Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Outcomes and Causal Inference in International Comparative Assessments (OCCAM)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Cyprus,Norway,Belgium,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3882563.64
EU funding (EUR): 3882563.64
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The ETN OCCAM will investigate how educational policies influence educational outcomes worldwide. One of the most salient findings in the field of education is that there are huge national differences in student achievement in international comparative studies. The shockingly large gap between the highest performing countries (most of which are in East Asia) and many European countries corresponds to a difference in attainment of two years of schooling. Although this finding has been replicated in several studies, at present, the reasons for and consequences of such differences are not well understood. Variations in many features of educational policies can only be observed across countries on the system level (e.g., the existence of central exams). Since the start of the new millennium, a new generation of international comparative studies has been launched: studies like PISA and TIMSS are repeated every few years and thus have a longitudinal component at the system level. Unlike cross-sectional designs, these trend designs allow the causal effects of changes in educational policies at the system level to be estimated. Applying this approach, alongside other approaches to causal inference, to the accumulated data from the comparative studies has a huge potential to provide insights into the determinants of educational outcomes worldwide. The ETN will provide an ideal environment for training ESRs to become leading experts in educational policy evaluation, international student assessments, and educational and policy consulting. They will receive interdisciplinary and - intersectoral training, and their individual research projects promise groundbreaking new knowledge on how to design fair and efficient educational systems. For this purpose, OCCAM will integrate the complementary expertise from nine academic and three non-academic partners. The combination of non-profit and for-profit organizations will ensure the employability and entrepreneurship of the ESRs.

Keywords: educational effectiveness research,causal inference,educational measurement,international large scale assessments,pisa,timss,pirls,international and comparative education
Swiftty web mobile builder (SwiftBuild)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Serbia
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-11-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Swiftty web & mobile builder The World Wide Web was invented in Europe, and after 25 years, we believe that it is up to Europe to bring it to another level. In this time of borders crossing, one huge border remained to be removed, language barrier to be overcomed. By finally uniting technology completely in one unique tool, Swiftty acts as a bridge between different program languages and platforms and allows users to freely develop and design professional websites and mobile apps without learning to code, straight from Adobe Photoshop or another graphic program, and to be able to give them desired functionality with just one click. By connecting desktop, web and mobile technologies (Android and IOS), Swiftty has objective to become ultimate tool for professional designers, developers and startups and to set the new working environment and standard for those segments, by saving them enormous amount of time, helping them to overcome knowledge barriers and making them more competitive against greatest outsourcing markets. Customer segments are design and web design studios, freelance designers and developers, startups and individuals who want to build their own, with B2B and B2C approach. Objectives of feasibility study are market study and technical study, leading to perfect product/market fit, and help to reduce potential risks. Yes, there is potential for SME phase 2 funding. Swiftty addresses several global problems, also spread in Europe: 1. competitiveness and growth of companies through enabling them to develop more recognizable brands for a lot less money, people and recources 2. increasing chance of employment to young professionals and and women helping them develop more professional product with less required knowledge 3. helping young entrepreneuers and startups create their MVP more easily

Keywords: technology development
Innovation Management Capacity Enhancement of SMEs in Saxony-Anhalt for the period 2017-2018 (IMCESA2017-18)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Germany
Call: H2020 2D CONSULTATION EEN (H2020-EEN-SGA2-2017-2018, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2018-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 54798.99
EU funding (EUR): 54796.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The general objective of the described actions is to contribute to smart growth in the European Union by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation and by contributing to a better and more efficient connection of actors along the innovation chain. The specific action will deliver services designed to "Enhance the Innovation management capacity of SMEs" by providing indepth support services to SMEs. Furthermore, beneficiaries of the SME Instrument under Horizon 2020 will receive specific targeted assistance to support coaching assignments addressing specific innovation weaknesses. To achieve the above mentioned objectives bottlenecks to the creation of economic impact in companies benefitting from grants by Horizon2020's SME instrument will be identified and these bottlenecks with the help of capable coaches addressed. This service to beneficiaries of the SME instrument in the context of a giving project is called 'Key account management'. In addition the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes will be increased in small and medium sized enterprises with significant innovation activities that could potentially become beneficiaries of European support to research and innovation but would not have effective access to consulting services for innovation management. This service, provided independently from a specific innovation project and focussing on a company's innovation management system, is called 'Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs'. Direct impact from the two actions will be a significantly enhanced growth and profitability of SMEs receiving the services as compared to a control group. Innovation processes will be conducted more efficient and more effectively. Indirect impact will arise from the introduction of high quality innovation management capacity assessment and support services in the region of Saxony-Anhalt.

