Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Assessing and QUantifying the ATlantic Instrumental hydroClimate (AQUATIC)

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: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-07-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203149.44
EU funding (EUR): 203149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Precipitation (P) and runoff (R) variability around the tropical and subtropical Atlantic is of fundamental importance to the biosphere and carbon system, and to human livelihood. Over recent decades, decadal variations in P and R — including droughts in the Sahel region of West Africa, northeast Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Amazon basin — have caused large social and economic disruptions. However, understanding the causes of these events, as well as projecting regional 21st century climate change hydroclimate impacts, are complicated by the relative shortness in the instrumental record, which reduces confidence in the attribution of external forcings. AQUATIC will extend the record of Atlantic-sector hydroclimate variability during the 1880–1950 period. We will: (1) compile an integrated hydroclimate dataset including newly-recovered P station gauge data, long-term river R measurements, and a unique long-term record of Atlantic sea surface salinity which we will use as an “ocean rain gauge” to infer the surface evaporation (E)–P–R balance. We will then (2) examine these integrated hydroclimate data along with atmospheric and ocean reanalysis output to characterize mechanisms of decadal-to-multidecadal hydroclimate variability, including shifts of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and expansion and contraction of the Hadley circulation. This will allow us to (3) evaluate the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) simulations to attribute long-term hydrological change to different external forcings, and constrain future climate projections. AQUATIC will combine analysis of early instrumental historical climate data with state-of-the-art reanalysis and model output to understand mechanisms of hydroclimate variability in and around the Atlantic and to narrow uncertainties for the future in this climatologically important region.

Keywords: historical climate data,tropical climatology,atlantic climate,detection and attribution
An Innovative Image Guided Radiofrequency Ablation System to treat Atrial Fibrillation (ABLAVIEW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3524880.0
EU funding (EUR): 2467416.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Medlumics innovation, AblaView™ is an optically guided radiofrequency (RF) ablation catheter to treat atrial fibrillation and arrhythmias. The AblaView™ technology is based on Optical Coherence Reflectometry) which in turn allows the Electrophysiologist to view the ablation of precise areas of the myocardial tissue “inside the heart in real time” for the treatment of Atrial fibrillation. Atrial Fibrilation is the most common type of heart arrhythmia. An estimated 33.5 million people worldwide suffered from AF and prevalence of the disease is expected to increase as the number of people over the age of 65 continues to expand. There were 491.000 catheter-based procedures carried out worldwide in 2015. AblaView is a first-in-class optically guided radio-frequency ablation system to provide missing information about the local catheter environment and directly assess lesion progress in real time by probing the tissue surrounding the ablation electrode. The key disruptive nature of MedLumics’ AblaView™ technology is both been able to precisely control and visualize in real-time tissue ablation at the desired sites of AF propagation but without over-treatment or indeed ablation of “healthy” tissue. The current technologies do not allow for this level of control or visualization and consequently expose the AF patient to inappropriate ablations and serious side effects or adverse events. MedLumics’ technology addresses exactly that problem with its AblaView catheter: it will provide the clinicians with direct, real-time information on lesion formation in the tissue surrounding the catheter’s radiofrequency electrode during the ablation process. Although AF patients are expected to benefit most from this innovation, AblaView is also expected to improve the accuracy of other arrhythmia ablation procedures.

Keywords: atrial fibrilation,optically guided radiofrequency ablation rfa system,flexible photonics,thermal modeling,catether,integrated optic,arrhythmia,threatment real time
FAST Nuclear Emergency Tools (FASTNET) (FASTNET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Nuclear safety
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Russian Federation,Slovakia,Norway,Romania,Finland,Lithuania,Sweden,France,France,Czechia,United States,Denmark,Canada
Call: Tool for the fast and reliable prediction of severe accident progression and anticipation of the source term of a nuclear accident (NFRP-2014-2015, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4684632.14
EU funding (EUR): 2831910.0
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

When dealing with emergency, two issues with fully different time requirements and operational objectives, and thus different methods and tools, have to be considered: emergency preparedness and emergency response. This project will address both issues by combining the efforts of organizations active in these two areas to make already identified deterministic reference tools and methods a decisive step toward. In particular capabilities of these methods and tools will be extended to tackle main categories of accident scenarios in main types of operating or foreseen water-cooled NPPs in Europe, including Spent Fuel Pools. A first task will be the identification of these categories of scenario, the proposition of a methodology for their description and the development of a database of scenarios. Building this database will constitute a first important step in the harmonisation goal defended in this project. Promising probabilistic approaches based on Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) are currently developed to complement operational deterministic methodologies and tools by contributing to diagnosis accidental situations. The development of the methodologies will be pursued in this project with the extension of the existing deterministic ones to European reactors. Both approaches will be assessed against the above mentioned database of scenarios. Finally a comprehensive set of emergency exercises will be developed and proposed to be run by a large set of partners. A first series of exercises will address source term evaluations that will be compared to the reference source terms from the scenarios database. Then a second series of exercises will be proposed on the same scenarios that will be used for the first series but accounting for the main emergency objective : to protect the populations. Progresses made by the methods and tools developed within this project will be notably assessed by comparing the results obtained in these two series of exercises.

