Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable (MATS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Uganda,Spain,South Africa,Germany,Italy,Italy,Belgium,Belgium,Tanzania, United Republic of,Switzerland,Greece,Greece,Finland,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call: Agricultural markets and international trade in the context of sustainability objectives (H2020-RUR-2020-2, 2020)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2024-12-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3999726.25
EU funding (EUR): 3999726.25
Participants: 15
Project status: SIGNED

MATS aims to identify key leverage points for changes in agricultural trade policy that foster the positive and reduce the negative impacts of trade on environmental sustainability and human well-being. Focus is on improving the design, governance and implementation of trade regimes and policies at private sector, national, EU, African and global levels. The key operational features of MATS are: a) a set of 15 in-depth country, regional and product case studies to provide a deeper understanding of the conditions for sustainable trade, an integrated multi-model simulation and assessment of linkages with agricultural market, trade and investment dynamics, and an analy-sis of institutional, regulatory and legal frameworks; b) a multi-stakeholder backcasting approach that builds on recent research related to transformative change and social innovation, and that uses novel participatory methods and platforms to explore transition pathways towards sustainable trade; c) a clustering with other trade-related research projects to benefit from synergies, and a major role for sector representatives, social movements and policymakers in framing analyses, co-assessing linkages, and deriving policy recommendations. MATS has the ambition to set a new benchmark in trade policy analysis. The main project outputs will be: (1) New quantitative and qualitative insights on the interactions between agricultural markets, trade, investments, policy, environmental sustainability and human well-being. (2) A set of Discussion Papers and Policy Briefs, incl. recommendations for enhancing the coherence of agricultural and trade policies with the SDGs. (3) An enhanced civil society–stakeholder–policy dialogue that is supported by an evidence-based communication platform – the Sustainable Trade Hub. (4) A set of innovative research tools for the analysis of the interactions between agricultural trade, agricultural investments, policy, environmental sustainability and human well-being.

Keywords: agriculture,food,sustainable trade,investment,sustainability,impact,food security,hunger,poverty,policy coherence,governance,foresight,transition pathways,transdisciplinary,africa
Forward Flow Infusion - Low Cost Composite Manufacturing Process for High Volume Production (FFI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-11-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Fibre reinforced polymer composites are used in many markets including industrial mouldings, marine, wind energy and aerospace. They are produced by embedding load-bearing fibres into a thermosetting or thermoplastic resin matrix. Depending on the choice of fibre, resin and their physical structure, a wide range of properties can be obtained and in large part this explains their widespread use. Available manufacturing processes include hand or spray layup, resin transfer moulding (RTM), compression moulding, vacuum infusion and the use of pre-impregnated materials, which are normally consolidated in pressurised autoclaves. The choice of fibre, fabric and matrix materials influence processing requirements, so that selecting a manufacturing process is a complex decision taking into account material properties, cost, quality, capital expenditure and the number of parts to be manufactured. Composite manufacturing processes are slow, labour intensive and consequently costly. For example, RTM requires high capital investment for tooling and resin injection equipment. Prepreg materials are expensive to purchase and the cost of autoclaves is only justified for high value applications. Vacuum infusion is slow with ongoing consumable costs. Although the use of composites has increased in aerospace and wind energy markets, high manufacturing costs continue to hold back composites growth, particularly in high volume markets. Forward Composites has a solution to the above issues. We have demonstrated a new process where infusion time can be reduced by over 80% and materials costs can be reduced by up to 75% compared to prepregs. Once fully commercialised, labour savings will be realised through automation and cure times will be reduced using localised heating and cooling solutions. Initially, we plan to exploit opportunities in automotive chassis manufacture. Longer term, we will expand our use of the process and license the technology to other composites manufacturers.

