European research project - COMUE Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

European research project

2023

Funding scheme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: FEMTO-ST / ENSMM
UBFC project coordinator: Yann Le Gorrec

Resume:

The ModConFlex consortium has expertise in control theory, artificial intelligence, complex dynamical systems, distributed parameter systems, fluid dynamics, aeroelasticity, power electronics, power systems, swimming theory and marine engineering. Our aim is to train the next generation of researchers on the modelling and control of flexible structures interacting with fluids (water and air), contributing to the latest advances in control theory, artificial intelligence and energy-based modelling. Our main applications are in the control of floating wind turbines, and in the control of highly flexible aircraft, aircraft with very high aspect ratio. Our research plans are organized into three scientific work packages, which cover mathematical systems theory (modelling and model reduction, boundary control systems, port-Hamiltonian systems, exact beam theory), relevant aspects of control theory (internal model controllers with anti-windup, nonlinear model predictive control, robust control), reinforcement learning, aeroelasticity, stochastic algorithms.

Partners (6):

  • Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal (DE)
  • Tel Aviv University (IL)
  • Universiteit Twente (NL)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université de Bordeaux (FR)
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (DE)

Funding scheme: HORIZON-CSA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Centre Lucien Febvre (EA 2273) / uFC
UBFC project coordinator: Marie Barral-Baron Daussy

Resume:

The heritage of ancient Greece is commonly acclaimed as a ‘pillar’ of common European culture and identity. The complex historical processes of. cultural reception and appropriation that shaped this notion are, however, still hardly understood. The project ‘Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity’ (GrECI) explores a key phase in this process: the reception and appropriation of ancient Greek culture in early modern Europe (15th-17th century), from the so-called ‘rediscovery’ of Greek language and literature to their full incorporation in the European cultural landscape. It aims at creating the interdisciplinary and international framework required to address this complex historical subject and its implications for present-day ideas of European identity. To achieve this, several vibrant disciplines that are pivotal to understanding early modern Hellenism but are seldom joined to shed light on the subject: the history of the book and material heritage studies, language andThe heritage of ancient Greece is commonly acclaimed as a ‘pillar’ of common European culture and identity.

 

Partners (6):

  • University Of Cyprus (CY)
  • Universitetet I Oslo (NO)
  • UBFC (FR)

Funding scheme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved laboratory: Biogéosciences / uB
UBFC project coordinator: Quentin Jossart

Resume:

The intertidal zone (seashore) is a critical environment at the interface of marine and terrestrial habitats, where inter-linked environmental and anthropogenic stressors occur. In polar regions, especially in the Southern Ocean, biological communities living in the intertidal zone remain largely underexplored. Understanding the diversity and biogeographic relationships existing among intertidal communities would prove central for deciphering their origin and evolution. It is also crucial to assess their vulnerability to global changes as the Southern Ocean is currently facing fast pace environmental changes. BioRISC aims to evaluate the biodiversity, biogeography, and resilience of intertidal communities at an unprecedented spatial scale across the Antarctic and the sub-Antarctic. By using an integrative, community-based approach, the project will address fundamental ecological questions involving the assessment of biogeographic regions, the importance of environmental heterogeneities and the evaluation of community resilience to climate change scenarios. In addition, BioRISC has a strong conservation component, including the monitoring of non-native species: the results will fit the needs of nature managers at both the regional and global scales. Altogether, BioRISC will therefore provide a critical assessment of the uniqueness of these communities and test how their composition and distribution are likely to shift in the future based on IPCC-derived scenarios of climate change.

 

Partners (9):

  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université de Bourgogne (FR)
  • Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle (FR)
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
  • Universidad de Magallanes (CL)
  • Universidad de Chile (CL)
  • Keio University (JP)
  • SAERI (UK)
  • AAD (AU)

Funding scheme: HORIZON-JU-IA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: FEMTO-ST / uFC
UBFC project coordinator: Dominique Perreux

Resume:

Within the CAVENDISH project, breakthrough technologies related to direct (100% hydrogen) combustion systems will be researched, prototyped and integrated onto a modern donor aeroengine for ground testing (starting in late 2024). CAVENDISH aims to meet the European Green Deal target of reaching carbon neutrality in the aviation industry by 2050.

CAVENDISH’s second objective will be to work on system and powerplant aircraft integration with several established airframers and a supplemental type certificate organisation to define certification pathways and formulate a route to permit to fly. This activity will directly benefit the flight test of the donor engine scheduled for the next phase of the Clean Aviation programme.

CAVENDISH will also explore alternative enabling technologies in the form of a dual fuel combustor system (capable of operating on 100% hydrogen and 100% SAF) and in the form of a cryo-compressed tank system. Both these technologies will offer flexibility and could ease the introduction of hydrogen in aviation.

 

Partners (12):

  • Rolls-Royce Deutschland LTD & CO KG (DE)
  • Dassault Aviation (FR)
  • Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft – Und Raumfahrt Ev (DE)
  • Netherlands Aircraft Company N.V. (NL)
  • Technische Universitat Darmstadt (DE)
  • Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Lucht – En Ruimtevaartcentrum (NL)
  • Fokker Services BV (NL)
  • Hensoldt Nexeya France (FR)
  • MAHYTEC SARL (FR)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Industria De Turbo Propulsores S.A.U. (ES)
  • Airholding S.A. (PT)

Funding scheme: HORIZON-RIA

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved laboratory: Chrono-environnement / uFC
UBFC project coordinator: Michel Chalot

Resume:

EDAPHOS proposes a holistic and innovative land management approach to contribute to the Mission “A Soil Deal for EU” and to its specific objective “Reduce soil pollution and enhance restoration”. EDAPHOS will develop a framework for land rehabilitation and ecological restoration of contaminated areas featuring nature-based solutions (NBS) technologies, to accelerate the recovery of contaminated lands to a healthy ecosystem status and making ecological restoration a mainstream business endeavor.

 

Partners (12):

  • UBFC (FR)
  • Centre for Renewable Energy Sources And Saving Fondation (EL)
  • Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita Di Bologna (IT)
  • Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (ES)
  • LGI Sustainable Innovation (FR)
  • Phytowelt Greentechnologies GMBH (DE)
  • Amphos 21 Consulting SL (ES)
  • Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (FR)
  • Evotropia Ecological Finance Architectures IKE (EL)
  • ELVESYS (FR)
  • Institut National de l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques – INERIS (FR)
  • Glowny Instytut Gornictwa (PL)

Funding scheme: HORIZON-RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: FEMTO-ST / UTBM
UBFC project coordinator: Fei GAO

Resume:

The EU roadmap towards a climate-neutral economy by 2050 sets ambitious decarbonisation targets that shall be achieved by a massive deployment of renewable energy sources. Energy storage improves grid flexibility and allows higher penetration levels of renewable energy sources, yet its implies second-life batteries optimization.

Battery management plays an essential role by ensuring an efficient and safe battery operation. However, current battery management systems (BMS) typically rely on semi-empirical battery models (such as equivalent-circuit models) and on a limited amount of measured data.

Therefore, ENERGETIC project aims to develop the next generation BMS for optimizing batteries’ systems utilisation in the first (transport) and the second life (stationary) in a path towards more reliable, powerful and safer operations. ENERGETIC project contributes to the field of translational enhanced sensing technologies, exploiting multiple Artificial Intelligence models, supported by Edge and Cloud computing. ENERGETIC encompasses monitoring, prognosis the remaining useful life of a Li-ion battery with a digital twin and diagnosis by scrutinising the reasons for degradation through investigating the explainable AI models. This involves development of new technologies of sensing, combination and validation of multiphysics and data driven models, information fusion through Artificial Intelligence, Real time testing and smart Digital Twin development.

 

Partners (13):

  • Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Strasbourg (FR)
  • Altran Prototypes Automobiles (FR)
  • University of Bath (UK)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université du Luxembourg (LU)
  • Électricité de France (FR)
  • Zabala Innovation Consulting, S.A. (ES)
  • Hochschule Karlsruhe (DE)
  • Coventry University (UK)
  • Tajfun Hil Drustvo Sa Ogranicenom Odgovornoscu Za Istrazivanje, Proizvodnju, Trgovinu I Usluge Novi Sad (RS)
  • Tallinna Tehnikaülikool (EE)
  • Powerup (FR)
  • Forsee Power (FR)

2022

Funding scheme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: FEMTO-ST / ENSMM
UBFC project coordinator: Samuel Margueron

Resume :

The rapid technological improvement in the semiconductor industry has enabled smaller and smaller devices to pervade our everyday lives. The real challenge in reducing size is drastically reducing the power consumption, since the space available for the batteries is reduced. An electronic device that dramatically reduces its power consumption can be powered by an alternative “green” source of energy such as light or vibration enabling the vision of the “Internet of Things”.

UBIGIoT aims to substantially enhance the energy efficiency of an IoT sensor node by a synergetic approach targeting both multisource harvesters and the System-on-Chip (SoC) design. The effectiveness of the proposed approach will be verified and validated on demonstrators of industrial interest. The project targets to be innovative, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral.

