Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
THz Muti-Gb/s System in Package (TMGSiP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 195454.8
EU funding (EUR): 195454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of "THz Muti-Gb/s System in Package", i.e., "TMGSiP" project is to develop a fully integrated 120GHz radio front-end for Multi-Gb/s radio links with state-of-the-art SiGe BiCMOS technology. This will be done with a completely new cross-cutting design methodology for silicon-MMIC, e.g. the development of wideband receiver and transmitter, including on-chip antenna and novel packaging concepts. This will enable a big improvement in the functionality (complexity of RF MMICs), performance (data rate), component size (fully-integrated compact MMIC with integrated antennas), low power, and cost over existing III/V communication systems. The project’s ambition is to realize a THz SiP analog front-end with integrated antennas for a line of sight communication link with data rates up to 40Gbps centered around 120GHz and bandwidth of 20GHz with range up to a few meters. Due to the huge available bandwidth only simple low-order modulation schemes like QPSK will be considered.

Keywords: 120ghz wideband transceiver,wide band antenna,sub thz package,terahertz communication
RESCOOPs Mobilizing European Citizens to Invest in Sustainable Energy (RESCOOP MECISE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Market uptake of energy innovation
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Belgium,Belgium,Belgium,France,United Kingdom
Call: Project development assistance for innovative bankable and aggregated sustainable energy investment schemes and projects (H2020-EE-2014-4-PDA, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2185000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2185000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

RESCOOP MECISE is short for Renewable Energy Sources COOPeratives Mobilizing European Citizens to Invest in Sustainable Energy. As European citizens and local authorities often lack time, financial means and technical expertise to initiate the necessary energy renovations of their houses and public buildings, the potential for energy efficiency projects remains largely untapped. RESCOOP MECISE will develop an integrated and innovative approach that gives answer to this impeding challenge. By integrating both renewable energy and energy efficiency projects into one innovative investment scheme RESCOOP MECISE will elaborate a completely new financing format. The financing scheme will make European citizens, REScoops, local authorities, the European Investment Bank and other related investment funds partners into the transition towards a more sustainable society. Moreover RESCOOP MECISE will encourage citizens and local authorities to initiate deep energy renovation projects by providing them with personal assistance and technical expertise that now remains with the REScoops. The RESCOOP MECISE project will also provide a clear cut solution for the financing problem that REScoops face when they want to start up with their first project. By means of setting up a European fund for both renewable energy and energy efficiency projects or through the development of a financial facilitation service for REScoops the REScoop MECISE project will enhance the potential for more successful energy efficiency projects throughout Europe.

Keywords: rescoop,energy cooperatives,citizens participation
Hybrid Cloud solution based on a disruptive method for data redundancy and a network attached storage device, to store, access and back-up digital content safer, faster and cheaper. (HyCloud)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland,Finland
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument) (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-05-01
End date: 2015-08-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

HyCloud presents a disruptive hybrid Cloud Hub solution to store, access and back-up digital content safer, faster and cheaper. Varaani is the first storage solution that combines the perks of having a local device with the added protection of off-premise back up should the device fail, or gets stolen or damaged. HyCloud integrates local backup, online backup and content services with a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device leaving users’ files super safe, always accessible from any device, and all in one place. The Varaani Cloud Hub is based on the patented proprietary Storage Grid technology: by only storing parity data Varaani are able to back up data at least 10 times more efficiently and therefore economically than conventional solutions. This highly efficient and reliable technology for data reconstruction allows a breakthrough in the cloud storage market by reducing the price by 10x. The solution is designed for private households and SMEs, who due to the high price of current data storage solutions are unable to back-up all they need, causing risk of unrecoverable data loss. Phase 1 project aims at establishing a sound industrialization and operational plan to address the high volume B2C market, today not addressed by Varaani. This will be achieved by optimizing and re-engineering the NAS device architecture to further lower the data storage price to the final consumer. Phase 1 work will develop the necessary supply chain, commercial agreements and a sound business plan in addition to provide a deep IP management strategy and technical implementation plan.

