Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
A Silk Road in the Palaeolithic: Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Hominin Dispersals and Adaptations in Central Asia (PALAEOSILKROAD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2023-01-31
Duration (months): 68.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1497643.0
EU funding (EUR): 1497643.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In antiquity and the early Middle Ages, a network of trade routes known as the Silk Road connected east Asia and the Мiddle East. The Silk Road was not just an economic link, but also the avenue for cultural and even genetic exchanges between these regions. Recent genetic discoveries have hinted that such connections might have begun much earlier, during the Pleistocene. The Pleistocene period is of fundamental importance for human history. It is then that our ancestors evolved and colonised the entire Old World, surviving a suite of major extinction events – and they did so against a dramatic backdrop of ice ages and warmer interglacial phases which substantially altered their habitats. Conquering the extreme environments of arid central Asia to eventually settle the entire Asian mainland and beyond is one of the most impressive feats in this story. Unfortunately, there are too few known Pleistocene archaeological sites in central Asia to allow us to piece together when and how this happened. PALAEOSILKROAD will resolve this deficit by surveying central Asian mountain foothills as both corridors for human and animal movements and archives of past climate change. The project will discover new sites in the Tian Shan, Dzungar, and southern Altai foothills (Kazakhstan) and use them to examine if and how 1) humans were able to survive in the foothills throughout the last glacial cycle (110-11 500 years ago), and 2) periodic advances of mountain glaciers motivated dispersals, population segmentation, and behavioural adaptations. To address these questions, PALAEOSILKROAD will take an ambitious approach rooted in archaeology and contextualised by palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. The results of this project will change the way we understand human dispersals on a global scale and the resilience of early humans in the face of environmental challenges, providing a major missing link to explain how Homo sapiens became the only surviving species of our genus.

Keywords: geoarchaeology,archaeological survey
SusTainable bUsiNess models for the deep reNovation of buIldiNGs (STUNNING)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies enabling energy-efficient systems and energy-efficient buildings with a low environmental impact
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,France,France
Call: New business models for energy-efficient buildings through adaptable refurbishment solutions (H2020-EEB-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1044812.5
EU funding (EUR): 1044812.5
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

With the involvement of a comprehensive stakeholders community (including industrials and SMEs from the construction sector, energy utilities, capital providers, municipalities, building owners, tenants, research institutes), STUNNING will accelerate the adoption and large scale replication of new business models delivering adaptable and affordable refurbishment solutions (incl. decentralised RES generation), in order to meet the building renovation rate set by the upgraded EPBD. Under the coordination of TECHNOFI, five players (CSTB, D’Appolonia, Solintel and Steinbeis 2i GmbH, all key active members within the ECTP) propose a systemic and integrated approach to address the market roll-out of innovative refurbishment packages, supported by an Advisory Board covering the whole refurbishment value chain. The five project objectives are aligned with all the EEB-08-2017 call challenges: - Supporting the cooperation of diverse, yet dispersed, stakeholders federated in a single stakeholder community built around a web-based knowledge sharing platform addressing technologies and business models for refurbishment in EU27; - Benchmarking and (geo)clustering innovative refurbishment packages and ranking them according to profitability/energy efficiency indicators; - Identifying and addressing barriers which still prevent these refurbishment packages from being replicated by value chain players; - Promoting and validating (through 10 real business cases) novel renovation business models allowing consumers and the market to invest with confidence, thanks to performance-guaranteed energy savings, and addressing end user’s commitment to energy efficiency after renovation; - Disseminating the support action outputs, with an exploitation strategy for the newly built knowledge sharing platform, thus continuing to interact with the stakeholders’ community beyond the completion of the STUNNING project and contributing to maximising its impact and more globally the EEB PPP.

