Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
The Unique International Independent Decentralized Invoice Network (DiFacturo)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-12-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Difacturo is a fresh start-up company founded in August 2018 with the vision of creating a technological revolutionary network to a market, e-invoice, which requires nonstop developing solutions. Paper invoices imply an opaque process causing bottlenecks and leading to high expenses. Replacing the physical paper form with a digital one (e-invoice) offers faster retrieval of money, easier processing, lower costs and improved productivity. However, e-invoices are not the mainstream option in Europe yet since current centralized technologies constitutes a costly entry obstacle for most of the European SME. Besides, other issues derive such as a high risk of total failure as well as complicate auditDifacturo is a fresh start-up company founded in August 2018 with the vision of creating a technological revolutionary network to a market, e-invoice, which requires nonstop developing solutions. Paper invoices imply an opaque process causing bottlenecks and leading to high expenses. Replacing the physical paper form with a digital one (e-invoice) offers faster retrieval of money, easier processing, lower costs and improved productivity. However, e-invoices are not the mainstream option in Europe yet since current centralized technologies constitutes a costly entry obstacle for most of the European SME. Besides, other issues derive such as a high risk of total failure as well as complicate audit trail. We offer the first blockchain-based invoice network, a truly independent, decentralized and global system to deliver and receive invoices in a secure, quick and audit-proof cryptographic format across all national borders and companies’ sizes. Our solution abolishes the need of a third-party validation, is accessible to tax authorities, achieves savings of up to 90% of paper format standards with a remarkable speed ≥1000 transaction per seconds and allows other companies to write their own applications. Thus, it will become the key tool to introduce e-invoicing transversally.

Keywords: blockchain technology,e invoice market
Sustainable downstream processing of vaccines through incorporation of nanobiotechnologies : novel affinity ligands and biomimetic membranes (DiViNe)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Biotechnology
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Belgium,France,Denmark,Portugal
Call: Downstream processes unlocking biotechnological transformations (H2020-LEIT-BIO-2014-1, 2014)
Start date: 2015-03-01
End date: 2020-02-29
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7632281.25
EU funding (EUR): 5790580.5
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In the vaccine industry, downstream processing is of extreme importance. Prophylactic vaccines aim at protecting healthy people, so any contaminant has to be discarded with the most drastic measures. Such « negative » approach comes at the expense of the recovery of product : yields are poor, thereby inducing a high product cost. Processes are also complex, since they rely on multiple eliminations rather than on recovery of the unique product of interest. Technically, this is mostly due to the lack of specific capture systems that would allow direct, « positive » separation of the vaccine from its environment.Vaccines know no borders. For developing countries, the pressure on costs is even more acute, and local production is a way to try to reach the 1$ per dose target. In this context, water sustainability is a major issue, as it is a most sensitive ingredient in bioproduction. DiViNe will tackle theses cost and environmental issues with technological answers. The partners will combine two major Nano/biotechnology innovations to develop an integrated purification platform amenable to the different natures of vaccines : glycoconjugates, protein antigens and enveloped viruses. They will implement Nanofitins (novel affinity capture ligands) and Aquaporin-based membranes (energy-saving nano-biomimetics used in the cleantech industry), for a « positive » purification approach. High yields are expected (data from antibody purification with Nanofitins), at affordable cost of goods and with a sustainable approach of water recycling. Novartis Vaccines brings to the Consortium a broad range of targets, and identical strategies can be applied for biopharmaceuticals in general. The development custom affinity capture processes as a sustainable platform is therefore economically relevant, in a very large market. Beyond the technical partnership, the project is a first run for the partners to structure the platform as a commercial offer for downstream processing of biologics.

Keywords: downstream processes,vaccines
Carnap and the Limits of Metaphysics (Carnap and the Limits of Metaphysics)

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: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2015-08-31
End date: 2017-08-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project’s overall objective is to use state of the art research in the formal theory of knowledge to advance our understanding of the scope and limits of metaphysics. Specifically, the project will argue that the most important threat to the value of metaphysics comes from epistemic arguments given by Carnap, and that responding to these arguments requires drawing on considerations from formal epistemology. The master argument that will focus this project draws on Carnap's (1928) epistemic critique of metaphysics: 1. No possible evidence can justify a metaphysical statement. 2. If no possible evidence can justify a metaphysical statement then we can have no justification to believe a metaphysical statement. Conclusion: We can have no justification to believe a metaphysical statement. The deliverables will be six papers published in leading journals. The first will argue that critiques of metaphysics based on semantics do not succeed. The second will argue that epistemic criticisms of metaphysics are effective, specifically Carnap's. The third will defend premise 1, arguing that the rationalist renaissance of recent years has done little to undermine the relevant empiricist thesis. The fourth defends premise 2 as applied to the question of ontology (‘what exists?’), arguing that the non-empirical considerations used by objective Bayesians can be applied to metaphysics. The fifth criticizes premise 2 as applied to the question of modality (‘what it necessary?’), arguing that non-empirical considerations cannot help us determine the gap between the necessary and the contingent. The sixth develops the anti-realist theory of modality that follows, arguing that it makes best sense of the core intuitions of both sides of the argument. These deliverables will expand the ER's core strengths into metaphysics, re-integrate him into Europe and establish him as one of the leading European experts in formal epistemology and the methodology of metaphysics.

