Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SMart IsLand Energy systems (SMILE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: A single, smart European electricity grid
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Greece,Greece,Netherlands,Portugal,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Demonstration of smart grid, storage and system integration technologies with increasing share of renewables: distribution system (H2020-LCE-2016-SGS, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14092983.8
EU funding (EUR): 12106046.95
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Europe’s electricity sector is experiencing severe transformations: modernization of the electricity system is vital for achieving Europe’s energy targets, and smart grids and flexible electricity systems are essential for this modernization. On this respect, the SMILE project will demonstrate different innovative technological and non-technological solutions in large-scale smart grid demonstration projects in the Orkneys, Samsø and Madeira islands, paving the way for their introduction in the market in the near future. The technological solutions vary from: integration of battery technology, power to heat, power to fuel, pumped hydro, electric vehicles, electricity stored on board of boats, an aggregator approach to demand side management (DSM) and predictive algorithms. The pilots will demonstrate operation of the distribution grid under stable and secure conditions to implement solutions for demand response, intelligent control and automation of distribution networks; they have high shares of RES in the electricity grid or have planned increasing shares in the next years. All of them will demonstrate stable grid operation with use of storage solutions and smart integration of grid users from transport. Each pilot will test the most appropriate solutions for local specificities, and common lessons with cross-cutting valence will be derived. Involving projects on islands will ease engaging residents in SMILE. Indeed, islanders are usually sensible to provide availability to test solutions impacting their daily life. Finally, two of the pilots are not total energy islands, thus representing smart grids located on the mainland and not limiting replication potential to other island locations only. SMILE consortium is composed by 19 partners from 6 EU countries: all the value chain actors needed to efficiently implement the 3 projects have been involved and an innovation management approach will guarantee a wider exploitation and replication of technological solutions.

Keywords: smartgrid,storage,demand side management,demand response,distribution network,e mobility
The use of mass spectrometry and optical methods to determine the influence of cofactors on the structure and stability of proteins (PHOTO_IMS)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This fellowship will use novel instrumentation to define the role of cofactors on the structure and stability of proteins. We have recently adapted a commercially available Synapt ion mobility mass spectrometer to allow it to perform optical measurements on conformer and mass selected ions, in collaboration with Waters Corp. The heart of this instrument is the ion mobility cell, IM-MS measurements are possible in this instrument, as for any Synapt mass spectrometer, but uniquely we are able to trap ions that have been conformer selected, to allow optical measurements in a so called ‘photo SRIG’ (stacked ring ion guide). Such optical measurements can take several forms, including IR-spectroscopy, UV/Vis-spectroscopy, which will provide structural analysis of co-factors and coenzymes, photo-dissociation to sequence the proteins as well as fluorescence to probe global conformations. Molecular mechanics calculations will generate structures to compare with those determined experimentally. This MC fellow will use this novel instrument to examine the role of cofactors on the conformations of proteins, by making measurements on the cofactor alone, the apo and the holo form of the protein. The MC fellow will be trained in biological mass spectrometry, in optical methods and in molecular mechanics. They will spend a secondment at Waters developing software to best interpret the data from this instrument. This cutting edge interdisciplinary science program is world leading and will train this fellow with a set of skills highly desirable both in academia and in industry.

