Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Information Service on Agricultural Change (ISAC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Austria,United Kingdom,Ethiopia
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1656762.05
EU funding (EUR): 1250757.08
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Agricultural resources are in high demand to sustain the world’s growing population. In Europe, agriculture is regulated and monitored through the CAP and agricultural insurances are increasing in importance as an instrument for risk management. In the developing world droughts and other natural disasters impact vulnerable populations and lead to famines and starvation. The EC development policy and its emergency response mechanisms address these issues through actions that aim at reducing the occurrence and impacts. Agriculture and environment are both priorities for Europe’s GMES initiative. Satellite images with a high temporal frequency (daily) but low spatial resolution (>250m) are frequently used for agricultural monitoring. However, since the early 2000, new high frequency, high resolution (<30m) wide swath sensors have become available. The ISAC proposal intends to explore improvements of current Agricultural Services based upon such high frequency, high resolution data. It intends to expand the capabilities of LMCS and ERCS for what concerns the agro-environment. ISAC proposes to develop and test feasibility of 3 services: 1. Core Mapping Service (CMS) on High Resolution Biophysical Parameters (ABP-CMS) 2. Core Information Service (CIS) on Drought stress (DS-CIS) 3. Core Information Service (CIS) on Agricultural change (AC-CIS) Purpose of the ABP-CMS, in analogy to the BIOPAR-CMS of the LMCS, is to produce vegetation parameters (NDVI, fAPAR,…) with much greater spatial detail based on sensors like DMC. Purpose of the DS-CIS is to build synergy between vegetation indicators of high and low spatial detail in order to enhance the current capabilities of satellite-based drought information systems. Purpose of the AC-CIS is to analyse agricultural change taking global seasonal climate forecasts as well as satellite data into account. ISAC services will be demonstrated and validated in East-Africa, Spain and Belgium.

Keywords: deimos-1,biophysical parameters,drought,agricultural change
Nanotechnology Enhanced Extruded Fibre Reinforced Foam Cement Based Environmentally Friendly Sandwich Material for Building Applications (FIBCEM)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Lithuania,Denmark,Spain,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy,Denmark
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3780608.6
EU funding (EUR): 2747570.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Fibre Reinforced Cement (FRC) is a durable, fire and corrosion resistant material widely used in the construction industry. Coupled with the low cost of Portland cement, these properties make it ideally suited for applications such as roofing tiles and sidings. However the production of cement is associated with a large CO2 ‘footprint’, for each tonne of cement produced nearly one tonne of CO2 is emitted. This has resulted in FRC becoming stigmatised as a ‘dirty’ material. In addition the high density of cement and hence FRC products results in high transport costs for the producers and high end user installation costs. In order to improve the poor environmental impact of FRC and improve its specific properties, we will develop a cement based, nanotechnology enhanced material produced by a low energy consuming process. The material will consist of a cement based sandwich consisting of a foam cement core and fibre reinforced cement ‘skins’. The foam core will be produced using a nanoscale foaming agent to ensure the formation of an optimum closed cell foam structure with a micro-scale cell size with a narrow cell size distribution. Both the foam and the ‘skins’ will be reinforced with nanoclays to improve both the mechanical and transport properties of the material. The foam cement core will result in a lower density compared to existing FRC, whilst the reinforced skins will ensure the mechanical properties are improved. Added functionality in the form of decreased thermal conductivity and increased sound insulation properties will result from the foam core. The material will be produced by a low energy multilayer extrusion process in which both the foam cement core and fibre reinforced skins are simultaneously formed such that no discontinuity is formed between them. By using a foam core and replacing part of the cement with materials such as fly ash and silica fume, the CO2 footprint of the material will be significantly reduced compared to existing FRC.

