Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Post-Consumer High-tech Recycled Polymers for a Circular Economy – PolyCE (PolyCE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Austria,Spain,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Germany,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,Finland,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Japan,United Kingdom
Call: Systemic, eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: large-scale demonstration projects (H2020-CIRC-2016TwoStage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9386454.63
EU funding (EUR): 8321995.72
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

Various activities address the WEEE value chain in order to reduce waste generation and enhance the sustainable resource management through use of recycled materials instead of their virgin counterparts. While the system for metals recycling is already well established, the rising volumes of waste plastics point to stalemates in the current plastics economy, which hamper its shift to a more circular model. Although there are individual efforts to improve the collection and recycling of WEEE plastics, the plastics value chain is still too fragmented and WEEE recycled plastics seem unattractive material for the end-user. To shift towards circular economy a systematic transformation is required, involving all actors in the value chain and encompassing the entire lifecycle of plastic materials. While substantially reducing the WEEE plastics generation and enhancing the use of recycled plastics in new applications, PolyCE will demonstrate the feasibility of circular plastics supply and value chain. In particular, PolyCE will elaborate harmonized set of technical requirements addressing the entire value chain and develop grade system for recycled plastics according to their material properties and final application suitability. Accordingly, PolyCE will strengthen the market for recycled plastics through an online platform integrating the different plastic grades. In parallel, the technical and economic feasibility as well as environmental benefits of using recycled plastics will be validated in several electronics demonstrators. In addition, PolyCE will provide Guidelines for designing new electronics products with recycled plastics. The project’s impact will be scaled up by involving target cities and their green public procurement initiatives; by EU-wide information and awareness raising campaigns. PolyCE will establish a feedback loop from the research activities, provide policy input regarding technical feasibilities and policy conflicts from technical perspective

Keywords: weee,post consumer recycled plastics,technical requirements,grade systems for recycled plastics,standardisation,supply and value chain,dematerialisation,new business models
Behavioural Economics in Network Games (BEING)

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: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Three aspects of social interaction shall be combined, namely the diffusion of information in a social network, the formation of social networks, and behavioural (i.e. irrational) aspects in decision making. These three areas are crucially interdependent: 1) unwelcome information and irrational behaviour may lead to a change in a person’s circle of friends and thereby to a change in the social network; 2) the network itself and the (potentially irrational) processing of information influences the information diffusion in a society; 3) the decisions that have to be made with respect to network formation can be influenced by the disutility of unwelcome information rather than the utility of being correctly informed and thereby lead to irrational behaviour. This shall allow for an integrated approach in the analysis of social dynamics. While the three parts of this project already form an ambitious project that will provide considerable academic impact, they will also lead to interesting follow ups and spin-off research that is highly relevant in the upcoming years, such as the analysis of information diffusion in social networks prior to the European Election in 2019, and to applications outside academia, such as optimising product placement and advertisement in social networks, or the development of measures that prevent vigilantism in social networks. The combination of network formation, innovation diffusion, and behavioural economics is not only a novel approach to these rather young research areas with potential impact in economics, psychology, social sciences, and even computer sciences; it is also a highly relevant topic for modern societies where social media play a crucial role in daily communication and information aggregation. This project will therefore not only add to our understanding of social dynamics and thereby push the academic boundaries, it will also have clear practical implications that allow for a broad exploitation of the research results.

Keywords: social networks,information diffusion,network formation,behavioural economics
Cerebellar control of Cortical Development (CERCODE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Spain,Spain
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499709.26
EU funding (EUR): 1499709.26
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The cerebellum plays a critical role in motor function, but also in cognitive, and social behavioral development. It is proposed that the influence of the cerebellum in high-order processing is via modulatory effects on the cerebral cortex. Importantly, mounting evidences from clinical studies indicate that early cerebellar damage lead to wide range of changes in the structure and function of the developing cerebral cortex. This pathophysiological phenomenon is referred as “developmental diaschisis” and it suggests that the development of cerebral cortical areas is optimized by the guidance of cerebellar input. Thus, abnormalities in the developmental influence between these two brain regions might underlie the emergence of several neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorders. Yet, the mechanisms by which the cerebellum is influencing the development and maturation of distant cortical circuits remain unknown. Here, we will adopt a multidisciplinary and innovative approach to define the mechanisms by which the cerebellum influences the development of cortical areas. We hypothesize that these mechanisms are orchestrated by the thalamus, a key intermediate region connecting the cerebellum and the cortex. Therefore, a cerebellar malfunctioning might lead to alterations of cortical areas via thalamic reorganizations. Manipulating cerebellar early normal development and function offers us the possibility to shed light onto this issue. Thus, we will embryonically disturb the cerebello-thalamo-cortical output by anatomical, genetic and functional methods to determine the alterations in the development, organization, function and plasticity of the thalamocortical and cortical networks. The successful execution of this high-risk, high-impact research will provide insights on how the atypical cerebellar structure or function is involved in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Keywords: cerebellum,cortex,thalamus,neural circuits development
Connecting neuronal network activity with regional specificity for Alzheimer pathology: a multi-modal neuroimaging approach (CONNECT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United States,Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 174864.6
EU funding (EUR): 174864.6
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

