Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Bringing automated, real-time process control into starch-processing industries (OptiSpec)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2305227.5
EU funding (EUR): 1613659.25
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The production of beer and bioethanol goes through a first stage, in which the starch (previously extracted from the grain) is broken down into sugars by the action of enzymes. In a second stage, the sugars are fermented into ethanol in the presence of yeast. Nowadays there are no analytical tools available at industrial facilities providing detailed and real-time information on the concentration of sugars and other intermediates throughout the production process. In consequence, it is not possible yet to monitor and optimise in real time beer and bioethanol production, what determines the overall outcome of these industries. At Specshell we have seized this opportunity and developed OptiSpec, the first process control system providing a detailed insight on compositional data in real time throughout the beer and bioethanol production process. Our uniqueness relies on the adaptation of the mid-IR spectroscopy to the industrial setting, and its combination with our proprietary chemometrics libraries, converting in real-time the IR-absorption spectra data into parameters of interest for plant operators. OptiSpec will be introduced to breweries, where the first version of our solution has been already successfully tested. It will enable brewers to increase their productivity by 5-15% annually and reduce the carbon footprint of the brewing process. OptiSpec will also benefit bioethanol producers, who are currently struggling with very difficult market conditions. OptiSpec represents a breakthrough for this sector as it has the potential to increase the efficiency of their production process and increasing the yield by 1-2%, positioning this sector as crucial in helping the EU to achieve its transport decarbonisation objectives. OptiSpec will positively impact Specshell: by 2025, five years after market uptake, we expect to have 770 OptiSpec units installed worldwide. That year we will surpass the €65 million revenues, have 4 offices worldwide and employ up to 150 people.
Revolutionary vascular repair patch to treat aortic dissections (AORTYX)

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: 2019-09-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Aortic Dissection is a major disease affecting 3-12/100.000 patients/year. Global mortality rates are upto 40% and yet symptoms are hard to diagnose, with today´s treatments not specifically designed for the condition resulting in a high tendency to fail. Aortyx wants to change that. We have developed a Vascular graft, a “patch” that is inserted via a minimally invasive procedure. It adheres to the fissure, stops the blood flowing between the layers, then promotes natural repair. Complicated, life threatening, Open Heart Surgery is avoided, as well as post-operation failures as we replace today´s rigid ‘stents’ with our highly flexible, almost natural patch. We have successfully proved the product operation in early pre-clinical trials, have a patent application in progress and the backing of several expert vascular surgeons. For this phase 1 project we wish to finalise our pre-clinical trial planning, as well as our business planning to create a new vascular grafting company with predicted accumulated incomes of 13.78M€ and 13 employees by 2025.

Keywords: thoracic aortic dissection,thoracic aortic aneurysm,aortic aneurysm,electrospinning,bioadhesive,biodegradable polymer,minimally invasive surgery
EURopean wide Innovative Procurement of Health Innovation (EURIPHI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Health care provision and integrated care
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Sweden,France,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovation in healthcare - a CSA towards using pre-commercial procurement and public procurement of innovative solutions in healthcare systems (H2020-SC1-2018-Single-Stage-RTD, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2020-07-31
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997341.61
EU funding (EUR): 1997341.2
Participants: 29
Project status: CLOSED

Public Procurement Organizations (PPO) are rethinking existing practices as currently, quality of care is compromised and they do not lead to economic most advantageous purchasing. PPO involved in different PPI/PCP are teaming up around a novel approach of Value Based Procurement (VBP) joined by national/regional procurement organizations and service providers with a common vision, a value based procurement of innovative solutions to enable the needed transformation of health and social care delivery. The EURIPHI consortium involves 14 PPO, 10 with a regional or national remit and service providers from 6 countries who together, procure for more than 200 care service providers. The European Health Public Procurement Alliance members are also contributing to the project. This provides a strong basis to build out a Value Based PPI Community of Practice (CoP) to successfully achieve one of the key objectives of the CSA. The EURIPHI common vision is to build out around a MEAT VBP framework which will be made accessible with adaptions necessary to support the cross-border PPI leading to “MEAT Value Based PPI”. Cross-border PPI-Legal guidance will be developed by legal expert partners. Innovative solutions will be identified in the fields of rapid diagnostic (RD) tools in infectious disease and in the most promising integrated care services (IC). The identification of specific demands and prioritization will be done by expert partners and through the establishment of the Health Regional Network including stakeholders. Following an open market consultation, case testing will be performed for 1-2 RD and 3-4 IC innovative solutions and serve as an input for the PPI or PCP writing of SC1-BHC-20-2020. Dissemination and exploitation will be done by partners with a European or International remit and by an involvement of all partners in a blog series and EURIPHI Insights, with the support of a permanent secretariat.

