Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Go to market strategy and technology roadmap towards development of a new license product based upon Onomondo's (form. Hello World Mobile) innovative telecommunications software technology (SMEphase1)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Onomondo (form. Hello World Mobile) has created a unique telecom software technology to combine mobile networks across carriers and/or across borders, offering a complete seamless roaming free experience for the end user. We simply remove roaming on network level completely (and not just roaming charges). Our aim is strictly B2B, and our potential customers could be Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). Today the first part of the solution is being live tested together with telecom operators (MNOs) at network level in Scandinavia. THIS PROJECT aims to investigate the market opportunities for the platform technology in order to investigate the opportunity of developing a new technology product. The project will result in a technology roadmap of how the technology can be developed into a license product aimed at the (through the project) identified new target groups, together with a comprehensive market analysis and go to market strategy.

Keywords: business development,technology prototyping,new market analysis
Cross-Layer and Multi-Objective Programming Approach for Next Generation Heterogeneous Parallel Computing Systems (PHANTOM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Greece,France,United Kingdom,Portugal,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Customised and low power computing (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3458926.25
EU funding (EUR): 3458926.25
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

As today “to out compute is to out compete”, the position of Europe in all industrial sectors and societal challenges is highly depending on the technological progress in computing. However, although computing has reached an unparalleled progress, it still remains a research topic as new challenges impose its transformative nature and adaptation, among others the evolution towards Cyber Physical Systems, the proliferation of devices and the big data they produce, the reduction of energy footpring, and the abstraction of infrastructure complexity. To that respect, PHANTOM wishes to deliver an economically and energetically sustainable solution for next generation computing systems, through a cross-layer design comprising reconfigurable multi-core and heterogeneous hardware platforms managed by a hardware-agnostic software platform that hides the complexity from the programmer and offers multi-dimensional optimization. Specifically, PHANTOM is structured in three layers. First, parallel programming and productivity tools are provided including application-driven APIs for programming and annotations, a parallelization toolset for maintaining intrinsically the code parallelization and model based testing techniques for early parallel program verification. Then, multi-dimensional optimization is addressed through an adaptive and multi-objective scheduler, deciding on where to execute each application component, which is supported by runtime monitoring/data analytics and security implementations. Last, low power, heterogeneous hardware platforms are built together with system software for enabling their management as a service. PHANTOM brings multi-disciplinary expertise through an ecosystem of academia, industries and a strong number of SMEs. The outcome will be validated in three use cases (automotive, telecoms, surveillance), in order to prove a cross-market approach, while documentation for developers will be delivered and reusability readiness evaluation will be run.

Keywords: parallel programming,reconfigurable multi core,heterogeneous hardware,multi dimensional optimization
Integrating food waste into wood pellets to convert waste grease to a useful biofuel. (BioPellets)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-08-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Fuel Pellet Technologies proposes BioPellets as a solution to three problems - the underperformance of biofuels and carbon-neutral biomass fuels; food waste grease; and the weakening EU fuel pellet industry in Europe. Biomass fuels are needed in larger amounts due to lower specific energy capacity than fossil fuels, even low-quality coal. This means to generate the same amount of power, more must be burned. This is a net loss as the fossil fuels mean damage to the environment from greenhouse gases, and to create biomass fuels, trees or timber waste must be processed. Food waste grease can be a serious problem, both in urban environments and aquatic ecosystems. It can block and damage sewer piping, which can in turn cause overflows or damage to other components in sewage systems. Due to its high nutrient content it generates a high biological oxygen demand if it is released to ground water or to open watercourses, damaging aquatic plant and animal life. Finally, due to competition from Russia and other producers, the European fuel pellet industry is suffering a shrinking market share, relative to how many pellets it produces, due to the cost of manufacturing in Europe. BioPellets address all of these problems by integrating food waste grease into biopellets, in an 80-20 biomass-grease mix. This improves the energy content of the pellets by 27%, beating out coal, and reduces the cost of production by up to 50%. Further more, they can prevent 20,000 tonnes of waste going to landfill every year by partnering with just one wood pellet plant.

Keywords: biofuel,biomass,waste reuse,waste valorisation,sustainability,specific energy capacity,renewable energy,carbon neutral energy
Understanding how energy efficiency and biogeographic history drive bird migration (MIGRACAST)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United States,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 271732.8
EU funding (EUR): 271732.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding why birds migrate is a long-standing problem that still largely eludes scientists. Recent advance in technology is currently leading migration science into a golden age as patterns of bird migration are increasingly being documented. However, the question of what are the ecological and evolutionary causes underlying the observed widespread variation in avian migration, remains open. Answering this will provide a greater comprehension of the forces driving how species distribute in space and time, and improve predictions of the fate of migratory birds under global change. In MIGRACAST, I will investigate the extent to which energy efficiency and biogeographic history shape avian migration patterns. These two key processes have been proposed to explain bird migration: stating that species’ migratory movements and seasonal redistribution are, respectively, energetically optimal and/or retrace postglacial colonisation routes. However, these processes have never been tested together and across many species on a large scale. To fill this important gap in migration science, I will design a novel modelling framework based on first ecological principles that uses recently developed computational tools. This model will leverage the power of multiple large datasets on the distribution, movement and genetic diversity of birds as well as environmental conditions to explicitly test hypotheses about mechanisms driving bird migration. This approach will be applied to North American bird species that are particularly rich in data and exhibits a diversity of migration behaviours. It will be utilised to (i) examine the extent to which energy efficiency drives bird migration, (ii) refine weekly bird migration forecasts on a continental scale, and (iii) back-cast bird migration to the Last Glacial Maximum (~20,000 years ago) to determine if the history of shift and expansion of seasonal ranges complements energy optimisation to shape migratory movements.

