Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Cloud-based Airport Operations Planning tool with holistic forecasting of airport allocation planning. (BA-AC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2021-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3077001.25
EU funding (EUR): 2153900.88
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Airports are facing an increasing challenge of high sustained demand for passenger air travel, expected to increase by 15% by 2025. However, 40% of EU airports will not be able to meet this demand. A new aircraft stand (where aircraft are parked) has a cost between €5m and €15m, in addition to the cost of disruption while constructing. At the same time, operating an airport is a very complex task involving many stakeholders, making it difficult to identify options for increasing efficiencies. Better Airport® is the first cloud-based, holistic, Airport Operations Plan solution, providing airport operators with an AI-driven, easy-to-use solution which efficiently and effectively creates optimised operational plans, enabling informed decision making across airport stakeholders. Using advanced mathematical models and based on years of consultancy within airport operations, Better Airport® covers the entire value chain, from passenger check-in, security and border control to baggage handling and aircraft allocation. Our cloud-based approach allows all stakeholders to access information wherever, whenever, increasing efficiency across operations and ultimately saving airports at least €10m/year, while also driving the EU goal of a Single European Sky. Better Airport® will allow airport operators to forecast, plan and interact airports in between, connecting all airports with one system. The BA-AC project builds upon upscaling our validated prototype, most of our efforts will focus on technology maturation, piloting and market maturation, specifically on the maturation and integration of Better Aircraft, into Better Airport®, and perform large scale piloting at 3 major airports, advancing our current prototype from TRL7 to TRL 9. With a total market of 575 airports, we expect 5 years post project, to reach a market share of 17.8%, totalling 89 client airports, an annual recurring revenue of €20m, accumulated revenue of €65.78m, creating 47 new full-time employee positions.

Keywords: airport operations planning,passenger flow,aircraft allocation,forecasting,airport management,machine learning,it system,cloud,a cdm,airport system
Engineered ARTIficial proteins for Biological Light-Emitting Diodes (ARTIBLED)

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: Austria,Spain,Italy,Spain,Spain,Italy,Germany
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2687657.49
EU funding (EUR): 2687657.49
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The EU priority action lines state the need of advancing white light-emitting diodes (WLED) replacing color filters with inorganic phosphors (IP: rare-earth elements and Cd quantum dot) for non-toxic and sustainable organic phosphors (OP). ENABLED is inspired by highly efficient Bio-WLEDs based on fluorescent proteins (FPs), which are stable over weeks and beyond the state-of-the-art OP-WLEDs. However, the stability is limited by the intrinsic photodeactivation of FPs since natural chromophores were not matured by Nature to stand high photon flux excitations. Thus, there is an imperative need to enforce the evolution of photostable FPs directly prepared in bacteria. ENABLED proposes a radically new approach to prepare low-cost, highly efficient, and stable Bio-WLEDs by developing new biological synthesis tools to produce novel artificial fluorescent proteins (AFPs) in bacteria, which will be achieved by combining tailored natural as well as de novo protein scaffolds with synthetic LED emitters (PLQY>50% with high photostabilities). Thus, the novel Bio-WLEDs will also overcome previous limitations connected to photo-deactivation of natural chromophores. ENABLED aims to reach TRL4 for both AFP synthesis and Bio-WLEDs to fully meet the lighting needs at the forefront of the EU technology scenario by the end of the project.

Keywords: bio materials,artificial fluorescent proteins,unnatural amino acid technology,bio hybrid photonics,white light emitting diodes
Emotions in the Foreign Policy of Turkey towards the European Union (EMOFORTE)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-02-08
End date: 2023-02-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172932.48
EU funding (EUR): 172932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Within the last 20 years, Turkish Foreign Policy in relation to Europe has undergone two major transformations in almost opposite directions: first a rapid rapprochement (2002-2007) and then a steep deterioration (2008-2019). EMOFORTE aims to achieve a profound understanding of the political and social conditions which made these policy transformations possible by studying both the dominant and dissident foreign policy discourses of Turkish political elites (i.e. the politicians, parliamentarians, party officials, and bureaucrats) in terms of emotions materialised in identity discourses and in the narratives of Europe. EMOFORTE will compare the periods of rapprochement and deterioration by focusing on emotions as discursive elements significant for contesting and changing national identity constructions and narratives of Europe as the Other of Turkish national identity. It will include an ideological dimension to its comparative approach by studying similarities and differences in the rhetorical uses of emotions in the foreign policy discourses of the actors concerned from a wide ideological spectrum (far right to far left). With the help of this two-dimensional comparative method, it will also contribute to academic research on the current phenomenon of rising populism in Europe by working on the emotional component of populist discourses in Turkish politics. EMOFORTE will be conducted at University of Navarra (Spain), with secondments at Lund University (Sweden) and University of Essex (UK). Through trainings and close mentoring of the supervisors, it will equip the researcher with enhanced knowledge in emotion studies and with new skills in the new interdisciplinary methodological approaches and applications concerning the Big Data in social sciences, corpus linguistics, corpus-based discourse analysis and post-structural discourse analysis and, thereby, it will open up new career prospects in her subject-area of international relations.