Keywords: ion mobility mass spectrometry,cofactors
AI-Inspect - an artificial intelligence tool for instant inspection of commercial properties (AI-Inspect)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Poland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2020-06-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Tensorflight has created AI-Inspect, an artificial intelligence tool for the instant, remote and fully automated analysis of the different features of commercial buildings for the insurance and reinsurance sector. We develop the most advanced computer vision methods based on deep learning and are the first company that analyses not only satellite/aerial images but also street-level pictures. Due to the high scalability of our innovation, we are able to quickly provide information on large portfolios of commercial properties from any part of the world. We will cover a market niche where at the moment no one can provide a high-quality, rapid service and facilitate the credible risk assessment of properties such as retail and manufacturing sites, office and multifamily buildings, hospitals, schools, etc. AI-Insect will help insurance and reinsurance companies to reduce costs of on-site surveys and reduce losses caused by improper valuation. As a result, both the owners and the users of the properties will share lower costs of the insurance coverage. In a 5 years perspective, we estimate to analyse no less than 15.5 million queries at a cost of approx. 1 EUR each. Better insurance coverage in the real estate sector is extremely important bearing in mind the climate change. Accurate risk assessment is crucial for large insurance and reinsurance companies to step into more risky markets in the developing countries. The ultimate result is a globally shared risk of catastrophic events and higher stability of the economy in different regions of the world. In this feasibility study, we plan to perform a comprehensive market analysis that will refine the pricing strategy to fit regional specificity and identify new partners to conduct pilot testing on new markets. A technical assessment will also be conducted to explore innovative solutions that will allow us to boost AI-Inspect's capabilities, keeping us far ahead of the competition.

Keywords: commercial property insurance and reinsurance,automated and remote image analysis,computer vision
Horizontal wind turbines for maritime transport ships (SIDEWIND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Iceland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

International shipping is a large and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). It transports 80% of the global trade at the cost of 940 million CO2 tons (2.5% of global GHGs). Despite mandates from the EC or the UN on tackling this situation, the industry remains heavily fossil-fuel dependent. Some efforts are being made in harnessing the wind to propel ships, going back to its origins. These are soft-tails, fixed-sails, flettner rotors, kite sails and even some wind turbines. However, they all remain at the research stage failing to represent a feasible and reliable power source. Sidewind is a breakthrough innovation in the use of wind power in transport ships. Designed to utilize the wind energy that is wasted around cargo ships by converting that energy (kinetic) into electricity, Sidewind incorporates horizontal turbines inside recycled cargo containers. This results in a flexible, practical and cost-effective solution to the maritime transport sector, without the need for major changes in the ship. By installing just 20 turbines (standard cargo ship), a ship will save 40% average fossil fuel and energy, translated in €328k per year. The EU has 329 key seaports, controlling around 60% of all container cargo ships. Our customers are maritime transport companies (183 in Europe, managing 23,000 vessels) and ship builders (150 shipyards in the EU). The number of vessels calling in the main EU ports in 2017 was estimated at above 2.1 million, and we will target the most important shipping companies. We count with support from public entities (Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources, Ministry of industries and innovation) and key industry players like Samskip (maritime transport), Hedinn (engineering in fishing industry) and Rafnar Hull (ship builder). Sidewind is opening a new market niche as provider of wind technology for the maritime transport. Our vision for Sidewind is to play the leading role in a new green shipping era

Keywords: maritime transport,wind energy,recycled containers,ships,vessels
Intelligent Live Cell Analysis [iLCA] to transform disease management through faster, and more regulatory robust, discovery, manufacture and monitoring of biologic drugs & cell therapies (iLCA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2018)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2021-07-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3483633.75
EU funding (EUR): 2438543.63
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The detailed analysis of live cells, as shed elements of a human disease process, cell therapies themselves or as factories for the production of biologic drugs, is attracting intense focus globally from diverse companies in automation, imaging, diagnostics and manufacturing. This proposal is made on behalf of a consortium of 3 European SME’s to support the validation and preparation for commercial take-up of the market entry application, Cell Line Development [CLD], of a new transformative technology at the forefront of these areas and is ideally suited for cell line development, antibody discovery, gene editing, cell therapy, antibody engineering and ex-vivo diagnostic workflows. Each workflow provides a dramatic increase in insight, control, speed and cost, ultimately resulting in faster, cheaper and more regulatory robust medicines for European patients. Biologic drugs are large in size and are manufactured from a single cell selected following an expensive, relatively crude and time consuming process - Cell Line Development. Our technology can select the 'Top' cell using a detailed analysis of the critical quality attributes along with providing complete image recording and documentation of the growth from a single cell [regulatory requirement]. This cell selection and control is essential as all resulting master and working cell banks are used over the entire life‐cycle of the marketed product that can last multiple decades. This FTI funding will enable market entry and validation & support external fundraising for the wider penetration of the global drug discovery, Cell therapy & ex-vivo diagnostic markets. This is a potentially transformative technology platform in a very large market with 1 current aggressively funded US competitor and our success will ensure competition, continued innovation and most importantly cheaper medicines for European patients.
Structured Training and Advanced Research in Marine Active Structures (STARMAS)

