Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
High quality Material and intrinsic Properties of InN and indium rich Nitride Alloys - (The RAINBOW ITN) (RAINBOW)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Initial Training Networks
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France,Germany,Spain,Germany,Italy,France,United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany,Poland,Finland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-1-1-ITN, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4778667.0
EU funding (EUR): 4778667.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Indium nitride is a new narrow gap semiconductor (<0.7 eV), which alloys with GaN (3.5 eV) and AlN (6.2 eV) will allow the spectral range from telecom to hard UV wavelengths to be covered. This narrow band gap makes InN an exciting material from which to develop highest efficiency solar cells. Moreover, due to an electron mobility of around 4000 cm2/Vs and very high saturation velocities, InN is an ideal material for the development of high electron mobility devices capable of operating in the Terahertz range. To ensure the production of reliable commercial devices, rigorous fundamental research is required to understand the layer growth mechanisms and optimize material properties. In RAINBOW, academic and industrial consortium, the theoretical work will encompass modelling of the atomic structure and properties of the material from empirical potentials to ab initio techniques. Experiments will provide correlated structural, electronic, optical and chemical information from the nano to the macroscopic scale. In a closely concerted effort, we will determine the best conditions for the growth of highest quality InN and In rich (In,Ga,Al)N alloys by the main growth techniques (MOVPE, PAMBE,HVPE ). Under the supervision of world leading experts, numerous young researchers will directly benefit from this interdisciplinary and multisectorial research and training effort. The young researchers involved in this programme will also learn to manage research and industrial projects.

Keywords: materials engineering,solid state physics,surface physics
Beyond Features: Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition (SIMBAD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Portugal,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2171104.0
EU funding (EUR): 1647980.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Traditional pattern recognition techniques are centered around the notion of “feature”. According to this view, the objects to be classified are represented in terms of properties that are intrinsic to the object itself. Hence, a typical pattern recognition system makes its decisions by simply looking at one or more feature vectors provided as input. The strength of this approach is that it can leverage a wide range of mathematical tools ranging from statistics, to geometry, to optimization. However, in many real-world applications a feasible feature-based description of objects might be difficult to obtain or inefficient for learning purposes. In these cases, it is often possible to obtain a measure of the (dis)similarity of the objects to be classified, and in some applications the use of dissimilarities (rather than features) makes the problem more viable. In the last few years, researchers in pattern recognition and machine learning are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of similarity information per se. Indeed, by abandoning the realm of vectorial representations one is confronted with the challenging problem of dealing with (dis)similarities that do not necessarily obey the requirements of a metric. This undermines the very foundations of traditional pattern recognition theories and algorithms, and poses totally new theoretical and computational questions. In this project we aim at undertaking a thorough study of several aspects of purely similarity-based pattern analysis and recognition methods, from the theoretical, computational, and applicative perspective. We aim at covering a wide range of problems and perspectives. We shall consider both supervised and unsupervised learning paradigms, generative and discriminative models, and our interest will range from purely theoretical problems to real-world practical applications.

Keywords: pattern recognition,machine learning,similarity,non-metric information.
High Aspect Ratio Carbon-based Nanocomposites (HARCANA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,Belgium,Belgium,Romania,Belgium,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Germany,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-07-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7387533.6
EU funding (EUR): 5442052.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

