Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Boosted barley utilisation and consumption in the EU for better health (BARLEYBOOST)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Norway,Finland,France,Switzerland,Sweden,United Kingdom,Estonia
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496960.6
EU funding (EUR): 1133000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The two year project for boosted usage of barley in Europe involves nine partners who represent seven countries in Europe. The four SME partners in the consortium seek R&D expertise to develop a novel milling concept for European barley, to produce barley kernels/fractions with a higher level of health components than barley from conventional milling. This potentially opens new markets for the milling industry. It will also increase their milling capacity, reduces waste and create a competitive advantage in terms of diversifying milling and bakery product ranges. Finally it creates opportunities for equipment manufacturers to sell more monitoring and milling systems. There are three main objectives in the BARLEYboost project: 1) To develop monitoring tools for analysis and control of the barley pearling process (during milling), for flour quality analysis, and for end product quality. 2) To develop an innovative barley milling process to enrich different grain tissues and health component. 3) To develop new food products by using barley fractions with proven health claims. The research work will be carried out on behalf of the SME's by Nofima, VTT and INRA. The SME's in the consortium includes the milling company, Stangeland Mølle in Norway, the two bakeries, Råde Bakeri in Norway and Pats in Estonia and the ingredient supplier Macphie in Scotland. The instrumentation company Perten and the global specialist in the supply of plants and services for processing grain Bühler AG will support the project together as larger enterprises.

Keywords: novel monitoring tool,barley,new milling technology,waste reduction,beta-glucan,aleurone layer,barley products with health claims
A process analytical technology for characterising the physical properties of crystals (CRYSTAL-VIS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Ireland,Finland,Ireland,Spain,Ireland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1513201.2
EU funding (EUR): 1152987.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

An active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is the substance in a pharmaceutical drug that has the pharmacological activity. The crystallisation process is a critical step in the API manufacturing process and for delivering “product” in its final form, with some 70 % of products going through a crystallization step at some point in their manufacture. The size and shape of the crystals are important to the quality and safety of the product, and variation during crystal growth can have a significant effect on final product behaviour such as blend homogeneity, drug absorption rates, product robustness, etc. Controlling the final shape and size of crystal is a major challenge to manufacturers, particularly as it is often difficult to measure on line and the crystallisation process is often nonlinear in behaviour. Moreover, API molecules are becoming increasingly complex, tending to reduce aqueous solubility, in turn reducing bioavailability and often leading to difficulties in crystallisation. The ability to understand the crystallisation process would be a breakthrough for API manufacturers and would allow for control of the crystal phase, in terms of purity, particle size and shape, for high quality, safe products. Moreover, the crystal structure during crystal growth is a direct indicator of process end point and if more closely tracked could lead to leaner process development and process monitoring. Moreover, an understanding of crystallisation is fundamental for reducing the incidences of failure in the development of new molecular entities. A group of industrial SMEs have come together to outsource the development of a revolutionary imaging-based physical characterisation device that will provide the API industry with real-time information of all crystal physical characteristics in-line in a crystallisation process, thereby allowing this critical of processes for the behaviour of the end-product to be controlled

Keywords: novel microscopy methods,pattern recognition methods
Control of Campylobacter infection in broiler flocks through two-steps strategy: nutrition and vaccination (CAMPYBRO)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,France,Spain,France,Netherlands,Hungary,Hungary,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2693116.87
EU funding (EUR): 1793871.2
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Campylobacteriosis is the most frequently reported zoonotic illness at the EU in 2011, with 9 million human cases, and a total annual cost of 2.4 billion € per year in the EU27. Poultry meat is the major single source of human infection. Recent studies have shown that European broiler flocks have a high prevalence of Campylobacter colonization with an average of 71%. However, there is still no effective, reliable and practical strategy available to prevent or to reduce Campylobacter colonization in broilers. The objective of the present project is to develop a two-steps strategy in order to fight against Campylobacter in primary poultry production: first step nutritional approach, through the use of a synergic combination of different products such as plant extracts (PE), organic acids (OA), prebiotics (PRE), probiotics (PRO), and feed presentation (FP) through 4 work packages (WPs) in which trials with infected broilers and in experimental and real conditions will be done. In a second step, vaccination approach based on a novel development of a Campylobacter vaccine through the use of reverse vaccinology. The expected results of the project will be a short term strategy through new nutritional strategies based on a synergic combination of feed products and feed presentation and a medium term strategy through a novel vaccine to reduce the prevalence of Campylobacter in broiler flocks. The consortium is formed by five National poultry producers SME-AGs (PROPOLLO, FIA, CIDEF, NEPLUVI and BTT), two RTD (ANSES, and IMASDE) and three SMEs (MIKROLAB, REDONDO, and CZV).

