Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
An intelligent exercise machine for measurable and motivational neuro-muscular rehabilitation therapy (Enjoint)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Annually 8.45 million of European citizens (~13% EU population) require some form of rehabilitation, and the number is expected to increase due to the aging, the proliferation of diseases and accidents. Current rehabilitation devices fail to guarantee an effective therapy because of the lack of tailored training according to the patient needs, a therapist is required for each patient leading to long waiting lists, low self-training compliance, and the lack of precise data about patient’s evolution. At Robofit ApS (2013, Denmark) we have been working on the new therapy generation: Enjoint. It is a novel intelligent exercise machine for neuro-muscular therapy, that using Big Data and Cloud Connection, provides precise data about patient progress while adjusting the rehabilitation training according to the patient injury and progress. Furthermore, it increases the compliance of the rehabilitation program though self-motivation of the patients thanks its constant feedback. Enjoint current prototype is a fully functional device (hardware, software running on iOS, and cloud connection) optimized for neuro-muscular rehabilitation of shoulder joint and surrounding muscles. It has proved to reduce €132/patient per session, save €25,781/patient by reducing sickness period benefit, and to improve an 87.5% patient’s compliance to the rehabilitation. We expect to internationalise our customer base entering by 2021 onwards across Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the UK and France. Expected gross profits after 3 years of commercial exploitation are estimated at €8.35 Million, serving more than 1,100 clinics across Europe. Successful implementation of this expansion project will result in growth of our company by up to 10 employees.

Keywords: neuro muscular rehabilitation,self training,physical therapy,feedback,intelligent software,mobility rehabilitation
Business and IT-Cloud Alignment using a Smart Socket (CloudSocket)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Germany,Italy,Italy,Austria,Switzerland,Romania,Greece
Call: Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2017-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4084850.0
EU funding (EUR): 3548596.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Business and IT Alignment is important challenge, as we are facing a dramatic change in the way we rely, depend and interact with ICT that influences our everyday life. Although “digital natives” will soon enter the workforce, there is still a huge gap between the business domain and ICT domain in terms of awareness, common understanding or expertise. This hampers the take-off of technology such as Cloud Computing. Hence, we are facing a competition, between global-market players who quicker succeed in changing business into the Cloud to raise ICT efficiency and reduce costs. This is particularly true for SMEs that have started to embrace virtualisation or at best IaaS offers but the exploding and dynamic market of components available on the PaaS or SaaS level demands for expertise and time typically not available at SMEs. Business processes are commodity when defining business activities in human understandable way in form of “sequences of manual, semi-automatic or automated tasks with the aim to achieve the company’s goal”. Previous work in plugIT mapped business processes on static ICT configurations available at a company’s site, assuming ICT is still mainly configured on platform or component level. CloudSocket envisions the idea of “Business Process as a Service”, where domain-specific business processes like employee registration at social insurance, tax report, or legal verification are supported by workflows that optimally match the ICT support for the selected process. The ICT support is expected to be realized by available platforms or software components from PaaS or SaaS platforms. CloudSocket introduces the concept BPaaS that fulfills the business process needs thanks to smart alignment techniques, packages this BPaaS as “extended Cloudlets” that are autonomously deployable and include adaptive rules to appropriately react in a multi-cloud environment by keeping SLAs and process-based billing. Hence, the vision is to “plug business” into the “Cloud”.

Keywords: business process as a service bpaas,business and it alignment
Sustainable Energy Investing and Financing Activation (SEIFA)

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: Germany,Italy,Estonia,Bulgaria,Lithuania,Croatia,Lithuania,Poland,Slovakia,Latvia,Luxembourg
Call: Financing for energy efficiency investments - Smart Finance for Smart Buildings (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499841.25
EU funding (EUR): 1499841.25
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The project of the Sustainable Energy Investing and Financing Activation (SEIFA) will create incentives to increase private equity investing for the industrial decarbonisation of the built environment. The SEIFA project is focusing on investing and financing of deep renovation industrial projects, energy supply facilities and energy service companies. The investors-first approach will be held with an emphasis on the environmental impact in terms of decarbonisation rate and risk-adjusted rate of return. The new financial schemes to incentivise private individual and institutional investments to sustainable energy projects will be established. Innovative financing schemes will include sustainable energy investing risks metrics and benefits. The network of regional/national project aggregators will be established. Investment pooling and proposed investment vehicles will let achieve lower transaction costs. The financial software tools will be provided for the energy efficiency measurement, quantification and evaluation of additional benefits of sustainable energy investing including decarbonisation rate, increased asset value, impact on investor reputation, and for investment rating and ranking. The detailed methodology of the sustainable energy investment securitisation and detailed roadmap for the secondary market for sustainable energy investing will be created. Initial milestones of the secondary market for sustainable energy investing will be accomplished during the project duration. The planned project duration is 30 months. At least 500 million Eur for sustainable energy projects will be provided during the SEIFA project duration and it is expected that 5 billion Eur mark will be reached during the 5 years after the project completion. The SEIFA project platform will greatly increase the attractiveness for the financial sector to sustainable energy investing across Europe and beyond.