Keywords: composite manufacture infusion high volume low cost
Neutrinos and the origin of the cosmic rays (NEUCOS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Panel description: Particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-09-01
End date: 2020-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1746000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1746000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The discovery of cosmic neutrinos is one of the major breakthroughs in science in the year 2013. These neutrinos are expected to point back to the origin of the cosmic rays, which are produced in the most powerful accelerators in the universe. In order to solve the puzzle where the highest energetic neutrinos and cosmic rays come from, the key information could be the composition of the observed cosmic ray flux. The question critical for the future development of high-energy astrophysics is especially how heavier nuclei can be accelerated and escape from the sources, such as gamma-ray bursts or active galactic nuclei, without disintegration, or what the consequences for the neutrino fluxes and cosmic ray compositions at the sources are. Neutrinos, on the other hand, may be good for surprises, such as new physics only detectable at extreme energies, distances, or densities. In addition, the possibility to measure neutrino properties in neutrino telescopes has been emerging, either using astrophysical or atmospheric neutrino fluxes, which means that the border line between neutrino physics and astrophysics applications in these experiments fades. The key idea of this proposal is therefore to combine the expertise from astrophysics and particle physics in a multi-disciplinary working group 1) to study the effect of heavy nuclei on the source fluxes from multiple messengers, such as a neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gamma-rays, using efficient descriptions for the radiation processes and particle interactions, and 2) to optimize future experiment infrastructure in ice and sea water for both astro- and particle physics applications. The key goals are to eventually identify the origin of the cosmic rays and cosmic neutrinos, and to solve the open questions in particle physics, such as neutrino mass hierarchy and leptonic CP violation.
Monolithic Optoelectronic Devices on Silicon (MODES)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-07-01
End date: 2018-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175419.6
EU funding (EUR): 175419.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays, microelectronics set the pace for the whole knowledge-based economy and society in terms of the ever rising demand for mobile devices and the exponentially growing internet data transfer. However, the widening gap between the increasing number of transistors on a single Si chip and the delivered performance indicates the approaching limits of classical device scaling. Additionally, this miniaturization results in severe energy dissipation in the interconnection of devices. A smart way to overcome this emerging power consumption crisis is to avoid heating by replacing the on-chip and/or chip-to-chip electrical interconnects with optical interconnects. Due to their direct bandgap, III-V compounds are ideal for the integration of photonics with Si-based electronics on the very same chip. This would enable large-scale optoelectronics integration hindered so far by coupling- and overlay issues introduced by state-of-the-art III-V bonding on Silicon. MODES will develop and investigate a novel approach for self-aligned monolithic integration of active and passive III-V optoelectronic devices on a Silicon platform. It focuses on the optimization of GaAs- and InP-based III-V growth within customized oxide templates. Moreover, this research aims at designing and fabricating doped, defect-free III-V heterostructures for electrically-driven optoelectronic devices integrated on Si. Owing to his experience in epitaxy as well as fabrication and characterization of group IV photonics, i.e. laser devices, the fellow complements ideally the competences of the group in III-V epitaxy and fabrication as well as knowledge of design and characterization of optoelectronic devices. Three objectives will be pursued: 1) Growth and integration of III-V material with Si-on-insulator waveguides 2) Design and fabrication of passive and active photonic devices based on integrated III-V materials and Si waveguides 3) Optical and electrical characterization of the photonic components.

Keywords: iii v active optoelectronics,monolithic integration on si,mocvd,si photonics
SenseGuard – A breakthrough respiratory monitoring device incorporating novel nanotechnology-based sensors (SenseGuard)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Israel
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1, 2019)
Start date: 2019-05-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 5.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Respiratory rate is a vital sign used to monitor the progression of illness both in hospitals and at home, particularly when dealing with at-risk patients. The continuous monitoring is key for patients with respiratory conditions (i.e. asthma), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) or pneumonia, with cardiovascular conditions, as well as elderly with comorbidities and prematurely born babies or babies with respiratory conditions. SenseGuard respiratory monitoring device - is a decision support tool that assists practitioners in better monitoring patients with respiratory conditions like and at risks of deterioration. SenseGuard enables effective generation of alerts to clinical personnel, at the earliest moment following a change in patient’s status, at the hospital or at home. Due to its direct and high-resolution respiratory sensors, SenseGuard is able to continuously monitor pulmonary function on a breath-to-breath basis, unmatched by other technologies. SenseGuardTM can effectively monitor all at-risk patients. NanoVation is an Israeli SME, founded in 2014, which develops and integrates nanomaterial-based sensors for medical applications and general purposes. Run by an experienced and multi-disciplinary team, NanoVation was granted several EU and non-EU projects, one of which awarded the 2018 Innovation Award by the European Commission. So far, NanoVation has raised and invested more than € 2.5M into the development of SenseGuard. To have it fully projected at a European and global level, NanoVation needs a further investment of €2.2M to complete product development and set up a solid EU value chain. The proposed work in Phase 1 of the SME instrument fits into the company overall plan to reach the market by contributing the financial resources needed to plan a fast sound wider deployment of SenseGuard and its market uptake.

