Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Ultra Slow Ships (ULYSSES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Sweden,Denmark,Denmark,France,Germany,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Finland,Netherlands,Switzerland,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3719626.26
EU funding (EUR): 2603578.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

With climate change coming to the forefront of society’s perception, there is increasing pressure on all industries to CO2 emissions through increased efficiency and the maritime industry is no exception. The objective of ULYSSES is to demonstrate, through a combination of ultra slow speeds and complementary technologies, that the efficiency of the world fleet can be increased to a point where the following CO2 targets are met : • Before 2020, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30% compared to 1990 levels. • Beyond 2050, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% compared to 1990 levels. ULYSSES focuses on bulk carriers and tankers as these ship types produce 60% of the CO2 from ocean-going vessels . As bulk carriers and tankers are reasonably similar in design and operation, it is felt that investigating these ships will give the best value for money in terms of potential impact of the project. Additionally, it is more technically challenging to reduce the speed of these ship types as they are relatively slow speed already and therefore it is expected that directional stability and other seakeeping issues will arise. However, the results of the project will be directly transferable to other ship types. To achieve these goals, it is expected that the target speeds will be: • Phase I - Existing vessel in 2020: ~10 knots • Phase II - New vessel built in 2020: ~7.5 knots • Phase III - New vessel built in 2050: ~5 knots

Keywords: ultra slow speed,wind,solar,free piston technology,existing ships,design,short,medium and long term goals
Sponge Enzymes and Cells for Innovative AppLications (SPECIAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Portugal,Israel,Italy,Germany,Sweden,Portugal,Netherlands,China,Italy
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2010-4, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3868136.0
EU funding (EUR): 2991682.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The SPECIAL project aims at delivering breakthrough technologies for the biotechnological production of cellular metabolites and extracellular biomaterials from marine sponges. These include a platform technology to produce secondary metabolites from a wide range of sponge species, a novel in vitro method for the production of biosilica and recombinant technology for the production of marine collagen. Research on cellular metabolites will be based upon our recent finding that non-growing sponges continuously release large amounts of cellular material. Production of biosilica will be realized through biosintering, a novel enzymatic process that was recently discovered in siliceous sponges. Research on sponge collagen will focus on finding the optimal conditions for expression of the related genes. Alongside this research, the project will identify and develop new products from sponges, thus fully realizing the promises of marine biotechnology. Specifically, the project will focus on potential anticancer drugs and novel biomedical/industrial applications of biosilica and collagen, hereby taking advantage of the unique physico-chemical properties of these extracellular sponge products. The consortium unites seven world-class research institutions covering a wide range of marine biotechnology-related disciplines and four knowledge-intensive SMEs that are active in the field of sponge culture, drug development and nanobiotechnology. The project is clearly reflecting the strategic objectives outlined in the position paper European Marine Strategy (2008); it will enhance marine biotechnology at a multi-disciplinary, European level and provide new opportunities for the European industry to exploit natural marine resources in a sustainable way. In particular the biotechnological potential of marine sponges, which has for a long time been considered as an eternal promise, will be realized through the SPECIAL project.

Keywords: sponges,natural products,sustainable production,culture,cancer research,biosilica,collagen,biomedical products,nanobiotechnology
Determinants of eating behaviour in European children, adolescents and their parents (I.FAMILY)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Denmark,United Kingdom,Sweden,Finland,Spain,Hungary,Netherlands,Estonia,United Kingdom,Belgium,Spain,Cyprus
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2010-4, 2010)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11584021.24
EU funding (EUR): 9000000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Nutrition-related diseases caused a loss of over 56 million years of healthy life of European citizens in 2000. I.Family will make a significant contribution to reduce this burden by studying the interplay and impact of the main drivers of dietary behaviour and food choice. It will take advantage of the unique opportunity to follow-up the large IDEFICS children’s cohort to not only provide added value by maintaining the existing cohort but also, exceptionally, assess the dynamic nature of causal factors over time and during transition into adolescence. The project’s acronym indicates its focus on the individual and its family. By re-assessing children and their parents I.Family will compare families who developed or maintained a healthy diet with those whose diet developed in an unfavourable direction to study the impact of biological, behavioural, social and environmental factors on dietary behaviour over time. Focus will be on the family environment, socio-behavioural and genetic factors determining familial aggregation. Subgroups with contrasting dietary profiles will undergo an enhanced protocol including measurement of brain activation, expression of genes related to food choice, biological and genetic basis for taste thresholds, role of sleep, sedentary time, physical activity and impact of the built environment. I.Family will also link health outcomes like body composition and cardio-metabolic markers to diet and interacting factors to determine their prognostic value. Thus I.Family provides strength of methodology, breadth of coverage and depth of investigation across the ecological model. Guided by research on ethical implications I.Family will be deriving effective communication strategies to empower European consumers to induce behaviour changes, supported by novel web-based, interactive personalised feedback on dietary behaviour. By building on existing success I.Family will take the research on dietary behaviour to the next level in a short time frame.

