Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Intelligence campaigns in the digital realms (COUNTERCRAFT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Engaging SMEs in security research and development (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1619375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1133562.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many large companies are subject to advanced directed attacks performed by the competence, governments, organized crime bands, a malicious employee, etc. interested in damaging the company subject of the attack for different reasons. Cyber criminals grow more sophisticated by the day, and network security architectures are quickly evolving in an attempt to keep up. Despite recent advances, sophisticated malware authors and cyber criminals are innovating at a faster pace than security professionals can react to. Attackers are increasingly able to slip past network security applications such as IDSs, IPSs, next-gen firewalls, and web application firewalls – regardless of how new and comprehensive they are. Thus, companies can no longer afford to concentrate all of their resources on firewalls and first line of defense systems. They also need to incorporate “internally focused” solutions such as deception technologies to help identify a criminal while in attack mode; a criminal that has already bypassed the current state-of-the-art perimeter defenses. The project aims to accelerate the introduction of the first EU deception tool capable of detecting advanced targeted cyber-attacks, obstructing the actions of attackers and obtaining the maximum amount of information from them by successfully designing, deploying, monitoring and managing Counter Intelligence Campaigns. COUNTERCRAFT will allow: To reduce the overall cost of cyberattacks by 50%; to shorten the average computer infection period by 70% from 300 days to 90 days; to reduce the time needed to effectively design, deploy, monitor and manage counter intelligence campaigns by 80% from 4 hours/day to 48 minutes/day; to reduce the tendency of COUNTERCRAFT users to be attacked by 60%; to identify the intentions of the attacker; to leverage “intelligence” information about the attacks to create and distribute indicators of compromise (IOCs); to orchestrate the cyber-security strategy .

Keywords: cybersecurity,deception,active defense,counter intelligence campaigns,apt s,delusion
A HOLISTIC, INNOVATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND ORCHESTRATION OF 5G-READY APPLICATIONS AND NETWORK SERVICES OVER SLICED PROGRAMMABLE INFRASTRUCTURE (MATILDA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: 5G PPP (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Cyprus,Finland,Greece,Greece,Romania,Greece,Greece,Slovenia,United Kingdom,Luxembourg
Call: 5G PPP Convergent Technologies (H2020-ICT-2016-2, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2020-07-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8325083.88
EU funding (EUR): 6664458.75
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The vision of MATILDA is to design and implement a holistic 5G end-to-end services operational framework tackling the lifecycle of design, development and orchestration of 5G-ready applications and 5G network services over programmable infrastructure, following a unified programmability model and a set of control abstractions. It aims to devise and realize a radical shift in the development of software for 5G-ready applications as well as virtual and physical network functions and network services, through the adoption of a unified programmability model, the definition of proper abstractions and the creation of an open development environment that may be used by application as well as network functions developers. Intelligent and unified orchestration mechanisms will be applied for the automated placement of the 5G-ready applications and the creation and maintenance of the required network slices. Deployment and runtime policies enforcement is provided through a set of optimisation mechanisms providing deployment plans based on high level objectives and a set of mechanisms supporting runtime adaptation of the application components and/or network functions based on policies defined on behalf of a services provider. Multi-site management of the cloud/edge computing and IoT resources is supported by a multi-site virtualized infrastructure manager, while the lifecycle management of the supported Virtual Network Functions Forwarding Graphs (VNF-FGs) as well as a set of network management activities are provided by a multi-site NFV Orchestrator (NFVO). Network and application-oriented analytics and profiling mechanisms are supported based on real-time as well as a posteriori processing of the collected data from a set of monitoring streams. The developed 5G-ready application components, applications, virtual network functions and application-aware network services are made available for open-source or commercial purposes, re-use and extension through a 5G marketplace.

