Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Revamping the Desalination Battery (REDEBA)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-15
End date: 2023-07-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Better managing energy and water resources along with development of water treatment technologies with low environmental impact and energy consumption has become more essential than ever due to water-energy nexus and growing environmental issues. This is mainly performed by using Reverse Osmosis (RO) technologies. However, RO presents number of environmental drawbacks such as effluents produced associated to the chemical regeneration of membranes. There is a strong necessity of secure and sustainable water supply, thus green technologies for water treatment are needed to safeguard the interests of a sensible use of water resources, to remain in strengthening environmental equilibrium as well as in the economic prosperity. Moreover, "Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials Challenge" in Horizon 2020 presents as one of its aims: positioning Europe as a global market leader in water-related innovative solutions. This project will revamp the Desalination Battery (DB) technology, the original and innovative aspects of the proposal lies in taking up the challenge to shift the knowledge frontier and develop a Cl- capturing electrode. Thus, the aim of this project is to develop a full concept for the next-generation DB, addressing the issue of new materials for anion capturing and cell design, which gives lower energy losses and more flexible operation. In order to do so, development of flexible and anionic electrode materials will be investigated, as well as the impact of operation variables on desalination degree and on energy consumption in dependence of the cell design. The multidisciplinary nature of the project is strong, involving a combination of electrode materials development, electrochemistry and engineering (scaling-up, cell and module design). This project is in line with the EU strategy for the sustainable development of water resources and desalination.

Keywords: seawater desalination,ion selectivity,anionic electrode,batteries
Scalable privacy preserving intelligence analysis for resolving identities (SPIRIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Fight crime, illegal trafficking and terrorism, including understanding and tackling terrorist ideas and beliefs
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Poland,Sweden,Greece,Serbia,Belgium,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Technologies for prevention, investigation, and mitigation in the context of fight against crime and terrorism (H2020-SEC-2016-2017-2, 2017)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4998656.25
EU funding (EUR): 4998656.25
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

SPIRIT project takes up a holistic approach to identity resolution and will develop a semantically rich sense-making capability to facilitate cognitive tasks in the resolution of identity in full operational compliance with data and privacy protection as operationally assured through workflow-embedded data anonymisation and privacy filtering techniques as required, whilst retaining maximum possibly informativeness of data that can be legally used. Thus SPIRIT will provide capabilities to continuously initiate complex associative searches over all sources relevant to the current investigation, correlate information from multimedia data, reason over information with uncertainty, and structure and manipulate information into a unified view of the available evidence over a persisted, searchable knowledge base. The final goal is to empower the investigator to create a semantically rich picture over all the available evidence to be presented at court.

Keywords: identification and understanding of criminal activities,reduce investigation time,reducing impact of crimes,privacy preserving investigation
Multimode light shaping: from optical fibers to nanodevices (MODES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1450455.0
EU funding (EUR): 1450455.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project MODES arises in the framework of the emerging interest for nonlinear multimode processes in optical fibers, and wants to extend it to on-chip waveguides and nanoparticles, where the study of the nonlinear multimode dynamics is still on its infancy. This project is based on a central key-idea: by properly engineering a multimode system, we can shape and master the nonlinear interaction between the modes into play, and finally exploit it for novel applications in several strategic areas. This project has therefore a dual nature: one key-idea but multidisciplinary, heterogeneous applications. It focuses on 4 main strategic areas (SA) and identifies an objective (OBJ) for each one, which is related to the exploitation of a specific nonlinear multimode process: SA1: Support technology for Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) >>> OBJ1: the project investigates the development of wideband multimode wavelength converters and amplifiers SA2: High-capacity SDM data-transmission >>>OBJ2: the project investigates the existence of multimode solitons leading to an undistorted, high-quality propagation in multicore and multimode optical fibers SA3: On-chip infrared optical sources >>>OBJ3: the project targets the development of on-chip, widely tunable optical sources that may be used to selectively detect important environmental gases in the whole infrared spectrum SA4: Shaping the nonlinear radiation at nanoscale >>>OBJ4: the project aim at developing a new theoretical insight into the way higher-harmonic radiation is emitted in complex nanostructures. Finally, it wants to and to exploit this new knowledge in view of an ultrafast conversion from invisible to visible light. To conclude, by addressing new theoretical problems and unveiling a new multimode technology, MODES aim at opening new frontiers in nonlinear optics and being pioneer in the field of nonlinear multimode nanophotonics.

