Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
FANNABEE, a digital social marketplace for collectors (FANNABEE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overall EU trade of cultural good has a value of over 22B€, with a trade surplus of EUR 1.8B€. The group of cultural products itself is very heterogeneous: there will be much less interest in embroidery, maps, and architectural plans and drawings, for example, than for CDs and DVDs. These differences in consumption characteristics and the structure of industrial production and its specialisation in different Member States have an impact on patterns of imports and exports of cultural articles. This requires to address every cultural product with the right tools and platform, so to enhance user experience according to every category of cultural product. FANNABEE is addressing a specific sector of cultural goods (music collectibles and memorabilia: $10 B€ transaction worldwide every year, 30M music collectors worldwide, 60% online) and it is providing a solution able to cope with the need of ever demanding collectors: map their collection and find new opportunities to trade and exchange collectable items. The objective of FANNABEE is to bring on the market a web platform allowing music collectors to catalogue, share and exchange the items of their collections. FANNABEE wants to address this specific business opportunity, placing itself in this area by allowing collectors to Catalog, Trade and Showcase their collection of CDs, Vinyls and Memorabilia via web and mobile. The platform is designed to offer a 360 ° service and is developed with the best technology available on the market today in the big players (Facebook, Pinterest, etc.). The objective of the feasibility study is to drive the initial market expansion of FANNABEE on EU and international markets in whatever country, enabling a community of people willing to share and exchange items of their collectables.

Keywords: marketplace,collecting platform,social marketplace,cataloguing solution,music,arts
Reconstructing the emergence of the Milky Way’s stellar population with Gaia, SDSS-V and JWST (EMERGE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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 Advanced Grant (ERC-2018-ADG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1859375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1859375.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Understanding how the Milky Way arrived at its present state requires a large volume of precision measurements of our Galaxy’s current makeup, as well as an empirically based understanding of the main processes involved in the Galaxy’s evolution. Such data are now about to arrive in the flood of quality information from Gaia and SDSS-V. The demography of the stars and of the compact stellar remnants in our Galaxy, in terms of phase-space location, mass, age, metallicity, and multiplicity are data products that will come directly from these surveys. I propose to integrate this information into a comprehensive picture of the Milky Way’s present state. In parallel, I will build a Galactic chemical evolution model, with input parameters that are as empirically based as possible, that will reproduce and explain the observations. To get those input parameters, I will measure the rates of supernovae (SNe) in nearby galaxies (using data from past and ongoing surveys) and in high-redshift proto-clusters (by conducting a SN search with JWST), to bring into sharp focus the element yields of SNe and the distribution of delay times (the DTD) between star formation and SN explosion. These empirically determined SN metal-production parameters will be used to find the observationally based reconstruction of the Galaxy’s stellar formation history and chemical evolution that reproduces the observed present-day Milky Way stellar population. The population census of stellar multiplicity with Gaia+SDSS-V, and particularly of short-orbit compact-object binaries, will hark back to the rates and the element yields of the various types of SNe, revealing the connections between various progenitor systems, their explosions, and their rates. The plan, while ambitious, is feasible, thanks to the data from these truly game-changing observational projects. My team will perform all steps of the analysis and will combine the results to obtain the clearest picture of how our Galaxy came to be.

Keywords: supernovae,binary systems,explosive nucleosynthesis,chemical evolution,white dwarfs
Automated Cellular Robot-Assisted Technologies for translation of discovery-led research in Osteoarthritis (AutoCRAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,Ireland,Ireland,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Regenerative medicine: from new insights to new applications (H2020-SC1-2019-Single-Stage-RTD, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7452770.0
EU funding (EUR): 7452770.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

