Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
End-to-end Security of the Digital Single Market’s E-commerce and Delivery Service Ecosystem (ENSURESEC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Theme: Protect and improve the resilience of critical infrastructures, supply chains and tranport modes
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Cyprus,Belgium,Serbia,Greece,Greece,Lithuania,Greece,Hungary,Poland,Romania,France,United Kingdom,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of combined physical and cyber threats to critical infrastructure in Europe (H2020-SU-INFRA-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9230681.25
EU funding (EUR): 7701519.75
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

ENSURESEC is a sociotechnical solution for safeguarding the Digital Single Market’s e-commerce operations against cyber and physical threats. It combines an automatic, rigorous, distributed and open-source toolkit for protecting e-commerce, with monitoring of the impact of threats in physical space and a campaign for training SMEs and citizens aimed at creating awareness and trust. ENSURESEC addresses the whole gamut of modern e-commerce, from standard physical products purchased online and delivered via post, to entirely virtual products or services delivered online. It addresses threats ranging from maliciously modifying web e-commerce applications or rendering them unavailable to legitimate customers, to delivery issues or fraud committed by insiders or customers. It achieves this by focusing on the common software and physical sensor interfaces that sit along the e-commerce, payment and delivery ecosystem. At technical level, it integrates proven state-of-the-art inductive (machine learning) with deductive (formal methods) reasoning tools and techniques so that e-commerce operations are protected by design, as well as through continuous monitoring, response, recovery and mitigation measures at run-time. Importantly, trust of the infrastructure’s operations among its users is established, benefiting from distributed ledger technology ensuring transparency of the operations and that information has not been modified. Although ENSURESEC innovations are applicable to any critical infrastructure that relies and is monitored by networked software systems, its design and integration philosophy make it uniquely prepared to protect distributed and evolving e-commerce infrastructures with its various forms of payment and delivery (virtual, online and physical). ENSURESEC also enhances citizens’ resilience to threats and their trust in e-commerce companies, especially SMEs, thus contributing towards the vision of a reliable and trusted digital single market.

Keywords: formal methods,e commerce,cyber physical security,distributed ledgers
Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services (E2mC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Germany,Germany,Italy,Switzerland,Belgium,Belgium,Slovakia,France,France
Call: Evolution of Copernicus services (H2020-EO-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1850000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

E2mC aims at demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of the integration of social media analysis and crowdsourced information within both the Mapping and Early Warning Components of Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS). The Project will develop a prototype of a new EMS Service Component (Copernicus Witness), designed to exploit social media analysis and crowdsourcing capabilities to generate a new Product of the EMS Portfolio. The purpose of the new Copernicus Witness Service Component is to improve the timeliness and accuracy of geo-spatial information provided to Civil Protection authorities, on a 24/7 basis, during the overall crisis management cycle and, particularly, in the first hours immediately after the event. This will result in an early confirmation of alerts from running Early Warning Systems as well as first rapid impact assessment from the field. The technological enabler of the Copernicus Witness is the innovative and scalable Social&Crowd (S&C) Platform, developed by E2mC. Heterogeneous social media data streams (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,… and different data: text, image, video, …) will be analysed and sparse crowdsourcing communities will be federated (crisis specific as Tomnod, HOT, SBTF and generic as Crowdcrafting, EpiCollect,…). Two demonstration loops will validate the usefulness of Copernicus Witness and the S&C Platform suitability to allow EC to evaluate possible Copernicus EMS evolution options. E2mC will perform demonstrations within realistic and operational scenarios designed by the Users involved within the Project (Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid operators, including their volunteer teams) and by the current Copernicus EMS Operational Service Providers that are part of the E2mC Consortium. The involvement of social media and crowdsourcing communities will foster the engagement of a large number of people in supporting crisis management; many more citizens will become aware of Copernicus.

