Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Integrated Weed Management: PRActical Implementation and Solutions for Europe (IWMPRAISE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Slovenia,Switzerland,Slovenia,Switzerland,Slovenia,France,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Weeding - strategies, tools and technologies for sustainable weed management (H2020-SFS-2016-2, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7237212.5
EU funding (EUR): 6600746.25
Participants: 44
Project status: CLOSED

IWMPRAISE aims to support the implementation of Integrated Weed Management (IWM). IWMPRAISE will demonstrate that adoption of IWM supports more sustainable cropping systems both agronomically and environmentally, which are resilient to external impacts without jeopardising profitability or the steady supply of food, feed and biomaterials. IWMPRAISE aims to develop, test and assess management strategies delivered across whole cropping systems for four contrasting management scenarios representing typical crops in Europe. The specific objectives are to 1) quantify and address current socio-economic and agronomic barriers to the uptake of IWM 2) develop and optimise novel alternative weed control methods and create a ‘tool box’ of validated IWM methods 3) design, demonstrate and assess the performance and environmental and economic sustainability of IWM strategies and 4) make results available to end users. The development of IWM strategies are supported by WPs delivering practical knowledge and tools as well as knowledge and tools for assessing and disseminating the strategies, ensuring a vertical integration of the project. One WP is devoted to to the complex interaction between soil tillage, weed management and soil fertility. IWMPRAISE provides advances beyond the state-of-the-art within several areas ensuring that the overall goal of the project, to provide practical solutions to the end users, will be fulfilled. IWMPRAISE combines activities centred around R & D providing the tools for developing IWM strategies with activities that adopt the “interaction innovation model” involving end users and other actors in a partnership with public research institutes and private SMEs adopting a truly multi-actor approach. IWMPRAISE combines innovation potential for novel and sustainable weed management methods with implementation potential and will therefore address and provide impact within all areas listed in the call.

Keywords: field crops,horticultural crops,conservation tillage,reduced tillage,organic farming,mental modelling,knowledge exchange,non chemical weed management
ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGY FOR BETTER QUALITY AND SHELF LIFE OF FISHERY PRODUCTS (ULTRAFISH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2016-02-29
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at improving the quality and quantity of fish products by implementing ultrasound into the current processing lines of fresh fish. This technology is well-known to have significant effect on the rate of preservation, reducing the microbiological activity (99.9%) at low temperatures (0-3C), decreasing the processing times and costs, eliminating post-treatment of water waste and consuming less energy. Ultrasound is a green and non-toxic technology that will contribute to increase the commercial shelf life of fish products and will help fish processing companies in Europe to increase their production capacity.

Keywords: ultrasound technology,shelf life,food technology,preservation,fish processing
Experimental Study of Three-dimensional Dynamics of Active Particles (ACTIVEMOTION3D)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173857.2
EU funding (EUR): 173857.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Active particles are microscopic objects capable of self-propulsion. Examples include natural microorganisms, e.g. motile bacteria, chemotactic cells, and artificial colloidal microswimmers. From the fundamental side, their study can shed light on the far-from-equilibrium physics underlying the adaptive and collective behavior of microscopic biological entities. From the more applied side, they provide tantalizing options to perform tasks not easily achievable with other available techniques, such as the targeted localization, pick-up and delivery of microscopic cargoes, e.g., in drug delivery, bioremediation and chemical sensing. Despite the ever-growing interest that active particles have arisen in the scientific community, almost all experimental studies have focused on quasi-two-dimensional investigations, mainly because of limitations in the employed microscopic techniques. Nevertheless, the three-dimensional (3D) dynamics and behavior of active particles can be qualitatively different, as has already been shown by numerical and theoretical studies; this is particularly true when considering active particles moving in 3D complex and crowded environments. With this project, I will fill this gap by developing an experimental technique capable of investigating the motion of active particles in 3D. First, I will implement a state-of-the-art 3D super-resolution microscope (high-frame rate, large field of view). Then, I will use it to characterize the 3D motion of single active particles in homogenous environments. Finally, I will study their motion in complex and crowded environments similar to the ones that can be found in nature or in applications; this will permit me to explore and develop effective strategies to control the motion of active particles in these environments. This will pave the way towards a deeper understanding of the behavior of active particles and also towards realistic applications.

