Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Distributed storage based on sparse-graph codes (DISC)

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: Sweden
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-07-20
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185857.2
EU funding (EUR): 185857.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The recent years have witnessed the explosion of services and applications such as email, cloud computing, social and media networks, and video sharing. The grand challenge is to store, process and transfer this massive amount of data. According to recent estimates, the data to be stored grows at a rate of 45% per year, a factor of 40 by 2024. Data centers typically employ a collection of cheap devices/nodes, which are connected forming a so-called distributed storage (DS) system, where a central server keeps track of where each file is stored and performs all network operations. Every day, knowingly or unknowingly people connect to various private and public DS systems. It is nowadays accepted that current DS systems cannot face the unabated growing of digital data volume. Nextgeneration storage systems desperately need new technologies to improve their robustness to node failures, storage efficiency, complexity, and cost efficiency, in order to sustain the information revolution of modern societies. This project addresses the challenges above using modern coding theory and optimization theory. Our focus is on the application of sparse-graph erasure correcting codes to large DS networks. The proposed project falls into the category of fundamental research, but it is driven by practical concerns, and we expect our findings to give new and relevant insights for the design of practical coding schemes for next-generation DS systems.

Keywords: distributed storage,error control coding,communications
Airport Safety Nets (PJ03b SAFE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: SESAR (Art-187)
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Italy,Poland,Slovakia,Switzerland,Norway,Norway,Belgium,Bulgaria,Hungary,Lithuania,Romania,Slovakia,Sweden,Belgium,France,France,France,France,France,Czechia,Czechia,Netherlands,United States,United Kingdom,Portugal,Denmark
Call: Airport Safety Nets (H2020-SESAR-2015-2, 2015)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13542193.4
EU funding (EUR): 8228382.22
Participants: 42
Project status: CLOSED

Safety is aviation’s top priority. To work for even safer airports, Project 03b SAFE will define, consolidate and validate additional safety bareers to mitigate the risks of runway incursion, runway excursion and more generally the risk of incidents and accidents involving aircraft at the airport. They will be declined into four Solutions: Solution ‘Enhanced airport safety support tools for controllers’ will provide Air Traffic Controllers with means to prevent the delivery of conflicting clearances and detect non-conformance to clearances on the entire airport. Solution ‘Conformance monitoring alerts for pilots’ will warn pilots when an inconsistency between the aircraft behaviour with either ATC Clearance or procedure is detected. Solution ‘Traffic alerts for pilots for airport operations’ is a key feature to significantly decrease the risk of collision with any mobile on runway and taxiways, improving safety on airport surface. Solution ‘Safety support tools for avoiding runway excursions’ will address the most frequent type of runway safety accident (22% of all accidents over the 2010-2014 period according to IATA Safety Report). The work will focus on how the risk of runway excursion can be mitigated by on-board and ground systems that could warn pilots, controllers or both when appropriate. This solution requires a better knowledge of runway braking conditions, and can improve the runway capacity and environmental aspects through a better management of decontamination operations. Dedicated tasks to support standardization activities will be performed in each solution when appropriate. PJ03b Consortium involves key stakeholders of Airborne Industry, Ground ATM Industry, Service Providers (ATM and Airports), Aerospace Research and EUROCONTROL. Those members of the SJU will cooperate for implementing SESAR 2020 in an efficient, open and timely manner, providing a wide range of expertise and committing together to deliver high-quality results.

