Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The ancestral vertebrate brain and its cellular diversification during evolution (VerteBrain)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Germany
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): 2497500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2497500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The question of how new organs originate and evolve is fundamental to understanding the evolution of complex animals. Recent single-cell genomics technologies permit detailed investigations of the evolutionary "birth" of organs and constituent cell types. Here, we will scrutinize the origins and cellular evolution of the vertebrate brain by generating and analyzing extensive single-cell transcriptomic, epigenomic, and spatial transcriptomic data across species representing all major vertebrate lineages. The project has three interlaced aims: In Aim 1, we will infer the cell type repertoire of the ancestral vertebrate brain and its regulatory and molecular foundations, by comparing single-cell data across the most diverged vertebrate species. In Aim 2, we will trace the cell type diversification of the ancestral brain during evolution and underlying regulatory and molecular changes. We will first investigate the origination of two key cell types (oligodendrocytes and Purkinje cells) that underlie the emergence of neuron insulation and the cerebellum, respectively, thus facilitating functional elaborations of the jawed vertebrate brain. We will then compare rates of cellular evolution across brain structures and test the hypothesis that cell type innovation was most frequent in the pallium, which affords advanced cognitive functions and experienced massive structural changes during evolution. In Aim 3, we will focus on the amniote pallium, a preeminent model for understanding neural tissue diversification. We will scrutinize the origins, development, and evolutionary relationships of cell types in three new structures: neocortex, dorsal ventricular ridge, and Wulst. Two of these structures – the neocortex in mammals and Wulst in birds – facilitated the convergent evolution of advanced cognitive abilities. Overall, our work will provide an overview of the cellular evolution of the vertebrate brain and, more generally, illuminate principles of cell type evolution.

Keywords: evolution,origins,cell types,brain,vertebrates,gene expression,transcriptome,epigenome,regulatory networks,gene duplication
Making Supplier Networks Transparent, Understandable and Responsive (ChainReact)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Poland,Greece,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2248562.5
EU funding (EUR): 2248562.5
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

ChainReact is an effort to make supplier networks transparent, understandable, and responsive, so that companies and their stakeholders can see, react to, and ultimately transform corporate network impacts. To this end, we will create an integrated data network supported by three platform struts: 1. A new informer platform (TalkFree) will help advocacy groups manage campaigns to solicit flexible bottom-up reports about corporate behaviour. 2. The world’s largest open repository of corporate information (OpenCorporates) will be enhanced to connect these reports to major corporate brands through multi-level corporate network mapping. 3. An open analysis platform (WikiRate.org) will integrate data from both sources (and others, including direct corporate disclosure) and support their interpretation via collaboratively-developed dynamic, network-aware CSR metrics. Network participation will be driven by outreach campaigns organized in collaboration with advocacy groups, including pilot campaigns with consortium partner Walk Free Foundation, an international non-profit with the mission to eliminate slavery, with a community of 8.5m participants in their campaigns. Several other major not-for-profit players, including Oxfam International, the Carbon Disclosure Project, and Amnesty International, have also begun discussions around involvement in ChainReact campaigns. University of Cambridge and University of Warsaw will provide a research perspective on every aspect of ChainReact’s development and outreach. CERTH is the project coordinator and brings expertise in the entity matching that will support extracting corporate network data from unstructured documents. OpenCorporates is run by consortium partner Chrinon Ltd, WikiRate.org is run by consortium partner WikiRate e.V., and a new nonprofit will be formed to run TalkFree. TalkFree development will be led by Decko Commons e.V., the primary developers of the open-source Decko framework (currently branded as “Wagn”).
Real time video creation according to your emotions (MORPHCAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2017-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Digital advertising is a fast growing market. However, today advertising producers struggle to maximize the consumers’ engagement. Although personalised ads represent the market trend, it is recognised customers often perceive these ads as less engaging than expected. In this context, CYNNY, a SME expert in deep-learning technologies and advanced cloud applications, proposes what it might be considered as a revolution in the advertising sector. The MORPHCAST project aims at enabling ads producers to maximise the level of ads personalization thanks to the application of facial recognition techniques integrated with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence capabilities. CYNNY will aim at deploying a disruptive software application that allows the creation of light and low-band consuming tailor made videos (10 times lighter than actual in-stream .mp4 videos) that change instantaneously according the gender, age and emotions on the face of the viewer, via his/her own mobile device camera, and with minimal impact on batteries. The system integrates cutting-edge facial recognition technologies (95% accuracy for the gender, ± 7 years for the age, 97% for emotions) and it can completely run on client-side mode. In addition, the MORPHCAST performance can also benefit from the lean and very efficient CYNNY proprietary microservers architecture (CYOne). With the support of the SME-Instrument fund, we aim at optimizing (TRL6-7), validating in real conditions (ca. 1M users globally) and fully deploying (TRL 8-9) the application by 2019. We foresee a positive return of investment since the first year of commercialization, and expect to reach a huge competitive advantage on the market of reference. Within the MORPHCAST–Phase 1, CYNNY aims at assessing the full feasibility of the innovation, under the technical, economic and operational point of view, preparing a consistent business plan that will include a detailed commercialization strategy for a successful market introduction.