Keywords: fibre cement extrusion nanotechnology carbon dioxide energy reduction sandwich structure foam nanoclay
Flash Optical Sensor for Terrain Relative Robotic Navigation (FOSTERNAV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Switzerland,Finland,France,Germany,Finland
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 41.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2662263.0
EU funding (EUR): 1953289.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The general goal of the project is to develop an innovative solution for spacecrafts' Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) sensor for relative navigation. It is a contribution to the strengthening of the European position for space exploration. It targets the improvement of the accuracy and robustness of spacecraft position and attitude control to, for example, land softly and precisely sensitive scientific payload on extraterrestrial bodies. This project is proposed in relation with the technological field (C) IN-FLIGHT NAVIGATION AND CONTROL of the topic FP7-SPA.2010.2.1-04 "Space transportation for space exploration". Several space exploration missions are foreseen at an international level targeting the Moon, Mars or asteroids. To reach these future missions’ terms of requirement, new GNC technologies are needed. It is the frame for which the project FOSTERNAV has been imagined. The objectives are twofold: the development of novel optical sensor architecture and the demonstration of its applicability for object relative robotic navigation for space applications. The concept is to merge in a sensor architecture the last research concepts of laser rangefinder or Light Detection and Ranging device (LIDAR) for space applications and introduce new elements having demonstrated technological supremacy in other fields such as the security or the robotic. The first phase of the project will investigate mission scenarios. The sensor specifications and the applicability test protocols will be specified upon these investigations. The sensor development and realization will take place in the second phase of the project. In the second phase, the ground dynamic and applicability assessment facilities and the test protocols for the sensor will also be studied. The project will end with a third phase where a prototype of the flash optical sensor will be assessed to demonstrate the applicability of the sensor typology for relative navigation.

Keywords: sensor,lidar,entry,descent and landing,focal plane array,multi-beam optics,laser,rendezvous,docking,flash lidar
Small debris removal by laser illumination and complementary technologie (CLEANSPACE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,Germany,France,Spain,France,Poland,Poland,Poland,France
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2882883.8
EU funding (EUR): 1976440.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal aims to answer the FP7 Security research call SPA-2010-2.3.02 and the need to protect space assets from orbit collision. The number of debris in Low Earth Orbit is exponentially increasing with, in the short term, potential inter debris collisions. For medium size debris (between 1 cm and several dozens of cm) no effective and affordable protecting solution is available. This project also intends to protect the environment from chain reaction of debris production. Overall CLEANSPACE objective is to define a global architecture (including surveillance, identification and tracking) for an innovative ground-based laser solution which can remove hazardous medium debris around selected space assets. This approach is divided into three steps:  To propose an efficient and affordable global system architecture by taking up survey, tracking, identification and debris treatment by laser system fully in complement with Space Situational Awareness (SSA) ESA programme,  To tackle safety regulation aspects, political implications and future collaborations,  To develop affordable technological bricks and to establish roadmap for the development and the future implantation of a fully functional laser protection system. The study approach is built to be fully complementary to SSA programme. This study is fully part of FP7, SPACE Theme because it will allow Europe to be a key actor for laser debris removal system able to discuss the subject with the USA and Russia and able to guide future ESA work and regulations. The main driver of the project will be to reduce the cost of such a system focusing on the Laser technology brick which is the key to propose an affordable system. Scalable laser architecture, ceramic laser active material, laser coherent coupling, alternative narrowband pump sources and laser matter interaction will be the technology fingers of the CLEAN-SPACE innovations.

Keywords: laser illumination complementary technologies
A new generation of fibre-based diagnostic sensors (BIOGNOSTIX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Switzerland,Italy,United Kingdom,Finland,Spain
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SME-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4725690.0
EU funding (EUR): 3680105.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The BiognostiX project will develop technologies and flexible manufacturing methods for the fabrication of inexpensive biodiagnostic sensors on fibre-based substrates (e.g. paper or card). Fabrication will be based on fluid-jet techniques, allowing the sensor platforms to be reconfigurable (customisable) at the point of manufacture to perform different biodiagnostic test functions including quantitative immunoassay. The deposition of selected reagents and materials for the capture, labelling and indication of analyte levels in a biological serum sample will be spatially reconfigurable during manufacture, so as to be suitable for different biodiagnostic tests and/or different test methodologies. This will be combined with innovative microfluidic matrix structures for the transport of fluids to different spatial areas on the test platform. These will also be configurable (for example by creating channel blocks or applying wetting agents) to give a highly flexible manufacturing technology for biodiagnostic tests, enabling, for example, simultaneous multi-analyte testing and combinatorial test development. For quantitative analysis the sensor platforms will be coupled to portable optical readout equipment capable of fast and accurate analysis, and suitable for Point-of-Care (POC) use (for example hospital bedside, doctor’s surgery or home testing). The application focus in the project will be on POC immunoassay for the detection and quantification of disease markers in medical, veterinary and other diagnostic applications.

