Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Approximation of NP-hard optimization problems (APPROXNP)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2376000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2376000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project aims to create a center of excellence that aims at understanding the approximability of NP-hard optimization problems. In particular, for central problems like vertex cover, coloring of graphs, and various constraint satisfaction problems we want to study upper and lower bounds on how well they can be approximated in polynomial time. Many existing strong results are based on what is known as the Unique Games Conjecture (UGC) and a significant part of the project will be devoted to studying this conjecture. We expect that a major step needed to be taken in this process is to further develop the understanding of Boolean functions on the Boolean hypercube. We anticipate that the tools needed for this will come in the form of harmonic analysis which in its turn will rely on the corresponding results in the analysis of functions over the domain of real numbers.

Keywords: approximation algorithms,np-hardness,unique games conjecture
Arctic Tipping Points (ATP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Spain,Denmark,Poland,United Kingdom,France,Portugal,Russian Federation,Greenland,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6545776.09
EU funding (EUR): 4998098.1
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The broad interdisciplinary consortia assembled in the Arctic Tipping Points (ATP) project will be managed (WP1) to identify the elements of the Arctic marine ecosystem likely to show abrupt changes in response to climate change, and establish the levels of the corresponding climate drivers inducing the regime shift for these tipping elements. ATP will evaluate the consequences of crossing those tipping points, and the associated risks and opportunities for economic activities dependent on the Arctic marine ecosystem. Historical records of Arctic climate change and projections of future changes in Arctic sea climate and ice systems are compiled (WP2), and time series of Arctic ecosystem components analysed using novel statistical tools to detect regime shifts and ecological thresholds and tipping points, and evaluate their sensitivity to climatic forcing (WP3). Experimental manipulations and comparative analyses across broad climatic ranges will be used to detect climatic thresholds and tipping points of Arctic organisms and ecosystems, using genome-wide analyses to develop genomic markers of climate-driven stress useful as early-warning indicators of the proximity of tipping points (WP4). A biological-physical coupled 3 D model will be used to generate future trajectories of Arctic ecosystems under projected climate change scenarios and to identify their consequences for the Arctic ecosystem (WP5). The impacts of abrupt changes in the Arctic ecosystems for activities of strategic importance for the European Arctic and the associated impacts on employment and income will be elucidated, and policies and legislative frameworks to adapt and mitigate these impacts will be analysed (WP 6). The effectiveness of possible alternative, post-Kyoto policies and stabilization targets in avoiding climate-driven thresholds in the Arctic ecosystem will be examined, and the results and projections will be conveyed to policy makers, economic sectors and the public in general (WP7).

Keywords: climate change,arctic marine ecosystems,time series,ecological thresholds,regime shifts,early-warning indicators,socio-economic impacts,eu policy integrated management
Active Solar Panel Initiative (ASPIS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Horizontal programme actions
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Israel,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-FET, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3915227.0
EU funding (EUR): 2884334.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The Active Solar Initiative targets development of a fundamentally new, multi-disciplinary photovoltaic technology that will enable meeting and exceeding the year 2015 cost targets of the EU Photovoltaic Strategic Research Agenda, driving European consumer premises power generation to cost parity with grid electricity. The basis of Active Solar is a novel Parallactic Tracking technology concept that supports flat, fixed solar panels with internal concentration and dynamic sun-tracking. Active Solar panels will be a direct replacement of the ubiquitous photovoltaic solar modules. By means of a ten-fold reduction of amount of polycrystalline silicon, costs of the Active Solar panels will be reduced by up to 3 times compared to conventional PV modules. Unlike existing silicon-reducing technologies such as thin film panels, Active Solar panels will enable cost reduction per installed Watt without sacrificing installation area efficiency. The goals of the project include prototyping and verification of the technology, as well as development and verification of cost-efficient manufacturing techniques and dissemination of knowledge among European manufacturers. The project will also lay the groundwork for the next generation of Active Solar technology that will enable a drastic additional increase in residential solar generation efficiency through use of the highly efficient multi-junction cells in flat, fixed rooftop-mounted panels.