Keywords: campylobacter,poultry,plant extracts,essential oils,organic acids,probiotics,prebiotics,vaccines
High durability and fire performance WPC for ventilated façades (HIFIVENT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1481808.07
EU funding (EUR): 1070000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Buildings are called upon to be integrated in the urban spaces, which needs aesthetic requirements of the external envelop. Moreover, the façades of buildings must be long-lasting and ensure well-being inside the building (thermal isolation, walls breathing). Nowadays major activity in the construction sector in Europe is retrofitting, representing the 42% of existing buildings and making up about 75% of the building stock in 2050. Most of these activities are linked to ageing of the façades and solving of insulation problems, where the Ventilated façades are considered as one of the most efficient systems. Current systems present disadvantages related to corrosion, environmental impact (aluminium), recyclability, size and weight (ceramic, stone…). An environmental-friendly solution, overcoming all the mentioned drawbacks and with natural aesthetic appeal is wood, but the material lacks the necessary durability for outdoor exposition. This drawback can be addressed by new technological materials which incorporate wood in a high per cent, combining it with polymers (Wood Polymer Composites/WPCs). WPCs offer better thermal and acoustic isolation than aluminium, and better durability than wood. However it can be stated that although durability is highly increased, it continues being the main problem. When using WPCs as building components another problem arising is their poor fire performance. HIFIVENT aims the development of a WPC based ventilated façade addressing the following issues: -Improve weathering properties by fibre hydrophobation and highly protective co-extruded layer; -Use of nanotechnology to improve mechanical and fire properties. Goal of Euroclass B-s3,d0 fire performance (halogen-free system). -Improve mechanical performance by using long fibres for structural parts. -Fully recyclable system. Partners with complementary expertise; 5 SMEs: BAVE (DE), BEOLOGIC (BE), ESCANERO (SP), UXAMA (SP), PROLABIN (IT) and 3 RTDs:TECNALIA (SP), WKI (DE) and UNIPG (IT).

Keywords: nanoclays modification,wood fibres hydrophobitation,fire retardancy,wpc,cone calorimeter
Development of an innovative translucent concrete sandwich panel with dynamic control of light transmission (BRIGHTWALL)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Denmark,Denmark,France,Denmark,Spain,Denmark,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2111985.4
EU funding (EUR): 1639000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The BrightWall consortium – comprising a value chain of three European SME manufacturers and distributors of light guide technology, building materials and technology embedded concrete, together with an architecture SME and an SME specialized in sustainable construction – aims to pursue a major market opportunity through the development of an innovative concrete material tailored for building applications, which allows for controlled transmission of daylight into buildings. BrightWall targets the development of a new building material – translucent concrete – in the form of a sandwich panel intended for façades and load bearing applications, which has high architectural potential and also meets important considerations for both energy efficiency and indoor climate through the supply of natural light. The concept targets radical innovations enabling dynamic control of daylight transmission through liquid crystals and addresses S&T barriers related to the production of prefabricated wall sandwich panels with embedded optical guides and thermal insulation. BrightWall allows entirely novel applications and enables a range of benefits and unique selling propositions to a very large group of potential end-users in construction and creative industries – most notably mitigation of environmental problems; improved indoor climate and the promotion of energy-efficient buildings. At the same time, BrightWall represents an attractive business case and will entail increased competitiveness for the SME value chain and for the EU as a whole. The SME consortium has the capabilities to produce and market the new product, but lacks the financial resources as well as the expertise in photonics, building materials and electronics to enable the required technological development. Therefore, the group has identified the Research for SMEs programme as the suitable vehicle for overcoming the technological and financial barriers associated with the achievement of the objective.

Keywords: optical guide technology,liquid crystals,manufacturing techniques,innovative materials.
Detection and multimodal presentation of indoor objects for visually impaired people (RANGE-IT)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-11-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1264972.0
EU funding (EUR): 956000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The World Health Organisation states that one of 175 people is totally blind. The majority of these people are only mobile if they have help of others, or solely use known pace ways. Besides the cane with a limited range and an expensive guide dog, there are very few aids that support individual mobility of the visually impaired. Available assistant equipment and navigation systems based on GPS have some additional value to determine global directions, but are not able to deal with (moving) persons and obstacles, have a low accuracy and do not work indoors. This project will develop the stand-alone wearable RANGE-IT prototype, which detects and presents close range objects (<7 meter) to the user in any indoor space. Furthermore, specific reference points (e.g., stairs) will be identified. Based on individual needs and with respect to context, presentation of information will be in tactile and/or audio modality. RANGE-IT will be built using affordable components, taking advantage of the latest developments in tactile and 3D camera hardware and image recognition software. An iterative co-creation design process will be followed to ensure an optimal integration and user acceptance. The successful development of the RANGE-IT system will make it the first indoor stand-alone system in the world to assist blind persons in navigating through the environment. It will increase the individual mobility of visually impaired people and their participation in society.

