Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Augmented Reality Wearable Platform and Screen: Proof of Concept and Commercialization (MIRAGE)

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: Türkiye
Call: ERC-Proof of Concept-2016 (ERC-2016-PoC, 2016)
Start date: 2017-05-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Wear3D display technology project is an ERC-Advanced project and offers novel optical solutions for wearable (or head-mounted) displays to achieve very wide field-of-view and natural-looking 3D. The Wear3D technology has a lot of potential as the global consumer market for AR and VR are expected to reach more than US$30 billion and US$120 billion by 2022, respectively. Hardware devices will be more than 30% of the total market. Within the ERC-AdG, our team developed a novel head-worn system named CYCLOPS and transparent augmented reality screens named MIRAGE. CYCLOPS platform consists of a head-mounted projection display (HMPD), imaging and depth sensors. We filed 3 international PCT patent applications protecting the technology. The objective of this proposal is to exploit the commercial potential of the CYCLOPS platform and the MIRAGE AR screens. Proposed platform has key advantages compared to existing AR glasses as it does not obstruct the visual field of the user, does not cause any viewing discomfort, fully integrated (including mobile processor) and consume low-power. MIRAGE screens enable telepresence using AR headsets and a passive screen. Such a display integrated with imagers and sensors and AR screens is a breakthrough technology and offers a very promising AR solution especially for industrial and medical applications.

Keywords: augmented reality,head mounted projector,wearable systems,ar screens
Integrated Telematics for Next Generation 5G Vehicular Communications (ITN-5VC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Innovative Training Networks (ITN)-European Industrial Doctorates
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Sweden,Netherlands
Call: Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-10-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2827995.84
EU funding (EUR): 2827995.84
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

The imminent need of deploying advanced communication and autonomous driving capabilities in vehicles is turning the race towards the realization of the so called fifth generation new radio (5G NR) networks into a real odyssey for the European automotive industry. The challenges arising from the coexistence of MIMO systems on vehicles, the growing number of sensors and radars and cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) in the realm of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications are piling up. Many of them have not been solved yet due to the lack of qualified personnel with joint expertise in communications and sensing technologies. Thus, the acute need of the proposed ITN-5VC project, a European Industrial Doctorate (EID) training network, arises. ITN-5VC aims to investigate the key problems of the integration of multi-band multi-antenna communications, including mmWave, with radar heads and other wireless sensors into the same telematics unit, so that transmission chains and radiation systems were efficiently reused in a cost-efficient manner while delivering the required performance. Multiple antenna deployment, joint operation and performance of the resulting automotive solution will be investigated by 11 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) working with top industrial manufacturers and academia in Europe. The training will tackle three main topics: • Vehicular communications integrated with radar sensors for the sake of simplified telematics. • Improved antenna and phased array technology deployment on the vehicle’s body or surface. • Efficient protocol integration on V2X-specific system on chips for joint communication and sensing deployment on vehicles. ITN-5VC will apply a new training Programme that follows the EU principles for Innovative Doctoral Training. Additionally, ITN-5VC training will apply short term missions, periodic challenges and an ECTS credit competition to boost the participation and engagement of the students to the Programme.

Keywords: autonomous cars,sensors
Climate Science from Space: Synergies for a greener innovation economy Conference (CSS4GIE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Protection of the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, water , biodiversity and ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Portugal,Portugal,Portugal
Call: Presidency event (conference): ''Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials' – Portugal, 2021 (H2020-IBA-SC5-Portugal-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2021-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 99990.0
EU funding (EUR): 99990.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The Portuguese Presidency, with the support of the European Commission, and in coherence with national strategic priorities aims organising an event entitled: Climate Science from Space: Synergies for a greener innovation economy. This event (conference) is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education underlying issues of major relevance to the Societal Challenge Climate Action. Hence, featuring innovation and technologies towards clean transformation with the aim of providing an appropriate balance between environmental, economic and social elements. The concept dovetails with the 18-month Trio (DE-PT-SI) Programme of the Council on the need to foster a competitive space sector and its integration into European economy, including in promoting market driven approaches and opening space to new actors. The conference shall be focused on how European space programmes, with especial relevance for Copernicus, can be meaningful for the implementation and monitoring of climate actions. Space activity encompass an important innovation component, always at the edge of the scientific-technological development. Fighting climate change and achieving the transition to a climate-neutral society with investments in space related programs always ensure a very high level of research and innovation, and the generation of new high skilled jobs. Assessing the benefit and overall coherence of existing and planned actions in the field of research and innovation in the context of a wider European strategic global role in the space ecosystem is also behind the concept. Therefore, underpinning the outputs of past R&D activities, their positive impact on improved resource efficiency, climate resilience and the contribution of Earth Observation data will positively foster other endeavours in the downstream involving scientists, businesses, investors, local authorities or environmental organisations.

