Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Novel Flavour Delivery Technology for Sugar Reduction (DouxSweet)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2017-02-28
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The food and beverage industry is urgently looking for solutions to reduce sugars while retaining taste profiles. Achieving a controlled reduction of sugar consumption will only be possible if consumers will be offered the sensory experience they like and are accustomed to in products. Current sugar substitutes cannot provide this. DouxMatok develops novel flavour delivery solutions to the food and beverage industry enabling a highly substantial reduction of sugar and salt in foods and beverages, while retaining the full sensory quality of the products with no aftertastes. DouxMatok does so by delivering sugars more efficiently to the sweet receptors. With our solution currently in TRL 5/6, DouxMatok has a number of significant milestones to meet over the coming months and years. These include finalizing our R&D, scaling-up of our production capacity, test our solution extensively with food and beverage potential clients and, once we pass the testing stage, develop products with “DouxMatok inside”. This SME Phase 1 project aims to provide us with critical inputs necessary to set our course for the coming years. To this extent, the objectives of this Phase 1 are: · Confirmation and quantification of the relevant market segments for DouxMatok's sugars. · Scale up from lab prototypes to pilot scale · Validation of DouxMatok's sugars effectiveness in variety of food & beverage products through testing with European food producers · Build-up DouxMatok’s business plan including go-to-market strategy, expected revenue and sales growth of potential products, employees divided by departments, market share, IP investment and growth, return on investment, profit and cash flow. The DouxMatok team features highly experienced research chemists and food professionals with previous proven track records of success in this field. Combining their expertise and experience will lead this team to successfully addresses a highly significant business opportunity

Keywords: food,sugar,reduction,delivery technology,sweetener,artificial sweeteners,beverages,sensory profile,sweet receptors
Disruptions of Sacred Space in Late Medieval England and its European Contexts (SACREDSPACE)

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-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project challenges our understanding of medieval sacred spaces––churches, chapels, shrines, and processions between them––by arguing that they functioned not only as spaces of worship but as arenas of political conflict in England and Europe between ca. 1250 and 1450. This transformational period follows the fourth Lateran council and the Church’s inauguration of a powerful pastoral programme that sought to control and foster lay participation in the church, and ends with the decline of spiritual authority following the social transformations and calamities of the fourteenth century. I argue that the ritual symbols and practices that defined sacred spaces were harnessed in tactical and opportunistic acts that challenged the social hierarchies and power relations that sacred spaces reflected and legitimised. By considering sacred spaces as deeply intertwined with structures of power and authority, this project will transform scholarship that has thus far largely focused on ‘secular’ areas as the main sites of social conflict. I will integrate a wide variety of sources to examine how class, social status, and gender shaped acts of disruption that contested the social hierarchies and power relations that were expressed and legitimised through sacred spaces, thus refuting the projection of strict modern boundaries between sacred and profane onto the medieval past that is implicit in modern historiography. During the fellowship, I will undertake archival and library research in England, building up a database of cases that I will draw on to produce a chapter for a volume I am co-editing and two long articles. I will also begin working on a monograph on during the fellowship that considers cases from a wider European context. The project will demonstrate the wider resonance of religious culture and liturgy in political history, and, for a broader academic readership, the political potential of public space, long imbued with the habits of ritual Christianity.

Keywords: sacred space,late medieval england,medieval europe,church history,lay resistance,gender
The Enterprise Europe Network Baden-Wuerttemberg - Targeting Innovation from Baden-Württemberg for Europe (BW-KAM 4)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 220222.0
EU funding (EUR): 220222.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

BW-KAM 4 will implement tried, tested and tailored innovation management services to enhance innovation management capacities in Baden-Württemberg's (Germany) SMEs that have the potential to grow and internationalise. The services will be adapted to the needs of the SMEs and also market requirements in order to provide innovative products and services to Europe’s markets. Key Account Management will be provided to SME beneficiaries of the SME Instrument, Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) and FET-Open (Future Emerging Technologies) funding, by identifying and matching SME owners with coaches and investors in order to bridge knowledge gaps or financial requirements. The region covered is Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, which has been served by the Enterprise Europe Network Baden-Württemberg consortium for the last ten years.