Keywords: crowdsourcing,social media,copernicus,emergency management service,satellite emergency mapping,copernicus witness,geosocialdata,civil protection,humanitarian aid,social crisis map
Beyond the local. The innovation effects of citizen supralocal networks and organizations in citizen-initiated urban transformations (SUPRALOCAL)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Citizen initiatives in our cities are developing innovative answers to local public needs, through direct actions such as urban transformation processes. Urban scholars have interpreted these processes and innovations as locally-determined phenomena, disregarding the increasing participation of citizen initiatives in networks and organizations at national, european and global level. The aim of SUPRALOCAL is to investigate whether and how supralocal networks and organizations of citizen initiatives share, institute and innovate knowledge and resources for urban action, influencing the generation of innovative urban transformation processes by local citizen initiatives. Combining two inquiry methods - ethnography and cooperative action-research - the research explores the local effects of three supralocal networks and organizations on two cases of citizen-initiated urban transformations in Italy and Germany, focusing on their long-term development and their short-term adaptation to the COVID-19 crisis. Relevance of SUPRALOCAL: i) to enrich the debate on citizen-initiated urban transformations and innovations with a supralocal analytical perspective, beyond localistic interpretations ii) to scale up the innovative impacts of supralocal networks and organizations, informing leaders of networks, policy makers and citizens. SUPRALOCAL objectives: i) to understand whether and how these supralocal networks and organizations influence the generation of innovative answers to problematic situations in urban transformation processes developed by local citizen initiatives ii) to describe how supralocal networks and organizations share, institute, and innovate repertoires of knowledges and resources for urban action ii) to further explore the effects of direct citizen action in the publicization of problems iii) to develop a strong interdisciplinary and independent research profile in urban planning and policy, focused on citizen initiatives, supralocal dynamics and innovations

Keywords: urban innovation,citizen initiatives,civil society,international networks,urban transformations,urban regeneration,urban practices,planning,public problems,direct action,citizen networks
Foreign Geographies in English Drama, c.1576-1660 (ForGED)

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: Ireland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184590.72
EU funding (EUR): 184590.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Existing studies of foreign geographical settings in early modern English drama are limited by narrow focus on particular authors, sub-periods, or geographical locations. My project will, for the first time, quantify and explicate the role that non-European geographies had in shaping the production of drama in England between c.1576 and 1660. I will uncover the overall extent of non-European settings for plays, and interrogate how English drama invoked locations that were the focus of national colonialist interest, and established foreign Empires that were at once alluring and threatening to English national interests and theatre audiences alike. ForGED will make available a body of new knowledge that will help the scientific community to better understand how England’s cultural, commercial, and colonial interests in--and anxieties about--the ‘foreign’ impacted the theatre and shaped key developments in drama. I will work with Daniel Carey (Professor of English Literature and Director of the Moore Institute) at the National University of Ireland, Galway, to refine my engagement with English travel writing and colonialist literature, which has an important bearing on my research. I will receive digital humanities training from David Kelly (DH specialist at the Moore Institute) in order to develop digital methodologies for quantitative research that will enable me to organize data about my corpus of plays and perform data visualisations to identify trends pertaining to particular dramatist, theatres, years, and foreign locations. My qualitative analysis of the data will be communicated to the scientific community through conferences and peer-reviewed puplications, and to the wider community through social media, blogs, and public engagement events.

Keywords: early modern english drama,theatre,race,colonialism
Citizen Interaction Technologies Yield Community Policing (CITYCoP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,Italy,Austria,Germany,Italy,Spain,Malta,Romania,Norway,Serbia,Bulgaria,Belgium,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Ethical/Societal Dimension Topic 2: Enhancing cooperation between law enforcement agencies and citizens - Community policing (H2020-FCT-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2018-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5576716.25
EU funding (EUR): 5576716.0
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

