Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Materials & Manufacturing of the FUTURE (M-FUTURE2011)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Poland,Poland,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-CSA-4, 2010)
Start date: 2010-09-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 17.0
Total project cost (EUR): 717738.0
EU funding (EUR): 660173.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the project is to present the vision of future materials and manufacturing: activities under the theme NMP of FP7 Cooperation Specific Programme, and their role in further growth of Europe - building smarter, greener and more competitive European industry. The objectives will be achieved in frame of two conferences: Future Materials (Fumat 2011) and Manufuture 2011, organization of which is proposed during the Polish Presidency in the EU (autumn 2011). The future materials and manufacturing are of high relevance for the European economy in the broadest sense as materials and products are almost omnipresent in our daily lives. Discussing these issues by different stakeholders during conferences under M-Future 2011 may help define strategic directions of research in these domains for the years to come in view of the Lund Declaration and “EU2020” Strategy. The conference Manufuture 2011 will be organized under the patronage of ETP on the Future Manufacturing Technologies: MANUFUTURE and the conference Fumat 2011 with engagement of ETP on Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies EuMaT. Also the European Material Research Society (EMRS) and European Materials Forum (EMF) will provide its contribution. With the support of the two ETPs and the umbrella of the EC the European dimension will be assured. The involvement of national and regional authorities will result in a significant political impact of the event. In view of globalization the international networking, inside Europe and beyond, is a source for fruitful economical development in the EU. Creating synergies by cooperation in materials and manufacturing R&D will help European industries, including SMEs, to face global competitors on the market with more strength. The 2011 conference will deliver ideas how to strengthen and turn into European success cooperation with East European countries.

Keywords: manufacturing,future materials
Multi-stakeholder, Cross-sectorial, Collaborative long term Research & Innovation Road Map to overcome Technological and Non-technological barriers towards more energy-efficient buildings & districts (BUILDING UP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,Italy,Germany,Poland,Austria,United Kingdom,Belgium,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-CSA-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1347131.0
EU funding (EUR): 999300.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The strategic objective of BUILDING UP project is to create an effective coordination of ETPs and major initiatives whose SRAs and activities address energy efficiency in the built environment from an NMP perspective, to identify and review the needs in terms of long term research and innovation. To achieve this, six ETPs, namely ECTP (European Construction Technology Platform), Suschem (Sustainable Chemicals), EUMAT (European Advanced Material Platform), Textile ETP (European Technology Platform for the Future of Textile and Clothing), ESTEP (European Steel Platform), FTP (Forest Technology Platform), including their national platforms, have joined forces with other relevant initiatives such as the ERANET ERACOBUILD in order to build a collaboration framework which, pioneered in this CSA under the NMP theme, will be an effective demonstrator to draw guidelines and policy recommendations for the engagement of the public and private sectors in the area of Energy Efficient buildings, preparing the ground for any future implementation beyond 2013 through relevant European and National public and private (industrial) research initiatives. Indeed the main differentiator of this Coordination Action versus the running EeB PPP is that we are targeting a much long term scenario well beyond 2013, outside the scope of the European Economic Recovery Plan. Addressing COMMON NEEDS AND CHALLENGES will pave the way towards the development of radically new products and services enabled by NMP technologies while ensuring that all the necessary bottlenecks and gaps at technological, non-technological and programme level are properly addressed for enhanced sustainability, competitiveness and employment, the key socio-economic challenges for a knowledge based and “eco-innovative” society in the 21st century.