Partners (5):

  • Universita Degli Studi Di Genova (IT)
  • Universita Degli Studi Di Catania (IT)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • University College Cork – National University Of Ireland, Cork (IE)
  • STMICROELECTRONICS SRL (IT)

Funding scheme: DIGITAL-SIMPLE

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: FEMTO-ST / uFC
UBFC project coordinator: Christophe Guyeux

Resume :

Polytronics is dedicated to supporting SMEs in their digital transition, in respect of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a focus on the polymer industry: plastics, textiles, elastomers and rubbers, composites. Indeed, these industries are often traditional and conservative, especially in the textile sector. They suffer from the lack of data exploitation even though their manufacturing lines could be equipped with sensors.

Polytronics aims to help companies in the polymers industry in their digital maturity by leveraging the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on exploitable data from their products and manufacturing processes.

Thanks to Polytronics, SMEs will benefit from the cross scientific expertise of the project’s partner specialists. They will facilitate the implementation of AI in their company, without negative disruption to their business.


Partners
(18):

  • POLYMERIS (FR)
  • Association Techtera Auvergne Rhône Alpes (FR)
  • Centre Technique Industriel de la Plasturgie et des Composites (FR)
  • Institut Français du Textile et de l’Habillement (FR)
  • Université d’Orléans (FR)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • CRESITT INDUSTRIE (FR)
  • SWARM (FR)
  • Mayfair Village (FR)
  • INNOVALLYS (FR)
  • École Nationale Supérieure Arts Industries Textiles (FR)
  • Université Lyon 1 Claude Bernard (FR)
  • Altair Engineering France (FR)
  • Fablab Orléanais (FR)
  • Université de Dijon (FR)
  • S2P (FR)
  • Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (FR)
  • Laboratoire de Recherches et de Contrôle du Caoutchouc et des Plastiques (FR)

Funding scheme: LIFE

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: IRTES-SeT / UTBM
UBFC project coordinator: Franck Gechter

Resume : 

Reducing air pollution and climate change is a crucial individual and collective challenge to preserve our future and that of our children. The LIFE V-aiR project aims to raise awareness and mobilise political decision-makers and citizens on this issue via immersive games using virtual reality: a “serious game” for the former and an “escape game” for the latter.
In both cases, players will be immersed in 2050, in a degraded landscape because nothing has been done to combat air pollution and climate change. They will have the opportunity to go back to the year 2022 to change the situation by: implementing ambitious policies, adapted to their territory, for decision-makers and changing their individual behaviour for citizens.
The creation of the games will be based on the use of local air quality, climate and energy data available to the approved air quality monitoring associations and their European project partners. Special effects will be integrated to take full advantage of the immersive environment of virtual reality and to make the experience memorable for effective action.
What are the objectives? To raise awareness among 1400 decision-makers and 12000 citizens between 2024 and 2026 and to enable the appropriation of these themes by making the medium available throughout the European Union.

For more information: ATMO Grand Est’s new european project LIFE V-Air


Partners (13) :

  • ATMO Grand Est (FR)
  • Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (FR)
  • Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard – UTBM (FR)
  • ATMO Normandie (FR)
  • ATMO Nouvelle Aquitaine (FR)
  • Madiniair (FR)
  • ATMO Hauts-de-France (FR)
  • ATMO Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (FR)
  • Alliance des collectivités françaises pour la qualité de l’air (FR)
  • ATMO France (FR)
  • Asociatia-Agentia Pentru Managementul Energiei Si Protectia Mediului Brasov (RO)
  • Universidad de Malaga (ES)
  • Comune di San Giuseppe Vesuviano (IT)

Funding scheme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: ImVia / uB
UBFC project coordinators: Fabrice Meriaudeau / Alain Lalande

Resume: 

Breast cancer (BC) incidence in women produces more than 600,000 deaths each year. The primary cause of death in BC patients is metastasis, whereby cancer cells spread from their primary site of origin and grow in adjacent or distant sites. Distant metastasis produced due to the relapse of the illness is incurable, underscoring the inadequacy of our understanding of its mechanisms. The first step for fighting against disease progression is screening programs for BC focused on image analysis of mammography, MRI and tomosynthesis. Once the tumour has been diagnosed and given the high variability of clinical progressions, another problem arises: classifying the cancer type and determining the proper treatment for specific cancer. Moreover, in BC, the immune response from the tumour microenvironment has played an essential role in tumour evolution. To evaluate the tumour and its microenvironment, one technique garnered a lot of attention in the last years: Whole Slide Imaging (WSI). This technique replaces the use of the microscope for classical diagnosis. Still, it has also been used for developing biomarkers that allow the analysis of tumours and classification of cancer subtypes and the study of the immune tumour microenvironment. The use of WSI has applications for predicting the probability of relapse for distant metastasis. Now, for the first time, BosomShield proposes to join the two disciplines (pathological and radiological imaging) in a software that will analyze these. images to classify the cancer subtypes and predict (together with the complete clinical history of the patient) the probability of relapse for distant metastasis. Besides, BosomShield will provide high-level training in BC research to young researchers by offering the necessary transferable skills for thriving careers underpinned using diverse disciplines, digital radiology and pathology, biomedical, AI, privacy and software development.

Partners (10):

  • Universitat Rovira I Virgili (ES)
  • Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan (SE)
  • Stichting Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum (NL)
  • Fundacio Institut d’Investigacio Sanitaria Pere Virgili (IISPV) (ES)
  • Instytut Biocybernetyki I Inzynierii Biomedycznej Im.Macieja Nalecza Polskiej Akademii Nauk (PL)
  • Universita Degli Studi Di Udine (IT)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Univerza V Mariboru (SI)
  • N Vision Systems and Technologies SL (ES)
  • MEDIRI GMBH (DE)

Funding scheme: EURATOM-IA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: FEMTO-ST / UFC
UBFC project coordinator: François Lanzetta

Resume:

To produce electricity to power space missions, both Photovoltaic (PV) cells and Radioisotope Thermoelectrical Generators (RTG), fueled by Plutonium 238 (Pu-238) are used. From a European scale, this has several drawbacks: as neither Pu-238 or any RTGs are produced in Europe and RTGs are very power inefficient, with a yield often of 5% of the fuel potential. This means that large amounts of fuel, and large RTGs, are needed to power missions, which increases the payloads.

The PULSAR project has two overarching global ambitions:

  • Develop, in Europe, the building blocks to establish the complete end-to-end capability to produce Pu-238 to help power existing Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTG) and Radioisotope Heater Units (RHUs) from the constituent elements to module production – addressing critical & non-dependencies technology needs;
  • Disruptively increase the thermo-electrical conversion efficiency of dynamic Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) with an advanced Stirling engine improving the performance of the ”state-of-practice” thermoelectric materials.

Partners (9):

  • Tractebel Engineering (BE)
  • CEA (FR)
  • Studiecentrum Voor Kernenergie / Centre d’Étude de l’Énergie Nucléaire (BE)
  • Innovacion y Consulting Tecnologicosl (ES)
  • Airbus Defence And Space SAS (FR)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • ARTTIC (FR)
  • JRC – Joint Research Centre – European Commission (BE)
  • ARIANEGROUP SAS (FR)

Funding scheme: HORIZON-CSA

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved service: Pôle Culture – Mission Culture Scientifique et Technique (uB)

UBFC project coordinators: Lionel Maillot / Robin Drieu

Resume:

The FREETOACT project is the legacy of 16 years of a collective participation to the ERN as a Consortium. We will organize events in 16 different French cities, sharing the same objectives and approach to science engagement.

FREETOACT is based on two connected themes.

– In 2022, the public will discuss the functioning of research through the theme of “The unexpected”, which will bring surprises to the visitors, while discussing predictability in research.

– In 2023, researchers and the public will debate together around the theme “Our futures” and will question the role of research in shaping our (un)expected futures

These themes foster the discussion with researchers (a key factor in enriching the public’s vision of science in society), and renew ERN proposition for the public and the press.

During the events, we will create warm and aesthetic encounters and design playful activities to be shared by researchers and the public. The 2,800 (local) researchers involved in the project will be coached and trained by mediators.

Partners (14) :

  • UBFC (FR)
  • Centre de Culture Scientifique et Technique d’Angers Terre des Sciences Association (FR)
  • Association CAP Sciences – centre de culture scientifique technique et industrielle bordeaux (FR)
  • BREST’AIM SA (FR)
  • Université du Mans (FR)
  • Institut Mines-Telecom (FR)
  • Université de Limoges (FR)
  • Université d’Aix Marseille (FR)
  • Association TRACES. : Théories et Réflexions sur l’Apprendre, la Communication et l’Education Scientifiques (FR)
  • Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (FR)
  • Université de la Réunion (FR)
  • Université Côte d’Azur (FR)
  • CNRS (FR)
  • LACQ Odyssée, Centre de Culture Scientifique, Technique et Industrielle des Pays de l’Adour (FR)

Funding scheme: HORIZON-RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Chrono-environnement
UBFC project coordinator: Michel Chalot

Resume:

BIOSYSMO is a 48-month action that will develop a computationally-assisted framework for designing and optimizing synergistic biosystems to achieve the most efficient degradation and sequestration of pollutant mixtures. These biosystems will comprise combinations of bacteria, fungi and plants. Natural microorganisms able to metabolize the target pollutants will be identify by screening samples from polluted sites and locations affected by diffuse pollution. The construction and optimization of synergistic biosystems will combine approaches based on:

  1. enhancing plant-microbe (bacteria, fungi) interactions to achieving combinations with improved pollutant uptake and/or degradation;
  2. engineering bacteria, for improved degradation and bioaugmentation, and plants (poplar tree), for improved microbial colonization and pollutant uptake;
  3. constructing artificial micro-structured consortia into aggregates and biofilms, containing all the required pathways for pollutant removal;
  4. and applying bioelectrochemical systems (BES) as stand-alone or in hybrid systems.

