Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Support in Preparation of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report (IPCCAR5)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Horizontal activities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-Adhoc-2007-13, 2007)
Start date: 2011-08-15
End date: 2015-02-14
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3373000.0
EU funding (EUR): 600000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the key global climate science-policy interface, underpinning European and international climate policy making and is the leading body responsible for the scientific assessment of climate change. In preparation of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, support will be provided to increase the participation of experts from EU countries whose governments are unable to provide appropriate funding, consistent with IPCC practices and from developing countries to the IPCC process and enhance visibility of the IPCC goals in Europe.

Keywords: cliamte change physical science,impact,adaptation and vulnerability,mitigation of climate change
Electrochemical WAter treatment system in the dairy industry with hydroGEN REcovery and electricity production (REWAGEN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Italy,United Kingdom,Portugal,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011-ECO-INNOVATION-TwoStage, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6103778.35
EU funding (EUR): 4632809.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is the development of a prototype of a water treatment system -based on the sequential combination of three technologies: electrocoagulation, electrooxidation and a technology for the recovery of generated hydrogen for energy saving and the reutilization of the resulting regenerated water for different applications - more efficient in terms of wastewater treatment and self-sustaining in terms of energy needs. The idea is to develop a wastewater treatment system aiming at closing the water cycle, by integrating energy and water management, where the electricity generated through the hydrogen conversion is used to keep the system working and the extracted residues from the waste water treatment are reused inside the food and dairy production process to cover different needs. Therefore, the project would develop a system with technologies that have still not been jointly developed together with hydrogen recovery. The hydrogen generation from EC or EO systems for electricity production to be completely used to feed the wastewater system has not yet been developed. Still lot of research is needed for the generation of hydrogen from these two water treatment technologies It can be stated as a strength that such kind of electrochemical and hydrogen valorisation technologies have not still been jointly considered. As far as we are concerned there is no previous work focused on the recovery of generated hydrogen from EC or EO systems for electricity production, neither in bench-scale nor in real-life. Indeed, the scientific literature does not show any study considering the conversion of this electrochemically generated hydrogen into energy.

Keywords: prototype,water treatment,electrocoagulation,electrooxidation,hydrogen,water cycle
Technologies for Water Recycling and Reuse in Latin American Context: Assessment, Decision Tools and Implementable Strategies under an Uncertain Future (COROADO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Netherlands,Spain,Portugal,Brazil,Chile,Norway,Switzerland,Argentina,Cyprus,Mexico
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4584166.0
EU funding (EUR): 3411507.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

In order to be able to maximize the benefits from reuse and recycling technologies projects a larger systemic analysis of the environment is needed, an enlargement of the traditional narrow planning and management approaches, and a growing sensitivity to decision-making associated with multi-objective, multi-purpose actions and multi uses parameters. However, the problem is not centered on the lack of treatment techniques and technologies, but rather on how such schemes may become more efficient and implementable. COROADO will both develop new and adapt existing concepts and operational frameworks and produce a web-based toolbox for reuse and recycling technologies in the context of integrated water resources management, taking into account long-lasting changes, and at the same time addressing environmental and ecosystem integrity. Climate change and water scarcity in relation with the pertinent technologies will also be addressed. Thus, COROADO would focus on: a) Developing tools for analyzing reuse and recycling technologies and trade-offs b) Addressing non-linearity and resilience c) Promoting and organizing active participation of stakeholders and capacity building efforts. The web based Communication, Capacity Building and Research Tool will present a richer menu of options from assessment and planning to implementation, monitoring and evaluation The system will be designed so as to present critical information in an interesting and efficient manner, offering an engaging learning experience. The project will include deliberate efforts to ensure knowledge and capacity exchanges between the project sites, and among Latin American, European and other parts of the world facing similar conditions, by introducing exchanges based on research in the four study sites and generated outcomes with a strong emphasis in dissemination. The effort may develop an understanding of needed transitions of governance and policy systems in order to mainstream such water reuse and recycling technologies implementation, providing a continuous and appropriate set of guidelines, and manuals so that policy relevant standards may be applied by end users and policy makers and after the completion of COROADO, without any further support.

