Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Jellyfish Barge - A floating greenhouse (JFB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Today’s current food system is unsustainable economically, environmentally and socially. Given finite arable land, fuel and water supplies, innovative self-sufficient farming modules are a solution to contribute to mitigate this global challenge. Pnat s.r.l., a dynamic SME, spin-off of the University of Florence, established to emphasize a culture of innovation and technological excellence, is developing Jellyfish Barge, a floating agricultural greenhouse, able to purify salt, brackish or polluted water using solar energy. Jellyfish Barge is built with low-cost technologies and simple materials, also appropriate to the self-construction paradigm. A feasibility study and a business plan will be crucial for the assessment of the strength of our business, giving us the key features to address the future development of our activities and market entry. According to our proposal, in 6 months, we will dedicate great attention to the analysis of the market, the business strategy, the economic viability and special effort will be invested in exploiting eco-sustainable solutions for the reduction of the productive costs. Furthermore, a geographic viability assessment, and the development of a parametric table that integrates all information achieved, will be useful tools to model our business potentiality and viability.

Keywords: feasibility analysis,water saving,energy efficiency,nature,biomemetic,low cost technologies,creativity,sustainable architecture,biodesign,material
Individualised and Equitable Care of Type 2 Diabetes (EASY-Diabetes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

EASY – Diabetes is a digital health solution that helps patients with Type 2 diabetes and health care providers analyse data and make better decisions about therapies by accessing a carefully curated global database based on clinical data and medical evidence collected over the course of nine years and powered by machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence. We offer EASY-Diabetes as a Software-as-a-Service to healthcare providers at a fee of €50 per patient per year. Diabetes is a prevalent and costly chronic disease, affecting 425 million people worldwide. Although 9.2% of the health care budget in Europe spent on diabetes, the results for patients remain inadequate even in the most advanced healthcare systems. Patients lack a patient-centred and personalised approach to disease management. 90% of patients with T2D are treated by GPs in primary care. Most clinics lack both the manpower and the expertise required to deal with the needs of patients for regular contact with health care providers and the complexity of diabetes treatment. Existing eHealth solutions show some crucial drawbacks, such as lack of clinical validation against the standard of care, no personalised medical treatment options, not being drug agnostic. Our team brings together demonstrated expertise in medicine, clinical trials, drug development, regulatory affairs, product development, programming, machine learning, business development. The SME Phase 1 Feasibility study will aim to complete the validation of the commercial feasibility of Easy – Diabetes with target market segments and key stakeholders. We will strengthen our financial planning and IP protection strategy necessary to improve our service and refine our go-to-market strategy.

Keywords: diabetes,type 2 diabetes,digital diabetes market,personalised therapy,artificial intelligence,machine learning
REgeneration MOdel for accelerating the smart URBAN transformation (REMOURBAN)

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: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Türkiye,Türkiye,Hungary,Belgium,United Kingdom
Call: Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects (H2020-SCC-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 24754878.1
EU funding (EUR): 21541949.13
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

REMOURBAN aims at the development and validation in three lighthouse cities (Valladolid-Spain, Nottingham-UK and Tepebasi/Eskisehir-Turkey) of a sustainable urban regeneration model that leverages the convergence area of the energy, mobility and ICT sectors in order to accelerate the deployment of innovative technologies, organisational and economic solutions to significantly increase resource and energy efficiency, improve the sustainability of urban transport and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in urban areas. The urban renovation strategy will be focused on the citizens, because they become the cornerstones to making a smart city a reality and will not only be the most affected by the improvements but also they will be the common factor of each of them. HOW THE OBJECTIVE WILL BE ACHIEVED 1. Developing a sustainable urban regeneration model, considering a holistic approach, which supports the decision making of the main stakeholders for addressing wide renovation and city transformation processes. 2. Validating the urban regeneration model by means of large scale interventions on several cities called lighthouse cities, Valladolid, Nottingham and Tepebasi/Eskisehir (more than 1.000 dwellings retrofitted, more than 190 EV deployed and a total investment higher than 14 M€). 3. Guaranteeing the replicability of the model at European level. Two cities will be also involved in the consortium, called follower cities, Seraing (Belgium) and Miskolc (Hungary) and will be developed a procedure for assessing the replicability potential of the model. 4. It is planned an intense activity focused on generating exploitation and market deployment strategies to support the commercial exploitation of the project outcomes. 5. It will be deployed a powerful communication and dissemination plan. This plan will integrate a citizen engagement strategy and will disseminate the benefits of the project to a wide variety of audiences (more than 11.000 citizens engaged).