Keywords: portuguese presidency of the council,green deal,climate,space
Illusions of eternity: the Constitution as a lieu de mémoire and the problem of collective remembrance in the WesteRn Balkans (We-R)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Italy,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2024-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 251002.56
EU funding (EUR): 251002.56
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

We-R focuses on the important relationship between collective memory and national identity by introducing a ground-braking perspective: the study of the Constitution as a lieu de mémoire. We-R’s aims are to understand how and to what extent contemporary Constitutions may be used as tools for bringing the past in the present, and analyze the ways in which configurations of memory and identity through the Basic Law of the Land can obstruct reconciliation and democratization processes in culturally heterogeneous societies. In addressing this topic, the researcher will use the Western Balkans (including Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Kosovo) as case studies and an innovative interdisciplinary perspective which will integrate in comparative constitutional law memory studies and nationalism studies, as well as a multi method approach that combines comparative analysis with critical political discourse analysis and social media research. The proposed mobility plan will allow the researcher’s training at CU to reinforce her knowledge in Balkan studies and acquire new methodological skills, and the residence at Eurac to elaborate the first existing “Practical Guidelines of Democratic Memory Construction” (DeMeCon). Given the importance of its objectives We-R is potentially entitled to become a reference model for other comparable case studies. The action will let the researcher benefit from interactions with an international network of excellence composed of scholars in various fields, international and national policy-makers and watchdog organizations. We-R comes appropriately timed, in a moment in which nationalism and historical revisionism are growing in Europe and beyond and are threating the future of the EU project.

Keywords: cultural study of the constitution,constitutional memory,memory laws,memory politics,balkan studies,nationalism,divided societies,reconciliation,democratization,eu cultural integration
Foundations of Composition (FouCo)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Composition is a key technique in automata theory, used in particular in the model-checking, realisability analysis and automatic synthesis of reactive systems. Typically, when it comes to composition, deterministic automata are used as they behave well when composed with other automata or games. However, determinisation is notoriously complex, both conceptually and computationally. One approach to avoiding determinisation is the notion of Good for Games (GFG) nondeterministic automata, which, despite their nondeterminism, compose well with games. Recent work suggests that the notion of GFG automata, so far only used for composing non-deterministic automata with games, is in fact much more powerful: it generalises to alternating automata, a more general and flexible type of automata that is particularly close to formal logics, and such automata can be used not just in composition with games, but with other automata as well. This means that alternating automata of this type could potentially be used in solutions to parity games, Church's synthesis problem, and, more generally, for turning automata into equivalent automata with simpler acceptance conditions. This project aims to study how to make automata compositional, how to recognise compositional automata, and how to exploit compositionality to improve algorithms in verification and synthesis. In particular, we will study how partial notions of composition, that is, automata that are not GFG in general, but can still be composed with a restricted class of games, can be exploited to avoid determinisation and thereby simplify existing algorithms for reactive synthesis, model-checking and Markov decision procedures.

Keywords: automata,reactive systems,model checking,synthesis,verification
Understanding and Preventing Plant Susceptibility to Aphids (APHIDTRAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Biotechnology and Biosystems Engineering
Panel description: Biotechnology using all organisms, biotechnology for environment and food applications, applied plant and animal sciences, bioengineering and synthetic biology, biomass and biofuels, biohazards
Countries involved: United Kingdom
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): 1999992.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999992.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Aphids are devastating insect pests of crops globally, and pose a major threat to food security. Crucially, there is a lack of durable genetic crop resistance against aphids, and current control relies almost exclusively on insecticides, which are costly and damaging to the environment and to which aphids develop resistance. These insects deliver proteins inside host plants, called effectors, to suppress the plant immune system and enhance susceptibility. I recently discovered that these effectors exhibit their activity via interacting with host plant proteins pointing to important conceptual parallels between plant-insect and plant-microbe interactions. This raises important new questions that urgently need to be addressed to enable development of novel protection strategies against aphids that are durable and sustainable. These are: What is the mechanistic and structural basis of aphid effector-triggered susceptibility? How can we interfere with aphid effector-triggered susceptibility? APHIDTRAP will address these questions using an innovative strategy: 1) I will introduce a structural biology approach to the insect effector biology field to reveal protein 3D structures of aphid effectors and their host protein targets in bound and unbound state, and determine how mutations in these proteins affect interactions and protein functions. 2) I will use both natural variants and mutants of effectors and host protein targets, combined with in planta functional assays to explore plant-aphid molecular co-evolution. 3) I will identify host protein target interactomes and investigate how mutations affect network functionality. 4) I will use information generated in 1-3 to develop and apply a synthetic biology approach to prevent aphid effector-triggered susceptibility in potato crop plants. APHIDTRAP’s vision is to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie susceptibility to aphids and investigate how we can interfere with these to reduce crop susceptibility to insect pests.