Keywords: carnap,metametaphysics
Denis Ferranti JTI-CS2-2017-CfP07-LPA-01-40 (MDD)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky 2
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CS2 (Art-187)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Novel mechanical drive disconnect for embedded Permanent Magnet machines (H2020-CS2-CFP07-2017-02, 2017)
Start date: 2018-11-01
End date: 2020-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1069675.0
EU funding (EUR): 1069675.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The scope of the topic is to develop novel mechanical drive disconnect (MDD) solutions for an electric machine. The solution will focus on rapid response to faults within harsh environments. The project will be aimed at their development and integration into new technologies that will be developed and demonstrated in WP 1.6 of LPA IADP. The Denis Ferranti group addresses this scope making use of its technical strengths in design, manufacture and testing set against a firm financial footing and unique intellectual property in relation to the topic (gearboxes, clutches, induction machines, permanent magnet). In particular, we have a patent application pertaining to a Mechanical Drive Disconnect and a patent pertaining to fire mitigations (fault tolerant architectures, mitigations to single point failures and thermal fuses) which may enable a more efficient realisation of the Rolls-Royce “mechanical disconnect” patent.

Keywords: novel mechanical drive disconnect solution for an electrical machine clutch integral part of electric machine safety reliability thermal test manage faults from cascading to the system
New wearable measurement devices for Industry 4.0 based on gaming motion-capture system (ERGOVIAkinematix)

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

ERGOVIAKinematix is a disruptive innovation in the area of Smart Factory targeted predominantly at automotive and mechanical engineering sectors. It is a complex HW&SW solution comprising wearable smart measuring device with sensors capable of eliminating magnetic field data infringement, high-capacity data unit with a Big-Data analytical tool and a unique software capable of real-time recognition and evaluation of biometric position of fingers (in 3D) based on globally used ergonomic methods. There is nothing comparable to our solution at the global market. The product solution is targeted at automotive and mechanical engineering sectors that comprise an estimated number of 5 000 companies in the EU, 16,3 mil. employees and about 250 automobile assembly and engine production plants in the Europe. Our solution is capable to identify manufacture efficiency increase up to 30% in terms of time and 25% in terms of manufacture efficiency (by means of lean operations elimination). Moreover, our specific approach (via ergonomic measurement) is primarily oriented on workers´ welfare and thus, reduces risks of most common occupational disease – musculoskeletal diseases. Concept of the product is based on customers´ feedback and identified market gap (absence of sensors resistant to metallic objects´ magnetic fields that influence the accuracy of measured data e.g. in engine manufacturing lines). We plan to implement the whole project within 30 months (6 months Phase I, 24 months Phase II). The expected costs of these two phases are app. 1,57 mil. EUR. By 2022 our project will generate a turnover of 8,75 mil. EUR and 25 new jobs created. Our goal is to have a 15% EU-market share in consultancy services by 2025.

Keywords: ergonomics,hwd methodology,big data analysis,real time data processing,kinematics
Autonomous magnetic field-based indoor location (AMFIL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Space
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Engaging SMEs in space research and development (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-03-01
End date: 2018-08-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

In hospitals, retail centers, office buildings and on the factory floor, real-time tracking of mobile assets and people can considerably improve efficiency, quality of services and security. Indoor navigation faces many challenges differing from well-established outdoor navigation technologies as high-micro-scale accuracy to data underpins interior navigable space of buildings. Current Internet-connected tracking solutions typically resort to extensive sensor networks which face many shortcomings (visibility area, coverage area, signal propagation, etc.). A universal IoT solution would offer great promises by offering real time information on where people and things are. Therefore, Devellyn is developing a RTLS based on autonomous magnetic field-based indoor location resulting from a patent family from the French Space Agency. Buildings with reinforced concrete, steel structures and large objects wraps the geomagnetic field in a spatially-varying way which can be used for navigation. Our approach consists in developing a relative positioning technology based on standalone magnetic tags which compute location by sensing magnetic field lines within a facility. The tags work just like inertial measurement units. Therefore, our technology circumvents magnetic field variations which jeopardize current solutions based on fingerprinting. Our technology offers significant advantages: no infrastructure network to be deployed on site, no initial fingerprinting, no need for extensive computing power, high accuracy. Moreover, our business model is based on a pay-for-outcomes approach which will facilitate market adoption. In the longer run, we will broaden the approach by delivering our technology to other sectors (e.g. logistics sector, manufacturing industry, etc.) so as to deliver customized value. SME Phase 1 aims at modelling structure of magnetic fields, benchmarking magnetometers, conducting market surveys, analyzing economic feasibility and assessing Freedom to Operate.