Keywords: turkish foreign policy,the eu,turkey relations,politics of emotions,emotion discourse,post structuralism,post structural discourse theory,populism,political discourse,national identity
Single-cell nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with diamond quantum sensors (SingleCellQNMR)

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: 2020-12-01
End date: 2025-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2120290.0
EU funding (EUR): 2120290.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Single-cell events are often responsible for biological phenomena, such as drug resistance, cell development or tumorigenesis. Studies on cellular populations mask such characteristics and make single-cell technologies essential for understanding cell biology. However, one of the major analytical tools with the advantage of high molecular specificity and non-invasiveness, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, has been limited in its application to single-cell studies due to its intrinsic low sensitivity. Here, I aim to overcome this limitation by a unique combination of (i) highly sensitive quantum sensors for NMR detection with (ii) microfluidics and (iii) advanced hyperpolarization methods. The pioneering SingleCellQNMR project is based on my recently developed NMR technology for microscopic sample volumes using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. These defects act as atomic-sized magnetic quantum sensors and are the ideal tool to detect NMR signals from smallest volumes, such as from a single cell. A second-generation quantum diamond spectrometer with integrated hyperpolarization capabilities will be developed here to match the high technical requirements for single-cell studies. It will be a new transformative tool to study: a) Single-cell metabolomics. The high molecular specificity of NV-NMR will be used to analyse and quantify metabolites on the single-cell level noninvasively. Cells will be exposed to external stimuli such as drugs and their individual metabolic response will be monitored over time. b) Single-cell water diffusion and relaxation-based contrast. Water diffusion and proton relaxation will be measured on a single-cell level. This will allow for the investigation of microstructures and to record data for validating current models of magnetic resonance imaging contrast. The SingleCellQNMR project will develop a ground-breaking non-invasive tool and provide first results in a new era of single-cell studies.

Keywords: nv center in diamond,single cell biology,quantum sensing,nmr spectroscopy,magnetic resonance imaging hyperpolarization methods,metabolomics,lab on a chip,microfluidics,biophysics
EU-MERCI - EU coordinated MEthods and procedures based on Real Cases for the effective implementation of policies and measures supporting energy efficiency in the Industry (EU-MERCI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Market uptake of energy innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Italy,Italy,Türkiye,Greece,Slovenia,Poland,Bulgaria,Greece,Romania,France,Czechia,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Empowering stakeholders to assist public authorities in the definition and implementation of sustainable energy policies and measures (H2020-EE-2015-3-MarketUptake, 2015)
Start date: 2016-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1473379.38
EU funding (EUR): 1473378.74
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

The overarching objective of EU-MERCI is to support, in a coordinated way, the growth of energy efficiency in industry processes. It will develop methods and tools for assisting EU industry in the effective implementation of energy efficiency improvements and in the monitoring of the energy savings, in application of the 2012/27/EU Directive. The methodology will be based on the analysis of thousands real energy efficiency projects implemented according with the current energy policies and measures in different MSs and dealing with tenths of different industry sectors and processes. Energy efficiency solutions will be typified according with agreed criteria concerning applications, processes and technologies: best practices, algorithms and procedures of efficiency assessment will be derived, harmonized and standardized. The goal is to answer the questions: what are the most effective actions improving the efficiency in a particular process or industry sector? How to specifically implement them? What are the most promising technologies? What is the efficiency improvement attainable with each action? How to measure, monitor and report the savings? What are the associated costs? EU-MERCI, with recommendation and specific dissemination actions, will also assist policy makers and public authorities in the assessment of the effectiveness and transparency of the mechanisms, giving them also a picture of the technologies and efficiency improvements to incentive. Lessons learned from countries with consolidated energy efficiency schemes in place will be transferred to countries less advanced. The outputs of EU-MERCI will be specifically validated for the agrifood industry at a pan-European level. Finally, it is expected that, as a result of the assistance to industry, the number and effectiveness of energy efficiency improvements will greatly increase, thus contributing to the attainment of the EU and national energy goals.

Keywords: energy efficiency in industry,efficiency obligation schemes,white certificates,energy efficiency directive
Building Collaborative Urban Drainage research labs communities (Co-UDlabs)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Switzerland,France,France,Netherlands,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Integrating Activities for Starting Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2020-1, 2020)
Start date: 2021-05-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5171768.54
EU funding (EUR): 4999568.5
Participants: 10
Project status: SIGNED