High aspect ratio carbon-based nanoparticles (nanotubes (CNT), nanofibres (CNF), and nanosheets or exfoliated graphite (CNS)) will be introduced into bulk polymers, into polymeric foams and into membranes. It is expected that such nanofillers will tremendously improve and modify the properties of these families of materials, allowing them to reach new markets. However, a common and fundamental problem in polymer-based nanocomposites is the large extent of agglomeration of the nanoparticles due to their high surface to volume ratio. Therefore, techniques to control deagglomeration and possibly further organization of these high aspect ratio nanoparticles in polymeric materials remain a challenge. This project under industrial leadership will therefore aim at mastering, at the nanometric and mesoscale level, the spatial organization of carbon-based nanoparticles (CNP) with various surface functionalities, sizes and shapes having large aspect ratios in bulk, foamed and thin film (membranes) polymers by using industrially viable processes. More precisely, the aim of this proposal consists in generating polymer-based nanocomposites with a percolating nanoparticle structure that is reinforcing the material and imparts it with improved electrical and thermal conductivity at a minimum of nanoparticle loading. To reach such radically improved properties, it is important to take into account that a complete dispersion is not useful and will lead to lower properties. In order to control this CNP organization within the polymer matrix, a large set of techniques will be used. They range from synthetic approaches ("grafting from", "grafting to", "grafting through", emulsion polymerization) to (reactive) melt or solution blending processes, and to preparation in supercritical CO2. The aim is to generate new classes of engineering materials for various applications like EMI shielding, antistatic packaging materials and membranes, as well as scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Keywords: nanofiller,carbon nanotube,carbon nanofibre,aspect ratio,nanocomposite,nanohybrids
LiquidPublication: Innovating the Scientific Knowledge Object Lifecycle (LIQUIDPUBLICATION)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,France,Switzerland,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2386686.0
EU funding (EUR): 1769628.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This project explores how ICT and the lessons learned from the social Web can be applied to provide a radical paradigm shift in the way scientific knowledge is created, evaluated, and maintained. We argue that the novel technologies can enable a transition of the “scientific paper” form its traditional “solid” form, (i.e. a crystallization in space and time of a scientific knowledge artifact) to a Liquid Publication (also called Scientific Knowledge Object hereafter), that can take multiple shapes, evolves continuously in time, and is enriched by multiple sources. The intended benefits of this novel approach are: - to increase the early circulation of innovative ideas (and hence a more effective dissemination); - to optimized the time spent by researchers in creating, assessing and disseminating knowledge; - to develop a new credit attribution process based on social networks, team/community work, collaborative problem solving, social reputation, and distribution of knowledge; - to deliver innovative services and business models for publishers of Liquid Publications. We aim at achieving these objectives by considering “papers”, publications, and scientific knowledge in general as a complex (software) system characterized by three main interacting components: Scientific Knowledge Objects, (SKO), People, and Processes. Besides investigating SKOs and their lifecycle, the project aims at designing and developing a proof-of-concept SKO service center, a set of tools that manages the entire lifecycle, from the initial dissemination to its continuous evolution. Moreover, we believe that the described context is actually an instance of a much general problem related to the knowledge creation life-cycle in a number of relevant application areas ranging from Web 2.0, the social Web and corporate knowledge management. As often is the case, we expect a percolation of ideas, methods and tools used in the production of scientific knowledge into common knowledge processes

Keywords: scientific knowledge objects,knowledge lifecycle,social knowledge creation,trust,reputation,and credit attribution,open source
Small Aircraft Future Avionics Architecture (SAFAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Germany,Austria,Spain,Czechia,Belgium,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-04-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7410073.0
EU funding (EUR): 4700000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

SAFAR will focus on the development of a future avionics architecture for small aircraft providing easy and safe control of the aircraft. SAFAR aims at a significant reduction of pilot workload and an increase of safety during all phases of flight and ground operations incl. take-off and landing. In order to achieve this, SAFAR will provide the aircraft with easy handling characteristics and flight envelope protection at any time. The pilot flies the aircraft mainly via a stick controller and throttle lever. Switching between flight control and flight guidance modes will be performed automatically by the system - transparent for the pilot. SAFAR shall also provide the capability to take full advantage of the results of SESAR. Advanced ATC and even ATM will be supported in a way of maximum on-board automatism. In long term four dimensional flight vectoring as a result of the on-board ATM/FM shall be executed automatically. In mid term, four dimensional flight vectoring is expected to come from ATC via ADS-B. After being checked by the pilot via display, SAFAR will provide the capability for automatic execution of the flight vectoring (flight trajectories) after engagement by the pilot. The clear objective of SAFAR is to keep the handling characteristics of the A/C for all modes of control, i.e. manual control, control via flight guidance and control via flight management in combination with ATC resp. ATM, as easy as possible. Additionally, growth potential for autonomous emergency flight procedures in cases of sudden pilot medical diseases resp. incapacitation or total loss of engine power will be provided. Base for the implementation of SAFAR functions will be an advanced safety-critical, fault-tolerant fly-by-wire platform applicable to small aircraft. The platform will comprise computing resources, a human machine interface, a mainly satellite-based fault-tolerant attitude/navigation system and a safety-critical electric power supply with all-electric actuators

