Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Automated Inspection Tools for Cost-effective Quality Control of Optical Materials (SAPPHIRO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2018-09-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Sapphire demand in 2016 was about 806 ton, while the total industrial sapphire core and wafer market has observed an annual growth rate of 12%. Moreover, silicon carbide-based power devices market is expected to grow steadily from € 143M in 2016 to € 851M in 2022. Despite the increasing demand of these crystals, quality control of such materials is based mostly on human visual inspection. Industrial crystal manufactures usually rely on operators searching for internal material flaws such as cracks or bubbles. Because of quality control being prone to human error, and taking place only at the late stages of the process, typical crystal factories are spending 0.5 to 3 days per week of potential unnecessary work. To solve this problem, Scientific Visual has developed SAPPHIRO. SAPPHIRO’s technology comprises scanning systems for automated crystal inspections, allowing to identify internal defects in crystal slices earlier. Our solution allows producers to manage quality assessment in a faster way, since the technology also provides automatic processing and sorting of inspected pieces (0.5M to 1M samples/year). SAPPHIRO's performance has proven to reach more than 96% of accurate defect identification in sapphire material and allows manufacturers process only high-quality materials, saving up to 15% of overall cost for industrial operations. Scientific Visual main goal is to implement SAPPHIRO as a worldwide standard in raw optical crystals inspection tools, whereas our disruptive technology can re-shape the synthetic growth market practices. By 2022, we target to generate € 10.5 million in revenues, while significantly reducing the current defect rate of 20% to less than 4%. This Phase 1 project will allow us to show-case our technology leading to better market understanding and new partnerships.

Keywords: sapphire,silicon carbide,crystal,quality control,automation,semiconductor
The supercritical CO2 Heat Removal System (sCO2-HeRo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Euratom
Programme: Nuclear fission and radiation protection
Theme: Nuclear safety
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Czechia,Netherlands
Call: New innovative approaches to reactor safety (NFRP-2014-2015, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2791561.25
EU funding (EUR): 2791561.25
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Raising nuclear reactor safety to a higher level - The supercritical CO2 heat removal system - "sCO2-HeRo" The “supercritical CO2 heat removal system”, sCO2-HeRo, safely, reliably and efficiently removes residual heat from nuclear fuel without the requirement of external power sources. This system therefore can be considered as an excellent backup cooling system for the reactor core or the spent fuel storage in the case of a station blackout and loss of ultimate heat sink. sCO2-HeRo is a very innovative reactor safety concept as it improves the safety of both currently operating and future BWRs and PWRs through a self-propellant, self-sustaining and self-launching, highly compact cooling system powered by an integrated Brayton-cycle using supercritical carbon dioxide. Since this system is powered by the decay heat itself, it provides new ways to deal with accidents that are beyond design. The sCO2-HeRo provides breakthrough options with scientific and practical maturity, which will be proven by means of numerical tools, like advanced CFD, and small-scale experiments to determine the performance of the components like a compact heat exchanger and a turbo-machine set. A demonstration unit of the sCO2-HeRo system will be installed in a unique glass model in order to demonstrate the maturity of the system. Finally, the potential of this system to deal with a range of different accident scenarios and beyond-design accidents will be shown with the help of the German nuclear code ATHLET.

Keywords: npp safety,supercritical,carbon dioxide,turbomachine,heat exchanger,athlet,decay heat,backup cooling,accident scenarios,scarlett,susen,start up system
Navigating, Decision-Making and Sociality, Studying Behavior in the Wild from Birth to Adulthood (Behavior-Island)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Environmental Biology, Ecology and Evolution
Panel description: Ecology, biodiversity, environmental change, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology, marine biology, ecophysiology, theoretical developments and modelling
Countries involved: Israel
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-08-01
End date: 2026-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

