Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Injecting New Life into Cellulosic Ethanol Production (NewLiEP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden,Finland,Denmark
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4112500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2878750.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Global environmental situation creates an urgent need for more sustainable transportation fuels. Ethanol made from lignocellulosic biomass is suitable for substituting fossil fuels in transportation and has potential to reduce greenhouse gas emission by up to 80%, compared to fossil fuels. Lignocellulose-based ethanol utilizes agricultural or forestry waste and does not involve crops otherwise dedicated for human food or animal feed. However, economic feasibility of this production approach has been a challenge for the industry. The project aims to close this gap by introducing a novel fermentation process with superior productivity and lower operational and capital expenses. In this project, a novel fermentation concept, CoRyFee, will be further developed and demonstrated in near-industrial scale. This technology is superior to those on the market due to its performance and unparalleled feedstock flexibility. It will enable use of softwood – feed stock that cannot currently be effectively utilized by any available technology. The project combines capabilities of the technology partners, Terranol and SEKAB, and will be done in cooperation with a potential customer, Kanteleen Voima in Finland. This will ensure meeting customer expectations to performance and product business model, therefore creating solid foundation for commercialization. Upon successful completion of the project, the technology has the potential to become the primary fermentation technology used in fuel ethanol plants. Productised to be sold on the license basis, it will become commercially available by 2021 and create significant business opportunity for the partners, with 6 plants expected to be built using the technology by 2025. This will result in new R&D, engineering and operations job creation. Most importantly, development of this high-performing technology will help meet the growing demand for more sustainable fuels and support reaching the EU environmental targets in emission reduction.
Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change (TREECLIMBERS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Tropical forests are essential components of the earth system. Yet, much uncertainty exists about the exact role of this biome in the global carbon cycle. Our limited understanding of tropical forest functioning is reflected in uncertain global vegetation model projections. A large source of uncertainty in these models is their representation of ecosystem demographic processes. Interestingly, fieldwork has revealed lianas as important components of tropical forests, which are apparently increasing in abundance. Liana proliferation might be a key adaptation mechanism of tropical forests to climate change, which has potentially large impacts on the long term tropical forest biome carbon balance. Nevertheless, no single terrestrial ecosystem model currently includes lianas. TREECLIMBERS will generate important insights into the mechanisms by which lianas influence the carbon balance of tropical forests, by building the first vegetation model that includes lianas. We will make the first integrative study of (1) the contribution of lianas to instantaneous carbon and water fluxes, (2) liana contribution and influence on canopy structure, (3) their role for long term demographic processes, and (4) of their role in forest responses to drought events. TREECLIMBERS will develop the first liana plant functional type (PFT) by combining a unique global meta-analysis of existing data with innovative terrestrial LiDAR 3D measurements of the canopy to study the contribution of lianas to the canopy structure. New and available data will be integrated in the Ecosystem Demography (ED) model, a forerunner of the next generation of vegetation models. By using model-data fusion we will, for the first time, integrate the large amount of available and emerging liana data, leading to an integrated insight into the role of lianas in tropical forest functioning. This project aims to show that shifts in floristic composition due to global change may have important impacts in tropical forests.
Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s. (SeaLiT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Greece
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1372350.0
EU funding (EUR): 1372350.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SeaLiT explores the transition from sail to steam navigation and its effects on seafaring populations in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea between the 1850s and the 1920s. In the core of the project lie the effects of technological innovation on seafaring people and maritime communities, whose lives were drastically altered by the advent of steam. The project addresses the changes through the actors, seafarers, shipowners and their families, focusing on the adjustment of seafaring lives to a novel socio-economic reality. It investigates the maritime labour market, the evolving relations among shipowner, captain, crew and their local societies, life on board and ashore, as well as the development of new business strategies, trade routes and navigation patterns. Maritime labour and shipping remains an understudied case of the transition from the premodern working environment of the sailing ship to that of the steamer, in a period of rapid technological improvements, economic growth and market integration. Therefore, the project will address a major gap in maritime historiography: on the one hand, the transition from sail to steam, and on the other, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, “the extended Mediterranean” according to F. Braudel. The project examines in a comparative approach seven maritime regions: the Ionian, Aegean, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic and Black Seas, Spain and southern France. The research team composed of the PI, three postdoctoral fellows, four senior researchers and four Ph.D. candidates from Greece, Italy, Spain, France and Ukraine will study unpublished sources: ship logbooks, crew lists, business records, and private correspondence. They will produce a collective volume, several articles, a final synthesis by the PI, four Ph.D. dissertations, three workshops, one international conference and a website with an online open access database, an archival and bibliographical corpus and reconstruction of ship voyages on a web G.I.S. application.