Keywords: small aircraft,general aviation,fly-by-wire,redundant flight control system
Photonic Metamaterials (PHOME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-C, 2007)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2011-08-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1902120.0
EU funding (EUR): 1431480.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Metamaterials are composite, man-made materials, composed of sub-wavelength metallic building blocks, which show novel and unique electromagnetic properties, not occurring in natural materials. A particularly important class of such materials is the negative refractive index metamaterials (NIM). NIM have been in the foreground of scientific interest in the last seven years. In 2006-2007 near infrared and optical frequencies were obtained, despite the initial objections and disbelief. However, many serious obstacles have to be overcome before the impressive possibilities of optical/photonic metamaterials (PMM) can become real applications. The present project identifies the main obstacles and proposes specific approaches to deal with them; in addition, it intends to study novel and unexplored capabilities of PMM. Specifically, the project objectives are (a) realization of 3D PMM, (b) reduction of losses in PMM, (c) realization of active and tunable/switchable (electrically or optically) PMM by incorporating gain or nonlinearity, and (d) realization of chiral PMM. The accomplishment of those objectives is both a theoretical and a technological challenge, as it requires proofs of concepts, advanced computational techniques and advanced nanofabrication approaches. To guide and test the proposed PMM development effort we have identified a number of important and ICT relevant demonstrators, which include thin-film optical isolators, electro-optic modulators, optical switching, and NIM-based "perfect lenses" in the infrared, and possibly in the visible. The implementation of the project will be done through combined theory/modeling, fabrication and experimental testing efforts, in continuous interaction. The broad theoretical and experimental expertise of the proposers, together with their field shaping past contributions to metamaterials, make them capable to face the challenges involved and to minimize the risk, ensuring the maximum possible success of the project.

Keywords: metamaterials,negative index materials,electromagnetic properties
Strengthening the industries’ competitive position by the development of a logistical and technological system for “spare parts” that is based on on-demand production. (DIRECTSPARE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Germany,Germany,France,Netherlands,Switzerland,Belgium,Sweden,Türkiye,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2007-SME-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5663047.79
EU funding (EUR): 3576945.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal offers a solution for the growing quantity of product types on the market requiring enormous warehouses to keep stock for spare parts, with corresponding high costs and complex logistics. This emerging problem is caused by the continuously decreasing product life time, decreasing time-to-market and increasing regulatory affairs. A solution is foreseen using Rapid Manufacturing (RM) technology, enabling economically viable, one-off manufacturing on demand. The full DirectSpare business model allows for manufacturers to rapidly produce only those spare parts that are required, at a location close to the equipment that needs to be repaired. This leads to the following advantages of DirectSpare and objectives of this project: • Aiming at this way of spare part supply, companies (especially SME’s) can keep or increase their competitive position. The step to introduce new products is made smaller because the compulsory spare parts supply becomes easier by the on-demand technology. This as alternative to stock supplied by high-volume production from low wage countries. • Huge cost reduction can be achieved on stock warehousing, such as warehouse building space, part depreciation costs, warehouse energy (light, heat), storage of tools, and the high start up costs for conventional part manufacturing. • Huge waste reduction as a large part of the stock will be destroyed in the end anyway because conventional volume manufacturing always exceeds the required quantity. • Huge environmental profit as conventional manufacturing of small quantities requires relatively high energy resources. • The decreasing product-life-cycle is not limited anymore by the corresponding warehouse characteristics. • Local service providers ensure local (EU) employment. • Before manufacture, a defect part will be improved to lengthen the spare parts’ life. The spare part can even be individualised for the specific user, usage and environment.