Keywords: innovation management
Climate change and evolution: effects on phenotypic plasticity and genetic pattern (ADCLICH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-04
End date: 2020-06-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With the consensus that human activities are leading to dangerous interference in Earth’s climate, there has been growing policy pressure for clear quantification and attribution of the resulting biological impacts. For this reason, there is an urgent need to understand the effect of ecological and evolutionary processes caused by past climate change on range dynamics. In fact, adaptation of plant populations in fitness-related traits to different local climate condition might enable species to take on future climate change. In general, species performance (genetics, physiology, morphology and demography) is predicted to decline gradually from population growing in the climatic optimum (central population) to population growing in harsh climate conditions (peripheral populations). However, studies aimed to analyse differences between central and peripheral populations relate this differences with only one or two possible causal factors (i.e., historical, ecological or biogeographic factor), without distinguishing between geographical, environmental and historical isolation. For this reason, the goal of our project is to evaluate whether the environmental (ecological niche), historical (biogeographical processes) and geographical barriers may explain difference in both gene diversity and fitness-related floral traits between central and peripheral populations in Lilium pomponium, a species potentially prone to extinction risk because of range loss induced by climate change and spanning across Mediterranean to Alpine climate. The originality and interdisciplinarity of this research programme lies into integrate ecological niche characteristics together with current and past range structure to investigate evolutionary processes that have affected spatial patterns of genetic and demographic variation across species ranges combining different research fields in evolutionary biology as reproductive biology, ecology, phylogeography and population genetics.

Keywords: climate change,adaptation,reproductive biology,fitness,population genetics,evolutionary processes
CNC dynamic mold for producing freely curved glass panels (FREE-D)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Although the development of computing tools has been quite successful, the development of cost-effective, high speed and sustainable production processes for complex curved glass panels lags behind. In this integral innovation project, Free-D Geometries B.V. (Free-D) will bridge this gap by developing a highly advanced CNC dynamic mold prototype for production of curved glass panels: the Dynamic Glass Mold. This active pinbed with embedded transforming technology enables manufacturers to add freely doublecurved panels (3DC panels) to their product range, while highly optimizing the existing single curved panel production and logistics. Free-D will partner with a glass manufacturer for developing the mold technology. Selling or licensing the technology to firms working in other regions will subsequently be considered. Secondly, Free-D will intensify its collaboration with SMEs in specialized markets. The modular, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain, high resolution production system with multi-actuator units can also be applied for many other materials. The glass manufacturing sector will be engaged with highest priority. The production technology of Free-D will enable computer-controlled mass production of uniquely formed 3DC glass panels. Curved glass panels will find many uses: from yachts to entire building envelopes. This technique will be a game-changer, pushing innovation in a wide range of sectors. Spill-over effects to other sectors of industry will be achieved, for example where transforming requires very high-resolution bending under high-temperature production environments. The key aim of this feasibility study is to establish: 1) a partnership with a glass manufacturer for prototype demonstration. 2) a business plan. 3) feasibility of the production of the advanced CNC dynamic glass mold.

Keywords: freely curved panels,glass,dynamic molding
Understanding signaling in photoreceptors involved in the regulation of bacterial photosynthesis genes using serial crystallography and time-resolved spectroscopy. (DynAppACry)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-10-18
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Photosynthetic organisms need to sense environmental light effectively in order to regulate cellular processes. AppA (Activation of Photopigment and PUC A protein) and CryB (cryptochrome B) are two flavin (FAD) containing photoreceptors found in the facultatively photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides and depending on the oxygen levels can regulate the expression of photosynthetic genes by light. Photoexcitation of AppA and CryB is accompanied by changes on their conformation and their affinity to partner binding proteins to initiate signaling transduction processes. The mechanisms by which AppA and CryB regulate downstream signaling events is not known. Thus there is substantial interest in capturing the conformational landscape that lead to the signaling state and in understanding how absorption of light by the flavin is coupled to these conformational changes. The aim of the project is to provide atomic level characterization of the photoactivation mechanism of AppA and structural information on the photocycle of CryB. To achieve our objectives, we will use a combination of biochemical methods, ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy, QM/MM (hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanisms) calculations and time-resolved structural methods. The latter include TR-serial crystallography (SX) at synchrotrons (SSX) and X-ray free electron lasers (SFX) and TR-solution scattering (small-angle, SAXS and wide-angle X-ray scattering, WAXS). Ultimately, this project will provide a molecular movie of the AppA that features the structural changes occurring upon blue-light illumination and significant information on the photocycle of CryB. The proposed research lies on the implementation of new instrumentation and novel approaches to advance our knowledge on how photoreceptors function in order to engineer novel systems that use light as a tool to achieve noninvasive control of biological processes with high spatiotemporal resolution.

