Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Silicon Treatment ON Exterior Wood (STONE WOOD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-06-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

STONE Wood project is designed to improve an already existing environmental-friendly patented product for wood protection and restoration. It can be used in many applications where this material is essential for its characteristics (as architecture or marine use).The product is an outstanding innovation able to guarantee 10 to 15 years of protection (10 times more than traditional coatings and 4 times more than our direct competitors) against biodegradation and weathering, thanks to a new composition which uses a potassium silicate compound and an emulsion of polymerizable alkoxy silane. It is applied through 2 solutions totally biocide and VOCs free. During the polymerization reaction, it absorbs atmospheric CO2 contributing to lower the greenhouse gas levels. The improvement objectives will regard (a) customization to access to new markets, (b) an increase of its protective performance, (c) an optimization of the industrial application and (d) a reduction of production costs. We are aiming at both end users and wood transformation industry that will be able, thanks to the remarkable performances of our product, to save time and money for the protection of their materials. The feasibility study will provide an assessment of the viability of our established technical objectives and a marketing analysis to find the best entry strategy to disseminate and exploit the results. Special care will be put on the evaluation of eventually existing related patents and to protect our unique composition. STONE Wood will be able to greatly increase our business opportunities and boost the whole European wood sector introducing an exceptional technological advantage over direct competitors.

Keywords: wood treatment,wood coating,wood protector,uv protector,wood restoration,wood paint,weathering,biodegradation,environmental friendly product,green product,bio architecture
European SMEs Robotics Applications (ESMERA)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: Robotics SPARC (cPPP)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Spain,Greece,France,Denmark,United Kingdom
Call: System abilities, SME & benchmarking actions, safety certification (H2020-ICT-2017-1, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2022-02-28
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7999998.0
EU funding (EUR): 7999998.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The objective of ESMERA is to support EU SMEs in materializing, testing and promoting robotic technologies through: - Providing industrial challenges defined by key EU companies, stimulating SMEs to compete by developing and promoting new technologies that address real life problems and thus already have a market - Engaging a number of Competence Centres (CCs) that can provide an easily accessible environment for developing, evaluating, testing, and demonstrating novel robotic technologies. - Offering direct financial support through a cascade funding mechanism to supplement the technical excellence offered by the CCs, allowing prototype/product creation and promotion - Offering mentoring and support in developing business cases and managing the complete chain from “idea to market product” by EU champions in robotics that have successfully undergone the process To achieve these objectives ESMERA involves 4 renowned robotics CCs (LMS, CEA, TUM, TEKNIKER) and 3 industrial partners/ facilitators (R U Robots, Blue Ocean Robotics, COMAU) who are at the forefront of EU robotics technology development. The project aspires to realize research experiments in two phases: - Phase 1 – Proof of concept: Carrying out 32 experiments organized in 2 Groups competing under 8 different challenges from 4 industrial sectors (energy, manufacturing, agri-food, construction). CCs will be supporting development activities with technical expertise and access to their state of the art facilities and equipment. - Phase 2 - Industrial Leadership and Business Support: Selecting 16 Challenge winners and providing further means for industrialization and commercialization of their solutions. Further RTD support by the centres and mentoring on business models and market outreach by the project facilitators. Taking lessons from challenges ran all over the world, we expect this approach will have a major impact on economy in EU regions on employment, market, businesses, skills and competitiveness.

Keywords: research experiments,challenges,robotics technology,sme research
Evolution of Planktonic Gastropod Calcification (EPIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-07-01
End date: 2022-01-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175572.48
EU funding (EUR): 175572.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Calcification by marine organisms can be drastically affected by ocean acidification (OA) due to a reduced availability of calcium carbonate in seawater. Planktonic gastropods (pteropods and heteropods) are believed to be among the most vulnerable organisms to OA as they live at the ocean surface and build thin shells of aragonite. Shelled pteropods have received considerable attention and are reported to decrease calcification rates and experience shell dissolution under high CO2 conditions. Shelled heteropods have received much less attention, but are expected to be equally vulnerable. However, the vulnerability of planktonic gastropods is based on short-term exposures to extreme OA conditions. The aim of the proposed project is to study the evolution of calcification in planktonic gastropods and assess its evolutionary potential under OA. Planktonic gastropods build shells through a biomineralization process, controlled at the molecular level, but the genes underlying this process are unknown. Using shell proteomics will enable to identify for the first time the biomineralization genes in pteropod and heteropod species. Next, these genes will be used to understand how biomineralization evolved in the two independent plankton groups over long and short timescales. Over long timescales will include building solid macro-evolutionary frameworks using fossil-calibrated phylogenomic trees and analysis of the evolution of biomineralization genes. Over short timescales will involve studies at the population-level by measuring gene expression under past, present and future concentrations of CO2. The proposed action will allow the discovery of new molecular markers to investigate the impacts of OA. Combining macro- with micro-evolutionary approaches will shed light on the processes that drive diversity and evolution of calcification in planktonic gastropods and will allow more realistic predictions of the consequences of global change on marine calcifiers.