Theories underlying community policing received new impetus with the recent advent of smartphones and social media and especially user-generated content (UGC) where citizens engage in closer interaction with their local community and law enforcement agency (LEA). The years 2010-2014 have seen a rapid upsurge of smartphone apps aimed at improving crime reporting and other forms of UGC and interaction associated with community policing. Yet these apps are characterised by a predominantly Anglo-Saxon approach with the largest number originating in the USA, a few in Canada, Australia and with the UK apparently the only major EU state where there has been some take-up of these technologies. CITYCoP sets out to find out why the EU appears to be lagging behind although Community Policing is nominally a policy which has been put into action in a number of EU countries. It then goes on to develop a solution including a new smartphone app and on-line portal which are capable of being deployed in any European city while still retaining “local flavour” and diversity. These ICT solutions will also be designed from scratch to be fully compliant with strict privacy and data protection laws. A training scheme, including use of serious games, will be developed to assist training of officers and citizens in use of the app and portal. CITYCoP will benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach that will include the sociology of community policing as well as cognitive science perspectives of the citizen’s interaction with community and LEAs through technology. The partners in CITYCoP build on long years of successful collaboration in EU projects dealing with UGC, smart surveillance and privacy (CONSENT, SMART, RESPECT) positioning CITYCoP solutions to achieve integration into smart city eco-systems. CITYCoP will pilot deployments of multi-lingual smartphone apps, portals and serious games training packages in Bucharest (Romania), Lisbon (Portugal), Florence (Italy), Sheffield (UK).

Keywords: community policing,law enforcement agencies,citizens,serious games,data protection and privacy audit,trust,security
User behavior Simulation in built Environments (USE)

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: Israel
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2018-11-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The impact of a building design or renovation on the behavior of its intended occupants can be assessed only after the building has been built and occupied (or the renovation has been completed). This is a risky proposition, because design mistakes can cause severe consequences in terms of under-performing buildings, reduced productivity, absenteeism, and general user dissatisfaction. During our ERC-funded project, titled NextGenBim, we were able to develop and demonstrate a method to computationally simulate human behavior in built environments, which allows representing the intended occupants and their activities in a given building. In this PoC we aim to develop a software simulator that allows: (1) to visualize, analyze and evaluate trade-offs between several design options for a new building; and (2) to evaluate the systemic implication of proposed renovations on the operations of a building. The software will potentially impact millions of professionals (architects, civil engineers, internal designers, facility mangers, etc.), especially in the healthcare sector, where large budgets are spent to build and renovate facilities, and in the educational sector, which invests heavily in computer-aided design software to train the next generation of professionals.

Keywords: human behavior simulation,built environments,architectural design,building performance,user behavior
Contact Lenses for the Ear - Invisibly providing natural hearing experience for Europe's 52 million hearing-impaired people (Hearing Contacts)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
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): 2687534.25
EU funding (EUR): 1881273.98
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Vibrosonic is a young high-tech company in medical industry, based in Mannheim (Germany), with currently 11 employees. Our vision is to improve the life quality of 52mn. Europeans who self-reported to experience hearing loss. More than 45 million of them refuse to make use of hearing aids and remain untreated despite the physical, mental and social consequences. Main reason for this is the visibility of hearing aid devices and the perceived social stigmatisation. And even the vast majority of those wearing hearing aids are unsatisfied with current state-of-the-art technology. They lament that they are not able to hear naturally. This means, that they have difficulties in locating the origin of noises (as they hear noises only through the integrated speakers of current hearing aids which is particularly dangerous in traffic), identifying voices in groups of people or hearing sound distortedly. In addition, wearing comfort is low: hearing aids have to be removed regularly for charging, cleaning or while showering or sleeping, and they often cause ear pressure, itching, pressure marks and sore points. Therefore, we invented and developed the world’s first contact lens for the ear based on microsystem technology and the piezoelectric principle – the Vibrosonic Hearing Contacts. In contrast to all other hearing aids, our system is so small that it can be directly placed on the eardrum instead of outside the ear. And in contrast to all other hearing aids, our system does not use speakers to transport sound via the air column in the ear canal: the Hearing Contacts stimulate the eardrum directly by bending and contracting under the influence of electric impulses. This enables the hearing-impaired person to hear naturally like not impaired persons. The system targets at Europe’s huge EUR 104bn. market of people with minor and modest hearing loss who are either unsatisfied with current state of the art or make not use of current hearing aids due to the shortcomings described.