Web site: https://www.biosysmo.eu/

Partners (12):

  • Idener Research & Development Agrupacion De Interes Economico (ES)
  • Universidad De Burgos (ES)
  • Institut Jozef Stefan (SI)
  • Acondicionamiento Tarrasense Associacion (ES)
  • Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (FR)
  • Imperial College Of Science Technology And Medicine (UK)
  • Blue Synergy Sl. (ES)
  • Centro Interdisciplinar De Investigacao Marinha E Ambiental (PT)
  • Universidad Politecnica De Madrid (ES)
  • Axia Innovation Ug (DE)
  • CNRS (FR)
  • Tauw Gmbh (DE)

Funding scheme: ERASMUS-EMJM-UN

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved laboratory: ICB
UBFC project coordinator: Stéphane Guérin

Resume:

QuanTEEM proposes an Erasmus Mundus master’s joint programme in the field of quantum technology. This programme, unique in Europe, has the ambition of educating a new generation of industrial experts, engineers, and researchers, as quantum innovators.

QuanTEEM includes internationalisation (including interculturality), interdisciplinarity, intersectorality and innovation and is based on the established quantum pillars (quantum communication, quantum simulations, quantum sensing, etc.)

QuanTEEM combines strong research, excellent teaching, novel didactics concepts, and intersectorality via a strong industrial involvement. It offers core and elective courses, complemented by two seasonal schools, and master thesis internships and numerous possibilities of mobility combined with specializations (photonics, quantum materials, many-body quantum physics, etc.).


Partners (4):

  • Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (FR)
  • Université Technique de Kaiserslautern (DE)
  • Université d’Aarhus (DK)
  • Institut de physique et de technologie de Moscou (Université d’État) (RU)

Funding scheme: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved laboratory: ICB
UBFC project coordinators: Guy Millot (beneficiary: Andrey Gelash)

NWACOMPLEX aims at pioneering studies of nonlinear wave processes in optics and hydrodynamics implementing by young theoretical researcher Dr. A Gelash in collaboration with top-level experimental teams of Université de Bourgogne and partners organizations.

The project includes high-quality trainings, new contacts and collaborations leading to a cascading effect on his career development. The Fellow being experienced inverse scattering transform technique, physics of nonlinear coherent structures and various computational methods proposes novel theoretical approaches and numerical tools for advanced analysis of modern experiments on generation, detection and nonlinear propagation of light in optical systems and waves on the surface of water. The innovative idea of the project is to reveal the nature of complex nonlinear phenomena using inverse scattering transform theory employing the most recent numerical advancements. The project will benefit the nonlinear science by fundamental studies of novel mechanisms of coherent structures interactions, statistic of nonlinear waves, dense soliton and breather gases. The Fellow will present theoretical predictions on nonlinear wave dynamics and statistic which will be verified by experimental groups of the host and partner organizations.

The developed numerical tools will allow to generate various nonlinear light and water surface waves patterns for experiments on their propagation, as well as provide the opportunity to reliably analyse complex experimental data revealing coherent structures and their parameters.

2021

Funding scheme: CSA

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved services: Pôle Culture – Mission Culture Scientifique et Technique (uB) / Service sciences, arts et culture (UFC)
UBFC project coordinators: Lionel Maillot / Jérémy Querenet

Resume :

The VOYAGES project is the collective effort of 12 partners and the legacy of 15 years of participation in the ERN as a Consortium. Our ambition is to organize events in 14 different French cities (specifically focusing on medium-sized cities, where there are researchers, but science engagement activities are less frequent), sharing the same objectives, activities, approach to popularization, and involving local researchers.

Our project is based on an engaging theme: “Voyages” that will help visitors dream and stimulate researchers. Convinced that the quality of the exchange with researchers is the key factor in enriching and refining the public’s vision of research and science in society, we create warm and aesthetic encounters between the public and researchers. Our theme stimulates the creativity of the scenographers and mediators who design playful activities to be shared by researchers and the public (The Researchers’ suitcase, different Strolls, etc.).

On national and international scales, we are designing three online formats that will allow thousands of people to discover field research all over the world, engage in face-to-face dialogue on Zoom and debate with researchers from other countries.

To achieve this “in person” and “online” strategy, the 1,000 researchers involved in the project will be coached and trained by mediators, artists or scenographers. A long-lasting effect on researchers will be one outcome, as ERN is an occasion for them to start a long journey in science engagement.

The French Ministry of Culture will financially support the event for the 4th year, fostering the participation of researchers in social sciences and humanities; the Ministry of Research will also continue its support. One partner is in charge of strategies for reducing the environmental impact of the events. The ERN will let us take a breath of fresh air and formulate questions about the resources and future of the planet.

Flight 2021 to Research is now boarding!

Partners (12) :

  • UBFC (FR)
  • Terre Des Sciences Association (FR)
  • Association Cap Sciences – Centre de Culture Scientifique Technique et Industrielle Bordeaux-Aquitaine (FR)
  • Brest’aim SA (FR)
  • Université du Mans (FR)
  • Institut Mines-Télécom (FR)
  • Université de Limoges (FR)
  • Université d’Aix Marseille (FR)
  • Association Traces : Théories et Réflexions sur l’Apprendre, la Communication et l’Éducation Scientifiques (FR)
  • Université de Toulouse (FR)
  • Université de la Réunion (FR)
  • Université Côte d’Azur (FR)

Funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN

UBFC role: partner

Involved services: Chrono-Environnement
UBFC project coordinator: Renaud Scheifler

Resume:

CHRONIC aims at delivering a cohort of highly-skilled and informed future research leaders trained in understanding and integrating, into risk-assessment practice, the long-term, low-dose chronic chemical exposure and their interactions with other environmental stressors. CHRONIC research will support improved decision-making in risk assessment based on uncertain and potentially conflicting information, and in the development of scientifically-based monitoring strategies. The focus on low chronic exposure to contaminants in different environmental organisms (macrophytes, invertebrates, vertebrates) and end-of-line systems (freshwater, sediment, soil) allow for a training that is broader than that achieved from conventional narrower one-system concept generally included in PhD-programs and in standard protection goals. Thus, CHRONIC represents a paradigm shift in environmental risk assessment (ERA) methods and practices needed to deal with current and future contaminant challenges. CHRONIC will include 13 PhD projects aimed at developing tools and approaches to identify relevant nonstandard modes of toxicity for low chronic chemical exposure and integrate these with environmental stressors. CHRONIC includes academic institutions, research centres, government institutions, SMEs, and an NGO all with extensive experience in education and training and a high state-of-the-art scientific and technical expertise and infrastructure. The program will therefore lay the basis for an integrated approach to ERA that includes non-standard yet ecologically relevant endpoints and low chronic exposure as key elements. CHRONIC include training-by-research, joint courses covering technical, scientific, ethical, and transferable skills. Students will also engage actively in communication to scientific and public communities and be enrolled in an ambitious intersectional networking exchange plan to increase employability and provide a broad perspective to their future career plan.

Partners (10):

  • Roskilde Universitet (DK)
  • Wageningen University (NL)
  • UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology (UK)
  • Lunds Universitet (SE)
  • Universidade De Aveiro (PT)
  • Aarhus Universitet (DK)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Universiteit Leiden (NL)
  • Studiecentrum Voor Kernenergie / Centre d’Etude de l’énergie nucléaire (BE)
  • Syngenta Limited (UK)

2020

Funding scheme: CSA

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved services: Pôle Culture – Mission Culture Scientifique et Technique (uB) / Service sciences, arts et culture (UFC)

UBFC project coordinators:
Lionel Maillot / Jérémy Querenet

Resume: The LINCS project is the collective effort of 12 partners and the legacy of 14 years of participation in the ERN as a consortium. The ambition is to organize events in 14 different French cities (specifically focusing on medium-sized cities, where research is happening, but science engagement activities are less frequent), sharing the same objectives, theme, activities, approach to popularization, and at the same time involving local researchers.

Convinced that the quality of the exchange with researchers is the key factor in enriching and refining the citizens’ vision of research, we create intimate, warm, direct encounters between the public and researchers, with a specific focus on the 15-30 age range. To achieve this, the 1,200 researchers involved in the project will be coached and trained by mediators, artists or scenographers, using different methods. A long-lasting effect on researchers will be one outcome, as ERN is an occasion for them to start a long journey in science engagement.

