Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
F.I.T. for Future (F.I.T. for Future)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Austria
Call: European Researchers' Night (NIGHT) (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 19.0
Total project cost (EUR): 275000.0
EU funding (EUR): 160000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal F.I.T. for Future for the European Researchers’ Nights 2014 and 2015 is the advancement of the successful concepts of 2011 F.I.T. for Research (www.fit-fuer-forschung.eu) and 2013 Destination Future (www.destinationfuture.eu). The proposal suggests one concept to be implemented in two different locations in the Vienna Region for 2014 (Vienna, Aula der Wissenschaften) and 2015 (St. Pölten, city center). In the German language, the acronym FIT can stand for Forschung, Innovation and Technology (“Research, Innovation and Technology”). This special understanding of F.I.T.ness states that Research, Innovation and Technology are the keys to the most important challenges of our society. Thus F.I.T. for Future presents European efforts to cope with the manifold complex questions concerning our future and to solve the upcoming problems. From the societal challenges mentioned in Horizon 2020 F.I.T. for Future especially addresses demographic change and wellbeing, food security, smart, green and integrated transports and inclusive, innovative and secure societies. As initiator, coordinator and curator of the EU Researchers’ Night in Austria St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences refers not only to the experience of the successful events in 2011 and 2013 as well as some other similar several similar actions, but to the capacity of staff and more than 1000 students in media technology and media economics (covering topics such as event management, event technology, public relations, content production and others) and research focuses on info- and edutainment and science communication. To keep the management as simple as possible, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences acts as the only participant. As in 2011 and 2013 intensive cooperation with other institutions, initiatives, researchers and scientists, such as the Science Center Network, Science Slam Austria, NÖ Forschung + Bildung (Research + Education Lower Austria) and many others will be important.

Keywords: research,innovation and technology,timeshift,f i t ness center,science slam,speed dating,art and science,students,pupils,workshops,future,making off,theatre,musicperformances
Faith Online: Transnational Religious Politics on New Media in India and Europe (ONLINERPOL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1078264.0
EU funding (EUR): 1078264.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project explores new media practices in India and its diaspora in Europe, to examine the relations between the expanding Internet media and the political cultures of religious identities in the current moment of globalization. As opposed to understanding new media as discrete channels of communication or an abstract technological context that defines globalization, the project uses a unique conceptual frame of approaching the Internet as an arena of “multiple interfaces”. This frame foregrounds the profound mediation of the Internet media in bringing distinct actors, levels of authority, ideologies and motivations in close confrontation: the nation state, market, diaspora, homeland publics and divergent religious communities. Each project in the proposed program will illuminate one important strand of the interfaces, to ask how these interfaces constitute new mediated spaces of collisions and contiguities, which allow political actors within and beyond the national frontiers to negotiate and collaborate in unprecedented ways. It examines how in turn, the generative capacity of such mediated interfaces has opened up new locations, modulations and means of practice for the political use of religion, especially for interreligious difference as a political concept. It scrutinizes the implications of these developments for relations of sovereignty and citizenship, with a theoretical objective to approach the emerging confluence of religious enterprise, political conservatism and economic liberalization. To achieve the objectives, the study, in a rare methodological move, combines social media network analysis with ethnography of actual people posting the messages on online media.

Keywords: internet media,online religious politics,transnational religious politics,south asia,diaspora
Solar-driven reforming of waste into hydrogen (SolReGen)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2020-PoC, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Waste disposal leads to environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and a loss of chemical and energy-rich resources. Photoreforming is a sunlight-driven technology that recaptures the value in waste while simultaneously contributing to renewable energy production by transforming biomass, food and plastic waste into hydrogen. However, our current photoreforming process relies on corrosive acids or bases in order to solubilise waste and enhance hydrogen generation, which raises sustainability and economic concerns. In the proposed SolReGen project, we will couple our patented photoreforming process with a benign enzymatic waste pre-treatment in order to enhance its commercialisation potential. This will be achieved through four key objectives: (i) optimisation of an enzyme immobilisation strategy for facile recycling and low-cost deployment, (ii) integration of enzymatic pre-treatment with photoreforming, (iii) scaling of the overall system to one square meter under rooftop sunlight, and (iv) development of a sustainable business model for commercialisation. By achieving these innovations and patenting where necessary, photoreforming will become a hybrid technology for waste management and renewable energy production that is faster, less expensive, more environmentally-friendly, and increasingly desirable to commercial partners.