As the world’s population is aging, the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is estimated to triple by 2050. Even though AD was identified more than 100 years ago, research has gained momentum only the last 30 years. To date, studies have mainly focused on the accumulation of two proteins, amyloid-beta and tau to understand the pathophysiology of this disease. In this project, I will take a new approach, by investigating the interaction between these two pathological hallmarks of AD and neuronal activity as a potential causal model for AD. The underlying hypothesis is that regional levels of neuronal activity determine the interaction between amyloid and tau pathology, and lead to AD symptomatology. To that end, I aim to combine novel molecular and state-of-the-art magnetic neuroimaging techniques with higher statistical modeling techniques. The group of Prof. Johnson at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is currently the leading group pushing these techniques forward. The expertise within the lab of Prof. Johnson, his extensive network, the skills that I will acquire throughout this fellowship (scientifically and management-wise), combined with my existing level of expertise in MRI and my participation in diverse European networks will provide me with the competences to lead my own research group and establish a functional international multidisciplinary AD research network. Delaying or even treating this disease will require a multifactorial, multidisciplinary approach in which researchers combine resources, data and results in a coordinated manner worldwide. The implementation of these techniques in Europe and the subsequent close collaborations between European and American networks will have the highest chances to improve detection, prevention and treatment of AD.
CENSZ – Critical Elements in Nonsulphide Zinc Deposits (CENSZ)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 91727.4
EU funding (EUR): 91727.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The definition Critical Elements (CE) is assigned to those raw materials that are characterized by high supply risk and their high economic importance for the world/EU economy. Their high supply risk for EU is because Europe does not have enough primary resources of its own. The supply has to be satisfied by the global market production, which is often from geopolitically sensitive regions. It is recognised that recycling can only make a limited contribution to supplying European needs.. The central aim is to establish a comprehensive database of some of the most strategically important CE (Gallium, Indium and Germanium hereafter referred to by the acronym ‘GIG’) deportment within Nonsulphide Zinc (+Lead) deposits (NSZ) occurring within the Critical Zone of the crust, normally formed after the weathering and modification of Zn-Pb sulphide protores. These deposits have been exploited in the past in Europe (Italy, Belgium, Poland), and are currently exploited in several countries of the world, but they were never considered as a potential source for GIG even though some of the sulphide progenitors often contain these elements.

Keywords: critical elements,nonsulfide zn deposits,mineral deportment,geochemical conditions,climatic conditions
Edible coating for preventing loss of water and fungi proliferation in fruits and vegetables (B-shelf)

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: Israel
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Almost half of the fruits and vegetables production is lost before it is consumed by people. Dehydration is considered the main driver of quality decrease and promoter of fungi/bacteria proliferation. Taking into account that contamination occurs due to water loss and the action of fungi/bacteria, the reduction of the product shelf-life can be summarized as the combination of the above factors. Consequently, marketing of products that have suffered significant water loss and spoilage becomes difficult; therefore key participants on the post-harvest sector is on demand of solutions able to extend the shelf-life of fruits and vegetables and thus increase the profitability of their activities. Our innovative project B-Shelf is based on the concept of active packaging, thus the development of an edible coating with inherent fungicidal properties. We offer our ground-breaking proprietary micro-encapsulated technology of essential oils, taking advantage of their ability to erase fungal activity, combined with an eco-friendly edible coating based on polysaccharides formulations able to prevent dehydration. Thus, the two main aspects that promote rotting in fruits and vegetables are addressed; improving their storage stability and extending their effective post-harvesting life is extended by 50-100%. The overall objective of B-Shelf project is to speed up the commercialization of an eco-innovative edible coating (GRAS) with associated benefits able to disrupt the post-harvesting and in-storage market of fruits and vegetables. Thus, European and global challenges regarding food losses reduction along the value-chain are met and the competiveness on the European agri-sector is increased.

Keywords: edible coating,essential oils,agro industry,active packaging
Celestial fireworks: revealing the physics of the time-variable sky (Fireworks)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Universe sciences
Panel description: Astro-physics/-chemistry/-biology; solar system; planetary systems; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy; cosmology; space sciences; astronomical instrumentation and data
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 71.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2461111.0
EU funding (EUR): 2461111.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Experimental time-domain astrophysics is on the verge of a new era as technological, computational, and operational progress combine to revolutionise the manner in which we study the time-variable sky. This proposal consolidates previous breakthrough work on wide-field surveys into a coherent program to advance our study of the variable sky on ever decreasing time-scales: from days, through hours, to minutes. We will watch how stars explode in real time in order to study the complex physics of stellar death, build new tools to handle and analyse the uniquely new data sets we are collecting, and shed light on some of the most fundamental questions in modern astrophysics: from the origin of the elements, via the explosions mechanism of supernova explosions, to the feedback processes that drive star formation and galaxy evolution.

