Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Smart solution for connecting process with material characteristics to achieve new generation of digital materials for the automotive industry. (DigiMAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Portugal
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496457.56
EU funding (EUR): 1161861.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the project is to develop a Smart solution for connecting process and material characteristics to achieve a new generation of digital materials in the automotive industry demonstrated by developing a new brake system with an anchor at least 12.5 % lighter and a housing with 10% improved machinability. The new developed solution will reach in next five years to the 35% of the European iron foundry market, 10% of the Worldwide level iron foundry market. A new smart data management module “DigiMAT module” will be developed by one SME specialized in ICT solutions. Its development will be supported by a sensor network and an advanced data management system already running in the iron foundry company. This smart module will consist on a specific algorithm for each digital material development combined with an automatic protocol definitions system that will conform a specific methodology. It will acquire, store, process and analyze data coming from a previously defined set of trials. . Its validation will be completed with the homologation of new digital materials by the TIER 1 company and by their introduction in the foundry company portfolio. In parallel the TIER 1 company will develop a lighter anchor based on the developed high yield material. This lighter anchor integrated into a new brake system will be functionally homologated by the TIER 1 and final user (OEM). Finally, partners will commonly develop a business plan for quick take up of the project results. Digital materials can have a wide impact in industry and society. First stage will report significant business opportunities to ICT companies and increase turnover of Tier 1 in the brake area of the automotive sector(+30%). The potential application to all type of material can render in significant global weight reduction in transport media and more sustainable development of industrial processes.

Keywords: digital materials,digital architecture,ict solutions,brake system,smart data management,improved machinability,lighter components,manufacturing costs reduction,weight reduction
Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs by the Enterprise Europe Network in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in 2017 -2018 (InnoMan.NRW_3)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany,Germany
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 480000.0
EU funding (EUR): 480000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This project is to be understood as an integrated component of the Enterprise Europe Network activities in North Rhine-Westphalia for the years 2017 -2018. For this period ZENIT will undertake - as part of the future NRW.Europa project - the additional task of "Enhancing the innovation manangement capacities of SMEs". This task consists of two service packages pre-defined by the European Commission / EASME and foreseen for a limited number of enterprises: 1. Beneficiaries of the SME Instrument of Horizon 2020 (Key Account Management, KAM) 2. SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalization (promising SMEs with gaps in the innovation management systems). Whereas the first action is reserved for beneficiaries of the new SME instrument with a dedicated coaching scheme, the second is targeted at highly promising innovative enterprises, which will be assisted with a two-step support scheme: 1. Recording, analysis and evaluation of the individual status quo and of fundamental requirements and possibilities as well as of the threats and risks of the participating enterprises (analysis of needs and gaps, SWOT analysis). 2. Development and implementation of individual concepts, measures, and activities (action and / or coaching plan). ZENIT considers a combination of self-assessment and interview with a senior consultant to be the most effective solution for the first stage and to fulfil the requirements of CEN / TS 16555-1 (innovation management system). The ZENIT Self Assessment tool will be used as priority, other tools like IMP³rove, Steinbeis or N-Bank will be introduced to meet specific needs of SMEs.

Keywords: two consultancy services for smes a key account management for smes participating at the,sme instrument,b innovation management for promising smes with european added value
Continuity and Change in Turkey’s Diasporic Landscapes: New Waves, Actors and Institutions (Case Studies: United Kingdom and Germany) (DIASPORALANDS)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

DIASPORALANDS investigates the continuities and changes in Turkey’s diasporic landscapes during the last decade, which coincides with the democratic decline and regime change in Turkey. By using Turkey’s diaspora communities in the United Kingdom and in Germany as case studies, it investigates how the authoritarian drift in the homeland affects diaspora spaces and how host countries respond to authoritarian states’ engagement with their diasporas in their territory. It proposes a novel methodology which combines qualitative and quantitative methods, bringing together bottom-up voices with top-down narratives in order to present a comprehensive picture of the triadic relationship between Turkey, its diasporas and the host countries. It focuses not only on elite-level political processes but also on domestic transformations and their transnational impact on the everyday lives of diaspora communities in Europe, thus revealing visible and invisible effects of transnational authoritarianism on diasporic landscapes. DIASPORALANDS is interdisciplinary and draws on theoretical frameworks from various fields including political science, international relations, sociology and migration studies. The specific focus combines discussions on diaspora studies, foreign policy analysis, democratic decline, the international relations of authoritarian regimes as well as multiculturalism and opportunity structures in host countries. It aims to significantly advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of diaspora politics in Europe with its comprehensive approach and methodological innovation. The novelty of the project comes from the application of a mixed methods strategy, which has not been previously used to study the recent waves of migration and diasporic landscapes of Turkey after the coup attempt in 2016.

