Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The social network for pilots, to make flying safer and cheaper (AVIAZE)

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: 2020-01-01
End date: 2020-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Only in Europe, 150 people lose their lives every year on light aircraft accidents. Flying is not a dangerous activity itself but the technology and regulations binominal is not optimal for this type of aviation. A lot can be done to improve safety margins. Over the years, aviation technology introduced in commercial aviation has led to a dramatic reduction of accidents. Tremendous investments in innovation brought traffic avoidance systems, flight data recorders, aircraft tracking... cutting edge tech that unfortunately cannot be transferred to light aviation straight away, just because of one single reason: high costs. Aeroclubs and flying schools are usually low margin businesses, not to mention leisure flying... Commercial aviation equipment costs are too high and regulators, aware of that, cannot impose them as mandatory. However, they are calling for tailored solutions to save lives while maintaining light aviation financially viable. Imagine a cost effective solution for light aircraft operators and regulators to enhance safety and reduce operational costs just by monitoring and analyzing metrics on every flight. Imagine a software, running in the smartphone of the pilot that could make many of the commercial aviation safety features, available to light airplane pilots. Imagine a social approach to it, a network where pilots can share flights, challenge themselves to fly safer and grow as a community. Imagine this is called AVIAZE. Inspired in the successful app Strava for runners, AVIAZE is the social network for pilots that makes flying safer and cheaper. With an addressable market of 5,5 Million pilots. We have registered +2500 flight hours and +1500 pilots so far, it is fully compliant with EU regulations. We’ve started to internationalize and it is supported by EASA and IAA (authorities).The forecasted ROI is 4,0 after Y5 and we estimate a 2 year pay-back period for the total 1.5M€ investment with the creation of a minimum of 7 additional jobs

Keywords: flight data recorder,light aviation,logbook,social network,tracking,pilot,safety,accident,analysis,fourier transform,algorithm,aeroclub,digital,flight,real time,graphic,post
HIGH HEAT REJECTION THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEM (HEART)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Engaging SMEs in space research and development (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2663850.0
EU funding (EUR): 1864695.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Large System Integrators (LSI) in Europe are interested in Mechanically Pumped Loops (MPLs) which are high heat rejection thermal control systems (between 10kW and 20 kW as reference) for their utilisation as thermal control systems of active antennas or of the satellite platform. Furthermore, the lack of precise thermal stability in existing thermal control systems and the dependence on the nuclear energy, is stopping the development of new scientific instruments. Therefore, HEART will be an enabling technology for future scientific missions. The MAIN OBJECTIVE of this project is to accelerate the introduction of AVS´s MPL technology into the Satcom global market. AVS has developed a High Heat Rejection Thermal Control System (HEART) that is an innovative Mechanically Pumped Loop, a new product for thermal control purposes capable of dissipating more than 10kW that will assure an easier manufacturing and improved performances (50% increase in durability), easier assembly and more efficient manufacturing cost compared to actual alternative solutions. This has resulted in Airbus Defence and Space’s commitment use and fly the HEART in their next telecom satellite launch. Airbus includes a global thermal control toolbox that goes from the simplest design to the most advanced solution based on Thermal MPL design. HEART includes to fly the final solution thanks to the next Eurostar 3000 satellite of Airbus (for in-orbit test) phase and 1 month the second phase (this test will continue for another 15 years after the project ends) and monitored by Airbus. HEART points it commercial interest in the Satellite manufacturing segment, that reached in 2015 $16.6 billion revenues (10b$ in U.S.), which means a growth of 4% over the previous year. It is estimated to reach a 25% market share in six years and 50% in the long-term of Europe’s market. And as consequence, the company will have an accumulated EBITDA of +16.89 M€ and new +50.4 M€ turnover in six years.

