Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Building bridges between consumers and producers by supporting short food supply chains through a systemic, holistic, multi-actor approach based Toolbox (agroBRIDGES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Italy,Spain,Poland,Türkiye,Finland,Belgium,Greece,Greece,France,Netherlands,Denmark
Call: Connecting consumers and producers in innovative agri-food supply chains (H2020-RUR-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2998926.25
EU funding (EUR): 2998926.25
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

agroBRIDGES aims to build bridges between producers and consumers, rebalancing farmers market position by empowering them with knowledge about new business and marketing models. The proposal will mobilise local farmers through Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs), focussing on decreasing intermediaries and their margin. Precisely, agroBRIDGES will follow a knowledge-based, holistic, systemic approach built on two pillars: (1) a multi-actor framework pursuing demand-driven innovation; (2) a combination of communication materials, training programs, events organisation and IT tools gathered in the agroBRIDGES Toolbox as the ultimate instrument that will provide practical support to producers, consumers, contracting authorities, distributors, academia, etc, improving farmers position in the value chain. Both regional and pan-European approaches will be considered along with the project, where 12 Beacon regions will be involved in the creation of this multi-actor framework, directly involving ca. 400 people in information collection, knowledge exchange, co-creation, co-development and validation of project outputs. Full EU roll-out, replication and training will be conducted, supported by a strong dissemination campaign and coordination with other EU projects and initiatives as SCAR-AKIS and EIP AGRI through a clustering plan. Main impact in the short term will be ca. 150 persons trained on topics related to food procurement and how to mobilise innovative agri-food supply chains and support local producers, while in the medium-, long-term it is expected a 5-8% increase of farms totally or partially involved in direct sales to consumers and an increase in farmers income for the value of the output ca. 35% average thanks the developed new SFSCs models. This way, agroBRIDGES will make an ambitious contribution to the Common Agricultural Policy unlocking the full potential of Europe’s inner wealth by placing producers as a cornerstone for boosting European agri-food sector.

Keywords: farmers,consumers,short food supply chains,capacity building,business models
Pathiana Archaeological Landscapes Project (PALP)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-11-16
End date: 2021-11-15
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project focuses on the archaeology and history of the territory of Pathiana, a small (30x40km) region in southern Senegal which has played a key role in the history of the Senegambia over the last millennium. From the 12th to the early 20th C, and through four major socio-political disruptions, Pathiana survived as a political unit and centre of power, becoming a key player in the Atlantic trade in the process. Nevertheless, despite its key historical importance, Pathiana has never been archaeologically or historically studied, except for some limited excavations conducted as part of the applicant’s PhD. The proposed project aims to redress this situation by combing archival research with surface survey and recording of oral traditions amongst village elders. This will generate three interrelated datasets -historical European accounts and maps, local oral historical narratives, and archaeological survey data- which will be combined to achieve two main goals. Firstly, this project will rectify a major lacuna in our understanding of the Senegambia by systematically documenting the archaeology of Pathiana and its associated traditions. This will correlate for the first time the region’s intangible narratives with tangible remains and generate the chronologies and baselines for future research to build on. Additionally, this interdisciplinary dataset will be used to explore how the political structures of a small but powerful polity changed and adapted through seven centuries and three major societal upheavals, and how such structures were reflected in, and articulated through, the landscape. This project thus will generate highly significant data and interpretations concerning both the history of the Senegambia and wider debates on societal organization, political complexity, and the relationship between power and spatiality, as well as further exploring the long-standing dialogue between oral traditions, written sources and archaeology.