Keywords: diagnostic sensor immunoassay inkjet manufacturing fibre paper card immunosensor fluidjet
Neurophysiological and functional mechanisms of human voluntary action control (HUVAC)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: France
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-03-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1466160.0
EU funding (EUR): 1466160.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Humans carry out actions either in response to environmental demands, or independently of external input in order to achieve their goals. The first type of action may be referred to as stimulus-based or reactive, the latter kind may be referred to as intention-based or voluntary. Voluntary actions are an important component of our interaction with the environment and our social lives. Yet, research on human action has only relatively recently begun to try to understand the control of voluntary actions, focusing instead on action that is performed in response to a stimulus in the environment. The proposed project will pursue this attempt to elucidate the functional and neurophysiological underpinnings of voluntary actions along several axes (e.g., neural and functional mechanisms of voluntary action control, functional differences between voluntary and stimulus-based action control, mechanisms of action-effect learning). The project will approach these issues with the help of techniques coming from psychophysics (e.g., signal detection theory) and neurophysiology (EEG, fMRI), separately, and also in combination. Its aim is to shed light on yet unexplored issues in research on voluntary action control, such as its cortical mechanisms and time course, and to provide new methods for further sophisticated investigation.

Keywords: voluntary action control,eeg,fmri
Roll-to-roll PAper Sensors (ROPAS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Netherlands,Finland,Spain,France,Netherlands,Finland,Poland,Netherlands,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2010-SME-4, 2010)
Start date: 2011-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4627514.0
EU funding (EUR): 3299419.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

ROPAS aims to develop a wireless sensor device on a paper surface which can be manufactured using high-end and low-cost printing techniques. A technological platform is created on a fiber based substrate consisting of the following building blocks: 1. a planar printed battery, 2. a (wireless) signaling device, and 3. a printed sensor switch. Hereto, recent advantages in nanotechnology ((encapsulation) printing, surface modification of fiber based products, sensor and battery development), biotechnology (enzyme encapsulation) and ICT (wireless communication) are integrated on paper. The technological platform can be used to create various high impact (security) applications, which are demonstrated in security tags and smart labels for anti counterfeiting purposes to integrate displays in paper and smart track and trace envelopes. ROPAS will demonstrate products which give the consumer the benefit of saving time and giving more information about the package than possible today, at a low additional cost. Simultaneously creating new products and virgin businesses to boost the paper and pulp industry. The project results in: design guidelines for the technological platform, the creation of printable sensor materials, and processes for printing of such materials including conditioning of the paper substrates. The consortium is carefully constructed based on: 1. Technologically advanced SMEs: Enfucell (printed battery), and MPicoSys(system architecture), who both received awards for there innovative strength and S2 Grupo (ICT security); 2. SMEs and companies with high potential to market and exploit ROPAS technology: Starcke (security tags), Velpa (smart labels) and ELEP (smart envelopes), Loginle (security shipping) and Oce (printed intelligence); 3. High impact RTDs: TNO (sensor development, coating, printing, ICT), VTT (paper modification, intelligent printing processes, enzyme technology), CEA (battery development) and Itene (environmental studies)

