Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Demonstration of a cost-effective footwear based on shape memory materials to provide an instant fitting personalization service at the retail shop for enhancing user’s comfort (DEMOSHOPINSTANTSHOE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Spain,Spain,Portugal,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1247435.6
EU funding (EUR): 803000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The DemoShopInstantShoe (DemoSIS) is a direct follow on from the very successful ShopInstantShoe FP7-SME-2008-1 project, that came to promising conclusions in February 2012. ShopInstantShoe (SIS) aimed at developing a customizable and fashionable women footwear upper and an innovative service providing customers with personalization of the shoe fitting at retail shop. SIS results revealed positive feedback from end users who assigned high value and expressed high interest on the proposed customizable shoes and in-shop personalization. Since the new product-service has been successfully created and validated at small scale, there is a strong case to demonstrate that the process and concept can be extended and able to overcome the barriers that are currently stopping the solution to be commercialized. The challenges to face in the project are: (1) To scale-up the range of upper materials to creating new smart textile based composites that facilitate to cover a wider footwear market segment. (2) To extend the footwear women models able to be personalized in order to fulfil the target needs and increasing the commercial scope of the product-service. (3) To develop the industrialization of the product manufacturing system. (4) To upgrade the novel customization process to a pre-commercial service, adapting the required customization shop tool to retail channel needs. (5) To validate the new improvements expected, including temporary in-shop pilot testing to reach the standard specification for the product-service, as well as outlining the most profitable business exploitation through further analysis. The new consortium is composed of four original partners from SIS project (Calzamedi, Texinov, Nimesis and IBV) and two retailing distributors (OrtoTwins and TechnoBoots). The outcomes produced will allow the consortium to execute suitable marketing actions, enhancing SMEs to commercially exploit and service the market after project ends.

Keywords: footwear,biomechanics,fitting,comfort,customization,composite materials,smart textiles
Demonstration of high EFFiciency Stirling HEAT pump (EFFIHEAT-DEMO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Lithuania,Spain,Lithuania,Greece,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1606734.0
EU funding (EUR): 904000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The need of innovative solutions for buildings heating and air-conditioning systems is driven by economical and environmental concerns, which are strongly supported by EU Directives. Buildings account for 40% of total energy consumption in the European Union . The sector is expanding, which is bound to increase its energy consumption. Therefore, reduction of energy consumption and the use of energy from renewable sources in the residential and commercial buildings sector constitute important measures needed to reduce the Union’s energy dependency and greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed EFFiHEAT-DEMO project is the follow-up of the on-going FP7 Research for SMEs project EFFiHEAT “Development of high EFFiciency Stirling HEAT pump” Grant Agreement no. 286814, financed from FP7-SME-2011 call, which has started in October 2011. The overall objective of the EFFiHEAT project is to develop and validate cost-efficient based on Stirling engine of novel design geothermal heat pump technology with 25% higher COP comparing to technologies in operation. Currently the all required knowledge needed to achieve the technological objectives has been generated, scientific objectives are quantified and verified and 1st year deliverables and reports are approved. The proposed EFFiHEAT-DEMO project aims to bring to the market the innovative energy efficient (EE) technology for the commercial and residential sectors. The heating and/or cooling technology will be targeted, but not limited, to geothermal heat sources enabling up to 75% energy savings and reduced costs for energy consumption. To achieve this goal EFFiHEAT-DEMO will demonstrate the at full-scale the novel cost-efficient geothermal heat pump technology based on novel design Stirling engine developed under the project EFFiHEAT.

Keywords: oscillating movemen,renewable energy sources,improvement of energy conversion,substitution of the efficient technologies,heat pumps,ground source heat pump technology (ghp),stirling heat machine
Workbench for Interactive Contrastive Analysis of Patent Documentation (IPATDOC)

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: Spain,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Luxembourg,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-15
End date: 2015-11-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2117096.18
EU funding (EUR): 1430000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project iPATDoc aims to develop new innovative technologies for interactive inspection, alignment, and contrastive analysis of the content of patent material. The technologies are designed to complement the products of the participating SMEs and will be decisive for their competitiveness in the continuously growing and increasingly hotly contested intellectual property protection market in general and in the niche of patent examination and management in particular. The technologies to be developed in iPATDoc will facilitate the work on both a single patent and a collection of patents (contained in a patent data base or obtained, for instance, as a result of a targeted patent search) in that they will allow the user to interactively assess via a novel visual concept map representation: (i) the components of the invention protected by a selected patent, their properties, and their compositional and functional interrelations that are of relevance to the invention; (ii) the compositional and functional interrelations of the components of the invention or of the invention as a whole with inventions in patents referenced by citations; (iii) the relevance of the components computed from the analysis of the independent and dependent claims; (iv) similarity-oriented generalization of components extracted from patents in the given collection with respect to their functionality, material, design, etc.; (v) contrasting components extracted from patents in the given collection with respect to their functionality, material, design, etc.; (vi) temporal, geographic, or thematic concept distributions from patent collections on varying levels of abstraction; (vii) patent priorities in the case that a given patent (application) draws upon a number of existing patents or a patent has been split into several patents; (viii) citations across patents in a given patent collection. The interactive assessment features will be realized as a Visual Analytics application.