Keywords: source term assessment,emergency management,methodologies
Bipartite Network Models for Marriage and Labour Markets (MARNET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1910150.0
EU funding (EUR): 1910150.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Research proposal MARNET aims at improving our empirical knowledge of markets structured as bipartite networks (all connections involve two different categories of agents) by providing better statistical models of network formation and the effects of the network structure on outcomes. The use of random graphs, in which an edge between two nodes is the realization of a random draw, to model networked social, technological and biological systems has been subject to a novel and vigorous effort over the last twenty years. I will contribute to the knowledge corpus on networked economic systems with two separate research lines: first, in studying the interaction between social norms and marriage (monogamous and heterosexual); second, in studying how to improve models for linked employer-employee data. The first research line aims at developing empirical models of marriage formation and intra-household resource allocation in order to better understand why different marriage markets (regions, countries, time periods) look different. My aim is to disentangle and quantify the sources of differentiation that relate to standard socio-economic variables, such as education and wages, from those that relate to culture and social norms. Various extensions will be considered to improve the design and realism of the model (aging and fertility, lots of heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, housing and asset accumulation). In the second research line, I will use recent advances in dynamic random graphs to model individual wage dynamics and the mobility of workers across firms. The main empirical objective is to quantify the degree of assortative matching of workers and firms in the labour market, and the relative contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity in wages. Several extensions will be considered (time-varying types, subjecting the network structure to pre-determined firm sizes, opening firm nodes by modelling wage dynamics and occupational mobility within firms).

Keywords: networks,bipartite graphs,dynamic random graphs,stochastic block models,marriage markets,social norms,cultural identity,within household resource allocation,comparative study,unobserved heterogeneity,finite mixtures,discrete mixtures,hidden markov models,wage dynamics,employment dynamics,firm size,linked employer employee data,matching,wage dispersion,sorting
Fodder for healthier animals and improved livestock production (HEALTHSTOCK)

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: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1826950.0
EU funding (EUR): 1278865.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

PENTABIOL has developed and tested PROBISAN, a fermented fodder improver for nutrition of animals that overtakes the performance of any other fodder improver on the market. The most strict and unbiased product test has been undertaken on a single commercial swine farm in Spain comparing PROBISAN and the leading product on the market. Each product was used to feed during the same period of a population of 1.575 piglets (252 each fodder). PROBISAN piglets ate 10% less and grew 4% more than competition piglets. Considering both effects PROBISAN offers 14% more yield than the best product on the market. Furthermore the average deviation of results with the group of 7 independent tests showed that PROBISAN is much more stable than the other fodders.

Keywords: feed improver,animal s health,animal s digestive system,microbial balance
HARD CHROME REPLACEMENT FOR AUTOMOTIVE MOULDS (ROBOCOAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The purpose of the project is to support the use of composite plastic materials and light metal alloys in the automotive sector, so that motor vehicles are made lighter and less polluting. A critical problem associated with the use of these components stems from the need to chrome-plate the moulds. In fact, chrome-plating the moulds involves: 1) the use of hexavalent chromium, which is very dangerous and highly polluting; 2) very long processing times, since chrome-plating is mainly done by hand. At present, the only technology that can be used is to apply a thick chrome coating obtained from hexavalent chromium in electrochemical galvanising baths. The goal of our project is to replace the galvanic bath with HVOF (High Velocity Oxy Fuel) technology, which can deposit a metal or ceramic coating on the surface of moulds without the need for using hexavalent chromium. The complexity of the project derives from the fact that the surface to be chrome-plated is very large (measurable in square metres) and highly complex. HVOF technology is currently used to coat very simple metal surfaces and has never been employed on complex geometric layouts. Thanks to our new industrial process, suppliers on the automotive market will be able to enjoy the following advantages: - a drastic reduction in the time required for coating the moulds (from the 1.5 months currently required to only a few days); - the capability of making changes to the moulds during the coating process, with little effect on process times and costs; - a reduction in non-conforming moulds caused by human error; - simplified maintenance of the moulds, with the capability of restyling them if required; - the capability of using chrome-plated moulds also for the manufacture of limited-edition series.

