Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Enable power technologies on 300mm wafer diameter (EPT300)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ENIAC (Art-185)
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,Austria,Germany,France,Netherlands,Italy,Germany,Netherlands
Call:  (ENIAC-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2012-04-01
End date: 2015-03-01
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 43654819.0
EU funding (EUR): 7290356.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

EPT 300 aims to be a decisive step forward to strengthen Europe’s leading position in power semiconductor technologies and More-than-Moore manufacturing capabilities relating to energy efficient electronic solutions. Power semiconductor devices fabricated in a European leading pilot line for 300mm wafer production are the scope of the project, for which manufacturing excellence, cost competitiveness and challenging applications are critical boundary conditions. The project will thus address challenges in the research on process technologies, production technologies and handling and automation for advanced power technologies based on 300mm wafers: • Wafer substrate materials for 300mm diameter thin wafers for power applications • New process capabilities and technology approaches • Enabling of processing equipment with capabilities specially derived from the requirements of manufacturing power devices on thin 300mm wafers • Handling and automation concepts for thin wafer and special requirements of More-than-Moore fabrication lines • Coexistence strategies for integrated multi-wafer-diameter manufacturing • Application requirements for demonstrator application and corresponding quality requirement profiles With the intended research it is planned to achieve the realization of demonstrators in a pilot line and to demonstrate the readiness for production in large scale production environment based on selected products and technologies. The demonstrator will be verified in a fully functional energy efficient power application. By this project, the base toward future enhancements in power technologies will be made. With the help of EPT300, the European semiconductor manufacturing and the European equipment & materials industries will be the worldwide first with a 300mm power semiconductor processing line dedicated to power device production. By this, EPT300 will be an important step towards realizing leading edge manufacturing capabilities in Europe.

Keywords: 300mm power semiconductor technologies,materials,equipment,energy efficient products
DEVELOPMENT OF A MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SMALL SIZE COMPLEX-SHAPED STRUCTURAL AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS (COMPAIR)

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: Czechia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Spain,United Kingdom,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2014-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1291702.0
EU funding (EUR): 958596.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The manufacturing of plastic mouldings and assemblies is today dominated by low labour regions. This has led to a fall in the European SME market share for moulded components during the last 10 years. European SMEs within this segment need to develop more innovative products and manufacturing processes to be competitive in the market. One of the industries using increasing volumes of plastic and composite parts is the aircraft industry. We propose to develop a novel manufacturing technology using the benefits of carbon fibre as reinforcement and a high performance thermoplastic as the matrix material utilising the high processing speed of injection moulding. The output of this project will be a new technology for making thermoplastic mouldings reinforced with inserted carbon fibre preforms. This will enable the aircraft industry to enhance functionality and reduce environmental impact through weight saving (replacing denser metal parts) leading to lower fuel consumption. The potential to use thermoplastic components that are easily recyclable provides an additional incentive. The use of injection moulding as a relatively rapid production process will provide up to 30% cost reduction. The project offers European SMEs an opportunity to develop high value manufacturing capabilities that can compete with low labour cost economies. We have identified the civil aircraft industry as the primary market for the new technology. We also expect to be able to produce lightweight advanced structural parts for the gas and oil, transport and automotive sectors. We estimate the market opportunity, by penetrating the primary market for the first five years after the project, is equal to €147M of revenue from sales and licensing of the technology. The initial market strategy will be to concentrate on the EC market, where the consortium has a strong market presence and a clear route to market through the partnership with Airbus.