Keywords: facial recognition,artificial intelligence,instant videos,digital advertising
Design, Manufacturing and Qualification up to TRL5 of Innovative Electro-Mechanical BRAKE actuation System for SAT Application (E-BRAKE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Italy
Call: Electro-Mechanical Brake actuation for Small Aircraft [SAT] (H2020-CS2-CFP07-2017-02, 2017)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1463272.5
EU funding (EUR): 1073040.75
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The E-BRAKE project is aimed at developing, manufacturing, testing, and qualifying an Innovative Electro-Mechanical Braking actuation System for SAT Application, performing at the same time studies on electromechanical actuator, command logic including diagnostic and prognostic capabilities and system integration and validation of novel electro-mechanical brake actuation system into a relevant landing gear system. The first step will consist in a specification review, a preliminary system design activity and a technological innovation assessment, with the final aim to integrate and harmonize the concept to be developed and the effective proposed innovations. Health monitoring and prognostic algorithm as well as innovative antiskid algorithms modelling, simulation and performance analysis will be carried out in order to develop a new worldwide state of art electro-mechanical brake actuation system for small aircraft application. The electro actuated brake system (ebrake) will be a further development of already flying solutions, designed, produced, certified by an E-BRAKE partner according to Airworthiness Requirements. System design outcomes will be used to drive the following detail design phase. The E-BRAKE consortium will proceed with all the design and analysis activities, minimizing all the system weight, improving safety, power consumption, affordability and using technological and manufacturing efficiency criteria to fully compliant with the approval plan. An effective configuration & weight management will assure the fulfilment of all functional and mass budget requirements. Software validation, production, assembly and integration drawings, as well as bills of materials and suitable interface control documents will be integral part of the output provided by the design work package. The E-BRAKE project will deliver the prototype(s) fully compliant with the topic requirements.The novel equipment (ebrake) will also be integrated in a reference SAT L/G.