Keywords: maritime history,labour history,history of mediterranean in the modern and contemporary period
Software Components for Robust Geometry Processing (TITANIUM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: France,France
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 112500.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The TITANIUM proposal aims to develop a software demonstrator for geometry processing and 3D urban modeling, in order to facilitate the pre-commercialization of novel software components for the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library. The proposed demonstrator will include novel approaches resulting from the ERC-funded IRON project (‘Robust Geometry Processing’, StG-2010-257474), which are illustrated by publications presented at premier conferences in our field (receiving two best paper awards) and a patent submitted in 2015. The expected outcomes of TITANIUM will be versatile methods for 3D reconstruction and simplification of data gathered from geometric measurements, as well as related methods specifically tailored to urban modeling. These methods represent a significant step forward by offering unrivaled levels of robustness, and automated generation of levels of detail that are semantically meaningful. The acronym TITANIUM, a robust and lightweight material, conveys our wish to streamline the geometric modeling pipeline through robust algorithms and lightweight representations. This Proof of Concept project will also implement the steps required for pre-commercialization. In view of this goal, we have included an industrial partner, GeometryFactory, a spinoff from Inria launched in 2003. We have already established preliminary contacts in the fields of metrology and geographic information systems. These contacts will provide real-world industrial case studies.

Keywords: digital geometry processing,computational geometry algorithms library,3d reconstruction,shape approximation,urban modeling
Quantum Simulation of Strongly-Correlated Systems (QSIMCORR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

A major challenge in theoretical physics is to develop novel methods without systematic errors. The scope of this proposal is the numerical control over strongly correlated phases in the thermodynamic limit through two main developments: First, for bosonic systems, we aim to obtain reliable phase diagrams for optical flux lattices, combining topology with interactions. In particular, we study the competition between superfluid order and (fractional) Chern insulators, which may harbor (non-)abelian anyonic excitations. This is achieved by a major improvement on our current selfenergy-based cluster methods through non-local interactions, vertex corrections and momentum cluster extensions. This also enables access to out-of-equilibrium dynamics, relevant to study quench-type experiments. In the presence of disorder, we can then answer whether many-body-localization exists in higher dimensions and address the fundamental puzzle of how and when systems thermalize. Second, for fermionic systems with long-range interactions, such as warm dense matter, the electron gas, and cold gases with Rydberg interactions, the diagrammatic Monte Carlo method is uniquely situated to compute thermal exchange correlation energies over the entire density range, essential to any calculation in condensed matter physics, astro physics and plasma physics. It employs a universal language but needs further algorithmic refinements for improving its convergence and sign properties. Extensions are towards (frustrated) spin systems, providing an alternative route to the realization of strongly correlated phases. At all stages analytical derivations must be supplemented with coding and large-scale computation. We address what new types of quantum systems can efficiently be computed on a classical computer, and how. Simultaneously, we seek to extend the paradigm of quantum simulation by comparing the results of our novel methods with cold gas experiments in challenging regimes, where possible.

Keywords: quantum monte carlo,strong correlations,quantum simulations,topology,many body localization,warm dense matter,electron gas,high performance computing,algorithms
Exploiting GLIOblastoma intractability to address European research TRAINing needs in translational brain tumour research, cancer systems medicine and integrative multi-omics (GLIOTRAIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United States,United Kingdom,Luxembourg
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3836772.0
EU funding (EUR): 3836772.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most frequent, aggressive and lethal of all brain tumours. It has a universally fatal prognosis with 85% of patients dying within two years. New treatment options and effective precision medicine therapies are urgently required. This can only be achieved by focused multi-sectoral industry-academia collaborations in newly emerging, innovative research disciplines. GLIOTRAIN will exploit the intractability of GBM to address European applied biomedical research training needs. The ETN, which comprises 9 beneficiaries and 14 partner organisations from 8 countries, will train 15 innovative, creative and entrepreneurial ESRs. The research objective of GLIOTRAIN is to identify novel therapeutic strategies for application in GBM, while implementing state of the art next generation sequencing, systems medicine and integrative multi-omics to unravel disease resistance mechanisms. Research activities incorporate applied systems medicine, integrative multi-omics leveraging state of the art platform technologies, and translational cancer biology implementing the latest clinically relevant models. The consortium brings together leading European and international academics, clinicians, private sector and not-for-profit partners across GBM fields of tumour biology, multi-omics, drug development, clinical research, bioinformatics, computational modelling and systems biology. Thus, GLIOTRAIN will address currently unmet translational research and clinical needs in the GBM field by interrogating innovative therapeutic strategies and improving the mechanistic understanding of disease resistance. The GLIOTRAIN ETN addresses current needs in academia and the private sector for researchers that have been trained in an environment that spans translational research, medicine and computational biology, and that can navigate confidently between clinical, academic and private sector environments to progress applied research findings towards improved patient outcomes.

