Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Infrared imaging and sensing: the single-photon frontier (IRIS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Panel description: Electrical, electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-06-01
End date: 2019-11-30
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1792906.0
EU funding (EUR): 1592955.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Infrared sensing technology has a central role to play in addressing 21st century global challenges in healthcare, security and environmental sensing. Promising new applications hinge on the ability to detect individual quanta of light: single photons. At infrared wavelengths this is a formidable task due to the low photon energy, and commercial-off-the-shelf technologies fall far short of the required performance. IRIS will engineer revolutionary photon counting infrared imaging and sensing solutions, with unprecedented spectral range, efficiency, timing resolution and low noise. Using state-of-the-art materials and nanofabrication techniques, novel superconducting detector technology will be scaled up from single pixels to large area photon counting arrays. Efficient readout and optical coupling solutions will be developed and implemented. IRIS will exploit space age cryogenic technology to create compact and mobile detector systems. IRIS will deploy these systems for the first time in revolutionary infrared imaging and sensing applications: dosimetry for laser based cancer treatment, atmospheric remote sensing of greenhouse gases and real-time distributed fibre sensing for geothermal energy.

Keywords: infrared detector,remote sensing,superconducting detector,superconducting device,photon counting,single photon detection
A reliable and transparent solid biofuels online quality control system (OPTIFUEL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon energy system (H2020-SMEINST-1-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2014-10-01
End date: 2015-01-31
Duration (months): 4.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Ultimate target is to develop a reliable and transparent online solid biofuels quality control system and concept that enables for the biomass power plants: - Reduces energy production costs 1-5 % - Increases plants efficiency 0,1 - 1 % - Reduces GHG emissions by 5-10 % in the whole production chain. - Reduces the need of sampling and laboratory analysis by 70-90 % - Enables up to 1 million euros savings per power plant in investment costs compared to current automatic sampling systems - Payback time less than 2 years In the EU level the exploiting of the system decreases greenhouse gas emissions annually by up to 500 000 tons, increases renewable energy production and increases EU’s self-sufficiency in biofuels. The size of the market is estimated to be over one billion euros. In bioenergy production the solid fuel quality and especially moisture content and share of foreign matter are the key parameters. The water content of the fuel is a parameter used in the regulations of some manufacturers to manage the settings of a biomass boiler. But it is also essential for verifying energy content of the fuel delivered to the power plant which is base for fuel pricing. Solid biofuels often contains foreign matter such as stones, sand, soil and also metals that lowers energy content and increases operation and maintenance costs in the power plant. High moisture content and amount of foreign matter in biofuels increases operation and maintenance (O&M) costs for the whole production chain. Current practise of biofuel quality control is based mainly on manual sampling and laboratory analysis method which is uncertain and requires a lot of manual work. Inray’s technology that enables solid biofuels online quality data that can be used in optimizing power plant’s processes. Specific objectives for this feasibility study are: End-user survey, Partner search, IPR survey and Elaborated Business plan development.

Keywords: solid biofuels,bioenergy,online moisture measurement,x ray technology
Virtual reality fitting simulation for electronic e-commerce (SP3D)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (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

Virtual fitting simulation for fashion e-commerce ShapeMe3D brings the latest 3D technology to commercial applications opening the door to a new way of e-commerce. We focus on both a unique user experience and business efficiency to maximize e-commerce's potential. Through a unique combination of virtual reality, CAD and 3D technologies ShapeMe3D develops an innovative solution for customers to try-on clothes on their mobile devices. Online fashion industry proved to be very inefficient and it losses worldwide Billions of dollars just on returned goods. In European countries, return rates vary between 30% such is the case in Spain and 48% in case of Germany. The cost of returned goods includes not just the freight cost but also pays it’s told on customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and environmental contamination increasing unnecessary waste and pollution. Physical stores has little technology integration and customers are demanding changes, new experiences, new ways of shopping. Also Online customer experience is so limited; in fact 74% of people with access to Internet feel unserved. This people will not buy clothes Online unless they could try them first. What Online-shopping experience offers, although convenient, it is far from the traditional shopping experience and even farther from it’s truly potential. ShapeMe3D is the solution for the future e-commerce.

