Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Theoretical and experimental evaluations of strain field modification induced by flaws in loaded composite structures (MODIFLAW)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: Theoretical and experimental evaluations of strain field modification induced by flaws in loaded composite structures (H2020-CS2-CFP10-2019-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 435000.0
EU funding (EUR): 435000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Theoretical and experimental evaluations of strain field modification induced by flaws in loaded composite structures: The main objectives of the project is to develop, apply and validate numerical models of the strain field modification induced by the presence of flaws with different kind of morphology and size and to define virtual morphology for diagnostic indications provided by the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) data and software on damaged representative sub-components and structures. The project results will contribute also to innovative low cost and low weight processes and SHM technologies which will be integrated into the Outer Wing Box on ground demonstrator and into the Fuselage structural demonstrator with the objective to obtain: structural weight reduction, manufacturing and assembling recurring cost reduction, maintenance improvement and implementation of new eco-compatible materials and processes.

Keywords: strain field,structural health monitoring shm,flaws,finite element method fem
The effects of Information and Communications Technology on transport-related social exclusion for vulnerable populations (iCHRONOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Luxembourg
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2022-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178320.0
EU funding (EUR): 178320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

iCHRONOS will investigate the social exclusion of vulnerable population groups with regard to accessing major daily amenities in an increasingly digitized society. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is increasingly shaping travel behaviour by providing access to an umbrella of e-activities (e-working, e-shopping, e-leisure, etc.). However, ICT may trigger the fragmentation of activities, which could lead to a change in the use of places, and travel time and patterns, and thus also to considerable differences in accessibility levels. To address these issues, an innovative modelling-oriented research design is proposed, conceptualized under the framework of the time-geography approach. Luxembourg City, which is firmly committed to rolling out the digital economy, will serve as the case study. First, a data gathering process will be carried out, focusing on integrating three data sources: GPS tracking, everyday mobility diaries and a socio-economic questionnaire. Second, the way in which ICT creates space-time fragmentation of daily activities will be investigated. Third, the impact of this space-time fragmentation on transport accessibility will be modelled. Fourth, practitioners will reflect on the usefulness of space-time fragmentation and accessibility outcomes in practice. The expected output will be three academic papers in top-tier journals, as well as attendance at international conferences across Europe. The project outcomes will provide much-needed reflection on and understanding of the interface between technology, mobility and social inequalities. Both the outcomes and output will build on the synergies of participating institutions, as (i) the proposal is tightly embedded in their main research lines, (ii) all the required infrastructure is already in place and (iii) collaborations with renowned academics already exist. In sum, the project will greatly enhance the capacity of the applicant to achieve an independent research career in academia.

Keywords: mobility,accessibility,vulnerable groups,fragmentation,luxembourg
A multi-cancer screening platform for fast and accurate early stage cancer detection from urine samples (Cancersensing)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Globally, more than 18 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year and this number is set to exceed 22 million by 2030. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 50% of cancer deaths could be avoided by enabling early cancer detection. Unfortunately, the market is still lacking a general test, suitable for the whole population, for detecting any type of cancer before the presentation of symptoms. Current gold standard procedures are highly invasive and risky, specific for one cancer type, and highly expensive. These factors limit their adoption to suspected cancer cases – i.e., after the presentation of symptoms, delaying cancer diagnosis and contributing to the huge economic burden on healthcare systems. To overcome this problem, MDB DIAGNOSIS GROUP LTD (‘MDBD’) has developed Cancersensing, a revolutionary accurate and rapid screening platform for early diagnosis of multiple cancers from a single urine sample. The platform includes a highly specific and sensitive test that measures cancer-related biomarkers present in the urine, and a diagnostic software suite powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms and reference databases. Cancersensing makes cancer detection in its early stage available to all, maximizing survival rates and quality of life for patients, and reducing treatment costs and the cancer-related economic and societal burden. During the feasibility assessment, MDBD will establish a go-to-market strategy and a supply chain, and define further development plan. During the second phase of innovation project, MDBD will optimize the Cancersensing screening platform, and perform clinical validation activities with hospital partners in the EU to obtain regulatory approval for commercialization.