Keywords: injection moulding,carbon-fibre
The Gauge/Gravity Duality and Geometry in String Theory (GAUGE/GRAVITY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1253098.0
EU funding (EUR): 1253098.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

While the three sub-atomic forces are described by quantum mechanics, the fourth known force, gravity, is described by Einstein's theory of general relativity. These two very successful theories are incompatible, and understanding how to unify them in a single framework is an outstanding problem. String theory is the most prominent candidate for a unified theory of all forces of Nature. The most important conceptual breakthrough that emerged from string theory is Maldacena's conjectured duality between quantum field theory and gravity, known as AdS/CFT correspondence. This states that strings moving in anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time, may equivalently be described by a type of quantum theory, called conformal field theory (CFT). More generally, it is a remarkable duality between quantum gauge theories in d dimensions and gravitational theories in (d+1)-dimensional space-times, implying that quantum theory and gravity, instead of being conflicting, are in fact equivalent. In this project I will aim at extending the gauge/gravity duality in multiple directions, which go beyond the current state of the art. In order to achieve a deeper understanding of the gauge/gravity duality I plan to develop novel mathematical approaches, that are likely to lead to new research directions in different areas of physics and mathematics. More specifically, the objectives of this project include: a systematic study of AdS backgrounds arising in string theory as a method for exploring CFTs; the development of geometric structures, such as generalised Sasaki-Einstein geometry, relevant for the AdS/CFT correspondence; a study of supersymmetric gauge theories on curved manifolds and of their gravity duals; a study of dualities between pairs of gauge theories and of related matrix models arising from localisation techniques; exploring the gauge/gravity duality as a tool for studying strongly interacting quantum critical phenomena, such as those that are of interest to real-world physics.

Keywords: string theory,gauge theory,supersymmetry,ads/cft correspondence
Rapid Aptamer based diagnostics for bacterial meningitis (RAPTADIAG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2975066.82
EU funding (EUR): 2174503.25
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of this proposal is to develop a fast and cost-effective diagnostic tool for bacterial meningitis, i.e. the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis in cerebrospinal fluid. Kits, consisting of disposable sensing chips and separate detector units, will be developed. The tool shall be low priced and easy to use so that health workers with limited analytical training can employ the kits in the field The tool shall lead to a faster diagnosis, speeding up a targeted antibiotics treatment, thus improving the survival chances of the patient, while facilitating the identification of the infection source and the isolation of individuals, in order to halt the epidemics The main project novelty is the use of aptamer receptors. Aptamers have several advantages over conventional antibodies e.g. significantly lower price, fast development and increased stability. Three sensor technologies will be developed aiming to obtain at least one commercial product by the end of the project. All technologies share the same aptamers and surface activation of the active area. The project success depends on a tight and well-planned collaboration between partners. Partner 1 will develop the S. pneumoniae and N. meningitidis aptamers, and will provide already available micro-organism specific aptamers for parallel sensor development. The near-market technology is evanescent fluorescence, already commercialised by Partner 2. Adaptation of the aptamers and of the Eva-Sensor Chip, will be done and validated in collaboration with Partners 1 & 3. Partner 1 will develop sensors based on microelectromechanical systems and liquid crystals. Either of these–acoustic and volumetric– technologies have, with limited commercial success, been used with molecular targets. Compared hereto targeting micro-organisms generate amplified signals. Partner 3 will design the fluidic chip incorporating the sensor. The resulting system will be commercialised by Partners 2 & 3

Keywords: meningitis,diagnosis,aptamers,biosensor,evanescent excitation,liquid crystals,mems,fish,elisa,lab-on-chip
ASSURED Point-of-Care Device for Syphilis and HIV in Pregnant Women and New Born (PREVENTIT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 47.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2768577.63
EU funding (EUR): 2097373.0
Participants: 6
Project status: TERMINATED

The incidence of mother to child transmission of syphilis and HIV is still increasing and these infections are major cause of early death and severe morbidity of the young infant. Most case of congenital syphilis and HIV infection occur in hard to reach populations. The availability of an affordable and patient and user friendly point-of-care test that allows same day testing and treatment would save many newborn lives. We intend to develop, validate and start manufacturing of a complete new and innovative concept of a versatile multi-analyte device for the diagnosis of congenital syphilis and HIV co-infections. Equipped with a simple portable reader for transmission and central information storage epidemiological information may be collected and analysed to guide active surveillance and prevention programs. The market for point-of-care test is rapidly growing and the development of this device will allow the participating SMEs to increase their research capacity and to strengthen and expand their market position. Potential this multi-analyte assay will also find other applications such as in the diagnosis of infectious diseases that are in the same differential diagnosis, testing of drugs of abuse and combinations of tumor markers.

