Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
ASCENT - Advanced Solid Cycles with Efficient Novel Technologies (ASCENT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: CO2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Netherlands,Italy,Norway,Netherlands,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2014-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9219967.4
EU funding (EUR): 7003803.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

ASCENT will provide a robust proof-of-concept of three related high temperature processes; each will lead to a step-change in efficiency of carbon removal in three types of pre-combustion capture, producing the hydrogen needed for highly efficient low-carbon power production. The project brings together five small and medium enterprises preparing to launch these concepts with the support of leading research institutes, universities and industrial partners. The essential feature linking the three technologies is the use of a high temperature solid sorbent for the simultaneous separation of CO2 during conversion of other carbon containing gases (CO and CH4) into H2. Each technology provides a step-change in efficiency because they all separate the CO2 at elevated temperatures (>300°C) providing for more efficient heat integration options not available in technologies where the separation occurs at lower temperatures. Each process matches both endothermic and exothermic heat requirements of associated reactions and sorbent regeneration in an integrated in situ approach. The synergies between the three technologies are strong, allowing both multiple interactions between the different work packages and allowing a consistent framework for cross-cutting activities across all the technologies. Each technology will be proven under industrially relevant conditions of pressure and temperature, at a scale that allows the use of industrially relevant materials that can be manufactured at a scale needed for real implementation. This represents a necessary step to be taken for each of the technologies before setting out on the route to future demonstration level activities. ASCENT, Advanced Solid Cycles with Efficient Novel Technologies, addresses the need for original ideas to reduce the energy penalty associated with capturing carbon dioxide during power generation, and create a sustainable market for low carbon emission power with low associated energy penalties

Keywords: pre-combustion decarbonisation,advanced solid looping cycles,co2 capture,sorption enhanced shift,sorption enhanced reforming,chemical looping combustion,high efficiency,cost effective
HYdropower plants PERformance and flexiBle Operation towards Lean integration of new renewable Energies (HYPERBOLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,France,Austria,Germany,Spain,Portugal,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6294644.4
EU funding (EUR): 4325542.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

In the recent years due to tremendous development and integration of renewable energy resources in Europe, hydraulic turbines and pump-turbines are key technical components to contribute to renewable energy production and to compensate for the stochastic nature of the variable energy sources, preserving thus the electrical grid stability. As a result, the overarching objective of the project is the enhanced hydropower plant value by extending the flexibility of its operating range, while also improving its long-term availability. More specifically, the project aims to study the hydraulic, mechanical and electrical dynamics of several hydraulic machines configurations – fresh and seawater turbines, reversible pump-turbines – under an extended range of operations : from overload to deep part load. A two-pronged modelling approach will rely on numerical simulations as well as reduced-scale physical model tests. Upon suitable concurrence between simulations and reduced-scale physical models results, validation will take place on carefully selected physical hydropower plants properly equipped with monitoring systems. To address this ambitious research plan, a consortium has been assembled featuring three leading hydraulic turbines, storage pumps, reversible pump-turbine and electric equipment manufacturers, SME, as well as world-renowned academic institutions. Extensive tests both on both experimental rigs and real power plants will be performed in order to validate the obtained methodological and numerical results.

Keywords: hydropower,renewable energy integration,hydrodynamics of hydraulic turbines and pump-turbines,mechanical structure dynamics,power electronics,hydropower plant dynamics simulation,grid simulation
Nippon-European Cyberdefense-Oriented Multilayer threat Analysis (NECOMA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: International Cooperation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Spain,Greece,Poland,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2013-EU-Japan, 2013)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2171167.0
EU funding (EUR): 1459000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The NECOMA project addresses objective (c), Cybersecurity for improved resilience against cyber threats, of the ICT-EU Japan Coordinated call FP7-ICT-2013-EU-Japan. It aims at providing new means to understand cyberthreats and to mitigate their effect on infrastructure and endpoints. First, it adresses the aspect of data collection, leveraging past and current work on the topic with the goal to expand these existing mechanisms and orient them towards threat data analysis. Second, it adresses threat data analysis not only from the perspective of understanding attackers and vulnerabilities, but also from the point of view of the target and victim, needing to protect itself in real-time and in the most efficient manner possible; this will be achieved through the development of metrics that allow to measure the impact of attacks on the protected infrastructure or endpoint. Third, it addresses cyber-defense mechanisms, with the goal to develop and demonstrate new cyberdefense mechanisms that leverage these metrics for deployment and evaluation. These three aspects will be analyzed both from an infrastructure perspective (networks and large computing infrastructures) and endpoints (smartphones and browsers). The results of the NECOMA project will be showcased in demonstrators that will highlight the innovations of the project and prepare exploitation.