Keywords: water reuse & recycling technologies,sanitation,water resources management,ecosystem,water scarcity,climate change,strategies,policies,guidelines,sustainability,public participation
A Toolbox for Offshore Wind Farm Cluster Design (CLUSTERDESIGN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Renewable electricity generation
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5208988.6
EU funding (EUR): 3582618.7
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Today, an offshore wind farm is merely a collection of wind turbines where the components of an offshore wind farm cluster are optimized but not the overall cluster. In the future, the best-performing wind farms will be designed with an integrated approach. For this purpose, design tools for offshore wind farm clusters must then yield for the overall optimum. This means they must integrate the cluster and grid connection design with new intelligent mechanisms for wind turbine, farm and cluster control already in the design phase. The objective of the project is to develop toolbox for such an integrated offshore wind farm clusters design. In line with the call this is achieved by combination of the following different design optimisation tools elements as advanced wake models, turbine load models, grid interconnection models and by incorporating the operation of the offshore clusters as a virtual offshore power plant. The consortium will depart from existing state of the art models that are further developed within the project. In parallel extensive measurements and data collection is carried out in order to validate the models, to calibrate and further improve them. Furthermore the developed control mechanisms for virtual offshore power plant operation will be tested in existing wind farms to verify that indeed an increase of the overall energy yield, a reduction of load on the single turbines and a flexible operation of the wind farm clusters is achieved.

Keywords: integrated design,wake,turbine load,grid connection,wind farm,wind cluster,virtual power plant
Ecosystem-based strategies and innovations in water governance networks for adaptation to climate change in Latin American Landscapes (ECOADAPT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,Costa Rica,United Kingdom,Austria,Ecuador,Argentina,Bolivia, Plurinational State of,Chile,Spain
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2011, 2011)
Start date: 2012-01-15
End date: 2016-01-14
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2411021.7
EU funding (EUR): 1899000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

International debates on climate change highlight the need to foster adaptation planning in Latin America where significant impacts are expected. However, little progress has been made due to the difficulty of managing environmental dynamics characterized by deep uncertainties and potential tensions at various scales. EcoAdapt is built on the outcomes of two rounds on regional consultation with Latin American civil society organizations (CSO) and scientists. It aims at increasing the capacity of local communities, CSOs, policy-makers and scientists to engage in inter-disciplinary action-research to increase their collective capacity to adapt to climate change. The EcoAdapt CSOs stated that watershed services were the most critical with respect to possible tensions and social conflicts that may arise due to climate change. The EcoAdapt team considers that 1) adaptation to climate change is not something that can be done in isolation, and 2) ecosystem-based management is a robust basis for successful adaptation to climate change in Latin America. Therefore in the project concept, watershed ecosystem services (WES) are mainstreamed in an overall adaptation strategy by a variety of players involved in science-policy-civil society networks across-scales. EcoAdapt will be implemented in “model forest” landscapes in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. Knowledge sharing forms the backbone of the project and provides scientists and policy-makers with an in-depth insight into local knowledge and issues, which will frame the research to be done. Based on this common understanding EcoAdapt will assist communities in developing their WES-based adaptation strategy. This will be achieved by combining exploratory scenario analysis, participatory backcasting, and social validation via hybrid forums. EcoAdapt will implement part of the strategy in pilot communities and build on existing networks for dissemination to other communities of Latin America and Europe.

