Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Protecting Minds: The Right to Mental Integrity and The Ethics of Arational Influence (ProtMind)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Switzerland,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1960264.0
EU funding (EUR): 1910264.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Unlike most traditional forms of behavioural influence, such as rational persuasion, incentivisation and coercion, many novel forms of behavioural influence operate at a subrational level, bypassing the targeted individual's capacity to respond to reasons. Examples include bottomless newsfeeds, randomised rewards, and other 'persuasive' technologies employed by online platforms and computer game designers. They also include biological interventions, such as the use of drugs, nutritional supplements or non-invasive brain stimulation to facilitate criminal rehabilitation. The ethical acceptability of such arational influence depends crucially on whether we possess a moral right to mental integrity, and, if so, what kinds of mental interference it rules out. Unfortunately, these questions are yet to be addressed. Though the right to bodily integrity is well-established, the possibility of a right to mental integrity has attracted little philosophical scrutiny. The purposes of this project are to (1) determine whether and how a moral right to mental integrity can be established; (2) develop a comprehensive and fine-grained account of its scope, weight, and robustness, and (3) determine what forms of arational influence infringe it, and whether and when these might nevertheless be justified. It will deploy a tripartite methodology comprising a bottom-up, casuistic approach, drawing on reflective responses to particular interventions; a horizontal approach, in which lessons for mental integrity will be drawn from analyses of the related phenomena of coercion, manipulation, and bodily integrity; and a top-down approach, drawing on theories of moral rights. The analysis will establish arational influence as a new area of enquiry and yield guidance on controversial novel forms of arational influence including persuasive digital technologies, salience-based nudges, treatments for childhood behavioural disorders, and biological interventions in criminal rehabilitation.

Keywords: applied ethics,neuroethics,medical ethics,criminal justice ethics,behaviour modification
New extended EEN innovation support service for innovative SMEs in Serbia (EEN INNOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Serbia,Serbia,Serbia
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 45050.0
EU funding (EUR): 45050.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

It is expected that at least 30 SMEs with high innovation potential and SME Instrument beneficiaries will be included in the project. The action of this Project Proposal aims at stimulating innovation in SMEs by capacity building and has the main objective to Identify the capacity to receive the innovation support service in at least 26 innovating SMEs and 4 beneficiaries of the SME instrument. Implementing partners in consortia are : Institute “Mihajlo Puipin” who is managing this project, Innovation Center of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Business Incubator Novi Sad. Coordinator is Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Each of three implementing partners will work with 10 SMEs in the course of two years project period. Since ICMF and BINS are involved in both services, the division of the companies per service will be as following: 8 companies will be provided with the EIMC while 2 will receive KAM service, each. IMP is providing only EIMC and it will served 10 companies. Innovation management assessment tools will be different for two package services. As to assessment of the innovation capacity of the beneficiaries of SME instrument, different methodology should be applied. It will be existing methodology designed to assess the company’s strengths and growth barriers as well as any innovation bottlenecks. The tool shall specifically address step 1 and step 2 of the Key Account Management process like (but not limited to) SME Power. For the companies with significant innovation activities to whom EIMC service will be delivered, IMP³rove tool will be applied. Alternatively, other assessment tools which are in accordance with the CEN/TS 16555-1 standard and better match to the concrete SME capacity and innovation performance will be also applied. Therefore, the final selection of the appropriate assessment tool will be made case by case.