Keywords: deep renovation,adaptable solutions,new business models
Introducing Software Robots 2.0: CloudStorm Enterprise Software Integration and Automation Tool (CloudStorm)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2021-10-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2300266.25
EU funding (EUR): 1610186.38
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CloudStorm software makes robotic process automation (RPA) accessible for the mass market. With enterprise-wide software integration and a unique automated process discovery algorithm, CloudStorm is the first to enable employees to increase their productivity by innovating their daily practices. Most commonly used enterprise software is rigid and difficult to use. Millions of employees spend their work days on redundant tasks that result from missing integrations between the different software – e.g. copy-pasting data between SAP and Excel. When it comes to automating such processes, by far the biggest cost factor with current technologies is finding the processes worth to automate, and having to use consultants to do the implementation work. CloudStorm eliminates the need for manual process mapping and expensive consultant hours. The flexibility of our technology allows implementing an innovative business model, where smaller companies can be billed per use instead of having to pay high prices for large and bulky software packages. We initially target a €6.7 billion business opportunity within the business process outsourcing market space. We enter the market through selected industries (Banking, finance & insurance; Pharmaceuticals; Telecommunications) where operations are highly regulated, and as a result, there is an abundance of repetitive workflows and complex IT systems that CloudStorm can simplify. Virtual Solutions Ltd. is a Hungarian software development SME aiming to disrupt the quickly growing RPA industry. Following our SMEI Phase 1 project, the Phase 2 project focuses on finalising the development of our core technology, implementing the next generation features to secure mass market scalability for CloudStorm, piloting our solution in various enterprise settings, and preparing our company for global scaling.
Arctic Visible: Picturing Indigenous Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic (ARCVIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-08-01
End date: 2021-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 203852.16
EU funding (EUR): 203852.16
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposed research project “Arctic Visible: Picturing Indigenous Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic” (ARCVIS) investigates the visual representation of indigenous people and their local Arctic environment in the nineteenth century, a period that saw intense exploration in the region. Hundreds of sketches, paintings, and prints of indigenous people and places in the Arctic were created by travellers from lower latitudes. Yet, the dominant and enduring imaginary of the Arctic is of a space devoid of people. The project will counteract the critical focus on ice and hostile environments in the sciences and humanities and present the peopled western Arctic (Greenland, Canada, Alaska) that was encountered by ‘explorers.’ Through the analysis of picture and text in archives and published nineteenth-century texts, it will strive to give ‘voice,’ to the indigenous people who were key to the success or failure of expeditions from the south. The research is highly topical, at a time when rapidly warming Arctic regions are threatened by intense exploitation for their resources. A key element of the innovative project is the collation and interpretation of the material through an open access online geospatial platform, which combines the visuality of exploration and travel with digital methods that seek to bring out the richly contextual information often bypassed in visual documentary records. The production of the online portal will make the material accessible, contextualised, and relevant for communities in the Arctic, educators, and interested members of the public, as well as academic researchers across disciplines. In contrast to enduring images of ice and vast empty landscapes, the project will show the Arctic as a peopled environment with a rich history and heritage. The indigenous contribution to Arctic exploration in the nineteenth century, often thought to be ‘invisible,’ will be made visible by the research.

Keywords: visual culture,arctic exploration,indigenous peoples,digital humanities,nineteenth century,travel literature,mapping,sketches,portraits,travel narratives,personal journals
Home based Augmented Reality Platform for Efficient Rehabilitation of stroke patients (HARPER)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-06-01
End date: 2019-10-31
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Brain Stimulation AB is a Swedish SME started in 2011 with the aim of exploiting brain plasticity results from research within a new concept of rehabilitation and diagnosis of cognitive impairments of attention in stroke patients (the Neglect Syndrome). We address the global challenge of rehabilitating patients with cognitive and upper limb problems from Stroke, Dementia, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Parkinson and other degenerative brain diseases. Cognitive impairments as in the Neglect Syndrome is not discovered nor treated in suitable time and the normal hospital stay is too short to rehabilitate the patients properly. Our innovation meets the need of early detection and diagnosis as well as efficient rehabilitation of patients in clinics and that can continue in patients’ home environment. If the Neglect Syndrome is discovered and treated faster and better than today, the wellbeing of patients will increase. The burden and the costs for their care will be significantly reduced. Around 30% of the 16 Million new stroke patients worldwide per year suffer from the Neglect Syndrome i.e. there are 5-6 million new patients per year. Our addressable market exceeds 6 Million patients per year as our ambition is to reach not just the stroke patients with Neglect Syndrome but also Dementia, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Parkinson and other degenerative brain diseases. The innovation project will lead to a generation of €10,3 Million in turnover and creating 40 new job positions in a five-year perspective after market-launch as well as creating IP rights from the outcome of the Project. The goal is to develop, verify and bring our innovation towards global market launch. We will go from TRL 6 towards TRL 9 during the full innovation project life cycle. There will be sustainable effects in economic, ecologic and social terms for effective cognitive rehabilitation performed in people’s homes, with therapist support through e-health solutions, when needed.

