Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Smart Tall Buildings by using Piezoelectricity in Joints (SMART-UP)

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-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The SMART-UP project will initiate innovative devices called piezoelectric-dampers (PiDs) to be embedded in modern tall buildings for simultaneous structural elements connection and energy harvesting (EH). PiDs are composite elements (piezoelectric+steel or rubber) located in the connections between buildings’ structural members and engaged by wind-induced oscillations to transform the kinetic energy of the oscillating structure into electricity. The concept of PiD is transformative as this will scale-up currently developed piezoelectric EH (pzEH) techniques at the micro and meso-scales to the truly macro scale. pzEH devices have never been implemented as structural connections in civil buildings for a number of reasons, such as the inadequacy of piezo materials in carrying loads and low frequencies of the vibrations occurring in buildings. These will be comprehensively addressed in SMART-UP by innovative in-parallel coupling schemes between piezo and the load-carrying members such as steel and/or rubber and by allowing the piezo-blocks working in nonlinear regimes arising from buckling or impact. These features will allow their implementation in buildings for powering wireless sensors provided for building automation, which leads to an increment of the building sustainability, and for structural-health monitoring, leading to an increase of the building resilience. Thanks to the introduction of these novel macroscale EH skills, the SMART-UP project makes a step-change in high-rise buildings design and management, by defining a new breed of tall SMART buildings with self-powering, adaptive-in-behavior capabilities. The envisioned buildings not only resist wind loads, but they exploit wind-induced vibrations to reduce their carbon footprint and improve their performances. They will push Europe moving forward to the smart cities era, which is of paramount importance in our modern technological and connected/inclusive society.

Keywords: structural engineering,energy harvesting,vibration,piezoelectric
Service Level Agreement - Legal and Open Model (SLALOM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Future Internet: Software, hardware, Infrastructures, technologies and services
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Greece,Greece,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 702813.0
EU funding (EUR): 702813.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

SLALOM is a support action tackling the complexity of cloud computing SLAs and contracts through standardisation of the SLA and contract terms and a reference model for SLA management. In doing so it will support the adoption of cloud (SLA complexity is an identified barrier to adoption) and support the exploitation of results from the cloud and SLA research communities, effectively by factoring in advances from the research sector into the SLALOM legal and technical models which will be promoted as industry standards. The project will involve interaction with policy makers, cloud providers, research projects and cloud adopters from various areas. There will be significant interaction with the policy groups set up under the European Cloud Partnership and the working groups of the research community. The project will run for 18 months, focusing on three phases – definition of the models; consensus building; and adoption.

Keywords: service level agreements,slas,contracts,terms and conditions,reference model
Collecting, Displaying and Understanding Textiles in Decorative Arts Museums: Comparative Approaches in London and Madrid. (INTERWOVEN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project will uncover how collecting practices reflected and informed wider discourses about the study of textiles in Britain and Spain’s national museums and institutes, by tracing specific textiles before and after their acquisition. Whilst fashion and textile studies are now recognised fields of academic research, we still know little about the role of museums in helping to facilitate this change. Cabrera will build on her extensive research to date at the National Museum of Decorative Arts (MNAD), to undertake new comparative studies of UK and Spanish approaches to the study of textiles. This will be achieved via case studies of some of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) earliest acquisitions, which have direct connections with Spain. The project will focus on the period 1852-1951, during which many key national museums were born. It will assess the collections and impact of the V&A, which was the model for the MNAD. The V&A will undertake a major redevelopment of its Textile and Fashion Galleries commencing after 2017, which makes re-examination of its historic collections very timely. Cabrera will study textiles held at the V&A from a multidisciplinary perspective, to develop specific object histories and shed light on the formation of European museums and the use of their objects by the creative industries. Case studies will employ approaches from art and design history and engage with new ideas about the transfer of technologies, including the characterisation of raw materials and analysis of fabrics. Key sources will include unpublished archival files, reports and photographs, object labels and the textiles themselves. Cabrera’s training programme would develop her expertise through sustained engagement with museum collections and curatorial and research staff, working across a range of contexts and disciplines. As well as scholarly outcomes, wide public dissemination of the research will be achieved via online blogposts and catalogue entries.