Keywords: value based healthcare,meat most economically advantageous tendering,integrated care,rapid diagnostics,infectious disease,cross border healthcare
Sustainable tailored integrated care for older people in Europe (SUSTAIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Health care provision and integrated care
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Spain,Estonia,Belgium,Norway,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Developing and comparing new models for safe and efficient, prevention oriented health and care systems (H2020-PHC-2014-two-stage, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5888487.5
EU funding (EUR): 5888487.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aims of SUSTAIN are twofold: 1. to improve established integrated care initiatives for older people living at home with multiple health and social care needs, ensuring they are patient-centred, prevention oriented, efficient, resilient to crises, safe and sustainable; 2. to ensure that improvements to the integrated care initiatives are applicable and adaptable to other health systems and regions in Europe. In this proposal, integrated care is defined as those initiatives that proactively seek to structure and coordinate care in home environments and improve health outcomes while constraining health care expenditures. Core elements are: 1. a well-coordinated and proactive approach to health and social care needs; 2. patient-centredness by involving older people in decision-making and planning their care process, and by taking their individual needs into account; 3. (simultaneous) delivery of multiple interventions; 4. involvement of professionals from multiple disciplines. Integrated care will be improved by developing robust strategies that initially draw on the principles of the Chronic Care Model (CCM). Older people are defined as European citizens aged 65 and older with multiple health and social care needs. The focus is on this age group as complexity of care generally increases with age. To fulfil this aim, we will: 1. Identify established integrated care initiatives and conduct baseline assessments to examine their patient-centredness, prevention orientation, efficiency, resilience to crises, safety and sustainability; 2. Improve established integrated care initiatives based on the outcomes of the baseline assessments in co-creation with local key stakeholders and implement these improvements; 3. Evaluate the implementation process and identify how the established integrated care initiatives have improved; 4. Assess the applicability and adaptability of improved integrated care initiatives; 5. design and implement dissemination strategies.

Keywords: integrated care for older people
Developing Careers through Social Networks and Transversal Competencies (DEVELOP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Ireland,Switzerland,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,United Kingdom
Call: Technologies for better human learning and teaching (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2994297.5
EU funding (EUR): 2994297.5
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

A key challenge in improving life-long learning, employee flexibility, and skill-matching is the assessment of workplace relevant competencies and the planning of individual learning paths for career development. The aim of this project is to develop a personalised learning environment for career development. The environment will provide assessment of transversal competencies and social capital to highlight learning opportunities for career development. It will combine this with personalised visualisations of potential career paths to inform and guide learners towards realistic and attainable careers. DEVELOP will: - Use social network analysis to assess social capital that has been built among colleagues - Assess transversal competencies such as leadership and collaboration, using game-based assessment techniques combined with social network analysis evidence - Apply AI planning techniques to recommend learning opportunities for career development - Create interfaces for employees and HR to aid both career awareness and talent management within an organisation - Support internal mobility of employees and better skill-matching to increase employee engagement and reduce attrition rates - Consider diverse sources of social network evidence including enterprise social networks, email, and self-reporting tools - Gain end-user trust by providing clear informed consent and transparent data privacy DEVELOP will deliver an adaptive learning environment that dynamically tailors the exploration, comprehension, and planning of learning opportunities and career paths in medium and large companies. It will aid employee learning through reflection on transversal competencies and social capital, as key enablers of career development. DEVELOP will use a close academic-industry collaboration to deliver new tools and methods for learning technology vendors. These tools and methods will be informed by, and evaluated with end-users across ICT and Financial Services.

Keywords: learning,personalisation,career development,social network analysis,ai planning
Commercialisation of 94GHz Phase Shifting Radar (PSR94) (PSR94)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: SME Instrument (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2017-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1599924.0
EU funding (EUR): 1119946.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal presents a unique opportunity to commercialise ground-breaking radar technology, a 94GHz Phase Shifting Radar (PSR94). We will bring the PSR94 from the current TRL 6 (technology demonstrated in relevant environment) to TRL 8 (system complete and qualified), ready for TRL 9 (customer use in an operational environment). This project will overcome the industrial problems, in the AeroSpace sector, associated with scanning beams at high frequency, namely the large physical size of the radar, the large power requirements and also reduced reliability due to the many moving parts. The PSR94 takes an extremely complex difficult method of antenna scanning and replaces it with a small light radar. The key advantages of our solution are: • 94 GHz offers unparalleled radar resolution • Only electronically scanning antenna (with no moving parts, solid state) at 94GHz in the world • Very small and compact (only 20cm diameter) • Very wide scanning angles (up to 60 degrees) • Can scan in both elevation and azimuth • Can also track (monopulse) no need for two radar systems • Less expensive to manufacture • Very low power consumption • Easy to control using near DC voltages The wider security radar market is estimated to be valued at $11.6 billion in 2014 (SDI, 2014). Our Target Addressable Market (millimetre wave radar) is growing at a CAGR of 45% and is expected to reach $2 Billion by 2020 (Markets & Markets, 2014). Arralis will manufacture a commercial demonstrator, which is market ready, for customers in Europe, the US & China. We will engage with identified customers (e2v, Airbus Defence & Space, COBHAM and Thales) to develop and design a system which meets the specific requirements of the end user. We will ensure that the customer market is fully prepared for the launch of the PSR94. Arralis market strategy is to manufacture MMICs, Modules, Antennas and Sub- systems. The project requires MMICs, Modules and Antennas to be combined in a sub-system, PSR94.