Keywords: augmented reality,cognitive rehabilitation,stroke rehabilitation,home rehabilitation,diagnostics,virtual reality,brain plasticity,enriched rehabilitation,environmental enrichment
BIOphysics of MIcrobe-Microplastic Interactions and Colonization (BIOMIMIC)

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: Luxembourg
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-09-01
End date: 2022-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 178320.0
EU funding (EUR): 178320.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Aquatic microbes - both marine and freshwater - drive global biogeochemical cycles. However, owing to the influx of microplastics (MPs) in their natural ecosystems, microbes now face a daunting task of holding such cycles in balance. From passive encounters with suspended particles to active interactions among species, microbes tackle a myriad of environmental signals along the water depths. Crucially, a steady inflow of MPs into aquatic ecosystems has led to reduced species fitness, altered feeding dynamics, and ultimately, ecosystem restructuring. Due to their abundance, durability, and an easy mobility across trophic levels, MPs have been implicated in perturbing diverse aquatic settings. Despite the growing evidence of potentially deleterious ramifications, we still lack a mechanistic understanding of the microbe-MP interactions. BIOMIMIC will zoom into the microscale biophysics mediating the microbe-MP interactions, and develop a mechano-genetic framework to assess the emergent physiological consequences. By combining microfluidics, quantitative imaging, and molecular techniques, I will experimentally simulate, analyse and quantify the impact of MPs on aquatic microbes. To capture ecologically relevant settings, a representative group of bacteria and algal populations will be exposed to MPs with characteristic physico-chemical makeup, over a range of concentrations, and under different hydrodynamic regimes. Specifically, I will uncover MP-induced microbial response: behaviour, physiology, and bio-molecular, and concomitantly, the modification of MP-attributes due to microbial interactions. By cataloging the species-MP encounters in realistic settings, BIOMIMIC will unravel fundamental biophysical principles of microbial response to MPs. Through it's innovative approach, BIOMIMIC, for the first time, will offer a unique framework linking behaviour, physiology and bio-molecular response to MPs, paving the way for potential remediation of this global challenge.

Keywords: microplastics,encounter rates,surface attachment,sedimentation,quantitative imaging,particle tracking,bacteria,phytoplankton,marine and aquatic microbial ecology,transcriptomics
Eastern European twinning on Structural Integrity and Reliability of Advanced Materials obtained through additive Manufacturing (SIRAMM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,Norway,Serbia,Romania,Czechia
Call: Twinning (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-03, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 797651.25
EU funding (EUR): 797651.25
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

In spite of the growing importance of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology for producing both plastics and metals parts used in different fields such as aeronautics, biomechanics and automotive, the criteria and methods for the safety evaluation of AM components are still not well established. Therefore, the lack of knowledge on the influence of the material quality on the load bearing capacity of the final product hinders the industrial exploitation of AM, preventing this powerful technology from being confidently used in every-day manufacturing processes, in particular in low developed European countries. The overall objective of the SIRAMM project is to significantly strengthen research in the AM field at the Polytechnical University of Timisoara (UPT, Romania). To achieve this aim, SIRAMM will build upon the existing science and innovation base of UPT, creating a network with two internationally-leading counterparts at EU level: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) and the University of Parma (Italy). In the long term, the project aims at laying the foundations for creating a pole of excellence on AM in Eastern Europe. For this reason, other two partners from low R&I performing countries, the University of Belgrade (Serbia) and the Institute of Physics of Materials, Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic) will also take part in this Twinning project. To reach its goals, this 3-year project will be focussed on the implementation of knowledge transfer activities such as workshops and staff exchange, training events (i.e. summer schools, seminars) for early stage researchers, and dissemination and communication actions (i.e. web site, videos, open access publications, public engagement activities) for different audiences. To keep maintaning the knowledge transfer well beyond the duration of this project, a regular master course on AM technology will be also implemented in the coordinating institution.