The planned activities enable privileged encounters and/or shared, fun experiences in direct contact with professional researchers. The “EU corner” will be enlivened by the participation of EU researchers, games and live radio broadcasts. The French Ministry of Culture will financially support the event for the 3rd year, fostering the participation of researchers in social sciences and humanities; the Ministry of Research will also continue its support. One partner is in charge of strategies for reducing the environmental impact of the events. The LINCS project is based on an original tagline, a theme to intrigue visitors and stimulate the creativity of researchers and mediators. A theme which testifies to our ambition to set up almost intimate meetings between researchers and visitors. Meetings which promise to unveil the untold stories of an exciting profession. A slogan that evokes both secrets and curiosity: “Little Nocturnal Secrets” (“petits secrets nocturnes”). But shh…!

Partners (12):

  • UBFC (FR)
  • Terre des Sciences (FR)
  • Cap Sciences – Centre de Culture Scientifique Technique et Industrielle Bordeaux-Aquitaine (FR)
  • Brest’aim SA (FR)
  • Université du Mans (FR)
  • Institut Mines-Télécom (FR)
  • Fondation Partenariale de l’université de Limoges (FR)
  • Université d’Aix Marseille (FR)
  • Association Traces : Théories et Réflexions sur l’Apprendre, la Communication et l’Éducation Scientifiques (FR)
  • Université de Toulouse (FR)
  • Université de la Réunion (FR)
  • Université Côte D’azur (FR)

Funding scheme: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved laboratory: Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne (IMB)
UBFC project coordinator: J.-L. Jaramillo

Resume: Black holes are among the most fascinating objects of the Universe. They are today at the core of our understanding of gravitation. They provide essential hints towards a theory of quantum gravity. They constitute the main emission source of gravitational waves, which will play a central role in future astrophysics. Black holes are also central in mathematical relativity, and the proof of their stability is still today a challenging problem. In the last decades, several analogies between gravity and fluid mechanics have been developed. This interdisciplinary approach has led to many innovative methods and successful results, which have deepened our understanding of black holes, fluids or superfluids. More recently, such an analogy was used by various experimental groups, which were able to successfully reproduce several key effects of black hole physics using fluid systems.

The aim of this project is to develop the mathematical tools to open a new avenue in this interdisciplinary field: the understanding of nonlinear dynamics. In other words, how waves are affected by a background flow or spacetime, and subsequently modify their dynamics. It will focus on three research directions: the analogue of the Hawking effect, superradiant instabilities, and resonances. This project will bring an experienced researcher in analogue models in a strong mathematical physics group, within the Institute of Mathematics of Burgundy (IMB). The objective is to exploit modern mathematics to develop new tools for the joint analysis of black holes and fluids. It will rely on the one hand on mathematical methods of integrable models, and spectral theory of non self-adjoint operators, two fields in which the host group has a traditionally strong expertise, and on the other hand on the knowledge in General Relativity and analogue models of the experienced researcher.

Funding scheme: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved laboratory: Femto-St

UBFC project coordinators:
Muhammad Hamidullah (ER), Thérèse Leblois

Resume: Organ on chip (OoC) is a remarkable example of the convergence of biology and microengineering. OoC has a great potential in revolutionizing the current existing in-vitro approach in drug discovery and development, resulting in a reduction in the needs of animal experiment and accelerate the research and development process for future precision and personalised medicine. However, the complexity of the system is a hurdle in the transfer of OoC system from laboratory to large scale manufacturing and commercial application.

The objective of SmOoC research project is to develop a cost-effective, automated and smart OoC system. It is intended to be suitable for large-scale manufacturing and for biological applications in the medical field. SmOoC project aims to bridge the gap between laboratory and commercial application for drug discovery and future personalised medicine.

Funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Biogéosciences
UBFC project coordinator: Emmanuelle Pucéat

Resume: Source-sink systems (S2S) describe the sedimentary processes that result from tectonic movements or climatic effects (signals) over geological times, from upstream zones of erosion (sources) to ultimate deposition (sinks).

Understanding S2S systems is essential to significantly improve human’s ability to predict the characteristics of sedimentary accumulations hosting essential societal and industrial resources (geomaterials, energy, minerals, groundwater, waste).

Tomorrow’s successful exploration of Earth’s resources for future sustainable and responsible growth relies on training the next generation of researchers with a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to S2S systems.

The S2S-FUTURE project aims to create a training network for researchers that will further boost research in this field. The organisation of annual summer schools and the development of a web portal will facilitate the exchange of knowledge on large-scale S2S systems. The experience offered by S2S-FUTURE will support young researchers in building a promising career in this field.

Funding scheme: MSCA-RISE

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Femto-St
UBFC project coordinator: Samuel Margueron

Resume: The ReACTIVE Too project brings together experts from industry and academia to research and develop reliability and agile design techniques for use in electronics-based systems deployed in safety critical applications found in Automotive and Healthcare environments. These active systems monitor the performance and surroundings of vehicle or assisted living environments to help prevent accidents from occurring and reduce the impact of an emergency. The project will also investigate the possibilities of applying artificial intelligence (ΑΙ), deep learning and prognostics to future electronic systems. Partner companies in both the automotive and the healthcare industries will test concepts developed. The project team is made up of eleven university and industry from Finland, France, Poland and United Kingdom; and a third country partner from China.

Web site: https://reactivetoo.org/

Partners (11) :

  • Université de Wolverhampton (UK)
  • Université de Liverpool John Moores (UK)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • École polytechnique de Silésie – SUT (PL)
  • Sensor City Liverpool Ltd (UK)
  • Aptiv (PL)
  • Tampereen Korkeakoulusaatio Sr – TAU (FI)
  • Satakunnan Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy – SAMK (FI)
  • Junet (FI)
  • Cedrat (FR)
  • Annealsys (FR)

Funding scheme: FCH2-RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Fuell Cell Lab / Femto-St
UBFC project coordinator: Marie-Cécile Péra

Resume: RUBY aims at developing and implementing a tool able to perform integrated Monitoring, Diagnostic, Prognostic and Control functions for production μ-CHP (micro combined heat and power) and Backup (BUP) systems, based on SOFC (Solid oxide fuel cells) and PEMFC (proton exchange membrane fuel cells). The proposal is the final step toward the production, installation and commercialization of Stationary Fuel Cells (FCSs) with new management functions that will enhance system lifetime, stack durability, availability, reliability and overall performance with improved efficiency. These enhancements will lead to TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) reduction, paving the way toward advanced maintenance service implementation, less cost and increased warranty periods, leading to a better customer satisfaction. RUBY leverages the findings of the last 8 years applied research that contributed to move the FC technologies towards the same maturity of market-available conventional energy conversion technologies. The key-feature of RUBY tool is the Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)-based advanced monitoring of both SOFC and PEMFC stacks, which has been demonstrated viable for its implementation on FCSs. RUBY will finalize the work on the hardware integration with stack diagnostic and control algorithms as well as with fault detection algorithms for BOP. Then, condition monitoring algorithms will be built along with prognostic and advanced adaptive control functions. The holistic vision of the FCS and a thorough knowledge of the State of the Health will be used to evaluate the lifetime of FCS components for improved supervisory control. Artificial Intelligence-based algorithms will be exploited to elaborate grid and FCS data toward the development of control functions for perspective VPP management and future integration with smart-grid. One-year tests will be conducted in real environment for certified μ-CHP and for BUP installed in a controlled real field to concentrate long-term operations in a shorter timeframe. The tool’s components will begin with TRL5/6 and end with TRL8 for μ-CHP and TRL7 for BUP.

Web site: https://www.rubyproject.eu/

Partners (11) :

  • Université de Salerne (IT)
  • CEA (FR)
  • Solidpower SPA (IT)
  • Ballard Europe (DK)
  • Bitron (IT)
  • Institut Jozef Stefan – JSI (SI)
  • Centre de Recherche Technologique VTT OY (FI)
  • Eifer – Institut européen pour la recherche en énergie – par EDF & KIT (DE)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • Fondation Bruno Kessler (IT)

Funding scheme: FCH2-RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Fuell Cell Lab / Femto-St
UBFC project coordinators:  Daniel Hissel, Nadia Yousfi Steiner

Resume: Fuel cells have promise in transport applications ranging from busses to ocean ships where they are competing will other well-established technologies. As a complicated and disruptive technology, fuel cells require specialised knowledge to integrate into devices and systems. This is a huge barrier to fuel cell use in companies that don’t have existing experience with, or confidence in fuel cell technologies. The FC community needs to help system integrators develop and optimise fuel cell battery hybrid systems for varied applications.

The overall vision of this project is to develop a fully open source software-hardware (cyber physical) tool that can be adopted as a global standard for FC system design. This platform will enable a system integrator at an SME, with limited fuel cell experience, to rapidly design a fuel cell battery hybrid powertrain for their specific application. The platform will make this development as quick as for combustion or battery powertrains and give the integrator confidence that the system will meet their performance, reliability and durability requirements.

This project will bring together a group of experienced fuel cell specialists to develop this platform (SINTEF, BALLARD and UBFC) along with several system integrators or end users of fuel cells who are leading organisations in their specific field, WESTCON (Maritime), BANKE (Heavy Duty Vehicles), VIVARAIL (Rail), SOLARIS (Busses).

