Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Energy Citizens for Inclusive Decarbonization (ENCLUDE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Robust decision making and public engagement
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Austria,Switzerland,Greece,Romania,North Macedonia,Belgium,Greece,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Canada
Call: Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) aspects of the Clean-Energy Transition (H2020-LC-SC3-2020-NZE-RES-CC, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3122057.5
EU funding (EUR): 2882057.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The overall vision of the Energy Citizens for Inclusive Decarbonization (ENCLUDE) is to help the EU to fulfill its promise of a just and inclusive decarbonization pathway through sharing and co-creating new knowledge and practices that maximize the number and diversity of citizens who are willing and able to contribute to the energy transition. Motivated by achieving an equitable and sustainable future and the fulfillment of individual potential, ENCLUDE will contribute to the upcoming transformation of energy use by: - Assembling, aligning and adapting disparate energy citizenship concepts for diverse communities of citizens and for different scales of policy making, lowering the barrier for action. - Operationalizing the energy citizenship concept at all scales of policy making for decarbonization. - Catalyzing a chain reaction of decarbonization actions across the EU. ENCLUDE is dedicated not only to the co-creation of new knowledge with stakeholders about the emergence and consolidation of energy citizenship, but also to the uptake of this knowledge to mobilize action for decarbonization, taking into account the interests and struggles of diverse citizen groups, including communities, who are not usually invited or expected to participate in these civic processes. ENCLUDE does this by integrating public engagement throughout the project life cycle rather than at the end of project for dissemination and communication purposes only. The process between knowledge production and implementation includes learning feedback loops between research partners, public authorities, civic organizations and citizens.

Keywords: transdisciplinarity,energy modeling,citizen engagement,mixed methods,energy citizenship,decarbonization
Developing Energy Communities through Informative anD collEctive actions (DECIDE)

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: Estonia,Austria,Germany,Austria,Germany,Austria,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Greece,Belgium,Belgium,Greece,Belgium
Call: The role of consumers in changing the market through informed decision and collective actions (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2263537.5
EU funding (EUR): 2263537.5
Participants: 14
Project status: SIGNED

The focus of the project is to gain a better understanding in how to set up and roll out energy communities and energy efficiency services. The project builds on the knowledge and work within the EU Bridge initiative, ETIP SNET and others. In order to deliver this project successfully, the consortium includes a complementary group of experts on social science, policy and regulation, implementation, energy aggregation and energy service developers. The project focusses on 3 levels of Energy Communities: those existing at the start of the project and included in the work plan as such; those that will be initiated throughout the project and those not directly partnering in the project, but benefiting from the exchange and expertise of DECIDE. All together they provide a set of complementary and geographically well-spread cases: social housing, middle class and upper class neighbourhoods covering Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Estonia, Germany and France. All together these pilots will deliver the necessary cases for a sound outreach built on an extensive social science basis. The project will work on identifying which kind of individuals and groups need what kind of communication and interaction to be motivated to join; i.e. work on identifying stakeholder segmentation to reach maximum input by targeted actions and prioritization in stakeholder segments. Different methods will be tested and evaluated with the different identified groups, including techniques as intergenerational learning. The outreach is active: instead of a toolbox with reports, presentations, templates, ... we want you to learn HOW to reach impact and do that through webinars, workshops, interactive sessions at diverse conferences, ...

Keywords: energy communities,collective actions,social science,aggregation
Solaris energy tobacco for the creation of a European sustainable biojet fuel value chain (SOLARIS)

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: Italy,Netherlands
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 25.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1593079.4
EU funding (EUR): 1115155.58
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The EU aviation plans to use 2 Mt/y of biojet fuel by 2020. IATA set a strict requirement to use only biojet fuel meeting SRB sustainability standards, while Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO), the only viable way to produce biojet is still largely relying on food crops (mainly palm oil, not sustainable for deforestation). HVO producers are all eager to find sustainable and viable feedstock alternative in Europe. We estimate a Total Addressable Market of 2 Mt/y in 2020 to be covered with sustainable feedstock in Europe. Solaris is a patented variety of tobacco plant specifically targeted as feedstock for second generation biofuel: nicotine free, non GMO, producing oil-containing seeds, no food competing, globally available and cultivable in Europe. Solaris allows the highest oil productivity of all oil producing crops, only second to palm: double than rapeseed and jatropha. It is cultivable in Europe, which has strong tobacco cultivation experience, while other second generation crops are not. It is fully sustainable: certified since 2012 by 2BSvs and since 2015 by the RSB. Solaris biojet can reach 83% CO2 reduction compared to fossil jet fuel. Sunchem is running a pilot cultivation in South Africa in collaboration with Boeing, South African Airlines and SkyNRG (KLM group), but now wants to implement an integrated value chain in Europe, through an industrially viable agronomic process, certified and optimized value chain, validation of pilot cultivation in Italy (5 hectares). After demonstration the industrial feasibility and economical viability the first market launch will be done in collaboration with ENI, Alitalia and Boeing Italia. Sunchem wants to become a global supply leader in the biofuel market, entering in the B2B market, and targeting revenues in Italy after 5 years from the launch of 90M€ with an EBIDTA of 7.7M€ (8.5%). Cumulated profit after 5 years will amount to 12,3 M€, which is 7.5 times the investment required.

