Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
First low cost handheld infrared camera for fugitive emissions, early detection and location, increasing energy efficiency in industrial plants, infrastructures and utilities (GaSeS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2015-10-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays, there is a growing demand of technological solutions to detect and identify leaks in different industries in order to increase its energy efficiency and security. SENSIA is a cutting-edge technology-based company specialized in the development of infrared imaging devices. Our solutions have been already implemented in high-demanding environments such as SO2 leak finder at Glencore, remote detection in Euro-Fighter wings or high accuracy measurement thermography system for SENER Ingenieria. This project intends to respond to the needs and requirements from any industries with fugitive emissions problems, but as first step SENSIA will focus on sulphur dioxide (SO2) leaks, and specifically on sulphuric-acid-related industries. This sector relies on gas leak surveys for crucial aspects such as process efficiency, security, environmental care and pollution control. SENSIA intends to develop and commercialize a low cost uncooled camera based on infrared imaging technology that can easily detect and identify fugitive gas emissions in order to improve the energy and overall efficiency of the chemical, oil & gas, utilities and many other industries. This type of device will be the first of its kind considering that solutions currently available are based on cooled technology, with much higher costs and complexity associated. The proposed solution will imply clear economic benefits for end users such as: - Cheaper instrument in comparison with current IR imaging based solutions (at least 1:2 cost reduction). - Disrupting tool for a better control of SO2 fugitive emissions in short term and many other gases (and markets) in mid-term. - Compliance with novel and coming laws in terms of fugitive emissions control of SO2 and other pollutants. The overall objective of this feasibility study is to develop a market study and corresponding business plan that evaluates the main target markets and best strategies to commercialise the proposed technology.

Keywords: sulphur dioxide so2 leaks,energy efficient,security
Mass-production, landscape transformation and the birth of science in the land of Thales (8th-6th centuries BCE) (THALES)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

THALES will embed archaeological data from two excavation projects on the Milesian peninsula, Turkey, into wider discourses on economic production, landscape change and philosophical reflection in the Greek world between the 8th and 6th centuries BC. The archaeological finds from the Temple of Didyma and the nearby necropolis of Panormos (harbour of Didyma) provide vital information about the economy and ritual traditions of this lynchpin region of the Greek and Mediterranean world during a pre-modern era of 'globalisation'. The project will stimulate a transformation in the study of the early classical world with the application of state-of-the-art spatial theories to the landscape around these sites and an innovative combination of quantitative analysis to finds from both excavations, set against the context of contemporary scientific endeavours indexed by the earliest European philosophers writing in Ionia (most famous being Thales of Miletos). The high quality, multidisciplinary research results will contribute significantly to our knowledge of this formative phase of European cultural and intellectual foundations, provide cross-fertilization between disciplines and develop the Experienced Researcher’s long-term vision of modernising classical scholarship.
Neural oscillations - a code for memory (Code4Memory)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1897750.99
EU funding (EUR): 371699.23
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Episodic memory refers to the fascinating human ability to remember past events in a highly associative and information rich way. But how are these memories coded in human brains? Any mechanism accounting for episodic memory must accomplish at least two functions: to build novel associations, and to represent the information constituting the memory. Neural oscillations, regulating the synchrony of neural assemblies, are ideally suited to accomplish these two functions, but in opposing ways. On the one hand, neurophysiological work suggests that increased synchrony strengthens synaptic connections and thus forms the basis for associative memory. Neurocomputational work, on the other hand, suggests that decreased synchrony is necessary to flexibly express information rich patterns in a neural assembly. Therefore, a conundrum exists as to how oscillations code episodic memory. The aim of this project is to propose and test a new framework that has the potential to reconcile this conflict. The central idea is that synchronization and desynchronization cooperatively code episodic memories, with synchronized activity in the hippocampus in the theta (~4 Hz) and gamma (~ 40-60 Hz) frequency range mediating the building of associations, and neocortical desynchronization in the alpha (~10 Hz) and beta (~15 Hz) frequency range mediating the representation of mnemonic information. Importantly the two modules, with their respective synchronous/asynchronous behaviours, must interact during the formation and retrieval of episodic memories, but how and whether this is the case remains untested to date. I will test these fundamental questions using a multidisciplinary and multi-method approach, including human single cell recordings, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and computational modelling. The results from these experiments have the potential to reveal the neural code that human episodic memory is based on, which is still one of the biggest mysteries of the human mind.

