Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
solving CHAllenges in Nuclear DAta (CHANDA)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,Italy,France,Germany,Romania,European organisations area,Slovenia,Finland,Hungary,United Kingdom,Czechia,Netherlands,Greece,Switzerland,Germany,Belgium,Austria,Romania,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Sweden,Norway,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-12-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9237814.64
EU funding (EUR): 5400000.0
Participants: 36
Project status: CLOSED

The CHANDA project main objective is to address the challenges in the field of nuclear data for nuclear applications and its acronym stands for solving CHAllenges in Nuclear DAta The project will prepare a proposal for an organization that will coordinate the nuclear data research program, and the infrastructures and capabilities of the EU Member States in a stable structure, well integrated with R&D coordination tools (EERA, HORIZON 2020) , and with priorities aligned with the SET Plan and the SRAs of the EURATOM Technological Platforms, including the following general objectives: - to provide the nuclear data required for the safe and sustainable operation, and development, of existing and new reactors and nuclear fuel cycle facilities, - to prepare solutions for the challenges risen by the nuclear data measurements needed by nuclear systems, like the data for highly radioactive, short lived or rare materials, - to prepare tools that solve the challenges of quantifying and certifying the accuracy of the results of simulations based on available nuclear data and models (uncertainties), - to identify and promote synergies with other nuclear data applications. Using these tools will allow EU to upgrade the nuclear data up to the level needed by simulation codes to fulfill present requirements. In particular, the simulations should be able to: reduce the number of expensive experimental validations, to support the new tendencies in safety assessments to use best estimate codes to understand the limits of the plat safety towards extreme operational conditions, to optimize safety and performance of present and future reactors and other radioactive facilities. Other applications will benefit from this accuracy in nuclear data, notably in medical applications to optimize performance and minimize dose of radiation for diagnose and treatment.

Keywords: nuclear data safety infrastructures coordination accuracy uncertainties validation usability simulation tools
Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services (GN3PLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands,Austria,Serbia,Slovenia,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Bulgaria,Croatia,Czechia,Cyprus,Germany,Portugal,Italy,Georgia,Greece,Ireland,Estonia,Israel,United Kingdom,Lithuania,Montenegro,Denmark,Poland,Moldova, Republic of,France,Romania,Latvia,Netherlands,Switzerland,Türkiye,Malta,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Denmark,United Kingdom,Germany,Spain,Hungary,Netherlands,Spain,Netherlands,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Belgium,North Macedonia,Luxembourg,Slovakia,Ukraine,Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2013-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 78639642.0
EU funding (EUR): 41800000.0
Participants: 72
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal details activities that will ensure the continued enhancement and ongoing operation of the leading-edge GÉANT network, supporting a range of network and added-value services, targeted at users across the GÉANT service area. In the area of multi-domain network service operation, GN3plus plans to deliver fast, efficient provisioning of advanced services, develop operational support across management domains, and improve security to ensure service integrity and protect network resources. These initiatives will be complemented by the development of application services in a federated environment – such as mobile and wireless roaming – supported by safe and secure Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure. Networking Activities will provide management and support for all GN3plus activities through communication, promotion, international liaison and business development. Emphasis will be placed on supporting and encouraging service take-up among users by working closely with NRENs. GÉANT will increase digital inclusion through closer collaboration between NRENs, exchange of staff and specialist expertise, as well as by seeking synergies between public administrations and the GN3plus partners using their vast, shared knowledge base. Joint Research Activities will be targeted at providing critical analyses of future network and application technologies, with a view to future deployment of emerging technologies within and outside the GÉANT community. The governance model aims to increase effectiveness and user influence. The GN3plus Partners’ Assembly will deal with overall policy and an Executive Board will oversee its implementation. An International User Advisory Committee and External Advisory Committee will ensure users’ views and senior industry and service provider expertise are channelled directly to the Assembly. Specialised Advisory Boards will ensure highly efficient decision making, and that the voice of the stakeholder community is heard.