Keywords: sustainable urban regeneration model,lighthouse city,follower city,citizen engagement strategy,renewable energy,city transport,icts,low energy districts,sustainable mobility
Pyrogenic TRansformations Affecting Climate and Health (PyroTRACH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Switzerland,Greece
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2023-11-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999832.0
EU funding (EUR): 1899832.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Biomass burning (BB) is a significant contributor to global atmospheric particulate matter, with strong impacts on climate, ecosystems and public health. Yet these impacts are highly uncertain, largely owing to our inability to track BB particulate matter and the evolution of their properties throughout most of its atmospheric lifetime. PyroTRACH will provide the necessary breakthroughs in our understanding of BB particles and their impacts by: i) deriving new markers of biomass burning with an atmospheric lifetime that exceeds the current limitation of about a day, ii) measuring highly uncertain but critically-important climate- and health- relevant properties of aerosols both from wildfire events that occur during summertime and from BB for heating purposes during wintertime in highly populated urban environments, iii) applying this new knowledge to quantify the contribution of biomass burning to aerosol in the Mediterranean region, and quantify its impacts on climate and public health. Novel state-of-the-art instrumentation, portable environmental chambers and well established measurement techniques will be applied in continuous measurements as well as intensive field campaigns to study the properties and evolution of BB particulates as they age in the atmosphere. Discovering new stable chemical markers that allow detection of BBOA many days after emission, while carefully and accurately following the climate and health-related properties of freshly emitted and aged BBOA, allows for an unprecedented understanding of the evolution and impacts of biomass burning aerosol and its impact on the Earth System and public health. Considering the increasing occurrence of wildfires, along with decreased emissions from fossil fuels means that accurately predicting the health and climate effects from biomass burning aerosol is one of the most important aspects of atmospheric aerosol that needs to be studied.

Keywords: biomass burning aerosol,reactive oxygen species,atmospheric measurements,modeling
COntrolling and progressively Minimizing the Burden of Animal Trypanosomosis (COMBAT)

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: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Uganda,Italy,Ethiopia,South Africa,Belgium,Côte d'Ivoire,Zambia,France,France,France,Mozambique,Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Sudan,Zimbabwe,Kenya,Senegal,Chad
Call: Sustainable Intensification in Africa (H2020-SFS-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7296534.77
EU funding (EUR): 5901062.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

Animal trypanosomosis (AT) is caused by parasites transmitted by tsetse and other blood-sucking flies. The disease is a scourge for livestock keepers in Africa , affects humans and could spread to Europe . COMBAT aims to reduce the AT burden in Africa using the concept of progressive control pathway (PCP) . The PCP is an innovative, risk-based approach to disease reduction or elimination through successive, achievable steps. A consortium of excellence, with European and African research institutes, national veterinary authorities from across Africa, and leading international organizations guarantees successful project implementation and maximal impact on the SDGs. COMBAT will 1) improve basic knowledge on AT; 2) develop innovative control tools; 3) improve surveillance and control strategies; and 4) build capacity and raise awareness. Knowledge gaps on epidemiology, chemical ecology, vector competence, and immune and metabolic aspects of tolerant livestock will be filled. Innovative tools include environmentally friendly vector control technologies and electronic antigen capture tests. Surveillance will be enhanced by establishing information systems, strengthening reporting, and modelling risk in Africa and Europe. The socio-economic burden of AT will be assessed. Guidelines for national control strategies will be developed and implemented. COMBAT will draw on the extensive partners’ experience in other EU projects and strengthen existing partnerships in the field of AT control.

Keywords: animal trypanosomosis,tsetse fly,livestock,susceptibility,eco epidemiology,surveillance,diagnosis,vector control,risk cartography,host parasite interaction,socio economic,vector competence
Implementation of soil fauna effects into the forest ecosystem model ANAFORE (ANAFAUNA)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160800.0
EU funding (EUR): 160800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding soil processes and their role in ecosystem functioning is essential for effective protection, restoration and sustainable use of soils and terrestrial ecosystems. Forest ecosystem models dynamically simulate fluxes of carbon, water, nitrogen and other nutrients through a forest ecosystem. Only models that account for all key interactions between climate, soil and plants can become versatile and reliable tools to predict the effect of different management strategies or future global changes on forests and soils. The effect of soil fauna has been so far neglected in most of similar models. However, with our increasing understanding of the crucial role of fauna on many processes, there is a general consensus on the need to implement these effects into ecosystem models. The main research question of this project is: Does a model that includes an active role of soil fauna provide better prediction of soil processes than previous simpler models? ANAFORE is a stand-scale mechanistic forest model with a detailed soil model. The specific objectives of this project are 1) to develop a new soil submodel that will account for important effects of soil fauna on the simulated fluxes of water, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus; and integrate it into the ANAFORE model. The modeled effects include fragmentation, bioturbation, aggregation, macropore formation and foodweb effects on soil organic matter decomposition, 2) to optimize and validate the new model using: i) historical experimental data obtained during long-term research at Sokolov post-mining ecosystems LTER site, ii) additional literature and original data collected during the project for modelling purposes; 3) to compare performance of the new ANAFORE soil submodel with the previous version of ANAFORE and the Yasso model as an example of a simple model that predicts organic matter decomposition only based on litter quality and abiotic factors.