Web site: https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/virtual-fcs/

Partners (7) :

  • Sintef (NO)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Ballard Power Systems Europe – BPSE (DK)
  • Westcon Power And Automation As (NO)
  • Banke ApS (DK)
  • Vivarail (UK)
  • Solaris Bus & Coach Spolka Akcyjna (PL)

Funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Femto-St
UBFC project coordinator: Daniel Brunner

Resume: The future economic growth in Europe requires engineers and researchers capable to design, develop and implement new information technologies to support explosive data-driven transformation of economy, public and government activities. Current information, computing and processing technologies strongly rely on the classical digital approaches and architectures developed by von Neumann. It is well understood nowadays that brain- or nature-inspired (neuromorphic) technologies can offer substantial advantage in terms of processing capabilities and power efficiency. The development of analog hardware platforms will allow us to achieve significantly higher bandwidth efficiency, faster processing and higher adaptability through integration of self-learning systems. European Training Network on Post-Digital Computing – POSTDIGITAL is an interdisciplinary training network comprising internationally leading teams from academia, research centres and industry, including IBM, Thales and three highly reputed SMEs. POST-DIGITAL will provide a unique training opportunity to a cohort of 15 early stage researchers (ESRs) in the inter-disciplinary fields of emerging disruptive neuromorphic computational technologies and their applications. The strong industrial presence in the network will bridge the gap between early stage innovation and utilization, providing ESRs with the experience of practical applications and solutions beyond traditional digital methods. POST-DIGITAL has the ambition and the vision to create a new generation of scientific and industrial leaders that will greatly contribute to strengthening Europe’s human resources and industry competitiveness in future digital and post digital economy and technology.

Web site: https://postdigital.astonphotonics.uk/

Partners (10):

  • Université d’Aston (UK)
  • Agence d’Etat – Conseil supérieur d’Investigations Scientifiques – CSIC (ES)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • IBM (CH)
  • Institut de microélectronique et composants – IMEC (BE)
  • Light On (FR)
  • Université libre de Bruxelles (BE)
  • VLC Photonics Sociedad Limitada (ES)
  • Thales (FR)
  • Université d’État Groningen (NL)

Funding scheme: IA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratories: Biogéosciences / CIAD / CREDIMI
UBFC project coordinator: Yves Richard

Resume: RESPONSE supports the Lighthouse cities of Dijon (FR) and Turku (FI) and their Fellow cities Brussels (BE), Zaragoza (ES), Botosani (RO), Ptolemaida (GR), Gabrovo (BU) and Severodonetsk (UA) to facilitate them deliver positive energy blocks and districts. Through RESPONSE, the two LHs will achieve a local RES penetration of 11.2 GWh/y, energy savings of 3,090 MWh/y and an emission reduction of 9, 799 tons CO2eq/y within their districts. To achieve this goal, RESPONSE demonstrates 10 Integrated Solutions (ISs), comprising of 86 innovative elements (technologies, tools, methods), that are being monitored with specific impact metrics (KPIs). It attracts the interest of various stakeholders by generating innovative business models enabling the upscale and replication of the solutions forming a validated roadmap for sustainable cities across Europe and beyond. RESPONSE adopts an energy transition strategy, which includes 5 Transformation Axes (TAs), encompassing the 10 ISs. TA#1 focuses on transforming existing and new building stock into Energy Positive and Smartready. TA#2 focuses on the decarbonization of the electricity grid and the district heating/cooling systems, supporting fossilbased regions in transition and the development of energy communities. TA#3 proposes grid flexibility strategies and novel storage systems for optimizing energy flows, maximize self-consumption and reduce grid stress. TA#4 links existing CIPs with apps and other digital infrastructure to enable digitalisation of services and connected city ecosystems, integrating also smart e-Mobility to promote the decarbonisation of the mobility sector. TA#5 offers interdisciplinary citizen engagement and co-creation practices putting citizen at the forefront of shaping the cities they live in and towards the development of each city’s 2050 own bold city-vision. Special focus is given to creating resilient and safe cities increasing quality of life and lowering the impacts of climate change.

Web site: https://h2020response.eu/

Partners (53) :

  • EIFER – Institut européen de recherche sur l’énergir – EDF & KIT (DE)
  • Dijon Métropole (FR)
  • Commune de Dijon (FR)
  • EDF (FR)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • ENEDIS (FR)
  • Grand Dijon Habitat (FR)
  • Office Public de l’Habitat de la Côte d’Or – ORVITIS (FR)
  • Bouygues (FR)
  • FAFCO (FR)
  • ATMO Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (FR)
  • ONYX (ES)
  • CORIANCE (FR)
  • OGGA (FR)
  • CNET (SE)
  • CIVOCRACY (FR)
  • NanoSense (FR)
  • K.I.D.S A.I’S Wittym (FR)
  • PANGA (FR)
  • Ville de Turku (FI)
  • Centre de recherche technologique – VTT OY (FI)
  • Université des Sciences Appliquées de Turun – TUAS (FI)
  • Turun Ylioppilaskylasaatio – TYS (FI)
  • Oy Turku Energia-Åbo Energi Ab (FI)
  • Institut de Météorologie – FMI (FI)
  • HOGFORSGST OY (FI)
  • ELISA (FI)
  • ELCON (FI)
  • Solar Finland OY (FI)
  • Sunamp Limited – SUN (UK)
  • eGain (SE)
  • Université de Turku – UTU (FI)
  • Oilon (FI)
  • Turku City Data – TCD (FI)
  • SAHKO-JOKINEN (FI)
  • HR – Ikkunat Ruhkala Oy (FI)
  • FerroAmp (SE)
  • Ville de Bruxelles (BE)
  • UP4NORTH (BE)
  • Conseil Municipal de Saragosse (ES)
  • Municipalité de Botosani (RO)
  • Institut National de Recherche et de Développement en Électro-technique Icpe-Ca Bucuresti (RO)
  • EORDAIAS (EL)
  • Municipalité de Gabrovo (BG)
  • Technologies Innovantes de l’énergie et de l’information Ltd – IEIT (BG)
  • Département de l’assistance technique internationale, du développement de l’innovation et des affaires étrangères Administration d’État régionale de Louhansk – DITA (UA)
  • CERTH (EL)
  • Fondation CIRCE – Centre de recherche sur les ressources et la consommation d’énergie (ES)
  • RINA Consulting SPA (IT)
  • Société de l’innovation du Portugal –
  • Conseil aux entreprises et promotion de l’innovation SA (PT)
  • Université Pontificale de Comillas (ES)
  • ISOLUTIONS LLC (UA)
  • Université Technique Nationale d’Athènes (EL)

Funding scheme: IA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: CIAD
UBFC project coordinator: Stéphane Galland

Resume: Within the Energy Union framework, the European Union (EU) is aiming at transforming the energy systems towards a sustainable, low-carbon and climate-friendly economy, putting consumers at its centre. Buildings play a key role in this transition as, on one hand they are responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in the EU and, on the other hand, the potential engagement of consumers through the demand-response mechanisms. To enable this transformation, distribution grids will face news paradigms in the ways they operate relying more on flexibility smart grids with capacity to safely host more renewable energy sources (RES) and integrate new loads, such as power to heat/cold, power to gas/liquid and new technologies, as well as electric vehicles (EVs) while advancing in security of supply and affordability. Therefore, this global picture will demand the generation of a new concept of connected ecosystem between energy system players and consumers. Under this scenario, the project consortium accepted this challenge and offers to develop the “REDREAM Project”, which not only will enable the effective participation of the consumers/prosumers in the energy market, but also will drive a profound change turning traditional company’s value chain into value generation chain, based on a revolutionary Service Dominant Logic paradigm. The main objective of the REDREAM project is to effectively move the consumer (as a residential, industrial and tertiary consumer) participation to the centre of the energy market through an open and co-creative ecosystem where all stakeholders will actively interact. This ambitious challenge will require the collection of demand response tools and services (energy and non-energy) capable of enabling the capacity for the consumers of participating in the energy market through an improvement of predictability of consumption patterns and consumer behaviour.

