Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Graphene based lubrication monitoring, lowering costs, improving ecology (LubeMonitor)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Railways, road transport vehicles, wind turbines, manufacturing plants, all need targeted, adequate lubrication in order to function. At the same time, we are striving for greater protection of the environment. There is a push for ever greater efficiency, a move towards ecological products. Igralub and Graphenica lab are joining forces to develop a new field of products. Products that can sense the quality of the lubrication film from within. To do this, we want to apply the unique sensing properties of Graphene to the Tribology field. Our aim is to reduce the quantity of and reliance on oil based lubrication, to assist in the move to ecological lubricants. We want to drive a real breakthrough for lubrication. The market is vast with us targeting initial sales in the railway sector of 6M€ after 4 years from Market entry and increased employment across our joint venture of at least 12 additional employees by 2025. We propose an SME Instrument phase 1 project to assist us with a client-side pilot for the technology, as well as increased research regarding needed stakeholders and our overall business planning.

Keywords: tribology,european rail traffic management system ertms,biolubrication
Optimizing Logistic Fleets with Machine Learning to Enable Sustainable On-Demand Deliveries in Cities (Airmee)

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

Two thirds of transportation take place in cities and is expected to grow dynamically over the coming years mainly due to e-commerce and an increasing demand for faster and more convenient deliveries. However, current methods to allocate deliveries among couriers and optimize them are slow, inefficient and often manual, leading to low utilization rates of vehicles and high costs. Airmee is an SaaS logistics platform that optimizes logistics fleets based on proprietary algorithms and consolidates by assigning the most suitable courier according to various parameters. We will use the SME funding to complete a Feasibility Study in Phase 1 to prepare for Phase 2 that will help us grow from our current TRL6 to reach TRL9. Airmiz AB is a logistics startup founded by the entrepreneur Julian Lee (CEO) and the researcher at KTH in transport and logistics Adrian Prelipcean (CTO). The organization further consists of Fredrik Grahn (sales), Henrik Myhrvold (operations), Daniel Lee (operations), Daniele Tatasciore (front-end development), Tibor Fulup (front-end development) and Evgheni Gherghelejiu (mobile dev). We license the Airmee platform to companies with their own logistics fleet and the fee per delivery. The total obtainable serviceable market is, at the moment, Sweden , where the e-commerce market is over €5B which corresponds to 50M deliveries valued at €250M. Our competitors consist of optimization software that are limited in speed and flexibility, larger logistics providers that lack both the operations and technology to perform on-demand deliveries, and delivery startups that lack the technology to do the required optimizations. Airmee can optimize 500k deliveries (from different points within a city) per hour. Airmee reduces congestion and pollution in cities by maximizing each courier’s capacity by enabling them to perform as many deliveries as possible per hour. Furthermore, it allows logistics providers to improve their margins.

Keywords: last mile,delivery,courier
Collaborative Intelligence for Safety Critical systems (CISC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Ireland,Austria,Ireland,Italy,Belgium,Serbia,Serbia,Denmark
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3605548.32
EU funding (EUR): 3605548.32
Participants: 13
Project status: SIGNED

The European Commission "The European Commission’s guidelines on ethics in artificial intelligence" (AI), published in April 2019, recognised the importance of a 'human-centric' approach to AI that is respectful of European values. Dedicated training schemes to prepare for the integration of ‘human-centric’ AI into European innovation and industry are now needed. AIs should be able to collaborate with (rather than replace) humans. Safety critical applications of AI technology are ‘human-in-the-loop’ scenarios, where AI and humans work together, as manufacturing processes, IoT systems, and critical infrastructures. The concept of Collaborative Intelligence is essential in these scenarios. The CISC EID will nurture and train 14 world class-leading Collaborative Intelligence Scientists for safety critical situations and provide a blue-print for postgraduate training in this area. The development of Collaborative Intelligence systems requires an interdisciplinary skill set blending expertise across AI, Human Factors, Neuroergonomics and System Safety Engineering. This inter-disciplinary skill-set is not catered for in traditional training courses at any level. The CISC training programme will develop Collaborative Intelligence Scientists with the expertise and skill set necessary to carry-out the major tasks required to develop a Collaborative Intelligence system: (1) Modelling the dynamics of system behaviours for the production processes, IoT systems, and critical infrastructures (System Safety Engineering); (2) Designing and implementing processes capable of monitoring interactions between automated systems and the humans destined to use them (Human Factors/Neuroergonomics); (3) Using data analytics and AI to create novel human-in-the-loop automation paradigms to support decision making and/or anticipate critical scenarios; and, (4) Managing the Legal and Ethical implications in the use of physiology-recording wearable sensors and human performance data in AI algorithms.

