Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Fixed Point Open Ocean Observatories Network (FIXO3)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Greece,Germany,Norway,Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Ireland,United Kingdom,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Spain,France,Spain,Sweden,Germany,Netherlands,Portugal,Ireland,United Kingdom,Cabo Verde,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-RTD, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8607911.79
EU funding (EUR): 7000000.0
Participants: 31
Project status: CLOSED

The Fixed point Open Ocean Observatory network (FixO3) seeks to integrate European open ocean fixed point observatories and to improve access to these key installations for the broader community. These will provide multidisciplinary observations in all parts of the oceans from the air-sea interface to the deep seafloor. Coordinated by the National Oceanography Centre, UK, FixO3 will build on the significant advances achieved through the FP7 programmes EuroSITES, ESONET and CARBOOCEAN. With a budget of 7.00 Million Euros over 4 years (starting September 2013) the proposal has 29 partners drawn from academia, research institutions and SME’s. In addition 14 international experts from a wide range of disciplines comprise an Advisory Board. The programme will be achieved through: 1. Coordination activities to integrate and harmonise the current procedures and processes. Strong links will be fostered with the wider community across academia, industry, policy and the general public through outreach, knowledge exchange and training. 2. Support actions to offer a) access to observatory infrastructures to those who do not have such access, and b) free and open data services and products. 3. Joint research activities to innovate and enhance the current capability for multidisciplinary in situ ocean observation. Open ocean observation is currently a high priority for European marine and maritime activities. FixO3 will provide important data on environmental products and services to address the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and in support of the EU Integrated Maritime Policy. The FixO3 network will provide free and open access to in situ fixed point data of the highest quality. It will provide a strong integrated framework of open ocean facilities in the Atlantic from the Arctic to the Antarctic and throughout the Mediterranean, enabling an integrated, regional and multidisciplinary approach to understand natural and anthropogenic change in the ocean.

Keywords: open ocean fixed-point time-series observatory network infrastructure multidisciplinary biogeochemistry,biology geophysics marine seas
Identification, Estimation and Implementation of Structural Economic Models (IDENTIFICATION)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1067000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1067000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Structural economic models are getting increasingly complex. This complicates their implementation. In particular, for many models, (i) identification of the relevant components from data is still unresolved; (ii) estimation and testing procedures tend to be somewhat ad hoc and with no theoretical underpinning; (iii) the implementation of model and estimators often require numerical approximations since model solutions are not available on closed form. The proposed research aims at addressing these three issues, (i)-(iii), by developing new methods and results for identification, estimation, testing and implementation of structural models. Particular emphasis is put on the use of nonparametric techniques. Many of the projects involve empirical applications where the proposed methods will be taken to data. The individual projects making up the proposal are: Identification and inference in discrete choice models; identification and inference in continuous choice models; Implementation and estimation of parametric structural models; Filtering and likelihood inference in dynamic latent variable models; Bandwidth selection in estimation and testing of non- and semiparametric models.

Keywords: structural model,identification,estimation,numerical implementation,testing,nonparametric,discrete choice,markov decision,latent variables
Establishing and operating an Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,France,Greece,Belgium,Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-INFSO, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 984248.0
EU funding (EUR): 699999.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Europe, the USA and Australia are making significant progress in facilitating the discovery and access of marine data through the development, implementation, population and operation of overarching distributed ocean and marine data observing and management infrastructures such as SeaDataNet, Geo-Seas, IOOS and the Australian Ocean Portal. All these regional and national developments are resulting in the implementation of standards for formats of metadata, data, and data products, quality control methods and flags, common vocabularies, as well as services for discovery, viewing and downloading, and software tools for editing, conversions, communication, analysis and presentation, that are increasingly adopted and used by their national and regional ocean and marine communities. There is also a general trend towards the use of the basic ISO and OGC standards, however these allow the use of different profiles and vocabularies. As a result there are differences in the standards used in the different regions which hinder their direct exchange and use at an international and global scale, and as a result act as a barrier to the realisation of global portals such as the IODE Ocean Data Portal and GEOSS. In order to remove impediments hindering the effective sharing of data across scientific domains and international boundaries, it is proposed to initiate and operate an Ocean Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) which will include all the major organisations engaged in ocean data management in EU, US and Australia. ODIP is also supported by the IOC-IODE who will participate in its implementation and operation. The ODIP platform will organise international workshops to foster the development of common standards and develop prototypes to evaluate and test selected potential standards and interoperability solutions. The ODIP partnership will provide a forum to harmonise the diverse regional systems, while advancing the European contribution to the global system.