Keywords: network function virtualization,network slice,intelligent orchestration,network aware applications,multi site virtual infrastructure management,vnf development,nfv marketplace
SUSPLACE (SUSPLACE)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Finland,Belgium,Lithuania,Finland,Latvia,Latvia,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3818410.56
EU funding (EUR): 3818410.56
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

SUSPLACE will train 15 ESRs in sustainable place-shaping by 1) its cutting edge scientific knowledge and methodologies 2) enhancing transferable skills 3) supporting a career development plan and 4) expose ESRs to science, public administration and governance, private businesses, NGOs and citizens initiatives. This will create career prospects for ESRs as an academic, policy-maker or policy-advisor, private business consultant or intermediate between various stakeholders in collaborative sustainable place-shaping projects. SUSPLACE consists of 6 academic beneficiaries and 7 non-academic partners. Training will include training-through research, joint training and events, optional courses, and 'on the job' training during secondments. SUSPLACE supports ESRs to complete a PhD-thesis. SUSPLACE will raise capacities to implement place-specific, integrative solutions via 15 individual research projects, divided along five interconnected research themes: inclusive, resilient and connected places, greening economies, and pathways to sustainability. SUSPLACE will share its outcomes with non-participants via a range of training, communication and dissemination activities. The integrative place-based approach of SUSPLACE will take up the societal challenges formulated in the EU Territorial Agenda 2020, and contribute to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and social innovation, to enhance social cohesion. SUSPLACE will provide insights and means how to fully utilize the potential of places and communities via interdisciplinary research in places and Living Labs. Sustainable place-shaping will strengthen the participation, collaboration, collective agency and leadership of people engaged in these places. Sustainable place-shaping entails a well-balanced: 1) socio-cultural re-appreciation of respective places; 2) ecological re-grounding of practices in place-specific assets and resources; 3) political-economic re-positioning towards markets, technology and policies.

Keywords: place,place shaping,sustainability,resilience,inclusive,green economy,social cohesion,governance,connectivity,self efficacy sustainable pathways
Smart Synchronous inverter for grid’s stability (Synchronverter)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) plays a fundamental role in the development of Smart Grids. Nowadays, RES (solar, wind, etc.) and DERs (energy storage, EV, etc.) are connected to the grid via DC/AC converters (inverters). Now, these inverters do not provide ancillary services (power-frequency control, voltage control, etc.) like the synchronous generators (generators normally used in conventional power plants) do, which is required to avoid grid voltage and frequency fluctuations and faults. Since the amount of RES and DERs installations are drastically increasing in the world, there is an urgent need to implement smart inverters with these functionalities included. The Synchronverter facilitates the connection of RES and DERs to the grid causing a conventional inverter to mimic a synchronous generator, consequently, these power sources can actively participate in the grid stabilization in harmony with other generators. The Synchronverter has been developed by Synvertec an Israeli company seed-funded by Horizon Green Tech Ventures an investment alliance formed by Alstom S.A, Rotem Industries Ltd (Isralei company specialized in the commercialisation of advanced technologies) and Gefen Investmens ( a business incubator company). Synvertec is also participated by Israel Electric Corporation (IEC - Israeli Grid Operator) and the Office of the CHief Scientist (Israeli goverrmental R&D fostering office). Only the inverter’s market for renewable energy accounts for more than $11 billion in 2014. Synvertec aims to make a gradual approach by initially addressing inverters for PV and DES accounting for more than $7 billion in 2014 (out of which $3 billion in Europe). The benefits that this technology will bring to the market will make the proposed project profitable with an IRR of 18.56% over 8 years and a payback period of 5.5 years.

Keywords: electricity grid stability,renewable energy,distributed energy generation,smart grid,synchronous generator
Super-resolution mapping of hot carriers on plasmonic nanoparticles for enhanced photochemistry. (Plasmonic Reactor)

