Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Direct Manufacturing of stator vanes through electron beam melting (AEROBEAM)

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: Spain,Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2012-01, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 134601.3
EU funding (EUR): 100950.98
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

New aeronautical engine designs strive the manufacturers to use new processes which permit to add specific features such as stiffeners, often leading to weight or lead time saving. Electron Beam Melting (EBM) process is potential candidate but is not yet fully understood and controlled because of its lack of maturity. Case studies show that the waste of raw material is reduced by up to 40% when using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies - such as EBM - instead of subtractive (machining) technologies. It is due to the capacity of AM technologies to build parts directly from 3D models. For the aerospace parts, the reduction of the raw material consumption is essential, but mechanical properties must be guaranteed. One must guarantee that the recycled powder is comparable in all above mentioned aspects to fresh powder. Also, the differences that may appear between fresh and recycled powder must not interfere in mechanical performance of functional parts built of recycled powder. So far, no specific criteria exist in terms powder recyclability such as the number of manufacturing. Also, no study of recyclability has been published. AEROBEAM is aimed at investigating the mechanical properties of aeronautical Ti6Al4V stator vanes elaborated by EBM. During this project, optimization of build parameters, characterization of processed material, characterization of recycled powder and characterization of material processed out of recycled powder will be performed. The results aim at ensuring that the stator vanes built in WP5 are completely reliable regarding aeronautical requirements and can be equally used no matter if vanes are built from fresh or recycled powder as long as the powder is below its maximum level of recyclability.

Keywords: electro beam melting,stator vanes,ti6al4v alloy,additive manufacturing,direct manufacturing,aerospace components,weight saving,powder metallurgy
Telemharsh - Telemetric System Acquisition in harsh Environment (TSA)

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: Portugal
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2012-01, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 399760.0
EU funding (EUR): 288300.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Periodic preventive maintenance activities associated with aircraft subsystems is a significant part of the high costs associated with through life aircraft operations. Also, the understandably conservative approach to risk management, leads to premature component retirement, which is both highly inefficient and leading to a considerable carbon footprint. Minimizing maintenance costs and carbon footprint are both major concerns within the whole of the aerospace industry. If key components such as turbine engines had the ability to robustly, autonomously and continuously evaluate their structural health, and anticipate potential failures, maintenance costs could drastically decrease without compromising aircraft’s safety and reliability. This new maintenance paradigm of real-time in-situ health monitoring, would eliminate the need for the usual periodic preventive actions, allowing maintenance activities to evolve into a reactive paradigm, with extremely high savings as a result. This project aims at developing innovative technologies that will lead to reduce fuel consumption, noise and greenhouse gas emissions on power turboshaft engines. In order to provide useful data to optimize the development of each part of the turbo engine, Active Space Technologies SA (AST) proposes a solution for measuring in-situ strain and temperatures of the engine shaft.

Keywords: harsh environment,high g,wireless telemetry,energy harvesting,structural monitoring
Passive cooling solution validation for aircraft application (HTCS)

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: Belgium
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2012-01, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 300000.0
EU funding (EUR): 225000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project is part of the Cleansky activities for the “More electric” aircrafts. Such aircrafts require more power electronics integration and so “traditional” cooling systems (natural or forced convection, liquid loops,…) may reach their maximal performances because of the too high thermal dissipation density of these components. A need of heat spreading is clearly identified by the users. In this way, two-phase fluid capillary pumped heat transfer systems appear as more efficient alternative solutions thanks to their high heat transport capacity and their passive pumping capacity. Several passive cooling systems can be considered for these applications such as vapour chambers, heat pipes, high temperature loop heat pipes,… Such systems have background on space systems and environments; however, the demonstration of their functioning in avionic application, by modeling and experimental tests, is required before being equipped on an airplane. The EHP proposal will address the development, design, manufacturing and demonstration in a relevant environment - TRL6 (technology Readiness Level) - of a two-phase passive cooling system to be used on aeronautical applications. The size of equipment to be cooled is close to an A4 format. One hundred of watts are dissipated over several localized areas with a heat flux density around 30W/cm². The equipment is located in a harsh environment characterized by an ambient temperature of 160°C and a low heat exchange coefficient. Despite these conditions, the equipment maximal temperature should not exceed 200°C. The EHP activities will consist in the following points: - Bibliographic review - Technology selection - Fluid selection - Cooling system sizing / modeling - Prototype construction - Experimental validation

