Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
FOREnsic evidence gathering autonomous seNSOR (FORENSOR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Israel,Belgium,Greece,Greece,France,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Law enforcement capabilities topic 1: Develop novel monitoring systems and miniaturised sensors that improve Law Enforcement Agencies' evidence- gathering abilities (H2020-FCT-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4937833.94
EU funding (EUR): 4043546.25
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Covert evidence gathering has not seen major changes in decades. Law enforcement Agencies (LEAs) are still using conventional, manpower based techniques to gather forensic evidence. Concealed surveillance devices can provide irrefutable evidences, but current video surveillance systems are usually bulky and complicated, are often used as simple video recorders, and require complex, expensive infrastructure to supply power, bandwidth, storage and illumination. Recent years have seen significant advances in the surveillance industry, but these were rarely targeted to forensic applications. The imaging community is fixated on cameras for mobile phones, where the figures of merit are resolution, image quality, and low profile. A mobile phone with its camera on would consume its battery in under two hours. Industrial surveillance cameras are even more power hungry, while intelligent algorithms such as face detection often require extremely high processing power, such as backend server farms, and are not available in conventional surveillance systems. Here we propose to develop and validate a novel, ultra-low-power, intelligent, miniaturised, low-cost, wireless, autonomous sensor (“FORENSOR”) for evidence gathering. Its ultra-sensitive camera and built-in intelligence will allow it to operate at remote locations, automatically identify pre-defined criminal events, and alert LEAs in real time while providing and storing the relevant video, location and timing evidence. FORENSOR will be able to operate for up to two months with no additional infrastructure. It will be manageable remotely, preserve the availability and the integrity of the collected evidence, and comply with all legal and ethical standards, in particular those related to privacy and personal data protection. The combination of built-in intelligence with ultra-low power consumption could help LEAs take the next step in fighting severe crimes.

Keywords: evidence gathering,ultra low power,autonomous sensor,visual sensor,safe city,video surveillance,ethics,fundamental rights,law enforcement agency
Commercialization of a viable and proven HydroKinetic Turbine that will harness the power of the world's rivers, canals and estuaries in a sustainable, innovative and cost-effective way. (HydroKinetic-25)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Ireland
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The HydroKinetic-25 is an innovative, hydro renewable energy device designed to harness low-carbon, reliable and affordable energy from riverine and estuarine environments. Unlike other established forms of hydro power, no height differential, or ‘head’ of water, is needed to generate adequate power from the flow of water. This avoids expensive and disruptive civil works. Due to its small size and ease of deployment and maintenance, this renewable energy device opens up huge new market opportunities in terms of river energy generation where it previously was not possible. As a company scaling quickly with growing global ambitions, DesignPro has a vision to bring this device to the marketplace and make a meaningful impact towards lowering carbon emissions and contributing towards improving the world's energy crisis.

Keywords: hydro,kinetic,energy,renewable,power,turbine,river,electricity,generation,sustainability,tidal,in stream,stream,estuary,estuarine,lowe carbon,efficient,green
Biologically Inspired Complex Software System Reconstruction at Near Extinction States (BIO - PHOENIX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy,Cyprus,Switzerland,Poland,Greece,Greece,France
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 70.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1324800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1324800.0
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Phoenix aims to develop a fundamentally novel computational model for reconstructing complex software systems, following some massive internal failure or external infrastructure damage. Recovering system operations is a challenging problem as it may require excessive system reconstruction using a different infrastructure (i.e., computational and communication devices named system cells) from the one that the system was originally designed for. Thus, software functionality may have to be remodularised and allocated onto devices with very different characteristics than the ones originally used but with some generic capabilities. Phoenix aims to develop a bio-inspired paradigm for reconstructing nearly extinct complex software systems based on a novel computational DNA (co-DNA) oriented systems modelling approach. The co-DNA will encapsulate logic and program code and will enable the use of analogues of biological processes for transmitting, transforming, combining, activating and deactivating it across computational and communication devices. The purpose of encoding the co-DNA of a system, and computational analogues of biological processes using it, is to enable other computational devices receiving the co-DNA to act as parts of the system that needs to be reconstructed, realise chunks of its functionality, and spread further the system reconstruction process. The Phoenix approach will bring a breakthrough in the current software system design and engineering paradigm. This will be through, not only a fundamentally new way of engineering mechanisms to support the resilience, continuity and recovery of software systems, but also the initiation of a new paradigm of designing and implementing software systems, based on the encoding of a system co-DNA that can trigger processes of self-regulated and incrementally expanding system functionality.

