Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced Laminar Flow tAilplane (ALFA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Romania,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Laminar Horizontal Tail Plane full scale ground demonstrator (H2020-CS2-CFP02-2015-01, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2129108.75
EU funding (EUR): 1610394.88
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

Project ALFA (Advanced Laminar Flow tAilplane) is initiated by an industrial partner (Fokker) and a research centre (NLR), in response to the 2nd Call for proposal of CS2, under the topic “Laminar Horizontal Tail Plane full scale ground demonstrator”. The objective of ALFA is to push forward laminar flow technology by developing, designing and manufacturing a full scale demonstrator of a Natural Laminar Flow (NLF) Horizontal Tail Plane (HTP). The reduction of the aerodynamic drag of the aircraft by application of NLF on the HTP will offer a potential of a 1% decrease of fuel burn. ALFA will introduce advanced materials and manufacturing technologies to meet the stringent NLF surface quality demands. New structural concepts will be developed and discussed with the topic manager taking into account all requirements regarding operations, safety, cost and environmental impact, to ensure the implementation on future business jets. ALFA’s NLF HTP demonstrator will validate the selected structural concept. The comprehensive experience of the ALFA partners working on the demonstration of laminar flow in various R&T projects (e.g. EU AFLoNext, BLADE) and joint national and European collaboration on multiple aircraft programs motivate their common application. Fokker has a strong track record in designing and manufacturing complete tail sections for US and European Business Jets. As a former OEM of aircrafts, Fokker still engineers and manufactures with know-how of the entire aircraft. The complementary capabilities and competences of NLR to provide innovative solutions for composite structures is key to the project’s success. The ALFA total grant request to EC is 1,610,395 € for the whole consortium. The project will be conducted in close alignment with the topic manager, and with related topics in LPA and other IADP’s and ITD’s.

Keywords: natural laminar flow technology,horizontal tail plane htp,business jet htp,large scale wind tunnel demonstration,design and build,manufacturing studies,industrial structure
CleanMOULD: Advanced low friction and fretting-resistant diamond-like coating solution (cleanMOULD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1277305.0
EU funding (EUR): 894113.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Fretting wear is the limiting factor in the life of many plastic injection moulds. Each time that the mould is closed during its moulding cycle, the contacting surfaces “adjust” to each other and undergo microscopic vibrational movements that slowly damage these surfaces, leading to severe tear and particle release. Ultimately, the mould needs to be scrapped after repeated regrinding, thus significantly affecting overall mould service life. Since longer productive lifecycles further dilute the heavy upfront investments in casting moulds in injection moulding production pipelines, reducing the impact of fretting corrosion is a fundamental need transversal to all manufacturing industries relying in this type of productive process. Building on CemeCon Scandinavia extensive experience in solving tribological problems in injection mould’s operational environments, cleanMOULD is a novel coating solution, based on a multi-layer DLC formulation that jointly optimizes both the surface hardness and lubricity to minimize the impact of fretting wear. The current project is positioned to untap a very significant business opportunity by preparing our next-generation DLC coating for full market roll-out, while also thoroughly documenting its performance through large demonstration, in fully operational manufacturing pipelines within the premises of key industry players in the injection moulding industry. cleanMOULD has the potential to become a key enabling technology transversal to entire plastic industry. Overall, return-of- investment for cleanMOULD users is expected to be over 20x the expected coating costs, thus providing a very compelling value proposition. In addition, cleanMOULD represents a huge business opportunity for CSA, opening the perspective of adding approx. €14 million over the 5-years post project as gross profits, yielding a global multiplier effect of over 10x for the ratio between the expected profits and the costs of the current innovation project.