Keywords: history of museums,material culture,comparative research,textiles raw materials,textile techniques,history and taxonomy of collecting
Improving the crashworthiness of composite transportation structures (ICONIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Training Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland,Italy,Germany,Greece,Sweden,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3813566.25
EU funding (EUR): 3813566.25
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The European aerospace, automotive, and rail industries are committed to improving their energy efficiency to meet targets set within the EU’s climate, energy and transport policies. This is motivating the increased use of lightweight composite materials in lieu of heavier metallics. To implement this transition, these industries must reach, at least, the same level of crash performance achieved with metals, but at significantly lower weight and without increasing cost. This is viewed by industry as an exceptionally challenging goal and will require highly trained engineers, versed in the myriad aspects of designing cost-effective, crashworthy composites structures, and capable of harnessing the latest research developments in the fast-changing world of composites. The ICONIC ETN aims to cultivate such a new generation of young engineers; comfortable and fluent in the integration and exploitation of knowledge from fields as diverse as materials science, chemistry, computational methods, solid and damage mechanics, textile technology, structural design and optimisation. These researchers will acquire the skills to enable the sustainable and economically-viable design of a new generation of highly efficient, lightweight transportation composite structures that will provide the maximum protection to occupants through superior crashworthiness. 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will be recruited to take up posts, across the UK, Ireland, Greece, Germany, Italy and Sweden, in an innovative, multidisciplinary and intersectoral structured research and training programme. ICONIC is supported by a strong consortium from academia, large industrial enterprises and innovative SMEs. A comprehensive training and secondment programme (including joint supervision and industrial mentoring) will equip researchers with additional transferable skills to ensure future employability and career progression.

Keywords: carbon fibre composites,crashworthiness,energy absorption,automotive
Powering simplified and scalable mortgage application processing. (CL Platform)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CL Platform is a mortgage application platform that simplifies the mortgage application process for mortgage advisors, mortgage lenders and consumers. It does this by streamlining and integrating application data between all stakeholders and automating many processes. CL Platform makes the mortgage application process quicker, more efficient and cheaper for mortgage advisors, mortgage lenders and consumers. CL Platform is a multisided business serving both mortgage advisors and mortgage lenders, and benefiting consumers. CL Platform is delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS). Mortgage advisors pay an annual licence fee for use and a commission for each mortgage that gets completed through the platform. Mortgage lenders pay a fixed fee for each applicant data received. We will commercialise in the target markets of UK and Ireland, followed by Central Europe then the rest of Europe. We will target first smaller mortgage advisors as they are quicker to adopt new solutions. Growth among these will attract larger mortgage advisors and mortgage lenders. To date we have developed an Alpha prototype of CL Platform for our local Irish market and it has received positive feedback from both advisors and lenders. The proposed projects fits in with our strategy as it will enable us to accelerate the development of the core platform into and MVP, explore new EU markets and localise the solution, and pilot test with advisors and lenders within these markets to validate CL Platform. It will also allow us to prepare for commercialisation by develop specific marketing and communication material, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and protecting our intellectual property. At the end of the project we will have a commercial product ready to start generating revenue within our initial target markets.
Coq for Homotopy Type Theory (CoqHoTT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2021-05-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498290.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498290.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Every year, software bugs cost hundreds of millions of euros to companies and administrations. Hence, software quality is a prevalent notion and interactive theorem provers based on type theory have shown their efficiency to prove correctness of important pieces of software like the C compiler of the CompCert project. One main interest of such theorem provers is the ability to extract directly the code from the proof. Unfortunately, their democratization suffers from a major drawback, the mismatch between equality in mathematics and in type theory. Thus, significant Coq developments have only been done by virtuosos playing with advanced concepts of computer science and mathematics. Recently, an extension of type theory with homotopical concepts such as univalence is gaining traction because it allows for the first time to marry together expected principles of equality. But the univalence principle has been treated so far as a new axiom which breaks one fundamental property of mechanized proofs: the ability to compute with programs that make use of this axiom. The main goal of the CoqHoTT project is to provide a new generation of proof assistants with a computational version of univalence and use them as a base to implement effective logical model transformation so that the power of the internal logic of the proof assistant needed to prove the correctness of a program can be decided and changed at compile time—according to a trade-off between efficiency and logical expressivity. Our approach is based on a radically new compilation phase technique into a core type theory to modularize the difficulty of finding a decidable type checking algorithm for homotopy type theory. The impact of the CoqHoTT project will be very strong. Even if Coq is already a success, this project will promote it as a major proof assistant, for both computer scientists and mathematicians. CoqHoTT will become an essential tool for program certification and formalization of mathematics.

