Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
COMPA 2GO Composite Repairs for Ships - Service Demonstration, Certification and Market Entry (COMPA 2GO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Croatia
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 874425.0
EU funding (EUR): 612000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the overall innovation project COMPA 2GO is to commercialise the service of COMPA repair for damaged or corroded ship pipes and structures. Using carbon fiber reinforced plastic mixed with epoxy resin, COMPA repair offers a cost and time effective alternative to the traditional methods of repair by welding. COMPA minimizes vessel downtime and increases vessel safety by providing a fast and durable repair and eliminating the use of flame. It is applicable to geometrically complex structures and locations difficult to reach. The total market for repair implementation makes up about 90.000 vessels world-wide, operated by about 3.000 companies, while the potential market for future service licensing make over 15.000 companies in EU only. As a follow up on the completed SME Instrument Phase 1 project, the specific Phase 2 project objectives are: 1) to complete the development of COMPA repair service in terms of the design and the procedure by successfully completing specimen tests and on-board vessel demonstrations. 2) to demonstrate the quality of the solution and gain quality approval of COMPA application standard from relevant maritime certification organisations. 3) to develop promotion and sales plan and to establish a network of repair application partners for licensing the technology while ensuring IPR protection and quality management. The project is performed by the company as2con – alveus, an expert in design, engineering and application of carbon fiber based technology in the maritime industry. as2con – alveus aims to become a leader in composite and carbon fiber solutions in the maritime industry. Opportunities for further developments of carbon fiber solutions for maritime industry business are manifold resulting in benefits for the applicant as well as for Europe.

Keywords: composite repairs,carbon fiber,ships,corrosion,cracks
The Nº1 Social Media Profiling Solution: understanding customer preferences through their activity in social media (XEERPA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Marketing has become exponentially more complex. Large amounts of data from a variety of digital and third-party sources must be ingested, processed, and analysed seamlessly without frustrating delays and bottlenecks. Creating a 360° customer view is a crucial first step to effective cross-channel targeting and personalization. Companies need to gain full visibility over their customer’s journeys and experiences, while minimizing time and money spent on traditional CX data analysis. The technical challenge of creating a UCP is optimizing IT infrastructure for real-time personalization. This is where cognitive technologies, machine learning and predictive analytics will define the next generation of e-commerce software. According to IDC, global spending on cognitive systems and AI powered analytics will reach nearly $77.6 billion in 2022. XEERPA is a new class of Cognitive Marketing Intelligence for Big Data powered by AI and ML algorithms. XEERPA is a SaaS marketing solution that aggregates real-time data across all customer touch points (social, mobile, web), transactional data (CRM, e-commece) and third-party data (external sources), to create a 360° view of each customer. WHO WE ARE: XEERPA was founded in 2012 and only 7 years later is considered one of the cutting-edge marketing technologies emerging in Spain. XEERPA has a high market penetration in Spain and is already gaining clients in LATAM, thanks to key partnerships with IBM, Salesforce, IT integrators, marketing consultancy companies and local partners. Phase 1 will accelerate the basis for an exponential international expansion in leading countries, such as USA, UK and EU, as well as emerging markets in Latin America and Asia. We estimate the necessary investment of approximately €758,030, to scale of innovation into the international market in less than 24 months. We expect to multiply our sales by 17 times by 2024, surpassing EUR 13 million, and creating 42 new jobs.

Keywords: big data,cognitive system,e commerce
Horizon 2020: H2020-SGA-INFRA-GEANT-2018 (Topic [a] Research and Education Networking) (GN4-3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: GÉANT Partnership
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany,Estonia,Italy,Austria,Spain,Israel,Albania,Armenia,Ukraine,Azerbaijan,Ireland,Malta,Cyprus,Bulgaria,Slovakia,Serbia,Lithuania,Greece,North Macedonia,Belgium,Hungary,Slovenia,Belarus,Türkiye,Croatia,Poland,Romania,Switzerland,Moldova, Republic of,Georgia,Latvia,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Montenegro,Portugal,Luxembourg,Denmark
Call: GÉANT Partnership projects (a) (H2020-SGA-INFRA-GEANT-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 117582327.25
EU funding (EUR): 77500000.0
Participants: 41
Project status: SIGNED

The GN4-3 is the proposed project for the third Specific Grant Agreement under the 68-month Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) established between the GÉANT Consortium and the European Commission in April 2015. This third phase of implementing the FPA is proposed to last 48 months and is a natural continuation of the work in GN4-2, building on the results and maintaining the overall objective of helping to raise European research to the next level, promoting scientific excellence, access and re-use of research data. GÉANT’s world-class, high-speed backbone provides seamless and secure connectivity with 42 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), reaching over 50 million users in 10,000 institutions across Europe, and more than 100 countries worldwide through links with other regions. The core backbone is capable of multiple 100 Gbps transmission over each fibre link, and Terabit connectivity can be achieved by a single node. The safe and rapid connection of users to each other, to the increasing amounts of data generated by research, and to the high-performance computing capacity required by collaborative research form the foundation of the GÉANT partnership. GÉANT services offer convenient, fast and reliable access to European High Performance Computing facilities, cloud services for the research and education community, access to scientific data and publications and other services from the European e-infrastructure providers, whenever and wherever needed. The structure of the present proposal emphasises updating existing services in line with requirements of the user community. This complements the proposed companion project GN4-3N, an ambitious programme increasing the footprint of the backbone network at the same time as improving its capacity, resilience and flexibility with the aim of offering 100Gbps network access to many more GÉANT partners and significantly diminish the digital divide.