Keywords: collaborative intelligence,artificial intelligence,safety critical systems,human in the loop scenarios,automation,risk absed decision making,monitoring,data management,ethics
Feasibility study for URBAN PROTECTION AVIATION COPTER S-100 (UPAC S-100)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Critical infrastructure protection topic 7: SME instrument topic: “Protection of Urban soft targets and urban critical infrastructures” (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

SCHIEBEL will develop a new unmanned aerial system (UAS) for civil market applications including urban security which will be more cost-effective, reliable and versatile than current solutions. Currently air authorities worldwide are formulating the conditions to be able to operate UAS in the civil airspace, opening a myriad of new market opportunities. With its long-term experience and leadership in the UAS market and its cooperation with regulatory authorities, SCHIEBEL is expected to be the first company to operate in the category of professional UAS, a global market which is expected to reach a volume of 700 million USD in the next five years. SCHIEBEL’s UPAC S-100 will revolutionize disaster relief, protection and surveillance of critical infrastructure and other areas in urban environments, such as: - Supporting first responders in monitoring disaster areas (e.g., the fire brigade in locating a fire, where people are exiting or how to get around the problem area) - Instantly creating a temporary mobile phone network in only 30 minutes, dropping leaflets and talking to people via loudspeakers in case of destroyed infrastructure - Entering contaminated areas (too risky for manned assets) and identifying (through sensors) biological/chemical hazard leaks - Fast and flexible response to criminal acts (including terrorism) - Inspections/maintenance of critical infrastructures, e.g. power lines and pipelines - Improving coast guard activities, maritime emergency response and border control The Feasibility Assessment will define the regulatory requirements, the business case, the necessary technical developments and the changes needed within SCHIEBEL’s organization. It will define precisely the market potential in terms of geographical areas, type of clients, potential revenues and market size, establishing a roadmap with clear priorities, actions and targets.

Keywords: urban soft targets,urban critical infrastructures,unmanned vehicles,unmanned aerial system
Armenia Entangled: Connectivity and Cultural Encounters in Medieval Eurasia (ArmEn)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Germany,Italy
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999994.0
EU funding (EUR): 1844459.71
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

ArmEn seeks to establish a new framework for studying the southern Caucasus, eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia (CAM) as a space of cultural entanglements between the 9th to 14th centuries. It argues that this region is key to understanding the history of medieval Eurasia but has so far been completely neglected by the burgeoning field of Global Middle Ages. The CAM was on the crossroads of expanding Eurasian empires and population movements, but was removed from major hubs of power. Poly-centrism; political, ethno-linguistic, and religious heterogeneity; frequently shifting hegemonic hierarchies were key aspects of its, nevertheless, inter-connected landscape. This fluidity and complexity left its mark on the cultural products – textual and material – created in the CAM. ArmEn aims to trace shared features in the multi-lingual textual and artistic production of CAM and correlate them to the circulation of ideas and concepts, as well as to real-life interactions, between multiple groups, identifying the locations and agents of entanglements. The large but under-utilised body of Armenian sources to be explored together with those in Arabic, Georgian, Greek, Persian, Syriac, and Turkish, will illuminate cultural entanglements between Muslim and Christian Arabs, Byzantines, Syriac Christians, Georgians, Caucasian Albanians, Turko-Muslim dynasties, Kurds, Iranians, Western Europeans, and Mongols, that inhabited, conquered, or passed through and produced cultural goods in CAM. Evidence from manuscript illuminations and numismatics will provide a material cultural dimension to the analysis. ArmEn will create a trans-cultural vision of the CAM, bridging area studies into a unifying framework, bringing together various disciplinary approaches (philology, literary criticism, religious studies, art history, numismatics, etc.), to build a narrative synthesis in which the dynamics of cross-cultural entanglements in the CAM emerge in their spatial and temporal dimensions.

Keywords: armenian sources,medieval southern caucasus,eastern anatolia,northern mesopotamia,christian muslim dynamics
Energy Data Management system to support the smart grid (PowerData)

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: 2018-08-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The smart grid is only as smart as the information it gathers and assimilates. To advance in the efficiency of the energy sector, there is an enormous demand from the Energy industry associated to the amount of data and speed of processing. HAKOM is, in some highly specialized segments of Energy Data Management (EDM), the unrivalled market leader in Austria and a successful player in Germany. Since 1991 our company has developed innovative and productive software solutions for the liberalized energy. Over the last two years HAKOM has developed the most advanced data ingestion and storage solution to accommodate the challenges rising in the energy sector: PowerData. PowerData is a uniform, integrated EDM system, which serves as basic technology for all four areas of the energy industry's value chain (network, distribution, trading and production). PowerData is a system to gather, visualize and storage energy data. With PowerData, Hakom has achieved unprecedented processing speed (incremented by 30%) and 80% reduction in the storage requirements to accommodate exponential data growth. Direct impacts in the energy sector enabled by PowerData include, amongst many others: 1) increased amount of intermittent renewable energy the power grid can handle. 2) Deployment of innovative programs that allow customers to better control their electric usage while simultaneously reducing peak demand across the utilities’ grid. For our direct customers -software vendors- PowerData provides 85% reduction of up front cost and radical decrease of the complexity of work. It results in a shorter time-to-market and higher return of investment of the software solutions energy companies require to increase the efficiency of the energy sector. The next stage of the PowerData project will build the capabilities of HAKOM to continue its strategy of taking up new trends at an early stage and, expand its technology leadership through a market approach designed for rapid escalation.