Keywords: african archaeology,mali empire,kaabu,fulaadu,french colonialism
Quantum Sensing with Quantum Optical Networks (QUSON)

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: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-06-04
End date: 2020-06-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum sensing exploits effects such as entanglement to enhance the sensitivity of measurement devices. In the last decade we have witnessed a significant advance in experimental platforms such as trapped ion setups and superconducting circuits. These systems are never free from noise and dissipation, however, interactions between qubits and photons or phonons can be controlled with lasers or external fields. Even in strong dissipative regimes, cooperative effects may induce complex quantum dynamics with emergent phenomena such as non-equilibrium phase transitions and multistability. The question then arises whether we can exploit those many-body effects in robust metrological protocols. My project will address this question in two main scenarios corresponding to different limits of a network of qubits coupled to photonic cavities. Firstly, I will consider a limit of weak coupling, in which cooperative radiative decay leads to the generation of entanglement. Secondly, I will investigate networks of qubits strongly coupled to photonic cavities. I will identify, and systematically investigate, points close to non-equilibrium phase transitions in which the abrupt response of the system can be used to accurately measure properties of driving fields. The project requires a rigorous theoretical description of the qubit-cavity network. Approximations such as a mean-field theory can be used for a preliminary study. However, to achieve my goals I will need to properly describe quantum correlations across the system. I will address this challenge by using Matrix Product States methods - an advanced quasi-exact numerical technique. My reference systems will be trapped ion setups and superconducting qubits coupled to microwave resonators. In my project, I will systematically investigate their performance as quantum sensors under realistic conditions. My work will lead to proposals for the accurate measurement of microwave fields, magnetic fields and ultra-weak forces.

Keywords: quantum sensing,open quantum systems,dissipative phase transitions,trapped ions,superconducting circuits,nonlinear cavities,quantum optics
The chemical trail in protostars: From the deeply embedded phase to the planet forming disk (Chemtrip)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: France,France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2026-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499995.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499995.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The emergence of Life relied on the presence of key molecules like water and prebiotic molecules. The primitive objects of our Solar System (comets, asteroids), which formed in the disk of dust and gas surrounding the young Sun, are thought to have delivered them to Earth during heavy bombardments. Observations show that the deeply embedded Class 0 protostars also harbour a very rich chemistry in their inner regions. What occurs to the chemical composition between this early stage of the star formation process and the formation of planets, comets, and asteroids is unknown. Do the molecules detected in these young protostars survive or are they destroyed and reformed at a later stage before being incorporated into planets, comets, and asteroids? This ERC project aims to reconstruct the physico-chemical evolution from the deeply embedded protostellar stage to the planet forming disk stage, through multi-source analyses of high angular resolution observations combined with chemical modeling studies. I will investigate the evolution of complex organic chemistry and isotopic fractionation during the star formation process using interferometric observations (ALMA, NOEMA) of solar-type protostars. In addition, I will carry out numerical simulations with a state-of-the-art gas-grain chemistry code in order to interpret the observations as well as to characterize the impact of the physical conditions and their evolution (environment, grain growth and dust settling, episodic accretion) on the chemistry. This ERC project will lead to a new understanding of the evolution of the chemical composition from the earliest protostellar stage to the formation of the disk that will give birth to the planets, comets, and asteroids, while identifying the processes affecting the final composition of the disk. The observational work will require the development of innovative tools of interest for the astrochemical community that I will release publicly.

Keywords: astrochemistry,solar type protostars,interferometric observations
Novel EOSC services for Emerging Atmosphere, Underwater and Space Challenges (NEANIAS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: EOSC ecosystem
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Spain,Italy,Greece,Greece,Hungary,France,United Kingdom,Denmark,Luxembourg,Portugal
Call: Prototyping new innovative services (H2020-INFRAEOSC-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5597025.0
EU funding (EUR): 5597025.0
Participants: 23
Project status: CLOSED

NEANIAS is an ambitious project that comprehensively addresses the ‘Prototyping New Innovative Services’ challenge set out in the recent ‘Roadmap for EOSC’ foreseen actions. NEANIAS will drive the co-design, delivery, and integration into EOSC of innovative thematic services, derived from state-of-the-art research assets and practices in three major sectors: underwater research, atmospheric research and space research. Each of these sectors engages a diverse set of research and business groups, practices, and technologies. Each thematic service will not only address its community-specific needs but will also enable the transition of the respective community to the EOSC concept and Open Science principles. In doing so, NEANIAS provides its communities with plentiful resource access, collaboration instruments, and interdisciplinary research mechanisms, which will amplify and broaden each community’s research and knowledge generation activities. From a technological perspective, NEANIAS will deliver a rich set of services that are designed to be flexible and extensible; they will be able to accommodate the needs of communities beyond their original definition and to adapt to neighboring cases, fostering reproducibility and re-usability. From a sustainability perspective, NEANIAS identifies promising, cutting-edge business cases across several user communities and lays out several concrete exploitation opportunities.

