Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Cost competitive eco-friendly and acoustic wooden doors for indoor applications (ECO-SILENTWOOD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Slovenia
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses for eco-innovation and a sustainable supply of raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-2-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2017-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1881186.5
EU funding (EUR): 1316829.95
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Windows and doors are key components to ensure the noise insulation of a room. Some sectors, looks for noise reduction solutions in indoor doors, in order to ensure the comfort. That is the case of (a) Medical applications: 35dBA of S.R.I. would cover most of customer and regulatory demands; (b) Hotel door applications (customers demands 34dBA); Dwelling entrances (customers demand over 35-38dB). We are going to define the exploitation strategies to ensure a 5% market share of the European doors market for dwelling building, education and sanitation centres by year 5, with a total cumulated turnover of € 23.8 million. To meet this goal we wil launch a a product that ensures 37 dBA for doors, with a maximum thickness of 45 mm and maximum wight of 70kg.. Current prototypes of our technology reach even 42 dBA of SRI. Our wood door is fire resistance at EI30 (meaning the door can keep its integrity at least 30 minutes in case of fire) with a maximum door thickness of 45 mm and a maximum weight of 70 kg. Besides, and looking for complying with national eco-bales, our doors are based on eco-friendly materials: (a) wood wool instead of rock wool, (b) 100% recycled acoustic underlay manufactured from a combination of cork granules and rubber crumb or by a wood fibre and cork material instead of promasound and (c) recycled plastic/wood composite (instead of plastic/wood composite). This will give us access to a new market nice: the green building sector. To be unique in the market, our door must ensure a cost under 650 €, therefore we will establish a LEAN manufacturing strategy that will allow for a15% cost reduction with respect to the SILENTWOOD proposed solution (actual prices is around 800 to 900 € per door).

Keywords: wooden doors,acoustic doors,noise insulation,fire proof
Recognising Energy Efficiency Value in Residential Buildings (REVALUE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Market uptake of energy innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Improving the financeability and attractiveness of sustainable energy investments (H2020-EE-2014-3-MarketUptake, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1568750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1568750.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

ReValue aims to lead the development of appraisal norms and standards that REcorgnise Energy Efficiency Value in social and private residential real estate. Financing decisions in real estate are often based on formal appraisals of value. Current norms on valuation, such as RICS', recognise Energy Effiency (EE) as a potential source of value, but do not require taking this into account in appraisals, nor provide clear guidance on how to do so. As a result, investors are not provided with the formal basis to invest in or to provide financing (eg through mortgages) for EE components For a standard renovation of a residential unit, up to 10k Euro in EE could be made ' bankable' if valuation norms and standards would better reflect long term EE value. At EU level, this could potentially unlock 20Bn Euro per year in financing of EE measures. Since 26% of EUs energy is consumed in homes, increasing investment on EE could significantly contribute to H2020 targets Specific ReValue objectives are: 1 develop and propose a set of norms and policies in the valuation of residential property that recognise EE 2 align valuation techniques with such norms 3 validate the framework in 4 pilot projects across Europe 4 Stimulate uptake of the framework through widely recognised norms and support from key industry stakeholders ReValue's consortium is industry-lead, including RICS, one of the globally recognised standardisation bodies, and Savills, a leading valuer, and academic and professional experts in accounting, economics and EE design. Through observer roles, the project collaborates with building owners across Europe, investors and a range of entities that support exploitation and dissemination of project results In doing so, ReValue will contribute to reaching EE19's expected impact, by aligning valuation norms for optimal levels of investment of energy efficiency, and by increasing trust of investors and financiers in the financial viability of energy efficient measures

Keywords: valuation,norms and standards,energy efficiency,financing,bankability,real estate
WEST-MED Innovation Services (WEST-MED Innovation)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Türkiye,Türkiye,Türkiye
Call: Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (H2020-Adhoc-2014-20, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15746.25
EU funding (EUR): 15746.25
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

There are two main barriers for cooperation in innovation process; low awareness about necessity of cooperating for innovation and limited competences of the organizations/institutions in innovation environment. Terms like innovation or innovation management are highly new for the SMEs in the region. The process of innovating products, services, processes and business models is often interrupted with lack of financing instruments. High quality consulting services about innovation management are not provided to SMEs. Majority of the SMEs are not aware of the specific tool of Horizon 2020 namely the SME Instrument which aims to fund and support innovation and commercialization activities of SMEs. Therefore to deal with these types of problems and shortcomings, our consortium will perform activities in the context of “enhancing the innovation management capacities of SMEs” and “Key Account Management Services”. The first activity’s main objective is helping SMEs to unlock their potential by better managing the innovation process. That will be performed with a diagnostic innovation management capacity audit followed by an action plan which is a mixed typed of different support activities. “Key Account Management Services” focus solely on the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument. The objective of the service is helping those companies who pass the evaluation procedure for innovation projects supported by the SME Instrument on commercializing their ideas and thus providing support for turning innovative ideas/research to commercial successes. That will be performed with a coaching programme on the basis of project realization and leveraging partnerships to acquire know-how and funding.