Keywords: adaptive software systems,resilient systems,bio inspired computing,system survivability
We are developing ground-breaking therapeutics to cure currently untreatable respiratory infections affecting children and the elderly (ViR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Human respiratory viruses cause economic and health burdens worldwide because there are no effective therapies. We have discovered a novel approach to stop their infection. The human respiratory viruses parainfluenza (PIV) and respiratory syncytial (RSV) viruses cause economic and health burdens worldwide. While RSV is the number one cause of death in children under 5 years old, with over 33M new cases occurring annually worldwide, PIV is the cause of 4-5% of all respiratory infections and 6-11% of all hospitalizations. However, currently there are no effective therapeutics to treat these debilitating infections and the economic burden associated with RSV and PIV is estimated at more than $11B annually, also defining a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical market gap. We founded ViRelieve - biotech company with the main purpose to develop much-needed therapeutics to treat infections caused by RSV, PIV and related viruses. ViRelieve is led by an experienced team with biotech business, finance and IP expertise, drug development experience from pharmaceutical companies, and top researchers in virology and chemistry. We have discovered weaknesses in two processes essential for the virus infection – virus entry and replication, and have developed novel approaches to block these processes and thus stop these viruses from causing disease. Our R&D program has led to several patents filed and issued for unique compounds that specifically target essential virus components and demonstrated their effectiveness in animal models. Thus, our therapeutics will specifically treat RSV and PIV infections and will be superior to the few existing solutions as well as future competitors. In summary, gathering a complete expert team, filling patents, securing exclusive licenses and demonstrating the efficiency of our innovative therapeutics in animals makes us uniquely poised to succeed in our venture to deliver efficient drug candidates to clinical trials in a timely and effective manner.

Keywords: pharmacology,infectious diseases,respiratory viruses,drug development
Molecular epidemiology of Bacillus anthracis: novel data and techniques for local surveillance in Tanzania (MEBA)