Keywords: tobacco cultivation,biojet fuel,hydrotreated vegetable oil,green diesel,sustainable biofuels
Securing biodiversity, functional integrity and ecosystem services in DRYing rivER networks (DRYvER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Fighting and adapting to climate change
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Ecuador,Austria,Croatia,Hungary,China,Bolivia, Plurinational State of,Finland,Slovenia,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Brazil
Call: Inter-relations between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services (H2020-LC-CLA-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6702008.75
EU funding (EUR): 6593633.75
Participants: 25
Project status: SIGNED

River networks are among Earth’s most threatened hot-spots of biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services (e.g. supply drinking water and food, climate regulation) essential to sustaining human well-being. Climate change and increased human water use are causing more rivers and streams to dry, with devastating impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Currently, over half the global river network consist of drying channels and these are expanding dramatically. However, drying river networks (DRNs) have received little attention from scientists and policy makers, and the public is unaware of their importance. Consequently, there is no effective integrated biodiversity conservation or ecosystem management strategy of DRNs facing climate change. A multidisciplinary team of 25 experts from 11 countries in Europe, South America, China and the USA will build on EU efforts to investigate how climate change, through changes in flow regimes and water use, has cascading impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem services of DRNs. DRYvER (DRYing riVER networks) will gather and upscale empirical and modelling data from nine focal DRNs (case studies) in the EU and CELAC to develop a meta-system framework applicable to Europe and worldwide. It will also generate crucial knowledge-based strategies, tools and guidelines for cost-effective adaptive management of DRNs. Working closely with stakeholders and end-users, DRYvER will co-develop strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change effects in DRNs, integrating hydrological, ecological (including nature-based solutions), socio-economic and policy perspectives. The end results of DRYvER will contribute to reaching the objectives of the Paris Agreement and place Europe at the forefront of research on climate change.

Keywords: biodiversity,climate change,ecosystem functions and services,drying river networks,metaecosystems,adaptive management,conservation biology,natural capital,socio ecological systems
Chemical building blocks from versatile MSW biorefinery (PERCAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Austria,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Belgium,Greece,Türkiye,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Emerging technologies for conversion of the organic content of Municipal Solid Waste and improving waste-to-chemicals value chains (H2020-BBI-JTI-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3394181.26
EU funding (EUR): 2518517.64
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

PERCAL will exploit Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) as feedstock to develop intermediate chemical products at high yield and low impurity level with huge industrial interest. These will be complementary to the bioethanol (current PERSEO technology), to achieve a cascade valorisation of the MSW components, i.e.: • Lactic acid (LA) to produce: 1) Eco-friendly ethyl lactate solvents by reactive distillation from lactic acid & bio-ethanol to be used in cleaning products and inks and 2) hot-melt adhesives for cardboard and other non-food applications in combination with maleic anhydride by reactive extrusion. • Succinic acid (SA) as an intermediate building blocks to production of polyols for the polyurethane industry. • Biosurfactants by chemical and/or microbiological modification of protein and lipid fraction from remaining fraction of MSW fermentation. IIn order to minimize the MSW heterogeneous composition (due to seasonal and origin variability driven by local economic, social and climate conditions) limitations as a fermentation feedstock, four main innovations will be proposed: i) New enzymatic cocktails to maximize hydrolysis of fermentable organic matter with low inhibitors production, ii) the use of high yield, specific and robust strains for each selected acid, iii) the extraction of fermentation by-products acting as inhibitors to succinic acid production via novel membrane electrolysis employing an integrated continuous fermentation coupled with simultaneous organic acid removal in comparison with SA sequential fermentation followed by its separation using an electrodialysis-based and iv) optimize simultaneous saccharification and fermentation for lactic acid production followed by a downstream separation process based on membrane electrodialysis. To maximize the yield and purity of target organic acids, continuous and single step fermentation process will be prioritized in order to allow their integration in the PERSEO plant.

Keywords: bioethanol,municipal solid waste,succinic acid,lactic acid,surfactants,adhesives,solvents,polyester polyols,fermentation,membrane electrolysis,enzymatic hydrolysis
Generation of Quantum multi-Phonon states in a mechanical oscillator (QuPhon)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203149.44
EU funding (EUR): 203149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of the QuPhon research action is to develop a novel hybrid quantum system between a mechanical oscillator and a superconducting qubit, especially focusing on the generation of nonclassical multi-phonon states in an ultra high-Q mechanical oscillator. The challenging task will be realized by utilizing itinerant microwave photons transferring nonclassical states in a microwave memory cavity to a mechanical oscillator. The architecture of connecting spatially separated quantum modules that function differently enables one to exploit their complementary advantages simultaneously. The achievements will bridge independently-developed quantum technologies between electromechanics and circuit quantum electrodynamics, which will lead to further quantum applications, such as quantum memory and quantum transducer with hardware-efficient quantum error corrections, as well as studies on quantum coherence between two macroscopically distinct states in a massive object.

