Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES AND BIG DATA (TORUS PROJECT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of this proposal is to receive funding and support for commercializing a set of disruptive high-speed communication protocols (IPR protected by patent and trade secret) which bypass the legacy and inefficient TCP/IP, the Internet protocol, designed 40 years ago. The technology is the result of +10 year R&D at University of A Corunna and the successful outcome of a Proof-of-Concept project (2011-2014) funded by Fundacion Barrie (0.5 M€ investment), which led to incorporate TORUS in April 2013 to further develop, commercialize and support the technology. TORUS has 3 products in the market (Java Fast Sockets, Universal Fast Sockets and FastMPJ) which are up to 40 times faster than TCP/IP. These products reduce significantly the time-to-results of critical software, providing significant competitive advantages in multiple sectors, particularly for financial services, real time Big Data analytics (with multiple applications, such as real time online advertising), biotech (supporting DNA processing in hours, instead of weeks), and defense/space (FastMPJ has reduced up to 94% the time to distribute satellite images of ESA’s Gaia Mission). Additionally, the technology reduces costs (power and software licensing) significantly, as fewer servers with TORUS outperform a higher number of servers interconnected via TCP/IP. The specific objectives of the feasibility study are: (1) acquire knowledge on how clients perceive TORUS value; (2) develop an effective go-to-market strategy; and (3) partner with key industry players (TORUS is in talks with two multibillion companies listed in NASDAQ). TORUS is about to rise 1M € for funding next commercialization steps during 2014-2015. A new round of 4M € is expected in 18-24 months, to definitively enter in the growth stage. SME Instrument would definitively fuel this high-tech disruptive European project. Our mission is to make servers respond faster than the speed of thought, no more waiting for computers!

Keywords: develop partnerships
Conceptual Study of Electrochemical based novel process using Lignosulfonates to produce bio-based monomers & polymers (SElectiveLi)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Norway,Belgium,Greece
Call: Electrochemical processes for bio-based monomers and polymers (H2020-BBI-JTI-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2853118.85
EU funding (EUR): 2497224.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

SELECTIVELI represents a strong BBI consortium, including full members Sappi (SAPPI), Idener (IDENER), associated members Vito (VITO), Leitat (LEITAT) and Sintef (SINTEF) in addition to industrial partners Chimar (CHIMAR) and LCEngineering (LCE) and leading experts in the field of preparative electrochemistry, University of Mainz (JGU). SELECTIVELI will provide proof of concept on the laboratory scale (at least TR3) to demonstrate the potential for converting low cost lignosulfonate feedstocks (by-product from paper and pulp industry) into high value bio-sustainable chemicals through the following: (I) Development and optimisation of the electrochemical process to convert bio-based feedstock (lignosulfonates) into target monomers, some of which can be converted into polymers for study in further downstream processes. (II) Development and optimisation of downstream separation and purification processes to extract the target products and conversion of intermediate building block monomers (mixed phenolic derivatives) into higher value polymers (III) Modelling the process to (a) prepare process designs and scale up strategies for future industrial scale production and ensuring commercial viability (b) assessing energy requirements and proving the process is capable of benefitting from surplus energy and accommodating energy fluctuations. (IV) Conducting a full life-cycle analysis to establish that a future biorefinery process can reduce environmental footprint of a value chain.

Keywords: lignosulfonate,electrochemistry,depolymerisation
Exploring molecular determinants of charged disordered protein interactions, phase separation and function from the test-tube to the cell (DisCharge)