Keywords: telecom satellite,thermal control,telecomunication,on orbit,active anntenas,scientific payloads
The influence of stellar outflows on exoplanetary mass loss (ASTROFLOW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Ireland,Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999956.0
EU funding (EUR): 1333816.99
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

ASTROFLOW aims to make ground-breaking progress in our physical understanding of exoplanetary mass loss, by quantifying the influence of stellar outflows on atmospheric escape of close-in exoplanets. Escape plays a key role in planetary evolution, population, and potential to develop life. Stellar irradiation and outflows affect planetary mass loss: irradiation heats planetary atmospheres, which inflate and more likely escape; outflows cause pressure confinement around otherwise freely escaping atmospheres. This external pressure can increase, reduce or even suppress escape rates; its effects on exoplanetary mass loss remain largely unexplored due to the complexity of such interactions. I will fill this knowledge gap by developing a novel modelling framework of atmospheric escape that will, for the first time, consider the effects of realistic stellar outflows on exoplanetary mass loss. My expertise in stellar wind theory and 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations is crucial for producing the next-generation models of planetary escape. My framework will consist of state-of-the-art, time-dependent, 3D simulations of stellar outflows (Method 1), which will be coupled to novel 3D simulations of atmospheric escape (Method 2). My models will account for the major underlying physical processes of mass loss. With this, I will determine the response of planetary mass loss to realistic stellar particle, magnetic and radiation environments and will characterise the physical conditions of the escaping material. I will compute how its extinction varies during transit and compare synthetic line profiles to atmospheric escape observations from, eg, Hubble and our NASA cubesat CUTE. Strong synergy with upcoming observations (JWST, TESS, SPIRou, CARMENES) also exists. Determining the lifetime of planetary atmospheres is essential to understanding populations of exoplanets. ASTROFLOW’s work will be the foundation for future research of how exoplanets evolve under mass-loss processes.

Keywords: winds of low mass stars,mass loss in exoplanets,magnetic fields
Immature mating as a novel tactic of an invasive widow spider (Widow Spider Mating)

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: Germany,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-02-10
End date: 2023-05-09
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 233434.56
EU funding (EUR): 233434.56
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Female widow spiders are frequently cannibalistic, but males of the invasive brown widow spider Latrodectus geometricus can avoid being eaten by mating with immature females that never attack their mating partners. Although immature females are generally assumed unable to mate due to the lack of developed external genitalia, in this species they readily mate and produce offspring at maturity. Nevertheless, despite the benefits arising from immature mating, males consistently prefer to mate with adult, cannibalistic females. Sexual cannibalism is generally considered detrimental for the male, but in L. geometricus it represents a male adaptive strategy which brings advantages in terms of lower female propensity to re-mate. Therefore, its lack in immature mating may come at cost of paternity loss due to female re-mating. I suggests a trade-off between mating rate and reproductive assurance. In the proposed project, I will test the hypothesis that immature mating is costly for the male. I will investigate the mechanism of immature mating as well as ultimate fitness consequences for the male in terms of paternity. I will use a multidisciplinary approach, combining state-of-the-art behavioural, morphological and molecular methods. Utilizing the expertise and infrastructure in two excellent institutions: University of Greifswald and University of Toronto, I will enhance international collaboration and knowledge transfer among research teams. At the University of Greifswald, mating systems are studied by a combination of behavioural and morphological approaches. Using advanced tools to study and visualize internal structures crucial for understanding reproductive biology, I will characterize the morphological mechanisms and structures associated with immature mating. At the University of Toronto, I will use established husbandry infrastructure and molecular techniques to determine behavioural correlates of paternity, and links to female reproductive output.

Keywords: alternative mating tactic,sexual cannibalism,male mate choice,paternity analysis,mechanism of copulation
Coatings with Hydrophobic and/or Omniphobic Properties against INsect contamination. (CHOPIN)

