Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
TES App Issuing Software (TAIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Innovative mobile e-government applications by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2688632.5
EU funding (EUR): 1882042.75
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the TAIS project is to develop and demonstrate an efficient way for Councils to manage and implement HandHelds in the normal day to day operations of their Civil Enforcement Officers, by using existing technology which is cheaper and more efficient that older style systems that Council presently use. The specific project objectives (POs) of the project are to: PO1. Identify and test the most suitable Mobile phone operating system with the longest battery life PO2. Identify and develop the best process for utilising the GPS on the phone to relay the signal on a minute by minute basis whilst reducing the battery consumption by 25% PO3. Use open cross-platform communication protocols to develop an API that will link into the Compliance Display Map (CDM) PO4. Develop an Automatic Number Plate Reader that will allow real time look ups from a centralised database PO5. Develop an API that will link into Back Office of pre-existing suppliers with the minimum of effort and the lowest cost PO6. Identify and develop the best mechanism for robustness and ease of use that does not require the final users to have deep knowledge of the underlying IT infrastructure. PO7. Develop a reporting algorithm that will monitor each transaction which will ensure accountability as well as shortfalls where further training is required PO8. Develop a Control Panel usable by an Administrator which will ensure that all Data Protection issues are complied with and which can easily be exported to a third party in the event of an enquiry PO9. Reduce carbon footprint of “cruising vehicles” looking for parking by ensuring that overstayers will vacate their parking bay on time due to possibility of enforceable action PO10. To increase the number of vehicles checked per hour by parking attendants by at least 300% PO11. To increase the accuracy of parking checks by attendants, thus reducing mis-reads by at least 30%.

Keywords: civil enforcement officers,efficient,manage and implement handhelds,compliance display map,mobile phone operating system
Controlled Singlet Oxygen Release Photosensitizers in Photodynamic Therapy (CONSORT)

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: Ireland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-15
End date: 2017-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187866.0
EU funding (EUR): 187866.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Photodynamic therapy is a form of phototherapy which uses light-sensitive compounds (photosensitizers) that are exposed selectively to light, whereupon they become toxic to targeted malignant and other diseased cells. The photosensitizer creates a highly reactive singlet oxygen species which rapidly reacts with any nearby biomolecules leading to destructive reactions resulting in cell death through apoptosis or necrosis. However, prolonged exposure of tissue to light irradiation causes photosensitivity in patients’ skin. Side effects may include, pain, burning/stinging sensation, itchiness. This proposal aims to develop a conceptually new approach towards photodynamic therapy through an introduction of new type of photosensitizers and corresponding nanomaterials which are capable to generate singlet oxygen upon irradiation, store it by means of binding to special molecular subunits and slowly release singlet oxygen within tissue on a timescale from several hours to several days after light irradiation treatment. The application of such novel material will allow for increasing therapeutic effect and reduced side-effects with respect to conventional PDT due to shorter light treatment duration. Proof of concept will be attained by demonstration of delayed singlet oxygen formation in cancer cells after the light treatment using in vitro models. The project builds on the strengths of the applicant in organic chemistry, photophysics and material science and combines these with new training in biomedicine and drug development to open a new research direction and to enhance cross-European collaboration.

