Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Ethics for Technologies with High Socio-Economic Impact (TechEthos)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Italy,Spain,Ireland,Belgium,Romania,Sweden,Serbia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: The ethics of technologies with high socio-economic impact (H2020-SwafS-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3994592.5
EU funding (EUR): 3994592.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

TechEthos will reinforce the pivotal role of the European Union as an ethics trailblazer in new and emerging technologies. Such technologies bring with them new ethical challenges and societal consequences that need to be addressed. The project will develop guidance for the development and deployment of these technologies to ensure the highest ethical standards at the EU and international levels. It will carry out a horizon scan to identify three or four new technologies with high socio-economic impact. It will then identify and analyse the ethical issues raised by the selected technologies and explore the views and attitudes of expert and lay stakeholders towards them and their ethical implications using scenarios and media analysis. Public involvement is key in this project: science museums and centers involved in our work will ensure appropriTechEthos will address the growing ethical challenges and expectations vis-à-vis new technologies to ensure the highest ethical standards at the EU and international levels. It will conduct a horizon scan of emerging technologies with high socio-economic impacts to identify 3-4 that may raise particularly challenging ethical issues; these will be further analysed and engaged with in the project (via ethical and legal analysis and stakeholder engagement activities). The project will develop/refine/extend (as desirable and applicable to the selected technologies) existing/proposed ethics frameworks, operational guidelines or Codes (e.g., developed in SIENNA, SHERPA, PANELFIT, SATORI and other projects) to enable the effective ethics governance of the technologies. It will reconcile the needs of research and innovation and the legitimate concerns of the society while stimulating innovation and reducing socio-economic inequalities. To do so, it will especially engage with researchers and innovators, research ethics committees (RECs), research integrity (RI) bodies, civil society organisations (CSOs), policy-makers and the public.

Keywords: ethics,socio economic impact,horizon scan,ethics governance,societal awareness and acceptance,operational guidelines,code of conduct,research integrity,ethics by design,new technologies
Interdisciplinar cross-sectoral approach to effectively address the removal of contaminants of emerging concern from water (AQUAlity)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Türkiye,Greece,Greece,Norway,France,France,France,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3897678.24
EU funding (EUR): 3897678.24
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

AQUAlity is a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral European Training Network, that consist in eighteen participants (7 universities, 3 research institutes and 8 companies) and aims to generate and promote highly skilled scientists with the potential to face the present and future challenges concerning the protection of water resources from contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). AQUAlity will enroll fifteen early-stage researchers (ESRs) to conduct cutting-edge research on multidisciplinary aspects of novel hybrid technologies for the removal of CECs from aqueous systems. Moreover, ESRs will be trained to develop their creativity, critical and autonomous thinking, and entrepreneurial skills, thus boosting their scientific skills and innovation capacity in the field of water treatment technologies. This goal will be attained via a structured training-through-research programme, consisting of original individual research projects (performed both at the beneficiary organization and through intersectoral secondments) and education on technical and transferable skills (performed both at local level and with network-wide events). The overall research goal of AQUAlity is to develop highly innovative hybrid green technologies for CECs removal from aqueous systems by unconventional solar advanced oxidation processes (AOP) in combination with high flux ceramic nanofiltration membranes. Hence, ESRs will conduct frontier research in the field of AOP (organic photocatalysis, sensitized photocatalysts, photo-Fenton), materials development, nanofiltration technology, and will develop innovative hybrid photochemical/membranes systems to be tested on different waters to prove their potential for the production of high-quality water. Advanced analytical tools for the determination of CECs, their degradation products and water safeness will be developed. Thanks to the presence of industrial participants, AQUAlity aims for the commercial exploitation of part of the research results.

Keywords: contaminants of emerging concern,nanofiltration,hybrid materials,sun driven processes,hr ms,iron,contaminants prioritization
Paternal Epigenetic Inheritance: A man’s life experiences may impact health of his unborn children and grandchildren (PATER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Epigenetic inheritance may not only occur in plants and fungi but also in mammals. While the effect of maternal lifestyle and in utero exposures is well studied, paternal epigenetic inheritance is a novel research field, especially in regard to chemical exposures. Many environmental pollutants exhibit anti-androgenic function. Despite the vital role of androgens in spermatogenesis, the effects of adult anti-androgen exposure on the sperm epigenome and offspring phenotype have been scarcely studied. The overall aim of this novel project is to increase the understanding of if, and how, male life experiences such as adult exposure to the anti-androgenic model substance and pollutant DBP (di-n-butyl phthalate) may affect offspring through paternal epigenetic inheritance. I accomplish this by integrating animal and human studies, using RNA-sequencing and mass spectrometry-based peptidomics to identify DBP-induced alterations in the sperm transcriptome and peptidome, examine noncoding RNAs and peptides role in embryogenesis, development and long-term health of the offspring in two generations. To validate the mechanistic importance of the sperm molecular alterations microinjections of selected biomolecules into zygotes will be conducted. This is the first project to investigate multigenerational effects of adult male exposure to anti-androgens in detail, and investigate the role of the sperm peptidome in paternal epigenetic inheritance. Directly linking animal experimental data about paternal transmission to human studies is unique and necessary to determine causal connection between environmentally-induced biomolecular alterations in sperm and offspring phenotype. The project can contribute to ground-breaking mechanistic understanding of how male life experiences may affect offspring through epigenetic inheritance. The findings may also have important public health implications via new regulations of anti-androgenic chemicals and male preconceptional interventions.