Keywords: threat data,threat analysis,cyberdefense,infrastructure,endpoints
Generally Accepted Reliability Principle with Uncertainty modelling and through probabilistic Risk assessment (GARPUR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Belgium,France,Czechia,Denmark,Iceland,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Czechia,France,Germany,Israel,Denmark,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10658482.51
EU funding (EUR): 7767261.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

Power system reliability management means to take decisions under increasing uncertainty (for instance, related to renewable generation). It aims to maintain power system performance at a desired level, while minimizing the socio-economic costs of keeping the power system at that performance level. Seven TSOs (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway), together with eleven RTD performers, propose the four year GARPUR research project. GARPUR designs, develops, assesses and evaluates new system reliability criteria and management while maximizing social welfare as they are progressively implemented over the next decades at a pan-European level. The new management methodologies encompass multiple business activities (system development, asset management, power system operation) that, in turn, ensure coherent decision-making at the respective time horizons. These methodologies also involve mathematical and computational models to predict the location, duration and amount of power supply interruptions. Five alternatives to improve reliability management of the pan-European power system are studied. After practical validation by the TSOs, these alternatives are analysed with the help of a quantification platform. Pilot tests of the new proposed reliability criteria are performed by individual TSOs or (when appropriate) a group of TSOs using this quantification platform, either in a given control zone or (where appropriate) throughout the pan-European system. Reliability criteria are compared and presented to the TSO community and regulatory authorities who establish the robustness of the results. Dissemination activities of the new reliability criteria are supported by a Reference Group of TSOs and address all the key electricity market stakeholders. An implementation roadmap is delivered for the deployment of the resulting technical and regulatory solutions to keep the pan-European system reliability at optimal socio-economic levels.

Keywords: reliability assessment,reliability management,pan - european system,pilot tests,socio - economic quantification
Direct Normal Irradiance Nowcasting methods for optimized operation of concentrating solar technologies (DNICAST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Spain,Greece,France,Germany,Sweden,Germany,Spain,Switzerland,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-15
End date: 2017-10-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3778616.29
EU funding (EUR): 2994758.08
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Concentrating solar technologies (CST) have proven to be very efficient sources of “clean” power for the electrical grid. The efficient operation of concentrating solar technologies requires reliable forecasts of the incident irradiance for two main reasons. First, such forecasts yield a better management of the thermodynamic cycle because it becomes possible to dynamically fine tune some of its parameters such as the flow rate of the working fluid or the defocusing mirrors. Second, the electricity production can be optimally connected to the grid. Currently, forecasts are made by several techniques, which have their own merits and drawbacks. The uncertainty in the forecast of the DNI is still too large and must be reduced. Therefore, we propose a concept of portfolio of innovative or improved methods and possibly hardware that can be assembled by company experts to answer the specific needs of a given plant. To fulfil the objective, the Consortium will follow a strategy based on interactions with potential users of the system nowcastings, i.e., the plant operators. Requirements expressed by users will be collected and then converted into requirements on optical properties of the clear atmosphere and clouds for the design or improvements of methods. Users’ feedback on the advances will be later collected in the course of the project where intermediate results will be shown. A final workshop will be held for the demonstration of the final version of the methods and their combinations. Additionally, bilateral face-to-face meetings will collect technical views that cannot be expressed in a general forum comprising competitors. These individual meetings will help in addressing the issue of the further commercial exploitation of the assembled know-how. A detailed plan for the scientific dissemination was developed.

Keywords: concentrating solar technologies,direct normal irradiance,forecasts,nowcasting,stakeholders
Value4Nano: Industrial valorization of strategic value chains for nano-enabled products (VALUE4NANO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2013-CSA-7, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1028865.2
EU funding (EUR): 837000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The VALUE4NANO project aims at developing an Implementation Roadmap of 4 value chains and their target products. The Roadmap will include business modelling and planning for a set of pilot lines and it will involve strategic industry and other stakeholders. The selected value chains are: (1) Nano and micro printing for industrial manufacturing; (2) Nano-enabled, depollutant and self-cleaning surfaces; (3) Manufacturing of powders made of functional alloys, ceramics and intermetallics; (4) Lightweight multifunctional materials and composites for transportation. Project specific objectives are: (a) Formation and activation of 4 value chain expert groups, fostering industry alliances and involving key research and innovation actors coming from clustering of European, national and regional projects on the selected value chains; (b) Development and completion of the 4 value chains (VCs) leading to a gap analysis, identifying the needed technical and not technical actions to implement the VCs; (c) Release of a short-medium term Implementation Plan for the selected value chains, including a feasibility study, business modelling and planning on a possible set of pilot lines; (d) Performing roadmapping, networking and exploitation activities in a wide application-oriented network with nano relevance, linking together industry, research institutions, regional, national and international entities, investors, society, ETPs and initiatives on nano and other KETs. The work-programme has been structured to limit the number of deliverables and milestones to key and visible results as well as pragmatic checking points. The Consortium is composed by D’Appolonia (Coordinator), PRODINTEC and NANOfutures Association, which includes several Third Parties from different organizations around Europe (FIAT Research Centre, Fraunhofer-IPA, CEA, microTEC, MBN, Institute of Occupational Medicine, TNO, TU-Dresden and Spinverse) as well as Bayer and Steptoe and Johnson as voluntary group