Keywords: congenital,hiv,syphilis,gender,point-of-care,prevention,morbity,death,diagnostics,mother-to-child
Rapid Identification of Respiratory Tract Infections (RID-RTI)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Ireland,France,Finland
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7752692.5
EU funding (EUR): 5997737.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Respiratory Tract Infections (RTIs) are caused by a variety of bacterial, viral, fungal and other pathogens. RTIs are major causes of morbidity and mortality in adults and children worldwide causing millions of deaths each year. RTIs affecting the lung parenchyma (pneumonia) can be classified into three main categories: Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP); Hospital Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) which includes Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP); and opportunistic pathogens causing pneumonia in immunosuppressed patients (Opportunistic RTIs or ORTIs). RTIs are difficult to diagnose accurately and current standard microbiological culture based tests are laborious and time consuming with a turnaround time to results > 30 hours. Thus, all ill patients presenting with CAP, HAP, VAP or ORTIs are initially treated empirically with antibiotics, without an accurate identification of the causative microorganism and associated antibiotic susceptibility profile. This leads to inappropriate use of antibiotics, which can increase patient morbidity and mortality. Therefore, there is a great need for rapid molecular diagnostics tests capable of identifying a large range of microorganisms and antibiotic resistances rapidly and accurately so that appropriate therapy can be instituted on first consultation. Accurate pathogen identification and resistance profiling is also important for the epidemiological surveillance of pneumonia. The aims of the RiD-RTI project are (through a unique partnership of SMEs, universities and hospitals from 4 countries) to develop and evaluate three diagnostics products for the rapid diagnosis of CAP, HAP/VAP and ORTIs, based on a novel “sample-in, answer-out” diagnostic platform. The diagnostics products will be designed to be ‘near patient’, reliable, cost-effective and user friendly allowing for the rapid (< 2 hrs) and accurate detection, identification, quantification (for selected targets) and molecular drug susceptibility testing of RTIs.

Keywords: respiratory tract infections,diagnostics,pcr,rt-pcr,multiplex pcr,microarray,sample-in answer-out,near patient,molecular drug susceptibility testing
Development of a handheld antimalarial drug resistance diagnostic device using nanowire technology (NANOMAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Translating research for human health
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2, 2012)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5236310.8
EU funding (EUR): 3992150.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Malaria is a global health priority that has been targeted for elimination in recent years. Attaining the goals that define elimination of malaria in different countries depends critically on provision of effective antimalarials and further that these antimalarials are used appropriately in individual patients. Drug resistance is a major threat to malaria control and has important global public health implications. Over the past decades the genetic bases for resistance to most of the antimalarial classes currently in use has become defined. For some drugs and combinations, these mutations are the most important predictors of treatment failure. This proposal will innovate new technologies to confirm malaria diagnosis and detect drug resistance in malaria parasites by analysis of mutations in nucleic acids, using nanowire technology, and will result in the development of a simple, rapid and affordable point-of-care handheld diagnostic device. The device will be useful at many levels in malarial control by: 1. Optimising individual treatments for patients 2. Assessing the epidemiology of drug resistance in malaria endemic areas 3. Assessing population impacts of antimalarial interventions The development programme capitalises on highly original and proprietary advances made by QuantuMDx in the field of point-of-care diagnostics. This is complemented by academic expertise that has made major contributions to the understanding of antimalarial drug resistance mechanisms in laboratory models, as well as parasites obtained directly from patients. The impact of this proposal can be extended rapidly to other established and emerging infectious diseases.