Keywords: hybrid cloud,nas network attached storage,storage grid technology,remote access,back up data,parity data
Effects of Nutrition and Lifestyle on Impulsive, Compulsive, and Externalizing behaviours (Eat2beNICE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable and competitive agri-food sector for a safe and healthy diet
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Estonia,Spain,Spain,Germany,Norway,Hungary,Sweden,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Impulsivity and compulsivity and the link with nutrition, lifestyle and the socio-economic environment (H2020-SFS-2016-2, 2016)
Start date: 2017-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11148189.76
EU funding (EUR): 11144561.76
Participants: 21
Project status: SIGNED

Maladaptive impulsivity and compulsivity predispose to antisocial and addictive behaviours. Factors influencing those traits are not well understood, but diet, lifestyle, socio-economic status (SES), sex, and heritability play pivotal roles. Here, we aim (1) to identify nutrition and lifestyle drivers that can be employed to prevent detrimental impulsivity/compulsivity in males and females across the lifespan, (2) to characterize the etiologic paths leading to extreme behaviour, and (3) to promote policy changes to counteract maladaptive impulsivity/compulsivity by disseminating evidence-based information about health-related behaviours to families, clinicians, policy makers, and general public. We use epidemiologic approaches in the world-wide largest existing samples to investigate association of nutrition components & lifestyle with impulsivity/ compulsivity, and how such associations are moderated by age, culture, sex, SES, and genetics. We assess beneficial effects of key nutritional interventions through RCTs in highly impulsive males/females, going beyond state-of-the-art by directly comparing personalized, high-intensity approaches with one-size-fits-all and microbiome-dependent supplementations. We study the protective potential of acute exercise and habitual physical activity. We monitor intervention-induced changes in real time through objective mHealth-based experience sampling. Uniquely, we study effects of the gut-microbiome and its metabolites, as well as brain connectivity and epigenetic patterns as mediators and predictors of behavioural change. We initiate and support societal change by media-based information and education. We innovate the field by measuring behavioural change using social media downstream of educational campaigns and by translation of our findings into tangible healthy food solutions with a celebrity chef. Our group, in which experts from multiple disciplines join forces, is in a unique position to carry out the proposed project.

Keywords: nutrition,life style,impulsivity,compulsivity,microbiome gut brain axis,brain connectivity,genetics,epigenetics
Scribal Science: Naturalists' Paper Empire in France ca. 1660-1770 (SCRIBSCIE)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184707.84
EU funding (EUR): 184707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

SCRIBSCIE seeks to understand the place of scribal practices and manuscript artefacts in the work of French naturalists between ca. 1660 and 1770, and especially their role in these scholars’ effort to gather a knowledge of the wider world’s nature. The aim is to measure the vibrancy of scholarly scribal labor in the age of print and well beyond epistolary exchanges. My overarching hypothesis is that manuscript culture shaped the ill-defined intellectual and social contours of both natural history and the naturalist’s persona, not the least in their global and imperial dimension: making and managing manuscript records of observations and data were imperial gestures through and through. In charting the hidden stories of taken-for-granted artefacts such as field notes, excerpt notebooks, plant catalogs, and sketches, as well as quotidian gestures such as notetaking, listing, drawing, arranging papers into folders, and moving archives from one location to another, this project asks about the social, political, and cultural implications of European scholars’ working methods at home and abroad in a context of colonial expansion. Mining principally the exciting and virtually untapped holdings of the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) in Paris, the project fits particularly well the first major professional objective of this action, namely to develop my career as an independent historian of science with a strong expertise in museum and library curatorship. This last aspect in particular will be achieved through close collaboration with the MNHN and a secondment to Università di Bologna: such trans-sectorial transfer of expertise will materialize in a workshop, a special issue, and an exhibition. The second major professional goal is strengthening my experience in the organization of scientific and broad-public events, which will be attained by coordinating an international conference, a second special issue, and a graduate seminar.