Keywords: active brownian motion,janus particles,light sheet microscopy,3d microscopy
Launching A Unified Cloud-Based Platform for Next Generation Protein Editing (ZYMVOLVER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Actually, global enzymes market is today €8.18 billion and forecasted to reach €17.5 billion by 2024, so a sector growing at a CARG +9.56% in a 7-year projection. Europe is a main contender with over 62% of the exports. However, most companies with dedicated software for protein engineering computational are found in North America (46.0%), followed by Europe (29.4%), Asia-Pacific (17.9%) and RoW (6.7%). The production of daily life products such as paper, textiles, food, feed, chemicals and pharmaceuticals consumes large amounts of resources, water and energy. Furthermore, it generates enormous amounts of waste with an adverse impact on our environment and quality of life. Many studies show that implementing enzymatic processes instead of conventional chemical catalysis contributes to a more sustainable industry, reducing global warming (OECD, 2009; European Commission, 2009). ZYMVOLVER is a computer-driven speciality management to protein producers and industrial manufacturers. It offers a computer-aided decision-making tool for the adoption of industrial enzymes in standard industrial processes. We have developed a tool that will allow the democratization of computer-aided protein engineering. We offer a state-of-the-art, accessible, all-in-one computational tool that customize proteins with a 90% accuracy in terms of substrate selectivity, far beyond competition. ZYMEVOLVER - is exclusively owned by Zymvol. Our cloud-based, cost-effective software allows us to design any industrial enzyme from scratch, saving 50% of time and enzyme developing costs. The founding of Zymvol Biomodeling SL has over 20 years of combined experience previously working at one of Europe’s most important supercomputers – Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, which has been a necessary infrastructure for protein editing. ZYMVOL won the first prize in the pitch competition for most promising industrial start-up of 2017 organized by IQS Tech Factory and Richi Social Entrepreneurs in Boston.

Keywords: in silico,computer aided biocatalyst engineering,protein producers,environmentally friendly,green,chemistry,cost effective,cloud computing,open source,industry,blue ocean,biotechno
NATIVE XR ADVERTISING PLATFORM (XR_Advertising)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This SME Phase 1 project will allow for preparing an in-depth feasibility study and business plan for an innovative digital advertising platform, serving ad traffic within Virtual, Augmented and – soon to come – Mixed Realities (VR, AR, MR = XR). The Adverty Native XR Advertising Platform has a chance to disrupt the global digital advertising market by opening it to the realms that are still emerging and dynamically take shape. Its competitive edge is strongly marked by the 4 unique (patent pending) algorithms and other features that allow for solving the most important pain points of the advertising industry, namely viewability, efficiency measurement and relevance of the ads, as well as selling them through the mobile AR platform. The market for this kind of services is growing rapidly. It is expected to reach approx. €10 billion by the end of 2021 at the remarkable CAGR of 38%. Adverty aims to grasp 0,4% share of this market. In spite of being quite a young player Adverty has already entered the market with two fully commercial customers onboard. This means that the Adverty solution has been deployed into the operational environments of both VR and AR and thus reached TRL-7. The business strategy of Adverty is to use all possible sales channels: direct sales and – as the first company in the world – a programmatic (automation) approach, in which clients are purchasing from Adverty ad inventory using real-time bidding (RTB) through global SSPs and DPSs. This aggressive sales approach mixed with carefully designed dissemination strategy will soon allow Adverty to become the leader amongst the XR advertising platforms. In the European dimension, our solutions will allow for increasing the competitive advantage of European companies operating in the field of XR, especially considering the fact that Europe is still a net importer of US digital services.