Keywords: multimode systems,four wave mixing,polarization domain wall propagation,higher harmonic generation
Cluster Development Med (CLUSDEV MED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Egypt,Italy,Italy,Lithuania,Türkiye,Netherlands,Morocco
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 796500.0
EU funding (EUR): 796500.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal lies within priority research & innovation topics in EU-Mediterranean cooperation, as highlighted in several past projects and policies reccomendations, i.e. within the MOCO - Monitoring Committee for Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in RTD. International Cluster Cooperation offers opportunities to scal up research and technological potential, enhance competitiveness, support the regional socio-economic development and reinforce the market placement of new, innovative products. These cooperation approaches often fail due to constraints on resources, capabilities, instruments and funding. On the other hand, over 2.000 Clusters only in the European Union covering all sectors and able to realize an intersectorial framework, as well as related clusters and networks in the southern Mediterranean countries, form a great potential for transnational clustering. The EU’s framework for state aid defines innovative clusters as follows: “Innovation clusters mean grouping of indipendent and innovative start-ups, small, medium and large undertakings as well as research organizations operating in a particular sector and region, and designed to stimulate innovative activity by promoting intensive interactions, sharing of facilities and exchange of knowledge and expertise, and by contributing effectively to technology transfer, networking and information dissemination among the undertakings in the cluster”. Taking into account the current socio-economic situations ClusDevMed priority topics are, in particular: - Agribusiness, agro food, food security – Energy - Water Core research areas is: Green Tech in the field of Clustering Activities

Keywords: cluster
CoopClickCat (CoopClickCat)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175866.0
EU funding (EUR): 175866.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The CoopClickCat project features Cooperatively operating Click-derived ruthenium Catalysts for the efficient oxidation of organic and inorganic substrates with high rates and turnover numbers. For this purpose, triazolylidene ligands, which are readily available through click-chemistry, will be functionalized with a cooperative donor site for improving the catalytic activity of the bound ruthenium center. The ligand design involves a sterically constraint position of the donor site, thus preventing this group from coordination to the metal center. The availability of a Lewis acid (ruthenium center) and base in a confined arrangement will enable the two sites to act cooperatively, thus providing access to concerted proton and electron transfer processes. This synergistic behavior lowers activation barriers and hence leads to a smoother potential energy surface for reduction and oxidation reactions. This unique arrangement will lead to new oxidative coupling processes and reduction pathways for the activation of abundant starting materials such as alcohols and amines, and eventually also water to reach unprecedented activity in ruthenium-catalyzed water oxidation catalysis. This project efficiently combines expertise of the researcher (Dr. Marta Valencia; hydride chemistry, alcohol oxidation) with core competences of the host lab (Professor Martin Albrecht, University College Dublin; triazolylidene chemistry, water oxidation).

Keywords: click chemistry,mesoionic carbenes,ligand cooperativity,alcohol deshidrogenation,amine deshidrogenation,water oxidation
An innovative axial turbine for conversion of hydro-kinetics energy to electricity for river applications. (HyKinetics)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

HyKinetics project deals with the optimization, "on-field" testing and commercialization of an innovative 3-blades axial hydropower turbine, specifically designed for application on rivers and able to competitively exploit the hydro-kinetics energy of the water flows without the need of upside barriers. This means that, differently to existing solutions, HyKinetics is applied for zero-head installations, i.e. without any fall or dam required, and it is characterized by a very low impact thanks to: -) the slow rotation of blades (no impact on the fluvial fauna). The small dimension of the blades in respect to the rotational radius avoids abnormal waves and undercurrents. -) the turbine is not fixed to the river bed but anchored on the river bank (no drilling needed but floating barge easily removable, no impact on the river bed); -) Energy supply and distribution systems are fully immersed, while on the surface there are only the parts needed for maintenance (no visual impact). The innovative blades shape allows: -) a very low water cut-in speed (1 m/s), leading to an increase of the turbine yearly productivity (up to 4,000 kWh/kW); -) an unparalleled conversion efficiency, with a power coefficient Cp up to 40%. The solution has been validated thanks to the testing of a first 20 kW prototype, installed on the Po river (the longest river in Italy) and tested for 1 year. Authorization procedure for the installation was simple thanks to the low environmental and visual impact of the solution, making easier the solution replicability. The Feasibility Study is conceived to achieve the following outcomes: • Validate the technical feasibility of HyKinetics technology, by selecting the MVP power and optimizing the supply chain. • Validate the business opportunity, with the involvement of the key players of the value chain, developing a customer validation for fixing the market price and quantifying the market share, selecting the best Business Model for market uptake.

