSTAT technology

Keywords: three axis turning,b-axis,high performance cutting,tool wear distribution,slim tool holder,novel tool geometries,optical tool measurement system,machining strategies,cam-system
Remote precision management of turf grass sod production by means of artificial intelligence and satellite imaging (SODSAT)

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: Malta,Spain,Italy,North Macedonia,Portugal,Slovakia,Norway
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1688642.8
EU funding (EUR): 1270000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The agricultural surfaces employed for turf grass sod production are increasing yearly thanks to expanding demand and thanks to the relative profitability of this type of crop. Sod (natural turf) production agriculture in the EU can be estimated in excess of 80.000 ha and 20.000 workers for a revenue of approximately 2.4 Bn €. As such, turf grass sod production is gradually shifting from the status of niche production to agricultural crop proper. In order to maintain the current profitability in an increasingly competitive market, sod growers need to increase or maintain certain quality parameters (uniformity of colour, texture, density, etc.), while addressing spiralling costs for fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation water. Naturally, an optimization in the use of these inputs would not only keep production costs down, but it would also greatly diminish the environmental impact and footprint of sod production. Satellite spectral imagery, thanks to the frequent high correlation between spectral reflectance parameters and several crop parameters, would go a long way in identifying excesses or deficiencies in irrigation and fertilization. Satellite imagery analysis for crop production currently exists, but it is aimed and calibrated for traditional crops (wheat, maize, etc.) and not for turf grass sod production, which needs the development of dedicated new tools to be used in such production fields. Adding on-site valuable sensing, increased yield on natural turf grass production may be achieved. The project solved this situation by developing a web based expert system, multi spectral satellite imaging analysis and on-site sensing and portable devices software to aid decision making in sod farms, in order to decrease chemical and agronomical inputs, while maintaining or increasing turf grass quality. The system will provide expert agronomical recommendations based on its historic and current data and current multi spectral image processing and on-site sensing

Keywords: grass,turf,production,artificial intelligence,sensing,satellite