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: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-04-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Biological molecular recognition is centred around the structure-function paradigm, involving interfacial complementary shapes and non-covalent forces. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), constituting up to 40% of the proteome, evade the structure-function paradigm, owing to their lack of persistent structure. Despite some IDPs forming folded complexes, numerous IDPs form disordered complexes stabilized by multivalent interactions. An extreme example is the recently discovered disordered high-affinity complex formed by two highly charged IDPs, the nucleosome binding linker histone (H1) and its nuclear chaperone prothymosin-alpha (ProTa), both key regulators of chromatin-structure and -function. IDPs are also often implicated in liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) driven assemblies that facilitate numerous biochemical interactions. The specificity question in IDPs becomes particularly pertinent for such charge driven disordered interactions and associated LLPS processes considering the great abundance of such highly charged disordered stretches in our proteome. Specific physiological function of most IDP interactions and associated LLPS processes imply an important role of specificity, albeit encoded differently from folded proteins. Only a multidisciplinary study spanning several complexity regimes, which is currently lacking, can uncover such altered specificity. I hypothesize that physiologically, ProTa/H1 interaction plays out in LLPS-driven heterochromatin assemblies leading to transcriptional regulation. I will probe ProTa/H1 interactions and phase behaviour with a set of systematically designed variants in incrementally complex milieu, from the test-tube to the cell, to reveal how the sequence dictates interactions and phase behaviour in-vitro and attribute a given function in-cell. This will shed light on specificity determinants of interaction and function for such highly charged IDPs.

Keywords: idp interaction specificity,phase separation,sequence dynamics function relationship,linker histone chaperoning,transcription regulation
Chemical sniffer device for multi-mode analysis of threat compounds (ChemSniff)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Critical infrastructure protection topic 7: SME instrument topic: “Protection of Urban soft targets and urban critical infrastructures” (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2262000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1577030.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

ChemSniff will develop a multi-mode sniffer device for real-time detection of chemical compounds contained in CBRN-E substances. This will enable high throughput screening of soft targets such as vehicles, people and their personal effects. The technology is based on a linear ion trap (LIT) mass spectrometer (MS) operating in a non-scanning mode. A non-scanning LIT allows selective ion monitoring of target threat molecules using optimal voltages for each ion mass without performing a full mass spectral scan. This result is higher sensitivity, simpler control electronics, smaller size, lower power consumption and cost. The limits of detection of LIT-MS instrument are in low parts per billion (ppb) with parts per trillion (ppt) levels achievable with suitable analyte enrichment provided by a pre-concentrator. Once the MS fingerprint of an unknown substance is measured, it can be compared online with a database of known substances enabling real-time rapid identification. In 2014 pre-prototype instrument was demonstrated in FP7 Project SNIFFLES. ChemSniff will develop a more compact MS-based than existing instruments on the market with extra capability for rapid scans of solid surfaces using suitable atmospheric ionisation inlet. Methods for miniaturisation will be applied to all key components including the vacuum system, which is the most robust part. This will be done through improved designs based on results from numerical modelling, operational designs, novel low-cost 3D printing manufacturing, electronics simplification and vacuum system optimisation. The final instrument will allow reduced acquisition/operating costs, greater mobility, user friendliness and flexibility. Performance will be benchmarked against a state-of-the-art conventional MS system for in-field analysis The project outcome will be an automated portable MS-based sniffer device, tested and evaluated for a range of security applications and markets by end-users.

Keywords: artificial sniffer,nose,cbrne,explosives,narcotics,drugs
GALATEO (Good Attitudes for Life in Assyrian Times: Etiquette and Observance of Norms in Male and Female Groups) (GALATEO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269002.56
EU funding (EUR): 269002.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The GALATEO (Good Attitudes for Life in Assyrian Times: Etiquette and Observance of Norms in Male and Female Groups) project aims to understand anew the importance of etiquette in late Assyrian society (10th–7th century BCE) and to investigate through a multidisciplinary approach the extent to which etiquette influenced the subsequent cultures of the Middle East. As a showcase of the project, the creation of an open source Atlas will be delivered, which is conceived as an open repository, in which the addition of new references to delineate the manners of a given culture can contribute to the understanding of etiquette, from the ancient to the modern Middle East. GALATEO develops and works through an adaptable sociological and anthropological theoretical model for the study of etiquette in the ancient Middle East. To this end, the sociological perspective will explore the way that correct behaviour in Assyrian society was codified and imposed during meetings, both religious and lay, in variously political, economic, and convivial settings. In this way it will be investigated how etiquette becomes a means for both men and women to display their social status and gender balance. The anthropological perspective will examine the etiquette of hygiene, especially concerning the practices of proper handwashing, body washing, facial cleanliness, and bodily purification from a religious point of view, the intention of which was to avoid the transmission of disease, such as sex and bodily pollutions, as well as the admission of evil spirits. This analysis will show how the extent to which hygiene plays a role in assigning order and integrity to a culture or group. Being adaptable, this model will pave the way for emerging new perspectives on understanding the social history of a number of cultures of the ancient Middle East in light of etiquette, to better understand contemporaneous ones.