Keywords: key account management,sme innovation management,capacity enhanvement
Protein Capsules (ProtCap)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Proof of Concept Grant (ERC-2018-PoC, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 149997.0
EU funding (EUR): 149997.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In the ProtCap project, we will translate basic technology, developed in the context of the ERC project PhysProt, towards commercial applications. The technological focus will be on microscapsules assembled through microfluidic techniques from natural proteins. Encapsulation increasingly underlies the storage and formulation of active components and is a growing market which impacts areas from cosmetics to personal health-care. In this context, synthetic polymers are the standard material for forming the shells of microcapsules and other encapsulation platforms. We propose an orthogonal approach through the use of fully natural building blocks, proteins. Proteins are the fundamental building blocks of life, underpinning the formation of sophisticated materials and structures in nature through self-assembly. We have been able to demonstrate the ability to form robust capsules from a range of proteins of both plant and animal origin. This technique allows for improvements over existing commercially available approaches in terms of biocompatible and biodegradable products, and ability to undertake all processing steps under mild conditions in aqueous solution for processing sensitive cargo species. In the present project, we will establish the viability of the protein capsule technology in particular sectors and generate connections with key industrial players based on initial contacts established so far. A key component of this approach is the proposed work to demonstrate the encapsulation of technologically important high value cargo materials, a translational step which will allow us to move towards forging partnerships, and explore licensing of IP to existing industrial partners in the context of this project, or through providing the basis for setting up a dedicated entity to take forwards the commercialisation of this technology.

Keywords: biomaterials,protein biophysics,amyloid,microgel,microfluidics
Earth Observation Services for Fishery, Bivalves Mariculture and Oysterground Restoration along European Coasts (FORCOAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling exploitation of space data
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Bulgaria,Belgium,Romania,Belgium,Romania,Romania,Netherlands,Denmark,Portugal,Denmark,Denmark
Call: Copernicus market uptake (H2020-SPACE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2022-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2288911.48
EU funding (EUR): 2082058.5
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

The FORCOAST project addresses the topic “DT-SPACE-01-EO-2018-2020 COPERNICUS MARKET UPTAKE” which seeks to foster market development exploiting the value of Copernicus Earth Observation Products. FORCOAST aims to provide information services that offer high resolution water quality and met-ocean indicators in coastal and nearshore areas, to improve operation, planning and management of different marine activities in the sectors of wild fisheries, oystergrounds restoration, and bivalve mariculture. FORCOAST information products and services will be co-designed with stakeholders, thereby ensuring that these products and services are tailored to meet their needs. FORCOAST is developing, testing and demonstrating, in operational mode, novel Copernicus-based downstream information services that will incorporate Copernicus Marine, Land and Climate Services Products, local monitoring data and advanced modelling in the service. The services will integrate Copernicus Earth Observation Products with local models and other diverse data sources (local, regional or global) with ICT (enhancing new frontiers opened by web, and use of cloud) across the different market segments. FORCOAST will provide consistent coastal data products, based on a standardized data processing scheme. FORCOAST is supporting the concept of developing an advanced platform and cloud computing for Copernicus-based downstream services utilizing one of the DIAS systems. The availability and accessibility of data and derived products generated will stimulate their exploitation by a wide range of user communities in the targeted sectors. FORCOAST will provide those services in eight pilot service uptake sites covering five different regional waters (North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and the coastal Atlantic Ocean).

Keywords: copernicus based coastal information services,end users engagements,market uptake,wild fisheries,bivalve mariculture,oystergrounds restoration,earth observations,water quality
Efficient and cost-effective intermodal road-rail container freight system (SAFE-CTS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Czechia,Denmark
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-12-01
End date: 2017-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1639818.75
EU funding (EUR): 1147873.13
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

There is a very high potential to improve the sustainability and performance of the European freight transport and logistics industry by moving road-based transport towards more sustainable transportation means, namely rail, which currently represent a very small share in Europe. Safe Green Logistics (SGL) in consortium with PVF Schinenfahrzeuge, aim at demonstrating an efficient and cost-effective freight logistics system based on multimodal transport as an alternative to road-based freight transport. The innovation is based upon a truck/train container transfer system (CTS) and a disruptive re-organization of the freight logistical networks. By bringing the disruptive SAFE-CTS concept to market, SGL will drastically optimize the entire inland freight value chain, through cheaper, faster and greener transportation of goods. It will empower a paradigm shift by moving part of the increasing freight transport demand to more efficient multimodal rail-road transport logistics. SAFE-CTS project will focus on demonstrating the SAFE-CTS technology in a pilot point-to-point route transporting cargo between Melnik in Czech Republic and the Port of Aalborg in Denmark. This will be the first step towards showcasing the concept and validating the technology under real operational environment, thus representing a key milestone for overcoming prevailing market entrance barriers for SGL. In the immediate post-project, SGL will be ready to deploy the concept in fully operating point-to-point routes; the company expects to sell the concept for at least 9 routes in the initial 5 years post-project. SAFE-CTS is expected to significantly enhance the profitability of SGL, with an expected turnover of €10 Million, 5 years post-project. Moreover, the successful achievement of the project objectives is expected to enable scaling the concept to larger regions for the full roll-out of the complete SAFE-CTS system including automatic sorting HUBs.