Keywords: zooplankton,ocean acidification,biomineralization,calcium carbonate,macroevolution,proteomics,adaptation,next generation sequencing
P2P Digitalisation Support to SME (P2P Digital)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Estonia,Germany,Belgium,Sweden,Denmark
Call: Peer learning of innovation agencies (H2020-INNOSUP-05-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 12.0
Total project cost (EUR): 50000.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The P2P Digital consortium consists of four innovation support organisations from Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Sweden, who recognise the need for mutual learning on methods and systems to support digitalisation of SME. The four organisations will utilise the twinning+ method, running a series of workshops to learn from each others' experiences of providing innovation and digitalisation support to companies, including direct support to companies in the ICT sectors, as well as manufacturing companies which need to adopt digital technologies in order to remain competitive. The four organisations are from leading, innovative regions of Europe, and understand the need to provide relevant support to high-growth potential SME. The work will result in a Design Options Paper (DOP), which will be used as the template for learning within the consortium, as well as a conduit for further communication to other business and innovation support organisations. The P2P Digital team has in place, well-established communication platforms and can ensure a far wider dissemination that the consortium alone.

Keywords: peer to peer learning,digitalisation,innovation support,vouchers,twinning,workshops,decentralised training
Collagen Origami (Collagen Origami)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Switzerland
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): 203149.44
EU funding (EUR): 203149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Collagen is one of the most abundant proteins in mammals, which features a unique structural characteristic of three peptide strands assembling into a right-handed triple helix. Synthetic collagen model peptides which form triple helical assemblies have previously been used to mimic the fibrillar structures of natural collagen, as well as create non-canonical supramolecular assemblies for applications in biomedicine and functional materials. However, a general platform enabling rational design of supramolecular architectures based on synthetic collagen remains elusive. The ‘Collagen Origami’ project aims to fuse the unique self-assembling properties of collagen model peptides with divalent, trivalent and tetravalent organic building blocks to build 2D and 3D molecular architectures of defined shape and size. In this proof-of-concept project, we envision creating 2D graphene-type structures using tripodal peptide–building block conjugates and 3D diamond-type structures using tetrapodal conjugates. The ability to assemble complex designer architectures from short peptidic units would be an unprecedented demonstration of the power of rational design in supramolecular self-assembly and would open a broad new field of collagen nanomaterials with applications in cell biology and nanotechnology. The ultimate goal of the ‘Collagen Origami’ project is to use the designed supramolecular assemblies as synthetic extracellular matrix mimics to template formation of cell spheroids. Specifically, collagen origami particles functionalized with integrin binding sequences and encapsulating growth factors will be used to support formation of spheroids from primary rat hepatocytes. The size, morphology and gene expression of the spheroids will reveal whether functionalized collagen origami is able to enforce more organ-like behaviour of cultured cells. Reaching this goal would demonstrate the potential of custom designed collagenous particles as matrices in tissue engineering.

Keywords: collagen model peptides,synthetic collagen,proline,extracellular matrix mimics
Phonon Magnetic Moments and Angular Momentum in Flexible Framework Materials (PhononMoments)

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: Chemistry
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2023-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This project will study how the magnetic moments and orbital angular momenta of phonons are related to chemical structure, electronic structure, and to each other. Phonons, which are particle-like vibrational excitations in solids, are not normally considered to have an angular momentum (a mechanical spin) or a magnetic moment (an electromagnetic spin). However, it has recently been discovered that vibrations that cause atoms to move in circles can in fact have these properties, although their magnitudes are thought to be extremely small in conventional materials. We aim to study these exotic properties of phonons in flexible framework materials, which are materials which combine extreme stiffness in some directions with extreme compliance in others. This combination can give rise to very low energy vibrational modes, which results in very large motions of the atoms, and therefore we expect flexible frameworks to have much larger phonon magnetic moments and angular momenta than in conventional materials. Our goal is to discover materials with very large phono-magnetic effects, ideally sufficiently large that they can be measured using existing experimental techniques. Large phono-magnetic effects would also allow the magnetic moment of the phonon to interact with magnetism due to the spins of electrons, leading to a heretofore undescribed physical interaction which could be useful in the study of magnetic materials. We will use computational and theoretical methods to study both materials where the circular motions of atoms require external stimulus to occur, and also chiral materials where the atoms can naturally move in circles. In this latter case, the introduction of magnetic order in the material can break the symmetry between phonons of one handedness and the other, potentially leading to emergent bulk effects such as a thermally driven angular momentum of the crystal as a whole.