Keywords: european technology platforms,coordination action,energy-efficient buildings
ToxBank – Supporting Integrated Data Analysis and Servicing of Alternative Testing Methods in Toxicology (TOXBANK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Health
Destination: Other Actions across the Health Theme
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Bulgaria,Sweden,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United States,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-HEALTH-2010-Alternative-Testing, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3129992.0
EU funding (EUR): 1564996.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

ToxBank establishes a dedicated web-based warehouse for toxicity data management and modelling, a ‘gold standards’ compound database and repository of selected test compounds, and a reference resource for cells, cell lines and tissues of relevance for in vitro systemic toxicity research carried out across the FP7 HEALTH.2010.4.2.9 Alternative Testing Strategies SEURAT program. The project develops infrastructure and service functions to create a sustainable predictive toxicology support resource going beyond the lifetime of the program. The following activities will be carried out: a) Establishment of a dedicated web-based data warehouse The ToxBank Data Warehouse will establish a centralised compilation of data for systemic toxicity. Data generated under the research program and additional public data will be uploaded and integrated whenever possible into computerised models capable of predicting repeated-dose toxicity. b) Establishment of a database of test compounds The ToxBank Gold Compound Database will provide a high quality information resource servicing the selection and use of test compounds. Chemicals in this database will be supported by high-quality repeated-dose toxicity in vivo and in vitro data, property data and, whenever available, human adverse event and epidemiological data. Selected test compounds for training or validation, and standard operating procedures for data quality control, processing and analyses will be provided. c) Establishment of a repository for the selected test compounds The ToxBank Chemical Repository will ensure the availability of test compounds to program researchers accompanied by sample preparation, handling and analytical quality control procedures. d) Setting up of a cell and tissue banking information resource for in vitro toxicity testing ToxBank will establish a banking information resource for access to qualified cells, cell lines (including stem cells and stem cell lines) and tissues and reference materials to be used for in vitro predictive toxicology research and testing activities.

Keywords: data,warehouse,database,analysis,toxicity,compound,selection,repository,chemicals,cells,tissues,bank
Potential theoretic methods in approximation and orthogonal polynomials (POTENTIALTHEORY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Mathematical foundations
Countries involved: Hungary
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 402000.0
EU funding (EUR): 402000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project is aimed at systematic applications of potential theoretical methods in approximation theory and in the theory of orthogonal polynomials. Various open problems are proposed in different fields which can be attacked with tools that have been developed in the near past or are to be developed within the project. The main areas are asymptotic behavior of Christoffel functions on the real line and on curves, the universality problem in random matrices, orthogonal polynomials and their zeros, polynomial inequalities, approximation by homogeneous polynomials and some questions in numerical analysis. The research problems and areas discussed in the proposal are intensively investigated in current research. As has been the case in the past, PhD students will be actively involved in the project.

Keywords: potential theory,universality,random matrices,orthogonal polynomials,approximation
Supporting international mobility and training in Bizkaia (B-MOB)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-COFUND, 2010)
Start date: 2012-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5059981.85
EU funding (EUR): 2023992.74
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The B-MOB project objective is to provide the researchers the opportunity to deepen and widen their skills, by increasing their transnational mobility, adding different and complementary research competences at an advanced level, reinforcing their own professional maturity and experience. The project also wants to pave the way to make the research profession more attractive and interesting for young researchers. The project aims to exploit synergies between Community actions and those at Regional/National level, in order to increase their numerical and qualitative impact (in terms of supported researchers) and in order to combat research fragmentation. Moreover, this project will enable Biscay to reinforce its scientific capacity, by strengthening our networks abroad and reaching an adequate number of researchers, assuring the development of the research activities and of the economic growth of Biscay and of Europe, and thus, contributing actively to the ERA. The programme comprises three complementary actions, which will give researchers the opportunity to develop, while working at high-level research institutions of Biscay and worldwide, a project fitting their individual needs; to benefit from advantageous working conditions and all of the necessary benefits for this new step of their career. These three actions are: -Support the integration of experienced researchers in Biscay -Support to the linking of external collaborators who participate in innovative projects in Biscay -Support for the training of qualified people abroad, with a return phase to Biscay Bizkaia:xede presents this project for additional support by the Marie Curie Programme. The association has been created in 2004 with the purpose of developing an integral territorial strategy of talent management and has partnerships with universities, technological centres, and large companies located in the region of Bilbao (Spain). Since 2008, bizkaia:xede is a Local Contact Point to Euraxess.

