Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
SMART SENSING FOR RAPID RESPONSE TO CHEMICAL THREATS ON SOFT TARGETS (SENSOFT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Research and innovation staff exchange
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Spain,Germany,Spain,France,United States,Canada,Portugal,Denmark,Portugal
Call: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 860200.0
EU funding (EUR): 745200.0
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

The overarching objective of this RISE programme is to set an international and inter-sectoral network consisting of 4 leading European academic institutions, an academic RTD centre and 4 SMEs working on a joint research programme around the topic of early and reliable warming detection systems of chemical threats on critical indoor infrastructures. The participants will exchange skills and knowledge in synthesis and fabrication of nanostructured materials, advanced sensing, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, energy harvesting technologies, signal processing algorithms and low-cost manufacturing strategies which will allow them to progress towards key advances in the domain of unattended sensing networks for chemical threats detection and strengthen collaborative research between five different countries. The beneficiaries also team up with excellent academic groups from third countries (2) with recognized expertise on wearable microanalytical systems and materials properties modelling to guarantee the techno-scientific viability of proposed idea. Advances in orthogonal sensing/detection technologies at sub-ppm level in gas phase will have potential market opportunities in the fields of early detection of airborne chemical warfare agents, early diagnosis of cancer or chronic diseases by biomarker detection, environmental monitoring in critical assets and process control in food and beverage industries. The staff members who participate in the project will acquire new scientific and technical skills by means of training at a network (e.g secondments), be exposed to creative entrepreneurial and innovative research environment thanks to the strong interaction between academia and SMEs partners and have their career perspectives widened. The close cooperation among multidisciplinary partners from research institutions and SMEs will ensure knowledge transfer between academia and business in order to convert an academic concept to a viable and innovative product.

Keywords: sensor networks,smart tags,warfare agent detection,gas sensitive and porous nanomaterials,passive sampling,sers,additive manufacturing,flexible substrate,piezoandtriboelectric energy harvesting
New Technologies, Tools and Strategies for a Sustainable, Resilient and Innovative European Aquaculture (NewTechAqua)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Unlocking the potential of aquatic living resources
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Spain,Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Italy,Cyprus,Belgium,Norway,Greece,Croatia,Norway,Norway,Greece,Greece,Greece,France,France,France,France,Denmark,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: Sustainable European aquaculture 4.0: nutrition and breeding (H2020-BG-2019-1, 2019)
Start date: 2020-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6723843.5
EU funding (EUR): 5990172.67
Participants: 32
Project status: SIGNED

The vision of the EU aquaculture industry is to grow substantially in the next decade and to provide annually 4.5 million tons of sustainable food products. To this aim, NewTechAqua intends to expand and diversify EU production of finfish, molluscs and microalgae by developing and validating technologically-advanced, resilient and sustainable new solutions. The organizational approach of NewTechAqua is to group the solutions in 6 different categories: feed, Industry 4.0, sustainable farming, genetics, new species and new products. They will be validated on conventional (Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, seabass and seabream) and emerging (greater amberjack, meagre, Senegalese sole and grey mullet) finfish species, molluscs (Pacific oyster, mussel) and microalgae. NewTechAqua is structured in 9 WPs. WP1 will conceive, formulate, produce and demonstrate three innovative sets of aquafeeds (pro-health, organic, zero waste). WP2 will establish new AI epidemiological models for enhancing the control of parasite outbreaks in Norwegian and Mediterranean farms. Sustainable aquaculture will be also promoted by advanced model systems and technologies for mollusc and in-land fish farms ecointensification. WP3 will develop innovative breeding programmes to improve performance, robustness and quality of farmed fish, molluscs and microalgae, while WP4 will achieve significant advances in reproduction technology of three emerging fish species. High-quality seafood products and sustainable food processing techniques for valorisation of by-products will be validated. WP6 will develop a set of indicators to monitor and measure progress towards the expected impacts, while market uptake of NewTechAqua results and outputs will be ensured by a detailed exploitation strategy (WP7). Finally, NewTechAqua will achieve well-targeted communication, dissemination and maximum transfer of generated know-how and project new technologies (WP8).