Keywords: hearing loss,hearing aids,microsystems,life quality,social stigmatisation,safety
An Innovative digital solution for mobile and large display screens (NANODINK)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hand-script is immediate, freeform and uniquely personal to each of us which makes it ideal to express their creativity. The feature has been incorporated as an innovative input method in digital devices such as smart phones, tablets, notebooks and TVs through Digital Inking. However, enabling hand-script digitalisation in existing smartphones, tablets and notebooks requires the use of the multi-touch screen feature, which is fully dependant on device battery. Activating the hand-script digitalisation causes a sharp rise in battery consumption and induces reduced device autonomy, reduced battery life and overheating of the battery. In addition to that, enabling the feature in large displays such TVs and digital whiteboards requires several additional manufacturing steps ranging from material coating to electrical circuitry and control electronics. These additional steps are cost intensive which increases the overall cost of the large displays (entry price ~5k USD for 55” digital whiteboard. NANOGA is cognizant of these problems and is introducing a digital ink solution, (NANOGA Digital Layer) that will enable digital hand-scripting on smartphones, tablets, notebooks and TVs that is derived from a universal anti-counterfeiting technology that we developed to fit into all manufactured luxury watches (DNAwatch). The technology comprises of a fully transparent passive quantum nano-layer embedded in the inner side of a device screen glass and a UV-enabled stylus to manipulate the ink. Our digital ink will have fewer material process steps and excludes any circuitry and electronics post-processing, enabling hand-script digitalization in all display devices without any design/manufacturing. The cover glass has zero impact on device battery, increasing the battery cycle time by more than 30%. A reduction in the production cost will reduce the price of devices by the following factors; smartphones (>5 in) ~25%, tablets (>10 in) ~50%, large displays (>55 in) ~75%.

Keywords: photonics,nano technology,digital ink,stylus,handscript digitalisation,touch screens
Searching and Characterizing Extraterrestrial Subsurface Oceans (Exo-Oceans)

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: Germany
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2116582.5
EU funding (EUR): 2116582.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The existence of liquid water is one of the few preconditions for life as we know it. Therefore, the search and characterization of liquid water outside of Earth plays an essential role in the search for extraterrestrial life. Prominent candidates to host liquid water are moons in the outer solar system, which can maintain oceans under their icy surfaces. The currently most effective way to identify such subsurface oceans is through effects of their salinity and thus electrical conductivity. The conductivity modifies the magnetic field around these moons through a process referred to as electromagnetic induction. Spacecraft measurements of associated magnetic field perturbations provided evidence for oceans within Jupiter’s moon Europa and Ganymede. Current analysis tools however reached an impasse. No scientific techniques are available, which provide quantitative estimates and uncertainties of key ocean properties when the effects of the dense magnetized plasmas around the moons are included. Here we propose entirely new approaches, which overcome these issues. Our novel techniques will include a simultaneous treatment of the physics in all internal and external conductive layers and will for the first time use all available observations including auroral emission to go beyond considering magnetic fields only. EXO-OCEANS will systematically characterize the ocean properties on Europa and Ganymede including the ocean candidate Callisto. Characterizing the oceans on Ganymede, Europa and Callisto are at the heart of ESA’s Juice and NASA’s Europa Clipper missions. For Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus where currently existing techniques do not work, we will invent a new detection technique. In parallel we will use the Hubble Space Telescope to search and characterize aurora in extrasolar planetary systems to pave the way for ocean detections beyond the solar system.

Keywords: subsurface oceans,moons in the outer solar system,electromagnetic induction,moon magnetosphere interaction