Keywords: electro mechanical actuation,control algorithms,smart actuator,landing gear,small aircraft,equipment,materials,integration system,ground testing
SOCIETAL ENGAGEMENT WITH KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES (SocKETs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Italy,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Bulgaria,Serbia,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Citizens and industrial technologies (CSA) (H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2020-singlestage, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1545323.75
EU funding (EUR): 1545323.75
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The “Societal Engagement with Key Enabling Technologies (SocKETs)” project has as its main objective to enable industry (e.g. manufacturers and suppliers) to engage with citizens on developing Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) that consider societal priorities, expectations and concerns. SocKETs will develop a digital, free and easy-to-use toolbox, that enable key enabling technologies to be developed in dialogue with citizens and society. The project brings together a consortium providing access to industry actors and innovation networks, manufacturers, professional users, and citizens. It combines the opportunity to test, prototype, evaluate and distribute tools of co-creative citizen and societal engagement, from the laboratory and innovation networks of innovators, to the science museums of civil society. To this end, SocKETs has developed six test cases across Europe. Three cases are coordinated by SocKETs partners with their local networks (wearable electronics and health by 2/DTI, Denmark, Industrial Automation system and the changing nature of work by 3/TEC, Spain and advanced manufacturing technologies; advanced materials; ICT, Internet of Thing, AI and blockchain tech by 5/AIRI, Italy.), and three cases are developed though linked third parties of the ECSITE network (Bulgaria, Science Centre AHHAA, Tartu, Centre for the Promotion ofThe project “Societal Engagement with Key Enabling Technologies (SocKETs)” has as its main objective to connect key enabling technologies (KETs) with society, societal challenges and citizens. The project brings together researchers (including social science and humanities), with industry, manufacturers, professional users and citizens to analyse: 1) the potential and challenges for KETs to contribute to solving societal challenges, 2) the participatory tools and methodologies available for industry to collaborate with citizens and other societal stakeholders, and 3) priorities of citizens and societal stakeholders for KETs.

Keywords: innovation,public engagement,multi actor engagement,tools,handbook
Impacting on the Emerging Connected Car VaLuE Chains (<IMPACT> Connected Car)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Israel,Spain,Spain,Poland,Poland,France,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains (H2020-INNOSUP-01-2016-twoStage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5483211.1
EU funding (EUR): 4996898.7
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

<IMPACT> Connected Car will fund 2 European Superstars and 64 Disruptive SMEs in the Connected Car OpenSpace by 5 European Cluster and 2 global ecosystems with the support of 10 Global Corporations and 4 pioneering startups. An acceleration and smartization virtuous cycle methodology in the OpenSpace with vehicle, infrastructure and device & TelCo interactions and consumer & business services across 6 industrial value chains (Mobility, Automotive, Electronics, ICT, Services and Infrastructure) will lead to Value Link-Chains. The <IMPACT> Connected Car consortium consists of CTAG, Mov´eo, INSERO, MSAK and LPNT as Gold+ clusters and PSA Citröen, Ferrovial and FIWARE Foundation (Telefonica, Orange and Atos) as Corporations; Mobile World Capital as the world´s best digital event out of Barcelona; ISDI as the world´s first native digital Business School; and FundingBox as the European leading platform for SMEs funding will guarantee excellent implementation. FIA Region 1 out of Brussels leverages the OpenSpace to a LivingLab with 112 Mobility Clubs and 38 Million of drivers. Argus, Hevo, Botcar and Little are the pioneering connected car startups that will collaborate in the disruption discovery process. PARP, the Polish Agency for SME Development and 19 regional ecosystems will ensure the Connected Car OpenSpace is aligned with ESIF and Smart Specialization to guarantee sustainability across the territories. Beyond the 4 million euro support for the SMEs within the project, <IMPACT> Connected Car will seek private funding of 4 million euros and 1 million euros of mobilized ESIF. For this purpose, the “<IMPACT> Connected Car Label” will be instrumental. <IMPACT> Connected Car will demonstrate that public clusterization and disruption discovery with key Innovation actors (SMEs) and proper corporate engagement develops Emerging Industries and builds the EU of "entrepreneurial states”.

