Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Improvement and sustainability of box production’s process for e-commerce (FASTBOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Panotec’s a dynamic company in north-east of Italy founded in 1986 when it created and patented an innovative and flexible system for producing corrugated cardboard boxes at the customer site. Each system was designed to be able to provide boxes and packaging materials for products that widely vary in size, material and configuration. Panotec has a worldwide distribution base. Customers that use Panotec equipment are able to reduce packaging costs and inefficiencies by bypassing the normal supply chain for corrugated boxes. The project that Panotec’s going to develop is about a system for producing boxes for e-commerce sector. Nowadays more and more people buy products with e-commerce and these products must be prepared for shipping in as short as possible time to satisfy consumers and boxes should protect the product inside. The objective that Panotec wants to reach is to improve the actual process of boxes production, also from the point of view of environmental sustainability. The system which will be developed will ensure the automatic optimization of box dimension, minimize volume of packaging, reduce use of raw material due to the automatic optimization of dimension, reduce use of non-recyclable material, reduce time for preparing box for shipping, increase safety of products. From the point of view of environmental sustainability, the system allows to obtain boxes without fillers, that could only become nonrecyclable garbage, and so the end-consumer will have only boxes 100% recyclable. The system will give also benefits for logistic with elimination of inventoried boxes of different types, and for management and costs of warehouse. It will also be possible to produce a box when it needs and for every kind of different products, adapting dimensions on it. This project would like to reach sectors like online retailers, returns management, third party logistic. Studies about the project say that there should be expect up to 70% saving in costs of raw material.

Keywords: minimisation of volume packaging,no fillers,online retailers,no waste
Strengthening Technology, Research and Innovation Cooperation between Europe and South Africa 2020 (ESASTAP 2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: South Africa,Austria,Germany,Italy,Norway,Greece,France
Call: Enhancing and focusing research and innovation cooperation with the Union’s key international partner countries - proposals targeting Australia, USA, Brazil, South Africa, Ukraine (H2020-INT-INCO-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 999953.75
EU funding (EUR): 999953.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The STI cooperation between the EU and South Africa as originally framed by the South Africa-EU Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement and as constantly steered by the JSTCC requires a support mechanism which can translate and facilitate policy decisions, and provide intelligence and information services to various actors and stakeholders. In previous years the ESASTAP project series (ESASTAP, ESASTAP-2 and ESASTAP+) has successfully provided this support to the bilateral dialogue. The proposed ESASTAP 2020 project is a coordination and support action that aims at advancing further the EU-SA bilateral STI cooperation, building on the work and results of three preceding actions and responding to the needs and recommendations at the policy dialogue level, in particular to the mandate of the JSTCC and to the adopted Roadmap for cooperation between South Africa and the European Union. The project aims to provide efficient services on three levels (priority areas): a. R&I Cooperation in areas of common interests (Horizon 2020 and others). b. Policy Dialogue between EU and SA and by increasing the knowledge of the EU’s external environment. c. Provision of a Cooperation platform and tools to alleviate obstacles. These priority areas translate into four major objectives through which the project is aiming to address the specific challenges of the call.