Keywords: aphid effector,structural biology,host susceptibility
Fertiliser from air by plasma treatment (Sustainable Manure)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Sweden,Norway
Call: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) (H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1840490.0
EU funding (EUR): 1459565.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

This project's main objective is the commercialisation of a breakthrough technology for upgrading livestock manure to an improved fertiliser. The overall aim of the project is to fundamentally improve global food production, by increasing productivity and reducing emissions. The technology enables farmers to produce environmentally friendly fertiliser on the farm using slurry or biogas digestate, air and electricity. The technology is a manure processing unit that consists of a plasma reactor, an absorption system and a plasma generator with power supply. The consortium consists of three organisations, ScanArc Plasma Technologies AS, University of Antwerp and N2 Applied. The plasma technology for treating livestock manure, is an innovative technology with the following benefits: • providing a cost-effective alternative to chemical fertiliser, and thus improving farm economics • ensuring compliance with stricter environmental regulations, which in turn mitigates risk for farmers and ensures business continuity • reducing emissions in the farm-cycle and thus contributing to reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution • removing odour, giving the farmer flexibility in spreading, optimising the fertilising effect of manure, which reduces nutrient loss and pollution. This FTI proposal consists of the following measurable objectives: 1. Optimisation of the plasma reactor, with a focus on improving the energy efficiency 2. Optimisation of the absorption system, with a focus on increasing the processing capacity 3. Develop a commercial unit design for serial production with stable continuous operations and low maintenance 4. Piloting and testing to verify the performance of the organic fertiliser 5. Communication and dissemination University of Antwerp is developing the plasma technology to make nitrogen fixation from air a valid alternative to fossil fertiliser production, Scanarc develops the plasma units and N2 develops the total concept for the farmer.

Keywords: air pollution,global warming,sustainable agriculture,circular economy 2 0,green deal,farm to fork,climate action,food security,nitrates directive
Highly Instrumented Low Temperature Reaction Chamber (HILTRAC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2493790.0
EU funding (EUR): 1948696.01
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

In this project, I will build, optimize, and apply a Highly Instrumented Low Temperature Reaction Chamber (HILTRAC) to study organosulfur chemical reactions. This chamber is the first of its kind to couple a uniform supersonic flow (USF) capable of achieving a wide range of cold temperatures (30 – 250 K) with the unique detection capabilities of an infrared direct frequency comb spectrometer (DFCS). The combination of DFCS with two additional detection methods (laser-induced fluorescence and time-of-flight mass spectrometry) will make HILTRAC a highly versatile instrument, with sufficient sensitivity and selectivity to measure very low concentrations of molecules in a gas phase chemical reaction. The spectrally broadband and high resolution frequency comb laser enables both reactants and products to be identified and monitored simultaneously as a function of reaction time. For the first time, a single instrument will have the ability to collect multiplexed information on temperature-dependent reaction kinetics, product identification, and product branching ratios. This will set a new benchmark for what should be considered a more complete understanding of the way a reaction progresses. As a first target for the newly commissioned HILTRAC, I will study three different organosulfur reactions relevant to chemical environments ranging from the interstellar medium to biological systems. There is very little information about organosulfur reactions in general and especially at low temperatures due to experimental challenges which the USF is able overcome. By using the combined power of the HILTRAC detection methods and the temperature controlled environment, with supporting quantum chemical calculations and reaction kinetics simulations, I will be able to draw conclusions about the reaction potential energy surfaces which govern the branching to reaction products. This in turn will allow predictive abilities beyond achievable experimental conditions.

Keywords: frequency comb spectroscopy,low temperature kinetics and dynamics,vibrational spectroscopy,laser induced fluorescence,time of flight velocity map ion imaging,pulsed laval uniform supersonic flow
Revolutionary embedded memory for internet of things devices and energy reduction (REMINDER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Switzerland,Korea, Republic of,France,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Generic micro- and nano-electronic technologies (H2020-ICT-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4543793.75
EU funding (EUR): 3597418.75
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

REMINDER aims to develop an embedded DRAM solution optimized for ultra-low-power consumption and variability immunity, specifically focused on Internet of Things cut-edge devices. The objectives of REMINDER are : i) Investigation (concept, design, characterization, simulation, modelling), selection and optimization of a Floating-Body memory bit cell in terms of low power and low voltage, high reliability, robustness (variability), speed, reduced footprint and cost. ii) Design and fabrication in FDSOI 28nm (FD28) and FDSOI 14nm (FD14) technology nodes of a memory matrix based on the optimized bit-cells developed. Matrix memory subcircuits, blocks and architectures will be carefully analysed from the power-consumption point of view. In addition variability tolerant design techniques underpinned by variability analysis and statistical simulation technology will be considered. iii) Demonstration of a system on chip application using the developed memory solution and benchmarking with alternative embedded memory blocks. The eventual replacement of Si by strained Si/SiGe and III-V materials in future CMOS circuits would also require the redesign of different applications, including memory cells, and therefore we also propose the evaluation of the optimized bit cells developed in FD28 and FD14 technology nodes using these alternative materials. The fulfilment of the objectives above will also imply the development of: i) New techniques for the electrical characterization of ultimate CMOS nanometric devices. This will allow us to improve the CMOS technology by boosting device performance. ii) New behavioural models, incorporating variability effects, to reach a deep understanding of nanoelectronics devices iii) Advanced simulation tools for nanoelectronic devices for state of the art, and emerging devices. iv) Extreme low power solutions The consortium supporting this proposal is ideally balanced with 2 industrial partners, 2 SMEs, 2 research centers and 3 universities.

Keywords: embedded dram,ultra low power,memory matrix,variability,fdsoi 14nm,exploitation,european industrial leadership