Keywords: innovation support,eimc,sme instrument,imp rove,innovate
Full-value chain Optimised Climate User-centric Services for Southern Africa: FOCUS-Africa (FOCUS-Africa)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,South Africa,Spain,Italy,Belgium,Switzerland,France,United Kingdom,Malawi,Mozambique,Niger,United Kingdom
Call: Human dynamics of climate change (H2020-LC-CLA-2019-2, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6973017.5
EU funding (EUR): 6973017.5
Participants: 16
Project status: SIGNED

The central objective of FOCUS-Africa is to develop sustainable tailored climate services in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region for four sectors: agriculture and food security, water, energy and infrastructure. The proposed co-production amongst end-users, climate scientists and sectoral service providers will ensure that the full value chain for the delivery of the climate services is effectively realised. This will be demonstrated by piloting eight case studies in six countries involving a wide range of end-uses to illustrate how the application of new climate forecasts, projections, resources from Copernicus, GFCS and other relevant products can maximise socio-economic benefits in the Southern Africa region and potentially in the whole of Africa. An innovative aspect of FOCUS-Africa is to address the recurring sustainability and exploitation challenge of climate services in Africa. To achieve this, it will assess dynamically the socio-economic value of the proposed services during the development of the prototypes to better adapt pilot products to the local situation. End-users and service providers will be fully involved in the definition of the associated exploitation strategies using the innovative Flourishing Business Canvas to design business models that are socially beneficial, gender-sensitive, environmentally regenerative and financially viable. This approach will ensure that each of the co-designed climate product can be operationalised through WMO operational infrastructure (e.g. ECMWF, Regional Climate Centres and National Meteorological and Hydrological Services) in support of sustained country level service delivery on regional and global scales. Ultimately, FOCUS-Africa climate services are expected to become a fundamental part of sectorial adaptation strategies at different levels (from local to national and regional) and contribute to the implementation of Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords: tailored climate information,water energy food nexus,climate adaptation strategies for africa,seasonal forecasts,climate projections,climate resilience,european added value
Our elemental sense of collective flow (FLOW)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175572.48
EU funding (EUR): 175572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We are incorporating increasingly complex systems and information streams into our daily lives that involve flow (e.g. autonomous cars, social feeds, disaster information systems). This type of flow is created by a body of individual entities that show both collective and individual behaviours following a coordinated set of rules (e.g. flocks of birds, schools of fish, cars on highways). Designs implicitly assume that the human visual system processes collective flow in an effortless and veridical manner. But which properties of collective flow can we perceive and how sensitive are we to its parameters? Can we perceive 3D (e.g. smoke) as well as 2D flow (e.g. traffic) structures? By studying the human visual system and the mechanisms it relies on while performing complex tasks on flow we will learn how to efficiently deal with large streams of information under highly varying conditions. We will study this by gathering perceptual data of human observers and developing models that align with these human observations. Combining empirical studies involving psychophysical testing and theoretical inferences using neural networks we will arrive at an understanding of collective flow perception. Understanding human perception and the information basis of complex dynamics is of major importance for the design of human-centered complex dynamic systems. This fellowship will be carried out in Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), in the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Sylvia Pont, in the Perceptual Intelligence lab. This multidisciplinary task force is renowned for its multidisciplinary work on real-world perception problems and offers unique training in application-oriented quantitative psychophysical work and cognitive ergonomics. It will offer me the opportunity to return to the Netherlands as a postdoc while broadening my expertise towards the applied realm and information communication design.

Keywords: psychophysics
ICE Cubes Service - International Commercial Experiment Cubes Service (ICE Cubes)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: SME Instrument (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2017-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3338750.0
EU funding (EUR): 2337125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The International Commercial Experiment Cubes Service (ICE Cubes) will provide rapid, simplified, low cost access to the International Space Station, creating the opportunity to maximise the use of the remaining lifetime of the ISS. The initial service will enable any organisation, public or private entity or individual, such as universities, academic programmes and pharmaceutical companies/research centres or private persons to perform experiments on the ISS. Furthermore the ICE Cubes service will develop special miniaturised capabilities for use in space that do not exist today, in response to market needs. Space Applications’ knowledge gained from working on a daily basis with ESA to establish scientists needs, to train astronauts, and to develop and operate payloads on the ISS will be used to realise this commercial opportunity. ICE Cubes fully supports the process of experiment development and takes care of the flight acceptance, launch manifest and operation of the customers’ experiments. The ICE Cubes service includes: • As much or as little customer support as needed, throughout the process of experiment development, flight acceptance, launch and operation of the experiments; • The ICE Cubes on-orbit facility consisting of (1) a Framework facility for ‘plug-and-play’ modular Experiment Cubes and (2) the PharmaLab, a novel multi-cube facility for pharmaceutical research; • An out of the box installable ground monitoring and control software to access experiments; • Market driven development of additional added value miniaturised equipment and facilities. This project will result in the set up and operation of the ICE Cube service, including the design and development of the ICE Cubes system, the launch of the Framework facility, the PharmaLab facility and at least one Experiment Cube developed by a university and their on-orbit and on-ground operation, as well as the initiation of an entrepreneurial ecology of supporting technology development companies.