Keywords: history of science,history of the book,early modern history,history of manuscript culture,history of,archives
A fast and powerful 3D cargo space usage optimization service for logistics industry (BOXBOT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
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

Even though more packages than ever before are today being shipped due the boom in e-commerce, no efficient technology has been developed to optimize cargo space in vehicles such as vans or ships. On average, 40% of the transportation capacity is empty space due to the well-known 3D packing problem in the transportation and logistics industry. Reducing the empty space with just 10% saves millions of euros in the logistics industry and greenhouse gas emissions in the environment. Some optimization space software exists in the market but none is really effective being usually too slow and/or handling only few basic cargo parameters. Thus, end-users opt for manual packing/loading plans often using excel which take a lot of time and underuse space capacity. At BOXBOT, we have developed a multi-objective meta-heuristic algorithm to do fast calculations in seconds using over 30 cargo parameters of mixed loads, operational rules and loading and discharging sequences. Our cloud-based solution is the first effective 3D cargo space optimization service for logistic industry which is able to handle complex packing and loading challenges in short time offering an increasing freight fill rate up to 30% more in vehicles. In 2017, we were selected as one of the top five startups in a global innovation competition organized by Mercedes-Benz Vans for the Startup adVANce program to co-develop our prototype in vans (€120,000). We address customers in the logistic industry from General Cargo Ship owners to Last Mile Delivery operators. We have built a solid ecosystem of partners and stakeholders for the rapid growth of our unique business (e.g. University of Turku, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Cargotec Ltd, Royal Wagenborg). Our mission is to be the leading logistics solutions provider and make our solutions globally available and widely used. Now we are applying to the SME Instrument Phase 1 to carry out a Feasibility Study.

Keywords: transportation capacity,efficiency and service,logistic service provider
Automated mini-invasive surgical approach to the treatment of mitral insufficiency (MITrep)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2018)
Start date: 2018-12-01
End date: 2019-05-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Mitral valve insufficiency is a heart condition, where blood is abnormally leaking out of the mitral valve. This condition mainly afflicts the elderly patients: - 80% of patients aged 80+ show moderate symptoms (chronic fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitations, racing heart rate) - 10% of patients above 75 with severe symptoms are at risk of a sudden death (stroke) within 5 years. - Prevalence will double by 2030. Mitral insufficiency is treated with open heart surgery (300,000 operations/year in the EU and the USA) followed by intensive care. But this operation is unbearable for fragile patients. Half of the patients above 75 are tagged inoperable because of their age. Less invasive repair surgeries have been tested (annuloplasty by transfemoral surgery) but lack efficiency and safety and require highly skilled surgeons (not available in each hospital). In this context, the company CMI’nov has developed MITrep, the first patented mini-invasive surgical device that automatically goes to the mitral valve with no trial and error to affix a leak-preventing ring on the valve. It uses the transapical approach. Once the ring is anchored, the mitral valve returns to normal activity. No heavy post-surgery effects are expected. No intensive care required. MITrep can be used by any surgeons : no need to be a mitral valve specialist. It will allow to halve the operation time (from 5 hours to less than 2 hours), reduce hospitalization time to 3 days (vs 5-8 days with 2 days in ICU) and cost about three times less than open heart surgery (30k€ vs 80+k€). It means a dramatic cost reduction for healthcare systems and a real improvement of the care of the elderly patient. This project holds the ambition to build a new gold standard in valvuloplasty worldwide, starting with mitral repair and replicable to aortic and tricuspid valve repair. It is also a value driver for CMI’nov. The Phase 1 project will validate the feasibility of MITrep before scale-up and deployment.

