Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
String topology and homotopy Frobenius algebras (StringFrob)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2023-12-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 207312.0
EU funding (EUR): 207312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ultimate goal of this action is to establish that chain-level string topology is not a homotopy invariant. This is achieved by showing that chain-level string topological structures are induced by a homotopy Frobenius structure on the cochain algebra and by connecting the homotopy Frobenius structure with known invariants from quantum field theory. This is broken down into four independent work packages. The first goal is to show that from a Chern-Simons type partition function one can construct a homotopy Frobenius algebra and show that this is essentially an equivalence between the relevant deformation spaces. The second goal is to algebraically construct string topology operations on the Hochschild homology of a homotopy Frobenius algebra. The third goal compares the induced structure on the cyclic homology with the known homotopy involutive Lie bialgebra structure. And ultimately, the fourth goal is to compare the algebraically constructed operations with geometric ones on the loop space under the comparison map given by Chen's iterated integrals.

Keywords: string topology,frobenius algebras,configuration space integrals,calabi yau structures,lie bialgebras
Real-TIME probing of Ultrafast Phenomena (UPTIME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 84.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999407.0
EU funding (EUR): 1918331.29
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The perception of the world surrounding us depends on how we illuminate and capture it. For example, our direct observation of high-speed phenomena is limited by the speed of the human visual system. A well known method to visualize fast events is to capture them at very high frame rates with high-speed cameras, and then play the movie in slow-motion, enabling us to understand what happens at short timescales. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop the fastest camera on earth, able not only to visualize the changing morphology and position of an object under investigation, but also to simultaneously capture in depth spectroscopic information in both temporal and spectral domains – all of these at unprecedented speeds, several orders of magnitude faster than the current state of the art. For the first time, this will enable the simultaneous high-speed visualization and the spatio-spectro-temporal investigation of dynamic phenomena, at timescales never before accessible. This will enable us to gain unique insights into very fast transformations such as chemical reactions, phase transitions, laser ablation and other irreversible phenomena in physics, biology and engineering. This project will achieve its ambitious objectives through the creative exploitation of novel semiconductor ultrafast lasers and photonic sampling systems, enabling the high-speed illumination and capture of events in the spatial, temporal and spectral domains. This project will pave the way for completely new insights into high-speed dynamic events, allowing us to open up entirely new perspectives into the behaviour of the world at such timescales.

Keywords: ultrafast photonics,high speed imaging
MOFs-based Bifunctional Catalysts for Efficient One-Pot Transformation of Biomass to Ethanol (MOFCatEthanol)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-16
End date: 2023-08-26
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Dr Qing Wei would like to start within 12 months of the signature of the Grant Agreement due to the uncertainty regarding travelling and the longer time required for visa application and relocation arrangements due to Covid-19. The effective start date will be notified 2 months before the intended start of the fellowship.

Keywords: cellulose,ethanol,zifs,hzifs
Q-Room – Quintetto’s Holographic Telepresence Room (Q-Room)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Telepresence? With holographic telepresence it becomes reality. A new system, just showcased in Italy, that allows interaction between physically distant individuals, in a realistic and natural way. The project directed by IT Company Quintetto, in cooperation with the Italian Research Council (CNR), opens interesting possibilities of application in areas where real and direct interaction between users is important. These scenarios are certainly the banking and public offices world, where telepresence could revolutionize contacts, changing the way of delivering services from the traditional, physical branch to a new, virtual one. Telepresence can become a tool to improve the territorial coverage of banks, providing essential services to citizens in an economic, organizational model. For the first time, this system brings a very realistic, 3D interaction to the market, at an affordable cost, simply using an ordinary internet connection. The user has the perception of being seated in front of a real operator who guides him through the process simply and quickly, from product selection to contract signing by physical printing of the document. This is just an example of how technological innovation can radically transform the user experience, shaping services based on evolving needs and expectations. In order to bring the product to the later stage of development to hit the market, Quintetto would like to assess the commercial feasibility of the Q-Room. The objective of the Phase 1 of the innovation project is a business plan outlining the economic strategy: market analysis of the state of the art in the eligible market and an investigation of main competitors will accomplish the feasibility report. The business plan will also define a successful marketing and commercial strategy. The company will be assisted by specialized consultants to carry out an accurate IPR study aimed at identifying the state of the art in its own field.