Keywords: early stage cancer detection,screening platform,urine biomarker diagnostics,machine learning
Dynamics in Buddhist Networks in Eastern Central Asia, 6th-14th Centuries (BuddhistRoad)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2024-01-31
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1998717.0
EU funding (EUR): 1998717.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The objective of this proposal is to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia—the vast area extending from the Taklamakan desert to Northeast China. This region was the crossroads of ancient civilisations. Its uniqueness was determined by complex dynamics of religious and cultural exchanges gravitating around an ancient communication artery, known as the Silk Road. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange; its transfer predetermined the transfer of adjacent aspects of culture. The religious exchange involved a variety of cultures and civilisations, which were modified and shaped by their adoption of Buddhism. This process overrode the ethnic and linguistic boundaries of the Buddhist universe. One specific aspect of this process was the rise of the local forms of Buddhism. This project intends to investigate such Buddhist localisations between the 6th–14th centuries. I will create a new trans-regional and trans-cultural vision of the religious transfer in Eastern Central Asian history and will reconstruct this Buddhist network with its entities and relations. It will incorporate the fascinating, but as yet under-researched field of Eastern Central Asian Buddhism into a broader research agenda of Comparative Religious Studies. It will establish a new research approach by bringing together many research fields and agendas (such as Philology, Art History, Archaeology, Religious Studies) into one synthesising narrative based on a unique perspective, in which, religious exchange in Eastern Central Asia will be analysed as a dynamic network emerging in its spatial and temporal aspects. For the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut, Kitan) will be explored in a systematic way.

Keywords: buddhist studies,eastern central asia,comparative religious studies,tibetan studies,transregional studies,network,manuscript studies,art history,archeology,chinese,dunhuang,uyghur,tangut
Regulation of lipid-mediated immunity in the intestine (LIPID IMMUNITY)

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-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2018-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The gastrointestinal tract is continuously exposed to multiple antigens from commensal bacteria, food and pathogens. The mechanisms by which the gut mucosa tolerates trillions of commensal bacteria without developing inflammation remains poorly understood. It is increasingly appreciated that commensal bacteria-derived products regulate the homeostasis and/or function of many immune cell populations. Commensal bacteria-derived lipids are recognized by a population of unconventional T cells, called NKT cells. NKT cells specifically recognize through their T cell receptor lipid antigens presented by the MHC-I-like molecule CD1 which is expressed by a variety of immune cells within the intestinal tissue. Importantly, commensal-derived lipids modulate the numbers, phenotype and function of intestinal NKT cells. Conversely, dysregulation of NKT cell activation and/or CD1 expression have been associated with the development of colitis in mice and humans. Despite the abundance and diversity of microbial-derived lipids present in the gut, the molecular and cellular mechanisms that mediate their recognition by immune cells and the identity of the antigen presenting cells involved in this process remain unknown. By using a combination of multiparametric flow cytometry, genetic engineering and in vivo experiments this proposal aims to unravel the mechanisms and functional consequences of lipid-presentation in the mucosa. These studies will provide a better understanding of the factors that modulate intestinal immunity, with the potential to improve therapies for patients suffering from intestinal inflammatory diseases and possibly a broader range of disorders.

Keywords: nkt cells,lipid recognition,mucosal immunity
Developing an organic fertilizer production system using nitrogen fixing Cyanobacteria (Cyanobacteria)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3, 2020)
Start date: 2020-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3501250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2450875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Global consumption of Nitrogen based fertilizers today exceeds 120 million metric tons a year, mostly originating in the Haber-Bosch process. This industry is a sizeable resource consumer, using 3-5% of the global natural gas supply and accounting for 1-2% of global energy expenditures. It’s also a major contributor to global warming, releasing about 10 tons of CO2 for every ton of N fertilizer produced . This is one of the major concerns that has led to double digit growth rates in organic agriculture in recent years. However, organic fertilizers currently on the market are expensive, unstable and fail to support robust, commercial growth in hydroponic greenhouses or in advanced irrigation farms. Our innovation produces Nitrogen fertilizer from air and water in an efficient and ecological manner at the actual site of the farm or greenhouse. Cyanobacteria grown in a controlled environment, constantly fix nitrogen from the air into a stable form of ammonia, using the sun as the energy source. The ammonia is then extracted and converted to nitrate by specialized bacteria in an automated process. This solution shifts the way greenhouses acquire their N inputs, from importing an industrial product with a high CO2 footprint to sustainably producing it in situ. GrowPonics utilizes a builder – operator business model - it constructs the project or greenhouse at the client’s site, and then supports its day to day operation. Our clients / partners rely on us to provide cutting edge technologies in horticulture and hydroponics. The cyanobacteria fertilizer project, among others, will contribute to the positioning of GrowPonics as a world leading company in ecological / organic hydroponics and advanced agriculture. Our clients will be able to bolster an ecological branding, and in many cases, to sell their produce as certified organic. Together with other technologies currently in development, such as an automated inspection robot, GrowPonics will be able to offer its client

Keywords: cyanobacteria,biological nitrogen fixation,organic fertilizer,hydroponics,green ammonia
Fabricating colloidal materials with microfluidics (Microflusa)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Novel ideas for radically new technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Israel,Cyprus,Sweden,France
Call: FET-Open research projects (H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3027637.5
EU funding (EUR): 3027637.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

