Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The Novel Materials Discovery Laboratory (NoMaD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: e-Infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Germany,Ireland,Finland,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Centres of Excellence for computing applications (H2020-EINFRA-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4910624.48
EU funding (EUR): 4910624.48
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Essentially every new commercial product, be they smart phones, solar cells, batteries, transport technology, artificial hips, etc., depends on improved or even novel materials. Computational materials science is increasingly influential as a method to identify such critical materials for both R&D. Enormous amounts of data, precious but heterogeneous and difficult to access or utilise, are already stored in repositories scattered across Europe. The NoMaD CoE will open new HPC opportunities by enabling access to this data and delivering powerful new tools to search, retrieve and manage it. NoMaD will foster sharing of all relevant data, building on the unique CECAM, Psi-k and ETSF communities, putting Europe ahead of materials science in other continents. Unprecedented, already initialised networking with researchers, with industry, with students and with other stakeholders will guarantee relevance and end-user value. NoMaD will become a crucial tool for atomistic simulations and multi-scale modelling in the physical, materials, and quantum-chemical sciences. This field is characterised by a healthy but heterogeneous eco-system of many different codes that are used at all HPC centers worldwide, with millions of CPU hours spent every day, some of them at petascale performance. NoMaD will integrate the leading codes and make their results comparable by converting (and compressing) existing inputs and outputs into a common format, thus making these valuable data accessible to academia and industry: NoMaD will develop “big-data analytics” for materials science. This will require novel algorithms, e.g., for statistical learning based on the created materials encyclopedia, offering complex searches and novel visualisations. These challenges exploit the essential resources of our HPC partners. Without the infrastructure and services provided by the NoMaD CoE, much of the information created with the above mentioned petascale (towards exascale) computations would be wasted.

Keywords: computational materials science,big data,high performance computing,collaborative networks,open access to data,innovation
WORKFORCE EUROPE - TRANSFORMATION AGENDA FOR TRANSPORT AUTOMATION (WE-TRANSFORM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Austria,Italy,Belgium,Finland,Poland,Greece,Greece,Korea, Republic of,Greece,Greece,Bulgaria,Latvia,France,France,United States,United Kingdom,Japan,Canada
Call: The effects of automation on the transport labour force, future working conditions and skills requirements (H2020-MG-2020-SingleStage-INEA, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3130636.25
EU funding (EUR): 2499396.25
Participants: 34
Project status: SIGNED

Combining expertise across all facets of transport and analytical tools, WE-TRANSFORM aims to apply a participatory approach, using Collective Intelligence (CI), to generate an evidence-based and action-oriented agenda to research, formulate and prioritize the challenges connected to the effects of automation on the transport labour force, on future working conditions and on skills requirements. The WE-TRANSFORM consortium, leveraging existing data and people’s expertise, and empowered by the range and depth of its composition, will create a system of thematic and modal cross-national living hub as a knowledge & prioritization agenda-creation platform, offering a path forward for smarter decisions, more innovative and evidence-based policymaking, through informed governance. The approach of WE-TRANSFORM is highly collaborative, promoting discovery, debate and prioritization of themes by the active participation of representative types of stakeholders, using state-of-the-art data collection and analysis tools while drawing information and themes for the collectively constructed agenda from wide-ranging environments. The composition of the consortium and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to be used guarantee access and involvement across a wide range of relevant parties ranging from transport-chains’ stakeholders and extending to citizens’ associations and beyond including information mining from electronic social media. Robust analytical tools are combined with information findings drawn at AI speed and coverage potential, while the simulation of a social debate within a living hub environment allows the dialogue and ultimately the formulation of a collectively defined agenda enriched with co-created knowledge. The proposal includes also a final provision for maintaining the electronic environment created in a sustainable way as to serve for future research in the area.

Keywords: labour restructuring,working conditions,skills,automation,participatory approach,living hub,collective intelligence,knowledge co creation,social debate,action oriented agenda
Novel assessment of bridge retrofitting measures through Interface Efficiency Indices (InterFeis) using a Guided Wave-based monitoring method (BriFace)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Modernisation of our deficient transportation networks and in particular bridges is a pressing requirement imposed by the growing EU economy, vital to societal coherence and safety. Frequent retrofitting solutions include the use of versatile Fiber Reinforced Polymers systems (FRPs), which have been proven to enhance the capacity and deflections of bridges. Nevertheless, it is surprising that only a few, if any, research results are available with regard to the efficiency and appropriateness of FRP systems used on bridge retrofitting schemes, whilst international design guidelines neglect the level of integration of the measures with the existing bridge components. In practice, and especially in bridge decks were deterioration is expected, there is a number of limitations that reduce the level of integration of the FRP system with the bridge. This gave the BriFace project a strong motivation to utilise Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) techniques to assess the efficiency of the strengthening measure and quantify those, for the first time in the international literature, with the Interface Efficiency Indices (InterFeis), by measuring reliably the interface deflections and strains and by taking into account the failure modes and the limit stress states of bridge components. The novel objectives of BriFace are: 1) To define the Interface Efficiency Indices, 2) To utilize an expedient, long-distant inspection method of guided waves for the first time in bridge inspection, 3) To increase the interface efficiency by chemical means potentially by using nanoparticles and 4) To use InterFeis as a reliable indicator toward the quantification of the redundancy of the retrofitted bridge, as a means to assess its capacity and thus its resilience. The research outcomes will also benefit stakeholders and fuel bridge design guidelines and align them with the EU strategy on infrastructural safety and resilience.

