Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Renovating the Existing Buildings Environment through the Combination of Circular economy and the Add-ons’ strategy (REBECCA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 262209.6
EU funding (EUR): 262209.6
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The actual investment gap in the renovation sector is due to the fact that high investments are required up-front, generally characterised by a high degree of risk and long payback times. Sustainable approaches based upon linear economy principle are inadequate to effectively answer to the energy emergency of the existing buildings: a shift towards circular models is urgent. REBECCA aims at demonstrating the attractiveness of circular, concerted and innovative actions capable of unlocking public and private funds, fill the energy efficiency investment gap and ultimately contribute to re-launch the construction and renovation market. To do so, the research looks at the residential building stock and develops renovation strategies and techniques based upon Circular models for Renovation (CiR) and Circular Add-ons (CiA), intended as one (or a set of) volumetric additions – like aside or façade addictions, rooftop extensions or even an entire new building construction - that increase the real estate residual value of the existing buildings thanks to significant energy and architectural transformations. Through a case-study based approach, REBECCA will prove that building renovations can be achieved at zero cost (through self-financing real estate models), zero waste (with virtuous circular waste/material management paths) and zero energy (by reducing the energy consumptions and integrating renewable energy sources). In synthesis, REBECCA is proposing to introduce a new paradigm of circularity in the building renovation practice, which looks at reducing the pay-back time of the interventions, strengthening the key investors’ confidence, increasing quality and attractiveness of the existing buildings’ stock and, finally, reaching a concrete market acceleration towards the target of carbon zero footprint for the European built environment.

Keywords: energy renovation,energy efficiency,existing buildings,volumetric additions,deep architectural transformation,prefabrication,circular economy,design,recycle,life cycle,technical toolkits
New Enantioselective Desymmetrization Reactions in Alkaloid Total Synthesis (NEDRATS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-06
End date: 2017-07-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will develop a new, highly enantioselective, state-of-the-art synthetic route to the daphniyunnine family of alkaloids based on a novel dual organo / metal catalysed desymmetrization reaction of alkene-linked cyclohexanones as a key step, which will allow the rapid and efficient construction of the AB rings ready for subsequent advancement to the majority of the family members. Evaluation of the anti-cancer biological activity of the different target molecules and late stage intermediates will be carried out. This Fellowship project combines total synthesis, new asymmetric methodology development and biological evaluation. It has been designed to augment and complement the research and transferable skills sets of the Marie Curie fellow, Dr Sonawane, and will greatly enhance his career prospects accordingly. Through the training and the research results arising, the Fellowship will be beneficial to the fellow, the host institution and European science.

Keywords: organic synthesis,catalysis,desymmetrization,total synthesis,alkaloids,enantioselective reactions
Portable SolUtioN for dIstributed geNeration in a BOX (SUNINBOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2019-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2010775.0
EU funding (EUR): 1407542.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Suninbox consists of a portable Solar PV energy solution that integrates in a certified container all the components necessary to generate electricity autonomously. It arises from a joint business venture between Solarbox Solar Solutions and Generaciones Fotovoltaicas de la Mancha (GFM), which started in 2007 for the development of a solar tracker to increase the collection efficiency of solar systems by more than 35% whilst making it easy to transport to cover the lack of solutions in the market with good price/characteristics rate. Suninbox features will allow both Solarbox and GFM to gradually reach industrial scale with increasingly lower costs (objective price of 4.25 €/W per 12kWn module), gaining penetration in the international market through a lower cost of energy (i.e. <35€/kWh) vs. other off – grid solutions ( <0,56E/kWh for generation with diesel). It will open for both companies a new business line, which will double their turnover by achieving over 5 million € in the first five years after commercialization. Main challenges to address are the requirements of electricity generation in off-grid areas are to decrease use of fossil fuel, while guaranteeing continuous energy supply of demand, to lower operational and maintenance costs and to introduce low cost standalone systems that are portable and easy to install, to facilitate transport and use. Suninbox has demonstrated, and an in depth-feasibility study has also been financed by the SME Instrument Phase 1, where we determined Suninbox's business opportunities in different market niches, studied how to reach them and detailed how to perform technical optimisation of the solution. One of our main identified target markets will be the agricultural sector, which is highly affected by the intensive energy requirements of the irrigation systems ( average installed power need of 2kW/Ha).

