Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Ceramic Optical Temperature Sensor for Turbine Engine Measurements (COTSTEM)

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-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 761299.0
EU funding (EUR): 570974.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

COTSTEM will develop an optical sensor system for measurement of total temperature in gas turbines at temperatures up to 1700C. The main deliverable from the project will be a prototype sensor system integrated into a test engine. The completed system will provide significant benefits for engine design and operation leading to reduced weight and lower specific fuel consumption. The sensor will be based on well established optical principles using novel materials to survive the harsh environment. The project builds on Oxsensis existing expertise in harsh environment optical sensors established through the development of an existing pressure sensor for use in gas turbine combustion monitoring and control. COTSTEM is a single partner project with the majority of the work to be carried out in-house by Oxsensis. Oxsensis will apply existing project management practices which have been successfully used on similarly sized completed projects in the aerospace, power generation and automotive sectors.

Keywords: turbine total temperature ceramic optical shroud sensor interrogator engine
Thermoelectric generator for engine control system (THETAGEN)

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: France,Czechia,France,France,Sweden
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1015318.2
EU funding (EUR): 474971.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

ThetaGen aims to scavenge energy from a turboshaft and convert it in electrical power to feed the engine control unit. It defines and specifies such a power block, benchmarks potential technolgies, develops a demonstrator and prove the concept thru actual measurements on an engine. It gathers companies over four European countries: a aircraft manufacturer, two research labs, an expert in thermoelectric devices, a thermal expert and a power block manufacturer.

Keywords: termoelectricity engine propeller power
Active Pressure, Position and Temperature sensors for Turboshaft engines. (ACTIPPTSENS)

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,France,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-01, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 29.0
Total project cost (EUR): 799550.2
EU funding (EUR): 599658.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

ActiPPTSens consortium will established the technology benchmark on smart sensors for pressure, position and temperature measurement, based on the specification of NEWAC, DREAM and TEENI. Sensor technologies and their main features will be analysed and captured into a Sensors Technology Comparative Matrix, after the specification definition. The promising sensors technologies will be chosen for the prototype development. ActiPPTSens project have been structured as follow: Specification definition- The specification will be based on the public deliverable of project NEWAC, DREAM , VITAL and TEENI (new turboshaft concept) and TURBOMECA guideline as leader of the SAGE5 ITD; Benchmark of technologies- analysis of the existing technologies in the sensors field. Emerging or critical sensors technologies of several sector will be consider; and Prototype fabrication- Smart sensors prototypes of the selected technologies will be fabricated for their test in IDT SAGE 5 demonstrator. The initial technologies that the ActivePPTSens consortium considers as potential candidates for the prototype fabrication are: -Contactless Torque Sensor CTS, develop and patented by CEDRAT as technology was initiated for PSA. The CTS Contactless Torque Sensor measures the torque and the rotation speed of either a stationary axle or a rotating shaft without contact. -Piezoelectric MENS sensors, underdevelopment by INASMET-Tecnalia and ICV-CSIC. Piezoelectric sensors based on electrospun PZT nanofibers show higher pressure sensibility, longer life cycle, easy integration under structural elements and complex geometrical shape capability. -FBG devices, Fibre Bragg Grating technology with high embedding capability is under study for rotor blades or disks for the monitoring of aerial vehicles engine. The impact of the sensors technology to be develop in ActiPPTSens project would extend far beyond the consortium because of their impact in the cost saving and their transference to aerial vehicle

Keywords: smart sensor,embbede electronic,piezoelectric,non contact sensors,fbg
A Toolbox for Photon Orbital Angular Momentum Technology (PHORBITECH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Brazil
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2013-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2954100.0
EU funding (EUR): 2242200.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) is a degree of freedom of light associated with rotationally structured transverse spatial modes of light beams, as in helical wave-front beams. In many respects OAM is analogous to polarization, but in contrast to polarization it is defined in an unbounded infinite-dimensional space. This may allow for the encoding of a much larger amount of information in a single photon than in the case of polarization, a feature that offers very interesting prospects for applications in photonics and, in particular, in the fields of quantum communication and computation, optical data storage and materials probing. The objective of this proposal is the development of a "toolbox" of highly innovative optical components and devices for the full control of OAM, including its generation, manipulation, transmission and detection. These proposed components are based on entirely new designs and ideas and/or on the novel combination of recently proposed new concepts. The toolbox as a whole will provide a dramatic breakthrough in our capability of controlling the OAM of light and exploiting it in photonic applications and in new scientific investigations. The proposal vision is to make the OAM generation, manipulation, transmission and detection as easy and commonplace as currently is the management of the polarization degree of freedom of light, for future applications in quantum information technology, high density optical data storage, and materials probing.