Keywords: resilience,sustainable technology,fish,molluscs,microalgae,organic,breeding programme,genetics,feed,new species,industry 4 0,food products,farming system,training,market uptake
SMART MICROBIOME-BASED PLATFORM FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF BIOLOGICAL THREATS IN AGRICULTURE (MicCropHealth)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Biomemakers is an innovative biotechnology company founded in 2015 and specialized in the identification and understanding of the microbiome and its influence on the agri-food industry. We were selected by Illumina as the first European company to join the Illumina Acceleration program. We have developed the first patented smart microbiome-based platform, MicCropHealth, that is able to identify the whole soil microbiome from a soil sample with our database of soil microbial profiles to provide valuable data to farmers. Thanks to MicCropHealth, farmers will make intelligent and personalized decisions about their strategies and practices. Despite the money farmers currently spend on nutritional supplements or phytosanitary products (mainly pesticides and fungicides), the impact of diseases on many crops is enormous. Direct economic losses associated with diseases in woody crops are around €34,000.00 per Hectare (cost of replanting); and the indirect losses associated with the derived lack of product sales reach up to €250,000 per ha. MicCropHealth is addressing the Precision Agriculture (PA) Software Market, which is expected to reach M€1,189 by 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.03% between 2016 and 2022. Our initial target markets are added value crops, such as fruit trees. In Europe, the 7 main species of fruit occupy an area of 1.29 million ha. MicCropHealth will allow farmers to make decisions based on what they know about soil health status, the use of nutrients and phytosanitary products, how to minimize crops spoilage or even assess the effect of agronomical practices in the microbial diversity of soils. This will provide our company with a generation of cumulative profit of M€9.1 during the first five years on the market and 17 new direct jobs.

Keywords: soil microbiome,biodiversity characterization,microbiome database,bioinformatic,soil vulnerability,decision making
Geographies of Value Chain Construction in Emerging Complex Technologies: A Compparative Study of the Electric Vehicle Lithium-ion Battery Industry in China and Germany (GEVACCON)

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: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2022-10-23
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We are currently witnessing accelerating shifts of global leadership in many emerging industries, fueled by increasing digitalization and globalization, as well as pressing concerns about grand socio-ecological challenges. GEVACCON maintains that the challenge for gaining industrial leadership is to manage innovation in emerging complex industries-- namely, new industries that consist of complex relationships regarding technological, geographical and governance characteristics. The extant literature on innovation and industry dynamics is poorly prepared to deal with the increasing complexity of emerging industries in these three dimensions, and hence offers little insight to actors who want to gain leadership in the emerging global innovation races.The overarching motivation of GEVACCON, therefore, is to investigate the geographies of value chain construction in emerging complex industries by taking into account complexity in the abovementioned three aspects. As a representative case of emerging complex industry, the value chain construction processes of the electric vehicle lithium-ion battery (EV-LIB) industry in China and Germany will be investigated. By 1)systematically synthesizing three literature streams: innovation system studies, economic geography, value chain governance, as well as by 2)exploring how battery manufacturers in these two countries mobilize and utilize different resources from different parts of the world, and integrate those elements in their value chain construction processes, GEVACCON aims to develop a comprehensive analytical framework in disentangling the value chain construction in complex technology industries. Moreover, given the accelerating shifts of global leadership in many of the emerging complex industries, it also aims to draw competitive strategies for both newcomers and incumbents in the new generation of innovation competitions. Empirical analysis will be based on semi-structured interviews as well as patent data analysis.

Keywords: transition studies,innovation studies,economic geography
WESTinnoMAR 2019 (WEST-MAR H2020.2019)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Specific Grant agreement
Countries involved: Türkiye,Türkiye,Türkiye
Call: EEN H2020 SGA3 (H2020-EEN-SGA3-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 18625.0
EU funding (EUR): 18625.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed project addresses the action for “Establishing services “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs” in the Enterprise Europe Network” to improve the innovation management capacity of SMEs. The activities foreseen under this proposal is to give Activity 4 of EEN services to SMEs. 10 full enhancing SMEs’ innovation management capacity service packages will be offered to SME’s till the end of 2019 and every service package is foreseen as 7 days in the proposal. Additionally, 14 day KAM serviceswill be offered for successful beneficiaries of SME instrument Phase 1.