Keywords: loop heat pipes,thermal,passive,two-phase,aircraft,avionic,more electrical,vapour chamber,heat pipes
The Adoption of New Technological Arrays in the Production of Broadcast Television (ADAPT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1680121.0
EU funding (EUR): 1680121.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Since 1960, the television industry has undergone successive waves of technological change. Both the methods of programme making and the programmes themselves have changed substantially. The current opening of TV’s vast archives to public and academic use has emphasised the need to explain old programming to new users. Why particular programmes are like they are is not obvious to the contemporary viewer: the prevailing technologies imposed limits and enabled forms that have fallen into disuse. The project will examine the processes of change which gave rise to the particular dominant configurations of technologies for sound and image capture and processing, and some idea of the national and regional variants that existed. It will emphasise the capabilities of the machines in use rather than the process of their invention. The project therefore studies how the technologies of film and tape were implemented; how both broadcasters and individual filmers coped with the conflicting demands of the different machines at their disposal; how new ‘standard ways of doing things’ gradually emerged; and how all of this enabled desired changes in the resultant programmes. The project will produce an overall written account of the principal changes in the technologies in use in broadcast TV since 1960 to the near present. It will offer a theory of technological innovation, and a major case study in the adoption of digital workflow management in production for broadcasting: the so-called ‘tapeless environment’ which is currently being implemented in major organisations. It will offer two historical case studies: a longditudinal study of the evolution of tape-based sound recording and one of the rapid change from 16mm film cutting to digital editing, a process that took less than five years. Reconstructions of the process of working with particular technological arrays will be filmed and will be made available as explanatory material for any online archive of TV material .

Keywords: television,film,sound recording,technological change,interpretation of audiovisual texts
The Programmable City (SOFTCITY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: Ireland
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2309925.66
EU funding (EUR): 2309925.66
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Software is essential to the functioning of cities; a vital element in the operation and governance of travel, the built environment, consumption, work, home life, services and utilities. To date, analysis has focused on the technologies that software enables, rather than the actual code that renders the city programmable and knowable in new ways. We have thus failed to appreciate and understand a key mediator of urban change and city life. The project will provide a groundbreaking analysis of the emerging programmable city with respect to: (1) how the city is translated into software; (2) how software reshapes the city. It will examine these processes in relation to four key urban practices – how we understand, manage, work and live in the city. With respect to how cities are translated into software, the project will examine how cities and citizens are captured and processed as data; how ideas about city governance are composed into code; the geographies of software production; how software is discursively produced and legitimated by vested interests. With respect to how software reshapes cities, the project will examine: the rise of ‘big data’ and how data infrastructures and information systems are used to inform public policy development; how software is used to regulate and govern city life; how the activities and practices of work are being reshaped by computation; and how software transforms the spatiality and spatial behaviour of individuals. A range of methodologies will be employed, including interviews, ethnographies, audits, surveys, discourse analysis, and the development of a new method, algorithm archaeology. The project will address a serious lacuna in social science research by answering key questions concerning the nature of software and the changing production and management of cities and citizens. It will provide new theoretical tools and rich empirical evidence for thinking through the new era of programmable urbanism.

Keywords: software
Universalism, universal design and equitable access to the designed environment (UNIDESIGN)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Environment and society
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 853739.0
EU funding (EUR): 853739.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research examines the proposition that the values and attitudes embedded into the production of the designed environment display little or no knowledge of how to respond to the manifold complexities of the body. This will be explored through the context of disability and design, with the focus on assessing the relevance of the principles and practices of one of the foremost, contemporary, design movements, Universal Design (UD), and how it addresses the problems of/for impaired bodies in interacting with the designed environment. UD principles state that the design of products and environments ought to ‘be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design’ (Mace, 1988: 1). UD is an increasingly important feature of nations seeking to develop a fairer society for people unable to use, with ease, the designed environment. The project will scrutinize the underlying assumptions about design and embodiment shaping the content of UD, what UD is, as a sociopolitical phenomenon, its interpenetration into, and across, different scales and sectors of society, and, how far it enables autonomy of human-environment interactions by (re) creating artefacts sensitized to the (disabled) body. In doing so, the research will redress key lacunae by investigating how far UD principles and practices are shaping approaches to the crafting of designed environments, how such practices are governed and shaped by diverse actors, and, how far the differentiated bodily needs of disabled people may be met by the programmes and policies of UD. The project is divided into two parts: (i). Documenting the transnational/governance networks shaping UD discourse; (ii). A comparative study of the socio- institutionalization of UD, including its development and implementation in practice, in three European countries, Norway, Ireland, and the UK.

Keywords: disability,universal design,universalism,corporeality,social justice,social inclusion.
Tin Isotopes and the Sources of Bronze Age Tin in the Old World (BRONZEAGETIN)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The study of the human past
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2340800.0
EU funding (EUR): 2340800.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This multidisciplinary project comprising archaeology, history, geochemistry, and geology aims at the decipherment of the enigma of the origin of a material that emerged in the third millennium BCE and gave an entire cultural epoch its name, namely the alloy of copper and tin called bronze. While copper deposits are relatively widely distributed there are only very few tin deposits known in the Old World (Europe, the Mediterranean basin and southwest Asia). Since the late 19th century archaeologists have discussed the question of the provenance of tin for the production of the earliest bronzes without any definite answer. The enigma has even grown over the past decades, because it turned out that the earliest bronzes appear in a wide area stretching from the Aegean to the Persian Gulf that is geologically devoid of any tin deposits. There is tin in western and central Europe and there is also tin in central Asia. Thus, tin or bronze seems to have been traded over large distances but it is unknown in which direction. Now a new method has become available that offers the chance to trace ancient tin via tin isotope signatures. It was found that the isotope ratios of tin exhibit small but measurable variations in nature making different tin deposits identifiable so that bronze objects can in principle be related to specific ore deposits. It is proposed to apply for the first time this new technology to characterize all known tin deposits in the Old World and relate them to bronze and tin artefacts of the third and second millennia BCE. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary study will increase our understanding of Bronze Age metal trade beyond surmise and speculation with vast implications for the reconstruction of socio-economic relations within and between Bronze Age societies. The impact will be a major advance in our understanding of the earliest complex societies with craft specialization and the formation of cities and empires.