Keywords: networks,research networking,multi domain networking,communication networks,secure,trust,innovation,media,information society,computer sciences,e infrastructure,digital divide
Individual and Collective Migration of the Immune Cellular System (ICoMICS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494662.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494662.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The immune system consists of a collection of cells with a high ability to migrate that work together to remove harmful foreign material from the body. Each immune cell can migrate between tissues, fulfilling specific functions in different microenvironments. However, this immune-surveillance response is not very effective in those tissues with a high non-physiological stiffness and a significant level of residual stresses, which are characteristics of solid tumors. Understanding the mechanisms that govern the cellular immune response to solid tumors is crucial to strengthen the development of novel immunotherapies. ICoMICS aims to develop a novel predictive modeling platform to investigate how therapeutic immune cells (TICs) sense, migrate and interact with cancerous cells and with the tumor microenvironment (TME). This platform will be built on two key pillars: in-vitro 3D tumor organoids and multicellular simulations, which will be combined and integrated by means of Bayesian optimization and machine learning techniques. On the one hand, cell culture microfluidic chips will be microfabricated, allowing continuous perfusion of chemical modulators through hydrogels (including decellularized matrices from murine stroma) inhabited by human tumor cells arranged to recreate 3D solid tumor organoids. On the other hand, an agent-based model will be developed to simulate cells as deformable objects, including cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions, combined with a continuum approach to model matrix mechanics and chemical reactions of cells, such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nutrients diffusion. Finally, ICoMICS will originally develop two innovative mechanistic-based immunotherapies. First, TICs will be subjected to high strains in micro-channels to induce them higher migration capacity. Second, TICs will be clustered as bio-bots, to ensure that they have improved functionality. All this research will be applied to 3 main solid tumors: lung, liver and pancreas.

Keywords: computational biomechanics,agent based models,microfluidics,tumor organoids,mechano immunology
AN EFFICIENT RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR A SUSTAINABLE RESIDENTIAL USE (STORELIO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Currently, worldwide societies demand more efficient, green and cost effective energy systems, as well as other countries demand off-grid electricity supply (Africa, South-America & some Asian countries). Besides, the EU has imposed strict goals on emissions and energy consumption until 2020, and prices of electricity are always increasing prejudicing European families. The forecast for the energy storage market is $ 8 billion globally by 2026 presenting a very attractive forecast for the commercialization of STORELIO. STORELIO is an innovative system based on the electronic integration of various functions, presenting these main advantages: 1) Supply 100% energy from the sun. 2) The user will recover the investment in 4 years. Also Energy storage as a Service (ESaaS) is offered. 3) STORELIO can work off-grid. 4) Has a lifecycle of 20 years and does not require O&M expenditures. 5) Can be managed remotely. 6) European families can save a 95% compared to the current electric system bills. 7) Bidirectional communication with Smart home and Smart grid environments to optimize the energy consumption. The target market is the residential sector of European countries, where solar energy is already well developed or where regulations will favor domestic energy storage. Another target countries are the African ones with an especial goal placed on the off-grid possibility. STORELIO creator is EasyLi, a French company expert in battery systems. The objectives to guarantee the technical and commercial viability of STORELIO are: develop a technical viability plan, a commercialization plan and freedom to operate analysis and a financial feasibility study.The Return of Investment is 2.2 by 2022 and the payback will be produced in 2021.

Keywords: energy storage
JEM: The world safest subcutaneous, enclosed, biocompatible implantable device, attached directly to a AV fistula or graft or vein, for chronic disease patients in need of repetitive vascular access (JEM Phase 1)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: Dedicated support to biotechnology SMEs closing the gap from lab to market (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

JThe JEM project aims to bring to the healthcare and medical device markets the first subcutaneous enclosed implantable device attached directly to a vein, fistula or graft. The JEM is based on a patented design that greatly improves repetitive vascular access techniques and provides safer, more accurate and effective results. The JEM provides the following advantages: • It is based on the European Gold Standard "buttonhole technique" for vascular access. • It greatly reduces costs by reducing the need for fistula repair & replacement. • It enables repetitive puncturing at the same spot by less-trained clinicians. • Its 6-year lifespan, 3 times the average fistula lifespan, reduces mortality & morbidity. • Its specially designed needle prevents back wall perforation and hematomas. • It will allow for a larger gauge needle thereby potentially increasing blood flow and lowering the risk of hemolysis. • It can be made to use a unique blunt needle that is sold by Access for Life, causing less pain to the patients ensuring easier and safer home hemodialysis. JEM devices from Access for Life are designed for all patients in need of repetitive vascular access: hemodialysis patients, oncology patients receiving chemotherapy, patients with blood disorders, patients requiring regular medications or blood transfusions, burn victims, pediatric patients and patients with digestive disorders. Due to its longevity, JEM eliminates three of the four operations dialysis patients usually undergo in a 6-year period. This will save healthcare systems about 5,8K € per dialysis patient. Multiplied by the growing number of patients, a conservative estimate of potential savings is over 200M € a year. Through the JEM project, we seek to position our company as the leading player in medical devices for repetitive vascular access, a market that is continually growing. Access for Life offers universal solutions for a wide range of clinical applications that require vascular access.

