Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Smart Nursing Bra (Presque)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Poland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project develops a novel wearable device to improve both breastfeeding rates and the detection and monitoring of lactation performance. Lactation is beneficial to mother’s and baby’s long-term health. Women often discontinue breastfeeding due to lactation failure. A Presque Smart Nursing Bra is a product which supports the natural milk lactation cycle, monitors breast milk flow, and delivers supplemental milk while breastfeeding. The Presque supports the natural lactation cycle by: (1) helping offset any natural milk deficiencies with the on-board supply of either pre-expressed or donated breast milk, or formulated milk for delivery as needed, (2) requiring the engagement of the mother’s nipple by the baby for dispensing supplementary milk, thus stimulating natural milk production, (3) mediating the concerns of the nursing mother by measuring her breast milk amount and milk flow ensuring the mother that her baby is fully nourished, encouraging her self-confidence. Currently, there are no existing products that combine the functionalities and form factor of the Presque. Namely, there are no wearable products that measure in situ breast milk supply and at the same time deliver supplement while the baby is nursing. The device is protected by 4 issued patents, 10 pending and more in the pipeline. The Presque system is designed for patentability with a multi-tiered IP strategy to protect the system, the product, components and consumable parts, and their fabrication. The device wearability, ease of use, discreet design, and automated analysis of breast milk data will significantly increase the rate and duration of breastfeeding. This will help decrease the long-term health care burden globally. Moreover, Presque platform proposed in this project will create a new market of smart nursing devices.
Towards a Quantitative Theory of Integer Programming (QIP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2018-STG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Integer programming (IP), i.e. linear optimization with integrality constraints on variables, is one of the most successful methods for solving large scale optimization problems in practice. While many of the base IP problems such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) or satisfiability (SAT) are NP-Complete, IPs with tens of thousands of variables are routinely solved in just a few hours by current state of the art IP solvers. The main goal of this proposal is to develop a quantitative theory capable of explaining when and how well different IP solver techniques will work on a wide range of instances. Here we will study many of the principal tools used to solve IPs including branch & bound, the simplex method, cutting planes and rounding heuristics. Our first direction of study will be to develop parametrized classes of instances, inspired by the structure of realistic models, on which branch & bound and the simplex method are provably efficient. The second research direction will be to develop alternatives to ad hoc rounding heuristics and cutting plane selection strategies with provable guarantees and provide their applications to important classes of IPs. Lastly, we will explore the power and limitations of IP techniques in the context of algorithm design by comparing them to powerful techniques in theoretical computer science and analyzing their worst-case performance for solving general integer programs. While the main thrust of this proposal is theoretical, it will be complimented by an experimental component performed in collaboration with well-known experts in computational IP, both to gain valuable insights on the structure of real-world instances and to validate the effectiveness newly suggested approaches. The proposed research is designed to make breakthroughs in our quantitative understanding of IP techniques, many of which have long resisted theoretical analysis.
Computational Design of Materials for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation and Separation (Sol2H2)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-15
End date: 2023-09-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 162806.4
EU funding (EUR): 162806.4
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Hydrogen energy is treated as a promising renewable green energy source for the worldwide growing energy demands. To produce this sustainable energy, photocatalytic water splitting has attracted wide attentions. However, it suffers from a bottleneck problem originated from the readily mixture of hydrogen and oxygen species, which poses safety issue and undermines yield of hydrogen and oxygen molecules, thus hindering its large-scale practical applications. To tackle this challenge, we plan to design nanocomposite structures based on low-dimensional graphene-like materials for photocatalytic hydrogen production and separation via the theoretical simulations. The unique structural feature endows low-dimensional nanomaterials with excellent physical and chemical properties for catalytic reaction. Importantly, thanks to the selective permeability of protons, the atomically thin graphene-like materials can be used as a sieve to isolate the hydrogen molecules generated by protons reduction from the oxygen species, preventing the serious reverse reaction. Through our project, we aim to establish a rational design principle for the optimal catalysts screening and achieve the atomic-level structural design and manipulation of low-dimensional based materials with excellent performance. In addition, as the proton penetration is the central part to bridge the proton generation process and hydrogen production, we also want to identify the mechanism of proton tunneling and improve the proton penetration rate for the further applications. This Sol2H2 project provides an efficient and imperative approach for both fundamental research and practical application in hydrogen energy.

