Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Human Resource Management Tool Based on Emotional Intelligence (Appytalent)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

There is significant evidence that emotional intelligence is the single most important factor when considering job performance. This makes sense. We are all aware of the importance of being able to understand and manage our emotions, yet this insight is barely considered in human resource management. Playforapply have developed a Software as a Service platform, Appytalent, which allows employers and employees to assess an individual’s emotional intelligence. They can then identify what emotional areas the individual needs to develop in order to effectively perform their chosen job and provides learning content for the individual to improve their emotional intelligence in these areas. Finally, a recruitment module allows human resource departments to identify job seekers that match the emotional intelligence profile they are recruiting. This SaaS is currently in a beta phase of development and is being trialled by several companies, including the Open University of Catalauna. Playforapply want to bring this new way of managing human resources to the market through the SME instrument. The aim will be to first carry out a feasibility study that will consider the technological requirements and economic potential of the market, before an SME phase 2 will complete the development and undertake a product demonstration in Europe, Australia and the USA. By 2020, Playforapply estimate that they will be generating profits of almost 3M€, with a return on the SME instrument project investment of 342% within 3 years of project completion.

Keywords: human resourse management,talent management,emotional intelligence,productivity,soft skills,recruitment skills development
Identity Management in PUbLic SErvices (IMPULSE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Iceland,Spain,Spain,Germany,Austria,Spain,Italy,Finland,Bulgaria,France,Denmark
Call: Transformative impact of disruptive technologies in public services (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3987593.75
EU funding (EUR): 3987593.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Public services (as all others) are reaching the Digital Single Market (DSM). Secure and respectful electronic identity (eID) management is an important enabler for trust and confidence in the DSM. Emerging technologies can disrupt eID and have strong potential for empowering existing initiatives. In particular, IMPULSE focuses on 2 of the most promising and disruptive technologies nowadays: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain, and their contributions to and impacts on eID. IMPULSE will carry out a user-centric and multidisciplinary impact analysis on the integration of Blockchain and AI on eID in public services, evaluating benefits but also risks, costs and limitations, considering socio-economic, legal, ethical and operational impacts, together with framework conditions (like GDPR and eIDAS regulations, existing eID systems, and standards). IMPULSE will use a demand-driven co-creation process as the guide, including pilot-oriented operational experimentation and involving Digital Innovation Hubs. A set of 6 representative and innovative case studies in Denmark, Spain, Bulgaria, Iceland and Italy, led by public service partner, will provide a variety of cultural, operational, legal, procedural and social contexts for research. Two major outcomes will be produced: 1) Holistic AI and blockchain technology supporting GDPR-compliant eID to complement existing EU identity schemas, ensuring cross-border access and secure and adaptable requirements for actionable integration with other public service providers, and adoption by existing Trust Service Providers (TSP) to ensure marketability. 2) Actionable roadmaps (detailing pathways and good practices) for the adoption, escalation and sustainability of such advanced eID technologies by public services in the EU ecosystem, in different countries and at different levels (local, regional, national and cross-border), as well as recommendations for policy makers supporting political accountability and responsibility.

Keywords: electronic identity,identity management,blockchain,artificial intelligence,smart contracts,biometrics,impact assessment,digital innovation hubs,stakeholders
Direct and indirect biorefinery technologies for conversion of organic side-streams into multiple marketable products (InDIRECT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,France,Netherlands
Call: Innovative efficient biorefinery technologies (H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-2-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2089670.94
EU funding (EUR): 1347947.75
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the proposal is to develop biorefinery processes as part of new value chains to convert under-spent side streams/residues from the agro-sector and processing sector into useful marketable products. Cascading processes (recovery of multiple compounds from the same feedstock) are envisioned to increase the conversion efficiency (product/ton biomass input) and maximise the values of the feedstock (euro/ton biomass input). Direct biorefiney of the biomass will be compared with indirect biorefinery. The latter refers to the two-step process that can cope with the heterogeneity of side-streams. In a first step the heterogenic feedstock is converted to homogenous biomass. The game-changing approach that will be applied is the use of insects in this step. Insects are able to convert a variety of feedstocks into a more homogenous biomass, being their own biomass. In a second step, the insect biomass will be further fractionated into a lipid, protein and chitin fraction, that all three have potential to be converted into marketable end-products (step 3). The ability to use various feedstocks results in a more robust and scalable biorefinery process that is expected to be less dependent on the season. The direct approach (without the insect convertion step) which will be explored for green leaves, is expected to be more seasonally variable, but generates a larger variety of compounds. The project foresees to process the derived fractions further into multiple marketable products for the feed, food and chemical sector. More than 20 new product formulations are envisioned and will be subjected to application tests within InDIRECT. Activities from lab to pilot scale are foreseen, enabling the generation of sufficient material for application tests that are crucial for developing the downstream market. Viable business concepts will be formulated and translated into business plans.