Keywords: photovoltaic,concentrator,emerging technology
Policy Options to engage Emerging Asian economies in a post-Kyoto regime (POEM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Netherlands,India,China,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1089576.0
EU funding (EUR): 971518.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Developing countries are reluctant to make any binding commitment as their per capita emissions are low and climate abatement measures conflict with their main priorities on socio-economic development. The question is if there is a way to simultaneously provide sufficient energy (which is also the main source of GHG emissions), to support poverty alleviation and economic growth and achieve sufficient emission reductions. Finding an answer is the main aim of this project. It may be possible with a combination of policies and measures encompassing from international level to national level supported by committed international cooperation to achieve both the goals together. The main focus of the study is on India and China. The primary objective is to develop a portfolio of policy options including both international and national policies as well as institutional frameworks for international cooperation for these two emerging economies to engage them in climate protection measures under a post-2012 regime. By applying an integrated modeling framework, the study will explore possible multiple pathways which may exist for these countries to contribute into international climate initiatives without compromising their national development priorities. Specific objectives are, 1) developing country-specific integrated modeling framework to analyse policies and identify multiple pathways to achieve socio-economic and climate targets; 2) identifying/designing international climate polices in post-Kyoto regime for future commitments and participations of emerging economies (India and China); 3) designing national polices (in socio-economic sectors, energy and environment) compatible with the global climate targets; 4) designing and quantifying as much as possible the international co-operations needed to make the participation in a post-2012 regime acceptable at least in economic terms; 5) disseminating the results to potential users for use in future negotiations.

Keywords: climate policies,policy modelling,economic and energy policies
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISKS IN EUROPEAN BIRTH COHORTS (ENRIECO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,Germany,Greece,Sweden,Germany,Denmark,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2011-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1111924.3
EU funding (EUR): 919423.58
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of ENRIECO is to advance our knowledge on specific environment and health causal relationships in pregnancy and birth cohorts by providing support to exploitation of the wealth of data generated by past or ongoing studies funded by the EC and national programmes. Specific objectives are to make inventories of birth cohorts, assure quality and interoperability of exposure, health and exposure-response data, obtain data access, build databases, conduct analysis, make recommendations for data collection in the future to improve environment-health linkages and information, and disseminate the information. The project will bring together over 30 pregnancy and birth cohorts and information on around 250,000 newborns, infants and children from across Europe. The outcome will be structuring and consolidation of often fragmented data from various studies undertaken throughout Europe and will improve the knowledge base for FP 7 Cooperation Work Programme 2008: Environment (including climate change) environment and health linkages. Data regarding environment-health causal relationships will be more readily available in a form useful for policy makers.

Keywords: environment,pollution,contamination,exposure-response relationships,pregnancy cohorts,birth cohorts
New participation and communication strategies for neighbours of CO2 capture and storage operations (NEARCO2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: CO2 capture and storage technologies for zero emission power generation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1246738.0
EU funding (EUR): 994256.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

CO2 capture and storage is increasingly being considered as a serious option to mitigate climate change. While industry and governments, mostly in North Western Europe, have taken on the effort of realizing large scale CCS operations, the option has started to attract the attention from the larger public as well. The degree to which the public is engaged in the development of CCS operations increases over time, both in terms of stakeholder groups participating, and in the degree to which groups are engaged involved. Important factors shaping public opinions are the trust placed in more knowledgeable stakeholders, the communication media used, and the way the information is framed. Recently, various surveys on public perceptions of CCS have been carried out to inventory current views on the option, and these have shown that among large groups of stakeholders knowledge on CCS is still limited. The overall objective of this project will therefore be to develop effective strategies to communicate in an objective manner to stakeholders and the public at large the advantages and risks of CO2 capture and storage, and to involve these parties in local decision-making on CCS projects. The focus of this proposal will be on the mechanisms that will determine and influence the attitude of the general public through the CCS lifecycle: from the policy stage, through to planning application and on to deployment. Sub-objectives of the project include: a) Provide insight into the regulatory contexts and practices in public participation in selected EU Member States, and infer relevance for participation in CCS projects; b) Unravel the factors shaping public opinion in general in so far as these may relate to CCS; c) Develop and assess participation strategies for involving the public in the vicinity of planned CCS operations; d) Develop, test and use multi-media communication materials on CCS to investigate public perceptions.