Keywords: international space station,commercial service,fast track,low cost,modular experiment cubes,pharmaceutical lab,engineering support,flight acceptance and launch support,operations support
Novel Biobased Low-carbon Infrastructure Solutions (NOBILIS)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-02-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Current EU strategies, the climate action and the European Green Deal require infrastructure to be provided in an economical and environmentally responsible manner, reducing material use, embedded carbon and other impacts on the natural environment and ecosystems. Innovative, low-carbon, sustainable solutions will therefore be needed for the maintenance an upgrading of ageing transport infrastructure facilities to meet future needs and the changing environmental loads due to climate change. Opportunities for transformative processes arise from advances in understanding and harnessing nature-based processes. The use of such processes in geotechnical engineering practice is relatively new and underexplored. Before industrial adoption field applications of the techniques are required to prove their practical viability, long-term sustainability and whole life costs. The aim of this research is thus to realise exciting new bio-based processes in situ as a viable, sustainable method of improving existing infrastructure earthworks. For this the UK railway network is used as a case study. The research comprises the development of exciting novel processes in the laboratory, their numerical modelling before upscaled application in the field, and a pilot field study application of the novel techniques on a railway embankment. Following this, the techniques will be evaluated in terms of environmental impact and whole life costs. This will lead to practical guidelines for industry, fostering the transfer of new technologies to engineering practice in order to address industry and EU priorities for low-carbon nature-based solutions and bio-economy.

Keywords: sustainable development,climate action,ground improvement,biotechnology,biogeochemistry,materials
Cost and time-effective universal medical device for treatment of onychomycosis by combining several technologies (OZONELASER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Supporting innovative SMEs in the healthcare biotechnology sector (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2016-10-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

TERMOSALUD, S.L., hereinafter TSALUD, is an Spanish SME whose core business is Well-being, Health and Medical–Esthetic industry. Currently, TSALUD goal is the development of specialized medical equipment oriented to dermatology within Medical–Esthetic business line: new Derma business line. OZONELASER project is oriented to create a new product within “Derma” field in order to provide dermatogological treatments (for nails, skins or hairs) and diagnosis for a fungal infection (onychomycosis or OM) based on cell technologies. While competitors use treatment solutions based on drugs or on (high or low) laser technologies, OZONELASER will be the unique commercial product based on a combination of two technologies which provides high efficiency, low prizes, universality on the type of patient to be treated, short treatment periods, painless and natural tissue regeneration by fostering own body cells growth. Likewise, patients cannot develop resistance to OZONELASER while they do to current existing treatments based on antifungals. Thus, OZONELASER will provide a solution for treatment and diagnosis of a fungal infection on finfernails and toenails which affects 10% of worldwide population, specially on elderly which in 2060 it will represent around the 50% of worldwide population and only in USA it represents a 16 billion € market. In addition, TSALUD has a long-term strategy for such Derma business line. This will be further improved through new developments. TSALUD bases this New Market Strategy on SME Instrument to reduce OZONELASER time to market (accelerate startegic partner selection, collection of user needs, IPR protection, etc.) as it is known how medical devices require long-term developments due to clinical trials