AutoCRAT will develop novel sustainable cell and cell-derived therapies for osteoarthritis (OA). Osteoarthritis, a major disease, results in degradation of cartilage. It is the most common chronic joint condition, currently affecting >40 million Europeans. As no effective treatments for OA are available, it imposes a huge burden on the individual patient and European health care systems. Adult mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) show early, promising clinical treatment efficacy in OA. However, costs of MSC production prevents widespread use for patients. Using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC), AutoCRAT will generate articular chondrocytes (hiCHOs) for cartilage repair to prevent development of OA and hiMSCs to treat established disease as sustainable therapeutic cell sources for therapies. Discovery of the osteoarthritis-specific hiMSC secretome will enable further refinement of these next-generation therapies; this will be achieved by molecular analysis of: 1) hiMSCs treated with synovial fluid from OA patients 2) EVs derived from these therapeutically-activated cells to develop the therapeutic osteoarthritis secretome. To ensure sustainable supply of high quality, affordable products, AutoCRAT will also develop a manufacturing pipeline composed of automated, regulatory-compliant robotic systems for production of the developed hiCHOs and hiMSCs and cell-secreted extracellular vesicle (EVs). The manufacturing pipeline can be extended to many other major diseases. The AutoCRAT consortium is composed of leading European scientific teams in stem cell biology, OA, preclinical efficacy and safety demonstration, GMP- and GAMP-compliant manufacturing of MSCs, regulatory affairs and health economics analysis. All aspects of AutoCRAT discovery and translation innovations will be guided by the imperative to deliver economically viable and regulatory-compliant therapies to OA-patients, the European health care system at large, and benefits to the European economy.

Keywords: induced pluripotent stem cells,mesenchymal stem cells,chondrocytes,extracellular vesicles,exosomes,automated manufacture,bioreactor,process monitoring,gamp,regulation,economic analysis
Enhancing the Innovation Management Capacity of Cypriot SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network - KAM2CY (KAM2CY)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Cyprus
Call: INNOSUP (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2014-05-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 8.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10500.0
EU funding (EUR): 8400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The Research Promotion Foundation (RPF) is submitting the Proposal entitled “Enhancing the innovation management capacities of Cypriot SMEs in the Enterprise Europe Network”. Founded in 1996, the RPF was established at the initiative of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, to promote the development of scientific, technological research and innovation in Cyprus. The Foundation is an independent organisation and its main objectives include: The design, launching and monitoring of National Research and Innovation Funding Programmes and also the promotion of the participation of Cypriot entities and researchers in European Research and Innovation Programmes. The RPF has the overall responsibility for the coordination of activities relating to the Horizon 2020. The RPF is the Coordinator of the Cyprus Business Support Centre (BSC-Cy) and responsible for the implementation of the innovation, technology and knowledge transfer activities and provides information and support for the participation of BSC-Cy clients in the national and european research and innovation programmes. The general objective of the project is to contribute to smart growth in the European Union and specifically in Cyprus by contributing to a better and more efficient connection of participants along the innovation chain. The RPF will deliver its specially designed services by assisting the local SMEs in the area of innovation management. These services will be provided to two specific groups: (a) Beneficiaries of the SME Instrument, and (b) SMEs with significant innovation activities and high potential for internationalization Seven days’ service packages will be designed and delivered by consensus between innovation experts as additional support services of the BSC-Cy targeting the two abovementioned groups of SMEs. For the Cyprus region there will be 4 available service packages distributed across the 2 types of clients. The RPF will use the IMP³rove assessment tool.

Keywords: innovation management,coaching,smes
Evolutionary stability, observability, and efficiency (Observable Stability)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Individuals, Markets and Organisations
Panel description: Economics, finance and management
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 831487.99
EU funding (EUR): 831487.99
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The existing literature mainly focuses on two kinds of interactions: short-term interactions in which the behavior today does not influence the future, and long-term interactions with the same partner. In the former model, the only stable outcomes are Nash equilibria (which are typically non-efficient), while the latter model allows one to achieve efficient outcomes. Many interesting situations lie somewhere in between, typically when people engage in short-term interactions but future partners may obtain some information about the behavior today. For example, how do people behave when interacting in one-off purchases in an online site with a feedback mechanism (e.g., eBay)? In this project I will fill the large gap in the literature, by characterizing evolutionary stable outcomes when players have limited information about the partner’s past, and how this stable behavior depends on the richness and the structure of the observed information. This will shed new light on indirect reciprocity and its use to achieve efficiency in social dilemmas. The evolutionary stable outcomes capture the long run behavior in a dynamic process of cultural learning. Agents are randomly matched in each round to play a game with a new partner. Each agent may observe some information about the partner’s past behavior. New agents, who join the interactions, usually mimic one of the existing behaviors, with a larger tendency to choose more successful incumbents. Occasionally, few agents experiment with a new behavior. The research agenda includes several theoretical subprojects with various research questions, such as: (1) Would non-material preferences be stable? (2) What will be the influence of non-verifiable reports about past behavior? (3) Which of the (locally) stable outcomes would be selected? (4) What will happen in asymmetric interactions between professional sellers and non-experienced buyers? The final subproject experimentally tests the various predictions and key implications.