Keywords: antalya,mugla,isparta,burdur,innovation,key account manager,innovation management capacity,innovation expert
TeraHertz detection enabled by mOleculaR optomechanics (THOR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Switzerland,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking (H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01, 2018)
Start date: 2019-03-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3274122.5
EU funding (EUR): 3274122.5
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The generation, manipulation and detection of electromagnetic waves across the entire frequency spectrum is the cornerstone of modern technologies, underpinning wide disciplines across sensing, imaging, spectroscopy and data processing, amongst others. Whilst the last century has witnessed an impressive evolution in devices operating at frequencies either below 0.1 THz (microwave and antenna technology) or above 50 THz (near-infrared and visible optical technology), in between the lack of suitable materials and structures for efficient electromagnetic manipulation has resulted in the so-called “THz gap” : a band of frequencies in the 0.3 – 30 THz region of the spectrum for which compact and cost-effective sources and detectors do not exist – even though their application has enormous potential in medical diagnostics, security, astronomy, and wireless communication. In this project, we will demonstrate the first nano-scale, cost-effective, fast and low-noise detector working at room temperature in the 1 – 30 THz range by developing a radically new concept of signal up-conversion to visible/near-infrared (VIS/NIR) radiation, leveraging the latest scientific breakthroughs in the new scientific field of molecular cavity optomechanics. In particular, we will design and synthesize molecules with both large IR and Raman vibrational activity in that THz range to be integrated into plasmonic nano- and pico-cavities so that their vibration mediates the coherent transfer of energy from the THz to the laser signal driving the cavity. In our approach, we will also employ THz antennas to improve the coupling efficiency of the THz field to the molecules. This bold vision, which builds on the fundamentals of light-matter interaction (science) and converges toward the on-chip integration in a silicon-compatible chip (technology), completely surpasses any previous technological paradigms related to the measurement of THz molecular vibration as well as its possible manipulation.

Keywords: cavity optomechanics,quantum chemistry,thz technology
Increasing the competitiveness of European manufacturing companies by introducing an innovative single-step production process for moveable, functional multi-piece components (INTERLOGS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2021-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2709543.75
EU funding (EUR): 1896680.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the last years, trillions of EUR added value moved from Europe to countries with favourable production factors, especially to countries with low labour-costs. To stay competitive in manufacturing, European companies have to innovate their processes to more efficiency. Due to its scalability and automation capacity, die-casting is one of the most prevalent production processes in the world leading to billions of parts each day. However, with die-casting, only rigid parts are realisable. For moveable components (like hinges), different rigid parts have to be assembled to create functionality. This value-adding step of assembling cannibalises the efficiency advantages of die-casting, making European assemblies less competitive due to higher wage costs. With INTERLOGS, LOHR has developed the worldwide first production process which allows the automated production of fully integrated moveable parts with die-casting in one single production step without the need for multi-step assembling. This leads to time saving of more than 98%, weight reduction of about 56% and costs savings of up to 60% while stability of components could be increased by factor 4. There are various application possibilities, representing a total addressable market of EUR 24.5 B€. For initial market entry, we target automotive industry valuing 3.6 B€ at a CAGR of 3.1%. The project is about scaling-up the prototype process for commercial exploitation, demonstrating large-scale working of the process and preparing initial market entry. The INTERLOGS project will not only boost the scale-up of LOHR in terms of turnover and employees but also of thousands of companies in Europe creating tens of thousands new jobs in Europe by retrieving trillions of EUR added-value.

Keywords: automation,lightweight construction,scalability,die casting,aluminium,moveable components,co2 reduction
Predicting Energy Release in fault Systems: Integrating Simulations, Machine learning, Observations (PERSISMO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Earth system science
Panel description: Physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, cryology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-COG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999611.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999611.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Quantum leaps in observations have recently upended our classical view of earthquakes & tsunamis and have demonstrated that our understanding of these destructive natural events is not unified and still too limited to perform reliable predictions. Fortunately, catastrophic events remain relatively rare. Yet this scarcity also implies that their fine scale and long-term dynamics can only be studied in detail through numerical simulations. The goal of PERSISMO is to build a physics based Virtual Earthquake Simulator to make seismic and tsunami hazard estimates on fault networks. Indeed, the modern view emanating from observations is that fault networks continuously release stored energy over a wide range of spatiotemporal scales. With this philosophy in mind, we have been developing simulation tools to capture the behaviour of these fault networks and our recent work has demonstrated that these networks indeed control the dominant portion of the continuous energy release, whatever the time and length scales considered. Within PERSISMO, we will build a physics-based framework, which will include all known physical contributions to dynamic fracturing. This will unify a never achieved range of spatiotemporal scales, from meters to hundreds of kilometres, seconds to millenniums. Using available data and catalogues, our results will be validated along natural fault networks to capture slow and fast seismic energy release. Building on this, we will develop a Machine Learning based framework to run thousands of ensemble and future hazard scenarios on a given fault network. Only then, we might be able to make reliable predictions about their behaviour in the future. Our project to build a physics-driven Virtual Earthquake Simulator is interdisciplinary by nature, as it must combine expertise in mechanics, earth sciences and computation. In the long-term, our simulator will have the potential to become key in helping decision makers on possible natural hazard scenarios.