Keywords: photonics,orbital angular momentum,quantum information
Conservation genetics of threatened bird species (AVICONGEN2)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Estonia
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45000.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human activities threaten many species worldwide and science-based conservation activities have an increasing importance. Current project integrates genetic methods into the population studies of threatened bird species, the Black Stork, the White-tailed Eagle, the Greater and the Lesser Spotted Eagle and the Willow Grouse. The project includes several fields of conservation genetics, such as identification of population structure, estimation of genetic variability within and between populations, analysis of population fragmentation and inbreeding, dispersal and gene flow, population turnover, sex ratio and development of sexing methods. The outcomes of the study are important for planning further conservation actions for these species, as well as for increasing general knowledge about long-lived birds characterised by the small population size.

Keywords: nature conservation,population genetics,biodiversity status and trends,zoology
Cross Sectional Asset Pricing Puzzles: An Equilibrium Perspective (ASSETPRICINGPUZZLES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2014-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research project attempts to resolve puzzling relations in the cross section of expected stock returns within a rational equilibrium framework. In particular, empirical work shows that expected stock returns are negatively correlated, both statistically and economically, with firm-level (i) dispersion in analysts&apos; earnings forecasts, (ii) idiosyncratic volatility, and (iii) credit risk. Such negative relations are apparently at odds with the important concept that systematic risk should always be positively associated with expected payoff. This project shows that the dispersion, idiosyncratic volatility, and credit risk effects naturally emerge in an economy in which the risk is higher when cash flows are weighted towards the longer run. Such economy is characterized by recursive preferences and persistent dividend and consumption growth rates. The equilibrium cross section of expected returns is driven by exposure to a single factor - economic growth. Moreover, firm level beta (factor loading) is time varying and evolves with the duration of cash flows. Ultimately, firms with high dispersion, high credit risk, and high volatility have relatively low cash flow duration and thus low beta. Therefore, such firms have low systematic risk and high idiosyncratic risk, which explains why they earn less. Indeed, the dispersion, idiosyncratic volatility, and credit risk effects are perfectly consistent with the risk-return tradeoff because only systematic risk is compensated in equilibrium asset pricing.

Keywords: intertemporal asset pricing,market anomalies,equilibirium
The Listening Talker (LISTA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Sweden,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-C, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2338250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1791000.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Speech remains the method of choice for human communication, and as a consequence live, recorded and synthetic speech is increasingly used to deliver information. However, current speech output technologies lack an essential element of human interaction, namely the ability to listen while talking. Talkers react and adapt to both the environment and the listener, and make modifications to their speech in order to promote intelligible and fluid communication. For example, talkers modify fundamental frequency, spectral tilt and duration in response to noisy conditions, and produce more prototypical speech sounds when speaking clearly, resulting in increased intelligibility. Speech output technology, in contrast, does not listen while talking, so there is no guarantee that the message is understandable in a given environment and by specific listeners. The purpose of LISTA -- the LIStening TAlker -- is to develop scientific foundations for spoken language technologies based on human communicative strategies. LISTA will investigate how talkers react to changes in the environment, measure the relative success of these strategies using behavioural studies and models of speech intelligibility/quality and study algorithms for rapid characterisation of the listening context. The central objective of LISTA is to apply this information to develop novel techniques for spoken output generation of artificial and natural speech. LISTA will have an impact in all situations where synthetic speech is embedded in devices such as computers and PDAs, mobile and fixed telephones, public information kiosks and information systems, in addition to the domains where live speech is employed e.g. public address systems and teleconferencing. In all these applications, the ability to increase intelligibility in noise has an immediate value, not only in terms of message comprehension but in reducing overall time-of-interaction, noise pollution and individual noise exposure.

Keywords: speech synthesis,listening,human communication,noise
Rethinking Eastern European Cinema in a Post-Cold War Ideological Framework (EASTFILM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Romania
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

EASTFILM aims to rethink the cinema of Eastern Europe in a revised theoretical framework and promote the values of this cinema locally and internationally. The project seeks to achieve its goal by focusing on three objectives: 1. The publication of a scholarly book on Eastern European cinema with a prestigious international press. 2. The incorporation of courses in Eastern European film into UVT’s curriculum. 3. The establishment of an Eastern European Film and Media Center within UVT. 1. Book Project: Orphans of the East &quot;Orphans of the East: Cinema and the Production of Eastern Europe’s Revolutionary Subject&quot; is envisioned as an attempt to recuperate the values of Eastern European film and political culture for an English-language readership. It is a scholarly project in film and intellectual history, aiming to rethink the politics of this region’s cinema in a post-Cold War theoretical context. 2. I plan to introduce three classes in Eastern European cinema into three of UVT’s programs: the Masters Program in Regional Journalism, the Bachelor Program in Cultural Studies, and the Bachelor Program in International Relations. The classes will focus on various periods/regions/topics in Eastern European film. 3. The Eastern European Film and Media Center is envisioned as a collection of relevant fiction and documentary films, and film-studies literature from or about Eastern Europe. It will function as a local reference center for students and scholars interested in Eastern European cinema and culture. Relevance Besides contributing to the rethinking of Eastern European cinema on a regional and international level, the fulfillment of this project will help me establish myself as a film-studies scholar and enrich my host university’s curriculum. The Film and Media Center will support UVT’s goal to position itself as a euroregional university and as an interface between the cultures of East and Central Europe.