Keywords: watershed ecosystem services,scenario,participatory,climate change,public debate,adaptation,latin america,chile,argentina,bolivia,community,civil society,science,policy,model forest
Low Emissions Core-Engine Technologies (LEMCOTEC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Sweden,Spain,Czechia,France,Poland,Greece,United Kingdom,France,Russian Federation,Spain,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,Belgium,Czechia,Italy
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2011-RTD-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 67909374.0
EU funding (EUR): 39980815.0
Participants: 39
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the LEMCOTEC project will be the improvement of core-engine thermal efficiency by increasing the overall pressure ratio (OPR) to up to 70 leading to a further reduction of CO2. Since NOx increases with OPR, combustion technologies have to be further developed, at the same time, to at least compensate for this effect. The project will attain and exceed the ACARE targets for 2020 and will be going beyond the CO2 reductions to be achieved by on-going FP6 and FP7 programmes including Clean Sky: 1.) CO2: minus 50% per passenger kilometre by 2020, with an engine contribution of 15 to 20%, 2.) NOx: minus 80% by 2020 and 3.) Reduce other emissions: soot, CO, UHC, SOx, particulates. The major technical subjects to be addressed by the project are: 1.) Innovative compressor for the ultra-high pressure ratio cycle (OPR 70) and associated thermal management technologies, 2.) Combustor-turbine interaction for higher turbine efficiency & ultra-high OPR cycles, 3.) Low NOx combustion systems for ultra-high OPR cycles, 4.) Advanced structures to enable high OPR engines & integration with heat exchangers, 5.) Reduced cooling requirements and stiffer structures for turbo-machinery efficiency, 6.) HP/IP compressor stability control. The first four subjects will enable the engine industry to extend their design space beyond the overall pressure ratio of 50, which is the practical limit in the latest engines. Rig testing is required to validate the respective designs as well as the simulation tools to be developed. The last two subjects have already been researched on the last two subjects by NEWAC. The technology developed in NEWAC (mainly component and / or breadboard validation in a laboratory environment) will be driven further in LEMCOTEC for UHPR core engines. These technologies will be validated at a higher readiness level of up to TRL 5 (component and / or breadboard validation in a relevant environment) for ultra-high OPR core-engines.

Keywords: core-engine,thermal efficiency,reduction of nox and co2,ultra-high pressure ratio cycle,compressor,combustor,turbine,combustor-turbine interaction,heat exchangers,reduced cooling requirements
European Levitated Spherical Actuator (ELSA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Spain,Poland,Belgium,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2011-1, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3143570.9
EU funding (EUR): 1966305.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The ELSA project has the goal of improving European capacity to independently manufacture commercial and scientific satellites by bringing a new actuator for attitude and orbit control systems to a higher level of maturity. This goal is in line with ESA’s technology strategy and long term plan. Support for initial development activities for this innovative actuator technology was provided within the framework of ESA’s GSTP program. The concept consists of a levitated sphere that can be accelerated about any axis producing a resultant torque in any direction. This system aims at replacing the three (or four) traditional reaction wheels or control moment gyroscopes commonly used in satellites and spacecrafts. It reduces the mass and power supply allocated to theattitude and navigation unit. The mass and power saved can be allocated to the payload. The concept offers performance gain; it provides more momentum for a given system mass in comparison with the current inertial subsystems. It improves the system reliability as no mechanical bearings are present and allows more flexible mission planning. This project, proposed for activity 9.2, "Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology", topic SPA.2011.2.1-02, "Research and development for space exploration", comprises three phases. Phase 1 will define the system specifications, based on an extensive market study of potential user's requirements, and identify a reference mission that will provide requirements in term of attitude and navigation control. Phase 2 will comprise the system design, manufacturing and integration, including a feasibility study of the steps necessary to spatialize the design and increase its technology readiness level. Where possible some of the identified spatialization steps will be implemented as part of this project. The project will conclude with phase 3, which will include system tests and performance assessments to demonstrate the potential of the Reaction Sphere.