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: Spain,Norway,Belgium,Belgium,France
Call: Insect contamination investigations and mitigation (H2020-CS2-CFP06-2017-01, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1529893.75
EU funding (EUR): 1499268.75
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The aircraft industry has long been concerned with the increase of drag impacting directly the fuel consumption of airplanes. Different researches have shown that the insect sticking causes a surface roughness disrupting the laminar flow. Several methods have been used to solve the problem and the most important parameter playing a role in the reduction of insect adhesion on aircraft wings is the surface energy. Indeed, during the last 60 years different modifications of the wing leading edges such as elastic surfaces, soluble films or fluid covers have been proposed. The use of coatings to mitigate the insect contamination shows great potential but critical issues still remain due to lack of durability. The objectives of CHOPIN are the development of highly durable hydrophobic coatings which can be applied to micro-perforated surfaces typically used for drag reduction and the validation of the technology and the coating process proposed by using tests clearly assessing the mitigation of insect contamination under realistic conditions. Different technologies are considered in the project which presently allows to obtain hydrophobic surfaces : wet-chemistry deposition and dry technologies (plasma and spray). To meet the application requirement these coatings will be optimized. Furthermore, the application process needs to preserve the holes and keep the efficiency of the HLFC leading edges. The efficiency of the proposed technologies will be compared to the commercial products and the coatings will be characterized by lab and simulated tests. Indeed, firstly, a classification considering the adherence to the substrates, the hardness, the flexibility, UV resistance, rain and sand erosion resistance and the resistance to aircrafts liquids will be done. The insect contamination and cleaning behaviour of the best coatings will be then demonstrated both, during simulated environment and during representative environment. Test under real condition will be done using drones which will allow a statistical evaluation of the insect impact and contamination behaviour of typical A/C leading edges under realistic A/C environment during take-off, landing and flight.

Keywords: ionogel,varnish,sol gel,ion implantation,insect mitigation,drone
NETinfoPAY: a world of finance in your pocket (NETinfoPAY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The NETinfoPAY is an all-inclusive payment system which will supply the EU and global markets with a reliable tool to allow for all types of transactions at various POS; a reliable mobile wallet/platform which will allow users to transact on a fast, easy-to-use, reliable, convenient, and secure way using their mobile phone, anytime from everywhere even when a mobile phone is in offline/airplane mode. The NETinfoPAY platform is developed with market state-of-the-art tools and adapted to international banking practices, providing the MFS users with a secure, user-friendly and powerful tool for mobile financial services. Currently the payments market is dominated by Banks hence NETinfo recognizes that significant areas of the mobile payments market, in particular card, internet and mobile payments, remain fragmented along national borders despite the European Union aspiring to an open, borderless market. Mobile financial services have been a target of development and investment for the last fifteen years. After a number of mostly ‘short lived’ attempts at kick-starting this promising channel by various players in the financial services industry, mobile financial services (MFS) are now attracting immense renewed interest. The introduction of an open unified digital mobile payments platform bringing together new and existing payment and banking processes as a means of offering the innovative digital products and services that are critical to retaining and attracting customers in an increasingly competitive market is imperative. Mobile payments market present currently a huge market opportunity and it is clear that keeping up with technological change is key to sustaining a long-term business model. In this sense, the aim of the proposed feasibility study is to confirm the business viability of the NETinfoPAY project and compose a detailed business plan to help with the solution's succesful commercialisation.

Keywords: mobile payments,cashless solution
Anthropogenic Heathlands: The Social Organization of Past Grazing Landscapes (ANTHEA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2025-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499457.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499457.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In a time of accelerating human-caused ecological catastrophe, questions of organizational resilience have become extremely timely. In bringing the archaeological perspective of a 4200-year timespan, ANTHEA seeks to to radically alter our knowledge of resilient forms of self-organisation in past land-use regimes and human-nature entanglements. Based on seven case study areas, ANTHEA will show how collaborative institutions of common land use were organized in the North European heathland regimes (3200 BC-AD 1000), with a particular emphasis on their earliest emergence, their adaption to internal and external factors as well as their ecological, temporal, spatial, and social fabric. More than 4,000 years ago, farming communities across northern Europe began the first fire-based expansion of naturally occurring heather. Pollen evidence suggests that some of these grazing areas, spanning thousands of hectares, existed until the 18th-19th century. Without frequent intervention and management, anthropogenic heathland will turn into forest. So the survival of these areas suggests the existence of highly specialised forms of social organization with the unique capacity to persist. Still, we know little about the actual stability of these heathlands or what caused their unprecedented resilience. By shifting attention away from seeing institutional robustness as equilibrium, stability and continuity and placing the questions of instability, uncertainty, and areal flexibility at the centre, ANTHEA envisages a new cultural history of heathlands that breaks with rooted ideas of these areas being marginal and underdeveloped. ANTHEA is truly multidisciplinary and links landscape and settlement archaeology with paleoenvironmental modelling, social anthropology and philosophy. Moreover, the project introduces a pioneering theoretical and methodological advancement in the temporality of resilience, to be made usable in contemporary land-use policies. The long-term perspective will allow detailed historical trajectories to be established of how common land-use institutions emerged and reorganized according to changing circumstances, challenging the "tragedy of the commons" narrative.