Keywords: photocatalysis,solar fuels,hydrogen,waste management,plastic
Vibration energy harvesters to power the IoT revolution (ReVibe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ReVibe Energy is an innovative Swedish SME developing and commercializing a novel vibration energy harvesting solution to power IoT sensors in industrial environments, such as rail and air transport. ReVibe Energy was founded in 2014 by three individual entrepreneurs, SAAB Group and Chalmers University of Technology. By 2016 it was placed by Climate KIC into top 2 most promising sustainable companies of the Nordics and top 9 of Europe. ReVibe Energy solution is targeted at manufacturers and operators in rail and air transport, that have the need to monitor crucial parts of their assets to prevent unscheduled maintenance and reduce the cases of preventive maintenance, but cannot get the sensors reliably powered for very long period of time to provide essential monitoring data. Existing means to power sensors, such as batteries or cables don’t have sufficient lifetime, and are costly to replace. The ReVibe Energy solution is superior to existing alternatives given its longer lifetime (10+ years) and excellent performance characteristics (up to 200 mW production and compact size). It is expected to provide a 10-20% higher output-to-volume ratio, 10% wider bandwidth and 20-30% lower production costs than competitive solutions. The solution is patented in 3 EU countries and US. ReVibe Energy vibration energy harvesters have the potential to drive widespread adoption of industrial sensor networks by reliably powering them, with the overall energy harvester market forecasted to reach €3+B by 2020. (by BCC Research). ReVibe Energy provides a tangible contribution to fulfilling EU expectations in increasing the volume of rail and air passenger and cargo traffic by reducing the downtime of trains and airplanes for maintenance and repairs and increasing safety of their operation, and saving costs for manufacturers and operators. The project has a duration of 6 months and a requested EC contribution of €50,000.

Keywords: vibration,energy harvester,sensors
Secure and Safe Multi-Robot Systems (SESAME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Cyprus,Greece,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Luxembourg,United Kingdom
Call: Robotics in Application Areas and Coordination & Support (H2020-ICT-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6999786.25
EU funding (EUR): 6999786.25
Participants: 18
Project status: SIGNED

European strategy and research roadmap documents emphasise the significant societal and economic benefits coming from robotic and autonomous systems. Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) comprise distributed and interconnected robotic teams that can carry out tasks beyond the competency of a single robot. Although MRS offer improved scalability and performance, increased robustness, and mission enablement, the lack of a systematic engineering methodology, covering the complete engineering lifecycle and handling efficiently the salient characteristics of MRS such as openness, uncertainty, variability, and interplay of safety and security, results in solutions that fail because of fragile design and unrealistic assumptions. SESAME addresses these problems through an open, modular, model-based approach for the systematic engineering of dependable MRS. SESAME is underpinned by public meta-models, components and configuration tools supporting the dependable MRS operation in uncertain settings characterised by emergent behaviours and possible cyber-attacks. To demonstrate this timely and ambitious goal, SESAME combines five end- user-led use-cases (in the domains of healthcare, agile manufacturing, agri-food, and inspection and maintenance) with R&D competences of partners that have a long track-record in conducting cutting-edge research on robotics, model- based safety, security analysis, validation, and verification, towards the actual delivery of research results characterised by widely-used, sustainable and industrial-strength open-source software. An advisory board of world-class experts guides the development of SESAME .

Keywords: safety security co engineering,model based engineering
Global Industrial Research & Innovation Analyses (GLORIA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Industrial Research and Innovation Monitoring and Analysis (H2020-IBA-SC6-Industrial-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2350000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2345000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

GLORIA provides evidence to support the EU and national level policy-making in key areas of research and innovation policy. It builds on the IRIMA (Industrial Research Investment Monitoring and Analysis) projects undertaken together with DG RTD since 2004, but gives more emphasis on the analyses of global industrial research and its feed into the policy cycle. It continues the analysis of company data from the sample of world top 2500 R&D innovators, but takes a new policy focus on industrial dynamics. Much more than being big direct employers, producers and innovators, the top R&D innvators have huge indirect market and innovation power. They control supply and distribution chains, help smaller firms grow and internationalise, own participations in start-ups, provide work experience for future entrepreneurs, spin-off technologies, and collaborate with Universities and public research institutions for knowledge. Therefore, GLORIA focuses on detecting differences in industrial dynamics across regions and countries, and on better understanding the behaviour of top R&D innovators to harness globalisation. Capitalising on the interaction with companies within the project, company-level data is further disentangled into companies' different innovation investments, technological portfolios and their geographic distribution across countries and regions. This is crucial because Europe aspires to host (and eventually reshore) the R&D activities of leading innovative multinational firms, rather than seeing these offshored to other countries, and remove barriers to entrepreneurship, firm growth and employment. This activity not only reaps information from companies but also provides a structured dialogue with them. GLORIA benefits from the close coordination with DG RTD as key success factor for the project. This position leverages the project to gather information across the EU from Member States, businesses, public institutions and academia, resulting in unique capacity to d