Keywords: photodynamic therapy,singlet oxygen,porphyrin,photosensitizer,triplet excited state,endoperoxide
PROCess-based sEamless development of useful Earth system predictions over lanD (PROCEED)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-07-03
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The modelling community achieved steady progress in dynamical climate prediction using Earth System models and the last decade has seen an accelerated development for the land surface component. This has led to predictions that are now considered useful for some societal applications over “hot-spot” land areas such as the Euro-Mediterranean. However, forecasts performance over land is still substantially weaker compared with ocean, due to the lack of observations, which has hampered the development of well-constrained land processes models. While benefiting from daily verification, the models used for the prediction of the short time-scales (from weather to seasons) include only that part of the surface variability for which observations are available and that can be modeled/initialized to positively contribute to the forecasts (verification-based approach). As a consequence, they unavoidably lack some processes such as those related to ecosystems and their variability. On the other hand, longer time-scales (interannual to centennial) models used for climate variability/change research contain comprehensive vegetation and soil schemes intended to represent as many processes as possible, even those that are still poorly constrained or understood. Through the synergy between process-based and verification-based approaches the ambitious objective of this project is to obtain a practicable seamless development across scales of the land modelling applied to Earth System predictions. The main goal will be to obtain verifiable land processes models to enhance the performance of the predictions across scales and to demonstrate unprecedented useful applications for the energy sector. A fundamental contribution to fill in the gap between short- and long-term Earth System predictions will come from the emerging availability of reliable land surface observations from remotely sensed satellite campaigns that will provide novel observational constraints to land processes models.

Keywords: climate prediction,seamless earth system prediction,land surface modeling,vegetation processes implementation,climate services for energy sector
Preservation and Adaptation in Turkish as a Heritage Language (PATH) - A Natural Language Laboratory in a Small Dutch Town (PATH)

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: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2022-07-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Understanding how languages leak into each other in the bilingual brain is a central testing ground for theories of language in the brain (which will inform all future educational policy), and also for theories of language change under contact. However, the crucial detailed information is strikingly difficult to obtain because of the massive variability in human experience. If one attempts to find generalizations in this area, one is faced with the uncertainty that the effects are not due to principled cognitive factors but to some combination of external factors of the environment and/or specific details of the particular language pairing involved, including the precise dialects in question. In addition, any changes in the development of a HL must be compared directly to the natural changes going on in that language in its native context, so that normal language change can be factored out. The exciting and unique feature of this project is that in this study we control for these factors by closely examining a particular community of residents with a Turkish background in Drunen, a small town in the North Brabant province of the Netherlands. The members of this community migrated from small towns in Rize, a province on the eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey, where a unique dialect of Turkish is spoken. Influenced from Greek and Armenian (Indo-European) as well as Laz (Kartvelian), this regional variety demonstrates substantial differences from other varieties of Turkish in Turkey and is classified a separate dialect group on its own. PATH will examine a sub-dialect of this unique variety as it has been spoken by three generations of ±350 residents in Drunen to investigate how different components of grammar (phonology, lexicon, syntax) show variation and change in a bilingual setting.

Keywords: bilingualism,heritage languages,language variation,language change
Finding Cracks in the Wall of NP-completeness (CRACKNP)

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: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499632.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499632.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Assuming P does not equal NP, there are no polynomial time algorithms for any NP-complete problem. This however still leaves a huge gap between anything super-polynomial and the exponential run times of trivial exhaustive search. The study of exact (exponential time) algorithms that aims to breach this gap is as old as Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) itself: Already in the 1960's, researchers found elementary (for modern standards) algorithms that greatly improve exponential the run times. But over time, TCS seems to have hit a brick wall: Somewhat embarrassingly, as of 2018 the run times of these classic algorithms are still the best known for many classic problems. This project aims to strike at the heart of this issue by designing the next generation of exact exponential time algorithms. To obtain these algorithms, we consider the most famous NP-complete problems such as Traveling Salesman, CNF-Sat and Knapsack, and we challenge ourselves to improve the classic currently best algorithms for them. These problems have served as a prototypical test bed for many algorithmic techniques with extensive applications, and thus their study provides an excellent road map towards our aim. Moreover, in the last few years it was shown that these algorithms have consequences that reach much further than originally thought: In particular, they would have a major impact on research in polynomial time algorithms, circuit complexity and parameterized complexity. Now is the right moment for this project, as recent work (partially by the PI) has given a first glimpse of a new algorithmic toolkit emerging: Advanced new tools to decompose solutions such as the representation method, the rank-based method and the polynomial method, are still barely exploited and studied in the field. In this project we will combine these (and many more) tools in novel ways that transcend existing approaches, and make cracks in the wall of NP-completeness seem entirely within reach.