Keywords: epidemiology,cohort,physical activity,children,environment,dietary behaviour,lifestyle,genetics,genomics,brain function,food choice
Safe Food for Europe – Coordination of research activities and Dissemination of research results of EC funded research on food safety (FOODSEG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Fork to farm: Food (including seafood), health and well being
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,United Kingdom,Ireland,Italy,Germany,France,Finland,Greece,Denmark,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,Romania,Poland,Slovakia,Czechia,Romania,Bulgaria,Slovenia,Lithuania,Croatia,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Viet Nam,Egypt,Austria,Germany,Serbia,Austria
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2010-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2014-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1166818.5
EU funding (EUR): 999915.0
Participants: 35
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed Coordination and support actions (Coordinating, CSA) has the overall objective to disseminate state-of-the-art research results in food safety and quality topics through a series of symposia, expert working group meetings, an online platform with best practise examples and coordination of cooperation and a plan for the preparation of future activities. In addition to the aim of disseminating research results of finalised and current EC funded projects from FP6 and FP7 and other projects focusing on food safety, the consortium will develop strategies and recommendations for European policies (e.g.: food, consumers, research, health, agriculture). The secure handling of food has main impact onto the safety of food products and the European consumers. Furthermore, detailed plans and actions to foster food safety research in Europe are part of the workplan and objectives. The CSA action will pave the way for highly innovative research projects in the field of food safety. FOODSEG will connect research and policy actors in the enlarged European Union and the Candidate countries, in order to fill transitional gaps and achieve a broader network and deeper collaboration between them. The following map gives an overview of the FOODSEG consortium and the very broad network which covers nearly all regions of the enlarged European Union, Candidate countries and also third countries.

Keywords: survey,expert working groups,symposia,workshops,best practise,dissemination,reseachers exchange programme
DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH ENERGY/HIGH POWER DENSITY SUPERCAPACITORS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS (AUTOSUPERCAP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-2010-GC-ELECTROCHEMICAL-STORAGE, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5434732.31
EU funding (EUR): 3974595.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Supercapacitors are essential in electric vehicles for supplying power during acceleration and recovering braking energy. High power and sufficient energy density (per kilo) are required for both an effective power system but also to reduce weight. There are several issues to achieve a high performance/low weight power system that need to be addressed by various groups of scientists and engineers in an integrated framework. In this proposal, we have assembled a multidisciplinary Consortium of leading researchers, organisations, highly experienced industrialists, and highly active SMEs to tackle the problems. As a result, we are aiming at developing supercapacitors of both high power and high energy density at affordable levels by the automotive industry, and of higher sustainability than many current electrochemical storage devices. These targets will be achieved by integrating several novel stages: (a) computer simulations to optimise the power system and the design of the supercapacitor bank for different supercapacitor models, representing the different supercapacitor cells to be developed and tested in this project; (b) we shall use carbon-based electrodes to reduce the amount of rare and expensive metals; (c) we shall use electrolytes of high operating voltage to increase both power and energy density, although the problem is that they have large ions that reduce the effective surface area of porous electrodes due to low diffusivity; (d) in this case, innovative electrode structures will be developed based on combinations of high surface area/large pore activated carbon electrodes and low resistance carbon fibrous materials or carbon nanotubes; graphene will also be investigated.(e) novel methodologies will be developed to integrate the innovative electrode materials in the fabrication process for manufacturing large supercapacitors. These will be tested both at small-scale, and in realistic electric car test rig tests, and be cost and life-cycle-assessed.

Keywords: supercapacitors,automotive
cOoperation with Russia in the field of advanced engIne NOise COntrol based on plasma actuators (ORINOCO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Russian Federation,Italy,France,France,Netherlands,Italy
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2010-RTD-RUSSIA, 2010)
Start date: 2010-08-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3218250.8
EU funding (EUR): 1349921.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

In the domain of civilian aeronautics, the increasing noise restrictions around airports are a challenging problem for aircraft and engine manufacturers. Despite significant progresses since the definition of ACARE objectives, jet noise remains the main source of noise for an aircraft at take-off and many works have been dedicated to its understanding and its reduction. First generation of noise reduction devices were passive such as chevrons or mixer which enhance the mixing in the shear layers to reduce jet noise, but also decrease the engine performance during cruise. Second generation noise reduction concepts under development are active and can be switched off after take-off. ORINOCO is a small focussed collaborative project based on the cooperation between Europe and Russia and deals with advanced engine noise control based on plasma actuators. Plasma technologies have initially been developed for flow control and their first applications for jet noise reduction were confronted with technical aspects far from acoustics. This use of plasma actuators is a novel concept that requires fundamental approaches to understand the interaction mechanisms with the main jet and the resulting radiated sound. The main topic of ORINOCO is manifold and contains theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations for an efficient implementation of plasma actuators for jet noise reduction, especially on the basis of instability waves reduction. As a consequence of these fundamental considerations, most of the 13 partners involved in ORINOCO (7 European - 6 Russian) come from Academic or Research community. Several plasma actuators concepts will be studied and assessed in small scale anechoic facilities with isothermal main jet and the most promising ones will be evaluated with a heated main jet. The work performed within the project will be monitored by an Expert Panel composed by industrial members from Europe and Russia, proof of their interest on this topic.

