Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
O.M.P.M. LiferCraft Tail Innovative Tool Assembly (OLTITA)

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
Call: Prototype Tooling for Sub-Assembly, Final Assembly and Transport of the Rotorless tail for the Compound RC. (H2020-CS2-CFP02-2015-01, 2015)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 499725.0
EU funding (EUR): 349807.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this proposal is to develop, design, manufacture and deliver to the Core Partner of the Call For Core Partner AIR-02-02, the prototype assembly and transportation tooling for all components of the LifeRCraft Rotorless Tail that belong to the WP_B4.1 “Rotorless Tail for LifeRCraft” i.e.: Tail Boom, Horizontal Stabilizer, Vertical stabilizer, Control Surfaces, Upper Tail Boom Fairing. Components will be assembled using composite and metal parts. According to objective of call in terms of cost, schedule and energy saving, the proposal outlines different assembly approach including traditional one based on hard assembly jig, determined assembly using predrilled holes on separate parts and measurement based assembly system. Based on the proponent know how, for each one, advantages and disadvantages are described. Assembly approach will be selected in close agreement with core partner responsible of tail assembly. In the proposal WP1, after an Harmonization phase, the assembly jigs complete with auxiliary tools as drilling template, sling etc. and transportation tools will be designed and fabricated. After dimensional and functional check the assembly jig and transportation tools will be delivered to the Core Partner responsible for tail assembly and transportation. The following WP2 will be devoted to assessment of delivered tools to report configuration trades and support tool try out. Finally in the WP3 the proponent will support the Core Partner in tool try out and use of jig for component assembly and transportation. If major tooling modifications will derive from ground and flight test the additional work required to comply with necessary design and tool modification will be negotiated with core partner. WP 4 will handle all the management, communication and dissemination activities.

Keywords: composite,assembly,recovered,scraped,uncured,composite prepreg,scraps
Intelligent acoustic sensor for real-time monitoring of large infrastructures (RTExD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The bridge collapse in Genoa (2018) caused 43 deaths, left 600 without home, and cost €200 million to the EU. This is one of many examples of catasrophic events that cause fatalities, financial and environmental damages due to aging infrastructures and insufficient Structural Healt Monitoring (SHM) solutions. Thus, authorities, owners and maintenance managers of large infrastructures have voiced an urgent need for efficient, reliable, cost-effective and autonomous monitoring solutions that would be able to prevent unwanted catastrophes. This demand is boosting the growth of the SHM market – the predicted market size value is €3,9 billion by 2025, which is 3,6 times bigger than in year 2019 (€1,1 billion). We, at Securaxis, are developing a break-through technology combining predictive real-time acoustic monitoring sensor with our advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology into the Real Time Event Detector RTExD. Since it is acosutic RTExD can detect infrastructure failures even before they are manifested in the external structure. Learning from them the AI layer will be able to predict when this errors willl be produce giving infrastructure mangers enough time to correct potential future failures. We target various stakeholders along the value chain of the civil infrastructures construction industry. We address customers in the public and the private domain and they range from infrastructure owners, and engineering companies to governmental authorities. Cost-effectiveness will be the main purchasing driver for our customers – installing RTExD on a wind turbine (3MW) would save up to €6,7million instead of replacing the structure. Through the complection of the project we expect to reach €40 million cumulative revenues and €28 million cumulative profit in the first 5 years of commersialization. Considering a €2.1 million investment during Phase 2, we estimate a return of investment of 11,9% in 2026.

Keywords: acoustic sensors,predictive maintenance,monitoring of large infrastructures,civil infrastructures maintenance
Building Precise Molecular Architectures to Unlock Remarkable f-Element Properties (F-ELEMENT_ARCHITECT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1990800.93
EU funding (EUR): 1990800.93
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The astonishing properties of the f-elements have been exploited in numerous consumer technologies, despite their fundamental chemistry being poorly developed. It is now crucial to address this issue to provide the necessary insights to develop future applications. Design criteria exist to build f-element complexes with maximised physical attributes. This adventurous proposal targets the synthesis and thorough analysis of two complementary molecular f-element architectures that 1) optimise magnetic properties and 2) stabilise unusual oxidation states. In Part 1, we target highly axial f-element complexes that lack equatorial ligand interactions. These molecules can exhibit maximised single-molecule magnet properties, including magnetic hysteresis, a memory effect and as a prerequisite of data storage, at liquid nitrogen temperatures. This is the necessary first step towards achieving high-density molecular data storage without expensive liquid helium cooling and future commercial applications. In Part 2, we target trigonal f-element complexes that lack axial ligand interactions. These are optimal ligand fields for the stabilisation of low oxidation states, thus we aim for rare lanthanide/actinide(II) and unprecedented lanthanide/actinide(I) complexes. These compounds are ideal candidates for unique measurements of covalency by pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, which will provide textbook data that can be transferable to nuclear fuel cycles. An ERC CoG will provide the necessary resources to build a world-leading research team that will deliver landmark synthetic results and fresh insights into f-element electronic structure, whilst opening up new chemical space for future exploitation. These findings will underpin current technologies and will facilitate the discovery of future applications, supporting key Horizon 2020 priority areas including the Flagship on Quantum Technologies, and enhancing the scientific reputation and economy of the EU.

