Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Accelerated Life tests for Electric drives in Aircrafts (ALEA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-03, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 799676.07
EU funding (EUR): 599757.06
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Reliability in electronics is nowadays one of the most important subjects of study, as the range of its application is very wide. At the moment, the lifetime problems have been addressed by analysing separately the causes of failure and accelerated tests were proposed for the single components. This proposal aims at realizing a test bed able to apply multiple age accelerating stresses and to realize the on-line test of the machine under different operating conditions. The test rig will embed an environmental chamber able to replicate the ambient conditions at 50000ft, moreover, a custom converter able to vary the voltage stress at the motor’s terminal will be developed, in order to test the reliability of the motor with the converters of the future, that will employ always faster devices. In the aerospace industry, reliability is an extremely important and researched feature for the electric drive systems. Given the life-span of an actual aircraft and the costs of unplanned maintenance, the results of this research are potentially of great impact in how designers now realize electric drives. The procedures to realize the test bed, the data acquisition software and the post-processing software that will be developed during the project will be helpful to further push the technology limits. Moreover, the test of actual motors and the data acquired will constitute a database that will improve the existing knowledge of life time models. The ability to modify the actual voltage waveform characteristics of the converter driving the motor under test, in conjunction with the other test facilities, constitutes a great improvement on the existing testing methodology, that usually imply off-line accelerated testing of the twisted pairs.

Keywords: accelerated life test,reliability,electric drive for aircraft,insulation faults in electric machines,pm motors,electric drives,temperature stress
MEMS-Accelerometer Miniaturisation of the analogue electronics in an Application Specific Circuit (ASIC) (MICRO-IMU)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-03, 2013)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 792800.0
EU funding (EUR): 594600.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Very small inertial measurement units (IMU) are necessary for measuring the aircraft wing deformation during flight. This objective can be only met, if the sensor system is highly integrated. GEMAC and AMAC will develop in the project an ASIC in which all necessary analog blocks are implemented (high performance switches, charge amplifier, temperature probe, gain and offset, ADC, eventually voltage reference). The first development step is the analysis of the specification and the existing mock-up to investigate and to confirm the feasibility of ASIC integration, to evaluate risks and to setup the detailed planning. In this phase, GEMAC needs continuous support from the consortium partner Sagem. After a Go-Ahead decision the final system architecture will be defined, followed by the design and simulation of the single blocks and the whole system including the interfaces to the MEMS element and the surrounding system electronics. Mentor tools will be used for all simulations in the design flow. In order to minimise risks and to save time the first run will cover only the main components of the system. The designed and checked layout will be transferred for preparation to XFAB. The company is one of the leading semiconductor and ASIC manufacturers in Europe and offers all state-of-the-art technologies for analogue, digital, mixed signal designs. GEMAC has business contacts to this fab for many years, all necessary libraries are available. After delivery the ASIC samples will be tested together with Sagem. In the result, a list of necessary redesign activities will be setup. In parallel the design will be completed with the still missing functional blocks. After successful simulation of back-annotated netlists the second run will start. The samples supplied by XFAB will be tested again together with Sagem. GEMAC and AMAC are R&D oriented SMEs with experiences in ASIC design and microsystem technology as well as MEMS based acceleration sensors for many years. AMAC is a spin-off of GEMAC and has taken over the Micro-IMU project in March 2016. With its participation in Clean Sky the companies intend to contribute to the goal of Clean Sky to speed up new and greener aviation designs to protect our environment.

Keywords: accelerometer,mems,analog asic design
technology development and fabrication of HIgh TEmperature high frequency CApacitors for power switch integration (HITECA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Netherlands
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2013-03, 2013)
Start date: 2014-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 420643.0
EU funding (EUR): 241665.5
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Automotive, aerospace, and energy production industries can greatly benefit from the development of semiconductor based electronics operating at temperature higher than 150 °C. Wide bandgap semiconductors like SiC and GaN are key enablers as these allow electronics to function at much higher temperatures than silicon. Consequently devices made from these materials can handle more current and thus power compared to Si based ones. However, increasing operating temperatures compromise the performance and reliability of other components in the power electronic system, including capacitors and inductors, interconnects and packaging, and therefore complex cooling systems are required which adds complexity and volume to the device design. This proposal directly addresses the specific technological challenges of the Call JTI-CS-2013-03-SGO-02-087 entitled “Technology development and fabrication of high-temperature high-frequency capacitors for power switch integration”, in which a thorough programme of work is proposed to develop optimized ceramic formulation and fabrication to provide highly reliable multilayer ceramic capacitors for high-temperature high-frequency capacitors for power switch integration. The 24 month project will use as its base a new high-K ceramic material (SBFT - Strontium-Bismuth-Ferrum-Titanate) which extends power electronics operating temperature up to 200 C. The SBFT ceramic capacitor is characterized by a low thermal coefficient of capacitance (TCC) of less than 25% up to 200 C. The project will focus firstly on the production of samples with a variety of chemical modifications being performed, subsequently fabrication of MLCCs using non optimised, and optimised materials will be performed and samples delivered to the topic group leader for qualification.