Keywords: gestures,postures,proxemics,language,table manners,etiquette for men and women,hygiene,order,integrity
OpenAIRE - CONNECTing scientific results in support of Open Science (OpenAIRE-Connect)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: e-Infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Italy,Greece,Poland,Switzerland,France,France,France,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: User-driven e-infrastructure innovation (H2020-EINFRA-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1997837.5
EU funding (EUR): 1997837.5
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Open Science is around the corner. Scientists and organizations see it as a way to speed up, improve quality and reward, while policy makers see it as a means to optimize cost of science and leverage innovation. Open Science is an emerging vision, a way of thinking, whose challenges always gaze beyond its actual achievements. De facto, today’s scientific communication ecosystem lacks tools and practices to allow researchers to fully embrace Open Science. OpenAIRE-Connect aims to provide technological and social bridges, and deliver services enabling uniform exchange of research artefacts (literature, data, and methods), with semantic links between them, across research communities and content providers in scientific communication. It will introduce and implement the concept of Open Science as a Service (OSaaS) on top of the existing OpenAIRE infrastructure, delivering out-of-the-box, on-demand deployable tools. OpenAIRE-Connect will adopt an end-user driven approach (via the involvement of 5 prominent research communities), and enrich the portfolio of OpenAIRE infrastructure production services with a Research Community Dashboard Service and a Catch-All Notification Broker Service. The first will offer publishing, interlinking, packaging functionalities to enable them to share and re-use their research artifacts (introducing “methods, e.g. data,software, protocols). This effort, supported by the harvesting and mining “intelligence” of the OpenAIRE infrastructure, will provide communities with the content and tools they need to effectively evaluate and reproduce science. OpenAIRE-Connect will combine dissemination and training with OpenAIRE’s powerful NOAD network engaging research communities and content providers in adopting such services. These combined actions will bring immediate and long-term benefits to scholarly communication stakeholders by affecting the way research results are disseminated, exchanged, evaluated, and re-used.

Keywords: open science,reproducibility,transparent evaluation
“The Humanist Marxist Tradition”: The Humanist Legacy of Marx’s 1844 Manuscripts (Humanist Marxism)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United States,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269857.8
EU funding (EUR): 269857.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Marxist Humanist tradition has been markedly neglected within Marxist thought and within twentieth century intellectual history more generally. The proposed research will therefore provide the first detailed and critical account of this tradition – a tradition which springs from the reception of Marx’s 1844 Manuscripts and from the humanist standpoint that was central to them. In particular, the proposed research will look at the Marxist Humanist tradition as it is manifested in what can be considered the most preeminent and representative thinkers of that tradition – Henri Lefebvre, C. L. R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Erich Fromm, Adam Schaff, and the Praxis philosophers. In so doing, the research will range across spatiotemporal boundaries and through the explicit and implicit connections of what are otherwise disparate thinkers and variant sub-traditions. It will do so with reference to the following research questions: 1) How did the thinkers mentioned make use of the 1844 Manuscripts? 2) What was the context in which their use of the 1844 Manuscripts took place? 3) What were the implications of their development of the ideas contained in the 1844 Manuscripts? 4) How and why did these implications and uses differ in different national contexts? 5) In what ways can the thinkers discussed be said to form a tradition? And what precisely does this tradition consist in? 6) From the answers to these questions, we can then ask: What can we learn from this tradition? What is there in the response of its various representatives to to the outstanding issues of their time that we can make use of in our response to the outstanding issues of our time? The project will make a significant and original contribution to the history of ideas in the social sciences, and to our understanding of the processes by which social theories are shared, translated and made anew as they are discovered and applied in the face of particular social and political situations and challenges.