In the movie the ‘Truman Show’, Truman Burbank is astonished when discovering that he spent his entire life in a TV show. Monitoring a human’s life is unethical, but many sociologists secretly dream about running such an experiment. Behavior-Island will allow to continuously monitor and manipulate a large population of bats from birth to adulthood. Behavior-Island will be established on Mauritius - the home of P. niger, which is a very interesting bat-model that: (a) lives for decades relying on long-term memory; (b) roosts in large colonies and is highly social; (c) exhibits immense spatio-temporal memory; and (d) is large enough to carry many sensors allowing to track its pups from day one. Even with current state-of-the-art technologies, studying animal behavior in the wild is highly limited because: (1) it is extremely difficult to monitor the same individual over long periods while also monitoring its environment and (2) it is almost impossible to monitor a substantial part of a population and thus we know little about social interactions. We will overcome these limitations by using a new reverse-GPS system (ATLAS) allowing simultaneous tracking of 1000 bats. Notably, because the bats never leave the island, we will monitor individuals from birth to adulthood. ATLAS also provides locations in real-time, allowing to manipulate specific individuals in the wild and to examine their response. We have already tracked bats with a preliminary ATLAS system on Mauritius. Combined with an arsenal of additional technologies, ATLAS will allow studying fundamental aspects of behavior in the wild, for the first time, including: Navigation and its ontogeny; Long-term spatio-temporal memory, Decision making and Sociality. We will examine how experience and personality interact to shape behavior, and we will monitor an entire colony, documenting behavior in the population level. Because, P. niger is endangered and threatened, our work will also contribute to its protection

Keywords: animal behavior,tracking,movement,navigation,bats,ecology,decision making,personality,sociality
Principles of retinal neuronal lamination from zebrafish to humans (makingtheretina)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Neuroscience and Disorders of the Nervous System
Panel description: Nervous system development, homeostasis and ageing, nervous system function and dysfunction, systems neuroscience and modelling, biological basis of cognitive processes and of behaviour, neurological and mental disorders
Countries involved: Germany,Portugal
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1923750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1923750.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

Neuronal lamination is a hallmark of many diverse brain areas where it is important for efficient circuit formation and neuronal wiring. Despite this significance, the cellular and tissue scale principles that ensure successful and robust lamination are not fully understood. In particular, how cell-tissue interactions and biomechanics influence neuronal lamination is only scarcely explored. To fill this gap, we will use the vertebrate retina with its five neuronal cell types arranged in a highly ordered pattern to investigate the emergence of neuronal lamination. We will initially use the zebrafish system and employ long term light sheet imaging to reveal the migration behaviour of the different retinal neurons. Based on this, transcriptomics approaches will enable the dissection of cellular pathways and extracellular cues involved in neuronal migration and overall lamination. To dissect how biomechanics influence lamination, we will use Brillouin microscopy to explore the influence of changing tissue stiffness on lamination and test the role of differential adhesion. These combined results will be the basis to expand studies to the human system and ex vivo human organoids to generate insights into human retinal development. To date, systematic studies investigating molecular pathways in combination with biophysical parameters to understand brain formation across model systems are rare. Due to our previous expertise, we are in an excellent position to perform such interdisciplinary, integrative and interspecies approach. This will unveil common denominators of retinal neuronal lamination in zebrafish, humans and human organoids and thereby reveal the similarities of retinal development in different species and how developmental programs compare in vivo versus ex vivo. In addition, while this proposal focuses on neural lamination in the retina, findings will also inspire future cross-disciplinary studies investigating neuronal lamination in other parts of the brain.
Keenious - Recommendation Engine Research Tool (Keenious)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Everyone who is or has been a student knows of the struggle when it comes to finding relevant research articles and references when writing their essays. Countless hours are spent going through different database websites, web searches and asking advisors for help. We at Keenious want to alleviate the students and researchers from around the world from this time-consuming exercise by helping them find exactly what they need to support their essays and articles, freeing them to further expand the world of academics. There is an abundance of scientific research available online, and we want it to be easier to find and use. With current research tools, students and researchers alike are spending ever more time finding the most relevant sources for their research. They also require users to have extensive knowledge of the topic and the ability to formulate the right keywords in order to find the best texts and sources. The goal of this SME project is for Keenious to provide a simpler and more elegant solution so that anyone, no matter their technological proficiency, can access the world’s research. After over a year of development, Keenious recently had a successful soft launch. Keenious is now being used by people all over the world, successfully helping them write better papers and assignments. Our ads have high click-through rates, and our recurring users are using it regularly. We’re also experiencing organic growth and getting very encouraging feedback. The Keenious innovation is a recommendation engine, available in both Microsoft Word and Google Docs, that helps students and researchers more easily explore and find scientific knowledge. The recommendation engine is built upon machine learning, and analyzes the user’s text input, and then suggests relevant research papers from a database of over 65 million research articles. This is done in just a few seconds, hugely increasing the productivity of whoever uses it.