Keywords: natural cell technology,body cell growth boosting,onychomicosis,fungi,nail infection
Integrated Implementation of Industrial Innovations for Offshore Wind Cost Reduction (i4Offshore)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Spain,Norway,Poland,Norway,Norway,France,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Demonstrate solutions that significantly reduce the cost of renewable power generation (H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-SingleStage, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 27122345.18
EU funding (EUR): 19877916.259999998
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

Led by market leader Siemens Gamesa, drawing on best-in-class partners covering the full value chain of offshore wind energy, i4Offshore will demonstrate the break-down of cost-barriers of large-scale offshore developments. At a commercial, challenging, farshore, deepwater Vattenfall site, a highly innovative offshore system solution featuring a Siemens Gamesa next-generation direct drive wind turbine, a hybrid-material gravity jacket foundation that is optimised for low cost manufacturing, and new very-low-cost array cable-in-pipe solution will be installed and operated as a full size demonstrator during the project. The project is much more than a technology demonstration. i4Offshore combines the technological advances with deep but targeted study of holistic concepts for leaner manufacturing, onshore and offshore transport of components for full scale operation, innovative strategies for operation and maintenance as well as for offshore logistics and installation. The mitigation of bottlenecks in the value chain will be given special attention. Reduction of cost is the paramount concern across all stages of the offshore wind manufacturing, construction, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning process, whilst safeguarding the highest standards of health, safety and ennvironment. Enabled by the innovative concepts for manufacturing, logistics, installation, and O&M, validated data from the installed and operated wind turbine system will validate the commercial viability of implementing GW-sized offfshore wind farm consisting of the i4Offshore field-proven solution. The new offshore solution will consist of new, modularized components which allow leaner, faster, more reliable and much more cost-efficient logistics in the transportation, handling, installation and O&M phases of future commercial project development. i4Offshore will deliver innovative, reliable and robust solutions to reducing LCoE to 80€/MWh at highly challenging sites before 2025.

Keywords: offshore wind,cost reduction,demonstration,scaleup
HOT III-V II-VI Focal Plane Arrays for Space Applications in the Upper SWIR Band (SWIRup)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Norway,France,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Competitiveness in Earth observation mission technologies (H2020-COMPET-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2845106.25
EU funding (EUR): 2845106.25
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Missions from space for high-resolution earth observation (including greenhouse gases monitoring) require optical sensors covering both Visible channels and the Short Wavelength InfraRed band (SWIR). For SWIR optical sensors, the current approach in Europe is HgCdTe N/P sensors cooled to cryogenic temperature. SWIRup is aiming at developing an alternative photosensitive material to current HgCdTe N/P sensors. It will focus on InGaAs/GaAsSb super-lattice lattice matched to InP substrate, named III-V. The objective is to push the cut off wavelength up to 2,5µm (currently limited to 1,7) adding SWIR bands to the common VISIBLE channels generally proposed on instruments dedicated to earth observation from space. The SWIRup sensor technologies will also provide alternatives to HgCdTe N/P detectors for commercial applications in the SWIR spectral range, such as hyperspectral imaging systems (for airborne, field applications) and Lidar (or active imaging applications). The 2nd objective is to achieve high operating temperature for focal plane arrays, to be the closest possible to room temperature (230 to 290K) compared to the typical 200-210K for current HgCdTe detectors. This will eliminate cryogenic cooling, improving miniaturization, power reduction, efficiency and versatility of the optical payloads, all of which could provide room for increased functionality. The SWIRup technology will be compared to the current reference II-VI technology which is the HgCdTe P/N material, leading to a technology prioritization by type of application, as each material has its own advantages. This II-VI material, already optimized for cooled astronomical application, will be improved to work at higher temperature. The proposal includes the manufacturing and tests of 2D arrays with sensitive module using the new III-V technology and with the II-VI technology. Reaching TRL5 at the end, the highest performance of the 2 technologies will enter industrialization phase and be integrated.

Keywords: hot swir detector technology,swir focal plane array,iii v detection technologies,swir hgcdte p,n detector,ingaas,gaassb type ii super lattice on inp substrate,molecular beam epitaxy wafer growth