Keywords: implementation roadmap,pilot lines,value chains,nanotechnology,lightweight materials,nano-printing,self-cleaning surfaces,nanostructured powders,project clustering,business plans.
ICT Roadmap and Data Interoperability for Energy Systems in Smart Cities (READY4SMARTCITIES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,France,Greece,Finland,France,Austria,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1364973.0
EU funding (EUR): 999389.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

READY4SmartCities operates in a European context where other initiatives are currently running in order to create a common approach on Smart Cities, Such initiatives, even if of fundamental importance for the EU, have some relevant gaps not allowing them to fully cover fundamental aspects for Smart Cities, i.e. to define a common data framework allowing full interoperability among different city system, as well as a consistent vision on how ICT can support energy systems in smart cities. Within this context READY4SmartCities cover a unique role thanks to its specific mission of bringing together relevant stakeholders including engineering specialists, ICT software and equipment providers, RES providers, energy companies (including ESCOs – Energy Service Companies), construction sector companies, as well as local and regional authorities. In co-operation with these stakeholders, the aim is to deliver: • A new energy data ecosystem that will accommodate cross-domain data (climatic, occupation, pollution, traffic, activity, etc.) and will allow the exploitation of such data at global scale; by identifying the set of ontologies relevant to energy-efficiency in Smart Cities and the different requirements and guidelines on how to use (publish and interchange) data described according to those ontologies. • An holistic and shared vision, allowing feasible step-by-step action plans for city authorities and other relevant stakeholder groups to develop and use ICT-based solutions for energy system in urban and rural communities towards future Smart Cities, and thus, leading to reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

Keywords: ict-based solution,smart energy city,internet of the future,holistic design,roadmapping,networking,open data,business model,ict/energy ontology,building life cycle,energy value chain,esco.
Indicator-based Interactive Decision Support and Information Exchange Platform for Smart Cities (INDICATE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Ireland,Italy,Ireland,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4396319.0
EU funding (EUR): 2900000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

INDICATE proposes a novel city-wide decision support system which accounts for all major systems and activities relevant to developing energy-efficient cities. To create a ‘Smart Economy’, integrated smart urban planning tools including architectural masterplanning and detailed energy optimisation and environmental analysis will be required. If this is not addressed, we will be unable to deliver the Millennium Development Goals as agreed by each of the UN member states. INDICATE addresses these issues through the development of a decision support tool that is used in all stages of urban development of a city. The tool can be used to (i) inform masterplanning at early stages of urban development; (ii) help make decisions with respect to best technologies to integrate and their economic and environmental impact to the urban environment; and (iii) optimise existing Smart Technologies to further reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. This is achieved through the integration of Dynamic Simulation Modelling, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 3D Urban CAD Modelling Tools, Sustainable Urban Indicators and algorithms for Demand Side Management and local balancing of energy use into a single software package. Existing tools tend to address single sub-systems and don’t examine the city in a holistic manner with respect to all city sub-systems and their interactions. The few tools that address this do not have the Dynamic Simulation Modelling capability to simulate the environment and show the ‘ripple effect’ that a decision will have in the overall urban context. The consortium includes world leaders in Dynamic Simulation Modelling & GIS, experts in urban planning, sustainable indicators, algorithm development and demand side management and Public Authority end users. Included are 3 test sites in 2 cities (Genoa, IT and Dundalk, IRL).

Keywords: demand side management,local balancing,sustainable development,decision support tools
High-power Impulse Plasma Process Operations for the Creation of Advanced Metallic Parts (HIPPOCAMP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden,Sweden,Czechia,Italy,Germany,Spain,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF(RTD), 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5208156.0
EU funding (EUR): 3699999.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

European industries such as automotive, aerospace and manufacturing have to develop new structural materials and production processes in order to achieve strict emission reduction requirements and improve performance and multifunctionality. However, advanced engineered materials manufactured today with traditional techniques are prohibitively expensive for many applications and generate unwanted by-products and toxic waste. The HIPPOCAMP project focuses on the development of a robust, high-yield, low cost, environmentally friendly manufacturing process to produce nano-composites for products made of engineered metallic material, in particular, structural components for automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and wind turbine applications. One of the most desired functional property of such components is vibration damping, because vibration and chatter in turbine blades, machine-tools and other industrial components have very significant consequences: decreased performance, higher maintenance costs, shorter service life and ultimately, higher costs. The HIPPOCAMP project develops a novel method to generate a unique carbon-based composite with high dynamic stiffness material, whose effect on vibration damping will prolong the service life of components, reduce their weight and significantly improve the performance of industrial machineries. Today, there are no standard structural materials that can simultaneously combine high static stiffness with high damping properties at a broad operating temperature and frequency range. Consequently, there are currently no industrially scalable processes for cost-effectively manufacturing high damping components. The HIPPOCAMP project addresses the development of a scalable industrial process enabling, (i) the synthesis of a new class of nano-composite materials, (ii) the production of these nano-composites on metal or polymer parts, to create industrial components with superior vibration damping property.

Keywords: functional material,nanocomposite,high dynamic stiffness,dampening,stiffness,low weight