Keywords: sti cooperation,south africa,horizon 2020,innovation partnerships,support,policy dialogue,reciprocity,societal challenges,socio economic impact,dissemination,stakeholder outreach
Innovative Reliable Nitride based Power Devices and Applications (InRel-NPower)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,France,Japan
Call: Advanced Materials for Power Electronics based on wide bandgap semiconductor devices technology (H2020-NMBP-2016-two-stage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 47.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7691466.25
EU funding (EUR): 7190000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of this proposal is to develop reliable GaN-based power devices and systems for high and medium power electronics targeting industrial and automotive applications and bringing the GaN power devices another step towards the wide usability in the energy saving environment to further tap the full potential which this new material brings along. This proposal addresses two subjects, one of which is medium power (till 10kW) GaN-on-Si based lateral HEMT structures (Normally OFF devices), with special focus on high reliability, which is still a major blocking item to allow wide-spread market adoption. Hence, the impact of the GaN material quality, in combination with the device layout in view of long-term reliability will be addressed. The project aims an in-depth reliability study and qualification strategy development whereby the study of the impact of dislocations and other structural disturbances inside the materials on the long term device reliability will be specifically addressed. In addition, this proposal aims to demonstrate new device concepts with increased robustness and reliability, which will be realized, evaluated and tested thoroughly. This will demonstrate how it is possible to overcome the known limitations of the GaN on Silicon technology, like e.g. the vertical leakage, trapping phenomena and/or breakdown of lateral HEMTs and the p-GaN gate related reliability issues. The current proposal also contains the development of novel device architecture (dual channel, substrate removal, e-mode), as well as the exploration of new material systems (Aluminum Nitride (Al-based) devices) which can also largely contribute to overcome drawbacks of the GaN on Si technology. The applicability of the novel GaN-on-Si concepts in form of an industrial inverter will be demonstrated finally, with the development of an innovative low inductance packaging system for power devices, making full benefits of the fast switching capability of GaN-based power devices.

Keywords: gallium nitride hemts,aluminum nitride hemts,reliability,material characterisation,device characterisation
European Conferences on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) (EuConNeCts 2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland,Greece,Greece,Portugal
Call: Smart optical and wireless network technologies (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 305370.0
EU funding (EUR): 305369.75
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

It is the purpose of EuConNeCts 2, a Supporting Action, to organise the following 2 editions, 2016 and 2017, of the EC sponsored conference in the area of communication networks and systems (EuCNC - European Conference on Networks and Communications). EuCNC will serve as a technical and scientific conference for researchers, namely European ones, to show their work in the area of Telecommunications, focusing on communication networks and systems, but reaching services and applications. However, the conference will not be restricted to European researchers, rather aiming at attracting others from all the other regions in the world. It will also serve as a showcase for the work developed by projects co-financed by the EC, namely those addressing Objective ICT-2014.6 (Smart optical and wireless network technologies), but also including the new projects arising from other H2020 calls. Nonetheless, it also aims at attracting works in the area of communication networks and systems from other objectives. EuCNC will: 1) be a European conference, but with a large international dimension; 2) showcase the R&D activities performed within EC programmes, directly and indirectly; 3) showcase the cooperation in R&D between European organisations and worldwide ones; 4) bridge between academia / research centres and industry; 5) coordinate its goals with the EC and the main European players; 6) be a high-quality R&D conference; 7) be a well-recognised conference in Telecommunications; 8) provide a forum for the presentation of state-of-the-art technology, in both theoretical and experimental forms; 9) communicate the research results to the wide audience of the general public; 10) foster the participation of both established researchers and students, as well as industry members from various areas; 11) be a transparent and not-for-profit conference; 12) positively differentiate itself from other conferences, which will be achieved by reaching all previous objectives.

Keywords: conferences organization,eucnc,future internet
The first non-invasive device for continuous, real-time monitoring of glucose and lactate through sweat analysis (SMASH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Monitoring of blood glucose concentration in diabetics is mandatory for managing the pathology evolution, but it is still performed through invasive devices (mainly blood-prick tests) which cause pain and are unable to provide continuous, realtime monitoring. The same shortages can be found in the monitoring of other key biomarkers, such as lactate level, which is a key factor for customizing the training of professional athletes and prevent muscle injuries, and is currently measured through prick test or ex-post through lab exams. Innovosens is a high-tech start-up company specialized in bio-chemical analysis and micro-sensing devices which developed SMASH, the first non-invasive, multiparametric wearable sensor for continuous monitoring of glucose and lactate levels. Through an innovative patented microfluidic system, the sensor is able to collect sweat from the skin, analyse both the biomarkers level, and continuously replenish the reservoir with fresh sweat for updated data. Diabetics patients will be able to measure their glucose level non-invasively, continuously and in real-time, through data wirelessly transmitted from the device to a mobile app, thus promptly reacting to acute levels with corrective dietary or drug intake. At the same time, the real-time monitoring of lactate level will provide athletes and their coaches with the unprecedented possibility to prevent lacto-acidosis, thus customising and maximising training sessions and preventing the risk of injuries. The Phase 1 project will be key for defining the final device design by interacting with end-users and key stakeholders, and for consolidating the business model by devising the most appropriate pricing and commercialization strategy, with a view to the market launch in 2021.