Keywords: freight transport,logistics industry,multimodal rail road transport,point to point routes,freight logistical network
Gene therapy of inherited and acquired hearing loss (iHEAR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
Panel description: Medical technologies and tools for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases, therapeutic approaches and interventions, pharmacology, preventative medicine, epidemiology and public health, digital medicine
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2024-04-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1999500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

To address the substantial financial and social burden caused by hearing loss in 360 million people world-wide, I aim to improve hearing via gene therapy to correct inherited and protect from acquired hearing loss. In vitro experiments will establish the best vector configurations for transfer of therapeutic genes and miRNAs into inner ear hair cells (HC) and spiral ganglion neurons (SGN). The efficiency of the best-performing vector designs will then be explored in vivo using fluorescent marker proteins. Cell-type specific and inducible promoters as well as receptor-targeted vectors will be employed as a safety measure and to ensure transgene expression in HC and SGN target cells. Once efficient transduction of appropriate target cells and proper expression of therapeutic proteins are demonstrated, I will perform proof-of-concept studies in hearing loss models, incl. established mouse models, to correct (WP1) or protect (WP2) from impaired hearing. To ensure translatability of these findings, I will generate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from patients with hearing loss (WP3), so that I can test optimized constructs in human otic cells. Moreover, I have access to a collection of well-characterized samples from over 600 hearing loss patients, including children with congenital hearing loss in whom many novel monogenetic alterations were identified. These resources provide the unique opportunity to generate a novel toolbox for the treatment of hearing loss. In addition to lentiviral and adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector delivery of corrective or protective genes to treat hearing loss, I will apply state-of-the-art genome editing tools to model and correct mutations causative for hearing loss in cell lines, primary cells from murine models, human patients and patient-derived iPSC. This work will contribute to development of clinically translatable approaches for precision medicine strategies to improve hearing loss treatment.

Keywords: gene therapy,viral vectors,gene editing,ips cells,hearing loss,mouse models
Innovative user-centred solution to transform upper limb amputees’ treatment (OneHAND)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Belgium,Norway,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 40.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3599615.0
EU funding (EUR): 2094500.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

Building from the strong drivers of hand amputee needs, currently unmet by the existing solutions in the market, the central goal of OneHAND project is to accelerate the market introduction of a disruptive user centred approach to prosthetic hand use – OneHAND solution. The oneHAND solution aims at maximizing user comfort, optimize price-point and improve overall experience to minimize prosthesis abandon altogether. It comprises a light, fast, modular and scalable prosthesis and a virtual reality training platform in a unique delivery model. The overall aim of OneHAND project is to mature, demonstrate and finalize the OneHand solution, while building the foundation to disrupt the value chain. OneHAND brings together a consortium of three SMEs (Hy5, TSC, PROTH) and the international amputee association (IC2A) – in unison representing a technical side specialized in hand prosthesis and VR training platform development, the business and societal sides with unique knowledge on users, prosthetists and clinics requirements and on routes to market for innovative solutions. The consortium expects a successful market introduction of the OneHAND solution within the next 3 years, tapping into a large business opportunity, and sustaining a very fast-paced growth for the industrial partners.

Keywords: patient journey,hand prosthesis,virtual reality,treatment standardization
Observing, Modelling and Predicting in situ Petrophysical Parameter Evolution in a Geologic Carbon Storage System (OMNICS)

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: Denmark
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-03-10
End date: 2018-03-09
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 200194.8
EU funding (EUR): 200194.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Geologic Carbon Storage (GCS) is a promising remedial activity that society can use to tackle imminent problems from increased atmospheric CO2 and climate change. The fate and transport of the stored CO2 are controlled by a storage formation’s petrophysical parameters, which evolve rapidly after the CO2 injection because of geochemical reactions. Knowing how the pore structure evolves is critical to the safe and effective implementation of GCS because it affects the sealing integrity, injectivity and storage capacity of a geologic site. How such evolution can be quantified is still unknown, because of the technological difficulties in direct observation within pores and the high computational cost required to predict such evolution based on current modelling approaches. My project will pioneer the study of GCS-related petrophysical parameter evolution by combining synchrotron based nanotomography with a highly customizable reactor network model. Tomography enables the in situ observation of the porous media’s morphological evolution that leads to petrophysical property changes. The reactor network model can significantly reduce computational costs for predicting parameter evolution. OMNICS builds on a combination of my expertise in GCS-related research and chemical reactor design with my host’s world leading nanostructure characterization facilities and cutting edge interdisciplinary research profile. Strong industry links provided by my host means that my new prediction technique will provide direct guidance for site selection, risk assessment and injection management, pushing the technological readiness level of GCS from applied research towards market relevant implementation as a technical support service. Meanwhile, the training, mentoring and support offered by my advisor, Prof. S. Stipp, will broaden my expertise, sharpen my competences and extend my research network, which will help me secure a academic position in Europe by fully realizing my potential.

Keywords: emergent processes,evolution of petrophysical parameters,computerised tomography,chemical reactor modelling,geochemical reactions,geologic carbon storage