Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Beyond Light Imaging: High-Rate Single-Photon Detection in Four Dimensions (4DPHOTON)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Switzerland
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2024-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1975000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1100000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Goal of the 4DPHOTON project is the development and construction of a photon imaging detector with unprecedented performance. The proposed device will be capable of detecting fluxes of single-photons up to one billion photons per second, over areas of several square centimetres, and will measure - for each photon - position and time simultaneously with resolutions better than ten microns and few tens of picoseconds, respectively. These figures of merit will open many important applications allowing significant advances in particle physics, life sciences or other emerging fields where excellent timing and position resolutions are simultaneously required. Our goal will be achieved thanks to the use of an application-specific integrated circuit in 65 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, that will deliver a timing resolution of few tens of picoseconds at the pixel level, over few hundred thousand individually-active pixel channels, allowing very high rates of photons to be detected, and the corresponding information digitized and transferred to a processing unit. As a result of the 4DPHOTON project we will remove the constraints that many light imaging applications have due to the lack of precise single-photon information on four dimensions (4D): the three spatial coordinates and time simultaneously. In particular, we will prove the performance of this detector in the field of particle physics, performing the reconstruction of Cherenkov photon rings with a timing resolution of ten picoseconds. With its excellent granularity, timing resolution, rate capability and compactness, this detector will represent a new paradigm for the realisation of future Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors, capable of achieving high efficiency particle identification in environments with very high particle multiplicities, exploiting time-association of the photon hits.

Keywords: picosecond single photon imaging detectors microchannel plate photon detectors
FRontiers in dust minerAloGical coMposition and its Effects upoN climaTe (FRAGMENT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999999.75
EU funding (EUR): 1279037.5
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Soil dust aerosols are mixtures of different minerals, whose relative abundances, particle size distribution (PSD), shape, surface topography and mixing state influence their effect upon climate. However, Earth System Models typically assume that dust aerosols have a globally uniform composition, neglecting the known regional variations in the mineralogy of the sources. The goal of FRAGMENT is to understand and constrain the global mineralogical composition of dust along with its effects upon climate. The representation of the global dust mineralogy is hindered by our limited knowledge of the global soil mineral content and our incomplete understanding of the emitted dust PSD in terms of its constituent minerals that results from the fragmentation of soil aggregates during wind erosion. The emitted PSD affects the duration of particle transport and thus each mineral’s global distribution, along with its specific effect upon climate. Coincident observations of the emitted dust and soil PSD are scarce and do not characterize the mineralogy. In addition, the existing theoretical paradigms disagree fundamentally on multiple aspects. We will contribute new fundamental understanding of the size-resolved mineralogy of dust at emission and its relationship with the parent soil, based on an unprecedented ensemble of measurement campaigns that have been designed to thoroughly test our theoretical hypotheses. To improve knowledge of the global soil mineral content, we will evaluate and use available remote hyperspectral imaging, which is unprecedented in the context of dust modelling. Our new methods will anticipate the coming innovation of retrieving soil mineralogy through high-quality spaceborne hyperspectral measurements. Finally, we will generate integrated and quantitative knowledge of the role of dust mineralogy in dust-radiation, dust-chemistry and dust-cloud interactions based on modeling experiments constrained with our theoretical innovations and field measurements.

Keywords: dust aerosols,mineralogy,physics of emission,climate,modelling,spectroscopy
SOLUTION - Solid lubrication for emerging engineering applications (SOLUTION)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Greece,France,Czechia,Czechia,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3510527.04
EU funding (EUR): 3510527.04
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

SOLUTION will provide research and training program for 14 early stage researchers (ESR) pursuing their PhD in various disciplines covering the broadly defined area of solid lubricant coatings. The project combines theoretical approaches represented by advanced nanoscale simulations, laboratory design and fabrication of novel solid lubricants supported by simulations, and the up-scaling of promising solutions and their application in selected emerging engineering applications. SOLUTION will link industries from various areas dealing with similar issues through intensive training and knowledge sharing. Three topics driven by industrial partners have been selected to demonstrate the added value of simultaneous development and training. The use of modern solid lubricants underlines the transformation of industry towards smart design, which is based on predictive models and cross-communication throughout the entire production chain. Fellows supported by the project will have a unique opportunity to gain competence ranging from simulation, characterization and processing, to industrial processes and entrepreneurship. Highly individualized multidisciplinary training reflecting actual market needs, together with scientific excellence, will generate an open-mind generation able to harvest multidisciplinary knowledge and to successfully face challenges represented by the design of competitive solid lubricants.