Keywords: machine learning,word processors,writing software,research articles,ed tech,information retrieval
Accelerating software development, empowering rapid innovation (SYNCANO 2.0)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Norway
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In a rapidly changing world, being the fastest to innovate is essential to stay ahead of competition. And since SW has become essential for any industrial process, effective and rapid SW development is increasingly recognised as crucial for achieving that competitiveness. Development and Operations (DevOps) tools are useful because they enable each individual SW developer doing more as parts of the process are automated. This means market validation can be found faster and adapted faster with fewer resources. Still, finding adequate developers for leveraging the full potential of these tools is a challenge due to a growing and fragmented offer. Besides, today´s solutions do not integrate well enough with the development of the user experience part (frontend) and doesn’t offer the flexibility and speed required in modern tech innovation processes (fast development, rollbacks, etc.). Syncano is a SW development platform that utilizes reusable building blocks code and automation tools to boost the innovation speed for SW developers, start-ups and enterprises, reaching 80% shorter time-to-market and 70% lower development costs compared to any other existing alternative. Since its first launch in 2015, our solution has evolved to become the fastest and most flexible DevOps tool in the world. The platform is developed by a highly tech-focused team in Norway and Poland, led by Nikolai Fasting - founder of over 17 companies, with several successful exits. Our market opportunity is promising, since the market of DevOps tools is expected to reach €8.5 billion by 2023. 25% of Global 2000 organizations are employing DevOps tools for their daily activities and our targeted users are estimated at 20 million SW Developers worldwide. In this scenario, we expect to generate around €6.63 million turnover by 2023 (13 times higher than our estimated revenues for 2018) and an astonishing 34 new job positions.

Keywords: simple software development,back end development,noops,devops,platform
Architecture as a Cross-Cultural Exchange: The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, 1965-2017 (SKRDC)

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,Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2021-01-29
Duration (months): 23.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.81
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

To open up new lines of inquiry for the writing of architecture history currently caught up in ‘static’ chronological periods, geographic preferences, heroic figures, aesthetic styles, and fixed gender categories, it is necessary to introduce an entirely new analytical research methodology to the field of architecture. This project investigates the possibilities of such alternative approach by organizing history around complex cross-cultural exchanges, or “contact zones”, between different architecture cultures. To elucidate the potentials of such social spaces ‘where different cultures meet and inform each other’, I focus on an unprecedented example in architecture culture where “East” and “West” meet: The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (SKRDC). SKRDC is an international housing idea competition organized by the Japanese architecture magazine Shinkenchiku since 1965. Through not only studying the competition briefs of the past 52 years, the characteristics of the winning entries and multiple honourable mentions and the judges’ final remarks, but also the difference in nuance between the Japanese and English debates resulting from the actual design proposals as well as the wider ‘aftereffects’ disseminating into both Japanese as well as English literature, I trace the reciprocal transfer of architectural knowledge and how that affected larger local and international architectural debates. While the SKRDC here serves as a qualitative case study to develop and test my analytical research method, the larger aim of this study is to construct a new historical narrative. By applying the analytical model to different architectural contact zones around the globe, I foresee to contribute to the rewriting of the history of modern architecture into a more inclusive and unbiased “cross history”, which is non-static and interdisciplinary in character and includes hitherto underrepresented aspects such gender dimensions.