Keywords: network research academic education nren europe development communications commons innovation multi-domain added-value services federation authentication and authorisation infrastructure emerging tech
Development of an ultrasonic testing technique to characterise diffusion bonds in layered structures (BONDTEST)

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,Belgium,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1400429.03
EU funding (EUR): 1087000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Diffusion bonding offers a number of advantages to a wide range of industry sectors and applications, particularly where there is a need to join dissimilar materials. The main advantage of diffusion bonding is that, unlike welding, it is not a 'fusion' process – it is a solid state process and the parent materials to be joined do not need to be melted. This makes diffusion bonding an ideal solution for joining materials such as metals to ceramics and Aluminium, Titanium, Nickel, Steel etc. Other advantages include near-parent properties, minimal shape change to parts and no post-finishing. The key to successful diffusion bonding lies in choosing process conditions which are appropriate to the circumstances, because the joint needs to form successfully with both parent materials, whilst controlling deformation. Joint intimacy and cleanliness are also critical factors. A reliable NDE method is required for the inspection of the bonds. A non-satisfactory bonding may include voids that will have a negative effect of the integrity of the joint. The challenge in inspecting these bonds is that the joining process will create a multi-layered structure that will complicate the interpretation of the inspection data. In addition to this, the bonding layer will have an irregular surface making most inspection techniques unsuitable. It is anticipated that this issue can be solved by developing a phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) method and Full Matrix Capture (FMC), that combined with a material-based model of the multi-layered structure will give an assessment of the diffusion bonding. The model and the tailored inspection data will then be used in signal processing algorithms to extract features of the bonding layer. The following key stages are needed: • Phased array equipment • Inspection technique development • Material modelling • Signal processing • Full Matrix Capture (FMC) and focussing of the diagnostic region

Keywords: dissimilar metal diffusion bonds,ultrasonic phased array ultrasonic testing,full matrix capture
Cooperation on Chernobyl health research – CO-CHER (CO-CHER)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Radiation protection
Destination: Radiation Protection
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France,Finland,Germany,Belarus,United States,Ukraine,Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1282944.0
EU funding (EUR): 999964.45
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The IARC previously led an EU funded project “Agenda for Research on Chernobyl Health (ARCH)”, the objective of which was to recommend a strategic health research agenda following the Chernobyl accident. The ARCH demonstrated that Chernobyl provides a unique opportunity to answer questions about radiation risks. The multidisciplinary group of experts strongly supported the need for well-designed and coordinated long-term studies. The new initiative emphasises the need to build partnerships with the three countries mainly affected, plus Japan, the USA and European countries in order to take the research agenda forward. The purpose is therefore to bring together both key scientific players and funding partners to decide on the research priorities and to seek sustainable funding for those priority areas. Work under this proposal will be divided into five closely integrated work packages (WPs): WP 1: Coordination and overall management WP 2: International collaboration and agreement on research programme • 2.1: Setting up an International network of research institutes committed to long-term research on Chernobyl • 2.2: Development of Chernobyl Research Programme and timetable WP 3: Assessment of Chernobyl research infrastructures • 3.1: Evaluation of the cohorts of exposed populations suitable to form Chernobyl Life-span cohorts • 3.2: Inventory of dosimetric approaches and existing databases • 3.3: Inventory of stored biological samples WP 4: International collaboration on proposing funding mechanism WP 5: Agreement on coordinating structure and setting-up research framework The CO-CHER project has a potential to develop a sustainable plan for research into the health effects of the Chernobyl accident with optimal use of available resources. It is completely in line with the MELODI initiative for integrated, long term effort in low dose risk research. The coordination action will also open new collaborations outside existing European networks.