Keywords: brain oscillations,episodic memory,desynchronization,synchronization,information coding
Microbial deployment of new-to-nature chemistries for refactoring the barriers between living and non-living matter (MADONNA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Austria,Spain,Switzerland,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open research and innovation actions (H2020-FETOPEN-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2968817.5
EU funding (EUR): 2968817.5
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

This Project is about bringing a suite of chemical reactions (and its related non-biological compounds and elements) to the biological fold (i.e. their 'biologization') by going beyond the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (DNA→ RNA→ proteins→ metabolism) through both tuning and overcoming the uni-directionality of the information flow. To reverse-engineer reactions into a biological code, the utility function of the chemical process of interest will be progressively coupled to the fitness function of a live carrier (e.g. an engineered, synthetic or cyborg-ized bacterial chassis), the intermediate steps being supported by automated chemo-robots. The new-to-nature reactions (NTN) pursued within the MADONNA lifetime as case studies will include CO2 capture and recruitment of elemental silicon to become part of essential organo-Si metabolites. Along with the development of the new reactions, the research agenda of the Project will also include the [i] modelling and prediction on the impact of the new biotransformations on the overall functioning of the Biosphere once/if adopted at a large scale by the industrial sector and [ii] design of environmental simulators for evaluating the performance and evolution of the new biological reactions under given physico-chemical settings. With such approaches, MADONNA aims to fill many of the gaps between the 3 types of global-scale processing of chemical elements operating in our planet: Geochemical, Biological and Industrial. The scale of applications of the foundational technologies developed herein (which spin themselves much beyond CO2 and silicon) is unprecedented and a large number of societal ramifications including ethical, security, safety, economic, governance and public perceptions aspects at stake will be included. If successful, MADONNA will enable an entirely new type of sustainable industry in which many types of waste become assets instead of liabilities.

Keywords: central dogma,co2 fixation,metalloenzymes,reverse engineering,silicon biology,pseudomonas,dinitrotoluene,chemorobots,synthetic biology,industrial metabolism
AI boosting airport capacity (SmartRunway)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 35.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2372838.75
EU funding (EUR): 1660987.13
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In Europe, more than 15% of airport traffic arrives during peak periods, making airports operate at maximum capacity, restraining growth, holding airplanes in the air burning fuel accumulating delays. Air transport demand is expected to grow in the upcoming years with passengers and airlines primarily interested in travelling during peak periods, thus increasing the pressure on already congested airports, the airlines and the environment. Our breakthrough Artificial Intelligence powered data platform, DataBeacon.aero, enables better informed decisions regarding runway capacity through real-time, reliable predictions. SmartRunway is a part of the DataBeacon.aero data platform and brings a revolution to how airport runways capacity is managed. Our technology will increase runway performance without costly new runways and reduce the emissions and environmental impact of the growing air transport. Deploying services encompassing more than 30 different data sources and formats, automatically cleaned, anonymised and fused, ready to be used in different applications, we will disrupt several aviation processes beyond runway optimisation, including emissions and fuel optimisation, delay management and network operations. Provided as-a-service, our tools are disruptive to the industry incumbents business models. No data-driven services exist amongst the current industry leaders, who sell expensive equipment development in long-cycles making innovation very difficult. Breaking these barriers requires a group of innovative early customers, already secured, and seed investment. SmartRunway achieved the Seal of Excellence in a previous EIC Evaluation with a 13,40 score.
Dams and Dolphins: Linking cutting-edge science with endangered species conservation (RIDDLE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2024-07-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This Fellowship application is crafted to bring together cross-disciplinary expertise and technology to help solve the challenge of sustaining river dolphin populations and other aquatic megafauna in dammed and regulated rivers. This is based on the recognition that freshwater habitats occupy only 1% of the Earth’s surface yet support 10% of all known species, but that freshwater species are now even more endangered than those in marine or terrestrial ecosystems. Freshwater dolphins are one of the most threatened mammal groups; listed as endangered or critically endangered in all places they occur, and the cause of their decline is attributed to habitat fragmentation by gated dams. The goal of this work is to quantify the extent, evaluate the consequences, and pilot solutions to understand and address river dolphin population connectivity in rivers fragmented by dams. To accomplish this acoustic and biotelemetry technology will be adapted and deployed at key gated dams in South Asia to monitor and quantify dolphin movement through the dams and two new options that have the potential to prevent river dolphins from passing through dam gates will be trialled. The results will have applications on the ground for the management of endangered riverine species, and the technological component has broader applications in assessing and potentially mitigating the impacts of marine engineering projects on the aquatic environment. The work falls at the interface between marine and freshwater ecology and will be conducted under the guidance of Dr Simon Northridge in the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St. Andrews. The ability to move from my current research post in Tanzania into a vibrant academic community within the EU will allow me an unprecedented opportunity to diversify my technical skills and to collaborate with and learn from researchers from a range of disciplines from both within the university, and other academic and non-academic environments.