Keywords: co2 capture and storage,public participation,public acceptance
NEW APPLICATIONS FOR CPV'S: A FAST WAY TO IMPROVE RELIABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS (NACIR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Morocco,Egypt,Spain,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7114257.0
EU funding (EUR): 4397583.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The main goal of this proposal is to join together the owners of the most advanced CPV technology, with respect to the state of the art, in order to research from its leading position new applications for CPV systems. In addition to opening up new markets, it will unveil possible sources of failure in new environments outside Europe, in order to assure component reliability. The proposed project will also try to improve the current technology of the industrial partners (ISOFOTON and CONCENTRIX) by accelerating the learning curve that CPV must follow in order to reach the competitive market, and lowering the cost under the current flat panel PV significantly within 3-4 years. The use of CPV systems in remote areas, together with harsher radiation, ambient and infrastructure conditions will help to increase the rate of progress of this technology. In addition, the ISFOC’s contribution, which brings together seven power plants from seven CPV technologies up to 3 MWpeak, will allow creating the most complete database of components and systems performance to be generated as well as the effects of radiation and meteorology on systems operations. Finally, regarding the “new applications for CPV” subject, the project will use a CPV system sized 25 kWp in a stand-alone station in Egypt (NWRC) for the first time for water pumping and irrigation purposes. In a similar way ISOFOTON will connect up to 25 kWp CPV to the Moroccan ONE utility grid. From the research content point of view of this project, which is directly addressed by the scope of the call, the cooperative research between UPM, FhG-ISE and the two companies will be favoured by the fact that all are progressing in similar directions: developing two-stage optics CPV systems. In addition to these technology improvements the UPM is very interested in developing a new concept of module, recently patented, which will fulfil all required characteristics of a good CPV with less components and reducing cost.

Keywords: photovoltaic concentration
GAlileo-Glonass Advanced Receiver INtegration (GAGARIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,United Kingdom,Romania,Russian Federation,Ukraine,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2007-GSA-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2011-05-31
Duration (months): 28.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1255575.0
EU funding (EUR): 698006.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The GAGARIN project is about the development of a GNSS receiver for aeronautical applications in the Russian Federation. This project proposes to develop a GALILEO/GLONASS integrated capability in the GNSS receiver for aeronautic applications through an industrial cooperation between major receiver and antenna suppliers in Europe (respectively THALES and ERA) and in Russia (NAVIS), supported by key aeronautical Research Laboratory in Europe (DLR) and in Russia (FGUP GosNII Aeronavigatsia). In the context of the currently existing GPS/GLONASS solutions, this dual GALILEO/GLONASS capability is necessary to consolidate adoption of GALILEO by aviation in the Russian regions. The project will contribute to the development of standardized worldwide GNSS solutions including GALILEO in the pre-existing GPS and GLONASS solutions, and is paving the way to closer industrial and economical cooperation between Russia and Europe.