Keywords: wearable device,non invasive sweat metabolites analysis,clinical care,glucose measurement,lactate measurement,sport wearable
WESTinnoMAR (WESTinnoMAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Türkiye,Türkiye,Türkiye
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 29373.75
EU funding (EUR): 29373.75
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project addresses the action for “Establishing services “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs” in the Enterprise Europe Network” to improve the innovation management capacity of SMEs. The activities foreseen under this proposal is to give Activity 4 of EEN services to SMEs. 10 full enhancing SMEs’ innovation management capacity service packages will be offered to SME’s till the end of 2018 and every service package is foreseen as 7 days in the proposal. Additionally, 14 day KAM serviceswill be offered for successful beneficiaries of SME instrument Phase 1.

Keywords: innovation,researchanddevelopment
Enhanced Silicon Photomultiplier-based detectors for high-resolution Positron Emission Mammography. (ClearPEMplus)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: Clinical research for the validation of biomarkers and/or diagnostic medical devices (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Breast cancer affects more than 1.7 million women each year in Europe. Early detection and exact staging (single or multi-localization) is of extreme importance for improving the survival rate and cure outcome, and tailoring the operation (tumor or whole-breast removal). Currently mammography is the technique of choice for breast cancer screening, with positive cases addressed to further exams. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging is beneficial to complement mammography in many situations: screening of critical cases with cancer history, detection in young women with dense breast or silicon implants, and to evaluate the effect of a cure. However whole-body PET scanners suffer of scarce sensitivity and are effective only in detecting tumours larger than 1-1.5cm. PETsys Electronics has designed and developed an innovative detector module for PET scanner based on the SiPM photodetector, a solid state device with enhanced sensitivity to low–light signal, that is read out by their novel highly integrated Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The housing is specifically designed for breast cancer detection. Currently, ClearPEM+ is the only PET breast scanner based on the SiPM photodetector, which allows to provide a 10-fold larger sensitivity than whole body PET scanner. The improved spatial resolution enables to identify breast lesions as small as 1-2 mm. ClearPEM+ addresses the market of hospitals and clinics replying to their need of enhancing the specificity of mammography screening in breast cancer detection to battle the increasing rate of false-positive results, which implies additional cost for the healthcare system and unnecessary distress for women. The Phase 1 project will be focused on establishing a complete supply chain, a sound business model and commercialization strategy, a planning of all activities for performing the clinical trials in hospital departments, as well as the elaboration of an industrialization and marketing plan.

Keywords: breast cancer,cancer detection,positron emission mammography,positron emission tomography,breast scanner,silicon photomultiplier photodetector
Cells-self Extracellular Matrices-based Bioinks to create accurate 3D diseased skin tissue models (ECM_INK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 75.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998938.92
EU funding (EUR): 1998938.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