Keywords: semantics,conceptual map,visual analytics,content analysis,interactive user involvement
Novel Electron Beam Surface Sculpting for Efficient Heat Exchange (HEATSCULPTOR)

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: Cyprus,United Kingdom,Belgium,Italy,Bulgaria
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1336368.2
EU funding (EUR): 1029000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

By combining a new surface engineering process with state-of-the-art thermal modelling, significant design and performance improvements to heat exchangers for electronic and electrical systems can be made. The surface designs created will not only provide an increase in surface area (allowing for smaller size heat exchanger packaging), but also enable ‘designed’ flow over a surface (which will enhance its heat transfer potential). These benefits will place a consortium of SMEs in a position to compete against competition from countries with cheaper labour overheads and the potential for charging a price premium for specialised systems, increasing their profitability and generating value in the EU economy. There is a drive towards miniaturisation of electronic devices as well as requirements for higher power applications. The size of the heat exchangers necessary is the limiting factor for package size. By combining a European surface processing technology with complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, heat exchange surfaces will be customised and optimised. The result will be optimised, efficient heat exchangers for the next generation of electronic devices. Conventional heat exchanger manufacturing processes are extensively developed and only small future efficiency improvements are likely to arise. The Heat-Sculptor project will generate an enabling technology that will increase the performance of heat exchangers by >23%. Until now, designs have been constrained by production technologies e.g. machining or chemical etching. The new electron beam surface engineering process, Surfi-Sculpt®, has the capability to rapidly create complex ‘Heat-Sculptor’ surface geometries that are not possible with existing techniques.

Keywords: computational fluid dynamics,modelling,new surface engineering process,complex surface geometries
Gravitational Wave Initial Training Network (GRAWITON)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3670303.56
EU funding (EUR): 3670303.56
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The GraWIToN project aims to train 13 ESRs in the gravitational wave search field. This research field is in an impressive expansion period, thank to a new generation of detector under installation in these years, to the promise of the exciting discovery in 5 years from now of this kind of signal, predicted in the General Relativity of Einstein, to the enlarging of the world wide scientific community, with new actors coming from emerging countries and thanks to the boosting action due to the Einstein Telescope project, previously supported by the European Commission with the FP7-Design Study tool. The ESRs will be embedded in this exciting research environment and will be trained in the cutting edge technologies adopted in the Gravitational Wave detectors. Complex optical apparatuses, high power and low noise lasers, high reflective coatings, optical simulation and modelling using parallel computing systems are the crucial technologies used in gravitational wave detectors that are extremely interesting in the industrial sector, as highlighted by the participation of 3 private companies as full participants and one as associated partner. The multidisciplinary aspect is completed by the astrophysics training, fundamental for a future researcher in this field, and by an expressly multidisciplinary module, addressed to the management and outreaching skills. The participation to this project of research institutes and universities will guarantee the possibility for the ESR to achieve to doctorate degree.

Keywords: gravitational wave,optics,astrophysics,laser
Intelligent and easy tool to categorise and characterise flour quality for consumer-driven wheat baked goods in European SME-bakery and cereal sector (FLOURPLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Spain,France,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1941792.3
EU funding (EUR): 1375701.8
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The FLOURplus proposal was initiated by concerned SMEs and industrial associations that have realized the fluctuations in wheat quantity and quality due to the progressing climate change. Their aim is to finally tackle the core problem of the increasingly varying, non-detectable and thus incontrollable flour quality – being aware that this requires a European-wide sector-solution supported throughout both, milling and bakery sector. The proposed project will deliver a modern and smart process control system (FLOURplus system) which enables to accurately determine the flour quality and to counterbalance varying qualities throughout the main processing steps and quality determining stages (fermentation, proofing, selection of yeast and other ingredients) in manufacturing. The pilot implementation will be performed on widely consumed white bread loaves (large volume product) and rolls (small volume). The system will be ready-to-use for more resource-efficiency and production safety in various scale manufacturing systems, and it will be ready to directly connect to existing and innovative analytical tools and processing equipment and to expand to further products for optimal market penetration. The proposing associations aim to further use the generated knowledge on versatile processing opportunities and correlated product quality and consumer preferences to support specifically their SME members by providing hands-on advice and training on how to manufacture custom-tailored core products to improve SME competitiveness in the market via quality properties (product appearance, sensory) rather than price-competition.