Keywords: ocean & marine data management,interoperability,standards,connectivity
Multi-frequency multi-mode Terahertz screening for border checks (TERASCREEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Intelligent surveillance and enhancing border security
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,France,Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4825919.32
EU funding (EUR): 3489932.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Security checks at borders are required to be increasingly thorough and fast. There are currently two types of technologies available for this application: those that automatically detect objects concealed on a person, and those that rely on human operator analysis and interpretation in order to classify or identify body-borne threats. The objective of TeraSCREEN is to combine these two capabilities, thus providing automatic detection and classification of body-borne threats for security screening. This will significantly improve both efficiency and security at border checks. TeraSCREEN aims to develop passive and active operation at several Terahertz frequencies. The resulting multi-frequency, multi-mode images will be processed automatically in real-time to reveal the location of potentially harmful objects concealed on a person. Privacy Enhancing Technologies will be used: the information will be displayed to the operator on a generic computerised silhouette and no anatomical details will be shown or saved. Terahertz radiation is non-ionizing, and reliable studies have shown that active operation in this frequency band is harmless to humans. The automatic recognition of threats, in addition to removing privacy issues, reduces the level of attention required from the operator, which implies a reduction in the personnel necessary for continuous operation. The TeraSCREEN Prototype System will be demonstrated at a live control point in Bristol International Airport. The feedback from the End-User and Advisory Board members will facilitate, outside this project, the conversion of the prototype into an innovative security screening product that will significantly improve the security and efficiency at, and experience of, border checks. The consortium consists of 11 partners from academia, research and industry across Europe, who each play complementary roles in the project and are interested in exploiting the results together.

Keywords: terahertz imaging,passive,active,millimetre-wave imaging,submillimetre-wave,security screening,automatic object detection and classification,privacy enhancing technologies,pilot test.
International Grievance Mechanisms and International Law and Governance (IGMS)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111124, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 590153.0
EU funding (EUR): 590153.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The paradigms and terms of global governance have raised considerable debates in social sciences, as this elusive notion reflects the complexification of the decision-making fora, actors and processes which address globalised issues. Primarily intended as the legal framework of inter-state relations, international law is deeply shaken up by global governance approaches. In particular, because of systemic regulation and justiciability gaps, it shows a relative inability to create the mechanisms necessary to encompass certain transnational activities which have an important impact while those directly affected often have no direct legal bond with the source-actor which could enable them to ask it directly to account. However, the international scene witnesses the emergence of international grievance mechanisms (IGMs) which escape from traditional legal patterns and might fill certain regulation and justiciability gaps. Though located in an international law context, they are not legal accountability mechanisms and are defined as non-judicial grievance mechanisms set up on a permanent basis by non-binding international instruments or international organizations, which aim at calling an entity –either public or not– to account for its actions when no responsibility/liability mechanism can be set in motion because of the nature of the actors involved, the lack of direct legal bond between them, and the fact the instruments these IGMs control ‘compliance’ with are non-binding. The proposal makes the hypothesis that the study of these mechanisms, which seem symptomatic of international regulation and justiciability gaps, can contribute to the understanding of the mutations international law is experiencing in the context of global governance and beyond, to enhance the knowledge of the challenges ahead in terms of global governance regulation.

Keywords: international law,justiciability,regulation,accountability
Collaborative and Sustainable Astronomical Data Infrastructure for Europe (COSADIE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to policy development and Programme implementation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-INFSO, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 635429.0
EU funding (EUR): 475000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The Collaborative and Sustainable Astronomical Data Infrastructure for Europe (CoSADIE) project will undertake actions aimed at designing a sustainable version of the already successful European Virtual Observatory (Euro-VO). The concept of a Virtual Observatory (VObs or VO) is that all the world's astronomical data should feel like they sit on the astronomer's desktop workspace, analysable with a user selected workbench of tools and made available through standard interfaces across the whole range of astronomical research topics. VObs is embraced as a world-wide community-based initiative with the potential to transform and restructure the way astronomy research is done. The European Virtual Observatory, Euro-VO, is the European implementation of this idea. The astronomical Virtual Observatory has been identified as one of the important infrastructures of astronomy in the recent European strategic exercise performed by the Astronet ERA-NET. The VObs is currently in transition towards operational phase. This proposal is centred on the development of strategies and coordination structures, through a feasibility study for a sustainable European Virtual Observatory giving access to the open, highly diverse, highly distributed data holdings of astronomy. It also aims at disseminating results among and gathering requirements from the scientific community (users) and the data providers. It will co-ordinate European technical activities, and includes the promotion and monitoring of international standards, and their adoption through the International Virtual Observatory Alliance. Co-operation and interface with the grid and cloud will also be assessed, with a particular consideration towards EGI.eu and OGF. Specific care will be taken to consolidate the high impact VObs outreach activities towards education and the general public.