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Partners (15) :

  • Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ES)
  • Stemy Energy (ES)
  • Time.Lex (BE)
  • ECoop (ES)
  • New Order Design Studio SL (ES)
  • Civiesco (IT)
  • Associazione BIO-Distretto Della Via Amerina E Delle Forre (IT)
  • Rimond Engineering Procurement Andconstruction Management Srl (IT)
  • Zelena Energetska Zadruga Za Usluge (HR)
  • Bath & West Community Energy Limited (UK)
  • National Technical University Of Athens – NTUA (EL)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Omi-Polo Espanol Sa -OMIE (ES)
  • European Science Communication Institute (ESCI) Ggmbh (DE)
  • OlivoENERGY Consulting Sl (ES)

Funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: ARTEHIS
UBFC project coordinator: Sabine Lefebvre

Resume: This project will train 11 ESRs to face societal challenges in the fields of intercultural understanding, popular culture, and protection of cultural heritage. Studying poetry in the epigraphic Roman tradition will help to regain an eminent body of European folk art tradition. This fascinating publicly exposed poetry (carmina) combines verbal art forms and material manifestations of cultural expressions for a period of 1000 years. We will edit texts, analyse socialinguistic, aesthetic, and gender topics, and discuss regional phenomena in textual and material culture. Our innovative reconceptualization of this heritage will be an important step to democratise contemporary perceptions of art and to unlock the potential for understanding the heterogeneity of social and cultural performance. Obtaining specialist knowledge on the intriguing CARMEN topic will increase the awareness of cultural diversity and appreciation of popular art. We will take part in the creation of a new community of self-conscious participants in culture-production. Our multidisciplinary and intersectoral program will enable the ESRs to engage in academic research of highest level, as well as in issues of cultural heritage, knowledge transfer and contemporary non-elite culture all over Europe: A perfect match to the overall concept of the ETN-objective of enhancing mobility and employability.

Site web : https://carmen-itn.eu/

Partenaires (8) :

  • Université Johannes Gutenberg de Mayence (DE)
  • Université de Séville (ES)
  • Université de Rome “La Sapienza” (IT)
  • Université de Trèves (DE)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université du Pays basque / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (ES)
  • Musée régional rhénan de Trèves (DE)
  • Université de Vienne (AT)

2019

Funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Laboratoire Imagerie et Vision Artificielle (ImViA)
UBFC project coordinator: Alamin Mansouri

Resume: Cultural heritage (CH) objects have been constantly undergoing changes/degradations over time. In order to pass the legacy of these objects to future generations, it is important to monitor, estimate and understand these changes as accurately as possible. These investigations will support the conservators to plan necessary treatments in advance or to slow down the specific deterioration processes. The dynamic characteristics of materials vary from one object to another and are influenced by several factors. To detect and predict their changes, accurate documentation and analysis are necessary. Over the years, CH digitization using scientific imaging techniques has become more widespread and has created a massive amount of datasets of different forms in 2D and 3D. Several past projects focused on different aspects of technological developments for better digitization methods. There has been less focus on the processing and analysis of these datasets to make the greatest use of them and to their further exploration for monitoring ‘changes’ in CH artefacts for conservation purposes. The lack of adequate digital tools for monitoring these changes is related to material behavior and stability, which still need to be addressed. The proposed project will take cultural heritage digitization to a new level by exploring digital datasets for deeper analysis and interpretation. The main idea is to develop methodologies for the assessment of changes in CH objects by comparing and combining digital datasets captured at different time periods. The validity of the methods has to be evaluated through case studies conducted in collaboration with CH experts and stakeholders. The project is an interdisciplinary approach combining expertise on imaging techniques, computing, CH, and conservation science.

Web site: http://change-itn.eu/

Partners (9) :

  • Université norvégienne des Sciences et de la Technologie – NTNU (NO)
  • Université de technologie de Varsovie (Pl)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université d’Oslo (NO)
  • CNRS (FR)
  • Université de Technologie de Chypre (CY)
  • Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (CH)
  • Musée national Suisse (CH)
  • Université d’Amsterdam (Nl)

Funding scheme: RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Laboratoire ELLIADD
UBFC project coordinators: Nicolas Bert

Resume: The 36-month PAsCAL project proposes an awareness-driven and large-scale penetration approach to address all issues raised by the majority (if not all) of the general public that hinder the wide market uptake of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV). It will not only focus on the interaction of the “users” in or near CAV, but also assess the impact of connected transport on people’s well-being, quality of life, and equity. PAsCAL will use of a strongly interdisciplinary mix of innovative tools from both human science and technology, to capture the public’s acceptance and attitude, analyse and assess their concerns, model and simulate realistic scenarios for hand-on practices, and validate the research innovation in a number of trials in the real world. The association to the consortium of special categories of users, such as disabled persons, and of service providers with a global outreach of millions of members and several thousand customers across the EU will ensure results consistency, taking into account major social obstacles/barriers that may hinder the acceptance of CAV and would allow their reuse in new businesses, services and applications.

Web site: https://www.pascal-project.eu/

Partners (13) :

  • Institut de Science et de Technologie du Luxembourg (LU)
  • Club Automobile d’Italie (IT)
  • Luxmobility (LU)
  • Rds Driving Services Limited (UK)
  • Etelätär (EE)
  • Université de Leeds (UK)
  • Université de Liverpool (UK)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Examotive Sa (LU)
  • Université de Mannheim (DE)
  • E-Bus Competence Center S.A.R.L (LU)
  • Union Européenne des Aveugles – European Blind Union (FR)
  • Realdolmen NV (BE)

Funding scheme: MSCA-IF-GF

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved laboratory: Biogéosciences
UBFC project coordinators: Alexandre Pohl, Emmanuel Pucéat

Resume: Oceans play a vital role in removing CO2 from the atmosphere through a mechanism involving algae known as the biological pump. Changing environmental conditions may affect this system and the oxygenation of oceans in ways we cannot at this time predict easily. BioSIGNAL project will use modelling of coupled oceanic ecosystems and geochemical cycles using past records of the biological pump’s reactions to change to understand the mechanics of the process. This will provide invaluable help to scientists and policymakers who are working on next-generation marine ecosystem models projecting the effect of climate change on ocean processes.

The biological pump refers to the mechanism by which carbon is assimilated by photosynthetic algae in the ocean photic zone and subsequently exported to depth upon death of the organisms. The largest part of this export production is generally remineralized as it travels throughout the water column where it depletes dissolved oxygen concentrations. A fraction of the export production may still reach the sea floor, where it is susceptible to be buried, thus inducing a net removal of CO2 from the ocean-atmosphere system. Therefore, the good appraisal of the response of the biological pump to changing environmental conditions is crucial to reasonably predict climate and ocean oxygenation impacts, both associated with past events and as will result from ongoing anthropogenic emissions. However, the behavior of the ecological system in the face of climatic changes and how it impacts the strength and efficiency of the biological pump remains difficult to predict. To address this, the BioSIGNAL project will investigate the sensitivity of the biological pump in a novel way – using a state-of-the-art ecological model including a representation of marine biogeochemical cycles. BioSIGNAL will focus on past periods, which provide a whole evolutionary chronicle to which model outputs can be directly compared. Confrontation of model results with geological records will also allow to develop a mechanistic understanding of the behavior of the ecological system in response to a wide range of environmental perturbations. The proposed approach constitutes an unrivaled opportunity to increase our understanding of the geological record and what it can tell us of relevance to the future. Lessons learned here, both positive and negative, have the potential to help inform the next generation of marine ecosystem models needed to make improved projections of future global change impacts on ocean ecosystems, and hence engaging a broad range of global change scientists and ultimately, policy makers.

Funding scheme: CS2-RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB)
UBFC project coordinator: Roland Oltra

Resume: Aluminium alloys are used extensively in aircraft due to their high strength-to-weight ratio. A main drawback is that their microstructure is sensitive to corrosion, which generates pits for example. Corrosion is a dynamic process in which propagation rate remains difficult to predict and varies depending on the type of corrosion occurring (pitting, intergranular corrosion, exfoliation, filiform, corrosion-fatigue and stress corrosion cracking). Currently, the presence of corrosion damages may be detected by means of non-destructive tests (NDT). However, corrosion initiation and mechanism behind the defect cannot be distinguished by currently used methods. As consequence, an early detection of corrosion is not done and corrective actions are only performed when become relevant (cracks, loss of thickness). Therefore, aircraft industry needs sensors able to detect both corrosion initiation and its propagation.

The EU-funded U-CROSS project is working on an ultrasonic sensor that combines both active and passive elements for early detection of localised corrosion and for monitoring corrosion propagation over time. The new sensor will greatly aid the aircraft industry in preventing critical damage to aircraft components.

Combined with predictive models, they will allow forecasting how damage progresses when protective paints are degraded. The main objective of U-CROSS is to design, develop and validate the application of ultrasonic corrosion sensors (UCS), combining passive (Acoustic Emission) and active (Pulse Echo Ultrasonic Testing) types, for corrosion monitoring, enabling them for real time detection of early stages of localized corrosion as well as for monitoring the progress of damages with time. A well-defined strategy will be followed to validate its implementation by the development of “model witness blocks” to calibrate sensors, taking into account the intrinsic features of each corrosion mechanism. A thorough selection of the UCSs to be used as cumulative and real-time monitoring will be done depending on corrosion mechanism, and tests will be performed on several indoor and outdoor test rigs. The project will also provide a software tool (wizard type) to enable end-users to design and use sensors and to predict the number of cycles before critical damage occurs. 3 research organisations, 1 NADCAP accredited SME for testing painted parts and 1 European leader in UCSs manufacturing and ultrasonic inspection join forces in U-CROSS to achieve these ambitious objectives, which will guarantee the future commercialization of the result.

