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Design of an improved Calvin-Benson Cycle for efficient CO2 fixation and photoproduction of biofuels and chemicals by microalgae and cyanobacteria – CalvinDesign
Our species and our civilization are facing the most important and unprecedented agricultural, environmental, industrial and economic challenges in their history. Photosynthesis, the most efficient solar energy converter on Earth, provides energy and carbon for nearly all life on our planet and is t
For WATER Quality Monitoring – 4WATER
The water crisis is the #1 global risk based on impact to society as announced by the World Economic Forum in January 2015 [1]. Indeed, groundwater is a scarce resource as it only account for 0.3% of the Earth's total freshwater reserves. And already, 663 million people - 1 in 10 - lack access to sa
ultra-wide Bandgaps for futuRE high power electronic ApPlications – BREAkuP
This project will push the boundaries of WBG technology by studying the implementation of AlN-based technology, which compared to GaN (and any other WBG semiconductor) has even better material properties. The ultimate goal of this proposal is to reach a breakthrough in the development of high voltag
Effects of diet changes on market equilibrium, value sharing, public health, environment and land use. – DIETPLUS
In many countries, there are numerous debates concerning the best way to improve dietary habits and nutrition. Food habits have many direct consequences on both agricultural systems and natural resources, which means that numerous criteria related to human and environmental health must be taken into
Trade Liberalization and Exporter Dynamics – LICODYN
The aim of the LICODYN project is to understand age dependency in the dynamics of new exporters, and its implications for third-party effects in trade policy. Few firms export. International trade economists explain this near-universal observation by the existence of substantial fixed costs in initi
Procedural and stochastic microstructures for functional fabrication – MuFFin
Additive manufacturing of microstructures will play a decisive role in several fields, but several challenges remain. The size of printed objects is increasing and, in parallel, the available printing resolution is becoming finer. Current methods consider periodic structures, which allows for compac
Minimization of water consumption in agro-food industries by developing a combined approch integrating Water Footprint and Pinch methods – MINIMEAU
In a context of increasing pressure on water resources in France, sustainable access to quality water has become a vital issue for most food industries (FFIs), which consume it for a wide variety of purposes: from ingredient water to cleaning water, not forgetting water used in heat transfers. Most
Electron Spin for CULtural heritage And PEople's safeguard – ESCULAPE
The physico-chemical characterisation of works of art and cultural heritage objects presents very specific constraints. On the one hand, these objects often have a great chemical and structural complexity, which has increased further due to the alteration and degradation phenomena they have undergon
Catalytic Activation of CO2 towards Carboxylic Acids and Esters Mediated by Organometallic Precursors – CO22CHEM
Carbon dioxide conversion into value-added chemicals through C-C bond-forming reactions has gained considerable interest, as it might constitute a conceivable solution to gradually relinquish the use of fossil fuels / resources in favour of more sustainable carbon resources. The use of CO2 as raw ma
Passive Radiative Cooling – RADCOOL
Very often in thermodynamics, in order to have a good conversion efficiency, it is necessary to have a high temperature heat source and a low temperature heat sink. Now the space which has a temperature around 3 K is a very interesting heat sink ... if we are able to interact with it. However, the E