Keywords: pe4 radiation and nuclear chemistry th,physical chemistry xanes,epr,theoretical and computational chemistry dft,casscf relationship to some topics in pe3
Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS)

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 energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The development of solutions with the capability of efficiently managing the energy produced by renewable sources and providing fast response as a back-up system or for frequency regulation is a major need in the energy market. While the former has been traditionally satisfied by using batteries, the latter is mainly covered by fossil fuel dependent technologies. Batteries allow for a significant increase of penetration of stochastic renewable energy sources but are unable to satisfy transient events requiring high power responses. In the case of fossil fuel technologies, a set of well-known drawbacks (high operation costs, fuel dependency, pollution and power supply instability, etc.) shows that these solutions are not the most suitable ones from economic and environmental perspectives. In order to overcome this situation, Wind Inertia proposes HESS, a hybrid storage solution that integrates in a single system, ultracapacitors’ (UC) high power density and robustness, Li-ion batteries’ energy storage density, advanced power electronics and control and management systems. The result is a solution capable of combining and optimizing the use of multiple types of energy resources (renewable, fossil fuel dependent and storage). The expected outcome of this proposal is the elaboration of a feasibility study and a business plan aiming at verifying the technological, practical and economic viability of the technology describing their most suitable business model, exploitation strategy, etc.

Keywords: energy storage,ultracapacitors,li ion batteries,renewable integration,microgrids,energy density,power density,low carbon technology
Next Generation of Fishing and Aquaculture Services (NextOcean)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Norway,Norway,Greece,France,Portugal,United Kingdom,Portugal,Portugal,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Copernicus market uptake (H2020-SPACE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3636293.27
EU funding (EUR): 2999788.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The societal need for sustainable exploitation of aquatic resources, requires support to monitoring need to ensure sustainable fishing, increasingly resorting to aquaculture, and a tighter control on fishing activities provides an opportunity for commercial EO services in this area. Based on Copernicus and GEOSS data and resources, it is now possible to implement commercially-oriented services for 1) fishing authorities wishing to have an improved control over marine resources; 2) responsible fishing companies willing to certify their compliance to sustainability by ecolabeling fish provenance; 3) the fast growing aquaculture industry assessing their risks and potential revenues; and 4) aquaculture regulators in understanding the impact of fish farms, in order to decide based on bespoke scientific solutions. NextOcean is proposed by a consortium of companies, research institutions, a business school and a buyers group supporting the development of innovative services. It targets fishing and aquaculture by proposing EO commercial services for the public and private sectors. It builds on past activities, proposing an integrated solution. The services will address 4User Scenarios: Monitoring Fishing Activities and Impact; Mimisation of Bycatch and Ecolabeling; Monitoring Aquaculture Impacts; and New Fish Farms. The involvement of the potential clients is done progressively, with an initial group of Alpha Users already engaged, supporting co-design of solutions. The buyers group is then enlarged to a wider group of beta testers and potential clients, who will define further evolutions, and the path to integration into their decision-making processes. NextOcean will define clear KPIs and success criteria for the services, including on the integration in the value chain. Dedicated workshops and training sessions will be held with the larger community, where the services will be advertised, explained and assessed in light of the interests and knowledge of the communities

Keywords: sustainable fishing,earth observation,copernicus,aquaculture,new market
Engineered Conductive Proteins for Bioelectronics (e-Prot)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Israel,Spain,Spain,France,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3103460.0
EU funding (EUR): 3103460.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Proteins—the building blocks of natural systems—offer advantageous structural properties for the design of functional materials and present rare and modest but appealing electrical conduction features. The e-Prot project vision encompasses the rational design of efficient conductive protein systems (e-Ps), and the fabrication of all-protein based conductive structures and materials, targeting a radical change in design of "green" electronic and energy storage devices. This breakthrough relies on a multidisciplinary scientific approach that combines i) a profound understanding of protein building blocks, biomolecular design principles, state-of-the-art synthetic biology, and chemical tools, to systematically fabricate new protein materials; and ii) cutting-edge characterization techniques and computational models that will provide an unprecedented fundamental understanding of protein conduction thus building a solid foundation for their technological implementation. Selected engineered conductive proteins will be upscaled and implemented as smart ink-based conductors and ionic electrolytes in energy storage devices, as a first demonstration of the feasibility of an inherently biocompatible and fully sustainable all-protein (e-Prot) bioelectronics platform. This groundbreaking approach surpasses current bio-inspired technologies, transforming the emerging research field of protein-based bioelectronics, currently still limited to basic research, to a new level of sophistication facilitating real-world applications.