Keywords: biorefinery,side streams,cascading,insects,proteins,lipids,chitin,green leaves
Generating New Evidence to Address Violence Against Women: Realizing Women’s Rights (Evidence-VAW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2470086.0
EU funding (EUR): 2450586.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Violence against women (VAW) is a fundamental cause of gender inequality and a substantial constraint on women’s lives, but it has drawn significantly less intellectual curiosity from economists than aspects of gender inequality such as the pay gap. I propose to redress this by acquiring, generating and analysing unavailable or under-used data using techniques for causal identification with a view to producing a rich tapestry of scientific evidence to guide policy and further scholarship. This is an important time to do this as there is a growing consensus around prioritizing VAW in international policymaking but the evidence base is thin. There are no systematic data on VAW, partly because women are inhibited in reporting. Creative new strategies are being used in many countries to reduce VAW, but without scientific evaluation. This project will investigate institutional designs to encourage women reporting VAW and to deliver justice on VAW (including penalties for firms, feminization of the criminal justice system and the use of mobile phone apps and social media to provide women information and facilitate their coordination); it will implement and evaluate grassroots interventions designed to address VAW by inducing behavioural change among men and women; it will analyse the likely value of policies addressing proximate causes (alcohol ban, unemployment insurance); the potential of women’s political mobilisation; and the role of UN discourse on VAW. Some projects use randomized control trials (RCTs), others leverage natural experimental variation from policy reform or institutional features. Many use longitudinal administrative data providing unparalleled opportunities for research. Within the RCTs, I will gather unique data on social norms, beliefs and social networks. Although focused on women’s rights, it addresses issues on the frontier of economics research, including inequality, productivity, institutional design, political economy, and legislative

Keywords: causal evidence,econometric approaches to gender inequality
Using hidden genealogical structure to study the architecture of human disease (ARGPHENO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative Biology: from Genes and Genomes to Systems
Panel description: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics and other ‘omics studies, bioinformatics, systems biology, genetic diseases, gene editing, innovative methods and modelling, ‘omics for personalised medicine
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499665.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499665.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded thousands of genetic as-sociations to heritable traits, but for most common diseases, these signals collectively explain only a small fraction of phenotypic variation. The phenotypic impact of recent, rare genetic variants, in particular, is poorly understood, but currently available data sets and analytical tools cannot be used to effectively study this class of variation. To address this problem, we propose to develop new computational methodology that will enable studying the phenotypic role of recent, rare genetic variation. This will improve our understanding of the architecture of heritable complex traits, inform the design of future studies, and increase our ability to detect novel associations. This project will address three specific aims. The first aim is to devise new methods to accurately reconstruct the complex network of genealogical relationships of individuals using high/low-coverage sequencing or microarray data. The second is to leverage these genealogical structures to infer the presence of unobserved genetic variation, with the goal of analyzing variance components of narrow sense heritability attributable to rare variants and studying the evolutionary history of heritable traits. Finally, in the third aim, we will develop new approaches to detect association to both rare and common variants, increasing the statistical power of GWAS methodology.

Keywords: population genetics,coalescent,heritability,genetic architectures,natural selection,gwas,rare variants,big data
Testing, Monitoring and Analysing the performance of mobile neTworks for the connEctivity requirements of IT-solutions pertaining to freight and public transport as well as autonomous driving (TMate)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: European SME innovation Associate - pilot (H2020-INNOSUP-2020-02, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 17.0
Total project cost (EUR): 179107.14
EU funding (EUR): 125375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many European countries face difficulties meeting the increasing demand from private and commercial users and local authorities for a mobile connectivity available especially in rural areas and in constrained areas such as indoor locations, subways, tunnels and hot spots. The Europe 2020 strategy seeks to ensure that by 2020 all Europeans should have access to much higher internet speeds of above 30 Mbit/s and at least 50% or more of European households subscribe to internet access above 100 Mbit/s. Now that the Europe 2020 strategy has approached the end of its life cycle, it is time to check that the targets have been met regarding the quality of mobile networks: Thus, the applicant ENQT GmbH plans to test and analyse the performance of mobile networks for the connectivity requirements of IT-solutions pertaining to freight and public transport as well as autonomous driving. For these purposes, more and more devices are connected to the internet via mobile networks. Continuous availability to mobile networks and a reliable data transfer are critical success factors for many digital projects. ENQT is a prosperous startup offering innovative technology solutions and comprehensive consulting services related to IoT and Industry 4.0, currently especially for energy and heating use. As part of the internal innovation strategy ENQT plans to widen the focus to other economic sectors. The strategic objective of the project “TMate” is to obtain location-based data on the mobile network quality (signal strength, data transmission rate) in a smart way using methods of intelligent measurement technology. Recruiting an Innovation Associate will help ENQT to gain essential know-how in the fields of commercial applications, statistical time series analysis in order to reveal the full business potential of the data-driven information platform for mobile network connectivity as well as an advanced planning module for antenna selection and in-depth analysis for indoor locations.