Keywords: paternal epigenetic inheritance,paternal life experiences,peptidomics,sperm noncoding rna,sperm peptides,anti androgenic chemicals,epigenetics,fertility
Uncovering information in fluctuating CLimate systems: An oppoRtunity for solving climate modeling nodes and assIst local communiTY adaptation measures (CLARITY)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-09
End date: 2018-05-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 180277.2
EU funding (EUR): 180277.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A consistent picture of climate variability is pivotal for understanding its evolution. CLARITY intends to apply advanced statistical methods developed in the field of statistical physics to analyze, interpret and incorporate into modelling strategies observed, reconstructed, as well as simulated climate data. To achieve this ambitious goal valuable information from fluctuations in climate records will be uncovered. The obtained results will constitute the input for a Bayesian modelling strategy, aimed then at improving modelling reliability. Once operational, this approach will be applied to a series of climatically relevant issues. On a local scale (city of Venice, Italy), particularly, climate records related to temperature, humidity and the ultraviolet radiation exposure of city’s school populations will be collected and used to obtain projections that can be of assistance to community needs. CLARITY represents a pilot research that integrates reconstructions, observations, simulations and applications at the local community level. It will extend climate investigations through the application of methods of statistical physics in an academic environment internationally recognized for its expertise in the field of climatology.

Keywords: complex climate,fluctuation analysis,bayesian modelling,local uvr exposure
Black Binder, all-in System of Digital Scores (BLACKBINDER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Musicians play the scores basically like they did 200 years ago.The musician must hand off the instrument to turn the page and it is complicated passing scores and maintain proper posture. They also spend large spaces and budget to store and preserve scores that are easily deterioorated. In addition, collaborative work is a hard task due to the lack of synchronization. With BlackBinder solution, New Music Now will offer the music community a "pageless scrolling" technology-based system that allow: Continuously display of scores at the pace the musician sets and improve in this way the interpretation, allowing the musician being holding the instrument at any time (Page concept disappears). Synchronization for collaborative work is possible, annotations writing and sharing, and specific functionalities for every instrument. To benefit from this, the musician must download to his tablet the bbApp application which is complemented with 3 other services/products that offer maximum utility being used supplementary: bbSet: physical device that supports the tablet and allows the user to interact with the app by wireless pedals. bBinder: storage space in the cloud for scores downloaded from bbsore or uploaded by the musician from his own background music and turned into XML format. bbStore: online store for individuals or publishers to sell scores with bbsecure technology anti-piracy. Impossibility to get the score of bBinder and send it to another user. Its visualization is only possible with the bbApp. Scores are also encrypted (for user recognition) so if they were finally removed from the bBinder, even so, they cannot be used for another user who is not the owner. Taking into account the high number of musicians worldwide, the described needs and the BlackBinder characteristics show a clear link between the really large gap in the musicians environment and the great business opportunity for the proposed solution.

Keywords: scores,instrument,musician,pageless scrolling,synchronization,system,bbapp,bbstore,bbset,bbinder
Novel ultrasensitive detection device for early Sepsis diagnosis (IVD4Sepsis)

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: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

More than 27 M people per year develop sepsis, which has been catalogued as a Global health problem & priority. Sepsis kills more people than AIDs, prostate and breast cancer combined globally, and it lack of appropriate diagnostic tools. Moreover it has been demonstrated that early detection during the first hours is crucial for survival. Mecwins has developed the AVAC Technology prototype, an ultrasensitive detection equipment for early detection of sepsis, with: i) sensitivity a million times higher than current levels in clinical practice, ii) requiring smaller biological sample for the test, iii) multiplexing capability 30 biomarkers per analysis, iv) less diagnosis time ≤20 min, v) scalable solution - reference technology applicable to a wide range of other clinical applications (oncology, cardiovascular, autoimmune diseases, etc.). The unique value proposition of AVAC Technology is based on the early, accurate and fast diagnosis of sepsis and its competitive price (30€ per test versus 150€ per test with PCR-Roche) compared to current techniques (PCR & ELISA). Sepsis market is included on the infectious market and it was worth 278 M€ in 2015. Some estimations claim that it will grow until 717 M€ in 2021. Mecwins foresees to reach 25% of the total market by 2027 IVD4Sepsis through a double one-off revenue business model, and expecting a turnover accounting for almost 42,5 M€ by 2025.

