Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe (BASE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Coping with climate change
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Denmark,Germany,Portugal,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Spain,Finland,Italy,Czechia,United Kingdom,Spain,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7555674.25
EU funding (EUR): 5899442.07
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Climate change can disrupt ecological, social and economic systems, with some regions and sectors suffering significantly. Therefore, adaptation plays a paramount role in responding to climate change. Progress has been made, but there are still important obstacles. Knowledge of the benefits and costs of adaptation is sparse, unsystematic and unevenly distributed across sectors and countries. Planning suffers from substantial uncertainties in terms of precise impacts. It is also difficult to reconcile the bottom-up nature of adaptation with top-down strategic policy making on adaptation. To address these challenges BASE will: Improve adaptation knowledge availability, integration and utilization Case studies will be used to understand facilitators of, and barriers to, adaptation. Over 20 cases have been selected to cover the diversity of adaptation, simultaneously paying attention to the need for generalization and comparability. The gap between top-down strategic assessments of costs and benefits and empirical context-sensitive bottom-up analyses will be bridged using novel combinations of models and qualitative analyses. Promote and strengthen stakeholder participation in adaptation BASE will support stakeholder involvement through novel participatory and co-design techniques. Successful bottom-up initiatives will be studied, and the use of knowledge, two-way learning, the role of social media and other awareness raising methods and tools will be explored. Support coherent, multi-level, multi-sector integrated adaptation policies BASE will provide policy guidelines by integrating lessons from past experiences, case studies, insights provided by modeling and stakeholder participation. Issues of multilevel, cross sectoral and inter-temporal governance that are presently weakly tackled will be highlighted. Potential conflicts and synergies of adaptation with other important policies will be explored to overcome constraints caused by context-related inertias.

Keywords: cost-benefit,bottom-up,participation,case-studies,adaptation strategies,sectors,national,regional,local,policy support.
Cradle to cradle sustainable pv modules (CU-PV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Belgium,Netherlands,Israel,Spain,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5436676.02
EU funding (EUR): 4034898.24
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Even though solar power is pollution-free during use, production of solar (PV) modules consumes extensive energy and natural resources. Recycling is hardly considered during module production, and therefore cumbersome and inefficient. The fast growth of the PV-industry entails similarly fast growth in resource consumption with growing production capacity: currently modest amounts can become very high. Hence, Cu-PV aims to minimise the use of critical resources like energy (by reducing silicon consumption and improving conversion efficiency), silver and lead, while simultaneously maximising recycling possibilities: introducing design for recycling in this sector, and collaborating over the value chain for improvements in recycling. Current PV manufacturing puts limitations on reduction of costs and environmental footprint: screen-printed Ag-based metallisation prohibits progress towards phasing out lead and silver consumption and reducing silicon and energy consumption, while module materials prohibit efficient recycling of modules. Cu-PV will develop new metallisation methods based on ink jetting of Ag, Ni, Cu seed layers in WP2 that are plated afterwards with Ni, Cu in WP3, which results in >99% reduction of Ag consumption, enables replacement of silver, and as non-contact metallisation methods enables the use of thin wafers. The solar cell process before metallisation needs to be adjusted (WP1) to be compatible with this metallisation: back contact solar cell design will allow thin wafers and high efficiencies, resulting in 50% Si and 30% PV System energy consumption reduction. The module assembly and interconnection of cells will need to be optimised for the new cell metallisation. Back-contact interconnection will allow completely abandoning the use of lead (WP4), and will be designed, developed, and tested, for recycling (WP5). WP5 will in particular develop and demonstrate alternatives for the current practice of destruction of PV modules at end of life.