Keywords: distributed generation,photovoltaic energy,portable solar solution,solar irrigation,plug and play system,lower cost of energy,off grid solution
SmartHeart, a 3D in vitro assay for improved assessment of cardiac drug efficacy and toxicity (SmartHeart)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-02
End date: 2022-06-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Currently, animal models are still widely used in the pre-clinical stage of drug development to mimic human diseases or predict the human body’s response to candidate drugs. However, their use should be minimized as much as possible due to ethical issues and since only 9.6% of drugs entering phase I of clinical trials end up being commercialized. Therefore, the goal of this action is to develop a novel proprietary 3D in vitro cardiac assay. The SmartHeart will retrieve several of the most important read-outs commonly assessed to study the impact of drugs at the cardiac level in the pre-clinical phase. The all in one assay will be based on a microstructured gel where cardiac cells, as cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells will be cultured. The SmartHeart will answer to the shortcomings of academic and commercial available in vitro assays, by enabling the qualitative and quantitative measurement of several parameters, as contractility and Calcium transients. Simultaneously, the assay will enable sub-cellular structure observation via high-resolution imaging techniques. Furthermore, the 3D nature of the assay will contribute to the efficient maturation of the induced CMs, which is still a limiting factor when not using cardiac human cells, but rather induced CMs, in in vitro assays. The ultimate aim of the project is to make this device available to screening platforms, e.g. Pharma or CROs. The technology will be implemented in multiwell plates compatible with the standards of HTS/HCS and will be available to early-users, from whom feedback will be acquired, enabling to fine tune the specifications of the final device. This project will meet the best of the ER competences in physics, with the expertise of 4Dcell in 3Dcell culture systems. With this project, the ER will reach a level of maturity on several technological, managerial and industrial aspects providing her a new career angle and put her a step closer to act as a leader in research.

Keywords: 3d cell culture,microfabrication,cardiomyocytes,polyacrylamyde gels,toxicology and drug screening assay,product development
Set in Stone - A retrospective impact assessment of human and environmental resource usage in Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Monumental Architecture, Greece (SETinSTONE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1975200.0
EU funding (EUR): 1975200.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Greek Mycenaean monumental architecture has been well-studied. However, the extent to which large-scale building programmes contributed to the socioeconomic and political changes and crises that took place in Late Bronze Age Greece (c.1600-1100/1070 BC) has not been studied. The project aims to investigate human and natural resources which interacted in the Argive Plain and Attica. There, elites mobilized these resources to implement their monumental building programmes. It seeks to reveal how and why these constructions were accomplished, and what impact such large-scale prolonged building programmes had on the population over time. Methodologically, practical building processes and inherent social practices are captured via the chaîne opératoire approach. Economic data are assessed via architectural energetics, an econometric modelling procedure translating buildings into cost-estimates including time-units of labour invested. These two approaches are triangulated with critically reviewed data sets revealing the changing broader demographic situation of the region. The latter data are extracted from published settlement and land use surveys, as well as archaeobotanical, geomorphological, climatic and mortuary studies from the Argolid. Published historical archives and the Linear B tablets provide further comparative data on regional pre-industrial land use and human activities. Together all these data will provide numerical estimates of people involved in region-wide large-scale building projects. The social consequence is that these people could not simultaneously produce primary commodities (e.g. food). The project will finally illustrate whether the estimated active population of the region could sustain such long-term building and supply of other resources, or whether resource depletion, mismanagement and miscommunication contributed to the LBA Mycenaean socioeconomic and political crises, or even its societal collapse, c. 1200 BC.

Keywords: environment and resources,land use,environmental and climatic change,societal impact,spatial data analysis
European Network of competencies and platforms for Enabling SME from any sector building Innovative CPS products to sustain demand for European manufacturing (EuroCPS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: A new generation of components and systems: Engineering of advanced embedded and energy and resource efficient components and systems
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Austria,Austria,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Germany,Germany,Hungary,Sweden,France,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9127173.01
EU funding (EUR): 8186834.01
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

SMEs play a key role in European economies; they constitute the largest business block and provide the bulk of employment. They generate most of the innovative ideas for ICT and CPS-enabled IoT products, two areas which represent an inflection point for innovators and industry in Europe. EuroCPS is an ambitious project that aims to arm Europe with a network of design centres that will boost and initiate synergies between SMEs, major CPS-platforms, and CPS-competency providers, to capture the emerging markets for IoT products. EuroCPS will 1. Leverage the existing regional ecosystem across the full value chain (from micro-electronics, smart systems, and CPS, to high value added products and services) and range of expertise and competencies to provide innovators from any sector with an easy path to build innovative CPS-enabled systems. 2. Act as a one-stop-shop that provides a critical mass of technologies and competencies by facilitating user-supplier partnerships across value-chains and regions. Hence the typical development time of innovative for CPS applications will be significantly decreased through the ease of access to the platforms, and coaching by the competence partners within EuroCPS. 3. Link software, system and nano-electronic industries along the full CPS value chain to demonstrate a new cooperation model evidenced by experiments initiated and led by innovators that translate the rich pool of ideas from end users into implementation of CPS applications made in Europe. EuroCPS gathers major European system suppliers and world class research centres and technology providers, all rooted in the top European regional ecosystems. Based on strong foundations in European and national initiatives, EuroCPS will, through pan European collaboration and knowledge exchange and access to the strong value chain in this strategic sector, significantly reduce development time and certification efforts, thus putting Europe at the cutting edge of CPS development and implementation.