Keywords: implantable device,fistula,needle,medical device,repetitive vascular access
Local Diversity and Long-Run Development (LODALORD)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: United States,Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 260227.8
EU funding (EUR): 260227.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Social scientists have long studied the effects of population diversity on society. The research project proposed here breaks new ground in multiple dimensions by rigorously estimating the long-run effects of (i) local population diversity, (ii) individual diversity, and (iii) the interaction between these two concepts, on comparative socioeconomic performance across locations and lineages within a country. Through a combination of two extensive high-quality databases covering the complete genealogy of more than five million individuals living in Quebec, spanning its settlement in the 16th century up to present day, as well an immense database covering more than 43 million worldwide individuals, I will analyze the effects of diversity using measures of diversity that are well-established in the field of quantitative genetics. The project will deliver the first within-country long-run investigations involving local and individual diversity. First, I hypothesize that the diversity of an individual’s ancestors has a significant effect on the productivity of that individual as well as his descendants. In particular, I hypothesize that individuals from more diverse lineages were more capable of adjusting to changing economic conditions, finding new productive niches, and thus raising that individual’s income. Second, I hypothesize that the negative effects of diversity found on the country level are less operative within a country. Thus, I expect to find that local population diversity has had a monotonically positive effect on long-run development within a country. Third, I hypothesize that there is an interaction effect between population-level and individual-level diversity. Thus, I suggest that the effect of individual diversity is affected by the diversity of the locality in which the individual is situated. In particular, I hypothesize that there is a greater benefit to individual diversity in less diverse localities.

Keywords: long run economic growth,economic growth and comparative development,diversity and development
Fast-Beam - Novel modular repair and newbuilding system for concrete bridges (FASTSCALE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Concrete bridge repair is the fastest growing infrastructure business globally. In Europe alone there are tens of thousands of bridges in need of repair. The constantly increasing maintenance backlog is huge and cannot be handled by traditional bridge repair methods in a manner that is fast and cost effective enough. There is an urgent need for modern solutions which could replace the slow and labour intensive conventional methods. Fast Beam is a growing SME operating in the field of bridge repair and building. The company has developed a modular repair and newbuilding system for concrete bridges, with clear, demonstrated benefits against the traditional methods: e.g over 50% reduction in work effort, over 50% reduction in net work duration and up to 90% reduction of non-recyclable waste materials. This game changing innovation will offer construction contractors significant savings in time and cost, better productivity and sustainability as well as improved safety. The global market potential for Fast Beam’s patented system is vast, and the company is now ready to make a successful market entry in other European countries. FASTSCALE project studies the bridge repair market particularly in German and Nordic countries in order to assure successful market entry to Germany, a very promising market for Fast Beam.

Keywords: edge beam repair,concrete bridges,framework,scaffold,bridge repair
The role of TETRASPANINS in plant cell division orientation (DIVISION BELL)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-12-19
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178320.0
EU funding (EUR): 178320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

How do plant cells decide in which direction to divide? Despite many years of research, we still do not know. This is remarkable, because the selection of the division plane is one of the most important developmental decisions a plant cell has to make throughout its growth. My host lab recently identified the transcriptional pathway that regulates the switch from anticlinal to periclinal cell divisions in the developing Arabidopsis root vascular tissues. However, the executors that translate this transcriptional program into division plane selection remain elusive. By overlap analysis of unpublished bulk- and single-cell-RNA-sequencing datasets generated recently in my host lab, I found that the TETRASPANIN (TET) genes are prime candidates for such executors of cell division orientation. The TET family is conserved throughout eukaryotes, and in animals, TETs act as molecular scaffolds at the plasma membrane and play important roles in the regulation of membrane trafficking, signaling, cell morphogenesis and other vital processes. In contrast, in plants, the molecular functions of TETs are not known, but their putative scaffolding function provides a plausible mechanism for the regulation of cell division orientation through organizing proteins at the cortical division zone. In DIVISION BELL, I will unravel the molecular function of plant TETs and validate their role in the regulation of cell division orientation during root vascular development. To reach this goal, I will combine my expertise in cell biology and bioimaging with state of the art genome-editing techniques, cutting-edge proteomics and top-notch imaging approaches available at the host institute. This innovative approach will allow me to shed light on the mechanism of cell division orientation regulation by the TETRASPANIN proteins, with the potential to make major conceptual advances in this thrilling field of plant science.

Keywords: vascular development,cell division orientation,plasma membrane,cell polarity,live cell imaging