Keywords: evolutionary stability,indirect reciprocity
Single Nanoparticle Catalysis (SINCAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2020-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Imagine a sustainable society where clean energy is produced from sunlight, and water is converted into hydrogen to fuel a fuel cell, which produces electric energy to power the electric motor in a car. At the same time, CO2 emissions are captured and converted to hydrocarbons that are again used as fuel or as resource for fine chemical synthesis. At the heart of this vision is heterogeneous catalysis. Hence, for it to become reality, tailored highly efficient catalyst materials are of paramount importance. The goal of this research program is therefore to establish a new experimental paradigm, which allows the detailed scrutiny of individual catalyst nanoparticles and their reaction products under application conditions. The catalytic performance of nanoparticles is directly controlled by their size, shape and chemical composition. Current studies are, however, conducted on ensembles of nanoparticles. Therefore, such studies are plagued by averaging effects, which deny access to the key details related to how size, shape and composition control catalyst performance. To eliminate this problem, we will nanofabricate a unique nanofluidic reactor device that will enable us to scrutinize catalytic processes and products at the individual catalyst nanoparticle level. In a second step, we will integrate plasmonic optical probes with the nanoreactor to be able to simultaneously monitor the dynamics of the catalyst particle state during reaction. Finally, we will apply the nanoreactor to investigate the role of the catalyst oxidation state in Fischer-Tropsch catalysis. In parallel, we will explore novel plasmon-induced hot electron-mediated reaction pathways for catalytic CO2 reduction, as part of a carbon-neutral energy cycle. We anticipate unprecedented insight into the role of catalyst particle state, size and shape in these processes. This will facilitate the development of more efficient catalyst materials in the quest for an energy-efficient and sustainable future.

Keywords: colloid chemistry,nanofluidics,self assembled materials,new materials nanoparticles,nanoplasmonics,method development in catalysis,first principles theory,multiscale modeling
What are the origins of empathy? A comparative developmental investigation (EMPORIGIN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499829.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499829.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Empathy – sharing and understanding others’ emotions and thoughts – is a defining feature of what it means to be human. However, we lack knowledge about the origins of empathy and to what extent its sub-components reflect species and cultural universals. Studying infants and great apes enables us to identify the developmental and evolutionary origins of empathy and the extent of its human uniqueness. Until now, it has largely been assumed that infants and great apes lack the capacity for empathy. However, this claim may reflect a lack of adequate methodologies and research attention, leaving infant and great ape empathy underestimated. Now, combining novel techniques to investigate empathy comparatively (thermal-imaging, pupillometry and eye-tracking) with longitudinal observations and innovative experiments, EMPORIGIN will overcome this issue to provide the first comparative investigation of empathy development in humans and bonobos, our closest living relatives. Rich datasets on bonobo (wild and semi-captive) infant development and caregiver interactions will be compared to those from human infants in two small-scale, traditional societies – Vanuatu and Samoa. Both societies show distributed-caregiving but vary in societal structure and emotional expressivity. Using a cross-species and cross-cultural approach, EMPORIGIN will deliver step-change insights into empathy development that go far beyond the State-of-the-Art. We will test the hypothesis that humans and bonobos share a core capacity for empathy, but humans diverge in a greater motivation to ameliorate others’ emotional states and a capacity for reciprocal emotional exchange. These capacities could lead to a cascade of human-unique forms of sharing and co-operation. Combining approaches across biology, psychology, ethology and anthropology, EMPORIGIN will advance our understanding of the origins of empathy, one of our most remarkable capacities, and challenge current perspectives about its human uniqueness.