Keywords: architecture history,transculturation,non western contexts,multi directional exchanges of architecture knowledge,residential ideas competition,histoire croisee,contact zone,japan
Industrial manufacturing of eco-innovative, safe, sustainable functionalised microencapsulated fragrances for fabric softeners (eco-soft)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2020-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2285833.75
EU funding (EUR): 1600083.63
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Fabric softeners are the most popular laundry care products after detergents. They keep clothes soft, enhance nice smells while preventing musty odours, extend the life of clothes, reduce the formation of wrinkles and improve endurance ability of clothes against stains. However, existing fabric softeners are usually inefficient and contain harmful toxic ingredients that are bad for environment and human health. In a laundry cycle, 95% of softeners are lost in water during the draining process, generating excessive impact on the environment. The remaining 5% of softener remains on clothes for only a short time, before slowly releasing the chemical substances on to skin and the environment. CARINSA has developed an eco-friendly polymeric coating that microencapsulates fragrances and drastically improves fabric softener efficiency. The fabric softeners produced with our technology do not contain toxic materials, increase the adherence to fabric in the washing process by up to 10 times and will improve softener duration on clothes by up to 330%. ECO-SOFT project represents a huge opportunity for our company (CARINSA) to commercialise an innovative solution that will benefit the whole fabric softener value chain. Our solution, CARINCAP, allows fabric softener manufacturers to increase their gross margin by 30% while final consumers will benefit from an eco-efficient, safe laundry care product that has reduces cost per wash by 61%. CARINSA has 24 years of experience in the market and is already present in more than 50 countries. We plan to commercialise the technology among fabric softener manufacturers by exploiting our experience in the sector and by using our present channels, which make this project strategically important for the company. Initial market projections suggest that CARINSA will gain about €6M of net profit in 2024 while directly creating 30 new jobs.

Keywords: fabric softeners,eco friendly polymeric coating,microcapsules,formaldehyde free,hypoallergenic
The Impact of the Ancient City (ImpAncCit)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2015-AdG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2022-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2483075.0
EU funding (EUR): 2483075.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The aim of the project is to re-examine the impact of urbanism in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean on subsequent urban history, both locally, in the impact of individual cities that survive into modern times on their development, and globally in the impact of ideas of ancient urbanism derived both from writings and the visible remains of ancient cities on urban formation and development, both within and beyond the Mediterranean area. What leaves this field wide open for investigation is the collapse of an older thesis that saw orthogonal planning as the most distinctive and significant contribution of antiquity to subsequent urban development. The explicitly colonialist underpinnings of that thesis, which saw the Roman empire as a model for modern imperialism, and which rejected the urbanism of the Islamic world as the antithesis to its form of 'civilization', have rendered it unsustainable. This project aims to rethink the issue fundamentally. There is evident discontinuity between the cities of antiquity and their medieval and modern successors, variously represented as a catastrophic collapse or a creative transformation: resilience theory provides a framework within which to see both catastrophe and continuity as parts of a cycle of adaptive response to ecological change. The project aims to investigate patterns of response and adaption across time in areas of the Mediterranean with contrasting subsequent histories, most obviously across the divide between Christian Europe and the Islamic world, by taking a series of detailed case histories in Italy, the western and eastern Mediterranean, and asking a set of questions about how changing urban form responds to changing social needs. It will also re-examine the role of Greek and Roman writing in the history of thought about and representation of urbanism in the European and Islamic traditions. Finally it will use Rome and Constantinople/Istanbul as major case studies of the role of social memory in urban continuity.

Keywords: urbanism,islamic cities,reception of classical antiquity,resilience theory,use and abuse of past