Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
MOdify Drivers’ behaviour to Adapt for Lower EmissionS (MODALES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Switzerland,Türkiye,China,Belgium,Finland,Finland,Greece,Belgium,France,France,France,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: InCo flagship on reduction of transport impact on air quality (H2020-MG-2018-TwoStages, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5088302.5
EU funding (EUR): 4722208.75
Participants: 23
Project status: SIGNED

The impact of road traffic on local air quality is a major policy concern and there have been numerous projects aiming at improving underlying vehicle and fuel technologies, traffic management and enforcement. MODALES will contribute to a substantial reduction in air pollution from all types of motorised road vehicles by encouraging the adoption of low-emission oriented driving behaviour and maintenance choice, improving the effectiveness of OBD devices and retrofits. The main goal of MODALES is to advance the fundamental understanding of the co-variability of user behaviour and vehicular emissions from powertrain, brakes and tyres, and modify user behaviour via dedicated training, including a driver assistance app and awareness campaigns, in order to support effective air quality plans and enforcement strategies to be developed by local and national authorities. MODALES proposes a user-centric approach to addressing all of the challenges which on the one hand enhance low-emission practices and on the other hand suppress high-emission behaviour by researching, developing and testing a number of innovative and complementary solutions in four key areas (namely, Driver, Retrofits, EOBD and Inspection) in order to substantially reduce vehicle emissions from 3 main sources (i.e. powertrain, brake wear and tyre wear). The results will be used as evidence with adequate quality to guide the derivation of effective driving practices and training courses for different user groups. MODALES echoes the EC ambition to open up global markets in transport services, through the creation of a worldwide platform for sharing and exchanging innovative solutions, experience and best practices for low-emission practices.

Keywords: emissions,driving,awareness campaigns
Exploring the continuum between objects and scenes: The neural basis of object-constellation processing (FromObjectsToScenes)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2022-03-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187572.48
EU funding (EUR): 187572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human visual recognition is remarkably efficient. With just a single glance, we can identify our surroundings as a forest, a street, or an office, or determine whether a specific object contained in the scene is a deer, a car, or a computer. Uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying such fast and accurate recognition has been a core initiative in cognitive neuroscience, such that the structural and functional characteristics of object-selective and scene-selective cortex are now well understood. Yet there is a surprising and substantial gap in our understanding of the intermediate representational space between objects and scenes: One relevant level of visual organisation that has received very little attention to date is the 'object-constellation', defined here as a familiar configuration of objects bearing conceptual relevance to each other (e.g., a fork and knife arranged either side of a plate). Just as the visual system exploits physical regularities in Gestalt-like grouping, we hypothesise that the learned statistical regularities contained in object-constellations give rise to a higher-order perceptual unit, the neural basis of which has yet to be explored. This project will bring advanced neurocognitive methods to bear on the question of how the brain processes familiar object-constellations, using fMRI and MEG to characterise the spatiotemporal profile of object-constellation representation in the human brain. In providing the first systematic investigation of the neural representation of object-constellations, this work will shed new light on the statistical regularities the brain is specialised to exploit, and advance our understanding of the intermediary representational space between single-objects and whole-scenes.

Keywords: scene perception,object perception,fmri,perceptual grouping
Green REcyclable Tanks made of innovative resin rilene (GRETA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed innovation is a multi-layer tank in polyethylene with low environmental impact and produced with RILENE, a special resin coming out from the reuse of plastic waste. The tank can be fully recycled at the end of its life cycle. The technology used to produce the tank is the blowing in co-extrusion which allows obtaining multi-layer materials with specific technical features that cannot be obtained with the technology commonly used for the single-layer. The main innovation consists on the material that composes the tank: RILENE, a resin derived from an accurate selection of plastic waste, from an innovative transformation system and from an original and patented recipe. The innovation will help increase the quantity of plastic waste recycled and re-introduced in the economy. In particular, it will contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions thanks to less quantity of plastic waste treated; fewer emissions on the atmosphere will reduce also risks to health and contribute to enhancing the well-being of society. The introduction in the market of the tank will also address the business opportunity connected to the green marketing, contributing to increasing the turnover of the green industry, creating new jobs and increasing the market share of environmental products. The final users of the innovation will be the green companies that produce building materials (glues, mortars, etc), paints and colours, detergents and hydrocarbons. These users have two primary needs: a) to increase the utilization of green and ecofriendly products, b) to reduce disposal costs. The innovation can help in solving these needs thanks to its green characterization and to the possibility of being recycled and re-used several times. One of the main benefits of the innovation is the competitive selling price. The competitive price depends on the use of at least 70% of RILENE, whose price is on average 30% lower than the price of virgin polymer.