Keywords: proof assistant,type theory,homotopy theory
REVIVOS - REVIVING SINGERS THROUGH VOICE SYNTHESIS (REVIVOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Music Industry is seeking new forms of monetization of their catalogue. Online music distribution and current listening habits demand of innovative solutions for digital audiences that are today bigger than ever. Pop stars maintain a huge popularity years after their retirement or accidental decease. Moreover this interest gave recently a leap forward and moved to the stage, where holographic live shows revive artists in a mixed-reality concert. In this scenario REVIVOS aims to commercialize a technology solution for synthesizing new songs with the voice of famous artists. The innovation of this project is the potential commercialization of Virtual Singers modeled from original artist recordings. The synthetic voice shall preserve not only their timbre but also the expression and singing style that make them unique. This project has a clear global dimension, focusing on the Western markets because they share a common popular music culture. Potential applications include among others the production of posthumous live shows, the release of new compositions, or the rejuvenation of the voice of a living or retired artist. For the SME Instrument Phase 1, REVIVOS has as primary objective the realization of a study for the best business model for this new paradigm in the music and media industries. It consists of three stages: 1) Building a network of advisors; 2) Prototype and Demos preparation and 3) Business Plan elaboration. Outcomes shall define the implementation steps in a future Phase 2. The team behind Voctro Labs has demonstrated excellence and capacity in the innovation related to Virtual Singers. Voctro Labs is an audio technology company specialized in singing voice synthesis. Cofounders are experts with more than 15 years of research and industrial experience. Founded in 2011, it is a spin-off of the Music Technology Group of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, a world-renowned research lab in sound and music computing.

Keywords: music industry,signal processing,synthesis,singing voice,cultural heritage,digital content,mixed reality
SensorToCloud Technologies for Loss Prevention and Smart “Last Mile” Logistics Operations (Logist-IoT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2017-02-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Tertium technology has a successful track of record in developing and commercializing sensing devices that integrate and enhance business processes. More than 21,000 sold products support Tertium’s success, quality and reliability in previous innovative products. The introduction of Logist-IoT into the market is the result of our latest research efforts to advance in our strategic business line “internet of things on the road”. Growth is supported by strong distribution partnerships, such as Tom Tom telematics, which opens up an enormous market for initial introduction of our newly developed solutions; however, it also represents a key opportunity for the company to progressively transition from hardware manufacturer to a comprehensive service provider. Logist-IoT is a Mobile SensorToCloud platform that provides real-time monitoring of the conditions of the delivery (temperature, humidity and sealed doors) providing a tool to protect revenues (by checking of state of preservation), support compliance with cold chain and other transport regulations (by providing automatic feed of data) and increase efficiency (by reducing energy consumption, anticipating weak areas and pinpointing operational inefficiencies). The Logist-IoT project was triggered by the request from our client base, most specifically by companies in the large-scale distribution. It allowed us to develop a scalable solution adapted to our end user needs. The versatility of our IoT sensors enables an innovative business model based on a leasing or pay-per-use service rather than an upfront investment, facilitating adoption in the industry. From the initial assessments carried out with pilot customers, in the food and pharmaceutical industries, we estimate benefits that range 10 times to 100 times the cost of services. The attractiveness of our value proposition has been validated with the market acceptance of the first version of our platform,operational in over 1000 vehicles of distribution companies.

Keywords: last mile logistics,internet of things,smart mobility,sensortocloud
Virus-induced autophagy restriction (VIAR)

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: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171460.8
EU funding (EUR): 171460.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cellular innate immunity employs multiple ways to fight against invading pathogens, among them autophagy. Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved homeostatic process in which damaged or surplus proteins are engulfed by double-membranes and subsequently degraded by the lysosome. Although initially described as non-specific, it has become evident that autophagy can selectively recognize and degrade cargos. While many pro-autophagy and therefore anti-viral factors have been studied in detail, our knowledge about prevention of excessive and imbalanced autophagy is limited. Autophagy has been previously recognized as a viral restriction mechanism for e.g. HIV. Even though HIV infection triggers autophagy, the virus evolved strategies to diminish this response by exploiting cellular factors, although key players and mechanisms involved are currently not well characterized. Moreover, since inhibition of enzymes by drugs is easier than activation, pro-viral autophagy restriction factors are promising targets for therapeutic approaches aiming to boost the autophagy. This proposal aims to combine expertise of the host (HIV) and the researcher (autophagy) to identify novel cellular pro-viral proteins mediating the restriction of autophagy using HIV as a model system. Human cells containing an autophagic flux reporter construct will be sorted according to autophagic flux after CRISPR/Cas9 mediated knockout of single proteins and gRNAs enriched in cells with high autophagic flux determined and HIV infection. Proteins identified in the innovative screen will be characterized in detail determining molecular mechanisms and viral interaction partners. Thereby, we gain fundamental insight into the balanced regulation of cellular autophagy upon viral challenges as well as viral evasion strategies. Furthermore, identified factors and molecular mechanisms will be relevant to unravel underlying mechanisms of diseases with imbalanced autophagy such as cancer and inflammatory diseases.

Keywords: autophagy,anti viral strategies