Keywords: virtual reality,advertising platform,augmented reality,ad tracking,user centric campaign success metrics,monetization on vr content,ad context enabling feature,programmatic approach
Effects of nutrient pollution on parrotfish in Mayotte : From physiological to microbial scales (POPAMA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Coral reefs are in precipitous decline worldwide due to a number of global stressors and local human impacts. Nutrient pollution emanating from sewage outfalls and coastal runoffs is often associated with the disruption of coral microbiomes, enhancing coral dysbiosis susceptibility that further alters coral health. That said, the mechanisms leading to microbial dysbiosis in reef organisms remain poorly understood. There is especially a need to investigate how nutrient pollution can affect the microbiomes of ecologically and economically important reef fishes such as parrotfishes, which are suggested to vector microbes to corals and enhance coral dysbiosis susceptibility when coupled with pollution. The proposed research will integrate approaches from microbial ecology and physiology to investigate to what extent nutrient pollution can alter parrotfish microbiomes, whether these changes result in differences in parrotfish physiology, and the potential cascading effects on coral microbiomes and health. Working with Dr. Villéger’s team at MARBEC, I will couple field collections from near pristine and polluted reefs in Mayotte with advanced tools in next-generation sequencing and ecology to test for nutrient-mediated changes to parrotfish mouth and gut microbiota. Both areas are known to serve vital physiological functions for fish and to host potential opportunistic bacterial taxa that could further alter health of both fish and corals. Through my secondment host with Dr. Sucré at the University Centre of Mayotte, I will acquire new skills in fish physiology that can be used to correlate physiological metrics (e.g. stress response) and microbial community status. Our findings may provide underappreciated pathways linking nutrient pollution to dysbiosis in parrotfish microbiota, and the potential spread of opportunistic taxa in coral reefs via corallivory. They will be critical to develop meaningful conservation and restauration strategies to preserve reef ecosystems

Keywords: coral,reef fish,corallivory,nutrient pollution,oxidative stress,dysbiosis
Tracking conformational dynamics of cohesin with MINFLUX (mcMINFLUX)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 186167.04
EU funding (EUR): 186167.04
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The DNA contained in each of our cells has a size of about 2 m and is fitted into the nucleus which is about six orders of magnitude smaller. It is unclear, how this extraordinary compaction is achieved and how the cell can still carry out highly regulated processes like gene expression, DNA replication, and DNA repair in such a dense environment. Cohesin is a protein that has been shown to play an important part in DNA compaction, especially in sister-chromatid cohesion. Recently, it has been observed that cohesin extrudes loops of DNA to achieve compaction, but how exactly it carries out its function is unknown. Fluorescence spectroscopy is a powerful tool to investigate conformational dynamics of biomolecules. MINFLUX is a recently developed method which localizes single molecules with a precision of a few nanometers. Here, I propose a new method based on MINFLUX which will allow to track fluorescent labels on large bio-molecular complexes with nanometer spatial and millisecond time resolution. The method will be used to study conformational dynamics of cohesin in vitro and investigate the mechanism of loop extrusion.
Increasing grain quality through advanced oxidation treatment during storage (QUALIGRAIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-09-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our company, La Sanfermese, with more than 200 year experience, is specialized in the clearing, drying, storage and commercialization of cereals, in particular maize and wheat. Our main products are white maize, yellow maize, flint maize, durum wheat, peeled durum wheat and calibrated durum wheat coming from non-genetically modified crops (non-GMO) in the Po Valley (Italy). Our main customers are mills and producers of grain-based derivatives. La Sanfermese has an annual storage capacity of 80.000 tons of maize and 40.000 tons of wheat. Since the application in September 2008 of the EC Regulation Nº 396/2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin, the cleaning of the grain is only performed by mechanical methods, as the most effective synthetic chemical insecticides available for the protection of stored product, such as phosphine, are now banned. On the other hand, EC regulation regarding maximum levels for contaminant in foodstuffs as regards Fusarium toxins (mycotoxin) are every time more stringent, as the new limits set by the EC Regulation Nº 1881/2006 for maize and maize products. This means that, in case the crop has been contaminated during the harvest with insects or fungi (mycotoxins) we have no possibility to eliminate this infection. Furthermore, this situation can get worse during the storage, as once the grain has been infected, the microorganism can grow influence by parameters such as moisture and temperature. In this case, the maize will not be longer suitable for human use and we will have to sell it for zootechnical or industrial purposes (depending on the mycotoxin content), with the corresponding differential price (€45 ton).