Keywords: computational ecology,big data,movement ecology,animal migration,ecological theory,energetics,migratory connectivity,ecological forecasting,global change
New insights into the ecology of the dodo using a multidisciplinary approach (NINEDOMA)

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: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2021-04-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The dodo, Raphus cucullatus, is an enigmatic bird endemic to Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. This bird was discovered in 1598 and became extinct at the end of the 17th century. Being thought as a fat and stupid bird, the dodo is famous in popular culture. More importantly, the dodo is one of the first species known to have extinct because of human activity. Although it was contemporaneous with humans for decades, and extinct for only three hundred years, we know very little about its ecology. Only its taxonomy, systematics, body mass, reproductive and molting timing are known. Understanding the biology of the dodo is important because it is such an iconic example of human-induced extinction. With current concerns about biodiversity and conservation effort, it is essential to understand why some species are more prone to extinction than others which requires an understanding of all aspects of their biology. The dodo was the largest terrestrial animal in its ecosystem. Understanding of its ecology is therefore crucial to understand the Mauritius ecosystem before the arrival of humans, and to estimate the real impact of human activity on this island. I hereby propose to study the ecology of the dodo, including diet, locomotion, and population structure. To these ends, I propose to apply a novel multi-angle combination of scientific methods. The diet will be studied using a geochemical analysis of carbon isotopes, a Finite Element Analysis on the skull and the jaw, and a morpho-functional study of the skull and jaw musculature. Mode of locomotion will be estimated with the method published by Storer and the new method published by Angst et al. We will estimate the structure of the population using bone histology, which allows discrimination of females from males, and juveniles from adults. All these methods applied to the dodo will be applied in parallel on a large sample of modern and other sub-fossil or fossil birds, including the Columbiformes and the Solitaire.

Keywords: birds,fossil,island,extinction,flightless
Hybrid and Organic Thermoelectric Systems (HORATES)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany,Sweden,Sweden,France,Netherlands
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2025-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3975704.64
EU funding (EUR): 3975704.64
Participants: 11
Project status: SIGNED

Waste heat is a ubiquitous source of low-quality energy that is yet to be harvested and transformed into high-quality energy in the form of electricity. Low-cost and highly scalable thermoelectric generators (TEG) based on organic materials and hybrid composites have the huge potential to achieve this. The actual market volume for ultra-low power TEG will soon pass 100M USD, and a small improvement in TEG performance or cost may open a billion-dollar market, especially in view of the booming number of autonomous, self-powered devices related to the Internet of Things. Triggered by actual market demand for printable TEG, HORATES aims to train 15 promising early stage researchers (ESRs) in the emerging interdisciplinary field of organic thermoelectrics. ESRs will be trained within a focused consortium including universities, research centers and companies that jointly cover the full chain from molecular design and synthesis via in-depth characterization and predictive multiscale modeling to large-area printed devices. From previous and preliminary results by the consortium members, the most promising concepts have been selected for further development. These include, but are not limited to, processing-induced anisotropy and (stable) dopant-free conductors by ground-state charge transfer, and are complemented by a range of new ideas to reach application-relevant power-densities. HORATES integrates these scientific and technological aspects in a complete training package with complementary, transferable skills in order to equip young researchers with a unique toolset that is of relevance in both academia and industry, far beyond the specific topic of this project.

Keywords: thermoelectricity,organic electronics,thermoelectric materials,printed electronics,nanomaterials
Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis - Europe|PILOT (NEP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Germany,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Switzerland,Slovenia,Sweden,Switzerland,Belgium,Greece,France,France,France,Portugal
Call: Pilot for a new model of Integrating Activities (H2020-INFRAIA-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-03-01
End date: 2026-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14999292.24
EU funding (EUR): 14999292.24
Participants: 26
Project status: SIGNED

