Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Creating the CPS Vision, Strategy, Technology Building Blocks and Supporting Ecosystem for Future CPS Platforms (Platforms4CPS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Germany,Sweden,France,France,United Kingdom
Call: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (H2020-ICT-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2016-11-01
End date: 2018-10-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 998900.0
EU funding (EUR): 998900.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Support for development and integration of Cyber-Physical Systems is seen as essential for the future. As the embedded world meets the Internet world there will be an increasing number of interacting systems with strong connectivity utilised in both society and in industry. Platforms4CPS targets the transport, manufacturing, energy and health sectors. Europe is a world leader in the area of time-critical and safety-critical systems and to maintain this position there is a need to be able to design, develop and deploy highly distributed and connected digital technologies. There is a move towards increased autonomy and a need to meet demanding safety, security, power efficiency, performance, size and cost constraints. Underlying this is a need to develop a foundational background to create the “science of systems integration” to manage the complexity of future CPS. Platforms for CPS deployment are also seen as being key for the future, however, these can only become successful if a supporting ecosystem of developers and users is created. Platforms4CPS thus aims to “create the vision, strategy, technology building blocks and supporting ecosystem for future CPS applications” with three key objectives to: - Create a vision and strategy for future European CPS by analyzing the ecosystem and market perspective and strategically updating and validating existing CPS roadmaps across multiple domains - Promote platform building, bringing together industry and academic experts and create a repository of CPS technology building blocks - Build an ecosystem by creating a constituency and through cooperating with ECSEL, ITEA, and ARTEMIS projects on the foundations of CPS engineering, and consensus-building on societal and legal issues related to the deployment of CPS The overall objective directly addresses the call objectives in ICT 1-2016b to maintain and develop Europe’s competitive lead in CPS by capitalizing and bringing together expertise for successful exploitation of ICT

Keywords: platforms,roadmapping,consituency building,collaboration with artemis itea ecsel,market study,showcases,cps repository,forum,societal legal consensus,sustainable cps alliance,sme involvement
Disrupting the global e-mobility sector by production of application-specific rotors for the automotive industry with an innovative and unique vertical laminar squeeze-casting process (HPC-rotors)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Germany
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3160170.0
EU funding (EUR): 2212119.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Breuckmann is a traditional casting company, which was founded in 1966. The company is worldwide known as specialist for casting in metallic moulds at temperatures >1000°C and developed to one of the most innovative casting companies in Europe. In recent years, Breuckmann developed an innovative vertical laminar squeeze-casting process. By the developed vertical laminar squeeze-casting process, an even laminar form filling without the formation of melt fronts is realised. This enables the production of high-performance cast rotors for automotive industry with minimal porosity, high conductivity and excellent properties for use in high speed concepts. In accordance to the requirements and the specific scopes of application in automotive sector, the high-performance cast rotors can be produced with pure copper for efficiency optimised drives, pure aluminium for weight and cost optimised drives and copper alloy for highest speed concepts. By the innovative casting technology, an innovative tool concept and a ceramic coating system, a high level of automation can be achieved and the quality requirements in automotive industry can be met. Due to this the, expansion of electric vehicles with asynchronous motors receives a decisive boost. This means the substitution of permanently excited synchronous motors and the avoidance of rare earths. The global market for electric vehicles is a very strongly emerging market, estimated to grow rapidly at a CAGR of 35% with over 60 million expected car sales in 2040 and expecting to boom in the 2020s. The distribution of the future players in the e-mobility market will be now and will have taken place in the next 3 to 5 years. Due to this, Breuckmann is willing to join forces to establish a strong market position in the e-mobility sector now. During the first 5 years of commercialisation, Breuckmann expects to generate cumulative revenues of 40 million € and establish at least 50 new jobs.

Keywords: asynchronous motors,electric drive,copper alloy,aluminium,ceramic coating,minimal porosity,high efficiency,co2 reduction,rare earth free,traction drive,e motor,production process,industry
RNA in disease (RiboMed)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Spreading excellence and widening participation
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Israel,Germany,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Twinning (H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-03, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2023-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 799750.0
EU funding (EUR): 799750.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM) ranks among the top research institutions in Portugal. However, the institute faces constraints related to reduced availability of national research funding and access to cutting-edge resources and scientific infrastructure. This twinning proposal (RiboMed) was set on the strategic vision of iMM to boost its recently enlarged community of young RNA researchers. In fact, while iMM has well-established communities working on neuroscience, immunology and infection, RNA biology is only now starting to expand as we recognize its centrality in human health. Our strategy includes: 1) Promoting scientific excellence through the implementation of joint research projects between iMM and the twinning partners. We will strengthen existing interactions and promote new collaborations through short-term staff exchanges, expert visits and joint lab retreats; 2) Nurturing a community of self-challenging and ambitious students and early-stage researchers at iMM by ensuring their early integration in international training and mentoring networks, facilitating conference attendance, and organizing summer schools, thematic courses and on-site training; 3) Raising international awareness of iMM through mobility of researchers, targeted dissemination and communication activities, and on-site organization of workshops and a major international conference; 4) Consolidating the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem at iMM through translation of basic findings into potential novel RNA biomarkers, RNA-based diagnostic assays and RNA therapeutic targets. We believe RiboMed is exceptionally timely, as it will allow the recently settled young RNA researchers to thrive at iMM. This, in turn, will place the institute in Lisbon within the core of European laboratories that are carrying on frontier research on how transcription and RNA processing shape and define the complexity of human disease.