Keywords: pcp mawp sesar airport safety net asn smgcs runway atc alerts tower controller pilot catc cmac itap cmap runway excursion friction capacity
Development of a Terahertz Self-Mixing Imaging System (THEMIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149580.0
EU funding (EUR): 149580.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ERC Advanced grant ‘TOSCA’ (grant number: 247375) focussed on the development of terahertz (THz) frequency science and technology, and in particular, investigated the electronic and photonic engineering of THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), and the underlying physics of these sophisticated devices. This Proof of Concept grant (THEMIS) builds on this pioneering research, and in particular on our breakthrough developments in QCL self-mixing imaging. We will increase the technology readiness level of the patented optical-bench-based THz QCL systems developed under ‘TOSCA’, and develop a demonstrator suitable for translation of this technology to industrial end-users. The focus is on delivering a compact, inexpensive, THz frequency imaging system, which exploits self-mixing technology to deliver amplitude- and phase-resolved images whilst dispensing with an external detector. Specific objectives are to: construct a compact and robust optical-breadboard-based self-mixing system; demonstrate the technology outside the laboratory environment, both in the field with commercial end-users, and at conferences/workshops/trade shows; and, evaluate opportunities for THz self-mixing imaging, identifying end-user applications. To achieve this, we will engineer our current optical-bench-based technology onto a robust and compact optical breadboard with a cryogen-free cooler, and develop integrated ‘plug-and-play’ electronics and software for image reconstruction. The complete system will be suitable for transport to commercial partners, allowing demonstration and evaluation of the technology. Furthermore, we will incorporate a near-field microscopy capability, enabling sub-micron THz imaging – more than 100 times smaller than the THz free-space wavelength. By the end of the programme, we will have identified an exploitation path by liaising directly with THz instrument manufacturers and with at least one targeted end-user

Keywords: terahertz,quantum cascade lasers,self mixing imaging
Travelling Sounds: A cultural analysis of sonic artefacts in postcolonial Europe (TRAVELLING SOUNDS)

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: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-10-16
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212194.8
EU funding (EUR): 212194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this postcolonial and globalised world, the movement and criss-crossing of people, ideas, and sonic artefacts across the boundaries of nation states have become integral to the everyday cultural practices of individuals and groups. The vibrant connection between everyday cultural practices, artistic expressions, and new ways of thinking about culture in times of growing migratory movements and globalisation, has fascinated me ever since I started my PhD project on South Asian British musical cultures in the context of postcolonial history and theory. Aiming at establishing myself as an independent scholar, and at taking my expertise in cultural studies, sound studies and postcolonial studies to the next level, I am keen to study the postcolonial condition (Gilroy) of Europe not only through its musical, but also through its wider sonic cultures, taking into account sonic artefacts from different contexts, such as: sonic reinventions of urban space, the social functions of mobile devices, and the identificatory power of sound in cultural memory and commemoration. The overall aim of this project is to establish a comparative perspective which includes case studies from Denmark and the UK, and to investigate the cultural, social and political potential of sonic artefacts – music, voices, and everyday sounds – to forge a better understanding of Europe’s transcultural and entangled postcolonial histories and how they have shaped contemporary sound cultures. To exemplify this, the project focuses on specific iconic events and artefacts such as the sonic-cultural politics of “Greenlandic Square” in Copenhagen, the postcolonial signature sound of the steel drum at Notting Hill Carnival in London, and the 2011 so-called "Blackberry riots" addressing its use of social media networks for messaging, activist organisation and sonic representation. The challenging question when looking at these diverse examples is how they are connected to Europe’s postcolonial condition.

Keywords: sound studies,auditory culture,postcolonial studies,cultural analysis,sensory ethnography
SOCIAL@RISK™ - A TOOL FOR PREDICTING AND MITIGATING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS (SatR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

One of the most pervasive problems in global supply chains is the violation of labour and other human rights in developing countries. The two most common ways to mitigate these risks are social audits and the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data. None of these methods accounts for systemic labour and human rights violations as the bottom line for social risk assessments. Globalworks’ ambition is to bring a game-changing innovation to the market with a real impact on the SDGs promoting decent work as well as sustainable consumption and production. To this end we developed an alternative, big-data driven approach that makes use of information accessible on the Internet. Everyday workers and other stakeholders in developing countries write about their grievances on social media in order to protest, reach out for help, seek advice, or share experiences. Our tool social@risk collects these voices. social@risk represents an intelligent, fully transparent system where experts and stakeholders of an issue inform the algorithms that facilitate data structuring and analysis. In the future social@risk will use millions of posts from tens of thousands of factory sites as the basis for predicting social risks associated with a supplier, industry, and/or location. social@risk is the first grievance-based risk management approach on the market adding a fundamentally new quality to social risk intelligence.