Keywords: humanities,central europe,eastern europe,film studies,intellectual history,area studies
From Anderson localization to Bose, Fermi and spin glasses in disordered ultracold gases (ALOGLADIS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091028, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 985200.0
EU funding (EUR): 985200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The field of disordered quantum gases is developing rapidly. Dramatic progress has been achieved recently and first experimental observation of one-dimensional Anderson localization (AL) of matterwaves has been reported using Bose-Einstein condensates in controlled disorder (in our group at Institut d'Optique and at LENS; Nature, 2008). This dramatic success results from joint theoretical and experimental efforts, we have contributed to. Most importantly, it opens unprecedented routes to pursue several outstanding challenges in the multidisciplinary field of disordered systems, which, after fifty years of Anderson localization, is more active than ever. This theoretical project aims at further developing the emerging field of disordered quantum gases towards novel challenges. Our aim is twofold. First, we will propose and analyze schemes where experiments on ultracold atoms can address unsolved issues: AL in dimensions higher than one, effects of inter-atomic interactions on AL, strongly-correlated disordered gases and quantum simulators for spin systems (spin glasses). Second, by taking into account specific features of ultracold atoms, beyond standard toy-models, we will raise and study new questions which have not been addressed before (eg long-range correlations of speckle potentials, finite-size effects, controlled interactions). Both aspects would open new frontiers to disordered quantum gases and offer new possibilities to shed new light on highly debated issues. Our main concerns are thus to (i) study situations relevant to experiments, (ii) develop new approaches, applicable to ultracold atoms, (iii) identify key observables, and (iv) propose new challenging experiments. In this project, we will benefit from the original situation of our theory team: It is independent but forms part of a larger group (lead by A. Aspect), which is a world-leader in experiments on disordered quantum gases, we have already developed close collaborative relationship with.

Keywords: ultracold atoms,degenerate quantum gas,bose-einstein condensate,fermi gas,disorder,anderson,localization,bose glass,fermi glass,spin glass
Heavy Ion Collisions: from RHIC to LHC (HILHC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's most important project in high energy physics. With its dedicated experiment on heavy ion (HI) physics, the LHC will focus on the unique possibility of creating and studying a new state of matter, quark gluon plasma (QGP), at energy densities similar to those of the early Universe. The quest for QGP is also the driving force behind the currently operating (though at much smaller energies) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The study of the fundamental theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD), under extreme conditions is one of the most challenging topics in physics. In particular, a theoretical description of HI collisions and the formation of QGP from first principle calculations is still missing. This proposal is aimed at achieving a qualitatively new level of understanding of HI collisions, both theoretically and phenomenologically, through the development of a new QCD-based description of these processes. I plan to start by addressing a variety of phenomenological issues related to the presently available RHIC data, with the final goal of projecting our understanding of HI collisions to the much higher energies available at the LHC. More specifically, I propose to use perturbative resummation techniques to derive an effective field theory valid at high energies and high gluonic densities. I plan to study the total cross section, multiplicities, momenta distributions and various correlations of particles produced in the collision. I then intend to use these results as initial conditions for subsequent time evolution through the plasma phase. The plasma evolution will be modeled by means of a new hydrodynamic description, which I will develop using string/gravity-inspired methods. By applying the knowledge and experience accumulated in the RHIC era, I will significantly contribute to the success of Europe&apos;s LHC heavy ion program.

Keywords: nuclear physics,quantum field theory,heavy ion collisions,quantum chromo-dynamics,large hadron collider,quark gluon plasma
ERAWATCH International Monitoring and Analysis (ERAWATCH INT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Activities of International Cooperation
Destination: Activities of International Cooperation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: European organisations area
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 310652.0
EU funding (EUR): 299997.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal sets out the approach for the development of ERAWATCH International, an information and analysis activity, envisaged to operate in close complementarity with the existing ERAWATCH Monitoring and Analysis Administrative Arrangement (ERAWATCH2). It has been prepared in response to the request for the Specific Service Agreement ERAWATCH International Monitoring and Analysis made to JRC IPTS by DG RTD on 22 July 2009. This request and its annex incorporate the results of discussions between the two services, and take into account ongoing developments in the main ERAWATCH service. Through the proposed administrative arrangement, the scope of monitoring and analysis activity in ERAWATCH International is determined by DG RTD and IPTS, and implemented by the latter. The primary objective of ERAWATCH International is to complement and extend the scope and analytical depth of the coverage of third countries by ERAWATCH. ERAWATCH International will develop and maintain additional country fiches for selected third countries with which the EC already has or is foreseen to have a S&T agreement (e.g. Argentina, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Algeria and Moldova). It will also provide analytical reports on selected third countries and horizontal analyses across countries.

Keywords: international cooperation,research policy,european research area