Keywords: empathy,great ape,bonobo,infant,development
Ice CORe DAting tools revisited to infer the dynamic of glacial – interglacial transitions over the last 1.5 million years (ICORDA)

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: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2025-05-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1994100.0
EU funding (EUR): 1994100.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The Quaternary period (last 2600 thousands of years, hereafter ka) is the ideal period to evaluate our understanding of climate processes with general circulation models (GCM) used for prediction of future climate. During this period, the largest climate changes are glacial – interglacial transitions, hereafter terminations, the last termination being a classical benchmark for GCM. The rhythm of terminations changed from a world associated with a 40 ka periodicity to a world associated with a 100 ka glacial – interglacial periodicity between 1250 and 700 ka. The cause for this transition is a long debated question highlighting that the causes and mechanisms of terminations are still poorly understood. The timing and amplitudes of terminations indeed result from multiple influences of insolation forcing, ice sheet size, atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG) concentration as well as shorter (millennial) scale climate variability. The big challenge of ICORDA consists in solving major puzzles on the mechanisms of terminations by deciphering these different influences using two key Antarctic ice core records: EPICA Dome C covering the last 800 ka and an ice core to be drilled in the coming years and covering the last 1500 ka. While ice cores provide unique continuous and high resolution climatic and GHG records, they are still too poorly dated on long timescales to address the aforementioned challenge. ICORDA aims at rethinking the way ice core chronology is built for decreasing drastically the associated uncertainties. This will be done by (1) developing a mechanistic approach for the interpretation of isotopic tracers used for ice core dating and (2) combining numerous low to mid latitude ice core tracers to provide a global picture of climate change during terminations. The strategy involves interdisciplinarity between climate, geochemistry, ecophysiology and innovative instrumental developments as well as field, laboratory experiments and modeling.

Keywords: glacial,interglacial transitions,ice core,isotopic geochemistry
Next-generation Solid Oxide Fuel Cell stack and hot box solution for small stationary applications (OxiGEN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Italy,Norway,France,France,France
Call: Development of next-generation SOFC stack for small stationary applications (H2020-JTI-FCH-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2996873.75
EU funding (EUR): 2996873.75
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

OxiGEN aims at developing an innovative SOFC technical platform, including an all-ceramic stack design and a modular hotbox, for small stationary applications. Thanks to its higher durability and simpler design, this novel stack can fulfill the customers’ needs for long lifetime, high efficiency and low cost, in micro-CHP and other segments. A broad pan-European consortium of seven major players (ICI Caldaie, R&D centers Fraunhofer-IKTS, EIFER, CEA Liten, SINTEF, utility ENGIE, global ceramist and project coordinator Saint-Gobain) will partner to integrate the all-ceramic stack into an original hot box solution. Functional specifications will be set by a qualified Advisory Panel, gathering European system integrators and gas utilities in addition to the JRC and other consortium members. The solution’s design will be modular and will address the specifications and standards suggested by the Advisory Panel, in order to provide a technical platform serving several market segments while fostering open competition between industry players. This new platform is of European ownership and leverages a European supply chain, thus supporting the emergence of a European fuel cell industry fully independent from Asian fuel cell technology. The projects’ technical objectives address all the call challenges: • Define, with input from the Advisory Panel, the most suitable hotbox functional specifications for residential and commercial segments • Develop a higher power stack to reach the call’s technical targets • Develop a modular hot box concept and build a 1kWe prototype (in practice, 500We to 1500We depending on preferred micro-CHP power specification) • Assess the performance of the prototype in system-like conditions • Study the cost-of-ownership of the solution • Propose material-based solutions for future long-term improvements • Ensure the manufacturability and compatibility of the new hotbox with the EU supply chain • Disseminate results and build the exploitation plan

Keywords: sofc,stack,hot box