Keywords: cereal,grain,mycotoxin
REPAiR - REsource Management in Peri-urban AReas: Going Beyond Urban Metabolism (REPAiR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Hungary,Belgium,Hungary,Belgium,Belgium,Poland,Poland,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Eco-innovative strategies (H2020-WASTE-2015-two-stage, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5089636.25
EU funding (EUR): 5089636.25
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

A shift towards a more circular economy is crucial to achieve more sustainable and inclusive growth. Our objective is to provide local and regional authorities with an innovative transdisciplinary open source geodesign decision support environment (GDSE) developed and implemented in living labs in six metropolitan areas. The GDSE allows creating integrated, place-based eco-innovative spatial development strategies aiming at a quantitative reduction of waste flows in the strategic interface of peri-urban areas. These strategies will promote the use of waste as a resource, thus support the on-going initiatives of the EC towards establishing a strong circular economy. The identification of such eco-innovative strategies will be based on the integration of life cycle thinking and geodesign to operationalise urban metabolism. Our approach differs from previous UM as we introduce a reversed material flow accounting to collect data accurate and detailed enough for the design of a variety of solutions to place-based challenges. The developed impact and decision models allow quantification and validation of alternative solution paths and therefore promote sustainable urban development built on near-field synergies between the built and natural environments. This will be achieved by quantifying and tracking essential resource flows, mapping and quantification of negative and positive effects of present and future resource flows, and the determination of a set of indicators to inform decision makers concerning the optimization of (re-)use of resources. The GDSE will be open source. With a budget of €5 million, REPAiR funds a consortium rich in experience in waste and resource management, spatial decision support, territorial governance, spatial planning and urban design, and has deep knowledge of the 6 case study areas. REPAiR is supported by a user board, of key stakeholders for the development of CE as well as local authorities, who are heavily involved in the GDSE testing.

Keywords: circular economy,peri urban areas,decision support systems
Safer Autonomous Systems (SAS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Norway,Belgium,Belgium,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4114731.96
EU funding (EUR): 4114731.96
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Autonomous systems offer humankind tremendous opportunities, like freeing us from mundane tasks, carrying out risky procedures and generally giving us more time to enjoy the things we like doing. However, we lack trust in many forms of autonomous systems: partly this is human nature, but primarily because these systems, such as self-driving cars, have not demonstrated their safety credentials. Only by making these systems safer can we expect their widespread acceptance. The Safer Autonomous Systems (SAS) ETN is about getting people to trust these systems by making the systems safer. In order to achieve this objective and to train a group of highly skilled, responsible, future innovators, we will bring together 15 early-stage researchers (ESRs) to investigate new forms of system-safety engineering, dependability engineering, fault-tolerant and failsafe hardware/software design, model-based safety analysis, safety-assurance case development, cyber-security, as well as legal and ethical aspects. SAS will actively research the development of safer autonomous systems at multi-nationals like Bosch, but it also wants to stimulate the development of new safety designs, modelling and assurance techniques by involving the ESRs in SMEs and, potentially, their own start-ups. To help the ESRs put what they have learned during their research and S/T training into practise in their future careers, they will also receive soft-skills training to help them communicate effectively at all levels and become sought-after recruits. SAS is closely aligned with the high-priority areas of the EU, addressing many Horizon 2020 thematics, e.g., Industrial Leadership (Advanced manufacturing and processing), Societal Challenges (Smart, green and integrated transport; Secure, clean and efficient energy) and Excellent Science. But the most important output of SAS will be 15 well qualified people who have been trained to tackle many of the problems now being faced by European industry.

Keywords: safety engineering,safety case,autonomous systems,decisional autonomy