Keywords: radiation,low dose,chernobyl,cohort,risk,health,life-span
MyrrhA Research Infrastructure Support Action (MARISA)

Framework: FP7 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Research infrastructure
Destination: Infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Germany,Sweden,Spain,Romania,Italy,Germany,France,Belgium,France,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-Fission-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3413696.38
EU funding (EUR): 3269480.75
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

The MYRRHA project aims to develop and to construct a world-class and first-of-a-kind nuclear research infrastructure. The design and the construction of the MYRRHA facility is particularly challenging since it requires the management of a large number of activities in view of achieving technical excellence in compliance with the project budget and schedule. Accordingly, state-of-the-art project management procedures and instruments have to be defined and implemented taking into account the constraints and the specifics of MYRRHA. The MARISA proposal for a Coordination and Support Action plans to bring the MYRRHA project to a level of maturity required to enable the construction work to start. Work proposed as part of MARISA includes the following main work packages: • Overall coordination. In this work package, management procedures and instruments to oversee the overall coordination of the MYRRHA projects will be defined and developed. • Strategic and consortium planning. As part of this work package, a roadmap will be developed for integrating different national and international initiatives in support of the MYRRHA development. • Legal aspects. In the framework of the MARISA project, the appropriate legal framework for the MYRRHA undertaking will be identified and implemented. The legal framework will be tailored to the composition of the consortium and initiatives will be taken aiming at the implementation of inter-governmental agreements outlining participation in MYRRHA. • Consortium governance. In this work package, appropriate management methods and procedures will be developed and implemented taking into account the particularity and the constraints of innovative projects as MYRRHA. • Financial aspects. In this work package, cost specificities of the project and financing and funding mechanisms will be developed. • Technical coordination work. The technical management of the MYRRHA project as part of MARISA involves coordination and support actions for

Keywords: myrrha,environmental impact,socio-economic impact
New permanent magnets for electric-vehicle drive applications (MAG-DRIVE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Slovenia,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Serbia
Call:  (FP7-SST-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3576526.22
EU funding (EUR): 2549000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The future of road transport is electric - within the foreseeable future, pure electric vehicles (EVs) will populate our roads. Vital to the success of this transition is improved, next-generation motors based on improved magnetic materials; which provide high levels of flux at elevated temperatures, while retaining resistance to reverse magnetic fields and the corrosion problems associated with running electric motors in an automotive application. Currently, these magnets are based on the rare-earth elements neodymium and dysprosium, which are predominantly mined in China (>95%). Exports are being restricted as a result of an expanding domestic market and a policy of relocating magnet manufacturing to China, thereby multiplying the costs of raw materials for magnet manufacturers in Europe. The rare-earth crisis is particularly critical for heavy rare earths such as dysprosium that are currently required to assure the high-temperature performance of magnets. MAG-DRIVE will research and develop novel microstructural-engineering strategies that will dramatically improve the properties of magnets based on light rare-earth elements, especially the coercivity, which will enable them to be used for EV applications above 100°C. These magnets will also be designed-to-recycle, with an emphasis on reducing conventional rare-earth magnets’ need for easily oxidising grain boundaries. The project will integrate these magnets into motors that have increased efficiency, with a system developed by VALEO for integration into their next generation of pure EV motor. The MAG-DRIVE project includes leading research groups from Slovenia, Serbia and the UK, together with SMEs from Slovenia and Germany and VALEO, and will deliver materials and systems with increased energy efficiency over a wide range of temperatures and operating conditions as well as reducing costs and dependency on imports for next-generation electric vehicles.

Keywords: permanent magnet,electric vehicle,sustainable energy
Innovative Digital Preservation using Social Search in Agent Environments (DURAFILE)

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,Romania,France,Estonia,Spain,Spain,Greece,Türkiye
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1501383.69
EU funding (EUR): 1132000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Digital preservation (DP) represents the management of digital information over time to guarantee their accessibility and preserved quality. It includes processes and activities that ensure access to information and all types of records, scientific and cultural heritage that is stored in digital formats. Digital preservation offers assurance that digital information can be accessed continuously at any time and across shifts of technical generations that occur approximately every 5 to 15 years. We propose the DURAFILE platform that can be defined as a platform made by intelligent agents that exchanges dynamic knowledge and information among them (as a type of social search) with the goal of finding suitable preservation plans for obsolete multimedia digital objects. This represents a complete solution for multimedia digital preservation, that is extensible and flexible, always up-to-date as the information it contains is alive and real time accessible. DURAFILE can ensure that their information will remain available in the future, no matter how the technology evolves or current data formats become obsolete. The DURAFILE social features represent a unique approach to digital preservation as the knowledge base grows with its usage. . DURAFILE will improve the competitiveness of the European economy in several ways: 1) Tapping into a huge market potential due to the vast potential user list and exponential growth of digital data 2) First-mover advantage in comparison to non-European countries that are not using DURAFILE. DURAFILE will be available as a) web application to scan the files for professional users, including big institutions or SMEs that need to handle a large amount of information that needs to be preserved, b) downloadable client to scan locally as the most common antivirus systems do, for regular home users who need more than a backup for their multimedia files.