Keywords: pv modules,recycling,solar cells,reduce silver,lead-free
Operational Radar For Every drill string Under the Street (ORFEUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,France,Germany,Ireland,France,United Kingdom,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3504659.79
EU funding (EUR): 2536767.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) offers significant benefits for urban environments by minimising the disruption caused by street works. Use of the technique demands an accurate knowledge of underground utility assets and other obstructions in the drill path. This proposal is to progress the prototype HDD bore-head radar technology developed under the project ORFEUS to a commercial stage. ORFEUS (“Optimised Radar to Find Every Utility in the Street”) was a 6th Framework collaborative research project. One of its aims was to design a prototype innovative ground probing radar (GPR) based real-time obstacle detection system to increase the safety margins of HDD to allow its use in the widest possible range of conditions. A successful outcome was a working, rigorously tested, prototype “bore-head GPR”. Most of the objectives of ORFEUS were fulfilled, with results in crucial areas giving confidence to carry out further development to produce a commercial system. Unresolved technical issues requiring further work are associated with the optimum antenna configuration and electrical/mechanical interface to the disposable drill head; identification and validation of the most effective bore-head GPR data processing algorithms; validation of performance, and ruggedisation of the data communication link; validation of performance, and ruggedisation of the connector systems. Extensive testing and validation, as well as supporting the demonstration and exploitation of the final product, is proposed. The crucial testing and evaluation phase will assess the risks, confirm environmental benefits and increase end users’ (public authorities and industry) confidence, awareness and uptake of this new technology. Technology transfer, training and standardisation, in cooperation with European standards organisations, will also be a significant element of the project.

Keywords: damage prevention,safety,buried assets,horizontal directional drilling,sensing tool
INNOVATIVE POPLAR LOW DENSITY STRUCTURAL PANEL (I-PAN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Improving resource efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Greece,Germany,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4107915.0
EU funding (EUR): 2914775.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The I-PAN project aims to design a breakthrough wood-made lightweight panel, adopting 50% of its volume recycled wood and for the remaining 50% poplar wood by using the upper part of the tree that is commonly underused. To this purpose, a novel manufacturing process is designed and innovation to existing resins is defined in order to require less energy during the drying and pressing process, minimizing VOC emission and reducing the overall cost of production. In order to reach this goal, the following specific objectives are addressed : 1) Save energy in key production steps and thus highly reduce CO2 emissions 2) Research on suitable existing glue to be employed in the manufacturing phase, in order to reduce the use of toxic or harmful solvents and contaminants to be inhaled or to contaminate the air. 3) recycling 50% of the wood and without wasting the upper parts of the poplars, thus highly reducing the pressure on primary raw materials.

Keywords: poplar,structural panel,resin,blend,drying,mat forming,strand,wood,osb
SUPerconducting, Reliable, lightweight, And more POWERful offshore wind turbine (SUPRAPOWER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,Slovakia,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Italy,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-12-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5152069.37
EU funding (EUR): 3891058.46
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

SUPRAPOWER is a research project focused on a major innovation in offshore wind turbine technology by developing a new compact superconductor-based generator. The project aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind industrial solutions by designing an innovative, lightweight, robust and reliable 10 MW class offshore wind turbine based on a superconducting (SC) generator, taking into account all the essential aspects of electric conversion, integration and manufacturability. Today’s geared as well as direct-drive permanent magnet generators are difficult to scale up further. Their huge size and weight drives up the cost of both fixed and floating foundations as well as O&M cost. New solutions to provide better power scalability, weight reduction and reliability are needed. Superconductivity may be the only technology able to combine such features and allow scaling to 10 MW and beyond by radical reduction of the head mass. SUPRAPOWER will pursue the following general objectives: • To reduce turbine head mass, size and cost of offshore wind turbines by means of a compact superconducting generator. • To reduce O&M and transportation costs and increase life cycle using an innovative direct drive system. • To increase the reliability and efficiency of high power wind turbines by means of drive-train specific integration in the nacelle. Starting from an already patent-applied concept, the coordinator has assembled a top-class European consortium from 7 countries. Industrial partners are a wind turbine manufacturer, an energy company, an SME superconducting wire developer, a cryogenic systems supplier, and an offshore engineering company. In addition to the coordinator, research partners are a large laboratory with deep experience in superconductivity, a university and a national institute. The main outcome of the project will be a proof of concept for a key European technology to scale wind turbines up to power levels of 10MW and beyond