Keywords: functionality of pcd & src,end-user specifications & market desires,flour characteristic innovative fermentation technologies,ai and machine learning,scalable clustering algorithms consumer needs
Demonstration of an adaptable structure for architecture applications (HYPERMEMBRANE-DEMO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1774650.3
EU funding (EUR): 1046000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The HyperMembrane consists on a system of a Physical and Digital elements that will allow a shape adaptable construction system –and its procedure to put in shape- able to generate multiple and non-predetermined shapes, modifiable regarding to different spatial, solar or energetic requirements.- Physical HyperMembrane is an amazingly shape-adaptable selfsupporting structure (roof, façade,…) able to stand in different equilibrium positions depending on the structure that the end user needs. Its formal articulation is based on elastic properties of thermoplastic composites, the innovative shape of its beams and the different elongation of the connecting elements (so called actuators). The capacity for shape adaptation of this system is such that two slightly different applications are envisaged: static structures (for complex geometry curved structures) and mobile structures (for structures that change shape throughout the life of the building). This project proposal is only researching and developing the technology required for the first type of applications due to time and budget restrictions. However, the results of this project are crutial for the implementation of the second application.- Digital HyperMembrane is the software for architectonic design that incorporates the code of the procedure to put the HyperMembrane in shape. It will enable to model the complex geometry structures that the PH is able to reproduce and will deliver necessary position for each actuator in order to achieve the desired shape. The main research branches of the project are concentrated under automatic structure design and modelization, composites for adaptable constructions and new light and safe actuators for positioning and clamping the adaptable structure. The end-product will be tested on prototype specimens in a real architectonic structure erected in Barcelona.
Autonomous Reed Bed Installations (ARBI)

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: Romania,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1527485.8
EU funding (EUR): 1188000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Subsurface-flow constructed wetlands have become a very popular cost effective and green technology for treatment of waste water throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Original predictions over the longevity of constructed wetlands were approximately 50 -100 years (Conley et al 1991). However, it has become disappointingly apparent that these systems are clogging and have on average a lifetime of less than 10 years (Griffin et al 2008). Currently when a wetland becomes clogged, the whole site has to be refurbished and the reeds regrown, which takes several years and has significant economic consequences for the operators. Our project ARBI aims to develop and trial an Autonomous Reed Bed Installation containing a magnetic resonance probe, can be deployed in several locations within a wetland to give measurements at different depths. By measuring the relaxation times of MR, sufficient information can be obtained to determine the clog state of the gravel bed of a wetland. This would enable the operators to isolate those areas of the bed where the problem resides and make a partial intervention, without the need to remove and re-plant the whole reed bed. When the system is developed, we will have potential for application in other water treatment systems based on subsurface flows like: slow rate sand filters, and river bank filtration. The project will have major benefits for those organisations who would like to install reedbeds but have resisted doing because of concerns over performance and maintenance costs. These will increase the potential size of the market for reedbed installers and benefit the SMEs in the consortium who currently are operating in a constrained market which has not achieved its true potential.

Keywords: autonomous reed bed installation,nmr
Sensor Based Detection of Implant Loosening in Total Hip Replacements (SMART-HIP)

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: Estonia,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Germany,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1448270.67
EU funding (EUR): 1085000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Ageing, sedentary behaviour,and obesity are predictors of osteoarthritis, and the combination of arthritis and obesity causes an undue stress on joints, and when conservative treatments no longer yield a satisfactory response, joint replacement becomes necessary. Despite the standardized procedures, a significant share of total joint replacements fail because the prosthesis becomes loose or because of osteolysis, and the prosthesis must be replaced. Bone loosening is usually diagnosed by radiography and clinical symptoms, but pre-operative radiographic diagnosis of loosening has a sensitivity of 80%, and a considerable number of revision surgeries is not necessary because loosening of the total joint replacement was diagnosed false positively.Currently clinically applied methods of assessing implant fixation and implant loosening are of sub-optimal precision, leading to unsecure indication of revision surgery and late recognition of bone defects.To solve this technology gap, the SMART-HIP goal is to develop a new intelligent hip prosthesis, enabling timely and accurately diagnosis of bone loosening, thus allowing for a fast and reliable support to the orthopaedists while deciding upon revision surgery of joint replacements.The final SMART-HIP system will be composed of two fundamental sub-systems:A) The Intelligent Prosthesis, whose basic component will be the Oscillator Unit consisting of a magnetic or magnetisable body which is fixed on a flat steel spring, which will enable to perform an acoustic-mechanical analysis of the variation of the resonance frequencies of total joint replacements, correlating them with the loosening status of the bone.B)The Diagnostic Device, which is placed outside the patient’s body and used during the clinical test to excite the oscillator.This excitation within the implant bending modes leads to a sound emission to the surrounding bone and soft tissue, which can be detected by a vibration sensor, which is applied outside the patient.

Keywords: prosthesis,pre-operative radiographic diagnosis,diagnosis of bone loosening,diagnostic device,osteoarthritis