Keywords: nuclear quantum effects,photocatalysis
ACE Creative: Harnessing the strengths of innovation multipliers to accelerate creative industry growth through an integrated ecosystem of supports in finance, market access and technology exploitation. (ACE Creative)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Theme: Content technologies and information management: ICT for digital content, cultural and creative industries
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Germany,Italy,Slovakia,Belgium,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom,Luxembourg
Call: Support the growth of ICT innovative Creative Industries SMEs (H2020-ICT-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-01-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 998419.12
EU funding (EUR): 998419.06
Participants: 13
Project status: CLOSED

InnoCreate is an ambitious coordination and support action aiming to stimulate the growth of the creative industries in Europe by overcoming challenges at individual SME level (small size, problems with access to finance, barriers to new market entry…), at the innovation support level (disparity in availability and quality of support) and at overall creative industry level (fragmentation, localisation…). InnoCreate will respond by networking innovation support players and harnessing their regional strengths into a European ecosystem of supports to respond more effectively to SME needs. Two specific end user groups of SMEs will be targeted through InnoCreate: creative industry SMEs exploiting advanced technologies and ICT SMEs innovating in the field of creative industries. Both of these target groups will be equally supported. SMEs will benefit from an imaginative programme of communication and support actions: InnoCreate will piggy-back on the Creative Business Cup to raise awareness about the ICT Challenge competition, network SMEs throughout Europe at the InnoCreate International Camps and provide customised one to one supports for the most promising SMEs with high growth potential. InnoCreate galvanises existing structures by bringing together three strong existing European networks – EBN, CKO and the ECB Network and a network of innovation multipliers at regional level. The InnoCreate service offering aims to be immediately accessible online and ‘on-site’ in 15 EU partner and associate partner countries with a target of engaging further stakeholders to deliver the support services in all EU member states by the project end. The impact of InnoCreate will be tangible – for individual SMEs, for innovation support actors and for the growth of the European creative industries as a whole.

Keywords: creative industry growth,small and medium sized enterprises smes,innovation multiplier,access to finance,market access,ict networking,internationalisation
Cortical Dynamics of Decision Irrationality (CODIR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2018-05-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 171460.8
EU funding (EUR): 171460.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Imagine that you choose a large house with a long commute over a small flat with a short train ride. Will the appearance of an inferior, thus irrelevant, alternative–a small flat with a longer train ride–make you revise your initial choice? Contrary to what theories in economics prescribe people typically reverse their original choice in the presence of an inferior option. Contextual preference reversals (CPRs) of this form are hallmarks of human irrationality. Such deviations from rationality have been described in numerous behavioural studies over the past decades. But what are the mechanisms that produce CPRs? And why do CPRs differ across individuals? I aim to answer these big open questions. Specifically, I plan to elucidate the brain mechanisms that mediate CPRs, from the level of neurotransmitters, to large-scale brain networks, to behaviour. To this end, I will combine, for the first time, three novel approaches: a model-based approach I developed for quantifying irrational decision-making in a physiologically tractable fashion; delineating the neural interactions underlying decisions with magnetoenecephalography (MEG); and pharmacological manipulation of these interactions. I will then use the MEG data to guide the development of a biophysically constrained mechanistic model of irrational decision-making. This model will be used to generate novel predictions about CPRs in the healthy brain as well as in several neurophysiological disorders. In sum, my research will tackle long-standing problems from the behavioural sciences with techniques from the life sciences, thus providing a deeper understanding of the limits of human behaviour. I will be thoroughly trained in advanced neurophysiological techniques in preparation for a career in the nascent field of “computational psychiatry”. Finally, this project will bring together leading scientists from the behavioural, neural, and physical sciences, establishing a new multi-disciplinary EU research network.