In the field of colloidal science, much progress has been done on the synthesis of complex building blocks mimicking molecular structures with the hope of elaborating innovative materials. However, in the present state of the art, the rates at which these building blocks are obtained are exceedingly small. As a consequence, even though theoretically, revolutionary materials can be imagined, throughputs are far too low to approach industrial applications. We propose to unlock this bottleneck with microfluidic technology. The starting point is the discovery (by ESPCI) of a new hydrodynamic mechanism that reorganizes droplets clusters into well-defined configurations during their transport in microchannels. In this work, the monodisperse production, at high rates, of a variety of anisotropic clusters (triangles, tetrahedrons etc.), has been demonstrated. Our objective is to deepen and harness this mechanism by transforming, under high throughput conditions, such clusters into solid and stable building blocks that self-assemble into functional materials. Rates of production of one million of building blocks per second are feasible. This would open new avenues in the field of material sciences and pave the way towards an industrial production of revolutionary colloidal materials. The project clearly focuses on this goal, by bringing together outstanding teams with complementary expertise: Microfluidics & Chemistry (ESPCI), Hydrodynamic theory & Condensed Matter Physics (Technion), Numerical Simulations (KTH). The WPs include the chemical synthesis of surfactants, high throughput production of building blocks, their crystallization into functional materials, emphasizing on photonic band gap materials, characterized numerically by Technion. Fundamentally important, work will be tightly linked to theoretical analysis and numerical simulations and will benefit from market studies made by a SME.

Keywords: microfluidics,photonics,materials,hydrodynamics,physico chemistry,modelling,theory,simulation
Trading Platform for Sustainable Carbon Credits (CARBOMART)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Türkiye
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-07-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CARBOMART project is a sustainability comparison tool to create an online carbon trading platform, which allows the carbon credit buyers to evaluate the carbon emission reduction projects according to the social, environmental and economic sustainability criteria. The CARBOMART proposes solutions for the Voluntary Emission Reduction Market, which is an incentive mechanism for disseminating the investments on climate friendly low carbon energy projects. Therefore the outcome of this project will facilitate; - Low-cost, low-carbon electricity supply - Reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions due to energy consumption - Increase in the forested lands (carbon storage) in a sustainable wayby increasing the income of the renewable energy, energy efficiency and afforestation projects. General objectives Green Consult and Finance (GCF) targets through CARBOMART are; • Developing a reliable sustainability comparison tool for the voluntary emission reduction projects, • Developing a measurable pricing methodology for the Voluntary Carbon Market • Creating an accessible platform for both buyers and sellers In line with these objectives the expected impacts are; • Facilitating the transparency voluntary carbon market. • Increase in the quality of voluntary emission reduction projects in terms of sustainability, • Increase the investment made in carbon emission reduction projects so that decrease the emission reductions up to 5%, since the effects of the carbon credit income to the IRR of an green energy investment is around 5%. The market volume is expected to be 4.1 billion USD by 2020. It is planned that the CARBOMART would be fully commercialized by 2019 and reach a sales income of 20 million Euros by 2023. To ensure a successful entrance and fast penetration into the European markets, the outcomes of the Phase 1 studies will be wisely used in Phase 2, which will help in terms of the design, production and marketing procedures to be conducted in a right manner.

Keywords: eu ets,carbon credit,emission trading,cap and trade
Urbanization, everyday life and techno-social differentiation (GlobalCORRIDOR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2020-STG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1483653.0
EU funding (EUR): 1483653.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The pattern of contemporary, global urbanization is shifting. New geographies are being produced, with uncertain consequences for urban inequality. Vital here is surging investments into New Transnational Trade Routes through planning/operation of infrastructural corridors that cut across cities and regions, demarcating the futures of hundreds of millions of urban dwellers. Through deployment of advanced technologies, premium networks and high-tech enclaves’ corridors are transforming everyday urban life. However, there is little research interrogating the ways billions of Euros of investment into corridors transform the urbanization process nor how such processes might reinforce or address existing, or shape new trajectories of urban inequality, understood as techno-social differentiation. GlobalCORRIDOR will address these critical gaps by focusing on the everyday ways in which infrastructural life is now being produced, operated, experienced and navigated across corridors. This is advanced firstly, by assessing the global, urban geography/selected history of corridors (Objective 1). Second it explores the everyday assembling of Corridor Urbanization across three case study corridors (spanning the Mediterranean, North/East Africa, South Asia) (Objective 2). Third, it investigates everyday experiences of Corridor Urbanization within/outside selected enclaved spaces in order to understand the unequal ways in which infrastructure is experienced through access/costs/reliability/technology type (Objective 3). Fourth, it explains the global futures of corridors in reshaping the urbanization process in order to set a new agenda for research (Objective 4). Through generating an interdisciplinary, international programme of comparative research and the first comprehensive study of the corridor phenomena GlobalCORRIDOR will contribute to urban, geographical and technological studies, opening new ideas how we understand urbanization, infrastructure and inequality

Keywords: urbanization,infrastructure,everyday life,urban inequality,technology,global economy