Keywords: underwater research,atmospheric research,space research,eosc services,open science,innovation,business
Securing Continuous Operations of Mission Critical IoT Endpoints (PdbU)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) has created new challenges for IP networks, chiefly, the vulnerability of IoT endpoints to sudden power and communication cuts and cyber-attacks. There are still no means of guaranteeing that Mission Critical IoT Endpoints are continuously powered and secured in the event of IoT devices being compromised through power and connectivity cuts. Compromised IoT devices pose a danger to device owners and other IoT customers as evidenced by various attacks on various IoT systems e.g. the cyber-attack on Russian banks and the hacking of the Washington D.C. police closed circuit camera network. There is an unmet opportunity for a reliable means of securing and powering IoT endpoints to ensure operational continuity and defence from cyber-attacks. Energy Re-Connect has developed the Power Drop BackUp (PdbU), a patented native Power over Ethernet (PoE) platform that comes as a standalone device connected inline to any IoT Mission Critical Endpoint. The PdbU will be situated at the end of the network and provides combined solutions of power, communication backup and cyber IP gatekeeping. PoE enables converged cabling infrastructure, with the endpoints powered, connected and controlled over the Local Area Network (LAN) and no need for separate power cabling. This eliminates CAPEX and OPEX from dedicated AC cabling, which contributes to the PdbU’s cost advantage (600% less compared to legacy systems). Further benefits of the PdbU include impenetrable cyber protection and predictive capabilities for possible IoT failures. The PdbU is at an advanced stage of development with commercial pre-series sales. During the feasibility study, we will develop a road map for the final version and Ph2 will see us developing and validating the market version of PdbU. Our turnover will come from the sale of our device to the surveillance and smart city markets. We target to achieve a collective turnover of €77M by the 5th year of commercialisation.

Keywords: internet of things iot,endpoints,cyber security,autonomous,surveillance systems,power over ethernet,deep learning algorithm,smart cities
Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of MXene Electrochemical Storage by Operando Scanning X-ray Microscopy (NANOMXM)

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: Germany
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Finding efficient ways to store and deliver electrical energy is urgently needed for the large-scale development of renewable energy sources. The use of pseudocapacitive materials, such as 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides, so-called MXenes, is an extremely promising solution to achieve electrochemical energy storage with high power and energy densities, benefiting from fast redox reactions on transition metal oxides. Nevertheless, local electrochemical processes occurring at the solid-liquid interface of pseudocapacitors are currently largely unexplored. The goal of this project is to image for the first time electrochemical processes occurring during pseudocapacitive electrochemical storage on MXenes at the nanoscale with operando Scanning Transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM). Using synchrotron X-ray light, STXM will allow element-selective chemical mapping with <50 nm spatial resolution and bulk-sensitivity, so that transition metal atoms, surface termination and confined electrolyte in single MXene flakes can be probed independently. The objectives of NANOMXM are to image in operando electrochemical reactions occurring at the MXene-electrolyte interface inside single multi-layered flakes at high cycling rates (up to 10 V/s) and to probe dynamic processes such as charge transfer and ion diffusion with electrical pump-X-ray probe schemes at high repetition rates (>30 kHz). Redox and intercalation pseudocapacitive charging processes will be investigated directly in acidic or alkali cations-containing electrolytes, respectively. By offering unprecedented chemical sensitivity, spatial and temporal resolutions in liquid simultaneously, NANOMXM will provide a radically new method to probe pseudocapacitive electrochemical storage in MXene. Achieving operando imaging of fast electrochemical reactions at the nanoscale would be a major breakthrough that could open new perspectives to investigate further electrochemical processes on metal oxide-based materials.

