Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Remote Building Analytics platform for Utilities to deliver large-scale efficiency to SMEs and commercial portfolios (RemBAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-02-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Energy optimization is a challenge driven by high energy costs and the increasingly stringent regulatory framework. The characterization of inefficiencies in buildings typically requires complex and costly on-site audits performed by energy management experts, hindering the adoption of energy efficiency measures by small and medium-sized energy consumers, among them many SMEs. Our current web-based software customers have requested artificial intelligence capabilities in our software platform allowing personalized recommendations to be issued remotely by the system to end users. RemBAP is the answer to this demand. It will significantly simplify and reduce the implementation and maintenance costs of efficiency optimization and constitutes a strategic development for our company, DEXMA. Energy use optimization has become a priority driven by high energy costs and the increasingly stringent regulatory framework. DEXMA is already helping hundreds of medium-sized end-users worldwide reduce consumption through bill tracking, monitoring of utility meters, data analysis and savings verification with our web based energy management software. As a response to customer demand, this project aims at integrating advanced analytics to our DEXCell software platform allowing for remote recommendations to be issued, significantly simplifying the process and reducing the implementation costs of energy efficiency management. The proposed innovation will allow DEXMA to reach a much higher number of end users, substantially increasing the company’s revenue, creating new jobs and ultimately contributing to large scale energy efficiency. Our main objective for Phase 1 is to evaluate the feasibility of the additional technical developments and to outline the feasibility and strategy for commercialization in different market sectors.

Keywords: energy efficiency,building analytics,commercial buildings,energy management software,advanced analytics,energy demand control,energy service providers,utilities,energy consumption
Differential costs of social living in nature (SOCIAL COST)

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: 2016-02-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Group living is a common phenomenon in nature in a wide range of taxa. Studies in natural systems are central to understanding the evolution of social behaviour and systems. While benefits, such as reduced predation risk, and costs, such as increased pathogen transmission, are well documented for some species, many other effects of group living are poorly understood in natural populations. In particular, group size and composition, and individual social status might affect the level of social stress. Social stress can cause physiological stress in group living animals, including humans, leading to poor health or fitness reduction. The level of costs and benefits, as well as the optimum resolution of the resulting trade-offs, is likely to vary with social status and sex, but the nature of these differences is poorly understood. In this project, I propose to test in a free living sciurid rodent, the Cape ground squirrel (Xerus inauris), whether the costs of group living vary with social status, and whether this can be explained by physiological and molecular changes that influence longevity. To address these questions, I will use biomarkers of aging, involving hormone levels, oxidative damage and telomere loss. Combining the latest methods in measuring such parameters will provide a new understanding of how sociality influences stress responses in free-living mammals of different social status.

Keywords: biochemistry,oxidative stress,telomere,sociality,social status
[PEGASUS]², giving wings to your career. (PEGASUS-2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)-Fellowship programmes
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND-FP) (H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12744000.0
EU funding (EUR): 6372000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

With [Pegasus]², the Research foundation Flanders (FWO) aims to enhance human capital in fundamental research in all scientific domains by attracting more excellent researchers to Flanders via the incoming fellowships, as well as by bestowing researchers in Flanders with increased international experience via the outgoing fellowships. This brain circulation through international and intersectoral mobility will not only foster excellence in the researcher’s training and career development, it will also contribute to dissolving regional and (inter)national boundaries and bring the European Research Area nearer to completion. Based on the success of the previous cofunded programme and the lessons learned from its execution and external evaluation, [PEGASUS]² is a deepened and extended programme including two fellowship schemes for experienced researchers: (1) 3-year incoming fellowships and (2) 3-year outgoing fellowships composed of two years of research abroad and one return year to the fellow’s host institution, in order to reintegrate into a long term position. Candidates can be of any nationality and active in any scientific discipline. In line with the European Charter and Code, the FWO is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and appraisal procedures, safeguarding the excellence and attractiveness of Flemish research in particular and of the ERA more generally. Fellows will be offered attractive employment conditions including a bench fee on top of the living and mobility allowance. By providing support and training all within an optimal research environment and enjoying the best working conditions, [Pegasus]² offers experienced researchers a unique opportunity to boost their research career through international and intersectoral mobility.

Keywords: international and intersectoral mobility for experienced researchers,incoming and outgoing mobility,career development for experienced researchers
Stochastic Ericksen-Leslie Equations (SELEs)

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: Mathematics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2019-01-07
End date: 2021-01-07
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of the research proposed in this project is to give a sound mathematical description of the noise-induced Fréedericksz transition in Nematic Liquid Crystal (NLC) with general geometry configurations. To this aim we will: 1) solve some important and difficult open mathematical problems related to the stochastic stochasic Ericksen-Leslie Equations (SELEs) which basically describe the dynamics of liquid crystals with stochastic perturbations, and 2) give a rigorous mathematical proof of the noise-induced Fréedericksz transition in NLC. In particular, we will establish the existence and uniqueness solution of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) approximation of SELEs. By using Large Deviations Principle (LDP) theory and the de Giorgi Gamma-convergence we will prove that the action functional of the SELEs with small spatially converges to the action functional of the SELEs with spatially white noise. We will rigorously justify the probabilistic interpretation of the results in terms of the asymptotics of the mean exit time from a neighbourhood of an attracting stationary solution, a hint to noise-induced Fréedericksz transition. By using again LDP theory will rigorously show that in the presence of small noise there is a positive probability of transition between the attraction domains of the stationary solutions for the deterministic system; this is a rigorous mathematical proof of the noise-induced Freédricks’s transition. We will also prove the existence and uniqueness of an invariant measure which satisfies a LDP. The latter result confirms that in the long run the noise still induces transition between equilibria. Finally, we aim to prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of the SELEs, and if time permits transfer results obtained for the GL approximation of SELES to the original SELEs.