Keywords: design centre,network,networking,coaching
Public Ecosystem Goods And Services from land management - Unlocking the Synergies (PEGASUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Estonia,Germany,Slovenia,Belgium,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Provision of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry: Putting the concept into practice (H2020-ISIB-2014-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3007800.0
EU funding (EUR): 2977525.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

EU's agricultural and forestry land provides a wide range of public goods (PG) and ecosystem services (ESS) on which society depends, yet land use decisions and society often under-value these . PEGASUS will develop innovative, practical ways of making PG and ESS concepts accessible and operational: it will identify how, where and when cost-effective mechanisms and tools for policy, business and practice can most effectively be applied, increasing the sustainability of primary production in pursuit of the EU2020 vision of 'smart, sustainable and inclusive growth'. Recognising that the appreciation of PGs is context-dependent, PEGASUS uses social-ecological systems as an analytical framework to explore systemic inter-dependencies among natural, social and economic processes. It will adopt participatory action research with public and private actors and stakeholders to better understand the range of policy and practical challenges in different case study contexts (localities, sectors, management systems, etc.). An EU-level spatially explicit assessment of causalities between socio-political and institutional drivers, different land management systems and multiple delivery of PG will be complemented by fine-grained analysis within the case studies, and comparative meta-analysis will be applied to develop an operational framework for mapping, valorising and determining what PG and ecosystem service (ES) provision is needed and feasible within particular territories and sectors. New data-sets, transferable methods and tools that are fit-for-purpose and sensitive to the plurality of decision-making contexts will be generated. By improving recognition of the social and economic value of PG, PEGASUS will promote improved and innovative approaches to their provision by businesses and communities, and highlight specific policy improvements. It will provide specific advances in CAP, forestry and other relevant policies, underpinned by strong scientific evidence.

Keywords: public goods,governance,agriculture,forestry,stakeholder engagement
Resilience and Resignation among Transnational Roma and non-Roma Youths (RETRY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-08-29
End date: 2022-09-11
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 337400.64
EU funding (EUR): 337400.64
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Current European policy frameworks seek to foster societal development and individual advancement by getting more people educated, and for longer. At the same time, official programs encourage “learning mobility” as a way to support educational and professional opportunities. Yet, the adversities that underprivileged youths “on the move” are faced with as they strive to comply with these prescriptions clearly reveal the practical limitations of such powerful narrative construction: the issue of whether spatial mobility constitutes an asset or not for young people remains largely unexplored. Building on this, RETRY aims to develop a sophisticated understanding of the drivers of educational and post-educational marginality and inclusion in contemporary Europe. At this scope, it provides a theoretically informed, in-depth ethnographic, multi-sited and collaborative account of a phenomenon that has remains largely understudied so far: the movements into adulthood of underprivileged Roma and non-Roma European youths “affected by mobility”. The overall question of whether, and under what conditions, their trajectories disclose broader processes of social transformation or reproduce structural inequalities is addressed through the elaboration of a spatial and relational theory of resilience and resignation in youth. The theory aims to unveil the complex interplay of structural constraints and individual agency that shapes the multiple interactions between spatial, social, and biographical mobility. At this scope, RETRY addresses specific questions vis-à-vis the impact of welfare policies, community strategies, and personal ties on the transitions of young people striving to navigate towards their desirable futures in a changing and unstable environment.

Keywords: youth transitions,roma,mobility,social capital,social protection,social mobility,superdiversity,welfare regimes,audio visual methods,collaborative ethnography
Supramolecular Architectures for Ruthenium Water Oxidation Catalysis (SUPRAWOC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2490934.0
EU funding (EUR): 2490934.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Ruthenium complexes with 2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylate (bda) as equatorial ligand and pyridines as axial ligands are currently the most favored class of efficient water oxidation catalysts (WOCs) and thus a great hope for achieving practical artificial photosynthesis. Based on the outstanding WOC performance of our recently reported macrocycles bearing three [Ru(bda)] units, this proposal aims to explore a wider variety of multinuclear metallosupramolecular architectures including more diverse polygons, polyhedra and coordination polymers. Precise control of structure and size will be achieved through a directional bonding approach with suitable vertices and edges, e.g. for cubic, tetrahedral, or dodecahedral architectures, and new ring-opening living supramolecular polymerization protocols with specially-tailored [Ru(bda)] precursors and multitopic azaaromatic initiators towards unprecedented polymer topologies. Whereas the synthesis and isolation of these metallosupramolecular structures will take advantage of rapid axial ligand exchange at elevated temperatures and the charge neutrality in the Ru(II) oxidation state, water networks will form in the internal cavities of the polygons, polyhedra and coordination networks for the catalytically active Ru(IV/V) species. These networks facilitate substrate water binding and proton-coupled electron transfer processes, both of which accelerate the challenging oxidative half reaction of (photo-)catalytic water splitting. Taking advantage of the accumulation of positive charge in the envisioned metallosupramolecular scaffolds, negatively charged photosensitizers will be embedded into host-guest complexes to accelerate solar light-driven WOC. Accordingly, this proposal will establish a new family of metallosupramolecular structures with outstanding functionality based on innovative synthetic concepts and important principles found in natural photosynthesis.

Keywords: artificial photosynthesis,metallosupramolecular polyhedra,coordination polymers,supramolecular photochemistry,water oxidation catalysis