Keywords: digital preservation social search intelligent agents multiagent system gui interfaces
Next Generation Train Control (NGTC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Italy,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Germany,France,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Czechia,Germany,France,France,Canada,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SST-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10770897.64
EU funding (EUR): 6361033.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The main scope of this Next Generation Train Control (NGTC) project is to analyse the commonality and differences of required functionality for mainline and urban lines and develop the convergence of both ETCS and CBTC systems, determining the level of commonality of architecture, hardware platforms, and system design that can be achieved. This will be accomplished by building on the experience of ETCS and its standardised train protection kernel, where the different manufacturers can deliver equipment based on the same standardised specifications and by using the experience the suppliers have gained by having developed very sophisticated and innovative CBTC systems around the world The goal is not to develop a system of ‘one size fits all’, but to make progress for all railway domains in terms of increasing the commonality in system design and hardware, with various benefits like increasing economies of scale for suppliers, and amongst other things for customers increasing the competition between suppliers, based on standardised functions and interfaces. On top of the synergy of both systems, the NGTC project will aim to apply new technologies to the new train control system. Based on worldwide market driven requirements, NGTC proposes research work on Satellite positioning, the further development of IP based radio communication and a system approach to the moving block concept that is inexistent at the moment. If necessary proposed modifications of the ERTMS message structure will be provided, to make it a scalable solution including urban applications, while maintaining the backward compatibility with the Baseline 3 ETCS message specifications

Keywords: standard,synergy,etcs,cbtc,innovations
SELF-HEALING POLYMERS FOR CONCEPTS ON SELF-REPAIRED AERONAUTICAL COMPOSITES (HIPOCRATES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Netherlands,Greece,France,Netherlands,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-1, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3781949.76
EU funding (EUR): 2774148.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

A composite aero-structure with self-repair capabilities will offer durability, extend its service life and prolong maintenance protocols leading to lower aircraft operational costs. Despite the extensive research activities in the area of self-healing resins applied to composite materials, the research for aeronautical applications is currently very limited. To this end, the main objective of HIPOCRATES is the development of self-repair composite materials by transforming widely used resins within aeronautical industry to self-healing materials, facilitating this way the subsequent certification and its related cost. Taking into account the current technological maturity of self-repair, secondary structural composites shall be targeted. The transformation will be done through the epoxy enrichment with appropriate chemical agents, following three main strategies: a) The nano-encapsulation strategy that involves incorporation of nano-encapsulated healing agents and a dispersed catalyst within a polymer matrix, b) The reversible polymers strategy where remediable polymer matrices follow the Diels-Alder chemical reaction rendering damage repairable through triggered reversible cross-linking. c) A combination for the first time of a) and b). For all strategies the current progress of nano-technology will be utilized towards either better facilitation of self-healing process (e.g. nano-carriers) or enhancement of the self-healing performance or integration of other functionalities (e.g. monitoring of the self-healing performance, activation of DA reaction). Impact, fracture and fatigue mechanical tests are envisioned to assess the self-healing efficiency. Manufacturing challenges that arise from incorporating such self-healing thermosetting systems into fibrous composites (pre-preg, infusion/RTM) shall be closely investigated at the early stages of development to ensure the effective transfer of the desired properties to the large scale as required by the industry.

Keywords: maintenance,self-repair,self-healing materials,nano-encapsulation,thermal reversibility