Keywords: bringing 4d models to commercial applications
The chemical understanding of biomolecular recognition in epigenetics (ChemEpigen)

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: Netherlands,Denmark
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2016-STG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2022-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1266890.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The ultimate aim of this ERC project is to provide a comprehensive and complete understanding, at the atomic-level of sophistication, of genuinely important biomolecular recognition processes in epigenetics that play key roles in human health and disease. At the biochemical level, epigenetics refers to mechanisms, such as enzymatic modifications of DNA and posttranslational modifications of the associated histone proteins, that regulate the activity of human genes. The proposed work aims to address epigenetics using the physical-organic chemistry approach that enables the elucidation of the elemental processes with unprecedented molecular/atomic detail. The project will experimentally and computationally examine non-covalent interactions between three essential constituents of the epigenetic biomolecular system, namely epigenetic proteins, histones and water, at the level of short histone peptides, intact histone proteins, the nucleosome assembly and nucleosome arrays. Our programme, built on synergistic thermodynamic, structural and computational studies, aims to unravel i) the underlying chemical origin of methyllysine-containing histones in epigenetics, ii) the chemical basis for the recognition of methylarginine-containing histones in epigenetic processes, and iii) the role of unstructured histone tails in biomolecular recognition, which together form the three main structural elements found in the epigenetic framework. Results from this work will be important from both a fundamental molecular perspective as well as from the biomedical perspective, because proteins involved in epigenetic regulation processes are currently regarded as important targets for numerous therapeutic interventions, most notably for cancer treatment.

Keywords: epigenetics,histone,molecular recognition,physical organic chemistry
European E-Infrastructure Services Gateway (eInfraCentral)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Support and infrastructures
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Belgium,Greece,Greece,Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call: Support to policies and international cooperation for e-infrastructures (H2020-INFRASUPP-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499037.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499037.5
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

EInfraCentral's mission is to ensure that by 2020 a broader/ more varied set of users (including industry) benefits from European infrastructures. A common approach to defining and monitoring e-infrastructures services will increase their uptake. It will also enhance understanding of where improvement can be made in delivering services. The challenge is to shift towards an e-Infrastructure ''market place'' to initiate new service offerings and to engage with a broader set of users and needs. This will be achieved through an exchange of know-how between e-infrastructures consultations with a broad range of existing or potential users. EInfraCentral will pursue 3 specific objectives: 1. Structure an open and guided discussion between e-infrastructures to consensually define a common service catalogue 2. Develop a one-stop shop portal for users to browse the service catalogue and enhance the monitoring of key performance indicators that focus on availability and quality of services and user satisfaction 3. Draw policy lessons for a future European e-infrastructure market place as an extension of the common service catalogue and portal (incorporating a larger number of e-infrastructures). Key highlights of the proposal are: 1.A multidisciplinary team combining technical knowledge & insights from the e-infrastructure community with independent expertise in community building consultation, policy and data mapping and monitoring 2. A co-design process that will involve funders, the e-research infrastructure community and a representative user group (incl. SMEs) 3. On-going user interaction will guide the design and development of the eInfraCentral portal (as the main entry point to European e-infrastructures services) in two phases: a prototype with a first set of services and a full release with a KPI dashboard 4. Reinforce collaboration between e-infrastructures and optimise access to and increase uptake of e-infrastructures services by end users.

Keywords: e infrastructures,service catalogue,key performance indicators,users,open science
Studying Secondary Nucleation for the Intensification of Continuous Crystallization (SNICC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and processes engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2017-ADG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-07-01
End date: 2024-03-31
Duration (months): 69.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Many products in the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industry are produced as powders through a crystallization process. Continuous crystallization has been for decades the process of choice for large-scale production, for instance of sugar, table salt, adipic acid, and has become more recently a key component of the new paradigm, i.e. the continuous manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients. All product crystals of continuous crystallization processes are formed through secondary nucleation, which is both ubiquitous and elusive. Research has left several key questions unanswered, such as about where and how secondary nuclei are formed, either from the parent crystal due to collisions or from the solution layer around it due to fluid shear; or about the rate at which secondary nuclei are generated, with which properties, and under which conditions; or, also, about the coupling between the parent crystal microscale and the collective behavior of the ensemble of crystals suspended in a specific continuous crystallizer. The project SNICC intends to unveil the microscale mechanisms of secondary nucleation, and to bring its scientific understanding to a level where it can be exploited to model, design, operate, optimize and control continuous crystallization processes at any desired scale. It aims at creating a comprehensive knowledge about secondary nucleation at the microscale, applicable to any type of compound, and at establishing guidelines for the intensification of continuous crystallization, based on the use of newly developed full models of different types of continuous crystallizers. This will have a major impact on both the science of crystallization and the related industrial processes. Building on the recognized experimental and theoretical expertise on crystallization at all relevant scales of the PI and his lab, a team consisting of 4 PhD students and 2 postdocs will work for five years on this challenging, interdisciplinary project.