Keywords: superconductivity,superconducting generator,wind turbine,reliable,robust,lightweight,powerful,offshore,direct-drive,cryogenics,fixed floating platform.
Safety Testing Approaches for Large Lithium-Ion battery systems (STALLION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Switzerland,Netherlands,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2800006.69
EU funding (EUR): 1964242.9
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The STALLION project develops and validates a safety framework for large stationary Lithium Ion batteries in all stages of their life cycle (commissioning, transport, installation, operation, maintenance, repair, decommissioning, recycling). It offers a unique approach by relating safety issues to root causes at all levels of the system (material, cell, module, pack, system). This two-axis safety assessment approach - all stages of the life cycle and all levels of the system - is experience-based through the involvement of partners active at all levels of the system and an advisory board consisting of organizations with experience in the application. This guarantees a thorough covering of all relevant cross-cutting issues. The project will also establish the state of the art in the relevant technological areas like materials, cell architecture and detection methods. Based on this benchmark that will be available in the market of large stationary battery systems in coming years, mitigation measures will be defined to deal with the identified risks and bring the system within the previously defined safe boundaries. All measures developed will be validated empirically. Laboratory tests on both safety and performance will be executed on materials and cells. Through our partners and Advisory Board, several large, commissioned grid-connected batteries are available for analysis at the system level. The gap between the cell level and the system level is covered by modeling the safety and thermal behavior. Results will lead to a handbook on comprehensive and generic safety measures for large grid connected batteries. Through the standardization organizations in our AB, this handbook will be proposed to the relevant standardization bodies and it will be actively distributed to industry. STALLION will contribute to the standardization framework for large-scale Li-ion battery testing and to a faster and safer deployment of Li-ion Batteries for grid application.

Keywords: grid connected battery risks assessment safety framework standardisation life cycle assessment lithium ion value chain integration
IntegratinG Renewables in the EuropEaN Electricity Grid (IGREENGRID)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,France,Spain,Germany,Austria,Spain,Italy,Greece,Austria,Austria
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6623351.8
EU funding (EUR): 4336217.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

IGREENGrid focuses on increasing the hosting capacity for Distributed Renewable Energy Sources (DRES) in power distribution grids without compromising the reliability or jeopardizing the quality of supply. Based on the experience of six world class DRES integration Demo Projects in low & medium voltage grids (led by some of EEGI members; Distribution System operators –DSOs-) and other EU initiatives in this field, the main final result will be a set of guidelines: Most promising solutions, Recommendations for appropriate integration of small & medium size variable DRES in distribution grids, Methodologies and tools, Criteria to establish hosting capacity and to manage curtailment procedures, and Technical requirement to DRES, equipment manufacturers & technology providers IGREENGrid is the first analytical approach according to functional Demo Projects defined in the Roadmap and Implementation plan developed by EEGI. The assessment will include in the scope the following main functions: DRES connection; Evaluation framework defined according EEGI KPIs; Distribution system balancing: ancillary services, operation criteria, reverse power flows and active demand management, storage, curtailing, smart metering; Signaling: data exchange with DRES and consumption, signals among sensors, metering; Simulation & Evaluation environment Strong coordination with EEGI, GRID+ project and other relevant initiatives will be established during the Project to receive appropriate feedback and to maximize the project impact. Beside, IGREENGrid encourages sharing knowledge and promoting the best practices identifying potential solutions in Demo Projects for the effective integration of DRES and validating them via simulation in other environments to assess the scalability and replicability at EU level (technical, regulatory and economic assessment).