Keywords: financing,investing,data,sustainability,energy,efficiency,decarbonisation,industry,environment
Kant in South America (KANTINSA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany,Argentina,Italy,United Kingdom,Portugal,Brazil
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 738000.0
EU funding (EUR): 544500.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

A consortium of 4 EU Universities and 4 Southern American (SA) academic institutions analyze critically the development of Kant scholarship in Southern America in the last 15 years, following the booming of Kant studies in that continent over that period and the exponential increase of its quality. Top SA Kant scholars are enrolled in the project that promises to enlarge greatly the competence of EU colleagues and in turn profit from their feedback. Early stage researchers from both ends also take part to the exchange. The consortium builds on a web of established relations of most of the participants, at the personal and institutional level.

Keywords: epistemology,ethics,political philosophy
Development of a monitoring system for inspection of soil and aquifer contamination by shalegas and fracking chemicals (ShaleSafe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Croatia,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2990102.5
EU funding (EUR): 2620143.25
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

In the United States, shale gas rose from less than 1% of domestic gas production in 2000 to over 20% by 2010. It is projected that it will account for 46% of United States gas supply by 2035. It has revolutionized the US economy by creating 600,000 direct and indirect jobs and contributed $49 billion annually to government revenues. With only a handful of well rigs (72 in Europe compared to over 2000 in the US as of 2012); Europe is 8-10 years behind the USA. The most imminent challenge for oil and gas industry in Europe (and the rest of the world) is therefore being able to demonstrate/guarantee safe exploration and extraction techniques in order to address the associated environmental concerns. The ideal way to do this will be by continuously monitoring environmental conditions and effects (including in the long term) of the underground soil and water in-situ during exploration to be able to effectively mitigate for the soil and aquifer contamination by methane gas and fracking chemicals in the possible event that they occur. With reports in the U.S. of cases where mistakes were made, this is a possibility. This problem has led to a fragmented political landscape regarding shale gas, with Poland being a main backer; the U.K., Lithuania and Romania moving cautiously ahead and others being hesitant. Currently, soil and water inspection is done by testing samples in the lab which is expensive and time consuming. In the FP7 SOIMON project, a soil monitoring system embedded in a sonic drilling pipe has been developed and tested in the field. The system allows soil monitoring while drilling a hole in the soil. This system, used in ShaleSafe, allows monitoring of the soil and groundwater above the shale gas reservoir and around the shale gas well by performing monitoring in hydrogeological wells. This method is quick, cost effective and allows for long term monitoring.

Keywords: monitoring,vibrations,sensors,shale gas,methane,fracking chemicals,oil and gas,drilling
Using a suture zone to gain direct insight into the community-wide impacts of climate change (COMMTACT)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

COMMTACT is a novel, interdisciplinary research project that will bridge fundamental gaps in our knowledge about how species and communities are impacted by changing climates. Given the threats posed to natural ecosystems and their biodiversity, defining and predicting the impacts of anthropogenic climate change is a top priority of conservation and management organizations in the European Union and worldwide. By providing a platform for integrating the skillsets of the researcher (S. Stankowski) and supervisor (B. Emerson), COMMTACT will take a highly innovative, interdisciplinary approach to this problem. From a scientific perspective, the aim of the action is to provide detailed, community-wide insight into the genomic, demographic, spatial and temporal impacts of an altered climatic regime that can be used to predict future impacts of climate change. This will be achieved by combining a powerful natural climate change experiment on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) with an integrative work plan consisting of (i) community wide-genomic datasets, (ii) spatially-explicit modeling and analyses, and (iii) laboratory experiments. Through these methods, the action will address several untested hypotheses about how different biological factors influence species sensitivity to climate change. The results will contribute to a general understanding of how climate shapes species diversity and distributions, and will inform efforts to predict, mitigate and manage its negative effects.

Keywords: species distributions,speciation,biogeography,range changes,dispersal,climatic resilience
A new generation of LED luminaries for Human Centric Lighting Applications (WEL-LED-BEING)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human Centric Lighting (HCL) is lighting designed to benefit human health and well-being thanks to properly tuned colour temperatures that can foster desirable conditions throughout a 24-hour period. HCL is set to be a key market driver of the overall LED lighting industry. LED technology enables the production of different white light qualities with the highest possible colour rendering index (CRI) value. However current LED solutions in the market have not been optimised for its application in the HCL sector. The increasing attention that the society is paying to the added-value of lighting systems in terms of health, work productivity and well-being has not been exploited yet and represents a huge business opportunity valued in more than €1 billion (2020, Europe). We are Lumitech, an Austrian SME specialised in the development of LED technologies with high spectral quality and efficiency. The core of our solutions relies on the unique characteristics of our patented PI-LED® technology, which produces a light with very high colour fidelity and rendering quality. Our PI-LED® technology consists of LED modules that combine blue, red and mint white light, and are able to cover the full spectra of colour temperatures, outperforming current solutions in the market mostly based in tunable white light. The WEL-LED-BEING project will allow us to bring to the market a new family of LED luminaries that are optimised to fulfil the specific requirements of the HCL market thus exploiting its potential and maximising our business opportunity. With the WEL-LED-BEING project, we pursue the objective of becoming the reference European company in the HCL sector. Our financial forecast show that in 2023, we will have a market share of 10% with sales surpassing the €34 million and the WEL-LED-BEING products account for 30% of the total revenues. This project will allow us to create up to 20 news positions so Lumitech will have a total staff of 65.