Keywords: rapid manufacturing,spare parts,logistics,business modelling,materials,manufacturing processes
Smart High Lift Devices for Next Generation Wings (SADE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,United Kingdom,Italy,Germany,Sweden,Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Russian Federation,Netherlands,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-05-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7093862.0
EU funding (EUR): 4969975.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

All aerodynamic concepts for significant reduction of drag such as laminarisation require slim high-aspect-ratio wings. However, state-of-the-art high lift systems will suffer from the reduced construction space and do not cope with the required surface quality. Thus, SADE (Smart High Lift Devices for Next Generation Wings) develops suitable 'morphing' high lift devices: The seamless 'smart leading edge device' is an indispensable enabler for laminar wings and offers a great benefit for reduction of acoustic emissions, the 'smart single slotted flap' with active camber capability permits a further increased lift. Due to versatile usability both devices also offer aerodynamic benefits by shape adaption in cruise flight. Morphing devices imply the integration of drive systems into tailored lightweight structures and therefore reduce complexity and mass. Furthermore, focussing on electric actuators the energy consumption can be reduced. However, the high elasticity required for efficient adaptability of the morphing structure is diametrically opposed to the structural targets of conventional wing design like stiffness and strength. To find the optimum compromise precise knowledge on target shapes for maximum high lift performance and sizing loads is mandatory. Therefore, SADE comprises all relevant disciplines for the investigation of morphing wings and operates a state-of-the-art virtual development platform. Nevertheless, the focus is clearly set on adaptive structures. SADE builds on available promising concepts for smart structures. The technological realisation and optimisation of these concepts towards the special requirements of full scale systems is the most essential challenge for morphing today. Another challenge results from the aeroelastic condition the structural system is optimised for. Hence, a realistic full scale section of a morphing wing will be manufactured and tested in the TsAGI T101 wind tunnel.

Keywords: smart structures,adaptive structures,morphing,smart droop nose,smart trailing edge,high lift
Full-field Advanced Non Destructive Technique for On-line Thermo-Mechanical Measurements on Aeronautical Structures (FANTOM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Germany,Spain,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1, 2007)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2012-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2210740.0
EU funding (EUR): 1700080.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The increasing use of composites, sandwich and lightweight structures and parts in new airplanes leads to a need of adapted Non Destructive Testing techniques for such new materials. Various NDT techniques are currently used for flaw detection or mechanical characterization during the development of aerostructures. There is a constant need for improved inspection methods; with increased reliability, rapidity of inspection time and of setting up, and userfriendliness. FANTOM proposes the development of an advanced NDT technique which combines thermography and shearography which are non-contact full-field optical techniques well accepted in the aeronautical sector for composite structures inspection. The combination is envisaged on the basis of a unique measurement technique using a single sensor instead of a classical approach combining separate sensors. The innovative idea is to develop a holography/shearography sensor in the spectral range of thermographic camera, say at long wave infrared light wavelengths. The state-of-art of components (laser, optics, camera) working in that thermal range is such that one can now envisage such developments with high confidence. Therefore, FANTOM is highly relevant to the objective AAT.2007.4.1.1 of decreasing aircraft development costs through advanced testing tools and methods to improve cost-efficiency and reduce testing time in laboratory and on-ground tests. The successive phases of FANTOM are the definition of specifications, the conceptual design, the development of the critical segments (optical hardware, new high resolution infrared camera and a specific data processing which allows decoupling of thermal and strain informations), the building of a laboratory prototype and its validation on certified samples, and finally the industrial validation in structural test facilities of Airbus and service partner.

Keywords: thermography shearography-holographic unique sensor ndt composites