Keywords: holography,holographic remote presence,telepresence,interactive communication,real time,communication,live transmission,virtual office,front office services,tele activity
CYPRES the ICS and SCADA security companion (CYPRES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France,France
Call: Critical infrastructure protection topic 7: SME instrument topic: Protection of Urban soft targets and critical infrastructures (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2428706.25
EU funding (EUR): 1700094.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Industrial Automation and control systems are vital for city critical infrastructures which are soft targets by excellence. Awareness of their vulnerability arose since 2009 with the worm Stuxnet damaging Iranian nuclear sites. Most National Security Agencies reinforce the obligation to protect vital importance soft targets. So far, most solutions are partial and unsatisfying, and limited to Corporate IT cyber-solutions, e.g. firewalls, authentication, defense in depth. The present project proposes the development of a new protection system called CYPRES. The proposed CYPRES is one of the first products able to protect specifically industrial automation systems. It uses Artificial Intelligence combined with the real condition of the process to detect discrepancies that reveal intrusions or attacks, even as slow or small as a malware can be. To perform well, CYPRES must be engineered for each type of process. The development comprises design specifications and development of the CYPRES core-product subsequent to a thorough market study followed by a commercial product specific to Electricity networks protection, then another for Water and wastewater systems. Further processes will be developed later on. Cypres is a cost-worthy add-on solution for existing and new SCADA. CYPRES is developed by a consortium of two experienced French SMEs working in Industrial Automation, Software development and cyber-security offering a solid basis for the technical, financial and development challenge that CYPRES represents. The market is large and worldwide with several thousands of existing systems and hundreds of new systems built each years. The envisaged market strategy is to distribute CYPRES through large contracting companies. Partnerships will be concluded and be operational within this program. The project will generate revenues of EUR 50M over 5 years and EUR 170 M over 15 years and allow creating over 100 jobs.

Keywords: cyber security
EISCAT_3D: Preparation for Production (EISCAT3D_PfP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Individual implementation and operation of ESFRI projects (H2020-INFRADEV-1-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3121585.0
EU funding (EUR): 3121585.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the EISCAT3D_PfP project proposed here is to facilitate a smooth and swift transition of EISCAT_3D from a preparatory phase to its implementation. One significant challenge for this transition is the move from individual prototype subsystems to designs that are ready for immediate implementation in an industrial production environment. Additionally, these subsystems, in their near-final implementations, must operate together as a radar with compatible interfaces and without causing internal interference. The project addresses these issues via industrial outreach to ensure a manufacture-ready design and via the implementation and testing of a Test Subarray using subsystems that are as close as possible to a final configuration. EISCAT3D_PfP will clear the way for low-risk funding by the research councils of the EISCAT associate countries and will furthermore greatly shorten the time required to see EISCAT_3D come to fruition. This project will also support the hiring of key technical personnel to shepherd the implementation of EISCAT_3D throughout its manufacturing, construction, and eventual commissioning. Project coordinator EISCAT Scientific Association has already initiated cooperation with research institutions, SMEs, large manufacturers, regional authorities, and public institutions responsible for innovation procurement. The cooperation will be further developed through the project.

Keywords: research infrastructure,industry contacts,implementation,radar technology
Sulphur-free production method for non-food biopolymers (dissolving pulp, hemicellulose and lignin) (CHBTECH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3061250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2142875.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Wood-based biomass is one of the richest sources of bio-chemicals on Earth. Of the main constituents of wood – cellulose (40-50%), hemicellulose (20-30%) and lignin (20-30%) – mainly cellulose/pulp is utilised today. Rest of the biomass is disposed as waste. The main obstacle for wider use and further development of these hemicellulose and lignin is the lack of availability. Furthermore, current fractionation methods (based on Kraft process) use sulphur, which destroys the material properties of valuable bio-chemicals. CH-Bioforce Oy has developed a sulphur-free biomass fractionation technology, which allows the extraction of all three wood-based biomass constituents in an economically sound way, with extremely high purity, and in industrial scale. Technology is flexible in size, and can utilize practically any kind of wood as raw material, e.g., birch, pine, spruce, eucalyptus, even wheat straw and bagasse. The process works well even with low quality wood, such as sawdust and logging residues, which are not suitable for commonly used pulping processes. CH-Bioforce´s technology offers a renewable and cost-competitive option to replace fossil and food-based raw materials in a wide variety of applications, e.g in textiles, chemicals, and plastics. Company has conducted an intensive material testing and evaluation for dissolving pulp, polymeric hemicellulose and sulphur-free lignin produced by their pilot plants, and has already attracted several global corporations in energy, pulp&paper, and chemical industries. Business model for CH-Bioforce is to licence its technology to companies, who aim to produce and sell bio-based raw materials. Aim of this proposed project is to develop CH-Bioforce´s technology from current TRL-7 to TRL-9, to prepare the business scale up, and to convince the first customer to make the investment decision by the end of the project.