Keywords: sustainable data infrastructure,astronomical virtual observatory
CWIT - Countering WEEE Illegal Trade (CWIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Japan,Italy,Switzerland,Italy,Belgium,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2088846.8
EU funding (EUR): 1868303.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the CWIT – Countering WEEE Illegal Trade – project is to provide a set of recommendations to support the European Commission, law enforcement authorities, and customs organisations, countering the illegal trade of WEEE in and from Europe. The project will collect, study, and identify gaps in the current legislation in place at the International and European level such as the European Commission Directives on hazardous substances in products placed on the market in Europe and their treatment: • A Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) • A Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment In addition, the CWIT project, through intensive data collection, information gathering process, and an intelligence-based approach, will: • analyse the involvement of organized crime in the global distribution of WEEE; • analyse criminal activity and crime types associated with illegal WEEE shipments, draw on other work being carried out targeting illegal e-waste exports on an international scale; • estimate the true volume of WEEE generated and the amounts inappropriately disposed of; • assess the typology of companies (and brokers) involved in the export market and identifying those with a criminal history; and • develop detailed understanding of the destinations and routes used to carry illegal shipments, to possibly enable contacts with regulators and enforcers in destination countries. The CWIT project plans to develop a set of recommendations: • to the end user community that could improve the response to the illegal trade in WEEE; • to the European Commission and its member states related to future research and technologies Finally the CWIT project will ensure a multi-layer platform for exchange of information among the end-users consisting of law enforcement authorities, customs organisations, policy makers, etc... enabling them to better prevent and respond to the illegal trade of WEEE.

Keywords: organised crime / illegal trade / weee / law enforcement / customs organisations / cooperation / information /
Development of a high sensitivity ultrasonic phased array Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) method for the early detection of creep damage (Type IV cracking) in alloy steels used in high temperature, high (CREEPTEST)

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: United Kingdom,Greece,Lithuania,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1287835.34
EU funding (EUR): 998000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Creep is the time-dependent, thermally assisted deformation of a component operating under stress. Metal pressure components such as boiler tubing, headers, and steam piping in fossil-fired power plants operate at thermal conditions (above ~1,000ºF [538ºC]) conducive to causing creep damage over the operating life of the component. To ensure safe and reliable operation of such components in service, utilities periodically use non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques to inspect these components for damage. These inspections are largely targeted at detecting late stage creep damage in which cracking is active in the component and provides qualitative rather than quantitative data. Recent advances in NDE technology have provided enhanced capabilities for incipient creep failure detection. CreepTest will seek to apply time reversal focusing and full matrix capture techniques that have already shown a capability to identify early stage creep damage. A library of defects will be produced with the aim of providing inspection limits and the probability of detection for the techniques developed in the project and thus enable accurate life cycle prediction for components under inspection. The objectives of the project will be: •To develop new ultrasonic phased NDE testing techniques for the detection of Type IV creep cracking •To determine the sensitivity of defect detection and the limits of technique/system/ultrasonic array performance. •To produce a field prototype NDE ultrasonic array system, signal processing and software for the examination of power plant steam pipe welds for creep damage. •Quantify results to assess the extent of creep detection and categorise into (i) cavitation formation (ii) cavitation coalescence (iii) formation of micro-cracking and (iv) macro-cracking. •To demonstrate the NDE systems performance on in-service, in-situ steam pipe welds and to validate the technique results against representative samples containing realistic creep defects

Keywords: ultrasonic phased array nde,type iv creep crack damage,micro-cracking
Enhanced Large scale Architecture with Safety and Security Technologies and special Information Capabilities (ELASSTIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Security
Destination: Increasing the Security of infrastructures and utilities
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Netherlands,France,Germany,Spain,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SEC-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5286705.0
EU funding (EUR): 3472071.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the ELASSTIC project is to improve the security and resilience of large scale multifunctional building complexes to natural and man-made disasters by providing a methodology and tools which enable to include security and resilience from the early design and planning phase of such projects. The ELASSTIC concept proposed is based upon the following key features: 1) A comprehensive approach for designing safe, secure and resilient large scale built infrastructures 2) A set of tools to enable architects, structural engineers and building installation engineers to assess the safety, security and resilience of designs and to optimize the integral design 3) Coupling and integration of these tools into Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology resulting in extended BIM technology (BIM+) 4) Smart and reinforced building elements, to measure the actual building condition combined with an increased bearing capacity and resistance 5) Coupling and integration of BIM and BMS (Building Management System) 6) Real time information on the safety, security and resilience of infrastructure Validation of the approach and developed tools will be done by evaluation the design of a multifunctional, resilient, large scale urban complex (anno 2020), called the ELASSTIC complex. This large multifunctional complex combines housing, shopping centre, transport node, business centre and entertainment centre. The ELASSTIC complex will not only be secure and resilient to disasters, it will also be designed to ensure fast and efficient evacuation in case of a disaster. For a crowded complex comprising a large number of people, the design of a smart evacuation system should be included at the start of the design of the complex. Taking evacuation and safety installations into account in the design phase will increase safety and is less expensive compared to an evacuation system integrated after the complex is build or at the final design stage.

Keywords: integral design,resilient complex,safety,security,multifunctional,bim techonology,natural and manmade hazards,smart evacuation