Keywords: protein engineering,self assembled biomaterials,conductive proteins,bioelectronics,protein based bioelectronic devices
Towards Intelligent Cognitive AUVs (TIC-AUV)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,United States
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-03-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 159795.6
EU funding (EUR): 159795.6
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

In recent years, long-term autonomy and persistent autonomy have ecome key areas of interest for marine robotics researchers. Ocean observatories require autonomous robot deployments over months or years. Deep-water oilfield inspection and intervention with autonomous vehicles is now a commercial reality, but fielded robots rely heavily on accurate a priori models of the subsea assets. Robustness to errors in autonomous contact tasks requires detection of execution errors. Today, our current generations of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are generally limited to preplanned missions, or to limited forms of autonomy involving script switching and re-parametrisation in response to preprogrammed events. The work envisaged in this project wants to address the need of greater autonomy and capabilities, improving the cognitive and intelligent layer of marine robotics. Research activities will focus on three main interconnected areas: • semantic world representation and reasoning, in order to represent the operating environment, taking into account uncertainty at different layers (sensor data, partial view, system evolution); • intelligent active localisation techniques, in order to define a specific set of actions aiming at robot localisation in the environment; • fault management, in order to detect, classify and react to possible in-mission faults and various problems. Combining the research results in those areas and integrating them into real marine robots will result in a great increase of autonomy and intelligent cognitive capabilities, essential skills for persistent autonomy for robotics and autonomous systems.

Keywords: marine robotics,diagnostics,autonomous systems
Fully Integrated Technology based on quantitative polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis of Urinal Tract Infection (FIT-UTI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Society and Enterprise panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: France,France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.01
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at developing a low-cost and reliable microfluidic disposable chip and the corresponding plug-and-play operating system for fast point-of-care diagnosis of UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) disease. This project will make the best of the competences of the ER (Experienced Researcher)'s strong background in mechanical/electrical engineering, microfluidics as well as in cell biology and Elvesys expertise in the Elvesys proprietary FASTGENE technology, the world fastest qPCR (qualitative Polymerase Chain Reaction) technique which has already been tested on Anthrax and Ebola simulating agents. We will integrate bacteria lysis, DNA extraction and PCR module into a single plastic chip. In the scope of the project, the prototype will be tested in simple situations. Once satisfactory results are obtained, it will be made ready for tests in real-case situations (urine sample) through existing collaborations between Elvesys and hospitals. The prototype will be expected to provide a reliable diagnosis from the sample input to fluorescence readout in less than 30 minutes. This technology can be extended to other disease diagnostics as well thus contributing to solving the current EU needs for fast point-of-care diagnostic technologies. Through the present project, the ER will reach a level of maturity on technological aspects but also on managerial and industrial aspects that will provide her new career perspectives. Besides enriching professional knowledge, The ER will benefit from specific SME environment to develop her entrepreneurship, including market research, product valorization, finance management and leadership. Following this new experience, the ER will be one step closer to act as a leader or manager of a research team in the industrial field.

Keywords: microfluidics,lab on a chip,point of care,pcr chip,microfabrication
Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Strong-Field-Driven Solids (TReSFiDS)

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: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Intense short light pulses have recently been used to manipulate the optical and electronic properties of solids, promising applications for future ultrafast optoelectronics devices. However, the origin of these strong-field processes has triggered an intense debate. To identify the main contributing physical processes and their dependence on the properties of the system, it is essential to access these strong-field dynamics in their sub-femtosecond time scale. Motivated by these very recent advances, I will determine strong-field dynamics in several classes of solids, and show how time-resolved spectroscopy can be used to access the response of the medium to intense fields. I will perform numerical simulations based on time-dependent density-functional theory, benefiting from the expertise of Prof. Madsen's group in developing numerical methods for strong-field physics also in complex many-body systems. This will allow me to explore strong-field dynamics in classes of solids which are especially promising for ultrafast applications, as identified by previous findings in high-order harmonic generation. In addition, I will take advantage of my previous analytical work in atoms and molecules, also in collaboration with experimental groups, to solve the semiconductor Bloch equations and develop associated analytical techniques, in order to interpret the numerical results. Training in numerical methods will be reinforced by a secondment in the group of Prof. Bauer, while constant interactions with experimentalists will ensure the identification of the most suitable systems, and exploitation of the results. By identifying key spectroscopy features and relating them to the underlying strong-field dynamics in solids, this work will guide near-future experiments in time-resolved spectroscopy of condensed-matter systems, and facilitate the design of suitable materials for applications in the very recently established field of multi-petahertz optoelectronics.

Keywords: strong field physics,ultrafast processes,attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy