Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Toward sustainable fashion: nettle and blueberry garments to promote sustainable development of mountain areas and to boost young talents (ORTIKA)

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

In the EU, the clothing industry alone accounts for 10% of the EU life-cycle environmental impacts and to several socio-environmental issues such as heavy use of chemicals, pesticides, substances harmful to the environment and human health, water/soil contamination, intensive farming practices, obsolescence of final products, waste production, CO2 emission and exploitation of cheap labor. ORTIKA takes its origins from the experience of the project “Divenire – School of Dreamers” of 13 young people involved in the project, living in the Modenese Apennine. The concept and its implementation lead to the creation of a start-up producing natural garments, starting from nettle and mixed nettle and blueberry. Natural fiber composites market is foreseen to grow at a CAGR of 11.33% from 2017 to 2021 and to reach 10.89 billion USD by 2024. The result is a new form of collaboration between all the actors involved, delivering, on one hand, the idea of strong collaboration based on each member talent and, on the other hand, the message of returning to a natural eco-lifestyle. Therefore, our innovation combines EU priorities (REACH regulation, Biocide Regulation, EU Textile and Clothing Vision for 2025, Circular Economy Action Plan, EU Ecolabel Textiles, Single Markets for Green Products, European Clothing Action Plan) with consumers’ needs by offering environmentally friendly clothing in nettle and mixed nettle and blueberry. Product design has a key role to conceive appealing and customized clothing inspired by sense of harmony, wellness, self-expression, sustainability and uniqueness. Further, ORTIKA targets the EU2020 employment strategy, EU2020 Growth strategy and New Skills Agenda through the revitalization youth employment in rural areas and the creation of a human-centered business environment. Research and expression of talents are intended as elements that increases the habitability of remote territories while becoming a source of wealth for the individual and society.

Keywords: talent development,young entrepreneurship,new organisational model,diversification of agricultural crops,tradition and innovation
Synthetic Catch Bonds (CATCH)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure-properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2020-COG, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1995060.0
EU funding (EUR): 1995060.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

All primary chemical bonds, covalent and supramolecular, weaken under tension. This imposes fundamental limits on the mechanical stability of molecules and their materials. Nature has evolved to secondary bonds that break through these limits and strengthen under tension. These so-called catch bonds, which know no synthetic equivalent to date, are used in Nature as a rule, rather than exception, in scenarios where supramolecular bonds are exposed to large stresses. This change in the fundamental mechanical nature of bonds has a profound effect on the mechanics of the materials in which they are integrated. Yet, to date, there have been no systematic studies that establish how the mechanics of individual catch bonds is programmed by their chemical design or how their collective action results in enhanced mechanics of their materials. As a result, our understanding of the ubiquitous use of catch bonds in Nature is incomplete nor do we have clear guides how their potential can be harnessed in creating bio-mimetic soft materials with programmable mechanics. Project CATCH tackles these challenges by bringing catch bonds to the synthetic domain for the first time. Their de-novo creation gives unprecedented control to establish the design rules for the mechano-activity of single bonds. Moreover, CATCH will systematically explore how the concerted action of many catch bonds within a material lead to material properties that cannot be accessed by any other means, such as the adaptive reduction of strain localisation and the filtering of mechanical signals, which is of crucial importance for mechanical communication between cells in tissue engineering. Through a multidisciplinary approach that builds on my expertise in synthetic and materials chemistry, single-molecule experiments, and multiscale mechanical experiments and modelling, this project will decipher and harness one of Nature’s most ubiquitous, but poorly understood, mechanical design strategies.