Keywords: turkey,diaspora,authoritarianism,transnationalism,germany,united kingdom,transnational repression
Analog/Mixed Signal Back End Design Automation based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Techniques (AMBEATion)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Armenia,Italy,Italy,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 257600.0
EU funding (EUR): 257600.0
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

In the field of the Electronic Integrated circuit design, the analog-mixed-signal (AMS) physical design of all analog blocks and of whole integrated circuits (IC) based on the Analog-on-Top approach still uses a handmade flow. The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry has been working since several years in the application of techniques to make better design and verification tools ranging from synthesis to place & route, timing analysis, analog design and circuit simulations. The AMBEATion consortium will utilize a holistic approach which applies these enhanced tools to categories of designs (i.e. Smart Systems) and drives them through “scriptware” and methodologies which will further enhance the productivity of designers in the design automation of these complex low power devices. Essential strategy of the ambitious multidisciplinary program is the Transfer of Knowledge between the partners and the training of a focused team of researchers on the algorithm developments and their application to the industrial state of the art AMS Back End design flow. The main outcomes of this AMBEATion project will be: i) highly increase designers’ productivity in the area of mixed signal designs (primarily AMS Backend) addressing the needs of industrial users, ii) possibly reduce the silicon products costs as a consequence increase the European industry competitiveness, iii) provide the academies with new advanced training topics aligned with high tech employer’s needs, iv) set the basis of a long lasting technical partnership between European research and design centers.

Keywords: analog,mixed signal,back end design,integrated circuit,design automation,electronic design automation,computer aided design,artificial intelligence,machine learning,data mining
Bringing a new life to industrial waste in construction applications (HONEXT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1703906.25
EU funding (EUR): 1192734.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

MDF is used in large quantities by the construction industries, 2.5 million m3in 2015, but it is currently unrecyclable. We at Biprocel have developed an eco-sustainable, functional and design material, called EcoMDF that can be used as a direct substitute for MDF in construction. It is made from cellulosic waste generated by the paper industry that would otherwise be sent to landfill or burnt. EcoMDF is 100% recyclable. When its use has come to an end, it can be recycled an unlimited number of times within the same manufacturing process, hence assuring its sustainability throughout its whole life-cycle (cradle-to-cradle). This is particularly relevant for green buildings. What is more, it has excellent technical properties. EcoMDF is water resistant, flame resistant, a natural sound insulator and durable. Having successfully completed a feasibility study, we will now use the SME instrument phase 2 to scale up production of EcoMDF to an industrial level and to demonstrate the characteristics of the new material to the construction industry. After the project, we will establish EcoMDF production facilities as joint ventures with paper mills. This will allow us to increase our production capacity and our impact, reaching expected revenues of 37M€ by 2025, with 3 production facilities employing 50 staff.
Poor Man's Differential GNSS for Drones (PUMPED)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME Instrument (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Poor Man’s Differential GNSS for Drones (PUMPED) is a low-cost real-time precise navigation solution based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for Unmanned Vehicles, in particular Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The UAV business has experienced a boost in the recent years and is already playing a key role in our society and life. PUMPED aims at increasing drones’ positioning accuracy in order to empower them for carrying out more demanding and critical missions and applications. The idea behind PUMPED consists of applying Differential GNSS (DGNSS) techniques using low profile GNSS chipsets, which are usually the ones mounted in UAVs’ platforms. This approach allows for a versatile, cheap and ease of installation and deployment solution for users, i.e. UAVs manufacturers and/or operators. The accuracy offered by PUMPED will lie between 10cm and 50cm, therefore it will fill the existing gap in positioning products between low-cost-low-accuracy (meter error) and high-cost-high-accuracy (centimetric error). As a side product, the technology developed during PUMPED will be easily transferred to other big markets such as smartphones, allowing apps to benefit from better accuracies.

Keywords: enhanced navigation
Stepping forward in understanding the Metabolic Cost of Human Walking (Metabolic cost of walking)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The mechanisms underlying metabolic cost of walking are unclear. This is important not only because they provide fundamental insight in human movement, but they are also essential to reduce increased cost of walking in the elderly and impaired. To understand these mechanisms, it is required to know the link between energetics at the human level and the energetics at the muscle level. Whereas the energetics at the human level is experimentally accessible, that at the muscle level is not. Current estimations greatly overestimate actual metabolic cost and hence there is no basis understanding metabolic cost of walking. In this project I will first ever directly measure oxygen consumption of dynamically contracting muscle fibres. These experiments will be conceptually linked to in vivo experiments measuring oxygen consumption during isolated movements as well as during walking. Using these data and state-of-the art optimization techniques applied to detailed neuro-musculoskeletal models I will link energetics at the muscle level to that of a walking human and provide insight in the mechanisms underlying the metabolic cost of walking. This grant would allow the applicant to return fully to a EU research environment and would have a very significant and direct impact on my career perspective.