Keywords: isotope archaeology,bronze age,tin isotopes,metallurgy,bronze age economics,bronze age trade
Authoritarianism in a Global Age: Controlling Information and Communication, Association and People Movement (AUTHORITARIANGLOBAL)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 65.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2451179.0
EU funding (EUR): 2451179.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overarching research question of this project is: how is authoritarian rule affected by and responding to globalisation of (a) information and communication, (b) association, and (c) people movement? The wholly unpredicted series of revolts that recently spread across the Arab world suggests that the nature and sustainability of contemporary authoritarian rule are not well-understood. Openness to global ICT and media, international NGOs, and inflow and outflow of people have thrown up new challenges for authoritarian rulers in terms of how to control citizens. This project investigates changes in both the nature and the sustainability of authoritarian rule in relation to the erosion of decision-making autonomy at the state level posited by globalisation theorists. In four sub-projects, this project will investigate: 1. Whether, how and to what extent globalisation of information and communication, association, and people movement affect authoritarian persistence (longitudinal quantitative study, 1970-2011) 2. How, i.e. with what policy mechanisms, authoritarian states respond to globalisation of information and communication, association, and people movement (qualitative multi-sited studies relating to Belarus, China, Iran and Zimbabwe) 3. How to understand the phenomenon of subnational authoritarianism in its engagement with the democratic state and the wider world in relation to information and communication, association, and people movement (mixed method subnational studies of states within India and Mexico) 4. What authoritarianism is in a global age: reconsidering authoritarianism’s defining characteristics of low accountability and high coercion, and whether these still relate exclusively to statehood (theory study) The project will transcend the theoretical and empirical separation between globalisation studies (which have neglected authoritarian contexts) and authoritarianism studies(which have taken relatively little notice of effects of globalisation)

Keywords: authoritarianism,globalisation,ict and media,migration,civil society
Mechanisms of cognitive control and language learning (UNDER CONTROL)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2012-ADG_20120411, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498502.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498502.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

We know that infants can extract regularities from the speech signal through statistical learning (SL) and that this is a fundamental mechanism in language learning. Approaches based on SL assume that statistics are automatically computed over all available input information. However, the language learning situation is so rich and multidimensional that infants need to pinpoint the appropriate subset of dimensions relevant for computing statistics. How does the baby navigate through the immense search space, being such space dependent on each language? In this project, I will explore the relationship between mechanisms of attention and cognitive control, and language acquisition. I will approach the issue through two different strategies. First, I will analyse how possessing better mechanisms of attention and control contributes to tuning the language processing system to the environmental language’s specificities. To this end, I will start by measuring language and attention development in 11- and 30-month-old children. Then, I will evaluate language and attention in a group of adults, capitalising on the important individual differences existing in non-native speech perception. Second, I will take the opposite perspective and explore how specific language exposure (namely, bilingualism) sculpts mechanisms of cognitive control. In this research line, I will focus on how bilingual exposure alters mechanisms of attention and control in preverbal infants (of which meagre evidence exists). The project will focus on (but will not be constrained to) the way the phoneme inventory of the native language is established. Phonemes are one of the pillars of the language system that are tuned early on to the language of the environment and upon which fundamental computations are performed, yielding the discovery of words and morphosyntactic properties.

Keywords: infancy,language development,bilingualism,cognitive development
Randomness and Quantum Entanglement (RAQUEL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Czechia,Latvia,Spain,Switzerland,Austria,Germany,Poland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-C, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2656856.0
EU funding (EUR): 2023792.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Randomness has established itself as a vital building block of information processing and represents an integral ingredient for practically any aspect in the field of information processing and technology. The principal objective of this project will be to establish and evaluate the role played by randomness in quantum information processing. We propose to address the main difficulties that arise through the use of randomness, in particular, 1) the use of randomness as a theoretical tool to prove existence and properties of information processing applications; 2) the design of novel quantum information processing applications that exploit randomness; 3) the design and analysis of applications that work with real-world (that is, non-uniform) randomness; 4) the construction of design techniques that produce high-quality randomness, both from a computational and adversarial perspective; and, finally, 5) the use of randomness to analyze and improve the physical processes necessary for the design quantum communication and computation devices. The consortium (composed of 8 research teams) aims to unite the forces of EU expertise in computer science, physics and mathematics to undertake a comprehensive study of randomness and quantum information within their research portfolio. Many of the targeted tasks combine the knowledge of partners. Hence, strong research interactions will be necessary to successfully achieve the objectives of the project.

Keywords: quantum information processing,randomness,pseudorandomness,entanglement,cryptography,randomness extractors,unitary k-designs,random matrices,random channels,random circuits