Keywords: modeling,soil fauna,earthworms,carbon,nitrogen,phosphorus,decomposition
Establishing services enhancing the innovation management capacity of South West France SMEs (Magic SWF SMEs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France,France
Call: INNOSUP (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-07-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 79186.25
EU funding (EUR): 63349.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The project involves five partners of the Enterprise Europe Network South West France consortium which covers four regions (Aquitaine, Limousin, Midi-Pyrénées and Poitou-Charentes). The general objective is to contribute to raise the competitiveness of SMEs from the 4 regions by offering support services in the area of innovation management. The project will also contribute to develop more efficient and more effective innovation processes and higher quality innovation management capacity assessment and support services. The support will be delivered as service packages of 7 days to 2 groups of SMEs: a) Beneficiaries of the SME Instrument of Horizon 2020: to enhance the probability of a successful exploitation of the innovation project results and lead to the sustainable growth of the beneficiary beyond the participation in Horizon 2020. The support service will pinpoint weaknesses in the innovation capacities of the beneficiary, select suitable coaches to address the identified weaknesses and monitor the coach-client relationship and to accompany the beneficiary through the SME instrument project b) SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential for internationalisation: to enhance their innovation management capacities to be able to gain new international markets and leaderships. The support service will consist in an in-depth innovation assessment in order to develop and implement a tailored action plan to improve the SMEs capacity to manage innovation processes. The partners will use a dedicated assessment tool: IMP3rove. The project will last 6 months and will provide 24 support service packages.

Keywords: innovation management
Training network on the conversion of CO2 by smart autotrophic biorefineries (ConCO2rde)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Joint Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Austria,France,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2880145.8
EU funding (EUR): 2880145.8
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

The development of processes for the utilization of renewable resources is one of the main challenges of our society. The CONCO2RDE EJD will train 11 ESRs in cutting edge research projects on (i) the combination of synthetic biology approaches with metabolic and process engineering for an adaptive laboratory evolution to create an efficient route from CO2 fixation to the production of chemicals, (ii) H2/CO2/O2-based fermentation and process intensification in order to optimize commercially relevant processes together with industry, (iii) defining a road-map for the industrial implementation of autotrophic biotransformations. The double degree program allows in-depth training in two complementary disciplines, further strengthened by a transferable skills training with strong industry participation. The objectives will be attained through a consortium of one translational institute, six universities, eight industrial partners and one cluster, providing the ideal environment to foster complementary expertise in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, biocatalysis, process engineering and analytics. CONCO2RDE focuses on the development of genetic tools for strain manipulation, the integration of H2-driven biotransformations, new reactor concepts for H2/CO2/O2-based fermentation to reach high cell densities and a better understanding of the cell physiology under autotrophic culture conditions. CONCO2RDE's research agenda will be accompanied by a dedicated training of the ESRs as well as the dissemination of results to the scientific community and the wider public. The inter- and multidisciplinary setting offered through double degrees combined with industrial training in secondments and the training agenda will not only provide the tools and means necessary for the implementation of sustainable processes, but also prepare the next generation of researchers for the implementation of sustainable autotrophic processes in the European Biotech sector.

Keywords: cupriavidus necator,carbon dioxide,gas fermentation,synthetic biology,metabolic engineering,process,engineering
Unique, low-cost, low-footprint, reusable hybrid carrier bag system that enables food to be kept cold/frozen for up to 24 hours (ifoodbag gen2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Resource-efficient eco-innovative food production and processing (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2412860.0
EU funding (EUR): 1689002.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ifoodbag addresses the challenge of the ‘last mile’ of the food retail industry with a unique, low-cost, low-footprint, reusable hybrid carrier bag system that enables food to be kept cold/frozen for up to 24 hours. ifoodbag is a hybrid paper bag consisting of a novel composite material with high thermal resistance, a multiple-use Ziplock closure bound to the structure with impermeable glue to allow airtight transportation and a bag design allowing the bag to be rolled down to minimise internal volume. The initial prototype product has already demonstrated with online grocery retailers its potential to significantly decarbonise the last mile of the grocery home delivery cold chain by reducing the need for refrigeration for delivery vehicles, as well as reducing the resource wastage and health impact of spoiled food by enabling a better cold chain. Ifoodbag will leverage this initial success by pushing the technology further in the gen2 project. The project will extend the prototype development and validation by producing an improved second generation ifoodbag system, with higher performance and lower costs, based on direct customer requirements feedback from the initial trials. Production methodology and supply chain will be improved and streamlined. External evaluation and commercial pilots will be performed with food retailers, verifying that the improved design meets with all applicable production, food packaging, cold chain and other standards. The result will be a gen2 of iFoodBag ready for market launch, capable of reducing plastic bag use for temperature controlled goods by up to a factor of 10, helping to decarbonise the grocery sector, whilst further improving the performance and impact in the online grocery segment. The project has a duration of 24 months and a requested EC funding of 1.7M Euros.

Keywords: cold chain,paper bag,thermal bag,food delivery,online groceries,last mile delivery