Keywords: reaction sphere,attitude control,magnetic bearing,space grade processor,satellites,spherical motor,reaction wheels,control momentum gyroscopes
General Institutional Equilibrium - theory and policy implications (GINE)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Individuals, institutions and markets
Countries involved: Norway
Call:  (ERC-2011-StG_20101124, 2011)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 760170.0
EU funding (EUR): 760170.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Existing institutional theory, including political economics and contract theory, convincingly show that institutional details have large impacts on economic and policy outcomes. Once this is recognized, it follows that contracts should depend on the organisational design of the institution to which the contract is offered. Stage 1 of Project Gine aims at characterising optimal contracts as a function of this design. Stage 2 develops a framework for endogenising and characterising the optimal institutional design. At Stage 3, sets of institutions are endogenised at the same time, where the design of one is an optimal response to the designs of the others. This outcome is referred to as a general institutional equilibrium. Such a theory or methodological framework has several immensely important applications. Development aid contracts should carefully account for the political structure in the recipient country; otherwise the effect of aid may surprise and be counterproductive. The major application motivating this study, however, is environmental policy. Not only must the optimal environmental policy be conditioned on political economy forces; it must also be a function of institutional details, such as the political system. This can explain why the choice of instrument differs across political systems, and why politicians often prefer standards rather than economic instruments. Furthermore, we still do not have a good knowledge of how to design effective and implementable international environmental treaties. The optimal treaty design as well as the best choice of policy instrument must take into account that certain institutions (e.g., interest groups, firm structures, and perhaps even local governance) respond endogenously to these policies.

Keywords: contracts,endogenous institutions,political economics,public economics,environmental economics
EUropean DATa (EUDAT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Finland,Spain,France,Switzerland,Italy,France,Czechia,Germany,Austria,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,France,Germany,Poland,Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Sweden,Spain
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-2, 2011)
Start date: 2011-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 16274479.0
EU funding (EUR): 9300000.0
Participants: 27
Project status: CLOSED

EUDAT is our proposal for the next stage in the realisation of the vision of “data as infrastructure”. The EUDAT consortium includes representatives from each stage of the value chain that has evolved to deliver scientific knowledge to researchers, citizens, industry and society as a whole. It includes funding agencies that invest in research infrastructures and programmes of research, infrastructure operators and research communities who rely on the availability of data-management services, national data centres and providers of connectivity and, of course, the users who rely on the availability of data and services, innovators who add value to the raw results of scientific research. EUDAT is a three-year project that will deliver a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) with the capacity and capability for meeting future researchers’ needs in a sustainable way. Its design will reflect a comprehensive picture of the data service requirements of the research communities in Europe and beyond. This will become increasingly important over the next decade as we face the challenges of massive expansion in the volume of data being generated and preserved (the so-called ‘data tsunami’) and in the complexity of that data and the systems required to provide access to it. Although those user requirements will vary between scientific disciplines, the micro-systems from which each community’s services are built are largely generic. This commonality will make it easier to achieve the minimum critical mass of users necessary for significant economies of scale to be achieved. The ability to rapidly provide bespoke responses to the evolving needs of our research communities additionally strengthens the business case for those communities. With the inclusion of disciplines from across the spectrum of scientific endeavour sharing a common infrastructure, EUDAT also provides the opportunity for data-sharing between disciplines and cross-fertilisation of ideas.

Keywords: data,data infrastructure,data management,data service,open access,user communities,e-infrastructure,research infrastructures,e-science,science
Resource-Efficient Factory Of Recyclable Manufacturing composite components (REFORM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Recovery Package: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) topics within NMP
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,France,Italy,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Sweden,Italy,Spain,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-2011-NMP-ICT-FoF, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7090917.05
EU funding (EUR): 4999995.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

REFORM focuses on more resource-efficiency and cleaner manufacturing technologies for composite components to be exploited in different industrial sectors (e.g. Transport, Energy, Construction, ..). Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are becoming very popular as their use reduces weight and allow innovative designs for energy-saving products during service-life. Nevertheless, service-life does not represent the total solution. A total life cycle view must be taken including manufacturing and end of life reuse, recyclability and/or disposal. The central idea of REFORM is to focus on the manufacturing processes of FRP components considering, with an holistic view, the whole manufacturing cycle. The environmental friendly process technologies for Forming, Machining (cutting & trimming), Assembly and Recycling are specifically considered, as well methods to integrate the proposed technologies into the eco-factory of the future. REFORM considers specific RTD and Demonstration activities capable to provide advances towards full green economically viable manufacturing.

Keywords: eco-efficiency,clean production,composite materials