Keywords: diagnostic tool,respiratory sensor,critical care,copd,remote monitoring device
Researchers in the Knowledge Triangle (K-TRIO 4)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European researchers' Night
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Countries involved: Bulgaria,Bulgaria,Bulgaria,Bulgaria,Bulgaria,Bulgaria
Call: European Researchers' Night (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2020-05-01
End date: 2021-01-31
Duration (months): 9.0
Total project cost (EUR): 117098.75
EU funding (EUR): 114100.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Since 2006, members of EURAXESS Bulgaria have organised 12 European Researchers Nights (ERN), and have attracted several new consortium members with different profiles – universities, research institutes, NGOs, entrepreneurs. Based on past experience, the main goal of Researchers in the Knowledge Triangle (K-TRIO 4) project is to bring researchers closer to society, attract young people to STEM and boost citizens science. The project will contribute for increasing the number of researchers and innovators in Bulgaria by making the society, and young people, aware of excellent European achievements in research and innovation, and of the success of Centres of Excellence (CoE) and Centres of Competence and their contribution to the Intelligent Strategy for Smart Specialisation in Bulgaria and regional development. Aware of the need of changing stereotypes and nurturing a new culture in research and innovation, the consortium will make young people aware of the multiple career paths of researchers (incl. MSC fellows), best-practice examples of researchers achievements, and research infrastructure in Bulgaria. Special emphasis will be made on European policy and on funding for research and innovation provided by EU RTD programs and Structural Funds. With a large variety of pre-events, online activities and 2-days ERN events in many Bulgarian cities, the project will create greater understanding on how research and innovation contribute for well-being of people and sustainable development, and highlight the common European efforts for building Digital Single market, Factories of the Future, Smart Cities, and take full advantage of BIG Data and Cloud computing. With the involvement of all CoE UNITe partners, and their large network, in addition to EURAXESS Bulgaria, K-TRIO 4 will cover all Bulgarian regions. Forum Science will guide a professional science communication, and ensure greater visibility of K-TRIO 4 activities.

Keywords: researchers career,attracting talents
Gravitational Waves of Holographic Neutron Stars (GWOHNS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2023-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 224933.76
EU funding (EUR): 224933.76
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal aims at making substantial progress on the theoretical understanding of neutron stars (NSs) by constructing holographic models for the matter inside the stars and by developing a novel tool for high-resolution NS merger simulations. The first observation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a NS merger in August 2017 by the LIGO observatory induced huge interest that goes far beyond the scientific expert community. Many more observations are expected in the near future and progress in the theoretical understanding of NS mergers is therefore sorely needed. We propose an entirely new approach and construct equations of state (EoSs), using the gauge-gravity duality (“holography” for short), for the NS matter in merger simulations. Holography establishes an effective framework to model subatomic matter at densities relevant for NSs, where traditional methods like perturbation theory, lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), and low-energy effective theories are not applicable. In that way we will generate predictions for the merger dynamics and the gravitational waveforms, which will lead to additional theoretical insights when confronted with future observations. Applying holography to NS merger physics is a completely new concept and potentially opens a new field of holographic gravitational wave model building. The proposal has a strong multidisciplinary character as it combines aspects of string theory, high energy physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics, numerical relativity and high performance computing (HPC) and will therefore lead to interest and progress in all these fields.