Keywords: jet noise reduction,plasma actuators,instabilty waves
Advanced In-flight Measurement Techniques 2 (AIM²)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Aeronautics and air transport
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,France,United Kingdom,Czechia,Russian Federation,Netherlands,France,Italy,Poland,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-AAT-2010-RTD-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5120454.0
EU funding (EUR): 3754447.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Flight tests of new or modified aircraft are a necessary part of the design process and provide the final validation of the full scale aircraft design. Flight testing for certification is a critical phase as all trials proving compliance with specifications and regulations must be completed in the shortest possible time, while maintaining high quality standards in the certification process. Usually a heavy instrumentation is installed to validate the predicted behaviour of the aircraft and also to detect unforeseen problems so that, if necessary, fast modifications can be done. Optical measurement techniques can minimize the installation effort and reduce the testing time as they are able to capture a huge amount of parameters within a short time. The preceding project AIM – Advanced In-flight Measurement Techniques proved the principal feasibility to apply modern optical measurement techniques as being used in industrial wind tunnels to flight testing. The proposed follow-up project AIM² intends to further develop these measurement techniques to be easily and routinely applied to in-flight testing with industrial demands. Thus, AIM² focuses on developing reliable and easy to use dedicated measurement systems and on defining design and application rules for these new in-flight measurement techniques. The prime objective is to enable aerospace industries to use such mobile measurement systems in future to reduce testing time and costs. AIM² will be structured in progressive steps starting with basic studies on challenges discovered in the preceding project leading to optimized measurement systems to be tested under research conditions and finally to be proven in an industrial environment. To do these steps in an effective way the partnership of AIM² will comprise four partners from aerospace industries, including one SME, three research organisations and three universities with expertise in optical measurement techniques, flight testing and training.

Keywords: flight testing and certification,optical measurement methods,reduction of testing time and costs
Gentle remediation of trace element contaminated land (GREENLAND)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Destination: Life sciences, biotechnology and biochemistry for sustainable non-food products and processes
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Belgium,Sweden,France,France,United Kingdom,Spain,Italy,Poland,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,Spain,Poland
Call:  (FP7-KBBE-2010-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3946734.69
EU funding (EUR): 2995507.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Gentle remediation options (g.r.o.) include various (mostly plant based) approaches to remediate trace element contaminated soils at low cost and without significant negative effects for the environment. Although g.r.o. comprise very innovative and efficient technologies, they are still not widely used as practical site solution due to several reasons of hindrance for applying g.r.o. as practical solution. Greenland is bringing gentle remediation options (phytoremediation, in situ stabilisation) into practical application and to solve the final problems comprising still major reasons of hindrance. The major objectives are: • test the remediation efficiency and success in pilot field case studies • develop a toolkit to quantify the remediation progress and targets (no total, but "bioavailable" trace element fractions) • test different technologies of biomass valorisation (incineration, gasification, biodiesel production, etc.) • develop a decision support tool • publish a best practice guide Greenland has defined two groups of end users: 1) companies that will offer gentle remediation options commercially (including the treatment of metal-rich biomass) - these group is part of the project consortium 2) stakeholders (including environmental agencies) that will decide for gentle remediation options - these are not part of the project consortium but of the advisory board. The main task of the advisory board is to take part at 4 Greenland meetings (kick off, 2 midterm, final meeting) to give feedback on the project progress. The members of the advisory board should especially consider if their requirements are met (e.g. do we provide all needed information to allow the future stakeholders deciding for gentle remediation options). The travel costs will be covered by the consoritum.

Keywords: gentle remediation options,phytoremediation,decision support tools
Solutions and Processes to Enhance the Competitiveness of Transport by Rail in Unexploited Markets (SPECTRUM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands,Norway,France,Italy,Türkiye,Belgium,Belgium,France,Germany,Sweden,Sweden,Switzerland,Italy,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4290939.41
EU funding (EUR): 2785539.0
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Modern manufacturing techniques and logistics require reliable, time sensitive delivery of lower density and higher value goods. This presents a market opportunity for rail freight to grow, partly due to increasing congestion on roads, and mainly due to the need for reliable and environment friendly transport of goods. At the same time, to meet customer requirements, rail freight has to rise to the challenge of needing to be reliable and available, as well as complying with other market demands. Depending on the market segment these may be faster transport time, specialised goods systems, tracking and tracing, greater flexibility, lower prices or premium services. Furthermore in congested situations rail freight may have a competitive advantage compared to other modes of traffic.SPECTRUM will develop a railfreight train that provides a higher speed service for high value, low density and time sensitive goods with the performance characteristics of a passenger train. SPECTRUM takes a longer term, radical and first principles approach to deliver a new railfreight offering that can compete with road and air in the growing sectors of logistics where railfreight has traditionally little to offer. We shall work towards a freight train that: Behaves like a passenger train in terms of speed, acceleration, braking, momentum: allowing full scheduling on urban and sub urban train networks;Has a standardised and universal power supply system for the delivery of power to temperature controlled containers (reefers) in a controllable fashion.

Keywords: rail logistics,rail freight,freight train,freight wagon,design,prototype