Keywords: mitral valve,transapical approach,mini invasive surgery,cardiac surgery,automated medical device,elderly patient care
Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems (SHAPES)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Theme: Active ageing and self-management of health
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Spain,Ireland,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Spain,Spain,Spain,Ireland,Spain,Cyprus,Norway,Belgium,Finland,Greece,Greece,Greece,Greece,Greece,Sweden,France,Czechia,United Kingdom,Portugal,Portugal,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Smart and healthy living at home (H2020-SC1-FA-DTS-2018-2, 2018)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 20921551.75
EU funding (EUR): 18732468.25
Participants: 37
Project status: SIGNED

SHAPES aims to create the first European open Ecosystem enabling the large-scale deployment of a broad range of digital solutions for supporting and extending healthy and independent living for older individuals who are facing permanently or temporarily reduced functionality and capabilities. SHAPES builds an interoperable Platform integrating smart digital solutions to collect and analyse older individuals’ health, environmental and lifestyle information, identify their needs and provide personalised solutions that uphold the individuals’ data protection and trust.Standardisation, interoperability and scalability of SHAPES Platform sustain increased efficiency gains in health and care delivery across Europe, bringing improved quality of life to older individuals, their families, caregivers and care service providers. SHAPES Large-scale Piloting campaign engages +2k older individuals in 15 pilot sites in 10 EU Member States, including 6 EIP on AHA Reference Sites, and involves hundreds of key stakeholders to bring forth solutions to improve the health, wellbeing, independence and autonomy of older individuals, while enhancing the long-term sustainability of health and care systems in Europe. SHAPES’s multidisciplinary approach to large-scale piloting is reflected across 7 themes that, together, provide a clear understanding of the reality of European health and care systems and enable the validation of cost-efficient, interoperable and reliable innovations capable of effectively supporting healthy and independent living of older individuals within and outside the home. Building an ecosystem attractive to European industry and policy-makers, SHAPES develops value-based business models to open and scale-up the market for AHA-focused digital solutions and provides key recommendations for the far-reaching deployment of innovative digital health and care solutions and services supporting and extending healthy and independent living of older population in Europe.

Keywords: opportunity,community,participation,connectivity,interoperability,access,market shaping,technology
Synaptic Promiscuity in Brain Development (SynPromiscuity)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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
Call: ERC ADVANCED GRANT (ERC-2020-ADG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-10-01
End date: 2026-09-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2296912.0
EU funding (EUR): 2296912.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Precise synaptic connectivity is a prerequisite for the function of neural circuits, yet individual neurons, taken out of their developmental context, readily form unspecific synapses. The goal of this proposal is to understand the roles and requirements of such promiscuous synapse formation during brain development. The observation of promiscuous synapse formation is not at odds with precise outcomes. The developmental program can ensure correct partnerships between neurons that form synapses promiscuously, but to what degree remains largely unresolved. My group has developed live imaging and optogenetic manipulations of dynamic synaptic choice processes in the intact developing fly brain. We found that time, location and the kinetics of filopodial interactions restrict to a remarkable degree the specificity of synaptic contacts between neurons that can form synapses with many partners if not actively prevented from doing so. A second surprise finding that motivates this proposal suggests markedly different connectomes of flies that developed at 18°C and 25°C, including synapse numbers and partnerships. These differences can be traced back to interaction kinetics during development, thus revealing a level of synaptic promiscuity that can be exposed through temperature alone. The time is ripe for a quantitative assessment of the extent to which synaptic connections are the result of developmentally regulated promiscuous synapse formation. The quest to understand the molecular mechanisms of brain wiring has largely focused on guidance cues and synaptic recognition, fields in which great progress continues to be made. This proposal offers to approach the question of synaptic specificity from the much rarer, but complementary perspective of the alternative limiting case, the hypothesis of synaptic promiscuity. SynPromiscuity is devised to balance the risks of a contrarian approach with its relevance for neurodevelopmental precision and plasticity in health and disease.

Keywords: brain wiring,synaptic specificity,live imaging,connectome,optogenetics