Keywords: theoretical computer science,fixed parameter tractability,parameterized complexity,fine grained complexity,exact algorithms for np hard problems,exact exponential time algorithms
COATING - slippery wires: revolutionizing COronAry sTentING (COATING)

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: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203149.44
EU funding (EUR): 203149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

COATING aims at developing cutting-edge technology for the reduction of stent thrombosis and restenosis events, based on a multidisciplinary approach linking fluid mechanics and biomedical engineering. Principles of fluid mechanics will be combined with nanotechnology to advance our understanding of the physics of drag reduction and exploit this to establish a novel biomedical engineering application. The nanotechnology is based on magnetorheological fluids, also called ferrofluids (FFs). Specifically, FFs will be used as a lubricant for the reduction of harmful wall shear stresses generated at the coronary stent surface. The objectives are, firstly, to evaluate the performance in terms of magnetoviscous effects of various biocompatible FFs varying shear and magnetic field strength. Secondly, we will evaluate the FF-based drag reduction by performing extensive FF-coated pipe flow experiments. Finally, we will evaluate the efficiency of the novel drag reduction technique in stents in vitro. The project will be hosted at WSL, Switzerland, which is part of the ETH domain, a world leading and closely cooperating network of research institutes, and will be integrated in a young and dynamic research group, offering a cutting-edge laboratory and excellent opportunities for career development. The proposed technology strives to complement or even replace adjunctive pharmacological treatments usually adopted after stent implantation, which often have significant harmful side effects. It has the potential to improve the quality of life of the millions of patients worldwide that undergo coronary stenting each year, and to provide a new solution for patients in which pharmacological therapies cannot be prescribed. Finally, the project results are also expected to foster other applications of FFs in the bio-engineering medical field and to develop a new drag reduction technology applicable in other research areas (e.g., oil pipe industries) that seek to reduce energy consumption.

Keywords: drag reduction,ferrofluid,fluid mechanics,hemodynamic,shear stress,rheology,bio fluid dynamics,biomedical engineering,lubricant,slip condition,pulsatile flow,blood flow,magnetoviscous
MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS INNOVATION GOVERNMENT SUPPORT POLICIES (MABIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Innovative societies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: France
Call: Implementation of the OECD-European Commission administrative arrangement (H2020-IBA-SC6-OECD-EC-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1227341.25
EU funding (EUR): 800000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The project on the Measurement and Analysis of Business Innovation Government Support Policies (MABIS) aims to contribute to efforts to monitor and assess research and innovation policies in Europe and beyond. This project supports the attainment of goals set out in the Horizon 2020 Work Programme “Europe in a Changing World: inclusive, innovative and reflective societies” by contributing new research tools and evidence on the role of public support for R&D and innovation in promoting improved innovation and socio-economic outcomes. Building on OECD’s unique expertise in standard setting and analysis as well as its formal access to national experts and officials with policy and statistical responsibilities across its member countries and strategic partners, the MABIS project seeks to extend the comprehensiveness and usefulness of existing evidence on the use of policy instruments in support of business innovation by: • Ensuring the continued collection and dissemination of information and statistics on the design and cost of tax incentives for R&D inputs over three more years, in a more efficient and user oriented fashion. • Enhancing the statistical measurement of government support for innovation to cover a more comprehensive set of policy instruments, outside the scope of or insufficiently captured by available data and statistics. • Deepening and extending the use of the distributed microdata analysis approach from the descriptive analysis of R&D trends and assessment of R&D input additionality to the pilot analysis of a more comprehensive set of impacts of R&D tax incentives and direct funding of R&D. • Fostering knowledge sharing on the use, design, implementation and impact analysis of a broader range of R&D and innovation support policies, supporting in the process the coherent delivery of business R&D support policies and R&D statistics by promoting the efficient use of common and state of the art definitions and standards.