Keywords: mechanochemistry,catch bonds,bio inspired materials
Smart Cabin System for cabin readiness COVID Amendment (SmaCS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: Spain,France
Call: Camera-based smart sensing system for cabin readiness (H2020-CS2-CFP09-2018-02, 2018)
Start date: 2019-10-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Duration (months): 34.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1035425.0
EU funding (EUR): 843575.0
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

The SMACS project, led by OTONOMY Aviation and VICOMTECH, aspires to conceive a camera-based prototype solution for digitalized on-demand verification of TTL requirements for cabin luggage. It will be designed to be highly reliable, cost effective and easy to upgrade, with potential additional camera-based verification services. To fulfil this ambition, the consortium will capitalise on 3 main pillars: - A robust Machine Learning algorithm for cabin luggage recognition in low light and low contrast environment that will be built from VICOMTECH’s AI libraries and specific developments - A highly innovative way to produce learning dataset based on videos coupled with synthetic 3D models - An aircraft compliant, ultra-light, ultra-compact Image data processing hardware based on COTS, with highly adaptable CVMS interface connection capabilities. VICOMTECH brings to the consortium its large experience and proven competencies in developing machine-learning based algorithms, notably for object recognition, and its rare and precious capacity to train algorithms from synthetic 3D models to reach higher performances at unmatchable costs. OTONOMY Aviation brings to the consortium its deep knowledge of aeronautic compliant camera systems and camera implementation in aircraft cabins. Moreover, OTONOMY’s strong relationship with major actors of the ecosystem such as Airbus Interiors Services permitted to get a highly realistic synthetic model of an A320 aircraft that will be used for the algorithm training. The SMACS project will generate new technology breakthrough for the use of IA in aeronautic and will bring new safety-related solutions to other sectors such as public transportations (trains, buses etc.). It will also enable OTONOMY to introduce smart IA-empowered cameras in the aeronautic ecosystem, opening new and various opportunities for aeronautic competitiveness, safety and ecology. The derived products will generate an additional turnover of 10M$/year.

Keywords: camera,artificial intelligence,machine learning,aviation
Robot skill learning: imitation, exploitation and control (RobotSL)

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: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 212933.76
EU funding (EUR): 212933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In this project, I will develop an imitation learning framework for robot skill learning and optimization, aiming at endowing robots with versatile skills and thus allowing robots to work in broad application domains. This framework will handle various constraints (e.g., robot joint limit, trajectory smoothness, obstacle avoidance) that robots encounter in practice, exploit environmental priors and multi-modal properties underlying human demonstrations, as well as design a low-level optimal controller so as to drive robots to execute human-like motions and resist external perturbations. The project objectives and associated concepts are original and novel. This project will provide the first solution for the problem of imitation learning with various constraints (including linear and non-linear, convex and non-convex constraints) and a novel concept of semi-imitation learning by exploring environmental priors. Moreover, it will provide a solution to multi-modal imitation learning from few demonstrations, which can be readily combined with constrained learning and environmental priors. In addition, from a control perspective, this project will study a new concept of control-inspired imitation learning to mimic both human skills and human reactions under perturbations. This project is challenging in the sense that it involves robotics, imitation learning, probability theory, optimization, semi-supervised learning, clustering techniques and optimal control. I will work closely with Prof. Cohn, who is an expert in knowledge representation and reasoning. This fellowship will sharpen my research skills and extend my research network in Leeds and Europe. Specifically, this fellowship will enable me to dive deeper into the challenging but essential problems in robot imitation learning, which will provide new insights and research topics to the community of robot learning, positioning me as a competitive researcher in the community.

