Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sight for the visually impaired using wearable remote touch sensing technology (Seventh Sense)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Estonia
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Seventh Sense™ is a novel and disruptive technology developed by Uniraja OÜ, located in Tallinn Estonia, to improve the quality of life and independent mobility to the 40 million blind people in the World. Our vision is to be the market leader in the Mobility Assistive Technologies industry for the visually impaired people. We have created an uncontested blue ocean market in a market space that has had little effective inventions to improve mobility since James Biggs created the white cane in 1921. We forecast that Seventh Sense™ will increase our profits by more than 25% every year, for at least 5 years. Our financial target is to become a gazelle SME and achieve an annual gross profit of €40 Million, by 2022, and sustain it until the next bigger leap. We have a talented team to support us, processes and systems are in place and a strategy to execute this ambitious plan. Phase 1 of this innovative project is to carry out an elaborate Feasibility Study and Business Plan to get Seventh Sense™ from TRL6 to TRL9 and commercialise it.

Keywords: remote touch sensing,innovation,blind people,visually impaired,disruptive,patentable
A smart pellet stove that combines efficient heat generation with IoT (Laelia Due)

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 in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Laelia Due is a smart pellet stove that combines efficient heat generation with IoT designed and developed by Vesta (Italy). Laelia Due addresses the opportunity in the EU pellet stove market created by fierce price-based competition and lack of innovation in the past years. For the current TRL6 prototype Laelia Due has reached 86% efficiency & 0.39g/hour PM emissions (minimal power), with 92-96% efficiency forecasted at TRL9. Thanks to IoT components Laelia Due integrates with 3rd party smart home appliances, collects its performance & surrounding air quality data & provides revenue-generating value-added smart services. The smart stove allows placement of installation orders from the local service providers, remote monitoring, diagnostics & preventive maintenance of the stove; user notifications on the quality of pellets & automatic adjustment of burning temperature (with notifications); measurements of the indoor air quality, automatic notifications & emergency shutdown and notifications on pellet consumption rates & automatic pre-orders of the resupplies from local providers. In 2015 360K pellet stoves were sold in EU. There are ~2.5M pellet stoves installed in EU. With the average sales price of a pellet stove (together with installation) €3-3.5K and the planned 20% discount, Laelia Due can bring in ~€96M annual revenue in Italy and ~€144M in total EU by 2025. To commercialise Laelia Due, Vesta will engage users via a dedicated mobile e-commerce channel (smartphone app), inform them about the correct heating approaches and air pollution issues, allow them to configure and visualize the stove in their interior using the augmented reality, and sell it directly, circumventing the middlemen and putting price pressure on competition.

Keywords: residential heating,pellet stove
Digital Authoritarian Practices: Internet Surveillance and Repression against Transnational Activist Networks (DIGIACT)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2022-03-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178320.0
EU funding (EUR): 178320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Transnational advocacy networks play an important role in exposing rights violations and undermining media censorship under authoritarian regimes. Yet, repressive states increasingly resort to surveillance, malware attacks, online harassment and disinformation campaigns to compromise transnational civil society activists and mute their voices. DIGIACT investigates forms of digitally enabled information control, surveillance and repression against political activists, journalists and human rights defenders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who reside in the European Union. The project provides an in-depth analysis of how threats to freedom of expression and privacy of transnational activists emerge and spread in an environment of rapidly evolving digital technologies. The research studies the motivations and capabilities of the regimes behind the threats, the effects on targeted communities and their strategies of resistance, and the implications both on a normative (international human rights law and other legal frameworks) and practical level (risk mitigation and capacity building). With this research agenda, DIGIACT aims to contribute to a) concept building on the relationship between digital technologies and authoritarian politics, and b) the debate on how to protect fundamental norms and rights in the digital age. To accomplish these goals, the project is embedded in the research group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at VUB where the applicant will receive training in theoretical and legal approaches to surveillance, privacy and data protection in the context of digital technologies.