Keywords: connectivity,continuous availability
Expanding the industrial use of Robust Oxidative Biocatalysts for the conversion and production of alcohols (ROBOX) (ROBOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Switzerland,Switzerland,Belgium,Belgium,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Widening industrial application of enzymatic processes (H2020-LEIT-BIO-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11159493.4
EU funding (EUR): 8181676.17
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

Oxygen functionalities are key functional groups in many of today’s chemicals and materials. The efficient introduction of oxygen-functionalities into raw materials are key chemical transformations in bulk and fine chemicals. Innovative bio-catalytic oxidation routes using molecular oxygen (from air) under benign and mild (pH) conditions such as ambient temperature and pressure can greatly improve the sustainability and economics of processes, but were so far mainly been applied in the pharma segments. In this segment, the enzyme-catalyzed step often represents the highest added value and the high price of the end-product (> €1000/kg) justifies less than optimal enzyme production and limitations in its catalytic efficiency. In order to achieve the widening of industrial application of enzymatic bio-oxidation processes to also larger volume but lower price chemical markets, ROBOX will demonstrate the techno-economic viability of bio-transformations of four types of robust oxidative enzymes: P450 monooxygenases (P450s), Baeyer-Villiger MonoOxygenase (BVMOs), Alcohol DeHydrogenase (ADH) and Alcohol OXidase (AOX) for which target reactions have already been validated on lab-scale in pharma, nutrition, fine & specialty chemicals and materials applications. ROBOX will demonstrate 11 target reactions on large scale for these markets in order to prepare them for scale up to commercial-scale plants. ROBOX is industry-driven with 2 major industrial players and 6 SME’s. It will assess the potential of technologies applied to become platform technologies technologies (multi-parameter screening systems, computational methodologies, “plug bug” expression systems) for broad replication throughout the chemical industry. The markets addressed within ROBOX represent a joint volume of over 6.000 ktons/year. The introduction of bio-oxidation processes is expected to bring substantial reductions in cost (up to -50%), energy use (-60%), chemicals (-16%) and GHG-emissions (-50%).

Keywords: oxidoreductases,robust enzymes,fine and bulk chemicals,flavors and fragrances,polymers,biobased,bvmo,p450,industry
Forest Operational monitoring using Copernicus and UAV hyperSpectral data (FOCUS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Norway,Portugal
Call: Downstream applications (H2020-EO-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1946553.75
EU funding (EUR): 1779160.13
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

FOCUS is a proposed H2020 project aimed at demonstrating an innovative extension of an existing forest monitoring service (www.silvisense.com) using a combination of Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery with hyperspectral data captured by UAV platforms.

Keywords: forest disturbance,copernicus sentinel 2,hyperspectral,early detection,pine wilt nematode,forest stewardship,operational monitoring,silvisense
Demonstration and optimisation of a highly innovative beverage cooling system that will deliver up to 90% energy savings (V-Tex Multi)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Slovenia,United Kingdom
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1936657.0
EU funding (EUR): 1355497.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

In July 2014, the European Commission proposed a targeted 30% reduction by 2030, which is ambitious and requires strong measures to encourage improved energy efficiency. One area earmarked for major improvements is commercial refrigeration, which is responsible for 85TW/h of energy consumption per annum and has so far been exempt from Eco Design and Labelling regulations. This is about to change with regulators demanding a saving of 58TW/h by 2030, clearly a major challenge. Within commercial refrigeration, beverage cooling consumes 21.2TWh/year. The European fleet of beverage coolers consists of remote open fronted cooling cabinets and plug in beverage coolers. Open fronted display coolers are the main sales channel for a wide range of bottled beverages. They encourage impulse purchases by making the product easy to see and access. The trade-off for this convenience is very high energy consumption. The project partners have developed the ground-breaking V-Tex technology which enables beverages to be cooled rapidly on demand. The revolutionary V-Tex technology is currently being commercialized as a standalone domestic appliance for the consumer market where its main Unique Selling Point is its rapid cooling capability and hence convenience. In contrast to convenience on a domestic level, V-Tex technology also has the potential to enable major energy savings in commercial refrigeration. By being able to cool drinks on demand it has the potential to replace the large majority of open fronted display coolers enabling potential energy savings of up to 90% when compared to existing methods of chilling drinks. However, in a commercial environment with strong demand peaks it is necessary to develop, test and demonstrate an automated solution that can easily replace existing in-efficient open fronted coolers. The V-Tex Multi Project will focus on demonstrating a unique solution that provides significant value to end users and Europe as a whole.

Keywords: cooling,refrigeration