Keywords: fretting wear,dlc coatings,tribology,injection moulding,dry lubrication
Literature as a Cognitive Object; Cognitive infrastructure and human cultural transmission (CogLit)

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-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-18
End date: 2020-10-17
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Interdisciplinary research between literary and art study and empirical disciplines such as linguistics and cognitive science lacks genuine reciprocity: scholars of literature and art have drawn extensively on linguistics and cognitive science, but literary and art-philosophical discourse has had little impact in these empirical domains. This project argues for genuine, two-way interdisciplinary practices in literary and art study and aims to show how research in empirical domains can not only influence but also be influenced by the investigation of literary and other art forms. The first objective of the project will focus on mental causation in order to refine my suggestion that what distinguishes works of literature and art from other objects is their cognitive aetiology: drawing on Relevance Theory, I will argue that artworks and literary texts are causally related to an art-specific type of relevance-yielding creative mental state, that I term an artistic thought state. The 2nd objective will focus on intended effects: it will take as starting point the relevance-theoretic notion of a worthwhile effect in order to introduce a new, neurologically real type of effects (positive perceptual effects) that make both artworks (e.g. literary texts) and artistic thought states relevant to individual minds. The discussion will have implications for hypotheses in various empirical domains. The IF will, among other things, result in a monograph (‘Literature as a Cognitive Object’), which will make one of the first systematic and empirically tractable proposals in the 21st century on the essence of literature and art and provide a concrete example of how genuine interdisciplinary practices in the Arts and Humanities can directly influence theory formation in scientific domains. Innovative public engagement will be a central feature of this project through a non-academic secondment at the ONCA Arts Centre and collaboration with the UK Centre for Contemporary Poetry.

Keywords: relevance theory,essence of literature,linguistic v cognitive properties,perceptual and cognitive,effects,cognitive infrastructure,cultural transmission
Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts (ResilienceBuilding)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Norway,Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 75.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499982.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499982.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

How can ‘resilient communities’ remain resilient in protracted conflicts and contribute to sustainable peace rather than to increased vulnerability to renewed conflict? How do local conflicts link to national conflicts and what are the implications for peacebuilding? What are the gender dimensions of social resilience? Is resilience always ‘a good thing’ or may it impede conflict resolution? This project pioneers an interdisciplinary research agenda into resilience building. The need for a greater analytical focus on the causes and consequences of social resilience is evident in the modest international record of peacebuilding and civilian protection. Scholarship increasingly invokes resilience terminology but lacks mature conceptual and empirical work. Building on the PI’s expertise in social resilience, communal conflict, and gender and peacebuilding, this project will establish an empirically-grounded research agenda on social resilience and sustainable peace. By providing a comparative analysis of resilience building and barriers to peace in Nigeria, South Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Kenya, the project will create a new agenda for resilience research that rests on novel conceptual development and interdisciplinary approaches to resilience combined with the systematic study of social resilience and local peace produced by an integrated team of specialist researchers. The project will involve a fieldwork-based multi-method research design that combines advanced quantitative techniques for assessing the consequences of international peacebuilding with regard to local peace and women’s empowerment with context-sensitive qualitative analysis of the often unintended consequences of social resilience and hidden barriers to local peace and changing gender relations. The project will result in a new scholarly community with a shared intellectual focus on social resilience and sustainable peace in protracted conflicts.

Keywords: social resilience,communal conflicts,peacebuilding,gendered civilian agency,adaptation,vulnerability,coping strategies,un peacebuilding,civilian protection,local peace agreements,women s empowerment,masculinities
TRANSTEM: ERA Chair in Translational Stem Cell Biology (TRANSTEM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: ERA chairs
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Bulgaria
Call: ERA Chairs (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-04, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 63.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499978.75
EU funding (EUR): 2499978.75
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of TRANSTEM is to unlock, foster and sustain excellent basic and applied stem cell research as well as clinical application in MUV through the recruitment of an ERA Chair in stem cell biology. TRANSTEM will specifically: - Enhance research organization and management in MUV by establishing a new and fully functional Stem Cell Biology Department and hiring an outstanding stem cell biology researcher and manager who will guide the transformation process and SCBD development. - Strengthen the scientific excellence in MUV in the field of translational stem cell biology via continuous development and regular evaluation of the new Stem Cell Biology Department, human resource capacity upgrade, trainings in research, bilateral exchanges with foreign research centres of excellence in stem cell biology, and study visits in bio banks abroad. - Increase the transfer of innovation potential of MUV and enable the translation of discoveries into new therapies and medical products which improve public’s health and generate new economic opportunities through the setting up of a knowledge transfer office, upgrading IPR strategy - and fostering project and collaborations with biotech, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. - Enable regional socio-political development in the field of stem cell biology by generating regional support through open multi-stakeholder dialogue with social and political stakeholders, tackling policy bottlenecks and roadmapping reforms in the Bulgarian research and innovation landscape. - Leverage existing and establish new collaborations to extend application and participation both in national operational programmes and international EU funded calls thus enabling major scientific advancements in the use of stem cells for public health. - Ensure widespread and effective communication and dissemination which raise awareness, foster interactions and maximise TRANSTEM’s impact at the regional, national and international levels.