Keywords: energy efficiency,smart grid,renewable energy,smart meters,energy data management
Migrant integration governance in CEE cities post 2015 (MigIntegrEast)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Poland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149625.6
EU funding (EUR): 149625.6
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This research project aims to access a novel form of governance of migration emerged in Central and Eastern European (CEE) cities in the post-2015 context. The governance of integration of immigrants. It mobilizes a wide range of sometimes adversative responses from state and non-state actors at supranational, national, and local levels. In light of the 2015 crisis of humanitarian protection of refugees in Europe, it is critical to understand what drives these different responses. By focusing specifically on cities in CEE, the research goal of MigIntegrEast is to identify the role of macro-, meso-, and micro-level factors and processes, in the governance of integration of immigrants in the post-2015 context. MigIntegrEast asks: what are the roles of (1) supranational and state-level factors (e.g. statehood history, civil society history, migration history and patterns), (2) local-level factors (e.g. city migration history, city population size, city foreign-born population, local administration structure, current local administration political representation, NGOs, movement, local communities) and (3) individual-level characteristics (such as the social and cultural capital of members of the local administration, NGOs, grassroots groups, local communities) in immigrant integration governance by state- (local administration) and non-state actors (e.g. NGOs, grassroots groups, migrant groups) in CEE cities? Integration governance will be analyzed in four Polish and two Hungarian cities selected based on congruence and incongruence with the national policies.

Keywords: migrant integration,integration governance in cities,refugee crisis 2015,local integration
EU Externalization of Migration and Border Management to Libya: the Role of Non-Governmental Organizations and Human Rights Implications (LIBORG)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-03
End date: 2021-05-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

LIBORG aims at exploring, from the perspective of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in migration-related activities, the reconfiguration of the Libyan migration and border regime since Gadhafi’s fall in 2011. Libya is a point of departure of migrants heading for Europe on makeshift boats. Italy (as the landing country) and the EU have long been trying to include Libya in the process of externalization, which aims to support countries of origin and transit in their efforts to stem unwanted migration. A crucial role in this process is played by international organizations (IOs) and other non-state actors, which: a) directly carry out activities in countries of origin and transit (e.g. refugee protection, repatriations, assistance to detained people, livelihood projects and information campaigns aimed at reducing migration); b) provide local state authorities with know-how and technical support. While a growing body of research has started analyzing this process, scant attention has been paid to Libya (as opposed to other countries) and to the role played by NGOs (as opposed to that played by IOs). Gadhafi’s fall allowed for many international NGOs to start activities in Libya, and for many Libyan NGOs to be established. Despite Libya’s political instability, their activities have increased sharply, along with the increase in funding from EU and Italy, since 2017. In 2017 and 2018, extraordinary funding was made available by EU and Italy to IOs, which typically subcontract part of their activities to NGOs. In 2018, six Italian NGOs started working in Libyan detention centres under a scheme funded by the Italian government. LIBORG will, first, map the different NGOs operating in this field. Then, it will analyze their mandates and activities, as well as the relevant funding sources, and the relations they have to one another as well as to state authorities and IOs. Finally, it will assess the relationship between externalization, NGOs and human rights.

Keywords: migration management,border management,externalization,italy,european union,north africa,libya,ngos,humanitarianism,human rights
Role of mechanical forces in cell-matrix adhesion sites (MechanoGenetic)

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: Greece
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 153085.44
EU funding (EUR): 153085.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cells in our bodies constantly experience mechanical forces from their microenvironment. When cells sense a critical threshold of elevated tension, they hold tight together and allow tissues to function healthily as a group. In certain diseases, however, our cells lose their mechanosensing and adhesive properties and, as a result they get dissociated, as in the case of muscular dystrophies. Integrin-based adhesions to the extracellular matrix (ECM) are emerging as key networks of mechanotransmission. This proposal aims to discover how mechanical forces modulate cell-matrix adhesion at the myotendinous junctions in the developing Drosophila embryo, combining biophysical, molecular and genetic approaches. To achieve this goal, I propose to implement two complementary specific objectives: First, I will identify and quantify the relationship between forces and adhesion strength in mutants affecting either integrin-ECM binding or muscle contractility by utilizing in vivo laser ablation and magnetic tweezers. Second, I will examine whether and how IPP complex -a core module of the integrin adhesome- alters the molecular forces transmitted across Talin, which is a major mechanosensor at integrin junctions, utilizing suitable FRET-based biosensors. Collectively, this interdisciplinary research will provide a novel mechanical framework of how cells integrate forces and maintain tissue integrity in the living organism. Given the striking similarities in the molecular organisation of the myotendinous junctions between fly and human, the outcome of this work will provide a deeper understanding of how we can better combat dystrophic diseases.

Keywords: mechanotransduction,integrins,cell adhesion,cytoskeleton,flim,fret,muscle,drosophila,myopathies,magnetic tweezers