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: Life Sciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-11-02
End date: 2017-11-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Anthrax is described by the World Health Organization as a disease that “perpetuates poverty by attacking not only people’s health but also their livelihoods.” In the Serengeti region of Tanzania, where income is largely based on agriculture and tourism, regular outbreaks of anthrax in both livestock and wildlife have devastating impacts. Understanding and controlling the spread of Bacillus anthracis, the bacterial agent causing anthrax, in this environment is currently impeded by a lack of data on the genetic diversity and appropriate typing schemes to resolve fine-scale genetic differences. I propose to quantify the genomic diversity of B. anthracis in the Serengeti region of Tanzania and to use these data to develop molecular diagnostic and genotyping tools that can be implemented locally to facilitate surveillance. First, whole-genome sequencing will be performed on isolates obtained from wildlife and livestock carcasses and environmental samples collected through passive surveillance. Bioinformatic analyses will enable single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to be identified that can distinguish among locally-circulating B. anthracis strains and test for epidemiological links between outbreaks. Based on these SNPs, a multi-locus typing scheme will be developed. To further support local laboratory capacity, I will apply recently developed techniques to obtain high quality genomic DNA from environmental samples without the need for bacterial culture, thus greatly reducing the biosafety risks associated with anthrax surveillance in low-biocontainment facilities. This project will generate important baseline information on the diversity and transmission of B. anthracis in the Serengeti. Additionally, facilitating the local implementation of molecular surveillance will eventually allow us to determine the circulation patterns of B. anthracis at the wildlife-livestock interface in Tanzania, providing essential information for anthrax management in sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords: molecular epidemiology,whole genome sequencing,diagnostic capacity building,neglected zoonosis,anthrax,wildlife livestock interface
Diabetes Approach by Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip (DAMOC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499554.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499554.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Insulin secretion and insulin action are critical for normal glucose homeostasis. Defects in both of these processes lead to type 2 diabetes (T2D). Unravelling the mechanisms that lead to T2D is fundamental in the search of new molecular drugs to prevent and control this disease. Organ-on-a-chip devices offer new approaches for T2D disease modelling and drug discovery by providing biologically relevant models of tissues and organs in vitro integrated with biosensors. As such, organ-on-a-chip devices have the potential to revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry by enabling reliable and high predictive in vitro testing of drug candidates. The capability to miniaturize biosensor systems and advanced tissue fabrication procedures have enabled researchers to create multiple tissues on a chip with a high degree of control over experimental variables for high-content screening applications. The goal of this project is the fabrication of a biomimetic multi organ-on-a-chip integrated device composed of skeletal muscle and pancreatic islets for studying metabolism glucose diseases and for drug screening applications. Engineered muscle tissues and pancreatic islets are integrated with the technology to detect the glucose consumption, contraction induced glucose metabolism, insulin secretion and protein biomarker secretion of cells. We aim to design a novel therapeutic tool to test drugs with a multi organ-on-a-chip device. Such finding would improve drug test approaches and would provide for new therapies to prevent the loss of beta cell mass associated with T2D and defects in the glucose uptake in skeletal muscle.

Keywords: tissue engineering,muscle cell differentiation,electric stimulation,nanotechnology,lab on chip
Building Innovative Green Hydrogen systems in an Isolated Territory: a pilot for Europe (BIG HIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: FCH2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,Spain,Malta,France,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Hydrogen territories (H2020-JTI-FCH-2015-1, 2015)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7748848.0
EU funding (EUR): 5000000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

BIG HIT will create a replicable hydrogen territory in Orkney (Scotland) by implementing a fully integrated model of hydrogen production, storage, transportation and utilisation for heat, power and mobility. BIG HIT will absorb curtailed energy from two wind turbines and tidal turbines on the islands of Eday and Shapinsay, and use 1.5MW of PEM electrolysis to convert it into ~50 t pa of hydrogen. This will be used to heat two local schools, and transported by sea to Kirkwall in 5 hydrogen trailers, where it will be used to fuel a 75kW fuel cell (which will provide heat and power to the harbour buildings, a marina and 3 ferries when docked), and a refuelling station for a fleet of 10 fuel cell vehicles. The project employs a novel structure to manage the hydrogen trading, and dissemination that includes a follower territory and associations of over 1640 isolated territories.