Keywords: scanning transmission x ray microscopy,x ray absorption spectroscopy,electrochemical energy storage,pseudocapacitance,2d materials
Validation of a novel antiviral drug candidate against influenza (FluAttack)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Immunity, Infection and Immunotherapy
Panel description: The immune system, related disorders and their mechanisms, biology of infectious agents and infection, biological basis of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, innovative immunological tools and approaches, including therapies
Countries involved: France,France
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2019-PoC, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 154679.57
EU funding (EUR): 139081.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

With 3 to 5 million severe cases and up to 650,000 deaths per year worldwide, influenza viruses are not only major human pathogens, they are also a heavy economic burden to our societies. In addition, influenza pandemics can occur at any time with potential devastating effects in terms of lives and costs. Solutions to prevent infection, to treat severe influenza cases and to respond to a severe pandemic are currently extremely limited and rely on vaccination and on only few approved molecules. All these solutions have their limitations with respect to efficacy and all face the problem of viral resistance. Thus, the demand for new options against influenza infections is high. The World Health Organization (WHO) and influenza virus specialists agree that innovative and effective anti-influenza compounds with a reduced risk of viral escape are urgently needed. The main goal of this ERC PoC is to provide key data on a promising innovative therapeutic solution identified in the lab. Taking advantage of a powerful screening system we have developed during the ERC StG ANTIViR, we have identified a family of molecules as potent inhibitors of influenza virus (with IC50<100nM). The mode of action of these molecules is known and they actually target a cellular function essential to all influenza viruses. Preventing viral replication by targeting a cellular function is a novel approach, predicted to strongly reduce the risk of drug resistance. Importantly, one of our hits went through several phase II and III clinical trials as an anti-cancer agent, making this molecule a perfect candidate for drug repurposing. In this context, the specific objectives of this ERC PoC are: i) to further characterise and validate our best hit, in particular in commercial 3D human airway epithelial cells and in vivo in a mouse model, and ii) to secure IPR and to establish an exploitation strategy plan (patent licensing or creation of a start-up) to support future development and preclinical tests.

Keywords: influenza viruses,antivirals,pandemic,drug repurposing,host factor inhibition,viral escape risk reduction,first in class molecule,broad range activity
Building the Legal Knowledge Graph for Smart Compliance Services in Multilingual Europe (Lynx)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Big Data PPP (cPPP)
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Germany,Austria,Austria,Italy,Israel,Spain,Latvia,Netherlands
Call: Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2017-12-01
End date: 2021-03-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3638065.0
EU funding (EUR): 2959247.52
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and companies operating internationally face multiple difficulties to trade abroad and to localise their products and services in other countries. Complying with regulatory and legal aspects is crucial for these companies, who usually delegate the task to law and consultancy firms. These firms have to identify, retrieve and process documents from several sources, in multiple languages, and published by various institutions according to different criteria and formats. Such a burdensome task is hindering European SMEs to sell across borders, and thus reducing its competitive potential. Current content and data analytics solutions are mature to be transferred to the market and leverage the new opportunities created by the data linking paradigm and the open data movement. Lynx aims to create a knowledge graph of legal and regulatory data towards compliance, in which heterogeneous data sources from different jurisdictions, languages and orders are aggregated and interlinked by a collection of advanced services. Building on this legal knowledge graph, a Lynx platform will offer compliance-related functionality focused on three specific business cases. In a first pilot, legal compliance solution for data protection will be offered, where data protection related documents are innovatively managed, analysed, and visualised across different jurisdictions. In the second pilot, the Lynx platform will help understanding regulatory regimes (norms and standards) related to operations in the Oil & Gas and Energy sectors. The third pilot will provide a compliance solution in the labour law domain, where legal provisions, case law, administrative resolutions, and expert literature will be interlinked, analysed, and compared to define legal strategies in the context of legal practice. European citizens will also benefit from this solution because they will gain free access to a new collection of aggregated and interlinked legal data.

Keywords: compliance,terminologies,regulatory data,legal data,standards,linked data,multilingual data