Partners (5) :

  • Cidetec (ES)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Titiana, Ensayos y Proyectos Industriales Sl (ES)
  • Mistras (FR)
  • Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon – INSA Lyon (FR)

Funding scheme: RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Institut interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB)
UBFC project coordinator: Jean-Claude Weeber

Resume: Neuromorphic computing that encompasses devices that can mimic the natural biological structures of the human nervous system presents a promising energy-efficient alternative over conventional computing architectures. The EU-funded PlasmoniAC project will invest in best-in-class material and technology based on plasmonics, to further optimise the computational power, size and energy of neuromorphic chips. If successful, the project will demonstrate a powerful artificial plasmonic neuron suite. It could boast up to three orders of magnitude higher computational efficiency per neuron, and up to six orders of magnitude lower energy consumption, compared to top state-of-the-art neuromorphic machines.

Partners (10) :

  • Université Aristote De Thessalonique (EL)
  • Université de Southampton (UK)
  • ETH Zürich (CH)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • CNRS (FR)
  • IMEC (BE)
  • IBM (CH)
  • Gesellschaft Fur Angewandte Mikro Und Optoelektronik Mit Beschrankterhaftung (Amo GMBH) (DE)
  • MLNX (IL)
  • VPIPHOTONICS GMBH (DE)

Funding scheme: MSCA-COFUND

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Laboratoire Lipides, Nutrition, Cancer
UBFC project coordinators: Olivier Burgy, Phillipe Bonniaud, Carmen Garrido

Resume: Respiratory diseases account for one in 8 deaths and a cost of €380 billion annually in the EU of the 28 according to the European Lung White Book (https://www.erswhitebook.org/). In spite of the prominence of lung diseases, research in the respiratory field remains largely underfunded compared to the wider burden of respiratory diseases on society in Europe and beyond, as pinpointed by “ERS 10 Principles for Lung Health” policy document (https://www.ersnet.org/advocacy/eu-affairs/ers-10-principles-for-lung-health).

The ERS/EU RESPIRE3 (MSCA COFUND) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program is an international, intersectoral and inter-disciplinary program that selects, trains and supports the leaders of tomorrow in the respiratory field. This program aims to address the current level of investment in respiratory research, which is largely insufficient to face the unprecedented healthcare challenges of tomorrow, linked with a fast-rising ageing population and rapid technological advances.

More in particular, in line with the Grant Agreement, the RESPIRE3 program provides Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowships to early stage scientists. It aims to strengthen the European Research Area as well as the respiratory specialty by:

  • Promoting excellent science in respiratory research in Europe and worldwide through transnational mobility and transfer of knowledge;
  • Enabling Europe to become a hub for the exchange of scientists, actively involved in respiratory medicine in both academia and the non-academic sector;
  • Fostering the implementation of novel and innovative techniques and therapies as well as the development of new international collaborations; and
  • Gathering expertise from various fields, even those not traditionally associated with respiratory research
  • Fostering the career development of future leaders in Respiratory research

Olivier Burgy, at UBFC and Inserm U1231, has been awarded a RESPIRE3 fellowship for his project focusing on Extracellular Vesicles in Pulmonary Fibrosis, a part of his research program developed in line of his ISITE-BFC Junior Fellowship.

2018

Funding scheme: CSA

UBFC role: coordinator

Services involved: Pôle Culture – Mission Culture Scientifique et Technique (uB) / Service sciences, arts et culture (UFC)
UBFC project coordinators: Lionel Maillot / Jérémy Querenet

Resume: We are proposing ERNs in 12 French cities for 2018 and in 13 for 2019. For 12 years, our consortium has organized successful national events, improving year after year the quality of the events, and the strength of the national coordination.
Since the beginning, we have worked on the essence of scientific engagement: a successful, direct encounter between researchers and the public. The strategy is to spark the creativity of both researchers and the public via the proposition of a single general topic (“1001 Stories” for 2018, “Join in the Investigations” for 2019), and a large palette of engaging formats for the ensuing dialogues. Certain of these formats are common to the 12 towns, such as “Dialogues in the Dark”, “Speed-searching”, “Participatory Experiments”.  cenography and artistic interventions will ensure a specific atmosphere, in line with the chosen topics: the dream-like quality of tales in 2018, the exciting thrill of investigation in 2019. In each of the 12 cities, between 1000 and 5000 people will attend the Night. More than 1200 researchers will be mobilized every year, reaching a total audience of more than 73,000 persons. The time spent by each visitor at the Night event as measured in previous years, 2.5 h., is high and we aim to increase it. An EU Corner café in each venue will ensure informal exchanges involving foreign researchers. Our proposal focuses on the training of researchers in the “art of the encounter” relying on a science communication training scheme developed by several partners in the framework of a French national project. Lastly, we plan to renew the “Great Participatory Experiment” in 2019. In each city, the public will contribute to a national participatory scientific experiment chosen in 2018 after a challenge involving all our research institutions. Formal partnerships have been established with the Ministries of Culture and of Research. This will ensure further national visibility.

Partners (11) :

  • UBFC (FR)
  • Terre des Sciences Association (FR)
  • Association Cap Sciences (FR)
  • Brest’aim SA (FR)
  • Université du Mans (FR)
  • Fondation Partenariale de l’Université De Limoges (FR)
  • Institut Mines-Telecom (FR)
  • Université d’Aix Marseille (FR)
  • Association Traces (FR)
  • Université de Toulouse (FR)
  • Université de la Réunion (FR)

Funding scheme: FCH2-IA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Femto-St / Fuell cell lab (FC-Lab)
UBFC project coordinator: Elodie Pahon

Resume: The Haeolus project will install a 2 MW electrolyser in the remote region of Varanger, Norway, inside the Raggovidda wind farm, whose growth is limited by grid bottlenecks. The electrolyser will be based on PEM technology and will be integrated with the wind farm, hydrogen storage and a smaller fuel cell for re-electrification. To maximise relevance to wind farms across the EU and the world, the plant will be operated in multiple emulated configurations (energy storage, mini-grid, fuel production). Like many large wind farms, especially offshore, Raggovidda is difficult to access, in particular in winter: Haeolus will therefore deploy a remote monitoring and control system allowing the system to operate without personnel on site. Maintenance requirements will be minimised by a specially developed diagnostic and prognostic system for the electrolyser and BoP systems.

The containerised electrolyser is a standard model carried by project partner Hydrogenics. The integrated system will be housed in a specially erected hall to protect it from the Arctic winter and allow year-round access. The integrated system of electrolyser, fuel cells, and wind farm will be designed for flexibility in demonstration, to allow emulating different operating modes and grid services.

Haeolus answers the AWP’s challenge with the widest possible project scope, with operation modes not limited to the site’s particular needs but extended to all major use cases, and several in-depth analyses (released as public reports) on the business case of electrolysers in wind farms, their impact on energy systems and the environment, and their applicability in a wide range of conditions.

Web site: https://www.haeolus.eu/

Partners (9) :

  • SINTEF (NO)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • NEL (NO)
  • Tecnalia Recherche & Innovation (ES)
  • Université de Sannio (IT)
  • Varanger Kraftvind As (NO)
  • KES (IT)
  • Fondation Sintef (NO)
  • Hydrogenics Europe Nv (BE)

Funding scheme: MSCA-RISE

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Institut de Mathématique de Bourgogne (IMB)
UBFC project coordinator:  Christian Klein

Resume: Partial Differential Equations (PDE’s) undoubtedly are among the main tools for an efficient modelling of physical phenomena. Infinite-dimensional analogues of regular (integrable) behaviour, previously confined to the theory of systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom began to be considered in the middle of the XX century in fluid dynamics, field theory and plasma physics.

The idea that an integrable behaviour persists in non-integrable systems, together with the combination of the state-of-the-art numerical methods with front-line geometrical and analytical techniques in the theory of Hamiltonian PDE’s is the leitmotiv of this research project.

Asymptotic regimes leading to phase transitions both in the theory of dispersive PDEs and the theory of Random Matrices display universality properties which can be analysed both numerically and analytically. The predictive power of numerics and scientific computing can be used both as a testing tool for theoretical models and as a generator of new conjectures.

By focussing the expertise of front line researchers in different areas of Mathematics towards the study of critical phenomena in dispersive PDE’s, we expect results in realms including differential and algebraic geometry, the theory of random matrices, multiscale analysis of PDE’s as well as non-linear models of stratified fluid flows.

The broad interdisciplinary basis and intertwining of methods of Geometry and Mathematical Physics will be instrumental in making the results accessible for the wider community. Younger (Ph.D. and/or Post-Docs) Researchers to be included in such an active and fertile research and training ground, will certainly seize their chance to enhance and broaden their skills.