Keywords: frp strengthening systems,interfaces,concrete bridge decks,guided waves,structural health monitoring,nanoparticles,resilience
ENERGY EFFICIENCY SUBSCRIPTIONS ON DISTRICT LEVEL FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (DistrictEES)

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: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Aggregation - Project Development Assistance (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1136657.5
EU funding (EUR): 1136657.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The DistrictEES project aims to realise the EPC-based renovation of three entire districts, financed partly by private investors, covering all major target groups: private owners, housing associations, public buildings and commercial buildings. DistrictEES builds on the most successful EPC model of The Netherlands for home renovation, the WoningAbonnement (WOAB); loosely translated as Energy Efficiency Subscriptions. In this project, WDW (the ESCO) will apply this model at district level to four different end user groups, launching €47M of energy efficiency investments in three districts in the Gelderland province. This district level approach has major advantages, such as: • Reaching a sufficient project aggregation level to attract private investors and to provide over-demanded contractors with large scale efficient projects • Reaching higher conversion rates among participants (peer pressure, FOMO) • Ability to offer cheaper and more efficient district-level technical solutions • Efficiency gains, both in time and money, due to economies of scale By combining clever financial engineering solutions such as project aggregation, a revolving fund and on-bill financing, DistrictEES will have significant impact on the market, both in terms of direct energy savings and as a result of the showcase element that comes with a district level EPC renovation project that is cofunded by private investors. This project enables WDW to overcome financial, legal and organisational barriers for the DistrictEES concept, enabling accelerated roll-out of the Energy Efficiency Subscriptions model. By implementing the concept at district level on a €47M scale, WDW can fully capitalise on the potential of the district level approach and at the same time attract private investors. The latter being an important prerequisite for the upscaling and replication of the concept, both in The Netherlands and across the EU, which is the ultimate objective of this project.

Keywords: esco,aggregation,district
INnovation CApacity of Mediterranean Enterpises (INCAME_2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy
Call: H2020 ENTREPRISE EUROPE NETWORK SGA4 2020-2021 (H2020-EEN-SGA4-2020-2021, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 628350.0
EU funding (EUR): 628350.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims to enhance SMEs’ competitiveness and innovation processes management and to improve the regional innovation environment, increasing the efficiency and the effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation. The project partners will operate in the regions under the EEN BRIDGeconomies consortium: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia and Sicilia. The overall objective of the project is helping SMEs to adopt, implement and deploy an innovation management system. The project has two main specific objectives, structured in 2 Work Packages: WP1) SMEs beneficiaries of the EIC Pilot (Key Account Manager) ; WP2) SMEs with innovation potential (EEN Innovation Expert) . To reach such specific objectives, during the period covered by the action, the project partnership intends to deliver seven / ten days service packages to a number of 201 SMEs, benefiting from EIC Pilot and services for enhancing their innovation management capacities (EIMC). Project partners intend to implement these actions since SMEs play a crucial role in reaching the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy and notably the Innovation Union. SMEs are key drivers of innovation serving as an important conduit for knowledge spill-overs. Tapping the full innovation potential of SMEs requires efficient support mechanisms. The focus needs to be oriented to impact on SMEs, looking at their internationalisation, their knowledge and R&D capabilities, competitiveness and growth.

Keywords: innovation management,enhancing,smes capacities in southern italy
Accessible Resources for Cultural Heritage EcoSystems (ARCHES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Reflective societies - cultural heritage and European identity
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Austria,Austria,Serbia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovation ecosystems of digital cultural assets (H2020-REFLECTIVE-6-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3838158.03
EU funding (EUR): 3399248.88
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The popularisation of digitisation techniques has boosted the generation of digital cultural heritage assets in recent years. However, such techniques should not be regarded as an end in and of themselves, but as a means for enabling European citizens to engage with cultural heritage more closely and in different ways. ARCHES aims to create more inclusive cultural environments particularly for those with differences and difficulties associated with perception, memory, cognition and communication. It will achieve this through in-depth research analysis and the development of innovative applications, functionalities and experiences based on the reuse and redevelopment of the aforementioned digital resources. Our participatory research methodology situates real user needs at the heart of an iterative design and implementation process, through their active involvement in 3 pilot exercises. This will also facilitate the validation of potential solutions in scenarios at 6 museums, as well as engagement with broader audiences (e.g. children, the elderly, and other potentially marginalised groups) and extension to other sectors, mainly education and tourism. The online accessible software platform, applications for handheld devices and multisensory activities will form the basis of a technical approach that will exploit state of the art technologies – e.g. augmented reality, avatars, relief printers and models, context-sensitive tactile audio guides, metadata and advanced image processing techniques – to underpin the generation of a dynamic ecosystem. In this framework, museums will play an important role by adapting content and reinterpreting cultural heritage in manners most suitable for target groups. Our interdisciplinary consortium – involving academia, SMEs, research centres and museums – will focus on ensuring widespread communication and exploitation, stimulating cross-border collaboration to address a challenge common across Europe.