Keywords: human centric lighting,luminaires,led technology,control units
Drugs targets in sympathetic neurons controlling adiposity. (FATarget)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-06-03
End date: 2021-06-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Obesity is a metabolic disorder with unmet medical need for which a pharmacotherapy is urgently needed. The Domingos lab has recently discovered that sympathetic (SNS) neuro-adipose junctions mediate lipolysis and fat mass reduction (Pirzgalska, R.M., Cell, 2015).Thus direct and targeted activation of sympathetic inputs to adipose tissues could represent a new strategy for the induction of fat loss. Our main objective is to identify drug targets in SNS neurons innervating fat, which are suitable for an anti-obesity therapy. To achieve this, we will use technologies such as Translational Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP) for translational profiling of neurons innervating fat. We will differentially screen for molecular targets that are enriched in SNS neurons in fat. We will validate target expression in human SNS tissues. This project will identify neuro-excitatory drug targets in sympathetic inputs to adipose tissues, and may lead the development of pharmacotherapies which would circumvent side effects.

Keywords: obesity,sympathetic nervous system,translating ribosome affinity purification trap
Cartilage Healing Approach Merging Polymer InnOvation with Nature (CHAMPION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3121700.0
EU funding (EUR): 2185190.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Cartilage injury afflicts over one million patients annually in Europe. Focal knee cartilage defects are as painful and limiting as osteoarthritis and can lead further degradation requiring total knee replacement surgery. Focal knee cartilage injuries are typically treated by bone marrow stimulation (Microfracture) which has limited benefit due to a high failure rate, poor longterm outcome and frequent required re-interventions. Alternative therapeutic products in the form of cellular/biologicals treatments have failed due to complexity and multiple surgery risks. With the promise of cell-based procedures not realized, the pursuit of an optimal treatment for symptomatic articular cartilage defects in the knee joint remains elusive. GelrinC is a simple, off-the-shelf treatment for focal injuries in the knee cartilage. It is a ready-to-use liquid cured in-situ by ultraviolet light to form a resorbable implant conforming to the shape and depth of the defect. Unlike other acellular implants, GelrinC was designed to support the formation of hyaline cartilage through a unique Mode-of-Action: Formation of a cell barrier thus preventing migration of undesired cells into the defect. At the same time, GelrinC harnesses the established prochondrogenic potential of polyethylene glycol, its major component, to provide the right microenvironment for the body’s own stem cells to differentiate into chondrocytes. Due to the presence of the denatured human fibrinogen in GelrinC, the implant resorbs from the outside inwards and thus is gradually replaced with new hyaline-like cartilage in a synchronized process. GelrinC gained a CE mark in 2017 and it is regulatory ready for commercialization in Europe. The next steps allowing quick, successful market entrance are optimizing the production process, completing a phase III clinical trials; and creating commercialization channels including centres of excellence in Europe.

Keywords: gelrinc,cartilage repair,clinical study,implant,knee
Very High Energy Electrons for RadioTherapy (VHERAPY) (VHERAPY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Israel
Call: Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2020-PoC, 2020)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Very High Energy Electrons (VHEE) as those produced by compact laser plasma accelerators are ideal candidate in radiotherapy (RT). The corresponding dose distribution of the already produced low divergence and quasi-monoenergetic electron beam portends significant potential to treat deep tissue tumors, due to VHEE’s narrow radial dose deposition profile and long penetration distance. Our technological breakthrough is creating VHEE beam suitable for radiation therapy with a single laser and in relatively small space. Therefore, we expect our discovery to enable smaller, simpler and cheaper RT machinery with superior therapy performance. This will bring added value to RT device manufacturers and operators. Our approach substantially reduces the size of the acceleration complex leading to significantly smaller footprint, and investments in such facilities. We also enable increasing patient throughput while facilitating lower radiation protection requirements. The approach is safer for patients – for instance, our numerical studies of dose deposition in cases of prostate cancer indicate that VHEE reduces 20% of the ionizing radiation in healthy tissues. Moreover, obesity makes cancer treatment more difficult and adverse side effects more common, for which VHEE-RT represents an efficient and economically pertinent solution. In addition to increasing the technology maturity in this PoC, we will study and prepare commercialization plans of the approach and variety of VHEE-RT components. Moreover, we will carry out IP protection and networking tasks with collaborators, potential customers and investors for improving our chances of commercialization success.

Keywords: laser plasma accelerators,plasmas,laser,radiotherapy