Keywords: continuous crystallization,secondary nucleation,population balance equations,crystal size and,shape
Biocomposite panels for transportation (BIOPANELS)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-08-01
End date: 2018-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Project aims to propose biocomposite panels solutions for aeronautic several industry allowing weight, cost savings and better environmental footprint. Several prototypes of these panels have already been realized and tested to check if they match the requirements. The future challenges would be first the appropriate composition of natural fibres and resin system (recyclable or reusable) suitable for several applications and that can be manufactured by limiting steps. The second important one would be the certification of such panels with regards to regulation specific to aeronautic industry. The expected product to be commercialized is a range of panels made from renewable resourced (natural fibres such as flax) and that are customizable (thickness, properties…) to meet a wide range of applications. VESO concept aims to produce these panels but needs to target the most interesting markets in terms of volumes, regulations, accessibility. For that, the results from market study expected from this project would be essential for the company to build an efficient business plan and to plan actions to set up. The feasibility assessment intended to be done would be a market study of composite panels to get accurate vision about the volumes and the distribution of this market. Specific products (best sellers) could be taken as reference to propose biocomposite competitor panels. The products proposed are consistent with the new European regulations in terms of environment. Indeed, in aeronautic area, Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe presented objectives to reach by 2050 in terms of CO2 and NOx savings (-75% and -90%, respectively). Lighter products with better environmental footprint like biocomposites can be the solution to comply with these regulations.

Keywords: biosourced materials,bio composites,panels,transportation
Innovative training schemes for retrofitting to nZEB-levels (Fit-to-nZEB)

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: Austria,Ireland,Italy,Romania,Bulgaria,Greece,Croatia,Bulgaria,Czechia
Call: Construction skills (H2020-EE-2016-CSA, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-15
End date: 2019-06-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1013848.75
EU funding (EUR): 1013848.75
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Reaching of the 2020 and 2030 energy and climate objectives represents a major challenge to the construction sector, which needs to be ready to deliver high energy performing renovations and, in particular, nearly zero-energy buildings. This goal requires a major effort to increase the number of qualified construction specialists at all levels, which is directly related to the accessibility and quality of the training and educational programmes and the inclusion of training on intelligent energy efficiency and RES solutions in building renovation. Responding to these needs, the project is designed to: (i) Elaborate a set of technological competences and learning outcomes on deep energy renovation; (ii) Develop new large scale training schemes and programmes on deep energy renovation at all levels of the vocational education and training (VET) system; (iii) Review the national educational plans and initiate the necessary changes; (iv) Establish capacity for professional training of trainers and train a sufficient number of trainers; (v) Support and monitor pilot courses on the new programmes on deep energy renovation at all levels. The leading objective of the Fit-to-nZEB project proposal is to deliver all necessary requisites for the introduction of educational content on deep energy renovation of buildings in the curricula at all levels of the educational and training system in Southeastern Europe. This will be done both through incorporation of new educational content in existing curricula and through the development of new specialized programs. This process will be guided by the understanding of the complex nature of building retrofit, combining various building disciplines and allowing integrated design and cross-craft understanding with special focus on practical exercises and demonstrations. An essential element of the project is the creation and deployment of certification schemes and accreditation procedures corresponding to the EQF.

Keywords: building retrofit,vocational training and education,large scale qualification schemes,building renovation to nzeb levels,practical trainings and demonstrations,energy efficiency in buildings
Development of deformation-based method for the behavior of masonry bracing elements, considering the cracked and inelastic state “CIC-BREL” Cracked Inelastic Calculation of BRacing ELements (CIC-BREL)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Germany,United States
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2018-03-16
End date: 2021-04-15
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239860.8
EU funding (EUR): 239860.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The MSCA Fellowship is an excellent chance for the Training of the Experienced Researcher through Teaching and Research TTR. The research subject will be a topic for Habilitation, a strong prerequisite for Professorship of the Experienced Researcher. The main goal of CIC-BREL project (Cracked and Inelastic Calculation of BRacing Elements) is to develop an innovative analytical method, using the deformation-based approach, to distribute horizontal forces on bracing elements of a building considering the cracked and inelastic state of the material. Then, from the analytical approach, it is aimed to develop a numerical method in a matrix form appropriate to be programmed in easy to use software. The developed analytical method will be verified by the results of shake table tests at the UCSD, USA. The numerical method will be implemented in software during the secondment at the PCAE Company. The developed analytical and numerical methods will be added to the Euro Code 6 and national German Standards. This way is decisive in designing high-raise buildings and apartments, and implementing the cracked and inelastic limit state could save up to 40% of building materials. This would have very positive economic and environmental advantages on the building sector. This project is inter-disciplinary, where academic (universities) and non-academic (software company) partners are involved together for a successful achievement of the Fellowship goals. It is multi-disciplinary it combines theory and analysis invention with computer software development. Cooperation between USA and European institutes makes it international. Best Researchers in USA and Europe are working actively together in an excellent academic and non-academic environment to get the best of the Fellowship for the Experienced Researcher and all other participants.

Keywords: bracing system,deformation method,matrix method,software development,cracked and,inelastic calculation,shake table tests