Keywords: rna biology,rna biomarkers,rna therapeutics,ageing,cardiovascular diseases,neurodegenerative disorders,cancer
Support for the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to facilitate the preparation of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) (AR6)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Theme: Protection of the environment, sustainable management of natural resources, water , biodiversity and ecosystems
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: IPCC secretariat (H2020-IBA-SC5-IPCC-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-06-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 5000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the key global climate science-policy interface, underpinning international climate change policy-making and is the leading global body responsible for the scientific assessment of climate change. In preparation of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), support will be provided to increase the participation of experts from developing countries and economies in transition, should their governments not be in a position to provide appropriate funding, to the IPCC process. Support will also be provided to enhance the visibility of the IPCC products globally.

Keywords: climate change,adaptation,mitigation,impacts,vulnerability
The neoMONSTERS Within: The Others in India’s Science Fiction (neoMONSTERS)

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: Norway
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-09-05
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 214158.72
EU funding (EUR): 214158.72
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The Science Fiction (SF) of a spatio-temporal location is a window into the soul of a people. It manifests the “cultural unease” that specific identities evoke in the national imagination. SF not only demonstrates how contesting ideologies slug it out within the ring of the popular but also interrogates how metaphorical reimaginings of the ‘other’ are projected on and by a people’s collective psyche. This proposed action maps India’s fictional futures and the state of its religious and political minorities through a study of its (SF) monsters. It explores how India’s popular imagination engages with a ‘Maoist’ China, ‘Islamic’ Pakistan, ‘Western’ transnational capitalism/neo-imperialism and Hindu Nationalism in and via its SF. The action argues that alterity in Indian SF – and hence, in India – is primarily contingent upon the discourses of nationhood (vis-à-vis Pakistan/China/U.S./Europe), religion (e.g. Islam, Christianity) and political orientation (e.g. Islamism, Maoism, Capitalism). It also seeks to comprehend how the ‘others’ of Indian SF (aliens, zombies, clones, mutants, robots, AI and monsters) become referents of religion, ethnicity and political orientation. Appropriating core methods of Science Fiction Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Digital Humanities, Game Studies and Transmedial Narratology, this action delves into the mechanics of otherness and its negotiation with contemporary South Asian geopolitics. Through its emphasis on post-2000 narratives selected from across mediums, the action spans across the extrapolations of tomorrow (e.g. future wars, religious dystopias) and the distortions of the present (e.g. zombie apocalypses, robot uprisings). It hunts for India’s such neoMONSTERS: Mutagenic Ontological Narratives in Space-Time Echoing Realistic Situations.

Keywords: science fiction,south asian studies,india,hindu nationalism,political islam,jihadism,communism,monster theory,pulp fiction,science fiction studies,popular fiction,bollywood
Gaming for Peace (GAP)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Ireland,Ireland,Ireland,Finland,Poland,Poland,Bulgaria,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal,United Kingdom
Call: Conflict prevention and peace building topic 2: Training curricula for Conflict Prevention and Peace Building personnel (H2020-BES-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-09-01
End date: 2019-02-28
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2035437.5
EU funding (EUR): 2035437.5
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

EU Personnel in Conflict Prevention and Peace Building missions come from diverse organizations and nations, yet must coordinate together in the temporary network or umbrella organization that comprises each CPPB mission. Coordination is challenging strategically and operationally. Even if the structures to coordinate together are in place, diversity in organizations (militaries, police forces, civil organizations), gender and culture (national, ethnicity, religion) make understanding of diverse personnel, and effective communication and cooperation in contexts of diversity difficult yet vital in order to achieve CPPB missions' goals. Current training puts few resources into training personnel in these critical soft skills. Gaming for Peace (GAP) provides an efficient and effective means of developing and delivering a curriculum in those skills. Deriving a base curriculum from CPPB relevant soft skills and end user identified training gaps in this area, GAP designs a multiple player online role playing game which simulates scenarios from CPPB missions. The GAP project launches an iterative process of curriculum development and refinement through end users (military, police and civilian personnel) evaluating the game and embedded base curriculum by playing the game and in doing so, bringing their own experiences to the game, thus further developing the curriculum of CPPB relevant soft skills. The game can be accessed anywhere via the Internet and there is no limit on the number of personnel who can be trained. The game can be customized at low cost by different stakeholders. The GAP consortium is multidisciplinary with expertise in the social sciences, computer science, end users (including militaries and police), and SMEs in game design, curriculum development and skill standardization and harmonization, and has support from stakeholders including the ESDC, UN bodies and NATO.