Keywords: decision making,decision neuroscience,neuroeconomics
ERA-NET for establishing synergies between the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Horizon 2020 (JPI-EC-AMR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Treating and managing disease
Action type: ERA-NET Cofund
Partnership: JPI-EC-AMR (ERA-NET)
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Italy,Israel,Germany,Germany,Norway,Poland,Sweden,Türkiye,Belgium,Latvia,France,Netherlands,Denmark,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: ERA NET: Antimicrobial resistance (H2020-HCO-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2021-12-31
Duration (months): 74.0
Total project cost (EUR): 23812500.0
EU funding (EUR): 7858116.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

Antibiotic resistance is a global problem. It is considered by the World Health Organization as one of the three greatest threats to human health for the next decades. ’Enhanced coordination across national boundaries is needed to accelerate the efforts to tackle this grand challenge. Such synergies have been created among 19 countries in Europe and beyond through the EU JPI on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR). JPIAMR has developed a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) which defines the strategic and scientific priorities benefiting from co-ordination and co-operation at the European level and mobilised national funds for two joint transnational calls (JTC) 2014 and 2015 based on this. In the ERA-NET Cofund JPI-EC-AMR, an additional € 23 million of national funds will be combined with a highly incentivising EC top-up fund to support a new transnational research programme. The aim of this programme is to unravel the complex dynamics of selection and transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) according to the One Health concept. A multidisciplinary approach is necessary to identify and characterise the determinants that contribute to the spread of resistance at genetic, bacterial, animal, human, societal, and environmental levels, in order to provide scientific knowledge to design and evaluate cost-effective strategies that can decrease transmission of AMR in society. JPI-EC-AMR will launch additional JTCs without EC co-funding under the framework of the SRA. and perform additional joint actions in close collaboration with JPIAMR actions. JPI-EC-AMR will provide a better, quantitative understanding of drug-resistant bacteria in animals, foods, and the environment and to what extent they contribute to the burden of antibiotic-resistant infections in humans. Research in this area is crucial in order to provide the robust scientific evidence needed to make informed decisions regarding interventions and policy measures in hospital, community, and agricultural settings.

Keywords: antibiotics,drug resistance,grand challenge,national research plan alignment,transnational research programs,enabling activities
Reaserchers' Night Project 2016-2017 in Israel (ERNI2016)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Israel
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 20.0
Total project cost (EUR): 870025.0
EU funding (EUR): 300000.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Following previous TEN years of successful implementation of European Researchers' Night in Israel we will have: o Venues covering the whole country. o Involvement of the academic community including Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST), all major research universities, leading collages and three science museums. o Awareness campaign at national level managed and funded by the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. o Groups of junior-high and high-school students (ages 12-18) will be invited by each partner to take part in each venue. We are ready and proud to implement European Researchers' Night 2016 & 2017. • All of the partners involved in the project have the experience of running successful European Researchers' Nights events. • With the successive increase in number of visitors along the years and the reputation of the event we are expecting more than 55,000 visitors each year. • Same management as in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 successful events. • Proposal covers both 2016 & 2017 European Researchers' Night events.