Keywords: digital technologies,surveillance,transnational activism,authoritarianism,middle east and north africa mena
Social Evolution and Social Engineering of bacterial Infections (SESE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1954633.0
EU funding (EUR): 1954633.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Micro-organisms were believed until recently to live independent, unicellular lives but are now understood to rely on complex systems of social behaviours for survival. In pathogenic bacteria, cooperation and communication between cells leads to increased virulence and the understanding of how these behaviours evolve is of fundamental importance to the future of human health. Almost nothing is known, however, about social behaviours of bacteria infecting human hosts, and research on social behaviour in microbes is limited to well-characterised lab strains. This proposal describes a program of research designed to exploit the opportunities offered by an interdisciplinary approach to address the growing challenge posed to human health by disease caused by bacterial infection. Specifically, I have three primary objectives: (1) to develop a model system for investigating social behaviour in long-term bacterial infections; (2) to identify evolutionary mechanisms driving dynamics of social behaviour in long-term infections and (3) to exploit social dynamics in the treatment of bacterial infection. This proposal applies evolutionary theory to the clinical challenge of bacterial infection to develop novel intervention strategies beyond the scope of conventional medicine, which is based primarily on understanding of bacteria at the cellular level.

Keywords: cooperation,social behaviour
Storage4Grid (Storage4Grid)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: A single, smart European electricity grid
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Romania,Denmark,Portugal,Denmark
Call: Next generation innovative technologies enabling smart grids, storage and energy system integration with increasing share of renewables: distribution network (H2020-LCE-2016-SGS, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3617900.0
EU funding (EUR): 3617900.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Future energy systems will be characterized by growing shares of intermittent power generation from Renewable Energy Sources (RES) while facing increasing diffusion of Electrical Vehicles (EVs). Such scenarios are creating new challenges for efficient management and grid stability. Energy Storage Systems (ESS) will provide a valuable solutions to such challenges. The Storage4Grid (S4G) vision is to provide utilities and end-users with new tools for optimal grid planning, use and evaluation of storage technologies. S4G pre-designs new storage control models and interfaces built upon existing standards and suitable to support scalable and cost-efficient coordination of heterogeneous ESS. S4G will deliver: (i) a Decision Support Framework allowing utilities to evaluate costs and benefits of existing and hypothetical storage installations, for various energy use patterns and regulatory landscapes; (ii) a Distributed Control methodology for ESS; (iii) an innovative Unbundled Smart Meter to enable ESS control in real-life settings; (iv) an Energy Router for provision of future grid services by ESS. S4G will consider 3 scenarios, each associated to a different test site. An advanced scenario for “Advanced Cooperative ESS” leveraging the Energy Router and DC buses will be developed and demonstrated in the MicroDERLab facilities in Bucharest (RO). A “ESS Coordination” scenario will focus ESS deployed for maximize self-consumption and RES exploitation at prosumer level. It will be developed and evaluated in a deployment in Fur (DK). The “Cooperative EV Charging” scenario will focus on use of storage to support large deployments of EV charging stations. It will be defined and validated in real-life settings in Bolzano (IT). The compatibility of S4G models with standards, regulatory landscapes and emerging technologies is ensured by participation of one storage provider and by the engagement of utilities and storage providers in the External Stakeholders Group (ESG).

Keywords: storage control,storage coordination,ev cooperative charging,decision support tools,planning,open storage control standards,avanced inverters
Business Innovation Support Network for the Czech Republic – Enhancing the innovation management capacities of SMEs by EEN in 2017-2018 (BISONet PLUS2 ENH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Czechia,Czechia,Czechia,Czechia
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 133827.0
EU funding (EUR): 133827.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

BISONet PLUS2 ENH project aims at enhancing innovation capacities of Czech SMEs – Czech SME Instrument beneficiaries and Czech SMEs with high potential for growth. Consortium implementing the project is composed of 2 EEN partner organisations – TC AV CR being the coordinator and JIC being a partner of the project. TC AV CR and JIC will deliver both type of services „Key Account Management services for SME Instrument beneficiaries“ and service „Enhancing innovation management capacities of SMEs“. The total number of service packages to be delivered within the BISONet PLUS2 ENH project is 96 – 88 service packages is dedicated for „Enhancing innovation management capacities of SMEs“ and 8 for delivering KAM services to SME Instrument beneficiaries. The tool to be used to identify needs of SMEs and gaps in innovation management will be „smE-MPOWER Business Innovation Roadmap methodology”.