The EU’s Urban Drainage Systems (UDS) have been valued at 2.5 trillion€. They are critical infrastructure providing flood risk reduction, safe sanitation by limiting contact between people and pathogens, and environmental protection by returning treated waste and storm water securely to the natural water cycle. Many UDS are at risk, their economic life is coming to an end and it is unclear how low operational knowledge, population growth, the climate emergency, and public health threats caused by emerging pollutants and pathogens can be addressed. Co-UDlabs brings together 17 unique ‘field scale’ urban drainage experimental facilities, providing innovation, collaboration and high level training opportunities. The main aim of CO-UDlabs is to integrate research and innovation activities in the field of UDS to address these pressing challenges and provide opportunities for pervasive monitoring of water quality, UDS performance and smart and open data approaches. The advanced Co-UDlabs facilities are run by experienced research groups with extensive industry networks and strong records of innovation. Co-UDlabs delivers Transnational Access to these facilities to enable the scientific community and industry innovators to develop and validate internationally leading innovations before safely deploying them in full-scale UDS. CO-UDlabs will conduct interlinked Joint Research Activities to enable faster and wider uptake of innovation in traditional buried pipe systems and newer green-blue infrastructure, specifically focusing on increasing our understanding of asset deterioration and improving system resilience. Also, CO-UDlabs will develop innovative smart monitoring technologies, digital water analysis tools and foster the innovation potential of human resources. CO-UDlabs will foster a culture of co-operation within the UDS community by conducting Networking Activities to attract diverse users, improve their data literacy and sharing of knowledge.

Keywords: urban drainage,green blue infrastructure,urban water quality,urban flooding,smart monitoring,asset management,sustainable drainage systems
CONtrast through metal-enriched polymer SALTs: novel contrast agents for dual-energy micro-computed tomography (CONSALT)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2018-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171460.8
EU funding (EUR): 171460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

X-ray micro computed tomography (microCT) is currently successfully used in material science investigations as well as in non-destructive testing enabling 3D imaging of these materials with micrometer resolution. The application of microCT for biological samples (e.g. biopsies) is limited by the missing contrast of soft tissue, which is important to visualize microscopic cellular structures. CONSALT aims at overcoming these limitations by simultaneous and yet separate visualization of a combination of at least two elements. Furthermore, it aims to advance x-ray microCT by allowing the visualization of single cells, which is currently not possible with the state-of-the-art x-ray microCT devices. The development and medicinal application of a fast X-ray based 3D-screening system for tissue biopsies to identify, visualize, and classify different pathologies, will complement conventional histology, which is based on the evaluation of a few selective 2D slices of a 3D biopsy, and further improve diagnosis (e.g. visualization of small tumors within the entire tissue volume or other 3D morphology parameters). Novel specific and functional contrast agents (stains) are essential to achieve the 3D visualization of specific pathological cellular or sub-cellular structures (e.g. nucleus or cytoskeleton). The design, development and testing of such new contrast agents to overcome the challenges of contrast enhancement and selectivity for certain tissue and cellular structures (e.g. nucleus, mitochondria or cytoplasm), which is seen through conventional staining in histology, is proposed here. The CT-contrast will be achieved by incorporation of biocompatible elements with a high z-component such as iodine and bismuth. The specific CT-contrast will be further optimized through dual-energy X-ray microCT-scanners allowing for visualization of at least two elements.

Keywords: micro ct,nano ct,contrast agent,sub cellular structures,bismtuh,iodide,biopolymer,mitochondria,nucleus,overview stain,specific stain
Cryosphere-Carbon on Top of the Earth (CC-Top): Decreasing Uncertainties of Thawing Permafrost and Collapsing Methane Hydrates in the Arctic (CC-TOP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499756.0
EU funding (EUR): 2499756.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The enormous quantities of frozen carbon in the Arctic, held in shallow soils and sediments, act as “capacitors” of the global carbon system. Thawing permafrost (PF) and collapsing methane hydrates are top candidates to cause a net transfer of carbon from land/ocean to the atmosphere this century, yet uncertainties abound. Our program targets the East Siberian Arctic Ocean (ESAO), the World’s largest shelf sea, as it holds 80% of coastal PF, 80% of subsea PF and 75% of shallow hydrates. Our initial findings (e.g., Science, 2010; Nature, 2012; PNAS; 2013; Nature Geoscience, 2013, 2014) are challenging earlier notions by showing complexities in terrestrial PF-Carbon remobilization and extensive venting of methane from subsea PF/hydrates. The objective of the CC-Top Program is to transform descriptive and data-lean pictures into quantitative understanding of the CC system, to pin down the present and predict future releases from these “Sleeping Giants” of the global carbon system. The CC-Top program combines unique Arctic field capacities with powerful molecular-isotopic characterization of PF-carbon/methane to break through on: The “awakening” of terrestrial PF-C pools: CC-Top will employ great pan-arctic rivers as natural integrators and by probing the δ13C/Δ14C and molecular fingerprints, apportion release fluxes of different PF-C pools. The ESAO subsea cryosphere/methane: CC-Top will use recent spatially-extensive observations, deep sediment cores and gap-filling expeditions to (i) estimate distribution of subsea PF and hydrates; (ii) establish thermal state (thawing rate) of subsea PF-C; (iii) apportion sources of releasing methane btw subsea-PF, shallow hydrates vs seepage from the deep petroleum megapool using source-diagnostic triple-isotope fingerprinting. Arctic Ocean slope hydrates: CC-Top will investigate sites (discovered by us 2008-2014) of collapsed hydrates venting methane, to characterize geospatial distribution and causes of destabilization.

Keywords: arctic,permafrost,organic carbon,methane,carbon dioxide,isotopes,compound specific isotope analysis,source apportionment