Keywords: innovation policies,business,public support,randd,innovation,ip boxes,distributed microdata analysis,statistics,database
Subwavelength Nanostructure Pilot (Sun-Pilot) (SUN-PILOT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Germany,Germany,Ireland,Ireland,France,France,France,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Pilot Lines for Manufacturing of Nanotextured surfaces with mechanically enhanced properties (H2020-NMBP-PILOTS-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7991298.18
EU funding (EUR): 7056398.39
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Nanostructured surfaces that engineer the interaction between an object and its surroundings are a subject of scientific and manufacturing importance. Nature routinely creates nanostructured surfaces with fascinating properties, such as antireflective moth eyes, self-cleaning lotus leaves, colourful butterfly wings, and water harvesting desert beetles. Well defined nanostructured surfaces have huge commercial potential due to product enhancement: reduced reflectivity in photonic devices and solar panels, antiglare plastic parts for the automotive industry, hydrophobic self-cleaning surfaces for smart packaging, antireflective and smudge-free smartphone displays, and biofouling resistant marine and water treatment systems. Unfortunately, the lack of cost-effective, scalable, nanopatterning methods is a major hurdle for the commercial exploitation of nanopatterned surfaces. SUN-PILOT will address this challenge by developing a novel and cost effective platform for up-scaling sub-wavelength nanostructures fabrication techniques that can be applied to curved surfaces such as optical lenses, and the mass production of metal moulds for injection moulding of plastic parts. The expected impact of SUN-PILOT for the Optics Industry is a disruptive technology that will boost the performance/cost ratio of photonic devices by piloting mass fabrication of scratch and wear resistant nanopatterned antireflective optical surfaces. Significant enhancement will be achieved in the efficiency of optical components and systems incorporating these devices, such as laser systems, electronic displays, security cameras and medical devices. The Automotive Industry will benefit from a novel method to produce functional surfaces at lower cost and lighter weight than existing lamination methods. This proposal brings together scientists and engineers to span innovation, business development and the product cycle from suppliers to end users and will ensure a leadership role of for Europe.

Keywords: subwavelength,block copolymers,antireflective surfaces,nanotexturing,injection moulding,self cleaning surfaces
PhD on Innovation Pathways for TES (INPATH-TES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Robust decision making and public engagement
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Israel,Spain,Austria,Germany,Spain,Türkiye,Belgium,Poland,Türkiye,Latvia,France,France,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: The human factor in the energy system (H2020-LCE-2014-2, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4301072.66
EU funding (EUR): 4301072.66
Participants: 24
Project status: CLOSED

Following the EC SET-Plan Education and Training Roadmap, the concept of this proposal is to develop a joint PhD programme between universities and research centres, on the topic of Thermal Energy Storage (TES). The goal of INPATH-TES is to create a network of universities and research institutes to implement a joint PhD programme on TES technologies. The final result of such a network is to educate professionals on these technologies for the European research and industry institutions. The consortium includes 14 universities that will implement the joint PhD programme, two research institutions (AIT and PROMES-CNRS), three companies and two SME (Arcelik, Abengoa Solar NT, KIC InnoEnergy, UFP and LAIF), that will cooperate in defining the programme and in its implementation and deployment. The specific objectives of the project will lead to the qualification of professionals for the European research and industry institutions, bringing Europe to continue being leaders in these technologies. The partners in the proposal will be the core of a future larger network of excellent R&D institutions, and industries for co-funding and industrial placement, sharing infrastructure capacities, and enhancing mobility of students. The overall approach of the project involves a work plan divided in six work packages, being either coordination or support activities. Coordination activities: WP1 – Management and coordination; WP3 – Developing, maintaining and updating a PhD programme in TES; and WP4 – Implementation of the PhD programme in TES. Support activities: WP2 – External communication and dissemination; WP5 – Stakeholder involvement and extension of partnerships; and WP6 – Framework for monitoring and evaluation of INPATH-TES as well as IPR and regulatory issues.

Keywords: thermal energy storage,innovation,training,university,energy efficiency,buildings,industry