Keywords: sepsis,global health priority,early detection,accurate diagnostic,ultrasensitive,fast,multiplexing,scalable,cytokines,plasmonic emission,metallic nanoparticles,inmunology,microbiology
eviDEnce and Cloud for more InformeD and effective pOlicies (DECIDO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Malta,Belgium,Finland,Greece,Greece,Netherlands
Call: Pilot on using the European cloud infrastructure for public administrations (H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4357225.0
EU funding (EUR): 3999587.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

DECIDO enables PAs to take full advantage of shared data, analytical tools and methodologies, computational power and cloud services and co-created data, for the development of better targeted and more effective evidence-based policies, leveraging on the capabilities and services offered by the European Cloud Infrastructure. The main mission of DECIDO is to demonstrate the ground-breaking impact of the adoption of cloud infrastructure to gain access to shared data in the field of Evidence Based Policy Making. DECIDO will provide PAs with an integrated interface for the definition of policy making workflows (from evidence gathering to policy definition and evaluation) enabling the orchestration and integration among tools and services made available by EOSC, with customized tools provided by DECIDO partners and relevant (big) data coming from public, academic and private data providers. DECIDO will develop solid and realistic business plans to ensure the long-term sustainability of the results considering legal, ethical and security aspects. DECIDO will also facilitate the introduction of co-creation in evidence based policy making allowing the active involvement of citizens and communities in the process. Hence DECIDO will also contribute in enhancing trust and boosting the perceived legitimacy of authorities. DECIDO methodological and technological approach will be assessed in different exploitation scenarios - demonstrating the value of collaboration, technology transfer and cross-pollination in 4 flagship pilot activities in 3 disaster risk management domains: floods (IT), fires (ES, FI) and power outage (EL). Data and service interoperability and portability will be granted through the use of ISA² core vocabularies, in describing dataset produced and used by PAs. Considering the complexity of the challenge DECIDO aims to address, a multi-sectorial and multi-disciplinary partnership has been set up to perform all the envisaged activities.

Keywords: evidence based policy making,eosc,co creation
Flexible robots for intelligent automation of precision agriculture operations (FLEXIGROBOTS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,Spain,Serbia,Finland,Serbia,Belgium,Lithuania,Finland,Lithuania,Latvia,Netherlands
Call: Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support (H2020-ICT-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8115233.75
EU funding (EUR): 6994698.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Agricultural robotics solutions can integrate a variety of robots for a variety of monitoring and targeted intervention tasks, to increase farm productivity, efficiency and sustainability through support of automated precision farming operations. Despite the rising farmer investment in farm/agricultural robots, most deployable robotic systems are meant to automate only specific tasks. The wide variety of tasks that need to be fulfilled in a single precision agriculture operation or mission makes it extremely unprofitable to address its automation with task-specific robots. These challenges result in a lack of flexibility of current heterogeneous multi-robot systems that poses low returns on investment and high risks for farmers. In order to become cost-effective, heterogeneous multi-robot systems needs to become more flexible by employing more versatile (e.g. multi-task) robots which collaborate to accomplish complex missions; ensuring scalable human oversight and intervention through adaptive mission control mechanisms (e.g. without information overload /overwhelming effort from the farmer); allowing the farmer to profit from robotics operational data. FlexiGroBots proposes a Platform for developing heterogeneous multi-robot systems and applications which allows for i) more versatility by using the same robots for different observation and intervention tasks, in different missions, throughout the crop life cycle, ii) more cooperation between heterogeneous (ground and aerial) robots to accomplish more complex missions; iii) more valuable data to generate accurate insights into the fields, crops and robotics operations by combining data from IoT sensors, satellites and data collected by the robots; iv) more autonomy for real-time adaptation of mission plans as well as robot behaviour at the crop level, given operational conditions and real-time insights; v) more precision to carry out specific tasks in a very localized way, gaining accuracy and lowering costs.

Keywords: artificial intelligence,robotics,multi robot systems,autonomous mobile robots,adaptive mission planning,agricultural robots,agricultural data space,precision farming,agrifood big data
Flame Detector Based on Epitaxial Metal Oxides (EMO) Technology (FIRESENSE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Billions of living creatures depend on the sensitivity of fire detectors to assure their safety. However, the available commercial fire detectors have a dangerous gap in that they are blind at the the ignition stage. Indeed, there are 5000 preventable Fire incidents each day in Europe which result in losses in lives and cultural/natural heritage. Current commercial detectors follow the ISO834 standard, which is often too late for intervention and fire control. Amongst existing fire detectors the fastest, most sensitive, and most remote are optical systems, using combined UltraViolet (UV) and InfraRed (IR) detection to eliminate false positives. Nanovation has been working on UV photodetectors based on novel/biocompatible oxide materials since its inception. Today, it has demonstrated world leading solar blind detection with a more compact/cheaper/robust solid-state sensor which is, at least, 10 times faster and operates at lower voltages than incumbent vacuum tube technologies. This has been tested in an industrially relevant environment (TRL 6) for a fire detector and has already convinced potential industrial end-users. This breakthrough has been patent-protected and is based on a novel and proprietary manufacturing technology. Today, we are developing fast based on a business model driven by FIRESENSE’s further development and commercialization. --------FIRESENS Key Winning Indicators---------------- A 5 times lower cost sensor with a factor of 1000 times better in SENSITIVITY A factor of 100 times better in Response SPEED Will IMPACT by Displacing current technology & Standards of fire detection Modify the market (Low cost => wider deployment of safety sensor) Interest of potential customer (see letter Annex 1) + bi-products already on sale

Keywords: fire detection