Keywords: connected car,automobile,advanced manufacturing,digitalisation,servitisation,technology take up,market readiness,smart anything everywhere,ris3,fiware,i4ms
Low-cost semiconducting polymers for manufacturing 2D-digital X-Ray detectors (DEXscAn)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project is about launching a next generation of DEXA bone densiometes incorporating 2D digital X-ray detectors with a lower and affordable price. DEXscAn project proposes to both modify current materials used in DEXA bone densitometers detector, together with a novel manufacturing process for large-array areas: 1. Improve the sensitivity of the devices by substitution of amorphous silicon (aSi:H) FET by cheaper and highly efficient organic materials as photo-detectors. These organic semiconductors are easier to process than Si-detectors, allowing different shapes and sizes, including curved surfaces otherwise impossible to achieve. 2. Substantial reductions in manufacture costs of large-area arrays (2D-digital panel detectors in DEXA scans), by using organic semiconductors P3HT:PCBM, PTAA:TIPS-Pentacene or F8T2, offering the possibility to obtain solution-processable inks, and therefore printing large areas using simple techniques like inkjet printing or screen printing. Our company L´Accessorio Nucleare manufactures first generation bone densitometers since the 70s and since then, we have developed and successfully placed in the market 7 different bone densitometer products, being one of the leader suppliers of high-tech bone densitometers worldwide. With this product and the EC support our company seeks to become the first company worldwide implementing Digital Imaging in DEXA Bone Densitometers and to reduce the final price for DEXA bone densisometers. The aimed prouct will have advantages not only for our current clients (public and private big hospitals that nowdays purchase these devices for replacement of old ones) but also for new clients (smaller hospitals, clinics and ambulatories) where DEXA scans can be used as a regular preventive diagnosis service.

Keywords: digital x ray detectors,semiconducting polymers,inkjet printing,bone densitometers
EURAXESS España Career Day (EUESCADA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Science with and for Society
Programme: Make scientific and technological careers attractive to young students, and forster sustainable interaction between schools, research institutions, industry and civil society organisations
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain,Spain
Call: ERA Mobility and Career Day (H2020-SwafS-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 89650.0
EU funding (EUR): 89650.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

This project proposes the organization of five different career days across different regions of Spain (Andalusia, Castilla la Mancha, Basque Country, Cantabria and Zaragoza) in order to address several key issues relevant for the future of the Spanish R&D&I system: 1. Promoting researcher career, in the academia and beyond 2. Giving visibility to the existing European, national and regional funding opportunities 3. Fostering the uptake of professional development initiatives by both, researchers themselves and institutions. 4. Promoting EURAXESS as a key tool to overcome mobility barriers and support researcher career development. The fact that several career days will be executed by different members of the EURAXESS Spain Network ensures incorporating a regional ecosystem perspective to each of the events, while ensuring that the general objective of all remains.

Keywords: researcher career
RENEWABLE ENERGY COOLING SYSTEMS BASED ON PHASE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY (DESIRE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
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

ALAZ ARIMA S.L. is a company specialized in the design, development, manufacture and commercialization of two-phase thermosyphons based technology cooling systems, applicable to wind turbines components and to other sectors, such as photovoltaics. Through DESIRE, the company has developed a breakthrough cooling solution for wind turbines whose technical viability has already been validated through different developments and testing activities. Even with recent improvements in wind turbines technology, there is a need for more efficient cooling systems in order to reduce operating and maintenance costs and to optimize the performance of wind farms. Current cooling systems are complex and formed by many components (motor pumps, fans, etc.) which: increase the cost (expensive components); limit the life of the complete system to less than 20 years; increase maintenance expenses (thousands of euros during the useful life); consume energy (up to several tents of kW, approx. 1% of the produced energy) and need big room generating high noise. The new technology developed by ALAZ will allow to remove certain components of the current cooling solutions, simplifying it and leading to reducing system associated costs, increasing the useful life, reducing maintenance costs, reducing energy consumption and reducing space needs and noise. Currently, ALAZ is working in the assembly and validation of the first prototypes. The support of the SME Instrument Phase 1 will help consolidating ALAZ’s activity and reaching the market by 2019 as well as new clients and sectors as soon as possible, increasing exponentially the sales and staff.

Keywords: wind turbine,thermosyphon,cooling