Keywords: fracture mechanics friction,natural hazard,prediction
The Urban Question of the Environment (URBENV)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Estonia,United States,Canada
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 223128.0
EU funding (EUR): 223128.0
Participants: 3
Project status: SIGNED

Over the past half century, urbanism has become the cornerstone of global environmental action. Yet the term “environment” is ambiguous, multi-layered and contested. This is especially so when it is linked with the urban question, expressing a sense of collective urgency, but also demands for urban environmental justice that are irreducible to the greening of cities. This research project explores the urbanism-environment nexus historically and today. Building on a premise that “environment” is at once an ecological condition, a technological interface and a political metaphor, I examine how professional urbanists understood, designed and governed the environment. This transdisciplinary project focuses on three areas of urbanism—policy, design and research—and examines the genealogy of three interconnected fields, in which the environmental problematic has been central: urban regeneration, landscape urbanism, and urban science. This research spans the period between the 1960s and today, and analyzes the circulation of ideas, policies and practices among institutions, projects and individuals situated in the US, Europe and the former Eastern Bloc. What could environmental urbanism mean in the future? My research is underpinned by a sense of contemporary socio-environmental challenges, and aims to build bridges between historical, critical and strategic approaches in urban studies. By developing and departing from Michel Foucault’s concept of “environmentality,” this research draws attention to affinities and tensions in the urban arena between solution-focused ecological urbanism, demands for environmental equity and forms of environmental governmentality. While the concept throws into relief power relations associated with environmental action, it needs to be updated with respect to concrete ecological, technological and political dilemmas that the field of urbanism faced in the past and faces today. Could “environment” transform the urban question in ways that exceed technological solution, and become a signpost for more democratic urbanism?

Keywords: urbanism,environment,governmentality,environmentality,genealogy,architectural history,urban history,urban regeneration,urban science,landscape urbanism
Complex Dynamics of Clusters in High-Aspect Ratio Hollow Nanostructures: A Nanoscale Platform for High-Performance Computing (NANOCOMP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 91.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1689554.0
EU funding (EUR): 1637179.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Practical aspects and understanding of frontier-computing concepts such as memcomputing (a brain-inspired computational paradigm), quantum computing and spintronics are hindered because of the lack of suitable nanostructured materials. The NANOCOMP project aims to develop a technology for the integration of nano-switches within the confined space of high-aspect ratio hollow carbon nanostructures, yielding a totally new class of hybrid metal-carbon nanomaterials with different dimensionality as model systems enabling the realisation of these computing schemes. This research will also pave the way for developing new energy-storage concepts. The main objectives are: 1) To develop protocols for successful transport and encapsulation of intact nano-switches within tubular carbon nanostructures (TCN); 2) To understand and control the effects of the confined nano-switches on the carbon nanocontainer (and vice versa); 3) To unravel and develop new methodologies for exploiting the functional properties of the confined nano-switches; 4) To fabricate nanodevices, novel 2D ordered arrays and highly-porous 3D networks for a variety of applications ranging from quantum processors to flexible spintronic devices and supercapacitors.
Quantum Optomechanics in 3D (QOM3D)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2015-CoG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999594.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999594.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Optomechanics is a field that aims to detect and control mechanical motion with light, ultimately at the quantum level. Experiments reaching the mechanical quantum ground state established optomechanics as a rapidly growing new field. Now that the quantum ground state has been reached, what is the next step? The current goal of the field is quantum superposition states of motion. An example of this is a mechanical “Schrodinger cat” state, in which a drum is in a quantum superposition of vibrating up and vibrating down at the same time. From a technological perspective, such states could be used as a memory for storage of quantum information, or as a quantum bit itself, performing quantum calculations with a mechanical object. From a fundamental perspective, Schrodinger cat states could be used to explore the limits of macroscopic quantum mechanics and to look for the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds. Despite their recent success, the coupling between light and motion in current implementations is too weak to achieve non-classical motion. Here, I propose a new optomechanical system coupling the motion of a millimeter-sized membrane to quantum microwave “light” in a three-dimensional superconducting cavity. In this new system, I will use the exceptional coherence photons in 3D cavities to strongly enhance the coupling of light and motion. To demonstrate the feasibility of this idea, I present preliminary data from a proof-of-concept device with coupling that is already close to state-of-the-art, with an outlook to scaling significantly beyond implementations shown to date. With the team funded by this project, I will implement these feasible but challenging steps, creating a system with optomechanical coupling that can potentially reach the strong coupling regime for a single photon. Using this new strong coupling, I will bring optomechanics to a new regime where one can create and explore quantum superpositions of massive, macroscopic objects.

Keywords: optomechanics,strong coupling,macroscopic quantum states,superconducting cavities,foundations of quantum mechanics,hybrid systems