NFFA-EUROPE PILOT (NEP) aims at expanding and consolidating the operation of a Interoperable Distributed Research Infrastructure for Nanoscience (IDRIN) supporting research on materials and functional systems at the nanoscale and at the microscale. NEP provides a unique overarching offer of experimental and theoretical facilities to be combined to suit user needs ranging from materials synthesis, growth, nanofabrication to nanocharacterization, microscopy and spectroscopies also with fine analysis methods at large scale X and neutron radiation sources, and to numerical simulation. The model IDRIN fostered by NEP builds on the four-year experience of transnational access provision of NFFA-Europe that delivered combined scientific services to over one thousand European users. NEP expands the catalogue of facilities with new offer of cleanroom services, high-end electron microscopy, unique 50-100 fs sources for optical and electron spectroscopies, Free Electron Laser beamlines and chemistry based mesoscale material science. An overarching metadata and data management tool (Metastore) will realize the interoperability of the NEP results and a unique open access archive of FAIR nanoscience data to merge with the EOSC. The multi-technique character of the NEP user proposals leads to advanced reproducibility of results, research goals and effectiveness in multi-disciplinary research for curiosity driven, mission-oriented and application-oriented projects by academic or industrial users. The transnational access is proposed in modalities that help coping with the post COVID-19 conditions of restricted user mobility: interactive remote access (IRA) will be available from the beginning in some TA facilities and will be further generalized through the Joint Activities along with innovative Virtual Access and pilots of FAIR-by-design data generation. The construction of the IDRIN will address the issues for Long Term Sustainability of the NEP infrastructure services.

Keywords: nanoscience,user access,multi technical and multi disciplinary research,fair data,interoperability
Deformation Mechanisms are the Key to Understanding and Tayloring Tribological Behaviour (TriboKey)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2017-COG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1985047.91
EU funding (EUR): 1985047.91
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Tribology, the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion, is crucial for many aspects of modern life. Friction and wear decisively impact the lifetime and durability of many products-from nanoelectromechanical systems to gears and engines. In the USA alone, an estimated 1E18 joules of energy could be saved each year through improved tribological practices. During sliding of a metallic contact, a mutated surface layer forms, carries most further plastic deformation and largely determines friction and wear. The origin and evolution of this distinct subsurface layer remains elusive, since our knowledge of the elementary mechanisms promoting these changes is limited. Only this knowledge however will allow for a strategic tailoring of tribologically loaded metals. In this project, we will elucidate these elementary mechanisms for a wide range of alloys and strain rates. We will develop ground-breaking new strategies for probing the subsurface microstructure during the tribological test itself with non-destructive testing sensors like ultrasound and eddy current, resulting in subsurface in situ tribology. The data from these sensors will be analysed online, during the tribological experiment, relying on cutting edge data science methods as they have already been applied for fatigue testing. Based on these analyses, implemented on a Field Programmable Gate Array, we will interrupt the test exactly when the dominating elementary mechanisms manifest themselves. These mechanisms will then be revealed by sophisticated electron microscopy and be visualized in deformation mechanism maps for unidirectional and reciprocating sliding. Such maps have proven very successful in other fields of materials science, e.g. creep at elevated temperatures. They are used to guide material selection and alloy development processes, yielding materials tailored for each specific tribological scenario, promising enormous savings in energy and resources, an important challenge of our time.

Keywords: materials science,tribology,deformation mechanisms,electron microscopy,data science
REcovery and REcycling of nutrients TURNing wasteWATER into added-value products for a circular economy in agriculture (Water2REturn)

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: Spain,Spain,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Belgium,Slovenia,Romania,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Water in the context of the circular economy (H2020-CIRC-2016TwoStage, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7075919.85
EU funding (EUR): 5871895.76
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

Water2REturn proposes a full-scale demonstration process for integrated nutrients recovery from wastewater from the slaughterhouse industry using biochemical and physical technologies and a positive balance in energy footprint. The project will not only produce a nitrates and phosphate concentrate available for use as organic fertiliser in agriculture, but its novelty rests on the use of an innovative fermentative process designed for sludge valorisation which results in a hydrolysed sludge (with a multiplied Biomethane Potential) and biostimultants products, with low development costs and high added value in plant nutrition and agriculture. This process is complemented by proven technologies such as biological aeration systems, membrane technologies, anaerobic processes for bio-methane production and algal technologies, all combined in a zero-waste-emission and an integrated monitoring control tool that will improve the quality of data on nutrient flows. The project will close the loop by demonstrating the benefits associated with nutrients recycling through the implementation of different business models for each final product. This will be done with a systemic and replicable approach that considers economic, governance and social acceptance aspects through the whole chain of water and targets essentially two market demands: 1) Demand for more efficient and sustainable production methods in the meat industry; and 2) Demand for new recycled products as a nutrient source for agriculture. As a summary, Water2REturn project adopts a Circular Economy approach where nutrients present in wastewaters from the meat industry can be recycled and injected back into the agricultural system as new raw materials. The project foster synergies between the food and sustainable agriculture industries and propose innovative business models for the resulting products that will open new market opportunities for the European industries and SMEs in two key economic sectors.

Keywords: water reuse,high added value products,bioestimulants,algae production,circular economy