Keywords: cavity electromechanics,circuit quantum electrodynamics,multi phonon states,and quantum state transfer
Towards a new generation of soft and conformable acoustic devices based on electroactive polymers (DEtune)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project operates in the key European research area of enabling technologies based on Advanced Materials. It deals with a class of smart electroactive polymers, called dielectric elastomers (DEs), which can be promisingly employed to develop soft low-cost electrostatic machines able to respond to electrical stimuli with high deformations and large actuation bandwidth. In the field of acoustics, DEs might enable the development of new loudspeakers in which the vibrating diaphragm and the actuator are combined into a soft membrane that can be adapted to arbitrary shapes or integrated into wearable textile structures. This project will develop radically new DE acoustic diaphragms exploiting the paradigms of distributed surface actuation (DSA) and self-sensing. DSA will allow a regulation of diaphragms vibrations via localised excitation of the active surface, allowing a fine control of the acoustic response. Self-sensing will allow DE devices to work both as sound generation sources and sound pressure sensors, opening new perspectives in the field of active noise control and acoustic characterisation of environments. Theoretical background on continuum vibrations in DE membranes will be first developed through modelling and experimental investigation with high-end laser vibrometry equipment. Multi-physics models of the acoustic-structure interaction of the DE diaphragms will be set-up. Diaphragms with DSA will be deployed through the segmentation of the active DE surface into arrays of independently-controlled portions via screen printing techniques. Algorithms for self-sensing of the vibrations generated by electrical or acoustic signals will be developed, which rely on simple electrical measurements of the active areas electrical variables. Finally, a prototype of a DE acoustic transducer, capable to work both as a speaker and a microphone, will be built, and its performance will be optimised leveraging on the investigated features of DSA and self-sensing.

Keywords: dielectric elastomer,electroactive polymer,vibration,smart material,acoustics,screen printing,loudspeaker,finite element,high frequency,vibrometer,boundary element,sound
Solution-processed All-perovskite Multi-junction Architectures for Flexible and Printable Solar Cells (SAMA)

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: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-03-17
End date: 2024-03-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project entails the design and fabrication of Solution-processed All-perovskite Multi-junction solar cell Architectures (SAMA) that can be integrated with printable solar cell technology. Using knowledge obtained at Monash University, Melbourne and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSRIO), we plan to fabricate all-perovskite tandem architectures that are entirely solution-processable. This feature allows for compatibility with existing large-scale, high-throughput printable fabrication techniques. Sequential deposition of solution-processed semiconductor layers will be obtained using orthogonal solvent systems. Finding suitable solution-processable recombination, electron and hole accepting layer, that can be sequentially deposited without damaging the underlying layers, will be a major goal of the project. We will employ a recently engineered acetonitrile/methylamine solvent system to deposit a narrow band gap rear-cell with improved stability, by employing more stable ionic perovskite compositions and introducing effective reducing agents.

Keywords: perovskite solar cells,tandem,multi junction,high throughput,solution processed,flexible,printable
An eGovernance Interoperability Platform for Government and Administration (obdo eGIP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call: European SME innovation Associate - pilot (H2020-INNOSUP-2020-02, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158017.86
EU funding (EUR): 110612.5
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

eGovernance is changing citizens and businesses communicate with their administration. Over the last few years, ICT has allowed to digitalize and automate common government processes with the objective of lowering costs, improving efficiency, and reducing errors while delivering better services to citizens, businesses and industries. A key point for the eGovernance strategy is the creation of a synergy between organizations in providing secured seamless sharing of data and/or information and offer an increased portfolio of public services to citizens. Yet, implementing such a successful ecosystem has its own set of technical challenges including security, interoperability and scalability of exchange platforms. Over the year, we have developed a highly-secured data exchange platform based on a patented software combination technology that has reached its market. Building on the technology and knowledge, our vision is now to launch an innovative Data Exchange Platform that will address the technical and infrastructure needs of eGovernance applications. However, we currently have a lack of a candidate with the multidisciplinary knowledge related to this development. Lack of interdisciplinary on the French market, shortage of cybersecurity professionals, visibility, resource and location are hindering our recruitment and the project development. Through the SME IA program, we aim at recruiting a Platform Architect with experience in eGovernance and data exchange project. As project initiator, the Innovation Associate will be at the core of the company strategic development and will benefit from training and strong experience to foster his/her carrier development with the opportunity to develop a new dimension to our business and move forward defining future innovation projects and partnerships to make the Associate an integral part of the team. This will provide a highly profitable value for the implementation of the innovation program we are building.

Keywords: a data storage and exchange platform that addresses the needs of egovernance applications