Keywords: imitation learning,learning from demonstration,physical human robot interaction
Collective personalities: from individuals to groups, and back (GROUPIND)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-10-01
End date: 2018-04-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 185076.0
EU funding (EUR): 185076.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many organisms, including humans, group together and perform collective actions such as birds forming coordinated flocks to evade predators, forage or roost. Some, as social insects, have evolved complex societies in which the unit of selection is not the individual, as in most vertebrates, but the colony. Yet, in both there is evidence of consistent behavioural variability among both individuals and groups. The study of collective behaviour - coordinated actions resulting in emergent properties at the group level - and the study of animal personality - between individual differences that are consistent over time and contexts - have progressed tremendously in the last two decades and are converging in their search for the link between individuality and collectivity, a fundamental and timely issue in biology. The GROUPIND project aims to investigate the relationship between individual personality and group personality by using ants and starlings as study organisms, both of which showing distinct collective behaviour and marked individual behavioural variability. The project will use a comparative approach to address the following objectives: (1) To characterize, also upon experimental manipulation, the composition of personalities in the group and understand how this relates to personality at the group level. Are group personalities an average of individual personalities within the group? Do they result from different distributions of individual personalities? Are there keystone individuals that exert a disproportionate influence on the group personality? (2) To understand how diversity of individual personalities contributes to decision making and to the ecological success at the group level, and how this would feed back at the individual level. By bridging two major fields of study, this project will shed new light on the ability of groups to function effectively, unravelling the consequences that personality differences can exert on social life and its evolution.

Keywords: animal personality,collective behaviour,birds,ants
Retinal imaging prevention and early detection of chronic diseases (RETINAL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2022-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2082375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1457662.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The overall objective of the RETINAL initiative of ULMA Embedded Solutions is to develop non-invasive and cost-effective tools with capacity for prevention and/or early detection of various diseases related to NCD complications, by analyzing the changes in the microvasculature of the retina.The basic framework of RETINAL is a comprehensive solution for ophthalmic imaging analysis and treatment composed of a simple, reliable and cost-effective color fundus digital image capture device and several specific software modules associated to the device for a number of specific clinical applications.The goal of this action is to demonstrate in the market, by independent peers, that RETINAL is the best available and cost-effective technology for the detection of diabetic retinopathy in DR Screening Programmes, and particularly valuable for its implementation at primary health centres, which makes screening more accessible to patients and therefore more effectiveThe overall objective of the RETINAL initiative of ULMA Embedded Solutions is to develop non-invasive and cost-effective tools with capacity for prevention and/or early detection of various diseases related to NCD complications, by analyzing the changes in the microvasculature of the retina.The basic framework of RETINAL is a comprehensive solution for ophthalmic imaging analysis and treatment composed of a simple, reliable and cost-effective color fundus digital image capture device and several specific software modules associated to the device for a number of specific clinical applications.The goal of this action is to demonstrate in the market, by independent peers, that RETINAL is the best available and cost-effective technology for the detection of diabetic retinopathy in DR Screening Programmes, and particularly valuable for its implementation at primary health centres, which makes screening more accessible to patients and therefore more effective

Keywords: retina,health,diabetes,prevention,diagnosis
Systems Biology of Membrane Trafficking (SYSMET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Integrative Biology: from Genes and Genomes to Systems
Panel description: Genetics, epigenetics, genomics and other ‘omics studies, bioinformatics, systems biology, genetic diseases, gene editing, innovative methods and modelling, ‘omics for personalised medicine
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2014-ADG, 2014)
Start date: 2016-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2241250.0
EU funding (EUR): 2241250.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Membrane trafficking is fundamental for homeostasis of the internal membrane system and transport to and from the extracellular medium. Although we have gained detailed knowledge on the molecular organization of membrane trafficking machineries a global view of its function and regulation is lacking. To date membrane trafficking is often regarded as a constitutive process with a high degree of functional redundancy. However, the fact that mutations of single trafficking genes with ubiquitous expression give rise to tissue-specific human diseases and discrete sets of trafficking genes have differential effects on tissue development challenge this view. Here, using a combination of state-of the-art technologies, we will apply a systems biology approach in specialized cell types to establish a physiological and functional spatiotemporal map of membrane trafficking genes and proteins (membrane trafficking modules; MTMs). To this end we have curated a list of 1,187 genes representing ER, Golgi, Endosomes and Lysosomes (EGEL) around which we develop independent but interconnected approaches: (i) RNA-seq and antibody microarrays to identify co-regulated MTMs; (ii) high-content siRNA screening to define functional MTMs; (iii) epistatic functional analysis between EGEL genes and five membrane trafficking disease genes (TRAPPC2 in chondrocytes, Sec23A in osteoblasts, OCRL and CLCN5 in proximal tubular epithelial kidney cells, and VAPB in neuronal cells); and (iv) studies of protein-protein interactions to generate functional and physical networks centered on the disease genes. SYSMET will generate a unique resource by defining the impact and interplay of the different regulatory layers of the entire membrane trafficking system with important implications for human health.