Keywords: der dres dso integration distributed variable renewable energy electricity distribution operation engineering ner3000 set eegi edso4sg
Modular Development Plan of the Pan-European Transmission System 2050 (E-HIGHWAY2050)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Smart energy networks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Norway,France,Portugal,Belgium,Italy,Germany,Czechia,United Kingdom,Spain,Belgium,Netherlands,Poland,United Kingdom,Poland,Germany,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13045672.54
EU funding (EUR): 8990672.0
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

Eight Transmission System Operators (BE, CZ, FR, DE, IT, PT, CH, PL) and ENTSO-E, together with 4 associations of technology manufacturers, and 16 RTD performers propose a 3-year R&D project to develop and to apply a methodology for the long-term development of the Pan-European transmission network. The project aims at delivering a top-down methodology to support the planning from 2020 to 2050. First, it implements a set of future power scenarios, including generation units, the possible use of electricity storage and demand-side management solutions: scenarios for power localization are proposed with assumptions on the energy mix in each of the connected clusters covering the ENTSO-E area. Network studies are performed to detect the weak points when implementing the scenarios for 2050. Grid architectures options and a modular development plan are then proposed, including electricity highways, on the basis of power flow calculations, network stability analysis, socio-economic, network governance considerations, and with remarks from the consultation of European stakeholders. In parallel, an advanced planning methodology is designed, developed and tested with academic laboratories to address a few critical aspects of the above planning methodology, which may impact the robustness of the resulting architectures. This enhanced approach takes into account the correlated uncertainties in renewable generation and consumption, potential voltage and stability issues, and black-out risks including the feasibility of defence plans to avoid uncontrolled cascading failures of the candidate architectures. It includes the use of non-linear detailed models of power grids and stochastic optimization techniques. The dissemination is coordinated by ENTSO-E to reach the widest audience and to prepare the exploitation of the results. Standardization and complementary research efforts are pointed out for the future investment optimization with the support of the manufacturing industry.

Keywords: long term network planning,scenario analysis,network cluster design,electricity highway,grid reinforcement,cost benefit analysis,network governance,public consultation,stochastic optimization
FUture European League 4 Microalgal Energy (FUEL4ME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable fuel production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Israel,Netherlands,Finland,Austria,Spain,Italy,Denmark,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Ireland
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5369514.1
EU funding (EUR): 4014981.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Microalgae are very attractive for the purpose of producing energy-rich molecules as they are photosynthetic organisms that can live in various aqueous environments, such as saline water. This gives them a low water footprint and moreover they do not have to compete with cultivated farmland. Although they are not superior to higher plants concerning photosynthetic efficiency, microalgae do have high growth rates and they provide much higher oil yields than higher plants such as palm, soybean or rapeseed, and do not produce lignocelluloses. Microalgae do not only use sunlight as energy source, but they are also very efficient in using fertilizers and waste streams as nutrient source. They could be used to clean these streams by removal of nitrogen and phosphate and use flue gas as source for carbon dioxide. The potential of microalgae is clear but the technology for producing biofuels from microalgae is still immature. In order to make microalgae as a source for biofuels competitive with fossil fuels, it is important to reduce operational costs and to achieve a positive energy balance (fossil energy input is higher than energy output). The overall aim of FUEL4ME is to establish a sustainable chain for continuous biofuel production using microalgae as a production platform, thereby making 2nd generation biofuels competitive alternatives to fossil fuels. This will be achieved by: 1) Transforming the current 2-step process for algal biomass production into a continuous 1-step process with high lipid content (production process); 2) Development of a continuous downstream process using all components of the algal biomass (conversion process); 3) Integration of production and conversion process. After setting up and proof of concept within controlled indoor conditions, the continuous process will be tested outdoors under real production conditions in four different regions (NL, IL, IT ES). Simultaneous with research on biomass production, a continuous downstream process will be developed. Finally the whole process (both biomass production and conversion into biofuel) will be integrated and subjected to an economic analysis and life cycle analysis. Partners in this project are: DLO-Food&Biobased Research, DLO-Plant Research International, Wageningen University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Fotosintetica & Microbiologica S.r.l. BioTopic, Norsker Investigaciones, Proviron, Evodos B.V., PDX, Cellulac, FeyeCon Carbon Dioxide Technologies BV, Neste Oil, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, IDConsortium S.L.

Keywords: microalgae,biofuels,one step process,lipid productivity,energy balance,production costs,integrated process