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: Croatia
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158010.0
EU funding (EUR): 158010.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the last 25 years the total amount of marine trade has nearly doubled. In the same period the container trade has undergone a tenfold increase, making the container fleet the fastest growing fleet at present. With 80% of total EU trade being transported by sea, the maritime transport is of the greatest importance to the EU. The increasing demand in container transportation is met by use of more containerships. Such ships with large bow and stern flares and fine underwater hull are severely hit by an effect known as parametric rolling. Accidents including container loss and vessel structural damage are reported from all around the world. Capsizing could be regarded as a rare event, but the consequences of such event are fatal (loss of the ship and the crew). Agencies, classification societies and the public are showing more and more interests in increasing the safety of large container ships. STARMAS is a highly interdisciplinary integrated research and training programme focused on the application of novel active control methods to increase safety, energy efficiency and quality of life at sea of the 21st century maritime transport. The problem of ship roll on rough seas will be tackled using novel active roll control methodologies. Bi-directional transfer of knowledge and cross-fertilisation between traditionally detached engineering disciplines will be unlocked, utilising a unique research approach to enduring engineering problems related to sea keeping, survival rate, and energy efficiency of marine vessels. The programme will boost the career prospects, increase employability and widen the set of skills of the experienced researcher. The training and research will predominately take place within the academic sector, at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FAMENA). The researcher will also benefit from secondments to the non-academic partner Bureau Veritas, Paris, (BV) facilitating an inter-sectoral transfer of knowledge.

Keywords: marine engineering,ship stability,active,passive vibration absorbers,passive anti roll tanks,ship roll control,active vibration control,parametric resonance,energy harvesting
Neural decisions under uncertainty (NOISYDECISIONS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Human Mind and Its Complexity
Panel description: Cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, theoretical philosophy
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-12-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 71.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Virtually anything we sense, think and do is uncertain. For instance, when driving a car, you often need to determine how close you are to the car in front of you. It is near impossible to estimate this distance with absolute certainty – but it is possible to guess and even to estimate the uncertainty associated with that guess. Accordingly, we reduce speed when driving at night, because we realize perceived distance is more uncertain in the dark than on a sunny, clear day. How do we infer that visual information is less reliable at night? How does the brain represent knowledge of sensory uncertainty? How do we decide to reduce speed? The overall aim of this proposal is to investigate the neural basis of perceptual decision-making under uncertainty. I will concentrate on three major research questions. First, I aim to establish the degree to which sensory uncertainty is represented in human visual cortex. Second, I will examine whether observers are aware of this uncertainty when making decisions. Third, I will investigate the sources of noise that cause the uncertainty in our perceptual decisions. I will address these questions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), in combination with a novel analytical method to analyzing fMRI data that I recently developed. This novel approach allows me to characterize, on a trial-by-trial basis, the uncertainty in cortical stimulus representations, and to address unresolved issues regarding the neural mechanisms of human perceptual decision-making. The results from this project will provide important new insights into the neural basis of perceptual decisions, with profound implications for theories of cortical visual function. Given that mechanisms of visual decision-making likely resemble the mechanisms underlying other forms of decisions throughout the brain, the proposed research will also provide a basis for understanding choice under uncertainty in general.