Keywords: supernovae,time domain astrophysics,wide field surveys,cosmic explosions,massive stars
Magnetic cross-modal brain activity scanner MAX-BAS (MAX-BAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: FET Innovation Launchpad (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-03, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 125000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This Innovation Launchpad proposal aims at commercializing the first cross-modal MEG-MRI scanner. Our superconductor-based detector system is used for both magnetoencephalography (MEG) and magnetic resonance (MR) to achieve imaging (I) of brain activity overlayed accurately with anatomical brain images. In the FET Open project BREAKBEN, we are finalizing our research prototype and demonstrating the commercial potential with patients and healthy subjects. The next step is to aim for the markets, which requires careful assessment of the accuracy of the device and measures to further standardize and automate the MRI procedures. This will also lead to the first commercial implementation of ultra-low-field MRI, measured in microtesla-range magnetic fields. In addition to the synergy with MEG, this type of MRI enables unique advantages compared to conventional MRI, including improved contrast for tumors, and an extremely safe and open scanner that is potentially completely silent. Cross-modal MEG-MRI provides useful information for both research and for clinical use.

Keywords: imaging,brain,meg mri,neuroscience,superconductor,biomagnetism,squid
Robotic tEchnologies for the Manipulation of cOmplex DeformablE Linear objects (REMODEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies for Factories of the Future
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Finland,Poland,Poland,Slovenia
Call: Handling systems for flexible materials (RIA) (H2020-NMBP-FOF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5920412.5
EU funding (EUR): 5920412.5
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

REMODEL will enable new production environments, where the manufacturing of complex products composed of multiple wires and cables by means of dual-arm robots is not only possible, but fully integrated with the product design chain. This result will be achieved by exploiting the result of a previous project called WIRES, were basic tools for the manipulation of electric wires have been developed. Moreover, new perception and interaction capabilities will be embedded into the robot to be effective in the industrial manufacturing scenario. REMODEL will bring new opportunities to human-intensive labor manufacturing processes like the one dealing with cables and wires, where the routing and fitting tasks are calling for advanced handling techniques. The REMODEL robotic ability will impact several production scenarios in which human work is widely adopted due to the complexity in the objects, materials and manipulation tasks, characterized unpredictable initial configuration as well as large deformability and plasticity. Activities involving mass production, such as wiring harness manufacturing for automotive and appliances, are moving outside Europe due to the high labour cost and to the repetitiveness of the tasks that produces high psychophysical stress in the workers. In other cases, such as the switchgear wiring and the wiring harness manufacturing for the aerospace sector, the need of increasing production flexibility, reliability and traceability of the product as well as reduce costs and time to market implies the adoption of innovative tools to maintain proper competitiveness and answer the market requests. To proof the effectiveness of the REMODEL outcomes, four industrial manufacturing use cases provided by the industrial partners and covering five different domains, i.e. the production and assembly of wiring harnesses in the automotive and the aerospace field, the switchgear wiring and the manufacturing of medical consumables, will be developed.

Keywords: manipulation of deformable objects,modelling,identification and tracking of deformable linear objects,tutored learning,collaborative robots
PISPA – Plytix Information Sharing Platform and Analytics – Testing product market fit for a disruptive Information sharing platform for brands and resellers (PISPA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The problem: As e-commerce grows in size and complexity, there will be a real need for a global standard identification system for products being sold online. Nowadays, too many resources are wasted on asset distribution from brands to e-tailers. Brands currently distribute product images and information for official e-tailers via email, ftp sharing, and other outdated ways, which makes the process time-consuming. Moreover, brands are currently unable to ensure that their products are presented in a way that reflects their brand’s image. For e-tailers, downloading, uploading and resizing images from brands is a time consuming process. The solution: Plytix.com is an online platform service that facilitates unmet needs in the current ecommerce model. Our novel platform acts as a central hub for brands and online retailers, introducing a whole new concept in ecommerce – an ecommerce focused, product-centric analytic tool. Unlike other web analytics tools, Plytix tracks product performance (not sites) directly and across websites – thereby bringing more value/insights for each given product. Our analytics tool enables users – brands and e-tailers – to extract valuable insights that allows them to: [i] optimize prices; [ii] detect quality problems; and [iii] optimize inventory to prevent stock-out, etc. In sum, Plytix provides the means for brands and e-tailers to extract large added value from cost savings and new business opportunities. The market: Since the largest online platforms are some of the biggest companies in the world, one could argue that the online platform business model is the most successful part of the Internet economy. The total exploitable market size for Plytix in the relevant countries (>10,000 brands registered) is above EUR 254 billion per year. The implementation of the innovation project will place Plytix.com ApS in a strong position to exploit a market potential over five years exceeding € 233 million.

Keywords: e commerce,web analytics,platform business,product information manager