Keywords: technological sciences,health sciences,biological sciences,sociolinguistics,management studies,company innovation,business transformation,information society
Fracture and Friction: Rapid Dynamics of Material Failure (FRACTFRICT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2265399.2
EU funding (EUR): 2265399.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

FractFrict is a comprehensive study of the space-time dynamics that lead to the failure of both bulk materials and frictionally bound interfaces. In these systems, failure is precipitated by rapidly moving singular fields at the tips of propagating cracks or crack-like fronts that cause material damage at microscopic scales. These generate damage that is macroscopically reflected as characteristic large-scale, modes of material failure. Thus, the structure of the fields that microscopically drive failure is critically important for an overall understanding of how macroscopic failure occurs. The innovative real-time measurements proposed here will provide fundamental understanding of the form of the singular fields, their modes of regularization and their relation to the resultant macroscopic modes of failure. Encompassing different classes of bulk materials and material interfaces. We aim to: [1] To establish a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the near-tip singular fields, their regularization modes and how they couple to the macroscopic dynamics in both frictional motion and fracture. [2] To determine the types of singular failure processes in different classes of materials and interfaces (e.g. the brittle to ductile transition in amorphous materials, the role of fast fracture processes in frictional motion). [3] To establish local (microscopic) laws of friction/failure and how they evolve into their macroscopic counterparts [4]. To identify the existence and origins of crack instabilities in bulk and interface failure The insights obtained in this research will enable us to manipulate and/or predict material failure modes. The results of this study will shed considerable new light on fundamental open questions in fields as diverse as material design, tribology and geophysics.

Keywords: pe3_2: mechanical and acoustical properties...
Strongly Coupled QCD Matter (QCDMAT)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1512300.0
EU funding (EUR): 1512300.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This project addresses fundamental issues in the study of nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energy, such as the thermodynamics of matter at extremely high temperature, or the dynamics of the dense system of gluons that constitute most of the wave-function of a nucleus at asymptotically high energy. In either case, one is dealing with strongly interacting systems whose description requires the development of new theoretical tools. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the USA has deeply changed our vision of hot and dense matter, revealing for instance that the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy ion collisions behaves as a strongly coupled liquid with a relatively small viscosity. Soon, beams of lead nuclei will be accelerated at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, with energies exceeding by more than one order of magnitude those of RHIC. New phenomena are likely to be observed, and one of the goals of the project is to develop the theoretical tools that will be needed to understand these phenomena: by developing new, non perturbative methods of quantum field theory in order to calculate the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the initial nuclear wavefunctions; by providing the appropriate theoretical frameworks to interpret the data and possibly suggest new measurements. All members of the proposed research team have made breakthrough contributions to the field. They bring a unique expertise on the various aspects of the project, putting the team in a position to make a groundbreaking contribution. The project has also cross-disciplinary aspects that will be exploited whenever deemed appropriate. This will contribute to broaden the training of the young researchers hired within the project.

Keywords: quark-gluon plasma,qcd,heavy ions
Efficient Shape Optimization of Intake and Exhaust of a Tiltrotor Nacelle (TILTOP)

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-2009-02, 2009)
Start date: 2010-07-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 381600.0
EU funding (EUR): 286200.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The present proposal describes the methodology to be used for an efficient optimization of both the intake and exhaust geometry of a tiltrotor nacelle. Specific objectives of such activity are the following: i) to set up of a comprehensive and fully automatic optimal design tool, integrating the software in use at the GRC consortium and in-house optimizer already developed by the applicant; ii) to implement efficient and robust optimization strategies which help the obtainment of optimal geometry using reasonable computing time; iii) to implement, test and run such tool within the industrial design procedure currently available at the GRC consortium; iv) to apply such tool for the efficiency improvement of both the nacelle intake and the exhaust ducts in order to achieve a significant reduction in the nacelle installation losses. Methodology Objectives i) and iii) will be achieved by means of a dedicated programming activity where the software tools will be interfaced together and with the proprietary optimization tool by the applicant. The result will be a procedure where meshing, geometrical/grid manipulation, as well as CFD analyses will form an automatic loop. Objective ii) will be guaranteed by the capability of the optimizer to efficiently handle complex multiobjective problems; the optimization chain will be conceived in such a way that the user can interact with the optimizer and monitor the whole process as it takes place. Objective iv) will be pursued by applying the optimization tool to review the basic intake and exhaust design, with the aim of minimizing any detrimental effects on both drag and engine installation. Finally, the optimized geometry will be checked for compliance with feasibility constraints in order to accomplish industrial needs for prototyping and testing.