Keywords: world war 2,anti authoritarianism,anti stalinism,black atlantic,mid twentieth century capitalism,prague spring,socialist humanism,post colonialism
Exploding stars from first principles: MAGnetars as engines of hypernovae and gamma-ray BURSTs (MagBURST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The birth of a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, called a magnetar, has emerged as a promising scenario to power a variety of outstanding explosive events. This includes gamma-ray bursts, among the most luminous events observed up to high redshift and therefore useful as cosmological probes, but also supernovae with extreme kinetic energies called hypernovae and other classes of super-luminous supernovae. Simple phenomenological models, where the magnetar rotation period and magnetic field are adjusted, can explain many of these observations but lack a sound theoretical basis. The goal of this proposal is to develop an ab initio description of magnetar powered explosions in order to delineate the role they play for the production of gamma-ray bursts and super-luminous supernovae. This is urgently needed to interpret the growing diversity of explosions observed with ongoing transient surveys (iPTF, CRTS, Pan-STARRS) and in the perspective of future programs of observations such as SVOM and LSST. By using state-of-the-art numerical simulations, the following outstanding questions will be addressed: 1) What is the origin of the gigantic magnetic field observed in magnetars? The physics of the magnetic field amplification in a fast-rotating nascent neutron star will be investigated thoroughly from first principles. By developing the first global protoneutron star simulations of this amplification process, the magnetic field strength and geometry will be determined for varying rotation rates. 2) What variety of explosion paths can be explained by the birth of fast-rotating magnetars? Numerical simulations of the launch of a hypernova explosion and a relativistic GRB jet will provide the first self-consistent description of both events from a millisecond magnetar. Furthermore, the new understanding of magnetic field amplification will be used to improve the realism of these simulations.

Keywords: gamma ray bursts,supernovae,neutron star,magnetar,magnetohydrodynamics,dynamo
Dielectric pads for high field MRI (MRI PADS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,France
Call: FET Innovation Launchpad (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-03, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 113575.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

From research centers like CEA-Neurospin in France who recently acquired a 11.7T scanner to hospitals such as Saint Thomas in UK who acquired the latest commercial 7T scanner from Siemens, healthcare has taken a tremendous leap forward those last years. Indeed, ultra-high field scanners provide images with better spatial and/or temporal resolutions that are used for early diagnosis of disease and therefore enhance their treatments. However, several limitations have been reported, hindering clinical application of these devices. At such field strengths, one of the main issues is the heterogeneous excitation of the nuclear spins. Typically, it leads to shadows or contrast losses across the human brain images at 7T but also abdomen images at 3T. Those scanners still account for around 30% of the market in 2013. To tackle this issue, several solutions are under development but due to their complexity, it will require several years before their integration into clinical routines. This is even more so given the fact that most of those solutions are active: a careful monitoring of the energy absorbed by the human body which increases exponentially with the initial field is required so it remains below safety limitations. Therefore, there is right now an unfulfilled need of a simple and effective solution for all the 3T active scanners and also for the growing market of 7T scanners. It will greatly benefit clinical imaging applications but first need to be labelled as a CE medical device (MD). The current project objective is to bring to the market a side solution developed during the FET-OPEN project Mcube. First, an industrial process for the elaboration is studied and validated. Then, elaborated prototypes safety tests such as temperature monitoring, specific absorption rate or leaking tests are carried out to prove they are safe for clinical use. Finally, their performance are evaluated on phantoms as well as on volunteers.

Keywords: water perovskite mixtures,dielectric shimming,high field mri performance