Keywords: innovation management,sme instrument,enterprise europe network
KAM and Innovation services for SMEs in Lombardia and Emilia-Romagna (KAMINLER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 763416.0
EU funding (EUR): 763416.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of KAMINLER is the delivery of a specific Enterprise Europe Network service designed to enhance the innovation management capacity of SMEs in Lombardy and in Emilia-Romagna, by providing in-depth support in the areas where these services are absent or unaffordable on local markets. EEN partners in the two regions will deliver Key Account Management services to the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument of Horizon 2020, dealing with coaching assignments and addressing specific innovation weaknesses and will support particularly promising SMEs to improve their capacity to manage innovation processes.

Keywords: innovation,sme instrument,coaching
BANK SOCIALISER: BANKing platform based on SOCIAL media Interactive SERvices (B-SOCIAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Iceland
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The financial sector is in the middle of a digital revolution: the financial technology (FinTech) age. To maintain customer relationships and stay relevant, banks have to respond to these changes with new strategies, capabilities and operating models. However, banks are not meeting such challenge, with rigid legacy systems incapable of leveraging the potential benefits. At the same time, there is a strong disconnection between people’s social lives and their financial lives. Most users think that interactions like phone contacts, branch routine, branch sales and ATM operations are “annoying”. To solve these problems, Memento wants to commercialise the next generation of banking solutions, BANK SOCIALISER (hereafter, B-SOCIAL), a payment environment in the spirit of social networks that will enable a new level of interaction between banks and users. With our solution, users can enjoy the easiest and most friendly way of conducting their common banking operations through a 100% secured connection. At the same time, banks are able to ‘socialise’ their banking philosophy in a quick (3 months) and seamless (easily integrable) way, enabling higher customer engagement and retention, as well as a better knowledge about users through data acquisition and exploitation. B-SOCIAL will be launched in a promising scenario, where legislations and public initiatives are favourable for solutions like B-SOCIAL, which aim the proper digitalisation and ‘socialisation’ of banks. Thanks to this convenient scenario, investments in FinTech have grown from €1.7 billion in 2010 to €17.8 billion in 2015. To take advantage of this opportunity, we need to conduct a series of technical and commercial activities to prepare the market maturity of B-SOCIAL: idea to concept (Phase 1), demonstration of commercial potential (Phase 2) and commercialisation (Phase 3). Thanks to these activities, we estimate to generate cumulative cash flow of near €30 million by 2024 as well as 38 new job positions.

Keywords: fintech,social banking,e payment
A disruptive wireless transceiver chip to transform the Internet of Things (IoT) by delivering excellent range, ultra-low power, high security, high reliability and cost-effective connectivity. (SMARTRange)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1286679.0
EU funding (EUR): 900675.3
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Part of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a global growth opportunity. In particular, the IoT offers tremendous socio-economic and environmental benefits through the improved automation and energy efficiency of Smart Homes, Buildings and Industrial Plants. Most IoT applications demand that devices provide the range of WiFi. In addition, devices must be standards-based, highly secure, globally interoperable, reliable, ultra-low power and cost effective. However, existing IoT technology is failing to meet these market needs. Current 2.4GHz radios have limited range and sub-GHz radios do not give security or global interoperability. There are two ways to increase the range of radio devices: 1) increase transmit power or 2) improve the radio’s receiver sensitivity (Rx sensitivity). However, legislation in Europe limits transmit power to 10dBm, meaning the only practical way to increase range is to improve Rx sensitivity. Cascoda has developed a disruptive 2.4GHz wireless transceiver based on a unique patent-protected radio architecture, which significantly improves Rx sensitivity, effectively doubling the range without using any external power amplifiers. This delivers the range of WiFi to provide whole-house coverage, reduces power consumption by a factor of 6 enabling years of operation from batteries, provides high security, reliability and reduces equipment costs by a factor 5 as no power amplifiers are needed. Extensive R&D and market feasibility studies including a Eureka Eurostars and a H2020 Phase 1 project, have taken us this far. This Phase 2 project will allow us to optimise, refine and certify our products under industry standards and demonstrate our systems under real-world conditions. This project enables us to enter the low-power wireless market worth at least €3 billion. By 2025, we will cumulatively generate €48 million in revenues and €27 million in operating profits and help create up to 184 skilled jobs.