Keywords: heathlands,land tenure,resilience,social organisation,common property regimes,time and temporality
Automating Timed Automata Design (AutoTADes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-08-01
End date: 2020-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 157845.6
EU funding (EUR): 157845.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are everywhere, from autonomous vehicles to medical devices to smart buildings. Designing such CPSs that achieve complex tasks is a tedious and error prone process. During the design, high-level specifications describing desired functionalities, safety measures, physical properties and restrictions, and optimality criteria have to be considered. Furthermore, as people’s life may depend on CPSs, their correctness is of critical importance. This IF project aims at developing new theory and novel academic tools to make possible the design of such systems in an automated way from a set of given descriptions and specifications with optimality and correctness guarantees. In the era of CPSs, automating the design process is crucial. This project will investigate the design aspect focusing on subsets of Timed Automata (TA) as a modeling formalism and Metric Linear Temporal Logic (MITL) as a high-level specification language. The main objectives are (1) to generate the “optimal” timed automata from a parametric partial model by both tuning its parameters and synthesizing controllers at the same time, and (2) to develop a new framework for the automated construction of a partial TA from system descriptions and specifications. The optimization of this partial TA will be achieved by (1). The first objective involves combining two problems, namely optimal control and parameter synthesis for TA, that are currently studied separately in literature. Despite earlier un-decidability results, the parameter synthesis problem has been popular due to the expressivity of TA as a modelling formalism and difficulties in designing TA from complex specifications. This project aims at developing a new framework to generate optimal timed automata by exploring all design directions. This framework will be tested on a practical example that will be generated with an SME via the host organisation.

Keywords: formal methods,timed automata,optimal control,parameter synthesis,linear temporal logic,automated construction,metric linear temporal logic,cyber physical systems
Process Analytical Technologies for Industrial Nanoparticle Production (NanoPAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Advanced materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Switzerland,Switzerland,Greece,Greece,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Real-time nano-characterisation technologies (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-TO-IND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4968508.79
EU funding (EUR): 4968508.75
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

Nano-scaled materials are abundant in different stages of industrial manufacturing. Physical and chemical properties of these materials are strongly dependent on their size. Characterisation of mean size, size distribution, and shape of nano-scaled particles is very critical for the quality and efficiency of manufacturing processes. Yet, conventional characterisation technologies still show manifold shortcomings which represent a major innovation obstacle for manufacturers of nanoparticles. The NanoPAT consortium aims at closing this gap by the demonstration of 3 novel, real-time nano-characterisation Process Analytical Technologies (PAT), namely Photon Density Wave spectroscopy (PDW), OptoFluidic force induction (OF2i) and Turbidity spectrometry (TUS) including real-time data handling for digital process monitoring and product quality control. Those will be validated in 5 different industrial ceramic, polymer and mineral nanoparticles manufacturing and converting environments. This implies that innovating PATs will be paired with new data-analytical technologies in order to provide, for the first time, a real-time analysis for manufacturing processes of particles in the nanometer scale with sub minute temporal resolution. The NanoPAT consortium consists of 14 members, representing instrument developers, process data and modelling experts, academic process researchers, industrial processing experts, as well as innovation and dissemination specialists. The consortium profits from the broad involvement of its members in EU networks and ongoing H2020 projects. NanoPAT will intensively contribute to enhancing the innovation capacity of the European nanotechnology sector. As a result, the NanoPAT real-time nano-characterisation technologies will have reached TRL 6, promising valuable improvements in terms of quality, productivity and sustainability for the process industries in the EU and beyond.

Keywords: process analytical technologies,photonics,nanomaterials,nanoparticles synthesis,nanoparticles conversion