Keywords: multi omics,glioblastoma,preclinical models,mathematical modelling,data integration
SpectroPhotometric Imaging in Astronomy with Kinetic Inductance Detectors (SPIAKID)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3109215.0
EU funding (EUR): 3109215.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The SPIAKID project will build a camera using Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) to equip an 8 m class telescope to derive ages and metallicities for stars in Ultra Faint Dwarf galaxies (UFDs) in the Local Group. UFDs are the key to understand early galaxy formation processes, including the properties of the first stars, and the role of environment and internal feedback in shaping the evolution of dwarf galaxies. A full exploitation of UFDs to understand these processes requires knowledge of their precise stellar ages and metallicities. This is difficult, in many cases impossible, to obtain with existing instruments because of the faintness of UFDs. SPIAKID will allow unprecedented efficiency in acquiring wide-band spectrophotometry, making this possible. The KID provides a low resolution spectrum (goal: λ/Δλ~15) over a wide spectral range (goal: 0.45 μm to 1.60 μm), a single exposure instead of many single-band exposures. The instrument throughput is increased as the design is simplified since filtering is unnecessary and the visible and infra-red optical paths are combined. The KIDs are read continuously with zero read-out noise so the integration is driven in real time by monitoring the signal-to-noise ratio. Finally, their response is faster (~ 30 μs) than the coherence time of atmospheric turbulence (a few ms) so diffraction-limited resolution is achieved with existing image reconstruction techniques. The reconstructed images will be sharper and deeper than can be achieved by traditional seeing-limited imagers. The SPIAKID instrument will tackle other science cases, e.g. transiting exoplanets and their atmospheres or the electromagnetic emission from gravitational wave sources, and the instrument will be offered to the community to foster other uses. Our technological developments for the KIDs will place European scientists in a position to design and build innovative instruments, in astronomy but also, for example, in fast imaging for fluorescence microscopy.

Keywords: ultra faint dwarf galaxies
Advanced Solutions for Asphalt Pavements (ASAP)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Advanced Solutions for Asphalt Pavements (ASAP) project involves the development of a unique road paving technology which will use a bio-bitumen rejuvenator to rejuvenate aged asphalt bitumen. This technology will help to extend the lifespan of asphalt pavements (roads) and will reduce the environmental and economic impact of roads and road maintenance processes. Recycling and self-healing processes will replace fossil fuel dependent technology. Self-healing will involve rejuvenating aged asphalt bitumen using a bio-rejuvenator developed using microalgae oils (rejuvenating bio-oil). Microalgae has been selected because of its fast growth, versatility and ability to survive within hostile environments, such as wastewater. ASAP will utilise microalgae, cultivated within the wastewater treatment process, as a source of the rejuvenating bio-oil. The solvent (Soxhlet) processes will be used to extract the oil from the microalgae. To ensure the efficiency of the oil extraction process, an ultrasonication process will be used to pre-treat the microalgae. The suitability of rejuvenating bio-oil as a replacement for the bitumen rejuvenator (fossil fuel based) will be ascertained via a series of standard bituminous and accelerated tests. A rejuvenator-binder diffusion numerical model will be developed, based on the Delft Lattice concrete diffusion model, to determine the conditions required for rejuvenation to occur and to ascertain the healing rate of the asphalt binder. These parameters will facilitate the selection and optimisation of the asphalt self-healing systems (specifically the amount of bio-oil rejuvenator and time required) to achieve full rejuvenation. This novel approach will benchmark the effectiveness of this intervention against existing asphalt design and maintenance processes and assess feasibility. The ASAP project presents an opportunity to revolutionise road design and maintenance processes and reduce its environmental and financial costs.

Keywords: asphalt pavement engineering,roads,bio bitumen,micro algae,algae cultivation and processing
An electronic drone pilot and cargo custodian for blood and medical courier services (ADRONE4LIFE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

On a daily basis, urgent transport for blood bags, hemocomponets, medical goods and other indispensable health needs are required all over the world. Current emergency transportation for medical needs, a market that will reach $93,2 Billion in 2021 needs a technological upgrade. The actual delivery process involves long waiting time, depends on a specialized driver and has to be delivered by road, or, when extremely necessary, by helicopter, both alternatives represent high direct and indirect costs (up to 2000€) that have to be faced by the medical facilities, the government and the citizens, while every minute lost could potentially endanger patient’s life. ABzero is a start-up that operates in the field of design and production of technological tools, specially focus in the healthcare sector. Created in 2017 in order to face current deficiencies in the healthcare system by giving the community an innovative solution adapted to the latest technologies. As a spin-off of Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna, ABzero have access to their state of the art BioRobotic laboratory and the latest research studies in both, the technological and medical field. ADrone4Life is capable of facing current high cost, long delivery time and deficiencies in the emergency transport for medical needs. This smart case is flexible and modular, able to adapt, guarantee and monitor its cargo conditions, such as blood bags and samples, organs or any other health need at any time while automatically control whichever latest technology drone it is attached to, in order to swiftly reach its required destination overcoming any weather condition. This innovation will offer a 80% time reduction compared current delivery time and 99% cost reduction translated into more than 2000€ savings for each delivery with no CO² emissions. The company will benefit from an accumulated revenue of €15.045.000 and a total operational cash flow of €6.341.000 by 2024, creating 29 new job opportunities.

Keywords: drone guidance system,medical courier,homologated conditions,blood transport,organ transport,medical samples transport,guiding system