Keywords: fibre based product,paper,printing,printed battery,pressure-sensitive sensor,anti-tampering,security tag,wireless communication
Development of Pre-operational Services for Highly Innovative Maritime Surveillance Capabilities (DOLPHIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Space-based applications at the service of the European Society
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,United Kingdom,Greece,France,Netherlands,Germany,Italy,Portugal,Spain,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6991197.2
EU funding (EUR): 3992375.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Taking benefit from the previous and on-going efforts in the GMES context, the DOLPHIN project intends to develop the key technological and operational gap-filling innovations, leading in the mid-term to a full and sustainable operational exploitation of Earth Observation Satellites capabilities in the EU and MS maritime policies applications. DOLPHIN aims at developing new tools providing effective improvements of the state-of-the-art capabilities in Maritime Surveillance with respect to Users’ real needs in particular through filling their present technological gaps. The identification of these technological gaps is made easier by the fact that the DOLPHIN partners have developed a solid experience through a number of past and on going initiatives, such as LIMES, MARISS, MarCoast, EMSA CSN, in which a wide European Users community in the Maritime Surveillance sector has already taken an active part in identifying application needs and technological gaps. DOLPHIN will respond to the specific Users need, focused on Users’ missions, through the development of Decision Support Modules (DSM) which will integrate innovative Software Tools, aiming at filling the identified technological gaps according to specific policy-driven requirements and scenarios. Five policy areas have been selected as being in most need of improvement: Border Surveillance, Traffic Safety, Environmental Protection, Fisheries Control and Search and Rescue. Each policy area has categories of users that are quite different, so each policy area will be addressed through a specific DSM. Users will play an important role in the consolidation of the operational scenarios, to ensure that they are significant and representative of the complexity of the requirements. They will also be involved in the validation of the Operational Scenarios, when modules will be integrated in operational Services Chains and their actual effectiveness will be measured on the basis of the given definition.

Keywords: maritime survelliance decision support
High Energy Solar Physics Data in Europe (HESPE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Space
Destination: Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Austria,France,United States
Call:  (FP7-SPACE-2010-1, 2010)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2213164.12
EU funding (EUR): 1569808.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Hard X-ray observations provide a direct observational link to the acceleration and transport of highly energetic particles in solar flares, a phenomenon that has many significant solar-terrestrial consequences. We propose to mainstream the exploitation of high energy solar physics data in Europe. To achieve this overall objective, we will proceed with three complementary activities: theory, computation, and technology. The theory activity will build the background necessary to generalize the use of these data. The computation activity will focus on mathematical techniques to efficiently extract information out of the data. The technology activity will build up on these two work packages to generate science ready data products. These products will be easy to use by both the broader solar and heliospheric physics community, and the space weather community. More specifically, these communities will be able to use these data to build flare prediction models and to integrate them to test their own data analysis projects. The three activities will pave the way not only for the exploitation of the sheer amount of data already available today, but also for the future high energy solar space missions planned. This way, the project as a whole will guarantee a stable and long term positioning of Europe in the sustainable exploitation of such data products.

Keywords: hard x-rays acceleration mechanisms computational methods inverse problems rhessi e-infrastructures
Multisensory Integration and Attention (MIA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: The Human Mind and its complexity
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-StG_20091209, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1450672.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450672.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The world around us is immensely rich in sensory information, which we perceive through a varied range of different sensory systems (enabling us to feel, hear, see…). Yet, our perceptual experience is not a sensory piecemeal, but a unitary phenomenon brought about by Multisensory Integration mechanisms. MSI is in charge of binding sensory input to create faithful and coherent representations of the environment, an ability that confers important advantages in terms of optimizing behavioural outcomes. For example, people often find it easier to speak with someone when they can see their partner’s face, as lip and facial movements compensate for acoustic noise. The novelty of the project is that it focuses on internal processes, and in particular attention, to be of utmost importance during MSI. Attention enables efficient allocation of limited cognitive and neural resources, and therefore it plays a paramount role in perception, cognition and action. The aim is to understand the interplay between attention and the mechanisms of multisensory integration. Unravelling this interplay presents important challenges but, in return, promises to provide very important insights into how perception is accomplished by the human mind and brain. In particular, the driving hypothesis underlying the present proposal is that objects of perception are multi-sensory defined events, and that attention plays a key role in building up and maintaining these perceptual representations. The strategy is to address this dynamic interplay between MSI and Attention by addressing a set of key specific research questions by means of converging methodological approaches. I propose to undertake this task with the help of a multidisciplinary team of researchers of different backgrounds, and a set of research methods including a behavioural approach (psychophysics in healthy adult humans, developmental studies and neuropsychology) combined with selective use of brain imaging stimulation.

Keywords: cognitive neuroscience,attention,perception,multisensory integration