Keywords: human motor control,energetics of human locomotion,biomechanics,physiology,energetics
Usable Digital Signature (IDENTITY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Engaging SMEs in security research and development (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

IDENTITY solution raised to facilitate the take-up of eSignatures in EU, solving problems detected: 1) A lack of user-friendliness, 2) the implementation of existing recent regulations; 3) the low confidence in the security of the eSignature by citizens and enterprises. IDENTITY solution constitutes a complete safety e-Signature system aimed at the improvement of the e-Signature usability and simplification of the signature process to assure a widening of the e-Signature use between users. The main advantages of IDENTITY against existing solutions are: (i) CLOUD: the eSignature is kept in a centralized repository (no need to keep software by user). (ii) TECHNOLOGICAL NEUTRALITY and MOBILITY: No needed a platform or device for the signature, any device with web browser can be used. (iii) SECURITY: User should enter a pin code and a second security measure. (iv) SIMPLIFICATION: No need to use an applet for authentication and signature. (v) TRANSNATIONAL VALIDITY: developed according EU standards and thanks to all advantages mentioned, IDENTITY could be used in any EU country. The R&D phase of IDENTITY finalized in 2015, with the validation tests of the prototype developed in Viavansi servers (TRL5). There has been developed a demonstration of the system prototype (TRL6), covering the full functionality of IDENTITY in a simulated environment. The good results obtained confirm the international market need and the technical feasibility. Now it is necessary to validate the business plan to develop the IDENTITY final version and to progress through a large scale demonstration in operational environment, scaling up the product to a large market. The feasibility study output of this project wants to validate the assumptions and the first estimations presented, regarding the strategic innovation and business plan for the global market introduction as well as the operational and financial model for the next 5 years of the IDENTITY solution and its technological roadmap.

Keywords: electronic signature,security,cloud,technological neutrality,transnational validity,usability,authentication process
Raman and AFM Integrated Stem Cell Exploration of Differentiation (RAISED)

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: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-15
End date: 2017-05-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The control of stem cell fate via external stimulation (ES) is a vital contribution to the advancement of tissue engineering (TE) for regenerative medicine (RM). In this project we propose a highly sensitive real-time characterisation of stem cells during applied ES in order to fully understand and elucidate cellular mechanisms during differentiation. This will be achieved using three major vectors of research; new conductive polymer (CP) materials for the ES of stem cells, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), and Raman microspectroscopy (RMS) live cell phenotyping. Real-time characterisation using AFM can directly measure single cell elasticity changes from differentiation mechanics such as reorganisation of the cytoskeleton. RMS of living cells can determine the progression of differentiation through changes in biomolecular composition. The combination of these two techniques will provide significantly improved single stem cell characterisation over current techniques, and is fast, non-invasive, and non-destructive. The differentiation of the stem cells will be driven by external electrical and mechanical stimulation delivered by new CP materials. Control of the ES coupled with the real time characterisation of cells will bring about new understanding of how this ES influences the differentiation of stem cells into the desired phenotype. Improved stem cell differentiation will further refine our knowledge in the TE field, and producing specifically fated cell phenotypes will improve the clinical application of TE for generating new tissues for applications such as cardiac, wound, or bone repair.
A novel pharmaceutical treatment for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLDcure)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Development of anti-microRNA therapeutic for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) initiates with excessive accumulation of liver triglycerides and progresses to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), cirrhosis and liver cancer while also modifying brain metabolism. However, NAFLD pathogenesis, the corresponding impact on the brain and the links between them, are poorly understood. In addition NAFLD is largely untreatable. We have discovered that excess microRNA (miR)-132 initiates NAFLD and that miR-132 suppression by oligonucleotide antisense treatment effectively reverses NAFLD in acquired and inherited mouse models. Here we to develop this discovery as a novel and effective pharmaceutical for the treatment of NAFLD, a serious and widespread disease for which there is at present no pharmacological treatment.

Keywords: pharmaceutical,fatty liver disease,microrna,mir132,antisense treatment
Achieving near Zero and Positive Energy Settlements in Europe using Advanced Energy Technology (ZERO-PLUS)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Israel,Italy,Italy,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Greece,Switzerland,Greece,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Buildings design for new highly energy performing buildings (H2020-EE-2015-1-PPP, 2015)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 63.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4165502.5
EU funding (EUR): 3512024.38
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

In ZERO-PLUS, a comprehensive, cost-effective system for Net Zero Energy (NZE) settlements will be developed and implemented. The system will be composed of innovative solutions for the building envelope, for building energy generation and management, and for energy management at the settlement level. A reduction of operational energy usage to an average of 0-20 kWh/m2 per year (compared with the current average of 70-230 kWh/m2) will be achieved through a transition from single NZE buildings to NZE settlements, in which the energy loads and resources are optimally managed. A primary objective of the project will be to develop a system whose investment costs will be at least 16% lower than current costs. In order to reduce "balance of system" costs, an approach of mass customization will be employed. Mass produced technologies will be integrated in a system that is optimally designed according to the local climate and site of each project in which it is implemented. To this end, a structured process will be developed and applied for the integration, optimization and verification of the design. The project's work programme will ensure a rapid market uptake, within its four-year scope, of the innovative solutions that will be developed. These solutions will be implemented in four different demonstration projects throughout the EU, with varying climates and building types. The results of their implementation will be monitored, analyzed and disseminated. A comprehensive market analysis and business plan will support the commercial exploitation of the project's results. The project will be carried out by a consortium that includes universities, project owners, technology providers and organizations, which will closely collaborate in all the project's phases.

Keywords: zero energy building,positive energy settlement