Keywords: structural integrity,reliability,additive manufacturing,optimisation,safety
Innovative End of Life procedures for REcycling INTEGRAl welded Al-Li Aerostructures (ReINTEGRA)

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: Spain,Spain,Belgium
Call: Disassembly and recycling of innovative structures made of different Al-Li alloys (H2020-CS2-CFP10-2019-01, 2019)
Start date: 2020-07-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 349862.5
EU funding (EUR): 349862.5
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

The REINTEGRA Project focuses on development of dismantling and recycling procedures for integral welded panels, that are under development for new lightweight and cost-effective aircraft structures within the Eco-Design for Airframe (EDA) activity in the Clean Sky programme. This project will investigate different cutting strategies, ranging from cutting only for size reduction to full separation of all materials, and determine their influence on recyclability of 3rd generation of Al-Li alloys. Furthermore, the need to eliminate primer and topcoats and different decoating methods will be investigated. The separated metallic fractions will be processed in a pilot melting facility and the produced metallic alloys characterised in order to establish a ranking in terms of costs, environmental impact and effectivity, that allows to select the best option for recycling Laser Beam Welded (LBW) and Friction Stir Welded (FSW) panels. Also, a recycling compatibility tool (software) will be developed to determine compatibility of different Al-Li alloys, filler material and coatings. First, the theoretical composition of mixed materials per weld length will be calculated and then, this composition will be corrected with experimental data from remelting tests regarding element fading/enrichment. The results will be compared with commercial alloys and the recycling compatibility with primary alloys estimated. The aim is to valorize as much as possible of the valuable alloying elements. The proposed new procedures for dismantling and recycling will be tested both, at coupon level and at live panel dismantling experiment, in which materials will be identified, sorted and pre-treated. The separated metallic fractions will be processed in a pilot melting facility and the produced metallic alloys characterised. Materials and energy flows, emissions and waste generation will be inventoried during the new End of Live process tested and provided to TM for the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Keywords: aircraft fuselage,part dismantling,material sorting,material pre treatment,decoating,metal recycling,light metallic alloys,aluminium lithium alloys,lca life cycle assessment,end of life
Virtual Presence in Moving Objects through 5G (PriMO-5G)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Sweden,Finland,United Kingdom
Call: 5G (H2020-EUK-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2021-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

The PriMO-5G project addresses the area of “a) Focus on mmWave and super broadband services” in the call “EUK-02-2018: 5G” of the Horizon 2020 Work Program 2018-2020. The main aim of the PriMO-5G project is to demonstrate an end-to-end 5G system providing immersive video services for moving objects. This will be done by cross-continental testbeds that integrate radio access and core networks developed by different project partners. The cross-continental testbeds will show the end-to-end operations of envisaged use cases. To achieve this aim, the PriMO-5G project will develop a set of solutions enabling the ultra-high data rate services for fast-moving cars and drones. The development includes mmWave radio technologies, interoperable 5G core networks, and AI-assisted communications. The project contributes to the standardization of 5G Phase 2 and beyond, identifies possible regulatory bottlenecks that need to be solved in order to enable the system to operate globally, assesses the economic and business aspects related to the use of 5G for immerse video service in vehicular and aerial drone settings. The consortium benefits from leading industrial partners both in Europe and Korea who are active key members of major standardization fora, regulatory bodies, and open source communities. Academic partners will also influence the spectrum policies through national regulatory authorities. The PriMO-5G consortium members represent the full range of competence and expertise covering the whole value chain in a complementary way to achieve the project’s objectives. The consortium draws on skills from world-leading manufacturers, competent operator, top universities, and innovative SMEs in Europe and Korea, thus ensuring close cooperation and balanced effort between the two regions. The project will foster a long-term partnership between the two regions, which will help Europe and Korea retain the competitive edge in the fierce global 5G competition.

Keywords: mmwave radio access networks,core networks,multiaccess edge computing,broadband services,immersive video services,demonstration