Keywords: innovation,researchanddevelopment
Holistic Approach for Driver Role Integration and Automation Allocation for European Mobility Needs (HADRIAN)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Spain,Austria,Austria,Germany,Germany,Spain,Greece,Slovenia,Türkiye,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Human centred design for the new driver role in highly automated vehicles (H2020-DT-ART-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7995988.75
EU funding (EUR): 7995988.75
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The HADRIAN project represents a human-centered revolution in the definition of driver roles in automated driving (AD) that starts with human mobility needs within the larger framework of European future mobility visions in the areas of shared, individual, and freight mobility. Holistic driving system solutions are conceptualized based on realistic arrangements of vehicle and infrastructure capabilities matched with human capabilities to achieve safe, acceptable, and trustworthy use of AD functionality and transitions between AD levels. The HADRIAN project focuses on the utility of dynamically adjusting (fluid) human machine interfaces (HMI) that take environmental and driver conditions into account to provide adaptive signals, information, or transfer authority that the driver needs to safely transition between AD levels. For this fluid HMI (f-HMI), real-time driver status models, novel sensor and information fusion methods & algorithms, as well as decision logic algorithms for contextually sensitive interventions and information offerings will be developed. A (fluid) tutoring system will provide a step-wise training of the driver and enable calibrated levels of trust. The HADRIAN project aims to increase the safety of AD level transitions by 85 % compared to traditional, non-adaptive HMIs, and achieve acceptability of 95%. Nineteen human participant studies, covering a broad range of driver demographic and cultural factors, will explore and evaluate f-HMI concepts and driver monitoring methods in driving simulators and field demonstrations. Field demonstrations will be performed using the full range from light to larger passenger vehicles and freight vehicles/trucks (L, M, and N class). Eventually, the HADRIAN demonstrators and effectiveness metrics will be translated into guidelines and recommendations for OEMs world-wide for human-systems integration of safe, acceptable and trustworthy AD technologies and functionalities.

Keywords: automated driving level transition,adaptive human machine interfaces,human systems integration
Drought coping strategies in southern Africa 1966-2016 (Drought)

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: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-04-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203149.44
EU funding (EUR): 203149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This study investigates possibilities of finding long-lasting solutions to real-life socio-economic difficulties triggered by recurring droughts (shangwa) in modern southern Africa over half a century, 1966-2016. It focuses on evaluating drought coping strategies in the semi-tropical and drought-prone region. Based on the research as it matures, it proposes to make significant suggestions for long-term solutions in drought disaster preparedness and management. My project uses a multiple case study and a comparative approach, investigating specific drought-prone areas in four different countries—South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Specific areas to be investigated are Gauteng in South Africa, Inhambane in Mozambique, Kgatleng in Botswana, and Midlands in Zimbabwe. The research harnesses five broadly related interdisciplinary approaches: historical, comparative multiple case studies, participatory rural appraisal, sustainable livelihoods, and appreciative inquiry analysis- all of them underpinned by semi-structured interviews.

Keywords: drought,water,food,environment,climate,livelihoods,humans,southern,africa,agriculture,mitigation,measures,sustainability
Disrupting Global Trade Risk Management & Working Capital Solutions (ARM and AWC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Currents supply chains were designed centuries ago resulting in high of disfunction, damages and costs. Consequently, the system fragments and siloed the information between the parties within the logistic network, promoting a poor end-to-end data timeliness which often involve paper-based transaction trails and updates . This negatively impacts on risk assessments of each shipment. Hence, the trade financing is not accessible for the 80% importers/exporters due to its high costs, ballasting their working capital flexibility and becoming an entrance barrier for newcomers. Arviem is currently commercializing a cloud-based service which provides a global real-time visibility of any cargo, monitoring with alerts, reporting and in-route shipment history integrating physically the whole supply chain. Based on the historical and dynamic data collected from our current business and leveraging Big Data technologies and low-cost cloud compute models, we will bring to the market two ground-breaking tools: • Arviem Risk Management (ARM) provides a solvent risk assessment profile about any freight shipment to support the decision-making of cargo owners about route, time window, transport mean and/or carrier type. • Arviem Working Capital (AWC) offers for the very first-time trade financing services between exporters/importers and investors, establishing fair pricing for financing each trade according to the reliable risk assessment provided by our ARM. This will allow the entry of new medium size operators as it will give a leverage tool for the current players by lowering their working capital needs through investors.