Keywords: research,education,dissemination
Excitonic quasiparticles in Titania (exciTitania)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2019-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 158121.6
EU funding (EUR): 158121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Although titanium dioxide (TiO2) is widely employed in fields like photovoltaics and photocatalysis, the nature of its fundamental charge transfer excitations is still unknown. A deep understanding of the excitonic properties of TiO2 is of high relevance to achieve major advances in the aforementioned fields and may lead to the fabrication of new devices with enhanced performance in energy conversion applications. In this research proposal we address three important aspects of the excitonic nature of TiO2, which have been raised by recent experiments and whose investigation requires exhaustive theoretical efforts. The first aspect is related to an observed anomaly in the temperature dependence of the excitons in both the rutile and anatase polymorphs of TiO2. The dependence of elementary excitations with temperature is a main subject in condensed matter physics, and its study provides crucial information on the quantum many-body interaction and correlation. The second aspect is about the interplay between charge transfer excitons and coherent phonons in TiO2. The experiments indicate again an unexpected behaviour of the semiconductor material in this respect. Finally, we aim to study the q-dispersion of the excitons, which will provide insightful knowledge on how these quasi particles propagates throughout the crystal. The recurrent anomalous behaviour of TiO2 makes it an even more fascinating material than it is already considered, and its study could broaden its field of applicability in unimaginable ways. With this proposal, we intend to pave the wave for an exciting future of this versatile semiconductor, using state-of-the-art theoretical calculations in close collaboration with researchers conducting advanced spectroscopy measurements.
Design, development and flight qualification of a supercritical composite shaft drive line for tiltrotor main drive system (STEADIEST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Belgium,France,France,France
Call: Design, development and flight qualification of a supercritical composite shaft drive line for tiltrotor main drive system (H2020-CS2-CFP08-2018-01, 2018)
Start date: 2019-02-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 44.0
Total project cost (EUR): 570510.0
EU funding (EUR): 428982.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The members of STEADIEST consortium (CONSEIL ET TECHNIQUE, Arts et Métiers university and Asquini MGP) have multidisciplinary competencies regarding composite materials, rotating drive shaft instabilities, design, manufacturing and testing for aeronautical business sector. Each of those three members is leading research and development work for innovative technologies or processes (composite manufacturing techniques, control of dynamic instabilities or concurrent engineering tool for early design). The attached proposal is developing the design, development and flight qualification of a supercritical composite shaft drive line for tilt rotor main drive system. STEADIEST is submitting two different architectures of drive line considering bending flexibility, supercritical damping technologies and monitoring capabilities while maintaining safety, reliability, maintainability and lightweight objectives. Our main objectives will be to study and to develop innovative solutions on materials (use of composite shaft with metalic flanges and surface treatment issue), on drive line architecture (use of supercritical shaft coupled with subcritical shaft through flexible coupling) and on innovative device allowing high stability, high reliability and high safety.

Keywords: composite,supercritical shaft,semi active damper,active damper,flexible coupling,monitoring
European Direct-Drive Architecture (EDDA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Theme: Enabling advances in space technology
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Italy,Belgium,France,France
Call: SRC – In-Space electrical propulsion and station keeping (H2020-SPACE-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 998023.75
EU funding (EUR): 998023.75
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The European Direct-Drive Architecture (EDDA) project aims at optimizing the power chain efficiency of a spacecraft using electric propulsion, which is at the heart of technological roadmaps for future spacecraft. The objective is to develop, build and test a demonstrator of a high voltage and high power direct-drive concept. This innovative architecture supplies directly electric thrusters by a 300V-400V Solar Array without power conversion vs 28-100V in the current state of the art. The advantages are to remove power converters, to save mass, dissipation and cost, and to improve significantly the overall efficiency and reduce the thermal dissipation. In addition, at satellite level, it corresponds to a reduction of thrust duration, saving mission time. The ability of the concept to be applied to various thrusters technologies is key to maximize the impact of the architecture. Therefore this study is based on a transversal aspect of Electric Propulsion to be demonstrated on two different Electric Thruster technologies: Hall Effect Thruster (HET) from Sitael (Italy) and High Efficiency Multistage Plasma Thruster (HEMPT) from Thales-D (Germany). EDDA demonstration is based on a thruster plasma analysis (UC3M, Spain). Cathod Reference Point electronics, HET, vacuum chamber for complete testing are provided by Sitael. The bus voltage control loop and associated hardware are designed and manufactured by TAS-B. Coordination at satellite level is performed by TAS-F. Efficient Innovation provides effective management and associated tools. Tests will follow real operational conditions: no Sun, variation of illumination, thruster start-up and switch off, quick variation of consumption, and will demonstrate the robustness of this architecture easily adaptable to spacecraft (telecommunication satellites for Electric Orbit Raising reduction, In Orbit Servicing and Space-tugs, interplanetary carriers).

Keywords: direct drive,power processing unit,electric propulsion,mppt,high voltage,hemp t