Keywords: lighter components in automotive,plastic materials,light metal alloys,ceramic coating,hvof technology
Digital Europe for All (DE4A)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Spain,Belgium,Lithuania,Greece,Slovenia,Sweden,Romania,Slovenia,Sweden,Netherlands,Denmark,Luxembourg,Portugal
Call: New forms of delivering public goods and inclusive public services (H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7998000.46
EU funding (EUR): 7997860.5
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

For a completely working Digital Single Market, effectively enabling the cross-border exercise by citizens and businesses of their Single Market rights, Member States must address several challenges on delivering better services. DE4A is a Member State-driven pilot, aligned with strategic eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020 and EIF Implementation Strategy and with full regulatory compliance (SDGR, GDPR, eIDAS, Services Directive…), establishing a culture of co-creation, transparency, accountability and trustworthiness. Its goal is facilitating migration towards European Digital Public Services co-delivered across borders, across sectors and with different participants, reinforcing trust in public institution, and unleashing multiple measurable positive impacts on efficiency gains and reduction of administrative burden and costs. Starting from needs and capacities of Member States, DE4A’s scalable, holistic, flexible approach focuses on high-quality fully online procedures accessible through the SDG by building on an extended interoperability Toolbox and on state-of-the-art. It enables an open and comprehensive environment and platform for collaboration and innovation, leveraging common eGov baseline patterns for secure, privacy-preserving and trustworthy realisation of essential Once-Only and Relevant-Only principles, and with re-use of existing and new building blocks and Digital Service Infrastructures at national and EU-wide levels. Innovative technologies like blockchain, machine learning, self-emerging ontologies and zero-knowledge proofs will be addressed for effective sharing of common services. Pilots involving secure access to key administrative procedures of real life and business events, shall highlight aspects of the technical ecosystem available for the SDG implementation, prove their technical viability and gauge the performance and degree in which non-functional requirements can be accommodated. DE4A includes 23 partners and has a duration of 40 months.

Keywords: single digital gateway,once only,blockchain,machine learning,building blocks
Early Stage Researchers EDUCational Program on Factor VIII Immunogenicity (EDUC8)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Germany,France,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2100701.91
EU funding (EUR): 2100701.91
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

The development of anti-drug antibodies is the major complication of treatment with biotherapeutics. This is particularly true of patients with haemophilia A (HA) who develop neutralizing antibodies to therapeutic factor VIII (FVIII) following replacement therapy with exogenous pro-coagulant FVIII. The onset of neutralizing antibodies to FVIII, referred to as FVIII inhibitors, represents a major societal concern owing to the enormous cost associated to the clinical management of inhibitor-positive patients, that exceeds 200,000€/patient/year. The EDUC8 program is a multidisciplinary training program with exposure of the enrolled ESRs to a core common educational package and development of individual PhD research projects dedicated to decreasing the societal burden associated with the development of anti-FVIII antibodies in Europe. The core educational program includes exposure to basic science in the fields of immunology and hemostasis, to the most advanced “omic” technologies in order to anticipate tomorrow’s scientific discoveries, and to the importance of ethical considerations and public awareness in today’s research. A key component of the training program is provided by immersion of the ESRs in a clinical center for HA, which will provide them with a unique experience and foster the conception of novel and realistic therapeutic approaches. The ESRs will exploit the accumulated theoretic and practical experience in an entrepreneurship training on key strategic, technical, financial and human resource issues required for the creation of startups. In a tribute to the concept of the fully developed mind coined by the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne on education, our ambition is to form a novel generation of scientists with deep scientific knowledge, multicultural exposure, imagination, pragmatism and understanding of both the academic and private sectors. This will foster translational research in European on the immunogenicity of therapeutic proteins.

Keywords: haemophilia a,factor viii,protein therapeutic,immunogenicity,anti drug antibodies,immuno intervention
The flight simulator for Medical and Health Professionals (abcdeSIM-VR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

VirtualMedSchool (VMS) was founded in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in 2013, when we partnered with the Erasmus Medical Centre University Hospital and the SBOH to create a disruptive web-based platform to effectively train medical/health professionals by using serious gaming and medical simulation– the abcdeSIM. The abcdeSIM has been validated by several publications and by achieving CME accreditation, and has gained public recognition by winning several awards. With our flagship product we have already reached 50% of all Dutch hospitals and > 200 in the UK by partnering with the British Royal College of Physicians. With the ambition to continuously provide the medical community with new disruptive technologies that will result in more effective practices for existing and future medical/health professionals, we seek to further develop the technological features of the abcdeSIM, and to bring to the European market a new revolutionary solution – the abcdeSIM-VR. The abcdeSIM-VR consists of a Virtual Reality headset and a web-based simulation platform, including a serious game. The medical trainee wears the VR headset, and is fully immersed in a simulated real environment, being able to perform on virtual patients, in real-time, under different clinical settings. With the abcdeSIM-VR medical and health professionals can now fully experience real-world-like situations and intervene in patients with different clinical settings, without posing risks to them. With the abcdeSIM-VR we expect to multiply VMS’ sales by 20 and reach 4.6 million Euros by 2022, while creating 6 new direct jobs 3 years after market launch. We will allow our target customers (hospitals, academic centres) to reduce training time and costs, as opposed to conventional methods, and a safe way for medical/health students and professionals (our end-users) to gain hands-on experience in real-world clinical situations, while assuring patient safety.

Keywords: medical training,virtual reality,serious gaming