Keywords: endangered species,dams,freshwater ecology,habitat fragmentation,extinction
Autonomous Creation of Analog Integrated Circuits based on Self-Learning of Design Expertise (AnalogCreate)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: Belgium
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): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Progress in semiconductor technology and in intelligent data processing are converging today, opening the door to countless smart ICT applications through the Cloud and Internet of Everything, to the people’s benefit in years to come. Applications that interact with the physical world (e.g. environmental sensing, healthcare, autonomous vehicles, etc.), also need analog integrated circuits in the cyber-physical or edge layer. But while digital circuits are largely synthesized automatically through software, the analog circuits are mainly still handcrafted in industry with low design productivity. This results in long and error-prone design cycles, and the high development costs jeopardize many potential new ICT applications from ever being realized (e.g. solutions for rare diseases). It becomes even more problematic when moving to advanced technologies below 16 nm CMOS, that come with way more design and layout rules to be dealt with. The showstopper for state-of-the-art analog synthesis tools is that they require design heuristics and constraints to be entered explicitly by designers in order to handle the humongous solution space and to steer the circuit and layout optimizations towards acceptable solutions. The proposed disruptively new approach is to use the self-learning capabilities of advanced machine learning algorithms to self-learn and then exploit the design expertise and constraints from the many available successfully completed designs. Also a true circuit topology synthesis approach will be developed to create a proper (possibly novel) schematic from the target specifications, as well as an innovative formal analog design verification approach based on Quick Error Detection. These innovations will enable for the first time ever to truly autonomously create analog circuits from specifications to fully verified layout without direct input from any designer in the loop, and therefore enable the affordable implementation of many promising ICT applications.

Keywords: analog and mixed signal integrated circuits,design automation,autonomous synthesis,design creation,self learning
A framework for the fair and responsible governance of synthetic biology (SynBioGov)

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: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-03-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183473.28
EU funding (EUR): 183473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Synthetic biology aims to exercise control in the design, characterization and construction of living organisms and biological parts. No longer the domain of science fiction literature, it has progressed by leaps and bounds in recent years, accompanied by great promises and grave risks. Law and governance lag behind. Lab experimentation and field trials take place in a legal vacuum. On top of companies and research institutes, a vibrant do-it-yourself community is engaged in research, claiming to democratize innovation. Global deliberations on the environmental and socio-economic impacts have only recently begun under the auspices of UN multilateral environmental agreements, and policy-relevant academic analysis is urgently needed. Based on my academic record in international environmental law and governance of novel technologies and my empirical knowledge of intergovernmental negotiations, complemented by training in socio-legal methodologies during the fellowship, I will develop a new integrative framework for the governance of synthetic biology. It will be built upon: a) an assessment of the current state of international law and governance, including an analysis of regulatory gaps and novel normative challenges; b) an examination of existing theoretical frameworks on risk management and responsible research and innovation, including gendered approaches to risk that have been understudied to date; and c) a typology of actors involved in synthetic biology research, including an analysis of who does what, why, and how they envisage regulation, with a particular focus on gene editing in agriculture. Aiming at improving accountability and enhancing legitimacy, both of law and governance and of the innovation process, this framework will not only bridge gaps in scholarly efforts but will also facilitate decision making, ensuring that synthetic biology applications promote the global objectives of food security, sustainable agriculture and environmental protection.

Keywords: international environmental law,biodiversity governance,biosafety,access and benefit sharing,emerging technologies,stakeholder participation
Network for Innovative Training on ROtorcraft Safety (NITROS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Joint Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2021-04-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3146893.92
EU funding (EUR): 3146893.92
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Helicopters and the other vertical flight vehicles, like tilt-rotors, compound helicopters, hybrids and rapidly expanding class of easy to fly vertical take-off personal vehicles, are expected to see widespread use in the future especially as means of transport, exploiting the formidable capability to provide point-to-point connections. However, if the expansion of the usage of rotorcraft vehicles were to follow the pace of grow followed by the fixed-wing public transport in the last years, there are several issues that need to be addressed urgently to increase the use and the public acceptance of rotorcraft. In particular, aspects related to complexity of the operations and safety are of primary importance, due to the fact that in the last 20 years helicopter accident rates, worldwide, remained unacceptably high, especially when compared with fixed-wing aircraft. The complexity of the phenomena that rule the functioning of rotorcraft calls for the development of engineers with a genuine multidisciplinary background. The key objectives of the NITROS training network are: to train the next generation of European aeronautical scientists and engineers on this type of flying machines developing the entrepreneurial attitude in them that is essential to introduce disruptive technological innovations; to train engineers to avoid overlooking the impact that their design choices may have on flight safety; to introduce innovations in rotorcraft design that will enhance the safety of helicopters, to obtain a significant reduction of the accident rate; to create a network of excellence of European institution dedicated to rotorcraft. All these goals can be reached by exposing the young researches to a dynamic network composed not only by some of the most renewed European engineering schools and research centres working in the rotorcraft field, but also to a good mix of industrial partners composed by rotorcraft manufacturers, operators and certification enitites.

Keywords: rotorcraft,helicopters,safety of flight