Keywords: recyclable tanks,innovative resin,polyethilene,waste reduction
Synthesis of Spirooxindoles and INdoles pharmaceuticals using Metal-Organic Frameworks (SINMOF)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160800.0
EU funding (EUR): 160800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SINMOF is a pioneering and structured effort to comprehensively address the introduction of different immobilised isolated catalytic active sites in solid hybrid materials to overcome the metal losses occurring with state-of-the-art homogeneous catalysts employed in the pharmaceutical industry. The convenient use of hybrid metal-organic framework materials (MOFs) respect to traditional state-of-the-art porous solid materials is due to (a) self-deactivation-resistant design of the active sites by (b) ultrastable catalytic site isolation. In the SINMOF project we will (1) design novel multifunctional MOFs as next generation catalysts for the synthesis of pharmaceutically active compounds in an economically and environmentally beneficial way; (2) apply MOF hybrid solids as heterogeneous catalysts to avoid the use of homogeneous metal catalysts in novel synthetic strategies of pharmaceuticals with the indole core and finally (3) derive structure-activity and selectivity relationships at the smallest possible length scales and with the highest possible sensitivities employing fluorescence microscopy. Using a two-stage research methodology, SINMOF will finally provide the most active and stable MOF catalyst for the synthesis of the indole-based neurotransmitter Sumatriptan and the anticancerigen spirooxindole SAR405838. The combined expertise of the fellow and host ensures the best chance for successfully completing the SINMOF objectives in a mutually beneficial manner. On one side, internal collaborations at the host institution will allow the access to state-of-the-art fluorescence microscopy methods, to get new insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the novel catalytic systems. On the other side, a secondment at a world-leading research center in the homogeneous catalysis field will train the researcher in order to individuate the best molecular features for model homogeneous catalysts to be translated into selective heterogeneous MOF catalytic system.

Keywords: metal organic framework,heterogeneous catalysis,multifunctional catalyst,multi step organic synthesis,c h activation,hydrogen transfer,green chemistry,pharmaceutical,fluorescence microscopy
INcreasing the InNOVation Management Capacity of SMEs in ISTanbul (INNOVIST 3.0)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 121450.0
EU funding (EUR): 121450.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

INNOVIST 3.0 aims to provide Key Account Management (KAM) services to beneficiaries of Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument, FTI and FET Open; and providing services for “Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity” (EIMC) to SMEs in the Istanbul region. The main objective of the project is to contribute to enhancing the competitiveness, growth and profitability of SMEs in the region by assessing their innovation management capacities, performing gap analyses, and developing and prioritizing actions to resolve problems and further improve their innovation outcomes. The innovation management capacity and performance of a company will be assessed by using tools in compliance with the CEN/TS 16555-1 standard (such as IMP3rove, AToMIC or smE-MPOWER). A total of 55 SMEs will be provided this service, 52 of them targeted for EIMC services (7-10 days long), and 3 reserved for KAM services. The consortium will devote 2,3 FTE for these services for the 2019 period.

Keywords: innovation management,innovation management capacity,assessment tool,sme instrument,key account management,innovation strategy
Next generation variety testing for improved cropping on European farmland (InnoVar)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Ukraine,Italy,Ireland,Italy,Hungary,Poland,Romania,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Lebanon,Denmark,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Innovations in plant variety testing (H2020-SFS-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8044690.0
EU funding (EUR): 7999540.0
Participants: 24
Project status: SIGNED

InnoVar will develop next generation plant variety testing by building tools and models that augment current practices capitalising on advances in genomics, phenomics, imaging technologies and machine learning. The InnoVar database, populated with historical and de novo genotypic, phenotypic and environmental data will facilitate model development and evaluation for revision of DUS and VCU processes. Innovative ways to measure DUS characters will be evaluated. VCU evaluation procedures will be revised and shaped to comprehensively address variability in growing conditions, stresses and management approaches. Processes for identifying optimally-adapted varieties and delivering information to farmers, end-users and stakeholders will be put in place. This will include the creation of the High Performance Low Risk (HPLR) varieties as a concept and a brand potentially leading to harmonisation of VCU testing across the EU. InnoVar will focus on wheat initially, and apply the InnoVar approach to other major crops. Developments and advances achieved will also influence breeding processes. This project will take variety information to the next level in four ways: (i) providing information on new DUS and VCU characters and identifying synergies; (ii) developing varieties with proven suitability for the various growing scenarios; (iii) making this information available to farmers throughout the EU, and (iv) disseminating the information in readily accessible and easily updated digital formats. Cutting-edge science will be integrated with tried and tested DUS and VCU processes to deliver an invigorated EU variety evaluation system capable of delivering increasingly productive and more sustainable cropping to meet the challenges arising from population growth, food security and climate change.