Keywords: multiscale simulation,solid lubricant,transition metal dichalcogenide,tribology,training
Horizon Cloud – The Forum for Strategy Focused Cloud Stakeholders (H-CLOUD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Malta,Switzerland,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Cloud Computing (H2020-ICT-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499721.25
EU funding (EUR): 1499721.25
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Almost everyday we witness the rise of new cloud technologies, services and solutions. Despite the existing gap, with the US giants the European Cloud Community (ECC) is growing and leading the creation of Single Digital Market in Europe. Still, to strength such market, its fragmentation needs to be reduced. Beyond that, European market is largely dominated by SME that are struggling to adopt cloud services (beyond email and cloud storage) to innovate their business due to the lack of “cloud-culture” and trust toward cloud services. European Commission is leading a number of key actions (e.g. GDPR) to overcome these and other barriers, but it requires the help and the support of the ECC, in terms of a common technology vision, policies and recommendations. While strengthening the Digital Market is beyond the capabilities of European research funding programmes, a clear mandate is to lead the definition of the Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda for Cloud Computing that should provide recommendations and strategies to guide the future of European Cloud services and their market regulations. H-Cloud addresses this challenge by creating a sustainable forum of stakeholders representing the Cloud Computing research, industry and users with the aim to define a common vision for the future of Cloud Computing in Europe. Based on the outcomes of previous actions, H-Cloud will establish the ECC forum as a live community of organisations and individuals that will collaborate around different themes with the aim of addressing challenges and opportunities at research, technological, policy, standardisation and organisational level. The creation of a common vision on Cloud Computing, will be the key to unlock the potential of Cloud Computing to support the creation of a Digital Single Market. Through an open governance model and valuable incentives, H-Cloud will ensure that ECC Forum will outlast the project duration, becoming a valuable asset of the whole ECC.

Keywords: accelerator for the whole european cloud computing ecosystem,european cloud computing forum,cloud computing roadmap
open INnovation Ecosystems for Do It Together process (INEDIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies for Factories of the Future
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Poland,France,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Open Innovation for collaborative production engineering (IA) (H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6887475.0
EU funding (EUR): 6039000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

INEDIT creates an open innovation European DIT ecosystem for sustainable furniture co-creation. It channels the creativity of consumers, shapes it through designers’ professional skills, and makes it viable by leveraging on the expertise of production specialists in order to deliver sustainable, smart and personalized new products in a shorter time to market. INEDIT intends to demonstrate the capacity to turn the well-known ‘Do It Yourself’ (DIY) approach applied by individuals within FabLabs into a professional approach named ‘Do It Together’ (DIT). The DIT approach will be applied by customers and professional producers, especially SMEs, for conveying higher customer satisfaction through customer-driven production. DIT is a novel approach capitalizing on the knowledge, creativity and ideas of design and engineering conceptualized by interdisciplinary stakeholders and sometimes even new actors. It is powered by existing European innovation ecosystems shaping new products across EU countries. INEDIT demonstrates the approach through four cross use cases with high societal impact: sustainable wood panels manufacturing and 3D-printing of wood, 3D printing of recycled plastic and "smartification". Sustainability and consideration of individual preferences, especially of women and men, will be our guiding thread. INEDIT addresses societal challenges such as contribution to reduce the amount of produced CO2 in focusing on European-wide production, creation and maintenance of EU-wide job opportunities. This will lead to new business opportunities supported by business model innovation. Moreover, these innovative networked local manufacturing competences and production facilities across the EU will solve ethical concerns within the manufacturing network. INEDIT intends to demonstrate, through its twin - digital and physical - platform, the potential innovation around social manufacturing within the circular economy in designing globally while producing locally.

Keywords: open innovation ecosystems,dit approach,agile supply chains,open manufacturing demonstration facility,co creation,circular economy,makers,translation layer,furniture,gender,platform
Two-dimensional magnetism in correlated systems (2DMAGICS)

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: France,France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 168477.04
EU funding (EUR): 168477.04
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The 2DMAGICS project is aiming at solving actual problems related to the microscopic description, theoretical prediction, and dynamical control of magnetism and magnetic interactions of advanced two-dimensional materials and layered three-dimensional heterostructures. The main objects of investigation constitute two-dimensional group V semiconductors, transition metal dichalcogenides, layered nodal-line semimetals, and artificial surface systems represented by regular atomic structures localized on substrates. These materials will be described in terms of model Hamiltonians and studied using the state-of-the-art theoretical approaches and new theories that will be specially developed within the framework of the 2DMAGICS. Such a combination is to provide a realistic multiscale description of physical processes in the systems under investigation. The results expected will allow an accurate description of magnetic properties of realistic materials that exhibit different types of electronic and competing collective phenomena that affect magnetism. A special attention is given to magnetic properties of two-dimensional semiconductors, which are not typical in this class of materials. One of the promising problem concerns spin excitation phenomena in materials composed of heavy elements with strong spin-orbit coupling. On the other hand, the 2DMAGICS addresses practically important aspects, such as finding the possibilities for improvement and tunability of applied characteristics. Thus, an accurate description and control of already known and novel spin-spin interactions will allow to access nontrivial magnetic phases of technological importance. Realization of the 2DMAGICS is closely connected to the development of effective numerical methods, which is necessary to capture the essential role of competing collective electronic fluctuations that affect magnetic properties of materials.