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: Germany,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171457.8
EU funding (EUR): 171457.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Plasmonic nanoparticles (PNPs) present unique optoelectronic properties that depend on their size and shape and are not present in larger particles or the bulk material. Such properties arise from their localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs). LSPRs are the light-induced coherent motion of electrons that produce dramatic enhancements of the electromagnetic field close to the surface of the particle (hot spots) as well as large scattering and absorption cross-sections. These properties have motivated the use of PNPs in many applications including ultra-sensitive sensing, light harvesting, imaging, photonics, and medical and pharmaceutical therapies. Very recently, a previously unexplored feature of LSPRs opened a new perspective. Non-radiative decay of LSPRs can result in the excitation of electron-hole pairs with high, far-from-equilibrium energies known as hot carriers. These carriers can be injected into a nearby molecule causing its chemical transformation. Manipulating LSPRs allows for the fine control of the reactive properties of hot carriers, in a similar way in which it has enabled control of electromagnetic fields. This offers new possibilities in photochemistry, including enhanced efficiencies, spatial distribution of reactivity and bond selectivity. However, determining the role of hot carriers in plasmon-mediated chemistry is a difficult task as it could be masked by other catalytic properties (heat generation and field enhancement). The main objectives of this proposal are: 1) The implementation of an optical method for reactive-spot mapping, which will allow to create a map that highlight areas of low and high photochemical reactivity on single PNPs with high spatial resolution. 2) The control of plasmon-mediated growth of PNPs with nanoscale spatial selectivity. Determination of the role of hot carriers in these reactions. 3) Study, design and optimization of hybrid bimetallic plasmonic-catalytic NPs with applications in energy conversion.

Keywords: plasmonic nanoantennas,super resolution fluorescence microscopy,plasmon chemistry,nanochemistry,hot carriers,hot electrons,nasca
Neurotoxicity De-Risking in Preclinical Drug Discovery (NeuroDeRisk)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Innovative Medicines Initiative 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: IMI2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Austria,Serbia,Finland,Sweden,Switzerland,Belgium,Sweden,Greece,France,France,France,United States,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Improving the preclinical prediction of adverse effects of pharmaceuticals on the nervous system (H2020-JTI-IMI2-2017-13-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9752062.5
EU funding (EUR): 5331000.0
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

The adverse effects of pharmaceuticals on the central or peripheral nervous systems are poorly predicted by the current in vitro and in vivo preclinical studies performed during Research and Development (R&D) process. Therefore, increasing the predictivity of the preclinical toolbox is a clear need, and would benefit to human volunteers/patients (safer drugs) and Pharmaceutical Industry (reduced attrition). By combining top level scientists in neurobiology/toxicology with successful software developers, the NeuroDeRisk | Neurotoxicity De-Risking in Preclinical Drug Discovery Consortium will aim at tackling three of the most challenging adverse effects: seizures, psychological/psychiatric changes, and peripheral neuropathies. Our approach will be global, starting with an in-depth evaluation of knowledge on mechanisms of neurotoxicity (biological pathways as well as chemical structures and descriptors, using in particular historical data). Then we will search for innovative tools, assays and studies covering in silico, in vitro and in vivo approaches. This will include in particular: molecular design platform, artificial intelligence, human induced pluripotent stem cells, blood-brain-barrier models, immunohistochemistry, transcriptomics, RNA editing biomarkers, video-monitoring and telemetry of animals, pharmacokinetics, etc. The last step will aim at combining these tools in an integrated platform for better risk-assessment and decision-points throughout R&D process, and thus better protection of human volunteers and patients.

Keywords: neurotoxicty prediction
Between Sea and City: Ethnographic explorations of infrastructure, work, and place around leading urban container ports (Ports)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: Norway
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499950.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499950.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

How to study the turbulent transitions and risky mobilities of global capitalism today? An illuminating, but often overlooked site that lends itself to explorations into the changing nature of our economic system can be found at the interface between sea and city, i.e. at the port. Container ports have often been pushed to the edges of the urban spaces that they used to be centrally located in. A study on the city/sea-nexus will illuminate the dynamics behind the ways in which the center of global capitalism is currently on the move east-wards. This is not a uni-linear shift from “the West” to “the Rest”, but rather, is brought into existence by the nature of the ever-changing interplay between local territorialization and global connectedness. By investigating the relationship between port and city, PORTS will achieve three objectives: 1. to uncover the daily practices that port-related infrastructures enable in order to ensure the flow of commodities travelling through them; 2. to document the ways in which workers employed in the orbit of the port are affected by, and relate to, race-to-the-bottom-dynamics within the maritime world; and 3. to analyze the gradual move of the port away from the city center, and the urban waterfront changes that come with it, and how these are experienced, discussed, and justified by various stake-holders. PORTS will engage with local histories, unruly presents, and possible futures in four of the most important port-cities in the world: Singapore, Pusan (Korea), Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Piraeus (Greece). Through ethnographic work, it will clarify the changing nature of work, the significance of “place” as a site of accumulation and resistance, and the role of infrastructure for the inner workings of ports. Given the dearth of work addressing logistics-driven capitalism from an urban angle, this is the first study that systematically utilizes the ethnographic tool-kit to explore the economic frontier between city and sea.