Keywords: variety,sustainability,resilience,resource use efficiency,organic farming,databases,models,machine learning,genomics
An Intersectional Analysis of Ancient Jewish Travel Narratives (ANINAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1368977.0
EU funding (EUR): 1368977.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

ANINAN investigates literary and cultural representations of travel and mobility – the often temporary move of a person from her or his home to another location – in ancient Israelite/Jewish narratives, including selected texts of the Hebrew Bible and other Jewish writings from the Hellenistic and early Roman eras (ca. 300 BCE – 100 CE). The sources, which originate from different parts of the Mediterranean region, are written or preserved in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Ge’ez. The aim is to understand how human mobility was perceived and/or imagined in Jewish antiquity, including its agents, motives, and outcomes. The main objectives are: (1) to produce a series of case-studies that illustrate the portrayal of human mobility and its social confines in Israelite/Jewish literature; and (2) to compare and theorize the cultural representations of travel in an intersectional frame and, as a result, to provide a ground-breaking interpretative framework for the study of mobility in texts from the human past. The selected intersectional approach is novel and specifically unearths questions of power and social stratification that evidently pertain to (in)voluntary forms of mobility, including the individual profile of the traveller and the social realities that prompted, enabled, or compelled her or his travel in the first place. The challenge is that we know nothing about the power dynamics of ancient Israelite/Jewish travel accounts. They are expected to reveal striking intersectional concerns, highlighting the complexity of human phenomena such as mobility. While multiple ‘categories of difference’ characterize the travelling agents, mobility also affects and shapes these categories, e.g., by leading the agent to negotiate, refine, or recreate aspects of her or his identity. The narratives also illustrate encounters between the Israelites/Jews and ‘others’, which results in a new understanding of cultural interaction in the ancient eastern Mediterranean.

Keywords: biblical studies,jewish studies,hebrew bible,second temple judaism,ancient eastern mediterranean,human mobility,travel narratives,intersectionality
FibroFix™ Cartilage, silk-based implant for cartilage repair and regeneration, introducing a new paradigm in osteoarthritis treatment. (FibroFix Cartilage)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3567086.25
EU funding (EUR): 2496960.38
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

FibroFix™ Cartilage, silk-based implant for cartilage repair and regeneration, introducing a new paradigm in osteoarthritis treatment. Cartilage deterioration and injuries often lead to osteoarthritis (OA) – a long-term chronic disease resulting in bones rubbing together and creating pain, stiffness and severe disability. Knee cartilage injuries are very common and almost half of them go on to develop OA, which is second only to heart disease as a cause of work disability. Resulting from decreased quality of life, hospitalizations and loss of productivity, the economic cost of OA is particularly high in every country that it has been estimated. Currently, all treatments available, including Total Knee joint Replacement (TKR) as the ultimate recourse, are inefficient and expensive: they involve pain, lengthy rehabilitation, frequent complications and high costs. Therefore, given the increasing prevalence of knee OA, its associated burdens and the drawbacks of all available treatments, it is becoming increasingly important to develop an innovative cost-effective solution to this major public health problem worldwide. FibroFix™ Cartilage is a well characterised, regenerative orthopaedic repair product to address the unmet and pressing clinical need of large and/or osteoarthritic articular cartilage lesions in the knee, developed by Orthox. It is biostable, biocompatible, emulates cartilage function and supports cartilage regeneration at the minimum cost effectiveness ratio. It allows resurfacing of large and/or potentially OA cartilage lesions, prolonged use of the joint, increased mobility, reduced pain and postponement or prevention of TKR. Smooth, robust, resilient, durable and lubricious, it is a unique combination to be applied in orthopaedics and biomaterials shifting the paradigm in knee OA treatment and up to 10 times less expensive than other solutions.

Keywords: cartilage repair,osteoarthritis,silk,knee injury,tissue regenerative
Cultural ecosystem services of post-mining sites: socio-economic rehabilitation after quarrying (cesmine)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2024-09-26
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The number of active quarries is increasing annually in densely populated Europe. However, their rehabilitation into post-mining landscapes proceeds with little regard for socio-economic and socio-ecological provision for the European residents. There is still practically no research tracking visitor numbers in post-mining sites and exploring the way how they use of the site and perceive it. The project addresses these issues with the aim to conceptualize and analyse the complexity of socio-economic rehabilitation after quarrying. The project analyses the preferences of social network users for post-mining sites and the real use of the sites by the residents and by external visitors in three European countries. This is framed by the real socio-economic conditions revealed directly in the mining regions. The project combines quantitative and qualitative methods, using novel techniques such as social networks analyses, public participation GIS, and spatially explicit indicators of cultural ecosystem services. This multidisciplinary framework is applied in a comparisons of different sites and countries. Understanding the complexity of socio-economic rehabilitation after quarrying will make a significant contribution to the theory and practice of quarry closure in order to establish positive post-closure legacies in European mining regions. Moreover, involving an industry partner and the development of practical measures through which the industry can drive positive outcomes of socio-economic rehabilitation after quarrying can benefit quarry industry in sustainable planning of quarry restoration and post-mining management. With regard to the innovative character of the action and the global importance of the addressed problem, the project can significantly contribute to Europe's competitiveness and attractiveness in R&I. The project is designed as a response to the goals of the EU Raw Materials Initiative and the European Landscape Convention.

Keywords: mining industry,non material benefits,restoration,social spatial data,image based analysis,citizen science