Keywords: internet of things iot,short range wireless communication,whole house coverage,wireless,transceiver,iee802 15 4,receiver sensitivity,quality of service qos,thread,zigbee,radio,demodulator
Metamaterial Enabled Vibration Energy Harvesting (MetaVEH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Emerging themes and communities
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom
Call: FET Proactive: emerging paradigms and communities (H2020-EIC-FETPROACT-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 55.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4018875.0
EU funding (EUR): 4018875.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Increasing demand for fully autonomous wireless sensors to service the emerging technologies of the internet of things, remote and real time monitoring of vulnerable environments or self-sensing smart structures is driving a requirement for efficient and novel methods of energy harvesting. The sensor's data communication has a substantial power requirement that presents a serious constraint upon the number of sensors, and their capability. Our primary aim is to realise innovative Lead-free electromechanical energy harvesters; these will be easily installed, to power, in a clean and low-cost manner, autonomous wireless sensing devices thereby eliminating batteries and human intervention: This will revolutionise sensor applications whilst simultaneously reducing chemical waste. This is timely as in current solutions battery replacement is either logistically impossible or too expensive and batteries carry a toxic chemical cost. Solar panels have the environmental drawback of using toxic materials. In our vision of future sensor technology, with our vibration energy harvesters (VEH) as their primary power source, a battery, will become unnecessary, and their associated chemical waste will no longer occur, and these sensors will become truly autonomous. The harvester's mechanical core will draw on advanced multiresonator designs, integrating Lead-free piezoelectric patches enhanced by the unique wave control capacities of resonant elastic metamaterials. Currently microVEH, though promising, suffers due to frequency mismatch: We have the ambition to bridge the gap between different scales by leveraging the potential of metamaterials. This will dramatically increase the energy available for harvesting, and operational bandwidth. For electronic applications the integration of rectifiers in the circuitry will allow for the full exploitation of the multiresonant design.

Keywords: metamaterials,metasurfaces,resonator array,multiscale energy transduction,frequency up conversion,electronics,energy management,data transmission,ambient vibrations
Decoding memory processing from experimental and spontaneous human brain activity using intracranial electrophysiological recordings and machine learning based methods. (DecoMP_ECoG)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United States,United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2018-11-21
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 241169.4
EU funding (EUR): 241169.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Despite the critical importance of memory for cognitive function and socialization, very little is known about how information is stored for later retrieval and use. Understanding how the human brain maintains and stores information would enhance research on memory dysfunction in degenerative diseases, such as the age-related dementias, which represent a large burden for European society, and could facilitate the development of strategies for improving memory. The current proposal will use intracranial electrophysiological recordings from the surface of the human brain to investigate encoding, retrieval and consolidation of category-specific information during experimental settings, as well as during spontaneous brain activity. The proposal consists in two parts: first, electrocorticographic (ECoG) data will be acquired at Stanford University, with access to high-quality recordings and modern tools for electrophysiological data analysis. Secondly, machine learning based methodologies will be developed at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (return host) to decode spontaneous brain activity in different vigilance states. Finally, all developed methods will be implemented in an open source software, ensuring the timely dissemination of state-of-the art techniques. The methodological developments considered in this project could provide means for developing computer-aided diagnostic tools for neurodegenerative diseases.

Keywords: machine learning,electrophysiological recordings,declarative memory,spontaneous brain activity