Keywords: inclusion,digital assets,innovation ecosystems
Development of a chemotherapeutic gel for glioblastoma multiforme treatment (THERAGEL)

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-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175866.0
EU funding (EUR): 175866.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Advanced nanotechnology-based materials offer new solutions to the challenges associated with the non-specific delivery of therapeutics that leads to ineffective treatments, especially in oncology. Currently, both therapeutic and diagnostic molecules are administered systemically, increasing the likelihood of unwanted side effects. THERAGEL will develop a novel delivery system that enables selective, targeted local delivery of therapeutics and imaging agents. Specifically, I will use this delivery system to design a therapy for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. THERAGEL will comprise a unique combination of advanced injectable polymeric depots and targeted nanoparticles with both chemotherapeutic and imaging agent payloads (‘theranostic’ nanoparticle). The polymeric depots will provide a continuous release of free chemotherapeutic drug, with a tunable profile depending on the polymer composition, and cancer-targeted nanoparticles that will release the theranostic cargo only after selective uptake by cancer cells. THERAGEL will advance the state of the art in nanomedicines through advances to the individual components of the developed delivery system. This proposal represents a unique opportunity in the context of nanotheranostics for tailored chemotherapy, and means a significant step towards its clinical translation. The technologies developed will address three out of the six Horizon 2020 Key Enabling Technologies themes, which are a key part of the programme funding strategy: Nanotechnology, Advanced Biomaterials and Advanced Manufacturing technologies. This research constitutes a highly multidisciplinary approach with large impact in near future advanced therapies and with a great chance for collaboration and networking between European research groups and industrial partners. Combining my expertise in gated-materials with the host PI’s delivery systems development experience will make this new direction possible

Keywords: drug delivery systems,hydrogels,glioblastoma multiorme,mesoporous materials
Collaborative cApacity Programme on Its Training-educAtion and Liaison (CAPITAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Greece,Finland,Greece,Greece,Belgium,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Roadmap, new business models, awareness raising, support and incentives for the roll-out of ITS (H2020-MG-2016-SingleStage-RTD-MOVE, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1814312.5
EU funding (EUR): 1814312.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is to build a collaborative capacity community and deployment programme to support public and private stakeholders in the implementation of ITS (C-ITS) with training and educational resources which enable knowledge transfer about the benefits and deployment of ITS. The project will assist public and private stakeholders in developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities to build technical, business and policy making proficiency of ITS deployment while furthering their career paths.

Keywords: its deployment,communities,business models,education and trainings
Video Optical See-Through Augmented Reality surgical System (VOSTARS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Italy,Italy,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Photonics KET 2016 (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4438444.71
EU funding (EUR): 3816440.0
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

The idea of integrating the surgeon’s perceptive efficiency with the aid of new augmented reality (AR) visualization modalities has become a dominant topic of academic and industrial research in the medical domain since the 90’s. AR technology appeared to represent a significant development in the context of image-guided surgery (IGS). The quality of the AR experience affects the degree of acceptance among physicians and it depends on how well the virtual content is integrated into the real world spatially, photometrically and temporally. In this regard, wearable systems based on head-mounted displays (HMDs), offer the most ergonomic and easily translatable solution for many surgeries. Most of the AR HMDs fall into two categories according to the see-through paradigm they implement: video see-through (VST) and optical see-through (OST) HMDs. In OST systems, the user’s direct view of the real world is augmented with the projection of virtual information into the user’s line of sight. Differently, in VST systems the virtual content is merged with images captured by two external cameras anchored to the visor. With respect to technological and human-factor issues, both the approaches have their own strengths and shortcomings. In this project, we identified in a hybrid OST/VST HMD, a disruptive solution for improving surgical outcomes. The application driven device will be developed from existing systems and exploiting the knowhow acquired within the consortium on photonics KET technologies. The resulting device will undergo three clinical trials whose results will be fundamental towards a straight industrial exploitation comprising economic viability analysis. Video-Optical See Through AR surgical System (VOSTARS) will be the first hybrid see-through HMD surgical navigator. Further, albeit VOSTARS will be specifically designed for medical procedures, its design is aimed to evolve into a multi-purpose AR platform for HMDs.

Keywords: microdisplays,wearable head mounted display,surgical guidance