Keywords: photoreceptors,signaling,conformational changes,appa,cryb,time resolved crystallography,xfels,serial crystallography,ultrafast spectroscopy,solution scattering
Raising Awareness on Cybersecurity in Hospitals across Europe and Boosting Training Initiatives Driven by an Online Information Hub (SecureHospitals.eu)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Methods and data
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Netherlands,Luxembourg
Call: Raising awareness and developing training schemes on cybersecurity in hospitals (H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2018-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 998062.5
EU funding (EUR): 998062.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Cybercrime has recently shifted from attacking big corporations to smaller industries, like financial services as well as the healthcare sector. Especially in the last area the trend is rising, where hackers are targeting patient health devices that are connected to the internet. Most cases include stealing patient information and encrypting it for ransom money. The big problem is interconnection, each application or device that runs on the networks represents a possible entry point for a cyber-physical attack. So far, most hackers infected hospital software with ransomware to prevent staff from accessing patient records or scheduling appointments. But capable terrorists would also be able, to render active medical devices not just useless, but deadly. Complete cybersecurity in the health sector is unachievable, and would exceed financial means; nevertheless, vital steps can be taken to minimize the risk of cyber- attacks against healthcare facilities. Around 85 percent of targeted cyber-attacks would be preventable if basic protection protocols would be established. The SecureHospitals.eu project seeks to raise awareness on risks and protection opportunities, setup training schemes and the initiate training sessions for IT staff working in hospitals. Through several training approaches, the project will boost the level of training in cybersecurity in Europe, improve the knowledge of staff and in turn contribute to decreased vulnerabilities against cyberthreats and increased patient trust and safety.

Keywords: cybersecurity,data protection,hospitals,care centres,trainings,mooc,awareness raising,training,information hub,cyber attack prevention,risk and protection opportunities
Market uptake of small modular renewable district heating and cooling grids for communities (CoolHeating)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Serbia,Croatia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Serbia,Slovenia,Denmark
Call: Market uptake of existing and emerging renewable electricity, heating and cooling technologies (H2020-LCE-2015-3, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1644340.0
EU funding (EUR): 1644340.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of CoolHeating is to support the implementation of "small modular renewable heating and cooling grids" for communities in South-Eastern Europe. This will be achieved through knowledge transfer and mutual activities of partners in countries where renewable district heating and cooling examples exist (Austria, Denmark, Germany) and in countries which have less development (Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzigowina). Core activities, besides techno-economical assessments, include measures to stimulate the interest of communities and citizens to set-up renewable district heating systems as well as the capacity building about financing and business models. The outcome will be the initiation of new small renewable district heating and cooling grids in 5 target communities up to the investment stage. These lighthouse projects will have a long-term impact on the development of "small modular renewable heating and cooling grids" at the national levels in the target countries.

Keywords: heating and cooling,small modular district heating,biomass,solar,excess heat,heat storage,stimulating communities interest,mutual activities,knowledge transfer
Home2nite is an innovative guest engagement platform that aims to empower the independent hotels as AirBnb did for the travel hosts. (Home2nite)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2020-01-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1220625.0
EU funding (EUR): 854437.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

AirBnb has disrupted the travel industry by empowering ordinary people. Those ordinary people became the biggest hotel group in the world with 2.3 million rooms - Marriott group, which has recently acquired Starwood Hotels, could only became the second with 1.1 million rooms. [i] AirBnb has not acquired 18% penetration in the market just providing a marketplace with a fancy mobile app and web site, but advice and services to help its providers with their business efforts e.g. sending a professional photographer to get the best images captured or reporting the pricing of competition per neighbourhood, per seasonality etc. to let the provider set the right price. Airbnb helped these people with their business and their engagement with the guests. Then became a $30 billion company[ii] helping its providers make $12.3 billion each year.[iii] “Airbnb for the Hotel Industry” would be an appropriate analogy for Home2nite. Independent hotels in EU represent 67% of the room supply counting for more than €35 billion [8] economic value for the region. Most of them are family run businesses, which reflect the Europe’s cultural heritage, past and social diversity. They are not well aware of how to exploit the technology to attract more customers, increase engagement with them and improve operational efficiency along with customer satisfaction. Without these skills, they are under serious trouble, even if some of them don’t see it now. Home2nite’s ambition is helping independent hotels with the tools and skills they need for survival under the fierce competition from global chain hotels and Airbnb providers. Our target is preserving the economic value they represent for EU, protecting the jobs they created and last, but not the least, continue to see them reflecting the Europe’s cultural heritage, past and social diversity. [i] http://bit.ly/2oCnAXZ [ii] http://for.tn/2oCr0tP [iii] http://bit.ly/2nas3kY

Keywords: guest engagement platform,hotel,iphone,android,mobile,adr avarage daily revenue,revpar revenue per available room,occupancy rates