Keywords: power switch,high temperature capacitors,fabrication,high temperature,avionics.
Development of multiscale methods in planning of nano MEMS (GAKO2007CA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2011-02-15
End date: 2012-02-14
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The mathematical multiscale theories intensively developed in the last decades and collected high potential of theoretical methods. These methods are not completely used in engineering, although there exists a great variety of arguments evidently related to problems treated by the multiscale theories. The aim of this project is to give a contribution for closing this "gap" through joint work of mathematicians, mechanics and engineers. The specific goal of the project is to develop multiscale methods in nanotechnologies with orientation to prediction of new effects in complex structures as nano MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems). We hope that the effects found not only will demonstrate effectiveness of mathematical multiscale theories as method solution of applied problems but will lead to design new structures, materials and devices.
African Migrant Women (AFRICANMIGRANTWOMEN)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Senegal
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

On the margins of the EU, African women migrants can be important transmitters of social cultural practices. But in certain societies of immigration (France, Spain) these women, because of the ageing factor can be victims of some kind of discrimination. Often their husbands can replace them for new co-spouses. This situation creates tensions and that is, for the women, all the more constraining and painful when the women carry on a productive and reproductive activity. this proposal, through a specific anthropological demography methodology, wants to bring into question meaningful motions of ethnicity, transnationalisation, gender and the changing context in relation to aesthetic and body concepts of African women in the settlement countries mainly in Spain and France (Europe) and in Senegal and Gambia (Africa).
The impact of nitrogen on the fate of recently assimilated carbon in forest soils (NITFOR)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Global climate change is strongly linked to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In particular, CO2 contributes almost 45-60% to the observed anthropogenic global warming yet has the potential to be captured by trees and stored either in woody biomass or in soils over long time periods. While the above-ground carbon cycle is well constrained, there remain great uncertainties in below-ground carbon cycling. For example, it is currently not known what proportion of carbon, fixed by trees in photosynthesis as CO2, is stored in soil, released back to the atmosphere as CO2 or CH4. We propose to tackle specific key questions about the fate of carbon in forests by taking advantage of existing afforestation experiments in England (main phase) and in Russian Siberia (return phase), by combining new stable isotopes methods and innovative in-growth core approaches. We will enrich tree canopies with 13C-CO2 and track changes in isotopic composition of CO2 evolved from soil using a unique mobile mass-spectrometry lab, available only at the University of York, England. We shall also monitor CH4 fluxes with parallel determination of 13C in CH4. This would allow estimating the gross rates of CH4 production and consumption and for a first time discern the role of fine roots and soil fungi in mediating CH4 flux. Furthermore, the application of N will mimic elevated N deposition, an important global change factor, to predict the response of soil carbon cycle in forests to global climate change. During the return phase we will apply the developed in England in-growth cores to a unique Siberian afforestation experiment, examining the effect of six dominant Siberian tree species on the roles of mycorrhiza and fine roots in carbon fluxes. Overall, the project would 1) greatly advance our knowledge of soil C cycling in forest ecosystems and 2) establish a new cooperative link between researchers of the Institute of Forest in Krasnoyarsk and the University of York
Black Holes, Superstrings, and Holography (BLACKHOLEHOLOGRAM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: India
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-2-IIF, 2007)
Start date: 2010-10-18
End date: 2011-10-17
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims to understand certain quantum aspects of black hole physics, in particular its entropy and the degrees of freedom associated with the horizon. The many states in which a black hole can exist can be understood through a "hologram" living in one dimension less than the black hole. This idea of a hologram has proved to be very fruitful in recent work in string theory. Our work aims to extend these successes to situations where high curvature effects are important and can be systematically be taken into account. This would advance our understanding of a quantum theory of gravity and provide deep insights into the quantum structure of spacetime.
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SEDIMENT ENTRAINMENT (CFD-DEM)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-IIF-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2011-12-07
End date: 2012-12-06
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sediment transport is important for predicting the impact of human intervention on river and coastal systems. The numerical modelling of individual particles on the bed of a turbulent open channel is particularly difficult because it not only involves the correct modelling of the turbulence but also the movement of the particles themselves. This project is aimed at investigating the influence of turbulence on the entrainment and movement of coarse particles on the bed of an open channel. In order to do this it will be necessary to couple existing in-house discrete element and computational fluid dynamics codes. The final code will be able to correctly model the turbulence in the channel and around the particles. From a geomorphological point of view, the research will be a major contribution to the understanding of sediment dynamics by focusing on the movement of individual particles, turbulence around these discrete particles and the role of turbulent eddies in particle entrainment. It will lead to improved understanding of bed mobility in rivers with non-cohesive sediment. Simulations will be carried out to investigate the influence of turbulence on the entrainment of the particles. We shall look at factors that influence the stability of the particles, such as: drag and lift forces, degree of protrusion, blocking by particles upstream, effect of particles downstream on the points of rotation of a moving particle.