Keywords: neutron star merger,numerical relativity,holography,equation of state
Early Arabic Printing for the Arab Christians. Cultural Transfers between Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Near-East in the 18th century (TYPARABIC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Cultures and cultural production
Panel description: Literary studies, cultural studies, study of the arts, philosophy
Countries involved: Romania
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2019-ADG, 2019)
Start date: 2021-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The main objective of the Project is to examine the circumstances and outcomes of printing in Arabic with Arabic type in the 18th century Greater Syria (modern Syria and Lebanon), for Byzantine-rite and Catholic Arab Christians. It addresses the connections between Eastern Europe and the Arab Christians of the Ottoman Empire and the social progress brought by the print culture. It focuses on the transfer of printing technology from Moldavia and Wallachia (the Romanian Principalities) to the Ottoman provinces, for the benefit of the Arab Christians. It aims to yield a systematic, detailed inventory of the Arabic books printed in 1701-1800 in the Romanian Principalities and Greater Syria. Several other objectives are included: circumstances of the opening of Arabic presses in Ottoman-ruled provinces; the Antiochian Christians’ ties to Moldavia, Wallachia and Ukraine; the Western European printers’ support to Catholic Arabs; the role of printing in preserving Christian traditions and sanctioning the usage of Arabic in the Church; the contribution of printing to the Arab Renaissance (Nahḍa, 1820s). Presses to be surveyed: in Moldavia and Wallachia, Snagov (1701), Bucharest (1702) and Iași (1743-1747); in Greater Syria, Aleppo (1705-1711), Deyr el-Shuweyr (1734-1800) and Beirut (1750-1753). Other presses will be considered: Qozhaya (Lebanon), where a Book of Psalms was printed in 1610 in Syriac and Arabic (with Syriac type); and Istanbul, where a Turkish-language press worked after 1727 with Arabic type. The study corpus encloses forty-five books so far, with possible additions. They will be surveyed in terms of their content (Greek and Syriac sources, Arabic versions and their authors, variations, printing programmes) and their form (formatting, iconography, ornaments, artistic influences). The Project focuses on philological and codicological themes, addressing print culture, Christian Arabic literature and cultural transfers between Eastern Europe and the Arab East.

Keywords: printing,arab christians,arabic language,arabic type,eastern europe,greater syria,ottoman empire,18th century
Privacy-preserving Services On The Internet (PSOTI)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Germany
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2019-STG, 2019)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2025-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499775.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499775.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Today, when using services on the Internet, users have to fully entrust a single service provider with their data. Many of these service providers are located outside the EU and there are cases where data has not only been leaked by attacks of outsiders or insiders, but also by governments who built backdoors into software or hardware, or forced service providers to give out sensitive user data. With the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) also companies have an obligation to properly protect users’ data. My project PSOTI will eliminate the need to trust a single service provider and empower users to freely control their data. For this, the users can choose a subset of multiple service providers that they are willing to trust who jointly process their data and privacy is guaranteed even if all but one are compromised. The main goal of PSOTI is to develop privacy-preserving services for commonly used tasks on the Internet that are feature-rich and efficient enough for practical use. This will allow to privately store, retrieve, search, and process data, and help to comply with the GDPR and preserve the fundamental rights to privacy and the protection of personal data. As underlying technology, we will build a real-world secure multi-party computation (MPC) framework that can also be used for other large-scale privacy-preserving applications such as genomics or machine learning. To achieve our main goal, we will solve the following challenges: 1) Develop private query protocols on outsourced data that process complex queries such as Boolean formulas over string matches or range queries, and even hide the query’s structure. 2) Build a real-world MPC framework that scales to large functionalities, is highly parallelized, interoperable, and fully integrated. 3) Demonstrate real-world applicability for privacy-preserving and feature-rich services on the Internet such as file storage (going beyond Dropbox), surveys (going beyond Google Forms), and email.

Keywords: privacy enhancing technologies,secure computation