Keywords: radar,antenna,94ghz,electronically,steerable,millimeter wave,phase shifting
Effect of nanoparticles on membrane fusion (NanoFusion)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nanoparticles (NPs) of different sizes, shapes, materials, and surface chemistry have been increasingly incorporated in modern formulations. In these applications, it is ubiquitous that NPs are exposed to biological media and come into intimate contact with cells. There is currently an urgent need to bridge the gap in our knowledge of NP toxicity in order to fulfil the potential of nanomaterial application. Such an understanding is also critical to the public perception of the safety of nanomaterials. Gaining cellular entry is a major route for NPs to impart toxicity. Studies using cell viability assays provide useful phenomenological information on the toxicity of specific NPs against specific cells under specific conditions, which however gives limited mechanistic insights into how NP physical properties are correlated with their cellular entrance and consequent toxicity. Physicochemical experiments using quantitative methods to probe the fundamental process of NP cellular entrance are lacking. A directly relevant fundamental area on the mechanisms of NP cellular entrance but remains largely unexplored is how NPs would affect the mechanism of membrane fusion - specifically, how the presence of NPs may lower the energetic barrier in the membrane fusion process. The scientific innovation of this project is to directly measure, using the surface force apparatus (SFA), in situ and in real time, interactions and fusion between model membranes (i.e. supported lipid bilayers) in the presence of NPs and as a function of lipid compositions and physicochemical properties of NPs. Direct visualisation of membrane contact in the SFA allows the role of NPs in the spatiotemporal structural evolution of membrane fusion, as the membranes engage in contact, compression, adhesion and fusion. These measurements will lead to unprecedented results, shedding light on the fundamentals of NP-mediated membrane fusion, relevant to our understanding of how NP gain cellular entry.

Keywords: surface force apparatus,nanopraticles,model bilayers,membrane fusion,nanotoxicity
Dynamic dialogue modelling (DYMO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 77.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499956.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499956.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

With the prevalence of information technology in our daily lives, our ability to interact with machines in increasingly simplified and more human-like ways has become paramount. Information is becoming ever more abundant but our access to it is limited not least by technological restraints. Spoken dialogue systems address this issue by providing an intelligent speech interface that facilitates swift, human-like acquisition of information. The advantages of speech interfaces are already evident from the rise of personal assistants such as Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana or Amazon Alexa. In these systems, however, the user is limited to a simple query, and the systems attempt to provide an answer within one or two turns of dialogue. To date, significant parts of these systems are rule-based and do not readily scale to changes in the domain of operation. Furthermore, rule-based systems can be brittle when speech recognition errors occur. The vision of this project is to develop novel dialogue models that provide natural human-computer interaction beyond simple information-seeking dialogues and that continuously evolve as they are being used by exploiting both dialogue and non-dialogue data. Building such robust and intelligent spoken dialogue systems poses serious challenges in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The project will tackle four bottleneck areas that require fundamental research: automated knowledge acquisition, optimisation of complex behaviour, realistic user models and sentiment awareness. Taken together, the proposed solutions have the potential to transform the way we access information in areas as diverse as e-commerce, government, healthcare and education.

Keywords: statistical spoken dialogue systems
TowArds Building rEady for Demand rEsponse (TABEDE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership:  (cPPP)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Integration of Demand Response in Energy Management Systems while ensuring interoperability through Public Private Partnership (EeB PPP) (H2020-EE-2017-PPP, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3760485.0
EU funding (EUR): 3125469.38
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

TABEDE aims to allow all buildings equipped with Building Energy Management Systems to integrate energy grid demand response schemes, overcoming limitations linked to missing interoperability, at reducedcost. For that purpose, TABEDE will allow connection of all dispatchable loads to the Building Energy System through a dedicated TABEDE interface, whatever the communication protocol. A dedicated smart grid communication protocol translator will be provided to ease the acceptance of the TABEDE system as well as a database of dispatchable load drivers. Moreover, in order to improve building efficiency, novel building energy management strategies will be proposed, in terms of electric load and thermal management, adapting to the evolving environment, as well as building continuous monitoring. TABEDE solution will be demonstrated and assessed through extensive simulation-based testing. The proposed solutions will be deployed on three test sites (residential and tertiary) that are representative of EU building stocks and conditions.

Keywords: model predictive cntrol,dispatchable load,building management system,smart grid,district,residential,tertiary