Keywords: virtual training,online game,roleplaying,curriculum development,soft skills,conflict prevention and peacebuilding,diversity,gender,culture,coordination,organization,communication
The most cost-efficient video ad creation platform; +5.000.000 video-minutes per hour of hyper-personalised videos instantly and at massive scale (TheMotion)

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: 2017-10-01
End date: 2019-03-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2166250.0
EU funding (EUR): 1516375.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

TheMotion is the most cost-efficient platform to massively and instantly produce personalised video ads at costs as low as 0.01€ per minute of video. TheMotion allows any company with a digital catalogue to automatically create thousands of video ads for each catalogue item and to make that each video is automatically personalised to march the viewer interests and maximise conversion. Our ambition is to replace traditional video ads production in the online advertising market turning it into a massive service affordable by virtually any company irrespective of their size and turnover. After 2 years of development and +4M€ invested, TheMotion was launched in the Spanish market in November 2016. Since its launch TheMotion has produced +1 million videos and demonstrated the technology performance with key customers such as eBay, Meliá, Vodafone, Adglow or Privalia generating unprecedented results (CTR x3,75; conversion x1.8; CTR vide/static +90%). This project will allow us to further automate the production process multiplying TheMotion production capacity by x100 (from 50.000 video-minutes per hour to 5.000.000 video-minutes per hour). Technology will be upscaled and demonstrated allowing TheMotion to expand globally becoming one of the world’s biggest players in the video ad production. By 2022 TheMotion expects to have grown to +100 FTE reaching +3.000 customers, gross sales of +18M€ and EBITDA +6M€. To reach our ambitious goals TheMotion has brought together some of the most renowned technological experts in the field, entrepreneurs that have successfully managed startups that became ‘centaurs’ such as Tuenti, LaNeveraRoja and private investors such as Nicolas Luca de Tena. TheMotion disruptive technology and business model have been already recognised with international awards such as the “most scalable product” award at the South Summit in October 2016 and the first prize in the 4YFN (4 Years From Now) Digital Media Award in the Mobile World Congress 2017.

Keywords: automatic video production,online advertising,rendering,big data
Elucidating Mechanisms of Bladder Cancer Metastasis (EMBRACE)

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: Netherlands
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 177598.8
EU funding (EUR): 177598.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Bladder cancer is the ninth most afflicted cancer in the world which affects people in both developing and developed countries; and European nations have some of the highest incidences. Poor prognosis and mortality rate is very often linked to formation of secondary tumour sites in these patients. In advanced stages of this cancer, cells strive to invade nearby tissues in a process called metastasis. More often than not, patients suffer more due to metastasis of cancer than through the original tumour. In this project, I will investigate the mechanisms which lead to bladder cancer metastasis; identify key components in the pathways and also test out specific inhibitors to mitigate the growth and/or metastasis. Having an acute knowledge of ‘how and which’ pathway(s) promote metastasis in bladder cancer should provide us with information so that specific components can be targeted. Moreover, the proposed study also focuses on developing state-of-the-art biomarker strategies to identify patient populations which will best benefit from our inhibitor therapies. This project will enable the translation of experimental results obtained from lab bench to understanding how some patients will best benefit from certain inhibitor therapies.

Keywords: ubiquitin,kinase,bladder cancer,transforming growth factor beta,hepatocyte growth factor
Local Edaphic Adaptation in Plants through Leveraging an Extremophile Model (LEAP-EXTREME)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced 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: Germany
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-10-01
End date: 2024-09-30
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498675.0
EU funding (EUR): 2498675.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The discontinuous mosaic of soil compositions on the Earth’s changeable surface intermittently requires the adaptation of plants as crucial mediators for ecosystems with the inorganic lithosphere harbouring all nutrient, but also toxic minerals. Only few gene variants have been implicated in local soil adaptation. There is a general lack of information about their relation with soil composition in the field, the manner in which such adaptations function and evolve, and why they arise in some taxa but never in others. To answer these questions, we will take advantage of the repeated evolution and the unusually large phenotypic ranges for multiple edaphic traits in Arabidopsis halleri. This species has undergone uniquely divergent natural selection for increased hyperaccumulation in leaves of the toxic metals zinc and cadmium as well as metal hypertolerance on ordinary soils, and for enhanced hypertolerance involving attenuated metal hyperaccumulation on heavy metal-contaminated soils. Capitalizing on the most comprehensive collection ever established of a wild extremophile, and with a pioneering approach recording critical field data for each genotype, we will conduct large-scale genome resequencing and identify multi-trait multi-gene associations, complemented by genetic linkage mapping based on crosses. Local edaphic adaptation causal variants will be placed into the context of metal homeostasis network architecture and plasticity using transcriptomics, and we will comparatively evaluate mutation rates in A. halleri under ecologically relevant edaphic conditions. Implementing state-of-the-art genome-enabled and novel phenotyping methodologies in this wild and biologically complex species will require continuous pioneering developments. Our work will deliver novel fundamental insights into local adaptation in plants and identify large-effect gene variants with potential for applications in environmental restoration, biotechnology and crop breeding.

Keywords: microevolution,extremophile,heavy metal tolerance,metal hyperaccumulation