Keywords: stem cell biology,era chair,scientific excellence
Evaluation into Practice to Achieve Targets for Energy Efficiency (EPATEE)

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: Italy,Germany,Austria,Croatia,Lithuania,Finland,France,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Engaging and activating public authorities (H2020-EE-2016-CSA, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1565566.25
EU funding (EUR): 1565566.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Directives on energy efficiency such as the EED or the EPBD trigger a great variety of policies throughout EU Member States. The effort put into developing and implementing these policies is well documented in existing NEEAPs. Soon, emphasis will be put on finding out how effective they were to create new policies that allow meeting current and future energy savings targets. Unfortunately, several barriers limit policy evaluation. This results in a lack of quantitative data, and impedes evidence-based analysis required to distinguish effective from ineffective policies. EPATEE aims at tackling this problem by raising the capacity of policymakers and implementers to assist Members States to fulfil their obligation under energy related Directives. The project will provide them both with tools and with practical knowledge to make effective impact evaluation an integral part of the policy cycle. EPATEE makes use of existing evaluation experiences in a range of instruments, such as energy efficiency obligation schemes, regulations, financial incentives and voluntary agreements. Lessons learnt from other EU initiatives and good practices in how to successfully evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of such energy efficiency policies will provide the basis for the development of guidelines and good practice evaluation tools. A set of 20 to 30 tools enabling state-of-the-art evaluation will be developed and integrated into a smart online toolbox, which interactively assists users in picking the most relevant tool for their specific need. This guidance material provides the basis for the most important aspect of EPATEE: target-oriented experience sharing and capacity building. Findings will be discussed together with policymakers through peer-learning workshops, webinars, direct consulting, and other means of communication and dissemination. All activities will strive at realizing synergies with other EU projects such as ODYSEEE-MURE, ENSPOL, MultEE and the CA EED.

Keywords: ex post impact evaluation,cost effectiveness of policies,peer learning workshops,capacity building,policy implementation and evaluation,online evaluation tools,neeap
Uncertainty and Precaution: Environmental Decisions Involving Catastrophic Threats (UnPrEDICT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Social World and Its Diversity
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, education sciences, communication studies
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2014-ADG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2066976.0
EU funding (EUR): 2066976.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of this project is to supplement or replace the precautionary principle with decision guidance that better handles both normative and empirical uncertainty in contexts of speculative but potentially catastrophic consequences. It has been claimed that emerging technologies such as geoengineering, biotechnology, or machine intelligence could have catastrophic impacts on human civilization or the biosphere, indicating the need for precaution until scientific uncertainty has been resolved. Yet it is unclear how to apply the precautionary principle to cases where the deeper investigations of scientific uncertainties that it calls for can themselves be a source of catastrophic risk (in e.g. gain-of-function research and geoengineering experiments). Furthermore, the precautionary principle fails to account for moral uncertainty —even though many decisions depend more sensitively on ethical parameters (e.g. our obligations to future generations, discount rates, intrinsic value of nature) than on remaining scientific uncertainties. Building on recent advances in decision theory, computational modelling, and domain-specific risk assessment techniques, and using tools of analytic and moral philosophy, this project will: (1) develop methods that account for normative uncertainty by combining voting theory with ongoing work on moral uncertainty, identifying parameters that make the largest practical difference; (2) combine these with methods for dealing with sources of empirical ignorance (such as information hazards, anthropic shadow, model uncertainties) into a theoretically well-motivated framework that comprises normative and empirical uncertainty; (3) derive mid-level principles and procedures from this theoretical framework by working through three case studies (geoengineering, dual-use biotechnology, and automation and machine intelligence) offering better practical guidance on speculative but potentially catastrophic risks than does the precautionary principle.