Keywords: tiltrotor,nacelle,intake,exhaust,optimization,nongradient methods,multiobjective evolutionary algorithms
Self-Organisation: From Molecules to Matter (COMPSELF)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2069374.0
EU funding (EUR): 2069374.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This research proposal concerns the theory and computer simulation of self-organisation to predict properties and to design systems with specified characteristics. The key computational challenge is to explore the energy landscape for complex systems and make predictions to characterise efficient self-organisation on experimental time and length scales. Novel methodology is required to overcome the problems of broken ergodicity and rare events. The theoretical framework exploits stationary points of the potential energy landscape to access the required time and length scales. Applications include self-assembly of mesoscopic structures from coarse-grained building blocks and all-atom simulations of conformational changes in specific proteins and nucleic acids. We aim to establish design principles for efficient self-assembly by developing novel tools for visualising and exploration of the corresponding landscape. Here, a key issue is how the interactions between the constituent particles determine the organisation of the energy landscape. Identifying which features lead to successful self-assembly and which disrupt such ordering will lead to a wide range of important applications, ranging from design of new materials to identifying new anti-viral drugs. The same methodology will be applied to detailed models of specific biomolecules, where self-organisation into alternative structures is associated with disease. Global optimisation will be employed in structure prediction for variable pathogens, such as human influenza virus. Pathways for folding and misfolding of specific proteins and nucleic acids will be characterised using novel rare events methodology, providing insight into intermediates that could serve as potential drug targets.

Keywords: energy landscapes,self-assembly,global optimisation,rare events
Dynamical processes in open quantum systems: pushing the frontiers of theoretical spectroscopy (DYNAMO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1877497.0
EU funding (EUR): 1877497.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Scope "Energy Materials. In this project we develop new concepts for building a novel theoretical framework (the ab-initio non-equilibrium dynamical modelling tool”) for understanding, identifying, and quantifying the different contributions to energy harvesting and storage as well as describing transport mechanisms in natural light harvesting complexes, photovoltaic materials, fluorescent proteins and artificial (nanostructured) devices by means of theories of open quantum systems, non-equilibrium processes and electronic structure. We address cutting-edge applications along three major scientific challenges: i) characterize matter out of equilibrium, ii) control material processes at the electronic level and tailor material properties, iii) master energy and information on the nanoscale. The long-term goal is developing a set of theoretical tools for the quantitative prediction of energy transfer phenomena in real systems. We will provide answers to the following questions: What are the design principles from the environment-assisted quantum transport in photosynthetic organisms that can be transferred to nanostructured materials such as organic photovoltaic materials and biomimetic materials? What are the fundamental limits of excitonic transport properties such as exciton diffusion lengths and recombination rates? What is the role of quantum coherence in the energy transport in photosynthetic complexes and photovoltaic materials? What is the role of spatial confinement in water and proton transfer through porous membranes (nano-capillarity)? The ground-breaking nature of the project lies in being the first systematic development and application of the theories of open quantum systems and quantum optimal control within an ab-initio framework (time-dependent-density functional theory). The project will open new methodological, applicative and theoretical horizons of research.

Keywords: non equilibrium phenomena in quantum systems,spectroscopy,chemical reactions,electronic properties,nanophysics