Keywords: social inclusion,workers rights,human rights,big data,sustainable production,decent work,social risk analysis,social risk intelligence
Career Accelerator for Research Infrastructure Scientists (ARISE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2026-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 13682160.0
EU funding (EUR): 6841080.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Scientists engaging in technology development, including method, resource and infrastructure development and respective service provision (both experimentally and computationally), became essential in modern life sciences and are the most important resource of European research infrastructures (RI). However, there is a strong human resource deficit of RI scientists and no dedicated programme to train new RI Scientists exists in Europe and worldwide. We propose to establish a "Career Accelerator for Research Infrastructure Scientists (ARISE)", a novel programme for future RI Scientists. The ARISE programme will enable experienced Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) professionals to become future leaders in technology development, management and operation of advanced RIs and to speed up the technology innovation in Life Sciences. The programme will be established by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), an intergovernmental organisation with sites in Germany, UK, France, Spain and Italy. In the ARISE programme, EMBL teamed up with 46 partner organisations, which will support training of the Fellows. The Programme will provide opportunity to work on a wide range of technology development of their choice, in which EMBL and ARISE partners have considerable expertise, including (but not limited to) areas such as imaging, bioinformatics, structural biology, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and (bio)chemical engineering. The programme aims to train 62 incoming Fellows in the course of 5 years. Fellows will be recruited in 3 recruitment rounds, employed by EMBL and will receive a 3-year Fellowship to perform research and receive training in research, professional and transferable skills. After successfully finishing the training, we expect the Fellows to take positions as senior scientists or leaders in core facilities, research infrastructures or technology development groups, either in academia, industry, health care and other sectors.

Keywords: life sciences,technology development,fellows,research infrastructure,scientific services,engineering
Redefining solar technology with RETRACTABLE SOLAR POWER FOLDING ROOFS. Unlocking photovoltaics for waste water treatment plants towards self-sufficient plants. (HORIZON)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3554463.75
EU funding (EUR): 2488124.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

dhp technology is an award winning start-up in the energy sector which has developed the first and unique feasible application of photovoltaics in wastewater treatment plants (WTPs). HORIZON is a worldwide unparalleled retractable folding solar roof that can be utilised in already commercially exploited spaces such as parking lots, storage and logistics facilities, as it enables the production of solar power through dual usage. The dual usage of spaces preserves resources and allows for the production of solar power where it is needed most. The folding roof automatically avoids poor weather and retracts itself into a central garage, in a aesthetic, lightweight and economical manner. Horizon has been designed with the future in mind as it can be integrated into current and future trends such as IoT, smart mobility and smart grids. Our solution provides a solution to the increasing densification of our living spaces and eases the competition amongst industry, housing, cropland, recreational spaces and energy production. Horizon is a disruptive technology and it has no direct competing solutions which can achieve a similar dual function in the target markets. The two main applications of the folding solar roof are parking-logistics areas and wastewater treatment plants. The customers are municipalities, energy providers or land operators. High self-consumption remains at the centre for both segments, as well as additional benefits such as shade for vehicles, brand image or the compatibility with electro mobility charging stations. There is a technical potential of approximately 70MW on wastewater purification plants and 5GW on parking lots within the Swiss market. In Europe these are approximately 4GW and 300GW respectively in the same segments which corresponds to a market size of over €100 billion. Through the market entry in 7 EU markets, the HORIZON project will reach in in year 2025 revenues of €55’7M, and profit of €9’7M, generating renewable 80 MWp in 157 WTPs.