Keywords: mini and micro hydropower,renewable energy,hydroelectric production,river energy exploitation
Novel Metabolic Pathways in Cancer (NoMePaCa)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing
Panel description: Organ and tissue physiology, comparative physiology, physiology of ageing, pathophysiology, interorgan and tissue communication, endocrinology, nutrition, metabolism, interaction with the microbiome, non-communicable diseases including cancer (and except disorders of the nervous system and immunity-related diseases)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1989103.0
EU funding (EUR): 1989103.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Metabolic adaptations in central carbon metabolism play a key role in cancer. Yet, the success of therapeutic interventions in major pathways has been limited, although some of the changes have been known to exist for almost 100 years. Biochemical textbooks present intermediary metabolism as something canonical, and the molecular identity of most enzymes required for the production of known intermediary metabolites is indeed known. Yet, the function of many putative enzymes is still unknown, indicating that novel metabolic pathways containing so far unknown metabolites exist. We have recently discovered a novel metabolic pathway containing two metabolites that have never been described before. Preliminary data indicate that this pathway might play an important role in a group of cancers sharing specific mutations. Furthermore, genetic inactivation of a component of this pathway in mice is compatible with normal development, indicating that pharmacological inhibition should be well tolerated. In the present project, we will use a multi-dimensional approach combining biochemical, genetic and pharmacological techniques, to identify missing components of this metabolic pathway and assess its role in cellular metabolism and cancer development. In the process of this, we will develop tools that will allow us to test whether this pathway can be targeted in vivo. Thus, our work will lead to the description of a novel metabolic pathway, should reveal novel regulatory circuits and might open novel therapeutic avenues in cancer and beyond.

Keywords: cancer metabolism
Medical grade sensor for continuous hydration monitoring and early detection of fluid imbalances. (ReBalans)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2024-02-29
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3567500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Fluid disorders represent a major problem in healthcare. Especially for patients in risk of dehydration or overhydration, such as heart and renal disease patients in hospital wards or elderly population with reduced thirst and cognitive problems. Improper fluid management has important implications for patients, caregivers and economies: increase mortality, increase risk of suffering co-morbidities (infections, longer hospital stays, acute kidney injuries) and increase costs (e.g. proper hydration could lead to €1bn savings in UK per year). Current practice for fluid monitoring uses Fluid Balance Charts, which are inaccurate, incomplete, time-consuming and cumbersome to complete. Mode Sensors developed a revolutionary solution for fluid monitoring, the Re:Balans patch sensor, a non-invasive, connected, disposable and wearable sensor for remote and continuous monitoring of body hydration. Re:Balans is built 1) with robust sensor combination to meet medical level accuracy data, and 2) to be user-friendly and fit into everyday worker and patient procedures. Re:Balans will be a game-changer in the healthcare because: 1) it has better accuracy than the best-practice method in clinical settings; 2) it is cheaper and more efficient to use than current alternatives. Re:Balans will have a major impact by: 1) reducing unnecessary costs and casualties by preventing dehydration, such as co-morbidities, readmission to hospital or longer hospital stays; 2) improving doctors and nurses daily activities, substituting time-consuming measurements by automatic, remote and continuous accurate data, and 3) strengthen healthcare systems with a solution that directly addresses the EU’s challenges of ageing population, multimorbidity and healthcare worker shortages. In addition, Re:Balans successful development and commercialization through this project will significantly boost our growth with accumulated revenues and profits of €107 m and €37 m, respectively, for the 5-year post project.

Keywords: fluid imbalance,early detection and prevention of dehydration,remote patient monitoring,noninvasive,connected,disposable and wearable,sensor system,secondary and primary healthcare
Understanding the role of sensory ecology and species interactions during sexual signal adaptation to an urbanizing world (CITISEX)

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: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Humans are rapidly transforming natural ecosystems into urban areas, leading to an alarming loss of biodiversity, in particular in the tropics. Some of this biodiversity loss could be mitigated if species are able to adapt to these evolutionary novel urban environments. An important aspect of urban success concerns adaptation to a sensory environment that is heavily affected by acoustic noise and artificial light pollution. Animals can for instance alter their sexual signals to optimally attract mates in the novel urban habitats. However, such change in sexual traits may at the same time attract more unwanted eavesdroppers, such as predators and parasites. The aim of this proposal is to understand whether and how sexual communication signals can adapt to the urban environment. The first research objective addresses how signal traits can change in response to the altered sensory environment of cities. The second research objective addresses how signal change affects both attraction of mates and unwanted eavesdroppers present in urban areas. For the first objective, the researcher, Wouter Halfwerk, will be trained by the host to adopt a trait-based approach. He will record sexual signals of male túngara frogs and assess whether signal components differ between urban and forest habitat and whether these differences are related to differences in sensory environment. For the second objective, he will receive training in the field of the evolution of species interactions. He will play urban and forest recorded signals in urban and forest environments to test their attractiveness to females as well as predatory bats and parasitic flies. The training and research experience will enhance the researcher's knowledge in both fields and will put him at the forefront of studies on urban ecology and signal adaptation. The action will thus greatly enhance his chances of returning to the EU with the ultimate goal to start his own research group.

Keywords: urban ecology,sensory pollution,signal adaptation