Dissecting speciation using a genomics approach (RHINOSPEC)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: China
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IIF, 2010)
Start date: 2014-04-14
End date: 2015-04-13
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our proposal will tackle a central issue in biology: what is the genetic basis of species differentiation? Recent evidence of genetic exchange among species has led many to reject the traditional view that speciation requires complete reproductive isolation. Instead, the emerging new concept of so-called ‘genic speciation’ asserts that reproductive barriers can be established by divergence at only a few loci against a background of gene flow. We will combine novel and powerful analytical methods with new and traditional genetic technologies to investigate the genetic basis of species differences, and the process of divergence, in a model system of two co-distributed species of horseshoe bat (R. yunanensis and R. p. pearsoni). The Incoming Fellow has previously shown that, in these taxa, there is strong evidence of extensive past replacement of the nuclear genome in spite of clear phenotypic, acoustic and karyotypic differences. This unusual system provides an exceptional opportunity to identify and characterize genes that encode phenotypic differences among taxa, and also to determine the functional characteristics of ‘leaky genes’ versus ‘non-leaky genes’ (or ‘species genes’). Such knowledge of a natural mammalian system at a genome scale would take us beyond the current state-of-the art of research in this field, and would have impact in frontier science as well as potential benefits to conservation, genetics and evolutionary biologists. We will use Next Generation Sequencing and a highly novel statistical pipeline to identify key loci and larger ‘genomic islands’ that have resisted introgressive hybridization between our focal taxa. Our phylogenomic approach will then be extended to a larger sample to study whether these loci are under selection. Finally, we will apply chromosomal genetics methods to establish whether non-leaky loci and islands are influenced by the presence of chromosomal rearrangements, such as inversions.
Substrate-induced phases of discotic liquid crystals (DISCO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: India
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2014-05-02
End date: 2015-05-01
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The structure of ordinary liquids is altered near a solid surface. The symmetry breaking leads to positional and orientational ordering of molecules. The ordering effect extends generally up to a few molecular dimensions only. A solid interface also plays a well-documented role on the nucleation and growth of crystals. But probably the richer physical situations are observed in the case of liquid crystals, notably anchoring and orientational wetting effects. Liquid crystals are ideal systems to study surface effects for many reasons. First, their fluid character allows reaching thermodynamic equilibrium easily. Second, surface-induced orientational and positional ordering effects can be selectively studied. Third, liquid crystals display several phase transitions around which peculiar phenomena occur. Fourth, liquid crystalline phases are highly symmetrical and allow an easy structural characterization by powder X-ray diffraction. Fifth, liquid crystalline compounds are generally more soluble and easier to process into thin films than crystals. In case of discotic liquid crystals, unusual and interesting phases appear in the vicinity of solid substrates. Such “thin film” phase differs from those for crystalline compounds, where surface induced polymorphism occurs. Such thin film phases in crystals are thermodynamically unstable since a perturbation of the system leads to its transformation into a more stable polymorph that exists also in bulk. The substrate-induced phases observed in discotic liquid crystals are more ordered than the bulk ones and exhibit a three-dimensional order whereas the bulk ones are liquid crystalline and have a two-dimensional order. This project aims to gain a fundamental understanding of the physical and chemical parameters that governs the formation of substrate-induced phases in discotic liquid crystals through a combined theoretical and experimental approach.
Triggering Mechanisms of Snow Slab Avalanches (TRIME)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships (Return Phase)
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Russian Federation
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15000.0
EU funding (EUR): 15000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Snow avalanche is the most frequent type of slope failure in mountainous areas of the world. In total, approximately 15% of Europe’s and 6% of Earth’s land may be considered as avalanche prone-areas. Avalanches claim hundreds of lives annually worldwide and there have been historical cases with death tolls between hundreds and thousands of people during one event or winter season. One of the main goals of snow avalanche research is to forecast natural or induced mechanical failure of a sloping layered snowpack in order to estimate potential damage to human activities in mountain regions and to be able to conduct risk-oriented planning. The deadliest type of snow avalanches are slab avalanches, which start from a failure of a cohesive horizon of snow, or “slab”, underlaid by a so called “weak layer”. The nature of weak layer deformation is considered the crux of slab stability. At present, the origin of initial failure and the failure process in the weak layer remain poorly understood. In order to contribute to development of a mechanical model of snow fracture, and to provide tools to estimate initial conditions for avalanche dynamic models for hazard mapping and risk management, we propose to investigate the mechanical behavior of weak layers and their relationship to slope-scale instability. Key objectives of the study are: 1) To design instrumental apparatus for both cold laboratory and in situ field work to study the mechanical behavior of snow weak layers. 2) To obtain, through experiment, fully operational mechanical laws of different types of alpine snow weak layers. 3) To critically review existing modeling approaches for weak layer and slab in order to couple best existing practices with experimentally obtained results. 4) To relate the micro and meso-scale weak layer behavior to the macro-scale slab failure by means of numerical modeling for development of a next generation numerical model describing the mechanical behavior of a snow slab on a slope.