Keywords: electrolysis,fuel cell
Phenotypic and lineage diversification of natricine snakes (NATRICINE)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-11
End date: 2019-10-10
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The NATRICINE project is a study of the macroevolution of a major group (240 extant species) of snakes. Natricines originated in Asia and dispersed into N America, Africa and Australasia. They are diverse, with repeatedly evolved surface, burrowing and aquatic ecotypes. The overarching project aim is to determine the extent to which lineage and phenotype diversification is impacted by dispersal to new regions (potentially providing ecological opportunity) and by evolutionary transitions between ecotypes. The overarching aim will be tackled via four main research objectives: molecular phylogenetics to determine the interrelationships among >70% of all natricine species; historical biogeography to identify ancestral areas and the location and timing of major dispersal events; phenotypic disparity and diversity analyses to quantify the main axes of natricine variation in time and space; quantitative analyses to test whether different ecotypes and geographical groups have undergone different rates of lineage and phenotype diversification. These four objectives will be tackled in four work packages. The topic is novel and the approach is innovative in combining cutting-edge techniques including amplification of DNA sequences from historical museum specimens, quantifying shape variation using the latest surface and microCT scanning approaches, and model-based analyses of trait and lineage evolutionary rate shifts. The project will be undertaken by an early-career postdoctoral researcher, who has expertise and solid grounding in Asian reptile systematics, ecology and evolution, but who requires training in advanced Next Generation Sequencing, 3D imaging and macroevolutionary quantitative analysis. The fellow will also receive training in public engagement, project management, student supervision and grant writing. This training will establish the fellow as a prominent vertebrate biologist who will lead European-Indian collaborative biodiversity research for years to come.
Opera co-creation for a social transformation (TRACTION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Reflective societies - cultural heritage and European identity
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Spain,Netherlands,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Collaborative approaches to cultural heritage for social cohesion (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2022-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3751877.76
EU funding (EUR): 3751877.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Opera uses all the visual and performing arts to create extraordinary worlds of passion and sensibility. It is rightly recognised as a great achievement of European culture. And yet a form that once inspired social and artistic revolutions is often seen as the staid preserve of the elite. With rising inequality and social exclusion, many see opera—if they think of it at all—as symbolic of what is wrong in Europe today. TRACTION aims to change that using opera as a path for social and cultural inclusion, making it once again a force for radical transformation. We do not want to make opera palatable to those who don’t attend. We want to define new forms of artistic creation through which the most marginalised groups (migrants, the rural poor, young offenders and others) can work with artists to tell the stories that matter now. By combining best practice in participatory art with digital technology’s innovations of language, form and process, we will define new approaches to co-creation and innovate in three fields: a) Opera creation and production; b) Immersive and interactive digital media; and c) Social integration and community development. Experimental projects in inner-city Barcelona (ES), a youth prison in Leiria (PT) and rural communities in Ireland will test and share new ideas. Bridging the social and cultural divides involved will challenge many existing beliefs, structures and habits. The exceptional resources of the TRACTION partnership will help us meet that challenge through mutual support. The immediate outcomes will be new routes for social and economic integration for the people involved, better relationships between opera producers and society, and cutting-edge technological development. But the long-term prize is the definition of new processes that renew the art’s potential to build cohesive societies and imagine a revitalised, common culture in which everyone can feel that they belong.

Keywords: collaborative and participatory production tool,community dialoge,opera,co creation,co design,novel audiovisual formats
Multi-Qubit Photonic Devices (MultiQubit)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: France,Denmark
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-06-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2587745.0
EU funding (EUR): 2359678.75
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

MultiQubit is built on the concept of a novel type of quantum dots — crystal-phase quantum dots — discovered and developed by the PI. Crystal-phase quantum dots have a unique advantage — growth control with the ultimate accuracy of a single atomic layer. This advantage will break the major limitation in the field of optically-active quantum dots — impossibility to build quantum devices with multiple quantum dots due to lack of the required growth control — and thus unlock their true potential for Quantum Technologies. Based on these, MultiQubit is committed to creating a robust technological platform for making solid-state multi-qubit devices with a photonic interface. This platform shall be a game-changer in Quantum Technologies, allowing to connect quantum computers across the world. In particular, MultiQubit will develop and demonstrate all the steps from the fabrication of basic quantum structures to distributed entanglement between remote nodes of a multi-qubit Quantum Information Network. For the successful realization of these ideas, the PI proposes three key objectives: 1. Explore and demonstrate a novel crystal-phase qubit — the central element of MultiQubit. This qubit is based on crystal-phase quantum dots, which are fully designable and scalable, because their geometry can be controlled with the ultimate accuracy of a single atomic layer during the growth. 2. Build the first designable and scalable multi-qubit quantum register with a photonic interface. This is one of the major components in Quantum Information Networks to be implemented. 3. Design and demonstrate a quantum network of multi-qubit photonic devices. This may be a potential prototype of the forthcoming Quantum Internet.

Keywords: quantum information networks,quantum dots,nanowires,quantum nanophotonics