Keywords: solar photovoltaic,retractable,subsidies,cableway,decentralised,electromobility,dual usage,self consumption,carport,energy selfsufficiency
Forever Open infrastructure across (X) all transport modes (FOX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Israel,Ukraine,Austria,Germany,Germany,Lithuania,Poland,Slovenia,Belgium,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Portugal
Call: Smarter design, construction and maintenance (H2020-MG-2014_SingleStage_B, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 929753.53
EU funding (EUR): 929753.53
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

An efficient and high-quality transport infrastructure is a fundamental requirement for the connectivity of people and goods in Europe and basis for economic growth, competitiveness and territorial cohesion. In general, the transport network in Europe is of a high standard but is still fragmented regarding the geographical distribution and the transport modes. In recent years, first networking activities and exchange of strategic programmes among the stakeholders of the four transport modes – road, rail, water and air – can be noticed but still a mono-modal, mono-disciplinary culture exists. In the light of the future challenges, e.g. increasing transport demand, ageing infrastructure, scarcity of natural resources, changing climatic conditions, it is inevitable to strengthen the collaboration of the single transport modes in order to create an improved future integrated and functioning transport system for Europe, despite of limited financial resources of the owners of the transport network. The FOX project aims to develop a highly efficient and effective cross-modal R&D environment and culture which meets the demanding requirements of the transport and connectivity. Based on already existing programmes and agendas related to the aspects of co-modal transport research, the FOX project will identify common needs and innovative techniques in the areas of construction, maintenance, inspection, and recycling & reuse of transport infrastructure. This will be reached by the involvement of all stakeholders (owners, researchers, and industry) of the four transport modes in a phased approach: Starting with the determination of the state-of-the-art in research and practice, in the next step the most promising practices and ideas will be identified. By mapping the common needs, the final aim is to establish a cross-modal Working Group to develop a roadmap for the whole transport sector and set the agenda for further improvement of cross-modal research development innovation.

Keywords: cross modal infrastructure,co modal transport research,multimodal interaction,mobility in the 21st century,transport modes,ageing infrastructure,decarbonisation,climate change,construction
Towards enduring mouse resources and services advancing research into human health and disease (INFRAFRONTIER2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Development and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Israel,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Germany,Finland,Sweden,Greece,France,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,Canada
Call: Individual support to ESFRI and other world-class research infrastructures (H2020-INFRADEV-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4968252.16
EU funding (EUR): 4955877.16
Participants: 30
Project status: CLOSED

The INFRAFRONTIER RI integrates European Mouse Clinics and the European Mouse Mutant Archive with the common goal to ensure access to mouse models for basic research of human health and disease, and to translate this knowledge into therapeutic approaches for the benefit of the European society. The expanded INFRAFRONTIER2020 network, coordinated by the INFRAFRONTIER GmbH, includes 3 SMEs and is strategically responding to the INFRADEV3 call with aligned objectives to advance the long-term sustainability which are 1) development of business models and a stable legal framework; 2) raise awareness of the INFRAFRONTIER RI; 3) provide bespoke services aligned with user demands; 4) promote best practices in mouse phenogenomics; 5) enhance robustness of the INFRAFRONTIER IT infrastructure and use of the EMMA strain resource; and 6) improve business processes. Towards achieving these objectives key INFRAFRONTIER2020 project deliverables are: • INFRAFRONTIER Business Plan2.0, and business models for all services • Stable legal framework built on the INFRAFRONTIER legal entity • INFRAFRONTIER annual stakeholder conferences • Customised mouse model and secondary phenotyping pilot services • INFRAFRONTIER advanced training schools in mouse phenogenomics • Reengineered EMMA Database2.0 system • Annotated mouse models of human diseases • Quality management system for the legal entity INFRAFRONTIER2020 will 1) enhance the sustainable operation of the INFRAFRONTIER RI; 2) continue to structure the ERA, 3) foster innovation, and 4) address major societal challenges in human health by customised service pilots supporting research into common and rare diseases. A sustainable INFRAFRONTIER RI will ensure the quality of deposited mice and support the reproducibility of biological results. Outreach efforts will raise awareness of resources and services and facilitate sustainable engagement with industry and global consortia such as the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium

Keywords: systemic phenotyping,mouse clinic,cryopreservation,gnotobiology,ageing,mouse disease models,community integration,era development,sustainable research infrastructure,engaging key stakeholders