Web site : https://ipadegan.unimib.it/

Partners (4) :

  • Université de Milan-Bicocca (IT)
  • École internationale d’études avancées de Trieste (IT)
  • Université d’Angers (FR)
  • UBFC (FR)

Funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN

UBFC role: coordinator

Involved laboratories: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB) / Femto-St
UBFC project coordinators: Stéphane Guérin, Gérard Colas des Francs / Jean-Marc Merolla

Resume: Quantum technology means the ability to organise and control the components of a functional system governed by the laws of quantum physics. The goal of this project is to train high-level young researchers through the development of innovative techniques to interface light and matter at the quantum level using atoms, nanostructures and photons, with applications in optics and quantum information processing. Well-trained and versatile researchers are needed to satisfy the demands of this rapidly growing field, in which there is also a strong drive and low threshold for industrial involvement. A prerequisite for success is the enhancement of the close connection between experimental, technological and theoretical studies. The proposed network, Light-Matter Interfaces for Quantum Enhanced Technology, LIMQUET, consists of seven academic and three industrial beneficiaries, complemented by one industrial partner. The academic partners are experienced but reasonably young groups with already established collaborations. The industrial partners have experience in developing and manufacturing high-quality components for research and industrial purposes. Within the Network, we anticipate highlights in (i) light-matter interfaces at the quantum level through the realisation of quantum networks using atoms, ions, and photons, (ii) the interfacing of light with light, in particular for light storage, (iii) adapting strategies originally developed in quantum optics to an integration into designed nanostructures, and (iv) the development of robust tools for quantum control and photonics. The training Network will enhance and use the synergy between the partners to produce a high-level doctoral training program in the field of quantum research and technology, including complementary skills and a pertinent impact of outreach activities. In order to enhance their career perspectives, all the ESRs will be jointly supervised and will be hosted on secondment by a company of the project.

Web site: https://blog.u-bourgogne.fr/limquet/

Partners (10) :

  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université d’Oxford (UK)
  • Fondation Pour La Physique Et L’astrophysique Théoriques Et Computationnelles – TCPA Foundation (BG)
  • Université Technique de Darmstadt (DE)
  • Université de Sussex (UK)
  • Université de technologie de Troyes (FR)
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • QUTOOLS GMBH (DE)
  • QUBIG GMBH (DE)
  • Teems Photonics (FR)

Funding scheme: RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Fuell Cell Lab / Femto-St
UBFC project coordinators: Fei Gao / Daniela Chrenko

Resume: To face the climate change, tens of millions of electrified vehicles need to be deployed in the next decade. To meet this challenge, the automotive industry must shift mass production from thermal to electrified vehicles. The challenge is further complicated by electrified vehicles having more components and architectures than thermal vehicles. Realizing this paradigm shift is only possible if there are innovative methods to significantly reduce their development and testing time.
The main goal of PANDA is to provide a unified organisation of digital models to seamlessly integrate virtual and real testing of all types of electrified vehicles and their components. The complexity of developing electrified vehicles becomes manageable by delivering a modular simulation framework. Development partners can share models (in open or in black-box form), avoiding sensitive IP issues and greatly increasing the development flexibility. The proposed method will enable 1) an easy reuse of models for different development tasks, 2) a replacement of real tests by virtual tests and 3) real-time testing on vehicle level. This method will be integrated in a multi-power open platform based on existing industrial software, enabling Stand-Alone or Cloud Computing. The method will be validated using two existing vehicles (a BEV and a FCV). Also, real and virtual tests of the integrated electrical subsystems of an innovative P-HEV will be performed.
PANDA will reduce the time-to-market of electrified vehicles by 20%, by harmonizing the interaction between the models. In addition, the seamless integration will give developers access to other subsystem models, which will decrease the correlation efforts on components by 20%. The open platform will 1) make it easier for OEMs, suppliers, SMEs and research institutions to interact and 2) enable a fair competition. These innovations will make the European market more flexible, more open to innovation and ultimately more competitive.

Web site : https://project-panda.eu/

Partners (12) :

  • Université de Lille (FR)
  • Siemens Industry Software Srl (RO)
  • Université libre de Belgique (BE)
  • Valeo EEM (FR)
  • Université technique de Cluj-Napoca (RO)
  • Tajfun Hil Limited Liability Company (RS)
  • TUV SUD AG – Embedded Systems (DE)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Uniresearch BV (Nl)
  • Renault Technologie Roumanies – RTR (RO)
  • Blueways (BE)
  • Tuv Sud Battery Testing Gmbh (DE)

Funding scheme: CS2-RIA

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Femto-St
UBFC project coordinators: Morvan Ouisse, Gaël Chevallier

Resume: Reducing noise emissions is one of the main design targets driving the development of new aircraft engines, and is therefore a key priority for the competitiveness of the aerospace sector. Ultra-high bypass ratios (UHBR) turbofan engines are expected to equip the next generation of aircraft to maximise efficiency. The noise generated by these engines will concern lower frequencies compared to existing engine technologies. Also, with a thinner nacelle, absorption performance are expected to drop at low frequencies. And with a shorter nacelle, less surface area will be available for acoustic treatments. UHBR engine technologies then represent significant challenges for the design of next-generation acoustic treatments. The SALUTE project will tackle these challenges by developing a new acoustic liner technology based on arrays of small loudspeakers or passive membranes. This innovative approach is able to deliver excellent sound absorption at low frequencies while remaining sufficiently small to fit into thin nacelle geometries. This development will be carried out on three different concepts, which will be compared and down-selected in the course of the project. Conventionally, these acoustic treatments were tested using 2D (i.e. flat) prototypes, which will constitute a baseline configuration of
the project. The SALUTE project will go further by testing 3D prototypes with a geometry corresponding to a small-scale fan at the PHARE test facility. This is required to reach TRL4, but will present specific challenges in terms of manufacturing. Secondly, gaining more insight into the physical interaction between the transducers, the control system and the high-speed flow will be necessary. This will be achieved through multi-physics simulations coupling all these sub-systems. With four partners with proven track record of successful collaborative projects on the topic, the SALUTE project will benefit from the latest technological developments on smart acoustic liners.

This project has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°821093

 

 

 

 

 

Web site: https://salute-h2020.epfl.ch/

Partners (4):

  • École Centrale de Lyon (FR)
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université du Mans (FR)

2017

Funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Laboratoire Imagerie et Vision Artificielle (LmVIA)
UBFC project coordinator:  Dominique Ginhac

Resume: ACHIEVE-ETN aims at training a new generation of scientists through a research programme on highly integrated hardware-software components for the implementation of ultra-efficient embedded vision systems as the basis for innovative distributed vision applications. They will develop core skills in multiple disciplines, from image sensor design to distributed vision algorithms, and at the same time they will share the multidisciplinary background that is necessary to understand complex problems in information-intensive vision-enabled applications. Concurrently, they will develop a set of transferable skills to promote their ability to cast their research results into new products and services, as well as to boost their career perspectives overall. Altogether, ACHIEVE-ETN will prepare highly skilled early-stage researchers able to create innovative solutions for emerging technology markets in Europe and worldwide but also to drive new businesses through engaging in related entrepreneurial activities. The consortium is composed of 6 academic and 1 industrial beneficiaries and 4 industrial partners. The training of the 9 ESR’s will be achieved by the proper combination of excellent research, secondments with industry, specific courses on core and transferable skills, and academic-industrial workshops and networking events, all in compliance with the call’s objectives of international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility.

Partners (7) :

  • Agence d’État – Conseil Supérieur de la Recherche Supérieur (ES)
  • Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université d’Udine (IT)
  • Université de Coimbra (PT)
  • Université de Gand (BE)
  • IMASENIC (ES)

Funding scheme: MSCA-ITN-ETN

UBFC role: partner

Involved laboratory: Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB)
UBFC project coordinator: Dominique Sugny

Resume: Quantum technologies aim to exploit quantum coherence and entanglement, the two essential elements of quantum physics. Successful implementation of quantum technologies faces the challenge to preserve the relevant nonclassical features at the level of device operation. It is thus deeply linked to the ability to control open quantum systems. The currently closest to market quantum technologies are quantum communication and quantum sensing. The latter holds the promise of reaching unprecedented sensitivity, with the potential to revolutionize medical imaging or structure determination in biology or the controlled construction of novel quantum materials. Quantum control manipulates dynamical processes at the atomic or molecular scale by means of specially tailored external electromagnetic fields. The purpose of QuSCo is to demonstrate the enabling capability of quantum control for quantum sensing and quantum measurement, advancing this field by systematic use of quantum control methods. QuSCo will establish quantum control as a vital part for progress in quantum technologies. QuSCo will expose its students, at the same time, to fundamental questions of quantum mechanics and practical issues of specific applications. Albeit challenging, this reflects our view of the best possible training that the field of quantum technologies can offer. Training in scientific skills is based on the demonstrated tradition of excellence in research of the consortium. It will be complemented by training in communication and commercialization. The latter builds on strong industry participation whereas the former existing expertise on visualization and gamification and combines it with more traditional means of outreach to realize target audience specific public engagement strategies.

Web site: http://qusco-itn.eu/

Partners (16) :

  • Université de Kassel (DE)
  • Université d’Aarhus (DK)
  • CNRS (FR)
  • CEA (FR)
  • IBM (CH)
  • INRIA (FR)
  • Herr (DE)
  • TTI – Technologie-Transfer-Initiative GmbH de l’université de  Stuttgart (DE)
  • Université technique de Munich (DE)
  • Université de technologie de Vienne (AT)
  • Université de la Sarre (DE)
  • Université d’Ulm (DE)
  • THALES (FR)
  • UBFC (FR)
  • Université de Padoue (IT)
  • Centre de recherche de Juliers (DE)