Keywords: civil aviation glonass galileo baseband antenna multi-constellation integrity russia europe
Integrating European research infrastructures for micro-nano fabrication of functional structures and devices out of a knowledge-based multimaterials’ repertoire (EUMINAFAB)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Sweden,Spain,Netherlands,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,Belgium,Austria
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-03-01
End date: 2013-08-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7910792.35
EU funding (EUR): 5999868.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

Micro- and nanotechnologies have the potential to increase economic growth in every geographical area of Europe and among almost every industry leading to new product innovations, new companies and new jobs. Such innovative ideas based on solutions using micro and nano fabrication technologies require access not only to high end equipment but also the essential highly skilled personnel. It is not possible for SME’s or even most research departments to justify investment in a comprehensive range of technologies and trained personnel, especially when the need is to try out the feasibility of a new idea or develop a one off tool. EUMINAfab aims to overcome such economic barriers and lack of skills by creating the first pan-European research infrastructure for micro- and nanotechnologies for structuring and characterising a multitude of functional materials. The consortium integrates 9 leading academic institutes and three industrial partners from seven European member states. Five networking and three Joint research work packages create the framework for the transnational access activities which are open for users from both industry and academia from throughout European member and associated states. EUMINAfab opens access to more than 50 installations and offers over 1300 user days of access in the project duration of four years. The budget of nearly 7,79M€ with a requested EC contribution of almost 6M€ is thus dedicated to structuring the ERA in the area of multimaterial micro and nanotechnologies.

Keywords: multimaterial micro nano technology,micro nano fabrication,functional materials,eri,integration,access
Public Perception of Genetically modified Animals - Science, Utility and Society (PEGASUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Sustainable production and management of biological resources from land, forest, and aquatic environment
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,Belgium,Norway,India
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2008-2B, 2008)
Start date: 2009-08-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1170968.0
EU funding (EUR): 978088.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

PEGASUS aims to provide policy support regarding the development, implementation and commercialisation of GM animals, and derivative foods. The results will contribute to the FP7 KBBE by integrating existing social, (including existing public perception) environmental and economic knowledge regarding GM animals. The use of GM in farmed animals (aquatic and terrestrial) will be reviewed. A foresight exercise will be conducted to predict future developments. Two case studies (1 aquatic, 1 terrestrial) will be applied to identify the pro’s and con’s of GM animals from the perspectives of the production chain (economics, agri-food sector) and the life sciences (human and animal health, environmental impact, animal welfare, sustainable production). Ethical and policy concerns will be refined through application of combined ethical matrix and policy workshops involving EU and non-EU stakeholders. The case studies will be used to demonstrate best practice in public engagement in the policy process. The activities will provide European policy support regarding GM animals and the foods derived from them, taking into account public perceptions, the competitiveness of EU animal production, and risk-benefit assessments linked with human and animal health, environmental impact, and sustainable production. A final stakeholder dissemination workshop will disseminate the results to the EU policy community.

Keywords: gm -animals,derived food of gm animals,consumer and public perception,pros and cons,aquatic and terrestrial animals,policy effects,competitiveness eu animal production
European approach to GEOSS (EUROGEOSS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,European organisations area,Italy,Austria,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain,Portugal,Italy,Slovenia,Denmark,Kenya,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Austria,Germany,Spain,United States
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7905328.0
EU funding (EUR): 6035566.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

EuroGEOSS demonstrates the added value to the scientific community and society of making existing systems and applications interoperable and used within the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks. The project will build an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and Biodiversity. It will then undertakes the research necessary to develop this further into and advanced operating capacity that provides access not just to data but also to analytical models made understandable and useable by scientists from different disciplinary domains. This concept of inter-disciplinary interoperability requires research in advanced modelling from multi-scale heterogeneous data sources, expressing models as workflows of geo-processing components reusable by other communities, and ability to use natural language to interface with the models. The extension of INSPIRE and GEOSS components with concepts emerging in the Web 2.0 communities in respect to user interactions and resource discovery, also supports the wider engagement of the scientific community with GEOSS as a powerful means to improve the scientific understanding of the complex mechanisms driving the changes that affect our planet.

Keywords: inspire,geoss,biodiversity,drought,forestry,multi-disciplinary interoperability,environment,seis