Keywords: phonons,phononics
Antifreeze GlycoProtein Mimetic Polymers (CRYOMAT)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting 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: United Kingdom
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2014-STG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2020-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1496439.0
EU funding (EUR): 1496439.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Fish living in polar oceans have evolved an elegant, macromolecular, solution to survive in sub-zero water: they secrete antifreeze (glyco)proteins (AFGPs) which have several ‘antifreeze’ effects, including ice recrystallization inhibition (IRI) - they slow the rate of ice crystal growth. Ice crystal growth is a major problem in settings as diverse as oil fields, wind turbines, road surfaces and frozen food. Analysis of the process of cryopreservation, whereby donor cells are frozen for later use, has revealed that ice recrystallization is a major contributor to cell death upon thawing. Enhanced cryopreservation methods are particularly needed for stem cell storage to maximize the use of this currently limited resource, but also to enable storage of clinically transfused cells such as platelets and red blood cells. AFGPs have thus far not found application in cryopreservation due to their low availability from natural sources, extremely challenging synthesis, indications of cytotoxicity, but more importantly they have a side effect of shaping ice crystals into needle-shapes which pierces cells’ membranes, killing them. The aim of this ambitious project is to take a multidisciplinary approach to develop synthetic polymers as tunable, scalable and accessible bio-mimetics of AFGPs, which specifically reproduce only the desirable IRI properties. Precision synthetic and biological methods will be applied to access both vinyl- and peptide- based materials with IRI activity. The bio-inspired approach taken here will include detailed biophysical analysis of the polymer-ice interactions and translation of this understanding to real cryopreservation scenarios using blood-borne cells and human stem cells. In summary, this ambitious project takes inspiration from Nature's defense mechanisms that have evolved to allow life to flourish in extreme environments and will employ modern polymer chemistry to apply it to a real clinical problem; cryopreservation.
ICN2020: Advancing ICN towards real-world deployment through research, innovative applications, and global scale experimentation (ICN2020)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Sweden,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Experimental testbeds on Information-Centric Networking (H2020-EUJ-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2062499.0
EU funding (EUR): 1299999.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Information access on the Internet is exploding. Usage is shifting to multimedia applications, social networking and IoE. Cellular networks are moving to the next generation. Networking technology is shifting towards virtualization, with SDN and NFV likely to change the infrastructure landscape. The cloud concept is transforming the Internet to a network of data centers, with a communication model consisting of computer-to-cloud-to-computer interactions. Security concerns are leading to an encryption of all traffic, wreaking havoc with established network mechanisms. In this scenario with dramatic growth and evolution, where abstractions and interfaces become fundamental, ICN is just the perfect solution. ICN2020 will build on the wealth of studies performed on ICN with six main aims: a) design and develop a set of innovative applications such as video delivery, interactive videos and social networks to exploit ICN; b) augment ICN with IoT features and cloud/CDN/virtualization services; c) accordingly enhance existing ICN solutions/architectures; d) build local and global test-bed(s) to experiment the applications, services and ICN enhancements; e) contribute to common APIs and standards, by continuing the work that project partners are already doing; and f) Industry POCs of products and services exploiting ICN. The ICN2020 consortium includes leading experts in ICN and contributors to ICN testbeds in EU, Japan and USA, thus making the goal of federating them a credible one. Partners are also coordinators of running projects on 5G and Cloud topics, allowing fruitful cooperation with fellow projects of the EU-JP1, EU-JP2 calls and increasing the overall expected impact of the EU-Japan cooperation. In a time when 5G networks are being designed, with foreseen unprecedented flexibility due to the virtualization and slice concepts, the development of compelling demonstrations of ICN for real-world use-cases will encourage critical industry investment of resources.

Keywords: routing,congestion control,video,applications,icn2020
Dynamics of two-component quantum gases (TwoCompQuaGas)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Reintegration panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Physics
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 165598.8
EU funding (EUR): 165598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The computation of dynamical properties (both equilibrium and non-equilibrium) of interacting quantum systems is one of the foremost challenges in contemporary condensed matter theory. Such computations can describe experiments in cold atomic gases, as well as a diverse range of probes in solid-state systems (e.g., inelastic neutron scattering, ARPES, RIXS). The aim of this proposal is to develop a theoretical framework for the study of dynamical properties of two-component quantum gases (TCQGs), systems that are both ubiquitous and under active experimental investigation. This objective will be achieved in four major steps. 1. Development of a non-perturbative computational algorithm for integrable TCQGs. Exact results from integrability will be combined with efficient numerical routines to evaluate correlation functions. This will enable the study of large systems, beyond the reach of existing techniques. 2. The algorithm will be used to study equilibrium dynamics (spectral functions and dynamical structure factors); results will be compared to predictions from field theory techniques, such as the non-linear Luttinger liquid, and links made to experiments. Analytical study of the attractive gas will examine the role of multiple species of bound states. 3. The non-equilibrium dynamics of TCQGs following a quantum quench will be studied. Numerical results will be combined with analytical insights from the Quench Action framework. Scenarios with no analog in a single-component gas will be accessible, opening a door to new and interesting experimentally accessible physics. 4. A numerical framework to treat non-integrable TCQGs will be developed. Using eigenstates of a proximate integrable point as a computational basis, well-tested numerical techniques such as the truncated conformal space approach and the Chebyshev expansion will perform time-evolution with non-integrable Hamiltonians, enabling direct links to on-going experiments in cold atomic gases.

Keywords: dynamical properties,non equilibrium dynamics,integrability,bose gas,fermi gas,quantum quench,bethe ansatz,numerical methods