Keywords: maritime studies,globalization,ports,labor,asia,containers,city
Science in the City (SitC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Malta
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 242250.0
EU funding (EUR): 160000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Science in the City is a national Festival that marries Science and the Arts to create a unique experience for the whole family. Our Researchers come together to help set up a night of education, entertainment and science-filled wonder in our capital city.

Keywords: researchers,family,arts,edutainment,comedy,experiments,interactive
UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture (UNCHARTED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Reflective societies - cultural heritage and European identity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Hungary,Norway,France,France,United Kingdom,Portugal,Portugal
Call: The societal value of culture and the impact of cultural policies in Europe (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2999716.7
EU funding (EUR): 2999716.25
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

In recent decades, with the growing emphasis on the creative economy, culture has tended to be increasingly seen in political circles under the exclusive lens of the economy and its contribution to it. To counteract this tendency, it is necessary to define the social values associated with culture on a different basis from the traditional one. The work focuses on the valuation practices of the actors involved in cultural life. In this respect, three areas and three types of fundamental actors in the value dynamics of culture are distinguished: the field of cultural participation, in which citizenship is the protagonist; the field of cultural production and heritage, where the professionals of creation and preservation are the ones who take the initiative; and the field of cultural administration, in which it is the experts and politicians who decide. The project takes these three areas and this basic typology of actors as a starting point to structure the study of the different aspects involved in this evaluative dynamic: the emergence of values, the configuration of a value order and the political impulse of values.
Mechanisms of dynamic localization of the bacterial Type 6 secretion system assembly (AimingT6SS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Immunity, Infection and Immunotherapy
Panel description: The immune system, related disorders and their mechanisms, biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, innovative immunological tools and approaches, including therapies
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493650.0
EU funding (EUR): 2493650.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Type 6 secretion system (T6SS) allows Gram-negative bacteria to deliver toxins into both eukaryotic and bacterial target cells and thus cause disease or kill competitors. T6SS is composed of four main parts: a membrane complex, a baseplate and a long spring-like sheath wrapped around an inner tube. Sheath contraction generates a large amount of energy to push the tube with associated toxins through the baseplate and membrane complex out of the cell. However, the reach of the T6SS tube is limited and thus a direct contact with the target membrane and precise positioning of T6SS assembly is required for protein translocation. In this proposal, we will unravel principles of spatial and temporal coordination of T6SS assembly that we have recently observed in several bacterial species. We will study how cells sense attacks from neighboring bacteria to dynamically localize its T6SS. We will describe how bacteria initiate and position T6SS assembly in response to physical cell-cell interactions. We will identify the principles and the role of T6SS localization in intracellular pathogens. Using genetic and biochemical approaches, we will identify and characterize proteins interacting with the core components of T6SS and test their role in initiation and positioning of T6SS assembly. We will search for peptidoglycan remodeling enzymes required for T6SS assembly. We will use advanced microscopy techniques to describe dynamic localization of proteins upon T6SS activation to establish the order of their assembly. We will quantify how much T6SS aiming increases efficiency of protein delivery and T6SS function during bacterial competition and pathogenesis. Overall, we will unravel novel principles of spatial and temporal control of localization of protein complexes and show how this allows bacteria to quickly respond to external cues and interact with their environment.

Keywords: secretion systems,dynamics,sensing,protein localization,advanced microscopy,complex assembly