It has been recognized that growing cells within 3D structures reduces the gap between 2D in vitro cell cultures and native tissue physiology. This has been paving the way for the development of reliable 3D in vitro cell-based platforms with major impact in the reduction/elimination of animal experimentation, diseases modelling and drug development. So far, the many strategies that have been followed to bioengineer in vitro 3D human tissue models mostly rely on the random culture of cells within a 3D structure without reflecting the compositional and structural complexity of the native tissues. Recently proposed bioprinting technologies that allow accurate and high speed deposition of various cells and matrices at high resolution, have therefore great potential in the development of physiologically reliable 3D in vitro tissue models by recreating the different microenvironments/microfunctionalities found in each tissue. Nonetheless, among the components required for bioprinting, bioinks in particular have demanding requirements and much has still to be done regarding their intrinsic formulation to lead cell behaviour and support specific functionalities. ECM_INK intends to tackle this issue by developing cells-self extracellular matrices-based bioinks to create accurate and pathophysiological relevant 3D in vitro diseased skin tissue models. The development of cell phenotype-driven bioinks will generate complex microenvironments comprising varied cell types within matrices that were specifically designed to attain a particular response from each one of those cell types. The use of cells from patients suffering from chronic, genetic and neoplastic skin diseases represents a major advantage that will be reflected in the accuracy and functionality of the respective 3D in vitro models. The ultimate confirmation of their potential will be complete after validation using animal-free approaches reinforcing the intrinsic relationship of ECM_INK with the 3Rs policy.

Keywords: bioprinting,bioinks,bio instructive materials,extracellualr matrix,hydrogels,vascularization,3d skin like model,skin diseases
Dependability Engineering Innovation for CPS - DEIS (DEIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Germany,Italy,Ireland,Italy,Austria,Türkiye,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4889290.0
EU funding (EUR): 4889290.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Cyber-Physical-Systems harbor the potential for vast economic and societal impact in all major application domains, however in case of failure this may lead to catastrophic results for industry and society. Thus, ensuring the dependability of such systems is the key to unlocking their full potential and enabling European industries to develop confidently business models that will nurture their societal uptake. The DEIS project addresses this challenges by developing technologies that form a science of dependable system integration. In the core of these technologies lies the concept of a Digital Dependability Identity (DDI) of a component or system. DDIs are composable and executable in the field facilitating (a) efficient synthesis of component and system dependability information over the supply chain and (b) effective evaluation of this information in-the-field for safe and secure composition of highly distributed and autonomous CPS. This concept shall be deployed and evaluated in four use cases: Automotive: Stand-alone system for intelligent physiological parameter monitoring Automotive: Advanced driver simulator for evaluation of automated driving functions Railway: Plug-and-play environment for heterogeneous railway systems Healthcare: Clinical decision support app for oncology professionals The DEIS project will impact the CPS market by providing new engineering methods and tools reducing significantly development time and cost of ownership, while supporting integration and interoperability of dependability information over the product lifecycle and over the supply chain. The development and application of the DDI approach on four use cases from three different application domains will illustrate the applicability of the DDI concept while increasing the competitiveness of the use case owners in their respective markets.

Keywords: functional safety,security,dependability assurance case,iso26262,iec61508,en50129,en50128
ECO-INNOVATE-AQUACULTURE-SYSTEM (EASY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The EASY Project has as its main objective the establishment of a technology that reflects the strategic guidelines for sustainable and profitable development of aquaculture in the EU. In order to follow these guidelines, this project has developed an innovative focused on the development of organic aquaculture feed formula. This formula completely excludes fishmeal and fish oil in its composition, and makes up to 50% cheaper production costs in our product (Tilapia fresh), allowing us to provide the end user, a product with high quality, traceability and profitability. Although Global aquaculture production is increasing, particularly Asian production, European production is stagnated. In EU Countries there is a strong trend in healthier and higher quality fish consumption, furthermore, consumer are requesting fast and comfortable food products without compromising its quality and safety. Obtaining raw material (spirulina and quinoa) inside of our facilities for the production of feed, along with the use of new technologies in the field of aquaponic, is undoubtedly the main key to the viability (feasibility) of EASY Project. The opportunity that this tool SME (Horizon 2020) offers drives the growth of the European inland aquaculture, create new jobs and position us as a world-leader in sustainable aquaculture. Analyzed by University of Murcia the results describe our fish as a very high quality due to the organoleptic properties, and perfectly suitable for the new market challenges. In Phase I our principal aim is to conduct a feasibility study including a business plan and market research with our partners regarding commercialization of the products, specially V range products (new formats), taking advantage over our Asian competitors, thus, becoming a leader in this growing market.

Keywords: sustainable aquaculture by means of high technology