Keywords: liquid crystals,ericksen leslie equations,invariant measure,ergodicity,noise induced fr edericksz transition
Mass-transfer independent long-term implantable biosensors (ImplantSens)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Austria,Spain,Ireland,Ireland,Austria,Germany,Sweden,Sweden,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-04-01
End date: 2023-09-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3006106.2
EU funding (EUR): 3006106.1999999997
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

ImplantSens will develop long‐term stable implantable electrochemical biosensors by overcoming mass‐transport limited sensing schemes. This is the major unsolved problem due to the formation of capsules by the foreign body response upon implantation of a sensor. ImplantSens will not only contribute to the painless long‐term monitoring of glucose levels for diabetic patients but also to the development of future implantable sensors for the management of other chronic diseases. 11 ESR will be engaged in all tasks of this scientific chain, thus being trained in the fundamentals of bioelectrochemistry, enzyme engineering, electrode design as well as biocompatibility. Training of the fellows will be performed via an innovative program based on a blended learning concept and will take place at the host institutions, via secondments, workshops, schools and e-learning elements. The scientific training will be completed by training of complementary skill with respect to management, fund raising, IPR and scientific communication. The consortium consists of 7 leading scientists in Europe with the necessary expertise to target this ambitious goal supported by 4 SMEs. ÍmplantSens will improve the availability of a highly skilled workforce for European industries and research strongly needed for at the beginning of the 4th industrial revolution.

Keywords: implantable biosensor,foreign body response,long term stability,mass transfer independent sensor,enzyme design,switchable enzymes,amperometric glucose sensor
Bioenergy retrofits for Europe’s industry (BIOFIT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Spain,Germany,Austria,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Greece,Finland,Greece,Sweden,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Market Uptake support (H2020-LC-SC3-2018-RES-SingleStage, 2018)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2626237.5
EU funding (EUR): 2626237.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

One way in which bioenergy production can be increased is through retrofitting, the addition of new technology or features to existing industrial installations. Retrofitting means often lower capital expenditure (CAPEX), shorter lead times, faster implementation, less production time losses, lower risks and therefore faster project development and increased market benefits. BIOFIT aims to facilitate bioenergy retrofitting in five industries: first-generation biofuels, pulp and paper, fossil refineries, fossil firing power and combined heat and power plants. First an overview will be made of existing options for retrofitting, and best practices analysed, to establish (both technical and non-technical) success factors. This will constitute the basis for two core project actions i.e. the development of 10 concrete bioenergy retrofitting proposals (2 each per industry) and the establishment of dedicated working groups for each industry (industry platform) to facilitate two-way dialogue. Both actions will be industry-driven, and focus on identifying and helping to solve actual – general and industry-specific – barriers towards wider market uptake. BIOFIT will give specific attention to generating information for policy development. Acceptance of bioenergy, both by the industries and by the general public, is key to the industries’ transformation towards sustainable bioenergy generation and market uptake. Research into acceptance factors is an integral part of project set-up. Key issues will be highlighted, and guidelines for industries will be issued. The BIOFIT consortium is a multidisciplinary partnership, with strong industrial involvement, broad coverage across Europe, and existing practical experience developing bioenergy retrofits. The expertise of the consortium covers all five target industries. BIOFIT consortium partners have wide networks in industry and industry platforms, ensuring relevance and transferability of all results.

Keywords: retrofitting,biomass,advanced biofuels,cofiring,co feeding
Wafer scale Integration of Photonics and Electronics (WIPE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Belgium,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Photonics KET (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3766097.5
EU funding (EUR): 3062997.5
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The WIPE project aims at developing hybrid electronic-photonic chips as a key enabling technology for data transmission purposes. It aims at bringing photonics to a new level by developing a concept that can be well industrialised. This sustains EU leadership in photonics, as is the ambition of the work program. A new wafer-scale technology will thus be developed for direct and intimate attachment of III-V Indium-Phosphide (InP) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and BiCMOS electronic chips (ICs). The ICs contain the driver, receiver andcontrol electronics for the PIC and enable direct connection to polymer optical waveguides. This technology of ‘wafer scale heterogeneous integration’ enables high-performance and high-density photonic-electronic (photronic) modules are created having a lower energy consumption, lower packaging complexity and lower cost compared to modules using more traditional interconnection techniques like wire bonding and laser welding of fibre connections. Next to the new bonding technology, an integrated module design technology is developed for efficient co-design of hybrid photonic and electronic modules. A library consisting of photonic/electronic standard modules, is created leveraging the process design kits (PDKs) of the most important European foundries of photonic chips in combination with a powerful BiCMOS. These tools are of significantimportance to industry, since they offer photronic module designers a standardised approach that highly facilitates the module design for SMEs and affordable manufacturing by photonic and electronic foundries. The WIPE approach will be proven by showing the feasibility of a 400Gb/s transceiver for data centre application.