Keywords: research and development,innovation,global value chains,intangible assets
Chromatin Regulation Of Normal And Malignant Haematopoiesis (ChRONAM-H)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Chromatin Factors (CFs) comprise a diverse family of proteins that elicit key regulatory epigenetic activities during the regulation of cellular fates. Although this heterogeneous group has been traditionally considered a static toolkit of epigenetic enzymes deployed to lineage-specific loci under the control of Transcription Factors (TFs), recent works have shown that CFs are crucial determinants of developmental lineage decisions that assemble into dynamic chromatin regulatory complexes with exquisite cell-type-specific composition. Hematopoiesis is a key developmental process largely dependent on Chromatin Factors. Importantly, CFs are the most recurrently mutated protein category across diverse blood malignancies. In fact, alterations in some of these proteins, like MLL fusions, have been proven to be central drivers of malignant transformation. However, in spite of this proven relevance, the contribution of most Chromatin Factors to blood lineage commitment remains largely unexplored; moreover, even for well-studied complexes such as SWI/SNF Polycomb or COMPASS, very little is known about the mechanisms that govern their locus-specific assembly and activity during cell fate specification. My project Chromatin Regulation Of Normal And Malignant Haematopoiesis (ChRONAM-H) proposes a multidisciplinary framework to explore the functions of CFs during hematopoietic lineage commitment and malignant transformation. I will combine high-throughput functional measurements with state-of-the-art chromatin profiling technologies to unveil the lineage specifying roles of a large number of CFs and orthogonally link them within existing TF-centric networks in both normal and malignant hematopoiesis. This will shed light on the molecular behavior of chromatin regulatory complexes, providing new insights about the genome regulatory mechanisms that orchestrate hematopoiesis and how they might be therapeutically targeted to fight leukemia.

Keywords: chromatin regulatory complexes,crispr screens,single cell genomics,technology development,droplet based chromatin profiling,hematopoiesis,blood malignancies
Advanced Solution for Smart Telemetry Machine-To-Machine applications (NEW ARYEL)

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: 2015-02-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

NEW ARYEL will launch in the market an advanced and cost-effective Machine-To-Machine (M2M) solution in the smart telemetry applications market. NEW ARYEL is innovative compared to the current state of the art because, unlike any other M2M solution, it integrates several advanced M2M functionalities into the same device with clear economic and technical advantages for clients. Telemetry is a flourishing market estimated to reach global $103 Billion by 2019 with M2M connections expected to reach 33.2 Million worldwide in 2017. NEW ARYEL is a smart telemetry device, built by Alosys and based on technology already patented by the company, conforming to international ISO standards and EU regulations. It is adaptable to communicate and connect with many different apparatuses, with the capability of real-time, multichannel transmission and unique technical characteristics such as multiple I/O ports, communication channels and open source software currently not available in the market. NEW ARYEL will provide clients with economic and environmental benefits saving energy, cutting maintenance and downtime. It has already been tested with Alosys clients such as Telecom Italia and Poste Italiane who are also interested to be early adopters. Target users will be large industries and public/private organisations which need reduce costs and generate revenue through new services. These needs are still unmet by existing solutions. Thanks to the SME Instrumet Phase 1 Alosys will conduct a feasibility study to deliver a business plan to support Alosys in successful market introduction of NEW ARYEL.

Keywords: smart telemetry machine to machine energy grid utilities lighting maintenance
Measuring with no tape (NoTape)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1463805.0
EU funding (EUR): 1463805.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Society generates increasing amounts of data, which is both a resource and a challenge. The data reveal new insights that may potentially improve our livelihood, but their quantity renders such insights difficult to find. Machine learning techniques sift through the data looking for statistical patterns of interest to a given task. Due to an exponential growth in available data, these techniques enable us to automate difficult decisions, such as those needed for personalized medicine and self-driving cars. NoTape note that machine learning techniques depend on a distance measure to determine which data points are similar and which are not. As this measure is difficult to choose, NoTape develop methods for estimating an optimal distance measure directly from data. Empirical evidence suggest that the optimal distance measure in one region of data space need not coincide with the optimal measure in another region, i.e.that the distance measure should locally adapt to the data. Local adaptability imply that the distance measure itself will be sensitive to noise in the data, and therefore should be described as a random variable. NoTape estimate distance measures as random Riemannian metrics and perform statistical data analysis accordingly. The notion of statistical computations with respect to an uncertain locally adaptive distance measure is uncharted territory, which need new algorithms for numerical integration and for solving differential equations. As a guiding example, we estimate statistical models that reflect human perception. As perception processes are not fully understood, an optimal distance measure cannot be precisely estimated and the uncertainty of NoTape is needed. The geometric nature of the developed methods ensure that attained models are interpretable by humans, which contrast current locally adaptive techniques. As society automate more decisions, interpretability is increasing important to ensure that the machine learning system can be trusted

Keywords: machine learning,differential geometry,riemannian geometry,metric learning,numerical analysis,statistics on manifolds