Keywords: dissolving pulp,hemicellulose,lignin,wood fractions,bio based materials,nano cellulose,renewable materials,textile fibers,bio based composites,bio based plastics
Protective Composite Gloves for Health Care (Composite Gloves)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Accidently, needlesticks and syringes puncture gloves and injure the skin. Millions of cases are counted in European health care and worldwide, each year. When perforated, medical gloves loose it's barrier function. Health care professionals are no longer protected from body fluids, potentially carrying blood-borne diseases including hepatitis B/C and HIV. Studies estimate the economic costs due to needlestick injuries to amount to more than 1 bn. € per year. Polymer-ceramic composites can reinforce polymers. Similar to bullet-proof vests, the materials provide protection against mechanical impact. Accordingly, thin gloves from polymer-ceramic composites maintain the users tactile sense. Gloves from these new materials provide unrivaled donning and wearing comfort. The patent-pending invention builds on large-scale available substances for tailor-made material components. Protective composite gloves undercut competition in price and surpass in function. The predicted world market volume for disposable gloves is 10 bn. $ in 2023; the segment of surgical gloves is 2 bn. $, the servicable market about 1 bn. €. Considering the immense potential of our solution, the application creates in an innovative and productive manner a business opportunity to introduce puncture-resistant gloves to a broad market. By pursuing the present feasibility study, the management team aims to improve its understanding of the global market conditions. The associated risks and a more detailed business plan are scheduled for rolling out and scaling up a first product as a marketable innovative solution. SME Instrument Phase-1 and Phase-2 would be extremely beneficial in helping the company accelerate the development and market penetration in the target segment, boosting the company’s growth to over 50 employees and 100 m. € in revenue by 2022, in accordance with the company’s mission plan.

Keywords: gloves,composites,infection prevention,needlestick injuries,dilatant,shear thickening,rubber particle composite,nano technology,process engineering,dip coating
Understanding Crystal Polymorph Control in Confinement using In-situ TEM (PolyTEM)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-03-09
End date: 2022-03-08
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Controlling the polymorph (crystal structure) of crystalline materials is of vital importance to both material science and the pharmaceutical industry. Many crystal polymorphs are difficult to access, however, as polymorph is determined by both kinetics and thermodynamics. Recently, it has been observed that precipitation of crystals in confinement often leads to the formation of unusual polymorphs. For example, CaCO3 forms purely as aragonite when it is precipitated in small nano-pores. These observations suggest that confinement could offer a generic route to polymorph control. However, the fundamental mechanisms underlying this confinement effect are poorly understood. In this project, I will combine in-situ cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryoTEM) and liquid phase (LP) TEM to study how confinement effects give rise to polymorph control. In-situ cryoTEM allows detailed structural analysis of “snapshots” of the nucleation process, while LPTEM enables dynamic, time-resolved analysis with millisecond time resolution. Notably, although these two advanced techniques perfectly complement each other, they have never been combined to study one system. CaCO3 will form the principal focus of the study, and a graphene pocket (GP) will be used as the confinement system as it not only favours aragonite formation, but is also ideally suited to both cryoTEM and LPTEM studies. The study will reveal how CaCO3 nucleate in the GPs and develop into aragonite, and the role of surface chemistry in this polymorph control process will be investigated. The project will then be extended to functional materials (e.g., TiO2) or drug crystals (e.g., Ritonavir), in order to learn how to use confinement to control polymorph by design. The research will allow us to fully understand the formation of aragonite in nano-sized confinements and more fundamentally, will bridge the gap in knowledge about how crystal polymorph in general is controlled in confinement.

Keywords: cryotem,liquid phasetem,polymorph control,confinement,calcium carbonate,graphene
Coherent optical control of multi-functional nano-scale hybrid units (hyControl)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1994791.0
EU funding (EUR): 1994791.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the physics and chemistry of materials science, an intense focus of forefront research is the search for ever-smaller and ever-faster building blocks for information and communication technology (ICT) applications. The realization of next-generation devices, in ICT fields such as spintronics, spin-orbitronics and plasmonics, will depend decisively on our ability to generate new functionalities that can be actively controlled on the shortest length and time scales. The groundbreaking idea of hyControl is to develop a conceptually new class of active ICT nano-scale materials by building functionality into the nano-scale object that naturally forms when an organic molecule is hybridized on a metallic surface: a nano-scale hybrid unit (NHyU). NHyUs will be realized by depositing selected organic molecules onto three classes of inorganic systems: transition metals; spin-textured materials such as Rashba systems and topological insulators; and magneto-plasmonic nano-structures. By tuning optical excitation to specific resonances, we will control the hybridization strength with ultrashort laser pulses, and thereby induce a coherent response in the spin, orbit, and/or electron degrees of freedom of the NHyU. Thereby we will achieve coherent control - at the molecular scale - of technologically important parameters, such as magnetization, plasmonic resonances, and spin texture. This hyControl concept will be implemented using a novel experimental method, spin- and phase-resolved orbital mapping, that is capable of resolving the transient spin-dependent electronic structure of precisely those valence band electrons which mediate the hybridization in a single NHyU. While inspired by the latest achievements in molecular spintronics, hyControl will open the way to new technologies in various ICT applications, three of which - spintronics, spin-orbitronics, and plasmonics - have been selected to demonstrate the ability and versatility of optically controlled NHyUs.

Keywords: molecular spintronics,coherent control,multi functional nano scale hybrid materials