Keywords: mendelian disorders of membrane trafficking
Researching Environments that Magnify Health Everyday (REMEDHY) (REMEDHY)

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: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 170121.6
EU funding (EUR): 170121.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Research continues to demonstrate that people of all ages and abilities enjoy higher levels of health and wellbeing when they have nature nearby in parks, gardens, naturalized schoolyards as well as landscaping at home and work. Access to and engagement with nature is associated with greater longevity, more physical activity, restoration from stress, and a greater sense of wellbeing. However, urbanization and changing lifestyles are compromising our interactions with natural environments and such changes have dramatic implications for mental health and overall wellbeing. Finding our way back to health, through the structures where we live, work, play and learn, requires empirical research that establishes the intermediate processes that link the structures that exist in a person’s environment and the health promoting behaviors that lead to positive health outcomes. This project examines the neighborhood qualities that shape people’s perceptions of place and, in turn, motivate them to engage with structural aspects of their neighborhoods that promote health and well-being. We will use a spatial analytic approach and data from the Positive Effects on the Natural Outdoor Environment in Typical Populations of Difference Regions in Europe (PHENOTYPE) study (n=3947 participants), objective environmental data (n=290 street audits), and in-depth interview data (n=83 interviews) to assess spatial patterns in resident ratings of neighborhood quality and environment and the resident and neighborhood factors that influence these ratings. Additionally, we will use participatory planning techniques to partner with community to design and pilot an intervention that taps into the processes critical for improving health. This research is important because it will provide empirical evidence that community planners, park developers, neighborhood organizations and health practitioners need to support the creation and maintenance of healthy places and healthy people.

Keywords: built environment,aesthetics,health behaviors,community engaged research,lifestyle intervention,epidemiology,mental health
Pioneering ICT-platform setting the new standard on advertising and how consumers shop (SPOTT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2018)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2171250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1519875.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Advertisers face huge challenges in reaching their audience: TV advertising gets fast forwarded and Internet users install ad blockers. This dramatically impacts the media industry (content producers, broadcasters) as large parts of their income streams consist of advertising. Alternatives to reach the audience through social media are whisking the income away from the EU market. For local stores, the high costs of digital advertising result in lack of visibility and competitiveness against major e-commerce sites, again shifting revenues outside EU borders. SPOTT makes video content interactive and shoppable (any content, any screen, online & offline buying). SPOTT targets the v-commerce market, a new fast-growing market with huge potential, combining 1) reach of video, 2) targeting power of digital media and 3) revenue-generating power of e-commerce. SPOTT brings added value to all stakeholders. To the audience: personalized inspiration and interactions with video. To content producers, brands, stores, advertising agencies and broadcasters: increased advertisement revenues and dashboard-based insights in the audience. To local stores: regained visibility and competitiveness on the digital market place. Belgian scaleup Appiness (°2013, 22 FTE) targets a fast international market uptake of SPOTT and has the ambition to become market leader with SPOTT as number one v-commerce solution worldwide. Through a step-wise geographical approach combined with a global approach, Appiness will quickly achieve critical mass of audience offering personalized and relevant content. Appiness targets an organizational growth towards 216 FTE by 2022. The SPOTT app has been launched to the audience in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, US and Portugal. Appiness has a 270 mio product database, closed contracts with Hollywood studios 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures, and entered Microsoft’s global co-selling program. SPOTT reached no°67 in the Disrupt 100 annual index for 2017.

Keywords: v commerce,video content,interactive,inspirational,advertising,retail smes,influencers,data,publishers,broadcasters