Keywords: diagnostic device,malaria,antimalarial drug,resistance,mutations,single nucleotide polymorphism,snp,copy number variation,cnv,point of care,poc,artemisinin-based combination therapies,acts
Two-body dynamics in general relativity: the self-force approach (GSF)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1459268.0
EU funding (EUR): 1459268.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The gravitational two-body problem is a longstanding open problem in General Relativity, dating back to work by Einstein himself in the 1930s. Unlike in Newtonian theory, bound binary orbits in relativity are never periodic: the system loses energy via emission of gravitational waves (GWs), and the two masses gradually inspiral until they merge. The description of this radiative dynamics is extremely challenging, not least due to the non-linearity of Einstein's field equations. The exciting prospects for observing GWs from inspiralling and merging compact binaries using detectors like VIRGO (in Europe) and LIGO (in the US) has renewed interest in this old problem, and provides a modern context to it. The radiative inspiral of compact stars into massive black holes is a key source for low-frequency GW astronomy. The intricate GW signature of such inspirals will allow precision tests of Relativity in its most extreme regime. The inspiral can be modelled within Relativity using semi-analytic perturbation methods: the small object is seen as moving on the background of the large hole, and the problem reduces to computing the back-reaction force, aka "self force", acting on the small object as it interacts with its own gravitational field. My team has been involved in breakthrough research into the nature of the self force in curved spacetime, establishing international leadership in the field. Our main goals in this project are (1) to compute accurate self-forced inspiral trajectories for realistic (spinning) black hole binaries together with theoretical waveforms for GW searches; (2) by means of synergy with post-Newtonian theory and numerical relativity, to inform a universal model of binary inspirals at any mass ratio; and (3) to explore several exotic aspects of the post-geodesic dynamics, including transient resonances in generic inspirals, critical behavior near the capture threshold, and the possible role of the self-force as a "cosmic censor".

Keywords: equation of motion,gravitational waves,black-hole binaries,radiation reaction,gravitational self-force
Two-dimensional colloidal nanostructures - Synthesis and electrical transport (2D–SYNETRA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2012-StG_20111012, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2019-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose to develop truly two-dimensional continuous materials and two-dimensional monolayer films composed of individual nanocrystals by the comparatively fast, inexpensive, and scalable colloidal synthesis method. The materials’ properties will be studied in detail, especially regarding their (photo-) electrical transport. This will allow developing new types of device structures, such as Coulomb blockade and field enhancement based transistors. Recently, we demonstrated the possibility to synthesize in a controlled manner truly two-dimensional colloidal nanostructures. We will investigate their formation mechanism, synthesize further materials as “nanosheets”, develop methodologies to tune their geometrical properties, and study their (photo-) electrical properties. Furthermore, we will use the Langmuir-Blodgett method to deposit highly ordered monolayers of monodisperse nanoparticles. Such structures show interesting transport properties governed by Coulomb blockade effects known from individual nanoparticles. This leads to semiconductor-like behavior in metal nanoparticle films. The understanding of the electric transport in such “multi-tunnel devices” is still very limited. Thus, we will investigate this concept in detail and take it to its limits. Beside improvement of quality and exchange of material we will tune the nanoparticles’ size and shape in order to gain a deeper understanding of the electrical properties of supercrystallographic assemblies. Furthermore, we will develop device concepts for diode and transistor structures which take into account the novel properties of the low-dimensional assemblies. Nanosheets and monolayers of nanoparticles truly follow the principle of building devices by the bottom-up approach and allow electric transport measurements in a 2D regime. Highly ordered nanomaterial systems possess easy and reliably to manipulate electronic properties what make them interesting for future (inexpensive) electronic devices.

Keywords: nanostructure synthesis,colloidal chemistry,self-assembly,electrical transport,nanotechnology,physical chemistry