Keywords: bayesian theories,visual perception,fmri,fmri decoding methods,perceptual decision making
Techniques and Technologies for Effective Wood Procurement (TECH4EFFECT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Bio-based Industries
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: BBI (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Austria,Germany,Germany,Australia,South Africa,Austria,Italy,Austria,Austria,Germany,Poland,Norway,Finland,Finland,Finland,Norway,Norway,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Practices increasing effectiveness of forest management (H2020-BBI-PPP-2015-2-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 57.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5372777.5
EU funding (EUR): 4999902.5
Participants: 22
Project status: CLOSED

The project focuses on increasing access to wood resources through more efficient silviculture and a better understanding of the business models governing the procurement of forest operations services. The project further considers increasing efficiency in forest harvesting and collection, and the reduction of soil impact from forest operations, and puts forward ways of making this a measurable and integrated part of operational efficiency. TECH4EFFECT offers the potential to revolutionize forest operations with a state-of-the-art knowledge-based efficiency development system, providing easily accessible decision support exploiting the large amount of data available in modern industrial forest management. The ambition of TECH4EFFECT is to implement such as management tool, enhanced through 4 years of intensive R&D in close cooperation with the end-users of the Efficiency Portal in 5 participating countries. It is the project’s hope that implementation will result in such obvious benefits amongst the industrial partners that its application will become widespread within the European forest sector.

Keywords: econometrics
Light-modulated organic Electrolyte-gAted Phototransistors (LEAPh)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 269002.56
EU funding (EUR): 269002.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Organic bioelectronics has emerged as a disruptive technology, introducing devices with unprecedented features of biocompatibility and functionality. The potential of organic materials resides not only in their favorable mechanical properties, which comply to those of biological tissues, but also on their ability to enable mixed electronic and ionic transport and on the possibility to finely tune their optoelectronic properties, such as optical absorption, charge photogeneration and transport. In addition, the synthesis of organic compounds can be tuned to further improve biocompatibility and to allow for chemical or biochemical functionalization, as well as to enable cost-effective and scalable processability of materials. For these reasons, a plethora of biocompatible, mechanically compliant, large area, multipoint biosensing and stimulating devices are now available, generating novel interaction routes between biological systems, bioelectronics devices, and consumer electronics, such as smartphones and portable devices. Because of the general involvement of ionic transport in biological environments, organic bioelectronic devices are inherently slow, i.e. characterized by slow switching capabilities, limited to few kHz. This fundamental aspect brings along some limitations, such as low-frequency operation and fluctuations of the operating parameters. The goal of the LEAPh project is to develop a novel bioelectronic device specifically devised to address in an unprecedented way the low-operating frequency of current bioelectronics, as well as providing a noise-free measurement of biochemical and biological interactions. Moreover, the same technology could pave the way towards a new class of low-voltage organic electro-optical systems.

Keywords: organic electronics,organic bioelectronics,printed electronics,electrolyte gated transistors
Support to all stakeholders from the Photovoltaic sector and related sectors to contribute to the SET-Plan (ETIP PV - SEC II)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Belgium
Call: Support to sectorial fora (H2020-LC-SC3-2018-Joint-Actions-3, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 922875.0
EU funding (EUR): 922875.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) gathers all the relevant stakeholders of the PV sector, with arrangements for cooperative discussions with member states, associated countries, and the Commission services allowing stakeholders to meet, agree on their common interests, analyse the issues facing them in progressing R&I, interact with other groups, and determine their contribution to, and input for, the SET Plan. ETIP PV has supported SET Plan activities focused on raising the profile of PV or on helping policymakers to craft legislation or tailor research programmes to optimally support it. In 2018 onwards ETIP PV will continue to support the execution/realisation of the SET Plan Implementation Plan prepared by the SET Plan Temporary Working Group for PV (TWG PV). The ETIP PV – SEC II action aims to assist the mission of the ETIP PV. The proposal addresses the coordination of the ETIP PV' activities, especially towards the progress of the strategic R&I PV Implementation Plan.

Keywords: set plan,photovoltaics,implementation plan,innovation,technology,etip