Keywords: cargo monitoring,risk management,financial trading
Uncovering viral sabotage of host CRISPR-Cas immune systems (Anti-CRISPR)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-01-15
End date: 2020-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CRISPR-Cas immune system represents one of the most effective weapons against mobile genetic elements in the host defense arsenal. Bacteriophages (phages) armed with anti-CRISPR proteins can, however, inhibit CRISPR immunity by sabotaging components of the immune system with evolutionary advantages. This proposal sets out to discover novel phage-encoded anti-CRISPR proteins and understand the molecular mechanisms of the inhibitory processes. I will focus on novel anti-CRISPR proteins for Cas9-containing type II CRISPR-Cas systems in lactic acid bacteria (LAB). I expect anti-CRISPR proteins to be present in phages for LAB, for which the CRISPR system is an important line of defense. It is highly plausible that LAB-infecting phages have evolved to possess anti-CRISPR proteins. However, none of anti-CRISPR proteins against type II CRISPR have been described so far. To identify novel type II anti-CRISPR proteins encoded by phage genomes and explore novel features of the anti-CRISPR proteins, I will establish high-throughput screening methods using an integrated approach consisting of metagenomics, bioinformatics and mass spectrometry. After identifying candidate anti-CRISPR proteins, I will uncover the underlying molecular mechanisms of these viral anti-CRISPR proteins utilizing state-of-the-art single-molecule fluorescence methodologies. The fierce virus–host arms race has resulted in high diversity of distinct prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas systems. Therefore, I anticipate that my high-throughput screening will lead to discovery of remarkably diverse anti-CRISPR proteins, specifically anti-CRISPR variants targeting Cas9. The proposed combination of viral diversity screening and single-molecule approaches will reveal novel mechanisms of anti-CRISPR activity that are difficult to obtain by traditional biochemistry, will impact potential applications of Cas9, and will provide unique insights into the host-virus arms race.

Keywords: crispr cas,anti crispr,cas9,metagenomics,bioinformatics,high throughput screening,single molecule,fret,tirf microscopy
High Efficiency electrical motor (HERO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

WHYLOT is a French SME founded in 2011 and is located in the south-west part of France in Cambes. The company is specialized in the development of different products in the technical field of electromagnetism among which miniature electric motors has been the subject of an important R&D project. Within 4 years WHYLOT’s R&D has patented 24 innovations regarding these products. Regarding the electric engines, the company has developed highly innovative concepts concerning the system electromagnetic topology and architecture. The main patents registered concern an aluminium block material winding (replacing the coper coil), a material composite rotor or a new permanent magnet topology. These important breakthroughs allowed the company to realize engines much lighter and smaller than existing products for a high power and efficiency. Compared to McLaren’s F1 electric motor, which is considered the best motor within the worldwide F1 competition and on the market, WHYLOT’s engine is 30% lighter and smaller. In the same time, WHYLOT’s offers a mechanical torque and power respectively 10 N.m and 10 Kw higher. This engine is made of standard material and, as it is smaller, requires less rare-earth metals, which makes its cost also very low and competitive on the market. Regarding the carbon impact, the transportation sector represents 22% of the global CO2 emission. One of the main solutions to reduce this impact will be the expansion of the electric vehicle market. The latter will reach 5.7 % of the vehicle total European market in 2020. WHYLOT’s engines totally respond to the market’s needs and will enhance electric vehicle and contribute strongly to the reduction of CO2 emissions. WHYLOT now has a fully operational proof of concept but need know to perform a feasibility study to define and validate the best marketing strategy to adopt during the first SME instrument. Afterwards, the company will aim the SME instrument phase 2 and 3

Keywords: electric engine,axial flux,permanent magnets,high power to weight,high energy effciency,electric vehicles