Keywords: electronic photonic integration,polymer optics,3d assembly,data center transceivers,generic photonic integration
Investigation of 3D Functional Connectivity in Mouse Visual Cortex using Holography and Optogenetics (3DMUCHO)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 173076.0
EU funding (EUR): 173076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Cortical neurons respond selectively to sensory features. In mouse visual cortex, convergent evidences point towards stronger connectivity between neurons sharing similar feature selectivity in the superficial layers. The relationship between a three-dimensional (3D) subnetwork, where neurons connect horizontally and vertically to each other, and the functional specificity of individual neurons remain however unresolved. The main objective of this interdisciplinary project is to uncover the 3D functional connectivity in mouse visual cortex in vivo by employing the innovative optical methods pioneered in the host laboratory. Single-cell activation deep into the brain will be, for the first time, enabled using the novel technology of 3D depth-resolved holographic light-patterning and two-photon optogenetics. Combined with whole-cell recordings for measuring postsynaptic responses, precise presynaptic excitation with holography will permit mapping connection pairs within and across cortical planes. Simultaneous presynaptic multi-cell excitation of connecting neurons will test the integration linearity of the postsynaptic neuron. To probe functional connectivity, connection pairs will be examined from a functionally-identified neuronal population, whose tuning specificity to visual attributes is determined using calcium imaging. This fellowship will render me opportunities to acquire a versatile optical toolbox that is of general interest in neuroscience for connectivity mapping and circuit manipulation. Knowledge of local functional connectivity spanning a 3D cortical volume will further provide significant insights into the network mechanism underlying sensory processing.

Keywords: neuronal connectivity,visual specificity,3d computer generated holography,two photon optogenetics,whole cell recordings,calcium imaging
The multisided secure mobile wallet platform that can make mCommerce happen in Europe (PASSCLUB)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-2-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2017-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2708750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1896125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

After years of isolated experiences carried out by Telcos and Banks, resulting in 55 failed mobile wallet initiatives across Europe (!), it appears that only an open, secure, cost-effective, neutral, fully scalable mobile wallet multisided platform with a “platform model”, has the capacity to federate the incumbent players willing to address the opportunity of mobile commerce (in-store with NFC, and online), and create the necessary user adoption. This is what TORO is demonstrating in Norway, with 70% of the Banks and soon 100% of the Telcos connected to the VALYOU platform (http://www.valyou.no/en), where TORO is the key technological and now business partner. After proving that TORO’s unique technology/model has been deployed successfully in Norway, our immediate objective is to replicate the model in Spain or France (then the Netherlands and Poland), before the Over-the-Top players (namely the Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon) come in.

Keywords: mobile wallet platform,europe,neutral,syndication of incumbents
Innovative Ecological on-site Sanitation System for Water and Resource Savings (INNOQUA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Enabling the transition towards a green economy and society through eco-innovation
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Ireland,Ecuador,Italy,Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Romania,Romania,Türkiye,France,France,France,Netherlands,Peru,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Demonstration/pilot activities (H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage, 2015)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7998278.25
EU funding (EUR): 6996213.75
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

INNOQUA will accelerate the path to market of a modular set of innovative, patent protected, award winning and scalable fully ecological sanitation solutions that address wide market needs in rural communities, for agricultural industries, for sustainable home-builders or collective housing owners and for developing countries worldwide. The modular system is based on the purification capacity of biological organisms (worms, zooplankton and microorganism) and sorption materials bringing ecological, safe and affordable sanitation capacity where it is needed most while fully addressing the thematic and cross cutting priorities of the EIP on Water. We will perform demonstration scale deployment and resulting exploitation of the system to include commercial development, technology integration, eco-design, controlled environment pilots (in NUI Galway facilities in Ireland and UDG facilities in Spain), real use demo sites and market uptake preparation in several EU and non-EU countries (France, Italy, Ireland, Romania, UK, Ecuador, Peru, India and Tanzania), and further preparation for post project uptake. Such an integrated solution is innovative and has not been employed in the past. This integrated but modular solution for the final reuse of wastewater is particularly attractive for small to medium remote water stressed European communities with high water demand for either agriculture and/or the conservation of natural freshwater ecosystems. The system is aimed at being a sustainable solution for ‘zero’ wastewater production with the complete reuse of wastewater. The system is ideal for small to medium scale situations where an integrated solution for the treatment of wastewater is required to reduce the waste directed to surface freshwaters for the attainment of good quality water, as stated by the Water Framework Directive. The robust but efficient technologies are also ideal for deployment in markets where resources are limited and skilled staff unavailable.

Keywords: ecological natural process,no sludge production,modular system,earthworms,daphnia,bio solar purification uv disinfection,eu and overseas markets,carbon emissions reduction