Keywords: precautionary principle,structural uncertainty,model uncertainty,population ethics,geoengineering,biotechnology,global catastrophic risk
Nanostructure-based label-free biomolecular binding kinetics assay (Nanodevice)

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: Germany
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept (ERC-2017-PoC, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149873.75
EU funding (EUR): 149873.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this ERC Proof of Concept Grant proposal is the construction, validation, and patenting of a nanoscale device that can accurately measure the binding and unbinding kinetics of target molecules. Accurate measurement of binding and unbinding kinetics of molecules is of great interest to both pharmaceutical companies and academic research groups, and is essential for the development of novel therapeutic compounds. Our proposed nanodevice is based on our knowledge about dynamic nanostructures gained during the course of the ERC starting grant “DNA ORIGAMI DEVICES” and the current ERC consolidator grant “DNA ORIGAMI MOTORS”, and offers a range of advantages compared to existing competing technologies, such as significantly lower initial and running costs, a label-free assay with fluorescent readout, no necessity of time-resolved sample preparation, a solution-based measurement, greater experimental throughput, and control over target molecule arrangements on a molecular scale. In the course of this project, we will build a demonstrator nanodevice, secure relevant intellectual property rights, validate and improve the nanodevice in close collaboration with prospective end-users, and determine promising commercialization approaches. The expected outcomes are a licensable patent, a provisional business model, a technology with TRL 4-6, and foundations for subsequent collaboration projects with customers, suppliers, and competitors.

Keywords: nanotechnology,bioanalytics,label free sensing,biomedical diagnostics,biotechnology,life science
Quantification of synergies between Energy Efficiency first principle and renewable energy systems (sEEnergies)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Austria,Norway,Belgium,Sweden,Switzerland,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Socio-economic research conceptualising and modelling energy efficiency and energy demand (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1453642.5
EU funding (EUR): 1453642.5
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The overall aim of sEEnergies is to quantify and operationalise the potentials for energy efficiency (EE) in buildings, transport and industry, combining this bottom-up knowledge with temporal and spatial analyses to develop an innovative, holistic and research-based EE-modelling approach going beyond current state-of-the-art science based knowledge and methodologies. Because the changes in one energy sector can contribute to impacts in another sector, it is only possible to have a comprehensive assessment and quantification of the EEFP policies impacts if we look at the energy systems from a holistic point of view and take into consideration the synergies between sectors. Therefore bottom-up sectorial approach and grid assessment, together with energy system modelling and spatial analytics is combined in the novel EE modelling approach. To achieve its aim, sEEnergies comprises a combination of in-depth knowledge on the consumption side and in-depth analyses of the energy systems that enables a detailed scientifically based pool of knowledge needed to make EE potentials concrete and operational, and as a resource on its own. Embedded in the applied project methodology is the identification of synergies across the supply chain and towards additional impacts not directly linked to the energy system. This nonenergy impacts can be very important benefits that are often invisible but which sEEnergies aims to operationalise to a larger extent on a sectoral, system and member state level. For each sector we will take as starting point the state-of-the-art including best practices, policies in place and energy and nonenergy impacts of EE, for the EU and for the 28 Member States. In order to maximise the outreach of sEEnergies’ results and the understanding of their importance, an online and user friendly GIS platform will be developed where EE impacts can be geographically visualised.

Keywords: renewable energy systems,smart energy systems,energy efficiency in buildings,energy efficiency in transports,energy efficiency in industry,energy systems synergies,energy efficiency modelling