Keywords: seamless indoor location,stealth navigation,autonomous positioning,magnetic field,space technology,hospital sector,pay for outcomes
Raising summer energy poverty awareness to reduce cooling needs (COOLTORISE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Theme: Reducing energy consumption and carbon foorpint by smart and sustainable use
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Italy,Spain,Bulgaria,Greece
Call: Mitigating household energy poverty (H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1515242.5
EU funding (EUR): 1515242.5
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

Eurostat data reveals that the 11% of the total population of the European Union is unable to keep their home adequately warm. Caused by low household income, high energy bills, and low dwelling energy efficiency, energy poverty has traditionally been associated with the inability of households to meet their heating needs during winter. However, up to the 19% of households declared not being comfortably cool in summer. Nine of the 10 warmest years have occurred since 2005, with the last five years comprising the five hottest. Not to mention this 2019 June has been the hottest on record. Climate change is increasing both the severity and frequency of extreme hot weather and heat waves and in dense urban areas, these heatwave episodes will be combined with the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, worsening city centres temperatures which will negatively impact human health and wellbeing. Thus, cooling needs and overheating risk need to be incorporated into the energy poverty equation. The project COOLtoRISE aims to reduce summer energy poverty incidence among European households improving their indoor thermal habitability conditions and reducing their energy needs during the hot season, which will decrease their exposure to heat and heat-related health risks. Not all households have an air conditioning system and it is known that energy poor households make a restrictive use of heating and cooling as they cannot afford associated energy bills. However, raising awareness on summer energy poverty and implementing actions to mitigate it will have a double benefit on European households. First, heat exposure of energy poor households will be reduced by increasing indoor thermal conditions, which will decrease in their risk to suffer heat related diseases. Second, raising summer energy culture and preventing air conditioning devices to be installed can have serious benefits on climate change preventing future emissions.

Keywords: summer energy poverty,energy poverty agents,vulnerable households
Photoresponsive spin-crossover liquid crystals (Photo SCO LCs)

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: France
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2023-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 196707.84
EU funding (EUR): 196707.84
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

This proposal aims at developing a series of photoresponsive magnetic soft materials through the combination of spincrossover (SCO) property, photochromic property and liquid crystal (LC) property in a single material. The SCO property comes from the switchable electronic state between high-spin (HS, S = 2) and low-spin (LS, S = 0) state of the Fe(II) center in an octahedral coordination sphere under an external stimuli (e.g. temperature, light and pressure) and display an interconversion between diamagnetism and paramagnetism. The SCO molecules will be further decorated with long alkyl chains, which are covalently inserted by azobenzene group as photochromic unit, to display both LC and photochromic properties. The reversible cis/trans conformational change of photochromic unit is expected to change the coordination sphere of Fe(II) center and intermolecular interactions in LC systems, thus tuning the ligand field and SCO cooperativity and giving novel ligand-driven light-induced spin change effect (LD LISC) behavior. Moreover, if compared to traditional solid crystalline materials, the obtained materials will show superior characteristics, such as reversibility, faster response, and improved fabricability, allowed by the flexible nature of LCs. The obtained photoresponsive SCO LC materials will have multidisciplinary applications in prototypes of optical memory devices, displays, sensors, and switches, etc. The proposal designed by the researcher and host will make a contribution and promotion in the development of multifunctional molecular magnets, especially of photomagnetic materials.

Keywords: spin crossover,liquid crystal,photochromism,photomagnetism,ld lisc,azobenzene
Magnonic Matrix-Vector-Multiplier for Neural Network Applications (NeuroMag)

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: Belgium
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-05-22
End date: 2020-05-21
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 172800.0
EU funding (EUR): 172800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Machine learning applications based on artificial neural networks have undergone rapid progress in recent years. To improve the power efficiency over current hardware, alternative implementations of a critical part of artificial neural networks, the matrix-vector multiplier performing large-scale linear transformations, have been intensively researched. Recently, a matrix-vector multiplier based on the interference of optical waves has been proposed in combination with local adjustable electro-optic modulation of the refractive index to enable training. NeuroMag’s objective is to implement such an interference-based matrix-vector multiplier using spin waves (magnons). Magnetoelectric compound materials will be used to engineer scalable broadband transducers with high potential energy efficiency to generate, detect, and manipulate spin waves. Distinct advantages of such a spin wave implementation over a photonic one are (i) the full bidirectionality of the system since transducers can be operated both to excite as well as detect spin waves and (ii) the large tuning range of the phase velocity of spin waves (equivalent to the refractive index in photonics) by the magnetoelectric effect. Magnetoelectric transducers and low-damping Yttrium Iron Garnet magnetic media will be combined to nanofabricate a demonstrator device and study its matrix-vector multiplier operation. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines materials science, physics, microwave engineering, and device nanofabrication, NeuroMag thus targets the ground-breaking proof-of-concept of a magnonic matrix-vector multiplier and its operation, paving the way towards magnonic artificial neural networks. The combination of learning through research and a comprehensive training plan, including both scientific and technological as well as soft skills, will strongly enhance the researcher profile of the applicant and provide a boost for his future scientific career.

Keywords: spin waves,magnonics,neural networks,machine learning,nanoelectronics,wave based computing