Keywords: novel two dimensional systems,magnetism,spin spin interactions,magnetic properties,spintronics
Disruptive polyurethane foams with improved passive fire protection to increase energy efficiency & safety in buildings, houses and transport. (SAFE-PUR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
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

Nearly Zero Energy Buildings are nowadays the focus of construction companies since EU Directives aim to reduce the Carbon emissions to atmosphere. Buildings are responsible of 28% of all CO2 emissions with space heating accounting 65% of all energy consumed. The need for reducing heat leaking through a better insulation of constructions is a key strategy to reduce the CO2 emissions responsible of the Climate Change. On the other hand, the rationalization on the consumption fossil resources through the use of renewable and biobased raw materials is of a strong interest for customers and end-users in construction market. In addition to the thermal performance and sustainability, insulating materials must demonstrate a safe use, especially when a fire takes place. Polyurethane foams (PUR) are the most efficient insulating materials used in construction. However, the main critical problem for them to become the preferred insulation material is a dangerous behavior when exposed to flames due to their high flammability and fast fire propagation, as well as the high amount of extremely toxic fumes released by PUR materials hen burning. To address these challenges, INDRESMAT has developed SAFE-PUR, a new top class of biobased PUR insulating foams that solve the main critical problems related with the lack of passive fire safety of conventional PUR foams. SAFE-PUR foams offer the following results: 1) improve the Thermal Insulation in buildings 15-20 %, 2) increase the Passive Fire Protection 70-80% and 3) reduce the C-footprint 60-70% of insulation materials compared to conventional of PUR foams. Our target is to reach a 12% of our Serviceable Operative Market partnering with a top chemical manufacturer of PUR formulations interested in SAFE-PUR foams to achieve a large-scale manufacturing representing a potential revenue of 56 M€/y in the next 5 years. After market consolidation our company will develop flexible foams for household, automotive, naval & aerospace.

Keywords: insulation foams,fire safety,polyurethane,polymer chemistry,construction,smoke toxicity,fire,propagation
Automated tools for atomic resolution mapping of electrostatic fields in the electron microscope (POLAR-EM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overarching goal of this proposal is to produce a software tool that will allow inexpensive atomic resolution mapping of electrostatic potentials and fields within materials in the electron microscope. Such mapping capabilities could revolutionize our understanding of future materials for devices based on exploiting functionalities such as ferroelectric polarization. During the last decade, the scientific community has addressed this pressing need by developing microscopy techniques sensitive to the local potential such as the recently reported differential phase contrast (DPC) imaging technique. DPC can, for the first time, map the distribution of electrostatic potential and field within a material in an atomic column-by-atomic column fashion in a direct way. However, DPC imaging relies on the use of non-flexible segmented detectors with non-linear geometries. The increasing degree of physical complexity has made this approach rather unaffordable for a conventional materials research lab composed of non-specialists. The technology we propose here will replace such detectors by software tools and produce similar atomic resolution maps. The key idea is to acquire electron diffraction images with more conventional detectors and then apply post-acquisition analysis routines. Pixelated detectors (i.e., cameras) will be used to record the variation of the electron diffraction pattern as a function of probe position. Imaging configurations similar to DPC will be chosen after acquisition: a given detector geometry can be reproduced off-line by partial, ad-hoc integration of regions of the electron diffraction pattern over at each probe position. Basic mathematical operations between images ensuing form those different regions of the bright field disk will produce a DPC image in a straightforward manner. Such a technology will outsmart complex non-flexible hardware only by inexpensive software routines working on the new generation of ultra-fast cameras.

Keywords: electron microscopy,software tools,advanced materials
Quantitative analysis of the structural controls of faults on induced seismicity magnitude (FINSEIS)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Ireland,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 244326.72
EU funding (EUR): 244326.72
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

FINSEIS is a global fellowship addressing the challenge of induced seismicity (IS) caused by human underground activities. The project will explore the original idea that the magnitude of fault-related IS is significantly controlled by the geometry of pre-existing faults, integrating structural geology rather than the different approaches used in previous studies. The project will be based on numerous, best-in-class IS data secured in the Microseismic Industry Consortium (MIC) in University of Alberta (UofA), Canada (Third Country Host) and will integrate advanced knowledge in fracture analysis from the Fault Analysis Group (FAG), University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland (Host). By combining interdisciplinary approaches of structural geology, seismology, statistics and computational science, the project aims to (1) identify the structural controls on the initiation and arrest of induced earthquakes; (2) deliver a unique empirical basis for IS that isolates the effect of fault geometry; (3) generate a model for fault controls on IS and for IS Mw prediction in faulted rocks. Through these objectives, FINSEIS will deliver fundamental scientific outcomes on the links between faults and seismicity and will de-risk strategic geo-energy developments in the European Union. The project will build on the fellow’s previous Post-doc collaborations with FAG and MIC, with the fellow’s research expertise in IS and fault analysis as pre-requisites for the project. During FINSEIS, the fellow will transfer FAG knowledge in structural geology to MIC, and then return knowledge in IS analysis that are strategic to FAG and to Europe. In turn, the project will provide the fellow with a unique profile as a world leader in structural analysis of IS, with international visibility, an excellent record of publications, and broad connections. Furthermore, the fellow will reinforce and widen his complementary skills which will greatly improve its employability in academia and beyond.

Keywords: induced seismicity,fault geometry,structural geology,earthquake magnitude,algorithm,geo energy