Keywords: tof camera,obstacle detection,pattern recognition,obstacle presentation,haptic interaction,blind guidance,tactile interaction
Convenience Food Enriched with Marine based Raw Materials (ENRICHMAR)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Iceland,Netherlands,Finland,Italy,Norway,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2014-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1911333.34
EU funding (EUR): 1490000.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Recent process improvements have created new possibilities for the use of marine based ingredients in functional foods. Consumers tend to favour functional foods over supplementary pills as means to prevent diseases. The market for these types of products is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. By adding marine-based bioactive ingredients from low value by-products and underutilised raw material to foods they obtain added value, both economical, for health and more sustainable use of resources. Few natural food antioxidants are commercially available on the market. Due to strong market demand and very positive preliminary tests it is believed that seaweed food antioxidant extracts can be highly competitive on the market and find various uses in food. A unique new tasteless omega-3 powder ingredient is new on the market with the ability to both regulate and maintain the body’s omega-6/omega-3 fatty acid balance while simultaneously safeguarding the daily need for omega-3 from fish and protective biological antioxidants from olives (flavonoids). The aim is to increase the value of convenience food by enriching seafood, cereal and dairy products with bioactive compounds; powder of fish oil and seaweed extracts with confirmed bioavailability. The functional properties of the enriched products will be studied via dietary intervention. The consortium consists of SME’s interested in strengthening their competiveness, increasing market share and creating business opportunities in national and European markets using the expert knowledge and capacity provided by the RTDs. New markets for bioactive marine based products, seaweed and fish oil as ingredients in functional (sea) foods, cereal and dairy will open and increase the competitiveness of the SME´. Verification of physiological health effect of consumption of enriched food is of high importance to the ingredients and the food producers as well as European consumers.

Keywords: consumer,concepts,intervention,food development
Novel monitoring and process control system for efficient production of VFA and biogas in anaerobic digestion plant (OPTI-VFA)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Finland,France,Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1487698.8
EU funding (EUR): 1149995.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The OPTI-VFA project focuses on improving the reliability, efficiency and profitability of AD processes by novel process monitoring and controlling tools. The main emphasis in the project will be in the development of production of VFA (Volatile Fatty Acids) as a route to bio-based materials, i.e. so-called VFA platform. In the VFA platform, the real time monitoring of VFA production will be of fundamental importance in the success of the further development of this process scheme. In the future scenarios, this platform is foreseen to play an important role in the material recycling in the bio-based economy. The number of operating agricultural anaerobic digestion (AD) plants has remained insupportable low, despite the numerous environmental advantages of AD process. Therefore, these tools are also applied in the conventional biogas production. The main challenges in the traditional biogas production are high investment costs of digesters, low profitability of biogas and energy production as well as the stability problems of operation especially in co-digestion plants. In this process scheme, the more efficient process control provides an approach to reduce the size and price of newly-built digesters, or to improve the performance and profitability of existing AD plants. The technological development in the process instrumentation in the OPTI-VFA project will focus on the MEMS-Fabry Perot based spectrometer and the science based calibration (SBC) method together with supervisory control and data acquisition systems for the effective control and optimization of both VFA and conventional biogas production. In all, an OPTI-VFA prototype with these new process instrumentation and automation features will be designed, fabricated, calibrated and tested in a modern AD pilot plant. The participating SMEs in the OPTI-VFA consortium cover the entire value chain in the monitoring and controlling business including sub-contractors for instrument vendors, a monitoring instrument vendor, a process automation company, AD process equipment vendor and an end-user company – an AD operator.

Keywords: anaerobic digestion,vfa production,biogas production,optical measurements process simulation and modelling industrial design and prototyping,calibration expertise,software development
Commercialization of an Innovative Microfluidic Impedance-based Device for multi-parametric cell analysis (DIMIDPLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Demonstration Activity
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Switzerland,Spain,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2013, 2013)
Start date: 2013-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2179246.56
EU funding (EUR): 1406928.56
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

This DIMIDplus Demonstration Action is a direct follow-on of the DIMID (286692, FP7-SME-2011) project. The DIMID project is successful, on time, in its second year finishing in Sep 2013 and both its efficiency and its potential are proven already. The work achieved so far is promising to reach the set objectives. The mode of collaboration among the SMEs is productive. The SMEs form a strong consortium with the potential to market also a complex high-tech product like DIMID. This represents a significant value for the industrial strength of Europe. The RTD's have done and are still doing an excellent job. What remains is that the SMEs themselves invest a common effort into the last mile of commercialization, which shall be realised within this Demonstration Activity scheduled for 18 months. The DIMID project will lead to the first prototypes of low-cost impedance-based cytometer suitable for non-spherical cells. Based on these prototypes the DIMIDplus consortium aims to commercialize a portable impedance-based microfluidic cytometer equipped with disposable chips. The consortium of the DIMIDplus project consists of all formerly involved SMEs (ZURICH, CELLIX, CYTOGNOS) and is complemented by LABS64 (IT provider, specialized in software quality, verification and testing) and AMPHASYS (single-cell electrical impedance technology leader and IPR holder) to commercialize the DIMID device and the electronic unit by verifying their performance, further testing to increase reliability, checking CE conformity and product packaging.

Keywords: cytometry,microfluidics,impedance spectroscopy,flow cytometry software,haemotology assay market,disposable chips